More like giant cherries
PARTY HARD!!!!
Thumbs up/thumbs down.
You have to be honest; either you can earnestly recommend it, or you can't.
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↑The problem is that people in the review business, and out of it too, will usually equate "I can't recommend this" with "I disrecommend this". And from there it only gets worse. Remember the disasters with the Eight Point Eight reviews?
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Both work for me.
In a local newspaper near where I live, there's a guy who assigns a letter grade ("C-", "B+" and so on), and on local TV there's a guy who uses a stoplight: "green light" means recommended, "red light" is not recommended, "yellow light" means go at your own risk.
There was a review book I found once which had the following rating system:
- One to five stars in 1/2 star increments.
- Or a picture of a bomb. (So Bad Its Horrible).
- Or a the silhouette of a turkey. (It's not so much So Bad Its Horrible as just not good enough to get even one star.)
- Or the outline of a turkey (So Bad, It's Good).
edited 5th Feb '11 6:04:57 PM by FrodoGoofballCoTV
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I like percentages. The problem with thumbs up/thumbs down is that it leaves no room for movies that you thought were OK, but weren't your cup of tea.
Neither is a substitute for a comprehensive verbal write-up, though.
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PARTY HARD!!!!
If you use percentages though, the ones reading them will be unsure of a "50%" score. Either you say yes, or no. The reader is reading one's opinion so that they can make a decision, not so they can be left hanging. If you can't be honest or are unsure of yourself, then you ought naught to be reviewing it.
That said, yeah, verbal reviews are better.
edited 6th Feb '11 1:13:50 AM by TheMightyAnonym
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So that's what this does
None of them really work as intended, they're just reasonable indicators.
There are two extreme camps when it comes to review scores. Some believe that you can either recommend a movie or you can't, hence thumbs up or thumbs down. Others believe that a recommendation can be much more complex then that. Stretching from flawed but if your really into that genre you might enjoy it (60) to great, but if you don't like the genre you probably shouldn't bother (70) to almost perfect (90), you get the picture. So where do you fall on the scale?
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