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maρana

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Re: The Ratings Project
« Reply #40 on: September 26, 2012, 06:36:47 PM »
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Re: The Ratings Project
« Reply #41 on: September 26, 2012, 07:09:32 PM »
Week 1

Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) — 5
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) — 5.7
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) — 5.4
The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956) — 5.4
In The Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967) — 6.5
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) — 6.5
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) — 4.2
Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970) — 6
The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) — 6.8
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) — 6.6
The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973) — 8.3
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) — 7.1
All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976) — 7.2
Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979) — 5.8
Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980) — 4.1
Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982) — 6.4
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987) — 3.5
Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987) — 2.5
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989) — 3.1
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) — 7.7
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) — 1.1
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995) — 7.6
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997) — 2.8
Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998) — 3.4
American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999) — 4.9
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000) — 6
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) — 9.4
Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001) — 3.4
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003) — 3.6
Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004) — 2.5
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) — 4.6
Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007) — 3.3
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008) — 7.5
The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011) — 5.3


These are all films which won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay and appeared on at least one Top 100 list here at the forum.

But didn't make the communal Top 100, right? (Otherwise, you're missing a few.)

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Re: The Ratings Project
« Reply #42 on: September 26, 2012, 07:27:14 PM »
The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973) — 8.3

Excluding Traffic, your only film above 8. For that alone, I need to see this movie. Man, you don't pull any punches. :D
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Re: The Ratings Project
« Reply #43 on: September 26, 2012, 07:54:07 PM »
Man, you don't hold any punches. :D

I use the whole scale! ("Your mama so fat...") A "5" for me translates to "average"; so anything above 5, I'm generally positive on.

I toyed with the idea of grading based on the Criticker tiering system (which groups all your rankings relative to each other). Had I done so, something like THE EXORCIST, with its 6.6, would be curved up to a 10. (But FORREST GUMP would still be a 1.)

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Re: The Ratings Project
« Reply #44 on: September 26, 2012, 07:55:11 PM »
THE EXORCIST, with its 6.6, would be curved up to a 10. (But FORREST GUMP would still be a 1.)

 ???

You've got some major skew going on if 6.6 is in the top 10% with an average of 5.

Anyway, Sandy, watch The Sting, it is good times.

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Re: The Ratings Project
« Reply #45 on: September 26, 2012, 08:09:32 PM »
I omitted films which I saw too long ago to recall well.

It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934) — 7
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945) — 7
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946) — 9
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) — 9
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) — 8
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) — 8
In The Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967) — 6
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) — 7
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) — 9
Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970) — 9
The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) — 7
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) — 8
The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973) — 5
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) — 10
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) — 7
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) — 4
Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995) — 8
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995) — 7
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997) — 6
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000) — 4
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) — 8
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar, 2002) — 10
Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004) — 7
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) — 7
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) — 9
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008) — 8
The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011) — 8
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Re: The Ratings Project
« Reply #46 on: September 26, 2012, 08:59:18 PM »
I've just come here to say this rating stuff is despicable.

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Re: The Ratings Project
« Reply #47 on: September 26, 2012, 09:03:37 PM »
THE EXORCIST, with its 6.6, would be curved up to a 10. (But FORREST GUMP would still be a 1.)

You've got some major skew going on if 6.6 is in the top 10% with an average of 5.

9.1 - 9.9: 22
8.1 - 9.0: 57
7.1 - 8.0: 190
6.1 - 7.0: 554
5.1 - 6.0: 999
4.1 - 5.0: 722
3.1 - 4.0: 747
2.1 - 3.0: 321
1.1 - 2.0: 253
0.1 - 1.0: 133

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Re: The Ratings Project
« Reply #48 on: September 26, 2012, 09:29:19 PM »
THE EXORCIST, with its 6.6

Don't you mean 6.66? :)

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Re: The Ratings Project
« Reply #49 on: September 26, 2012, 09:38:12 PM »
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) — 5.5
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) — 5
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) — 3
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) —   4
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) — 5.2
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) — 1
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) — 1.1
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) — 4

Thanks for making me feel like my favorite film of all time is a provocative pick, especially sdb and AAAutin. Never used to think it was...  ;D
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