Ratings

I felt that since I keep rating movies, television shows, music, and just about anything else I can on here with an unconventional rating system, I might as well give some clue to what it all means. Up until now, I have pretty much rated everything as one of two things, Watch This (or it's similar counterparts) and Maybe Watch This. The fact is, this is not all there is to my rating system. If I had to put it on paper, it probably would come close to the star system except for a few exceptions. Either way, here's a list of how I will rate things and what it stands for and how it would equate to a star rating system (though not exactly).

My Rating System
Perfect!



This is the rarest rating and one that I will almost never give out. This is for movies, television shows, music, and games that not only stand out, but stand flawlessly above the rest. These are also movies that tend to be on a different paradigm from previous ones, usually making me think about my life or about things that have affected me. These do not come around often.
Watch This
[or]
Listen to This
[or]
Play This
[or]
Use This

More common than a perfect, these are the movies, television shows, music, games, applications, and just about anything else that are either major blockbuster hits and with exceptionally good plots or really good objects. And although I may not feel very moved by the end of the movie, nor might I feel any different on the inside, there was something that makes each stand about the rest. There might be plot-holes, there might be visual problems, and there might even be misconceptions in them that makes them something other than perfection, but these are the things still worth seeing.
Maybe Watch This
[or]
Maybe Listen to This
[or]
Maybe Play This

These are the things that I am not sure how I felt at the end of the movie, television show, song, or game; like I feel that there is a set of people out there that will definitely enjoy this movie, but there is another set that will criticize it for being as lack-luster as it is or just full of problems. If you really want to know if you might like it or not, these are the reviews to truly read since I will say what I liked and you can see if that is something you like. In no way are these terrible at what they do, but they may not be the right thing for you.
Skip This




This is a score for movies that I felt just were not very good and a very select audience will actually enjoy. With that said, I am not saying never to see or hear the movie, television show, music, or video game, but rather this is something that you can wait to hear for free later. Usually, these tend to lack a good plot or back beat and rely more on facial value, something I am not too fond of in the end.
Don't Watch This
[or]
Don't Listen to This
[or]
Don't Play This

I will admit that I tend not to give out this score to movies, television shows, music, or video games. I try not to give a score this low because at this point I do not even feel it was worth the time to see it or hear it for free. It was a piece of garbage and it will only become valid for a very very slim number of fans that think it is better than it really is. In movie terms, these tend to be the "straight-to-video" films that were not ever good enough for the theater, and on my behalf I do not think they were really good enough for being recorded.
Garbage!



As rare as the perfect films come, so do films I will call complete and utter garbage. These are the films where there are almost no fans, almost completely the worst pieces of media ever to be made. I do not think I have ever given out a score this low, but that does not mean it is not possible. So I leave this as an open option, but it probably will never happen (and I hope that it never does!)

My Movie Reviews
I might not be able to keep the following section completely up-to-date, but I felt that I could at least compile a list of all the movie reviews I have done. Anyway, you can click any of the movie titles and that will lead to the full review I have written for them. If you just want to skip to the ones that I recommend, I have also included my personal ratings for those movies on this page. I will be keeping the list in order of the year that these movies were made and then my alphabetical order by movie name.

Year Movie Rating
2012 21 Jump Street Maybe Watch This
The Dark Knight Rises Watch This
ParaNorman Watch This
The Pirates! Band of Misfits Skip This
Think Like a Man Watch This
Total Recall Maybe Watch This
2011 Happy Feet 2 Skip This
In Time Maybe Watch This
2010 Due Date Skip This
The Kids are All Right Maybe Watch This
2009 Miss March Watch This
Wild Cherry Maybe Watch This
1999 The Haunting Skip This

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