memfree's Journal: no movies - just rentals this week.

Being busy with Holiday preparations, I didn't get out to the theaters this week. I did watch a bunch of rentals, but that doesn't count for much.

I've fallen to gmh's addiction of rating films at movielens. I am embarrassed to say I've rated 1200 films -- DESPITE them not listing a slough of interesting flicks that I WANT to rate.

For examples, it doesn't list some favorites, like: Onibaba, Throne of Blood (Macbeth done Japanese style), Amarcord, The Leopard, The Devils or Paragraph 175. It also doesn't list some hokey films that I don't honestly expect it to have, like: The Sex Monster, or Trash.

With all the data, I decided to look at the results. Though there are only 5 possible ratings, it seems I rank more or less in a bell curve (skewed slightly to the low end). Here's the numeric break-down:

..Film #... = sum@rating ~ % of total
0001 - 0080 = 080 @ 5 ~ 6%
0081 - 0390 = 310 @ 4 ~ 26%
0391 - 0756 = 366 @ 3 ~ 31%
0757 - 1063 = 307 @ 2 ~ 26%
1064 - 1200 = 137 @ 1 ~ 11%

I don't know whether to blame the low percentage of top ranking films on my choices in film, or on studios for their choices in what to make.