Anyone else use this thing? It's like Pandora for movies.

http://criticker.com/

6/3/2006 2:43:01 PM

Eh, I'm happy enough with what Netflix recommends based on my ratings. It does a pretty good job.

6/3/2006 3:15:36 PM

the ratio of emo-ness in this thread is absurd

-ZiP!-

6/3/2006 3:16:32 PM

Now, if you'll pardon me, I'm going to apply some eyeliner.

6/3/2006 3:20:12 PM

I'm emo for rating a bunch of movies?

6/3/2006 3:30:15 PM

6/3/2006 3:34:33 PM

I guess I need to put more bad movies on this thing- it seems to think 70% means the movie was terrible.

6/3/2006 3:39:22 PM

200 some odd movies later, things have stabilized.

6/3/2006 6:47:22 PM

This thing seems to be feeding me releases no older than 2000. And nothing independent or foreign. Boo-urns.

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 7:26 PM. Reason : ]

6/3/2006 7:24:23 PM

Yeah, I definitely had to do some searching for certain things- and sometimes I had to use the foreign title because they used a different translation.

Maybe I should stop liking Asian films.

6/3/2006 7:31:53 PM

That's the worst thing about Netflix.

Rent one anime and they decide you're a Japanophile for life.

Gah, this shit is irritating. I have a hard time comparing my level of enjoyment for, say, a German romantic comedy with, I don't know, The Island or something. Gah.

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 7:37 PM. Reason : ]

6/3/2006 7:33:35 PM

Hahaha, Japanophile!

I've seen more Chinese films than Japanese, really- does Miyazaki count in the anime movie category? Other than a few of his, and Ichi I don't actually think I've seen many Japanese movies. I stopped watching anime in middle school, when I gave up Sailor Moon (shhh, don't tell anyone).

Oh snap, we disagree on things already! You'd best add more movies so the tiers even out, I guess.

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 7:42 PM. Reason : .]

6/3/2006 7:39:23 PM

I haven't seen enough of Chinese or Japanese film. I was in a kind of wu-xia phase for a bit, but that didn't last long. But yeah, Miyazaki is definitely anime. Grave of the Fireflies will break your fucking heart. My specialty is snooty indie and foreign shit released in the last five or so years (shocking!).

6/3/2006 7:42:49 PM

OMG, I would've never guessed.

I had a really severe Yimou Zhang phase, so that's how I got into Chinese stuff.

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 7:46 PM. Reason : .]

6/3/2006 7:45:44 PM

GOTF is not Miyazaki, dolt

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 7:54 PM. Reason : hotaru no haka]

6/3/2006 7:53:37 PM

Ghibli, wtf ever.

6/3/2006 7:54:19 PM

All Asians look alike anyway.

6/3/2006 7:56:04 PM

You should check out Wong Kar Wai if you haven't already.

6/3/2006 7:57:30 PM

I've heard good things, just haven't gotten to it. I've become so lazy lately.

Wait, I take it back- I did see Eros, and he did my favorite of the three stories in that (plus he used Gong Li, whom I totally love), so I'm sure other things would be good.

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 8:00 PM. Reason : .]

6/3/2006 7:58:50 PM

I never did see Eros.

I'm always kind of conflicted with him, because I really hate adding slow motion in post. Shooting fast for slow motion is beautiful, but going in later and slowing it down looks like shit. He does this CONSTANTLY. I know of no other person who is so bothered by this technique. So I have no problem recommending him to other people. You should definitely check out Chungking Express or Fallen Angels. 2046 is pretty good, too, but it's kind of all over the place.

6/3/2006 8:04:37 PM

I have too many high rankings. I'm either really forgiving or I can't remember enough movies I didn't like.

Also, welcome to the spookyjon/evermagenta discussion thread.

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 8:14 PM. Reason : .]

6/3/2006 8:12:42 PM

For some reason it thinks I really want to see ATL.

6/3/2006 8:31:54 PM

Refresh, it'll give you something else.

Haha, it thinks I'd hate The DaVinci Code. It's right!

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 8:34 PM. Reason : .]

6/3/2006 8:33:35 PM

It's just back and forth between ATL and Stick It.

