THE RATING SYSTEM
Here at Filmgazm, we love movies. We think it's important that people know exactly how much. This is our 10-1 rating system explained in detail, so you know why that movie was a 6 instead of a 7.
10/10
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A perfect 10 is rarer than a great white buffalo. A score like this means the movie was absolutely flawless; a masterpiece in our eyes. 10/10 is hard to come by and is often reserved for childhood favorites and cinematic classics. But sometimes, it comes along. A movie that's so impossibly perfect that no other score will do.
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9/10
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A 9 is a film that wowed the almighty hell out of us and deserves a score that says as much. What separates a 9 from a 10 is indescribable, but we know it when we see it. A nine is about as high a score as we tend to give out and we consider it one of the highest forms of praise. Think of it like this. If a 10 is the Mona Lisa, a 9 is the Last Supper. Just as good in many ways, but missing that one iota keeping it from being perfect.
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8/10
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An 8 is a wonderful movie and tends to be our base score for a film that really impressed us. An eight is a good movie, often times a great movie, but it's still missing something. At Filmgazm, we value an 8 big time. Giving a film an 8 means we just about loved it, but it wasn't groundbreaking or awe-inspiring. Every 8 has the potential to one day become a 9. It's all about how you watch it.
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7/10
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A 7 is a decent film that lost big points due to a bad performance or some wonky screenwriting. It doesn't mean the film was necessarily bad. It just could've and should've been considerably better. There's films we adore that have a 7 score. It's just the way of the world.
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6/10
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A 6 is the bitterest disappointment of all. A 6 represents a film that had all the potential of a great movie, but squandered it into an abysmal failure with only a few remaining redeeming qualities. We hate to give this score but sometimes it has to be done.
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5/10
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A 5 is the beginning of the bad half of the scoreboard. This is where we start getting into "bad movie" territory. If a film was overly long, dull, or just plain stupid, it often will be rated a 5. Anything less than a 5 and it's barely a movie. At least here, they can hold onto something.
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4/10
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A film has to be really, really, really bad to warrant a 4. This means people tried to make something but they didn't know what the hell they were doing, that the film was pasted together with Elmer's glue and shipped in a pizza box to the nearest theater. Watching a 4 is like watching paint dry with actors playing the brush and the wall, but doing a bad job of it. Don't ever strive for a 4. It's irredeemable.
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3/10
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If you're a 3, you didn't even the common decency to try to shoot for something and then fail. You don't even care about the production. You just turned the camera on and pointed it at something. We've seen only a handful of 3's and it makes our skin crawl just thinking about it.
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2/10
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At Filmgazm, we have an unwritten rule that we try to watch and review everything we can get our hands on. That includes sequels, threequels, and the like. But a 2? We draw the line. A 2 is embarrassing. Any self-respecting actor who appeared in a two is either dead or doing car wash commercials for $50 a pop. How can you even call yourself a filmmaker if you're cranking out 2's?
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1/10
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This is it folks. The last score. The end-all, be-all of horrendous motion pictures. This site has seen a few 1's and it's always a tragedy. It's like watching a three-car pileup where everyone dies. This is the lowest of the low and if a film gets this score, we hold a private burial for it out back and never speak of it again.
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