I’m not a big movie guy. I enjoy them, but I’m not hardcore into movies or anything.

I’m also a Netflix subscriber. I like rating what I watch. I’m often amazed at how well Netflix predicts what I’ll rate a movie.

I find the 5 star rating on Netflix a hair confining, but make the best of it:

1 star would be a movie that sucks. Something I can’t sit through or did manage to and want to stab myself for soing so.

Inversely, 5 stars would be a movie I could (and do) sit through or watch everytime I catch it or would actually make an effort to view again. Not always about quality, but often about enjoyability for me.

3 stars is where most movies will fall. This is a movie I sat through and didn’t have any strong feelings either way. It was a movie. It entertained me for 2 hours. I watched it. I’m not pissed that I did, but I could have lived without ever seeing it. The average movie. Most movies.

Obviously then, 2 stars and 4 stars are the degrees that fill the space between 1 & 3 stars and 3 & 5 stars respectively.

2 stars would be an average movie that I didn’t care for or had something stupid or sucky about it.
4 stars would be an average movie that I was fond of or had something particularly good or notable about it.

I set Facebook up to import my movie ratings when I rate them on Netflix. I sort of took to giving a quick explanation of my rating in the comments of the ratings post on Facebook.

Kinda fun. It challenges me to think a little about the movie I watched – no matter how deep and meaningful or silly and superficial.

I just realized that I don’t share those little ratings/reviews on my blog and I probably should. So from now on I will.