Now we all have interesting fancy ratings – stars, percentage, lightsabers and no matter what the author does, the rating will just be a mere guideline and no mathematically correct algorithm and we all know that we can’t really compare movies (because it’s like art and yeah we have heard this stuff so many times). So I decided to split movies into 3 main categories (which I can’t stress enough is again just another guideline).
Category 1:
These are the movies that you are looking for to have a good time. Thrill ride fun entertainment, sometimes just for the testosterone driven bromance (Die Hard, Shoot ‘em up) or other forms of entertainment (Iron Man, Casino Royale).
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Category 2:
Those types of movies are the ones I am looking for the most – they combine funny entertainment and emotions with philosophical, social or other interesting elements (The Matrix, Star Wars)
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Category 3:
Movies that can be made fun of by calling them “elitist” movies. Sometimes they are not even about telling a coherent story but are just experimenting with certain movie elements without making any point at all. Generally everything that can be called arthouse will land in this category. The category itself speaks for the quality of the movie and since I am completely unable to give a percentage rating in this category it will be split into four ratings:
Failure: the movie tries to be an arthouse-esque production but just isn’t achieving it on any level.
Lukewarm: I can kind of see the point the movie wants to make but I am left completely unaffected watching it.
Great: speaking for itself
Goldstandard: absolutely excellent in far too many ways
Needless to mention that in a lot of cases it won’t be quite sure which category a movie might fit in, so I can only repeat: actually the code is more like… guidelines…
Speed Racer:
When a director wants to make a movie (and is not aware that the movie is trash) and the product turns into a collossal yet strangely entertaining trainwreck, then you might get a movie on par with 2008′s underappreciated masterpiece: Speed Racer