Curse those favorable ratings of movies with black people and teenagers!

6/3/2006 8:34:58 PM

It's switching me between United 93 and Akeelah and the Bee.

6/3/2006 8:36:27 PM

Yeah.

Don't see those.

6/3/2006 10:02:49 PM

Quote :

"I'm always kind of conflicted with him, because I really hate adding slow motion in post."

i hate hate hate that also

6/3/2006 10:08:16 PM

Let's start a club.

We can call it the Thank Jesus Wes Anderson Got a Fancier Camera After Bottle Rocket Club.

6/3/2006 10:09:40 PM

I don't notice things like that.

FILM NERDS, ALL OF YOU

6/3/2006 10:43:10 PM

Then I won't tell you about the beautiful optical fades in Brick.

6/3/2006 10:48:55 PM

6/4/2006 12:33:01 AM

Okay, so they used optical fades, for the most part, in Brick. It's not something you'd see in most films made in the past 30 years. Things get all super-grainy in the fade, and it's beautiful.

I don't know if normal humans care about these things.

6/4/2006 12:40:57 AM

Why, 'cause they usually resort to digital zooms now, or just leave them out all together?

I mean, even on most cameras optical zooms look a lot better.

6/4/2006 12:46:31 AM

Not zooms, fades.

Like, at the end of a scene: fade to black. But Brick did the old fashioned optical effect that films used back in the days before computers existed.

Digital zooms would only be used in a film as a last resort, and, well, they should probably just never ever do that. I can imagine some sort of doomsday scenario in which they had footage of a scene that had to be zoomed, and there was no way to reshoot it because the DP was dead and the actors all had the bird flu, but short of that, it shouldn't happen.

I'm not saying it doesn't.

But it shouldn't.

6/4/2006 12:50:02 AM

God, I can't read at this hour.

Also, I'd like to wish bird flu on certain movies sometimes.

6/4/2006 12:55:21 AM

Like this one? http://imdb.com/title/tt0800026/

HOW IRONIC!

Well, in the Alanis Morissette way. Not the real way.

6/4/2006 12:57:09 AM

i'm going to have to stick with my previous comment here

-ZiP!-

6/4/2006 1:30:52 AM

I'm getting frustrated- it's still hard to compare things by a point or two. I might just switch to 5s.

6/4/2006 6:23:09 PM

A five star system is so much better for me.

It allows for little tiers of quality to form in my brains.

6/4/2006 6:51:04 PM

I still refuse to give anything a 100 on principle.

6/4/2006 7:04:39 PM

I've given one movie 100 so far, and one movie 99. This is out of 256 ratings so far.

6/4/2006 7:08:12 PM

I'm at 367 and I've given out eleven 95s.

But hey, one of them is your 100. So it's cool.

[Edited on June 4, 2006 at 7:13 PM. Reason : .]

6/4/2006 7:11:49 PM

omgtehstalk!

6/4/2006 7:55:02 PM

omg use some other username besides spookyjon

Fine, here: http://criticker.com/index.php?a=4402

6/4/2006 7:58:33 PM

Oh snap.

6/4/2006 7:59:55 PM

OH SNAP FOUND OUT.

I made ActionPants start a list, too: http://criticker.com/index.php?a=4442
I'm a mean friend.

[Edited on June 4, 2006 at 8:26 PM. Reason : .]

6/4/2006 8:26:13 PM

Man, ActionPants must REALLY like Talking Heads.

6/4/2006 9:04:34 PM

Talking Heads are the best band

Stop Making Sense is the best movie


But music is very important, I gave Space Jam an 80 for the soundtrack alone

6/4/2006 9:05:55 PM

Yeah he does. IS THAT A PROBLEM?!

<3 This Must Be the Place

^Hahahaha, I can't believe I actually own that soundtrack. Jeez. If we were going by soundtrack only, I'dve given A Knight's Tale a much better rating.

[Edited on June 4, 2006 at 9:08 PM. Reason : .]

6/4/2006 9:06:21 PM

I saw David Byrne soundcheck wearing a t-shirt and a pair of cargo shorts at the Carolina Theatre.

Shit blew my mind.

6/4/2006 9:07:49 PM