Karen's Movie Blog - A personal space where I keep track of the movies I watched with my personal rates and comments. I have seen 568 movies so far (since January 1, 2010)
1 - DO NOT WANT!
God awful, makes you want to gouge your eyeballs out with a spork, and
either headbutt the TV or try to hit the cinema screen with projectile
vomit. Everything about this movie is bad to such a degree that it
doesn't even become good in its badness. You really wish you had done
something more worthwhile during the movie's running time, like trimming
your nose hairs. If someone would give you this movie, you would
microwave, burn, blend or eat it, to avoid the risk that other human
beings could be exposed to it.
2 - AWFUL
Still awful, but has at least one thing that is done well, like one
decent scare in an otherwise pathetic horror movie, one good laugh in an
otherwise decidedly unfunny comedy, one clever plot element, etc. You
would never ever want to watch this again except maybe for that single
good part.
3 - BAD
Bad, but you agree that watching this film was an OK pastime on a lazy
weekend evening because there was nothing else on TV and you were too
lazy to dig up anything better. Or, you felt the need to expose yourself
to something crappy to recalibrate your appreciation for movies, and
without being a totally shameful waste of time it reminded you how bad a
film can be. You could have better spent your time, though. You will
definitely avoid watching it again, even on the next lazy weekend
evening.
4 - NICE TRY
Still bad, but is ‘almost there’. Either it has some good parts that are
ruined by bad parts, or it stays at a constant level of “it had promise but the good part never came”. You still would never want to watch it again.
5 - ACCEPTABLE
The threshold for ‘OK’. It's not good, not bad, just acceptable. This is
the kind of movie that only just makes you feel you didn't waste 90+
minutes and/or the price of a cinema ticket. You would only want to
watch it again under the conditions of 3,
but you would never ever consider doing more effort than pushing a
button on your TV remote to watch it again. This movie is either an
equal mix of good and bad parts, or is just so forgettable that each
time someone mentions the title, you need to read the plot and look at
screenshots to remember what it was about.
6 - NOT BAD
It has some aspects that lift it above mediocrity and make it quite enjoyable to watch, but it either never becomes really
good, or if it does, it still has some bad parts that drag it down. You
would only watch it again spontaneously if it were a long time ago
since you saw it and you re-watched all your movies scoring 7+ too
recently. You would only recommend this to someone if they're really
into the genre, but you would still warn them that it's not that good.
7 - GOOD
This movie is really worth watching and you would watch it again
spontaneously, but not too often. It's just not that good that you would
say to your friends that they would really miss out on something if
they didn't watch it. It's very enjoyable despite some noticeably
uninteresting parts, sub-part acting, plot holes or other negative points
that you'll always remember when thinking about this film.
8 - VERY GOOD
This is the kind of movie that you could watch again several times, even
though it is clearly not perfect. There are still some minuses about
this film, but the rest is good enough to almost forget those. You would
recommend it to friends unless you know it's not their cup of tea.
9 - EXCELLENT
It's almost perfect. You could watch this movie again almost an
unlimited number of times. It still has something significant you don't
like, therefore you don't give it an outright 10. You would recommend
this movie to your friends even if you know they don't like the genre,
maybe it could change their mind.
10 - PERFECT You could watch this movie until eternity without ever getting bored by
it. With each viewing you discover something new or see something in a
different light, and/or the key scenes still thrill you even though you
know them by heart. This movie has nothing in it that is less than good.
If there's anything that is not perfect, it is greatly compensated for
by something else that is stunningly brilliant or gripping. You would
recommend this movie to everyone, even total strangers. < Favorite actors
Tom Hanks, Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Jack Lemmon, Russell Crowe, Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Al Pacino
Favorite actresses
Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Anne Hathaway, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Renee Zellweger, Maggie Smith, Kate Winslet, Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Aniston, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Connelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Cate Blanchett, Marilyn Monroe
Favorite directors
Ron Howard, Robert Zemeckis, Martin Scorsese, Nancy Meyers, Chris Columbus, James Cameron, Darren Aronofsky, Tim Burton, Peter Jackson, David Fincher
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