A Critical Consensus 30 October 2011 StuckInTheSixties: An assessment of current motion pictures by major American film critics. Film criticism is rated on a scale of 10 (excellent) to 1 (poor). I personally have found this consensus to be very accurate and reliable. Those movies I’ve seen with high ratings were excellent, and those I’ve seen with lower ratings weren’t. The movies are listed according to the critics’ ratings. When a movie is reviewed by a film critic, that critic might make a smart, intelligent, worthy review ... or they might not. So trying to judge how good a movie is going to be based on a single, or even a few, reviews has an element of chance associated with it. All critics make poor reviews sooner or later. But when you take the reviews of a large number of critics, and average them out in the way this Critical Consensus does, the critics' rating becomes very reliable. Title / MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) content rating (G/PG/PG-13/R) / Film Criticism Moneyball / PG-13 / 8.6 Take Shelter / R / 8.5 Midnight In Paris / PG-13 / 8.3 Drive / R / 8.1 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 / PG-13 / 8.1 Thunder Soul / PG / 8.1 Weekend / not rated by MPAA / 8.1 The Mill And The Cross / not rated by MPAA / 8.0 The Guard / R / 7.8 50/50 / R / 7.7 Margin Call / R / 7.6 Warrior / PG-13 / 7.5 The Lion King 3D / G / 7.5 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 / not rated by MPAA / 7.4 Hell And Back Again / not rated by MPAA / 7.4 Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes / PG-13 / 7.3 The Ides Of March / R / 7.2 Detective Dee / PG-13 / 7.1 The Skin I Live In / R / 7.1 Crazy, Stupid Love / PG-13 / 7.0 Pearl Jam 20 / not rated by MPAA / 7.0 The Women / R / 7.0 Curling / not rated by MPAA / 6.9 Mozart’s Sister / not rated by MPAA / 6.8 Sleep Furiously / not rated by MPAA / 6.8 Tucker And Date Vs. Evil / R / 6.8 Blackthorn / R / 6.7 Contagion / PG-13 / 6.7 Dolphin Tale / PG / 6.7 American Teacher / not rated by MPAA / 6.6 Captain America / PG-13 / 6.6 Cold Fish / R / 6.6 My Afternoons With Margueritte / R / 6.6 Margaret / R / 6.5 The Debt / R / 6.4 The Help / PG-13 / 6.4 Paranormal Activity 3 / R / 6.1 The Way / PG-13 / 6.0 Footloose / PG-13 / 5.9 Real Steel / PG-13 / 6.0 Cowboys & Aliens / PG-13 / 5.8 Finding Joe / PG-13 / 5.7 Puncture / R / 5.6 The Mighty Macs / G / 5.5 The Woman On The 6th Floor / not rated by MPAA / 5.5 Girlfriend / not rated by MPAA / 5.4 Toast / not rated by MPAA / 5.4 Restless / PG-13 / 5.3 3 / not rated by MPAA / 5.2 Courageous / PG-13 / 5.0 The Big Year / PG / 4.9 1911 / R / 4.8 The Thing / R / 4.8 Johnny English Reborn / PG / 4.7 Machine Gun Preacher / R / 4.6 Dirty Girl / R / 4.5 Killer Elite / R / 4.4 Fireflies In The Garden / R / 4.2 What’s Your Number / R / 4.1 The Three Musketeers / PG-13 / 3.8 Bunraku / R / 3.7 Dream House / PG-13 / 3.6 The Smurfs / PG / 3.5 Trespass / R / 3.3 Spy Kids 4 / PG / 3.0 Abduction / PG-13 / 2.9 The Human Centipede 2 / R (Edited by StuckInTheSixties)  Karma: I really like all three of them. The key is that it's not a fright-fest or gore-a-thon. The movies are tense. There is anticipation. They are minimalistic and very different than other movies in their genre. And having had a few days to think on it - I think 3 was the best of them.  Sables: it looks like it might, I wasn't expecting a gore fest, but was looking for a little more out of it  MultifariousEntity: No accounting for taste. For example, I would have put Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and The Guard much much higher than Harry Potter. I think that generally, your best bet is to just refuse to pay ridiculous movie theater (and to an extent even DVD/Blu-ray) prices that go on to support severely overpaid and overrated entertainers, and encourage directors to shovel out more crap if the movie ends up being bad. I usually just pirate the movie online, and then decide for myself if it's worth paying to see, or if it's even worth finishing. If you don't demand quality from an industry, you wont get it. StuckInTheSixties: The only problem with that is: ~~ Seeing a movie in a theatre is a specific kind of experience, particularly with certain films. It's big. It's a shared experience with an audience. ~~ Pirating movies online is essentially a form of theft. You're stealing. MultifariousEntity: Actually it's perfectly legal in Canada. You can download any form of media you want, so long as it's only viewed/played/whatever privately, you cannot however upload anything that you don't have the rights to upload. To me it's no different than deciding to buy a car, and then test driving a few until you find one you like. StuckInTheSixties: That doesn't appear to be the case: "...the unauthorized copying - uploading - of complete copyrighted works such as books, movies, or software is illegal under [Canada's Copyright Act.] ..