Recent scoring trends

[djross]

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[Stewball]

When it comes to the current decade, at present this trend is reversed:

2010s: 4.92 (192)

I think that falls pretty much under the heading of no way but up.

I haven't been on Criticker that long, but my personal scores are moving in the opposite direction, particularly with the 80s and the 00s. I look back occasionally and almost always wonder what people saw in them compared to the good stuff today. Yeah, there's a lot of trash today too which is why movie categorization/shopping is so important, like, all the horror and teen crap in the trash bin automatically.

[mattorama12]

I'll leave out the 1920s and earlier because I haven't seen enough to give any reliable statistical measure.

1930s - 6.31 (13)
1940s - 5.69 (16)
1950s - 5.94 (34)
1960s - 6.13 (32)
1970s - 7.00 (63)
1980s - 6.15 (137)
1990s - 5.36 (369)
2000s - 5.02 (605)
2010s - 6.23 (176)

My rankings are much more even over time than yours, apparently. I think it's probably accurate that the 70s are my favorite decade. But this is certainly skewed by a number of things. Movies from before 1980 are generally movies I've seen because I've heard good things, they're classics, or they were on a best-of type list. Movies made since 1980 (I was born in '86) I'm much more likely to have seen just because it was on tv or it was otherwise easily available. I got Netflix right around 2008 and started being more selective with my movie watching (since now I had essentially every movie available). So, since 2008, my averages are probably artificially higher than for the pre-Netflix days because of selection bias.

[martryn]

I think a lot of that might be because you're exposed to the shit films of recent years, but the shit films from decades and decades ago have been rightly forgotten. I know if I'm going to drag up and watch something from the 30's, it's gonna be because I have a good reason to want to. I don't usually turn on Turner Classic Movies and watch the crap on that (saw a Guy Kibbee film today that's not on Wiki or Criticker, and it wasn't very good, so... forgotten by all but IMDB)

How do you guys generate the averages for your films? I'm not as familiar with the features on this website as you guys are, apparently. I see I've only ranked 6 films from the 1930's, but other than doing math, I don't see a way to generate an average score or an average tier.

[djross]

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[paulofilmo]

Profoundly off topic, but I like to come up with a diversity score (for kicks) when the Crit. newsletter comes around.

Within your recent rankings, out of 20: one point for each unique decade, and one point for each unique country.

A score under 10 usually means I'm watching too much TV shitetimes.

literally moments of fun.

[ShogunRua]

Profoundly off topic, but I like to come up with a diversity score (for kicks) when the Crit. newsletter comes around.

Within your recent rankings, out of 20: one point for each unique decade, and one point for each unique country.

A score under 10 usually means I'm watching too much TV shitetimes.

literally moments of fun.

A good idea. I have always believed variety is the spice of life when it comes to movies, and this quantifies it. I would only alter the algorithm by incorporating unique genres in some way, although that's difficult to do with Criticker's system.

Perhaps an additional point for each unique genre after the first three?