Movie Ratings

I’m gradually remembering movies i’ve seen and ranking them here, on an integer scale from (-5 , 5).

(+1 to +5)  How good the movie was:

  • +5 – one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen
  • +4 – really liked it
  • +3 – standard
  • +2 – whatevers
  • +1 – borderline sucks but entertaining enough enough in some way

(-1 to -5)  How much the movie sucked:

  • -1 – maybe other people would like it
  • -2 – don’t really remember it, it must have been bad
  • -3 – piece of crap movie – I would have left but I paid for my ticket, or spent bandwidth downloading it
  • -4 – walked out half way, so should you be
  • -5 – embarrassed to have even seen it

Note: the ratings are from memory, meaning I might have liked a movie much more or less at the time of watching, depending on who I was watching with, how I felt that day, etc.  Interestingly, it was much easier to remember a movie if I could remember who I watched it with and what we were doing, even if it was a bad movie.  Good movies were very memorable even when I watched them alone. There are definitely a lot of mediocre movies that would go on this list with scores of 1, if only I could remember them.

Action

  1. The Bourne Identity (5)
  2. The Da Vinci Code (3)
  3. The Bourne Supremacy (4)
  4. Hero (5)
  5. Children of Men (4)
  6. Crank (1)
  7. Smokin’ Aces (1)
  8. Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest (4)
  9. Shooter (3)
  10. Blood Diamond (4)
  11. Casino Royale (4)
  12. The Bourne Ultimatum (4)
  13. Spider-Man (2)
  14. Spider-Man 2 (1)
  15. Spider-Man 3 (-4)
  16. Pirates of the Caribbean – At World’s End (3)
  17. 300 (4)
  18. The Departed (5)
  19. Transformers (3)
  20. Rambo (2)
  21. No Country for Old Men (3)
  22. 3:10 to Yuma (4)
  23. The Incredible Hulk (4)
  24. Hancock (2)
  25. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (1)
  26. Max Payne (1)
  27. The Dark Knight (3)
  28. Iron Man (4)
  29. Duplicity (4)
  30. Quantum of Solace (3)
  31. Taken (5)
  32. Eagle Eye (-4)
  33. Terminator Salvation (1)
  34. Star Trek (4)
  35. Angels and Demons (3)
  36. Transformers 2 (-2)

Comedy

  1. Jackass (4)
  2. White Chicks (5)
  3. Jackass – Number Two (1)
  4. Stranger Than Fiction (-2)
  5. Stardust (4)
  6. The Simpsons Movie (-3)
  7. 40 Year Old Virgin (3)
  8. Ratatouille (4)
  9. Music and Lyrics (3)
  10. Superbad (4)
  11. Knocked Up (3)
  12. Tropic Thunder (2)
  13. Pineapple Express (5)
  14. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2)
  15. Role Models (2)
  16. He’s Just Not That Into You (4)
  17. Bride Wars (1)
  18. The Proposal (2)

Suspense

  1. Amityville Horror (4)
  2. The Number 23 (-5)
  3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (4)
  4. 1408 (-4)
  5. Deja Vu (1)
  6. The Illusionist (3)
  7. Apocalypto (3)
  8. The Prestige (5)
  9. Michael Clayton (4)
  10. Resident Evil – Extinction (2)
  11. Knowing (-5)
  12. The Day the Earth Stood Still (-4)

Drama

  1. The Notebook (-1)
  2. Little Miss Sunshine (-1)
  3. Memoirs of a Geisha (1)
  4. Shakespeare in Love (4)
  5. La Vie en Rose (2)
  6. Babel (2)
  7. Paris, Je t’aime (3)
  8. Married Life (4)
  9. There Will Be Blood (4)
  10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (-1)
  11. Australia (-2)
  12. Seven Pounds (-5)

International

  1. The Longest Night in Shanghai (-4)
  2. 2046 (-1)
  3. Red Cliff 2 (2)
  4. Le Fableux Destin d’ Amelie Poulin (5)
  5. Slumdog Millionaire (5)
  6. The Sniper (3)
  7. Wasabi (4)

Anime

  1. Spirited Away (5)
  2. Howl’s Moving Castle (3)
  3. Appleseed (2)
  4. Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society (3)
  5. Appleseed 2 (2)