{"id":5273,"date":"2008-12-19T06:22:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T14:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2019-12-19T06:09:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:09:04","slug":"my-movie-rating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/12\/19\/my-movie-rating-system\/","title":{"rendered":"My Movie Rating System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4675,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.michaelhanscom.com\\\/dvds&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/michaelhans.com\\\/dvds&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4676,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.michaelhanscom.com\\\/dvds\\\/details\\\/page194.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/michaelhans.com\\\/dvds\\\/details\\\/page194.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>For no particular reason that I can come up with, I was thinking over how I rate movies, and attempting to quantify the basic reasoning for each star of a five-star rating system. I think I&#8217;ve pretty much nailed it down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>* (one star)<\/strong>: Two hours of my life that I won&#8217;t get back.<br \/>\n<strong>* * (two stars)<\/strong>: Not a total waste of time, if the viewing cost is low enough (free coupon, someone else is renting it and I happen to be around to see it, a good Netflix plan with relatively high turnover).<br \/>\n<strong>* * * (three stars)<\/strong>: Worth a rent.<br \/>\n<strong>* * * * (four stars)<\/strong>: Worth seeing in the theater (at a matinee, or at an evening show if I&#8217;m either excited enough by the particular movie or feeling rich enough to afford it), possibly worth purchasing (preferably secondhand or after a while so the price has dropped, but perhaps at full price if I think it&#8217;s on the high side of four stars).<br \/>\n<strong>* * * * * (five stars)<\/strong>: A keeper. Worth seeing in the theater if possible, worth owning at whatever price I think is reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as with any rating system, there&#8217;s some amount of variability, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhanscom.com\/dvds\/\" title=\"My DVD Library\">my movie collection<\/a> certainly isn&#8217;t entirely comprised of 4- and 5-star movies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhanscom.com\/dvds\/details\/page194.html\" title=\"Star Trek V: The Final Frontier\">Star Trek V<\/a>? Honestly, it&#8217;s about a 2-star movie. But it&#8217;s Star Trek, and I&#8217;m a nerd and a completist). But on the whole, I think that&#8217;s a pretty good overview of my thought process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For no particular reason that I can come up with, I was thinking over how I rate movies, and attempting to quantify the basic reasoning for each star of a five-star rating system. I think I&#8217;ve pretty much nailed it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2037],"tags":[23,13],"class_list":["post-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}