Here at the Last Movie Outpost, we take movies very seriously. You will never see us making silly, childish jokes about big companies, like Disney, Paramount, or Blockbuster.
One thing we are proud of is that we give honest, personal reviews of movies. We have never been paid a penny for one of our opinions. I mean, if we were offered money for a review, we would probably fold quicker than Superman on laundry day, but we haven’t been.
One thing we frequently wrestle with is how to score movies. The trouble with a five star rating system is that it very quickly becomes ridiculously restrictive and quickly becomes almost meaningless.
So we are going to make a small change to our rating system for movie reviews. It’s not huge, but it just makes things a little clearer, while also allowing a little more nuance into the whole approach.
Sometimes a movie can be very well made, but boring as hell; 2001, I’m looking at you. Other times, a movie is quite clearly trash, but it’s supremely entertaining trash that simply works exactly as intended. We have all seen a few of these lately.
So, we are going to implement a new system that we think is unique and original and not stolen from any other websites.
A New System
When any Outposter, us, you, “them”, at the LMO review a movie, we will try and provide not just one, but two ratings.
One set of stars will be for the quality of the movie: how it’s made, the acting, music, etc. The second rating will be for the entertainment value. Some movies are terribly made, but stupidly good fun; all Cannon movies, I’m looking at you.
It should help with reviews, so you know if you’re going to watch a good movie, or an entertaining movie, or on rare occasions, both.
This new movie rating system will be implemented when I can be bothered to make the other graphics for the star. I’m pretty lazy, so it might be a while.
Weirdly, the worst part about this was trying to pick words like Make and Fun, which is pretty pathetic of me. So, over to you Outposters, what do you think the words should say- one for the quality, the other for the entertainment value?
