Incredibly Boring Post About Rating Movies
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I'm trying to be circumspect about movie-rating on Netflix - I believe I must be different than most people in that I saw most of the good ones at the time they were new, once, or I saw really old things on television a thousand years ago and feel no particular need to see them again. Also, I don't always remember titles, and sometimes they offer a movie to rate that I saw as the original (say, 3 Men and a Baby). So, when I rate things I'm conscious that I might've liked movie X a lot in 1979 but that doesn't put me in the same category as someone who saw movie X yesterday and rated it highly. I have been trying to stick mostly to 3 stars for anything decent. I get carried away with fervor when the movie is something I've seen recently and liked, as that makes more sense to me in a ratings way.

Right now the stupid queue is:

Andrei Rublev
I Heart Huckabees
Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: Vol. 2
Dogville
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
12 Monkeys

I don't remember what Dogville is at the moment. *checks* Oh, right - it's that Lars von Trier film. That title slides into a part of my brain occupied by Dogtown and Z-Boys, which I really liked a great deal. I like documentaries. I also like surfing movies. I have a ripped-to-shreds silkscreened Endless Summer poster I bought for $5 in about... hmmm... mid-sixties. THAT was a great film. No, you don't need to agree with my taste. I <3 documentaries.

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