You know I will not be using a platform like Letterboxd, ;) but a question and a comment:
1) Is it fair to rate movies based upon your expectations of what they'll be (paragraph 4)? Or do you just mean that, for example, "Fiddler" is a 5 star Musical, but not the same kind of 5 as "The Iron Claw"?
2) My rating system is usually just, "That book/movie/art left me feeling____________. And I still don't know how to quantify that feeling (good or bad) into STARS. On Goodreads I usually skip the ranking unless I know that I will be thinking about that book for a long, long time. That earns a 5 from me.
1. Good question, and I think both are fair. But what I mean here is that Fiddler is a five star musical, and if the The Iron Claw was five stars, it couldn't be in the exact same way, like you said.
2. Skipping the ranking is also an option on Letterboxd and I think it's a great choice! I respect those who do it. We don't "rate" paintings. Giving out stars is just something we started doing with books and movies for some reason in our culture.
You know I will not be using a platform like Letterboxd, ;) but a question and a comment:
1) Is it fair to rate movies based upon your expectations of what they'll be (paragraph 4)? Or do you just mean that, for example, "Fiddler" is a 5 star Musical, but not the same kind of 5 as "The Iron Claw"?
2) My rating system is usually just, "That book/movie/art left me feeling____________. And I still don't know how to quantify that feeling (good or bad) into STARS. On Goodreads I usually skip the ranking unless I know that I will be thinking about that book for a long, long time. That earns a 5 from me.
1. Good question, and I think both are fair. But what I mean here is that Fiddler is a five star musical, and if the The Iron Claw was five stars, it couldn't be in the exact same way, like you said.
2. Skipping the ranking is also an option on Letterboxd and I think it's a great choice! I respect those who do it. We don't "rate" paintings. Giving out stars is just something we started doing with books and movies for some reason in our culture.