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Saturday, May 05, 2012

New Movie Review Schema

Movie review schema:

Category: Achievement.

Description: The movie is successful at eliciting the response it intended from the audience it was targeting.

Category: Originality

Description: The movie surprised me with interesting and unconventional narrative or stylistic techniques. The movie had at least some memorable parts.

Category: Quality

Description: The movie was well put-together. It looked nice. Sounded nice. Acting was high quality. Plot was comprehensible, believable, and without major holes. The storyline has at least some minimal degree of gravitas to it.

Category: Enjoyability

Description: I enjoyed watching this film. It was engaging. It was fun. It was a good experience. I'm glad I watched it.

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I propose that movies all be reviewed based on these four categories. A movie is rarely just good or bad. Even an ordinal scale, like 5 stars, doesn't capture the many possible categorical combinations. Each category should be ranked on a 1-4 scale. If necessary, these can be summed to create an overall score for the movie.

Thursday, May 03, 2012

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