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Canada Legal or not, that doesn't negate it from being theft in the ethical sense. It's the unauthorized usage of someone else's "intellectual property." And it's nothing whatsoever like test driving a car. Terrible analogy. Karma: Entity, Do you mean to say that if you pirate a movie online and watch and like it, that you will then go out and pay to see it or to buy the DVD? Seems unlikely. MultifariousEntity: As I said, Uploading is illegal. Downloading is perfectly legal. In fact, if you purchase a DVD made in Canada you can view the portion of the law that clearly states so, every DVD displays it much like American DVDs display that FBI warning. "Personal use only."On an ethical level, I don't find it to be theft at all, if the movie is good I'll gladly (and have in the past) pay to purchase a DVD. I understand that it is important to support artists, I'd just rather not unwittingly support some of the utter garbage people are trying to pass off as art. Another thing I'd like to bring up is the added functionality of having a digital copy of the film, many are explicitly set up to prevent you from copying the film from the DVD, pirating them is simply more functional. I can watch them on my PC, make a hard copy so my parents can play it on their DVD player (and another if they break or scratch that one), or stream them to my younger brother's Xbox. StuckInTheSixties: Sorry. My mistake. Uploading/downloading. One's illegal, the other isn't. But ethically, it's all in the same cart.  xapim: this seem to be a sort of phsocilogical way of thinking to figure the rating if a movie good (10) or bad (0) when chosen on a knowledge phsycology, i like the movie or dont, and is that science ? statistics that form a percentage of not 50% way of doing so ??? and i just dont understand the phylisophical reasoning of those figuring, on a question i like because...i dont like because....what is this world coming too ! huh, ? xapim: tntl (tryin not to laugh) no not really, well if its a apple and a apple is good meaning good condition is 10 compared to a apple and a aplle is bad 0. how can you figure so, there's just very many propblems that are to much to clear the objestives unlessthe film criticism is like 2+2=4 somethin we all agree 99.9% of the time? xapim: i kinda think this critic is a way to not be opinionated on the avg way moveis are citicized on weather u like the movie or not,, from your social norms.... this is a fairway to critic movies with out "opinionated favors" wheather you like the movie or not lowers the 9.9 ??? { acording to the major american film critics,opinion;} into a lion king 7.3(good /exellent) , cowboys and alliens 5.8., (somewhere embetween)& the three muskateers 3.8(bad/poor)......though it is intresting if the scale was as of a law that says 2+2=4, on how to review movies"the film critics law",.....is an opinionated review and figuritive/ of large # of critics.....i perfer opinionated. i like the lion king, i didnt like" cowboys and alliens and i like the three muskateers..... StuckInTheSixties: I give up ... you are utterly incomprehensible. Have you ever met a Wireclub user named Pokerman? You two would probably get along well. Karma: I think Adam is just confused because he didn't read the posting at the top about how this is not a reviewers opinion, but rather an aggregate of reviews. xapim: yea quit confused, and a collection of reviews, i thought sisco and ebert said and their word is like 2+2=4 on critcs......that reviews are opinions and opinions are reviews ??? or am i confused | Movies Chat Room Similar Conversations |