The rating explained

As I mentioned in my first entry, one of the reasons I wanted to add a new blog to my resume was trying to find a way to score movies in a way that the large majority of them would have score in the middle of the scale. So for that I first needed to find a way to approach movies with that in mind. Curiously that came with another hobby where I ultimately classify the value of things by trying to find out if I felt that quality of the product was worth the price what I've paid. A simply yes as an answer for that was enough to keep me happy and so I started to apply it to other things in life, including movies. And to my surprise, that was the answer I was looking.

My new approach to movies is simple: Have I felt that the price I've paid for it was worth it? If so, the movie score was the middle of the scale at least and what I found was that for the large majority, it wasn't better that that. I had found the basis! All I needed was to perfect it.

So, in a nutshell, I will only score movies that I've seen in a movie theater and not others. I'll try to keep up with the movies that are premiering, but sometimes I may rate older movies because these may take a while to appear on the theaters or the independent ones may sometimes have sessions to older movies and I may want to rate them. Or maybe I feel like rating a movie that I've seen a while back, but I'm expecting to rate mostly movies I've seen recently.

Movies will be rated on a scale from 1 to 5 stars. As I've explained above, 3 stars will be given to a movie whose quality matches the ticket price. This means that a 2 star movie doesn't worth the price payed. A 1, doesn't even worth the time spent watching it (I don't expect to find many with this rating). A 4 star is a movie that I find to be of superior quality, above the average. I will also score this on movies that I've come across that arose positive feeling in me somehow and it will be explained in the review. I may also score this to movies I may not like as much but recognize that have higher that average quality. This may sound incoherent but the truth is that there are some movie are very good but I simply can't seem to like them. The classical example for me is Fight Club. Finally I've only give 5 stars to movies I find to be master pieces. The ones I would like to save if the earth ought to be destroyed.

The opening

I'm starting this blog mainly for three reasons. First and foremost It has been a long time since I don't post a blog entry related to movies, since my previous blog about movies reviews is closed. It was a collaborative project from the start and in the end I was the only one willing to continue, so I didn't feel I should do since it would break the spirit of the blog. Another reason is simply because my approach to movies has changed a over this time and the spirit of the first blog would not be in line with my views at the moment. Which brings me to my second reason.

The second reason why I want to create this new blog is I that I don't agree with the majority of the critics/fans ratings. It seems that there are two kinds of people rating movies: the lovers and the hatters. The first one only seem to give positive scores and the others never seem to be happy about any movie that comes out these days. The balance between these two should give the happy medium. However I believe that everyone is in fact living in the middle and that for all of us most of the movies will get a medium score and more you move to the extremes the less movies will be there. This means that the large majority of the movie rating should be a 3 out of 5 or a 5 out of ten and should not tend to either side since we don't know forehand the quality of the movies we're going to see. With this new project I'm expecting the rate most of my movies with a medium score.

Finally, the third reason is simply because I don't write blog entries in Portuguese anymore. For the better or worse I'm adopting English as my sole language for blogging. On a personal level I felt that my level of English has improved a lot since I adopted this.

Best movies to all.