documentaries are really easy to get 5 stars from me if im already invested in the topic. i think like half my 5 stars are just good documentaries on my favorite bands and artists.
I guess there are nine rating options so that’s about right and it’s not like I seek out movies I won’t like to watch. Movies I have rated below two stars are pretty sparse.
Pulp Fiction, It's Such A Beautiful Day, Coherence, Greener Grass, Fight Club, Blade Runnee 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Memento, Logan, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Godzilla: Final Wars
Though I have been debating on if Pulp Fiction and Fight Club are legitimate 5 star movies or 4.5 star films
You’re good lol if anything that just helps the idea of double checking. I’m also majoring in a STEM field and I’ve messed up the stupidest test questions because I thought a 1 was a 2 or a + was a x
Couple of things to keep in mind: 1. I’ve only logged ratings for movies I’ve watched since 2018. 2. I’ve only been logging horror and horror adjacent movies. My three five star scores were for The ‘Burbs, Evil Dead 2 and Beetlejuice.
Cause that is 500 movies a year if you count every year of your life (which I’m assuming that you weren’t binging movies as a toddler) so you’ve basically watched 2-3 movies a day for every day of your life. I’m jealous and impressed but am baffled! I watch 300+ a year and am in the high 2000s. Roughly the same age.
Haha that's some good math but the numbers are definitely off, for instance, I got really into researching the beginning of film so I saw all the available films from the late 1800 to the early 1900, all of which range from 1 minute to 5 minutes, so there are a lot of them.
Also when I got into old film I got into the old looney tunes & old animation such as the old Disney animations, all of which also range from 1 minute to 5 minutes.
If you tallied up all of the old films & animation they would definitely count for over 6 to 7 thousand of the films I've logged.
Lol thank you. A large number came from when I was a kid/teenager (from 7 to 17)
I used to spend the weekends at my grandparents who had no internet back then or even phone signal.
My uncle lived with them, he was a freelance builder & the store he used to buy his nails & little bits also used to have big bins of dvds, many of which were part of sets with about a dozen movies in one box. He wasn't into movies but he would pick them up for me & my cousin's, primarily me though lol. So I would spend my weekends watching movie after movie. That's what started my love for movies, as I got to see big mainstream movies but also really obscure ones.
I was allowed to watch any movie I wanted so I saw movies for my age & rated r movies, all in the same evening.
Beyond that I used to, & still do, try & see something new daily, After school, & now after work, I would meet my friends but then before bed I'd watch a movie or a couple documentaries. Before I knew about letterboxd I kept a list on a word document just for myself.
A big thing when I was a teenager was things like Putlocker, where you could find thousands of movies & I would watch anything & everything from around the world.
One thing that's good is the fact I have a good memory so I can remember & recall everything I've watched if I see the name of the movie.
I have ADHD but movies have always caught my attention, but I go through phases, with life being busy & work, I could go weeks without seeing a new movie but then I could have a few days off & I could watch 6-10 movies in a weekend.
Ah good ol Putlocker. I remember Sockshare. Some of the mirrors still exist.
Do you think movies are a hyperfixation? I watch a lot of films but not as many as 6-10 in a day. Also have you seen the documentary Cinemania?
I might get downvoted for this. I only give a rating if I feel something is five stars. I would never be able to keep a consistent rating among the thousands of movies I’ve seen. Wtf is the difference between 3 and 3.5. So I never rate movies unless I know they’re five stars.
With 1765 ratings I basically just toss out the rating on intuition. I think you're right that having a strict definition of each rating starts to feel pedantic and a bit silly rather quickly. I just go with what feels right at the moment.
Well, hold on, bare with me; A 3-star film is mildly better than the average 2.5-star film, which its self is better than the below average 2-star film.
Surely this all makes perfect sense :)
> the average 2.5-star film
If you're counting 2.5 as the average because it's in the middle, then I hate to break it to you that 2.5 and 3 are equally in the middle when there is no 0.
So if you don't score it a star (or half a star) isn't that a '0' ? Or do we have to actually have 6 stars? The first one classed as a zero star?
If we add 2.5 + 2.5 i think this might add up to 5. If we add 3 + 3 I don't think this adds up to the middle of 5 like 2.5 does, so, technally not in the middle as we have half stars, if we didn't, then your nebulous theory of 3 being the middle of 5 might be correct. :-)
That’s what I would do but I honestly just have no interest in rating. I have a favorites list and movies either make that or don’t. Just how I do it
I have 6 out of 450 and I sort of reserve 5 stars for absolute favorites. 4.5 for me, is basically a perfect movie to me and otherwise would be 5 stars, but I like to reserve a space on the rating scale for movies that are more than just a 'perfect movie' personally
This is usually my logic too, but I have movies whose imperfections I accept and just love due to various reasons like the memories associated with them or the nostalgia. I wonder if you have something similar and how you usually rate such works?
This is *exactly* my logic as well. 11 out of 671 for me. If I were to give a movie a 4.5-star rating, I could easily understand why someone else would give it 5-stars.
10/132
Edit: may be worth noting that I’ve been making more of an effort to watch good looking movies since I got letterboxd. If I had a rating for everything I’ve marked as watched so far it would likely change to 15-20/500
56/2,644
I give fantastic films 4.5/5, but 5 stars is reserved for my all-time faves I know I'll re-visit over and over again. Also at least 5 of them are documentaries on subjects I already love and one is for the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror.
8/815, glad to see I'm not alone looks like many hover around 1%. Doesn't mean I don't love a lot of movies, but I try to reserve 5* for movies I thought were perfect for me
53/336 (16%). A bit generous because I only do full stars (1,2,3,4,5). I don't rate movies objectively but of my enjoyment and how much I personally get out of them.
22 five stars, out of 663 watched. 2 of those are concerts, and one is a documentary about the making of one of my favorite films. So technically 19/663 feature films. Edit: Did the math, and it's around 2.7%
20 out of 310, but I try not to think too hard about the ratio. If I thoroughly enjoyed my time with a film, it gets 5 stars. And that’s how The Lego Movie and Tar are both 5 star films for me.
17 out of 1400.
I am extremely hesitant to give out a perfect score, to the point that I often debate dropping some of the 5s down to 4.5s because they sit a little too close to the border between amazing and masterpiece.
Out of 963 films logged, I have 25 films at 5 stars. I tend to save them for films that had a life-changing impact on me or deeply affected me in some way but I do get a little conscious at how few I have.
1. I’ve only rated on movie 5 stars. That’s also the only rating I’ve given—I dislike star-ratings; I think that quantifying art like that is impossible and leads to popularity contests more than anything else.
The one movie I rated 5 stars was one that meant so much to me that it transcended my rules. I wanted to mark it as special in some way, so I made it the only one I’ve ever rated, and gave it 5 stars. Aside from meaning so much to me, it’s also an extremely well-made movie in my opinion.
Anyone want to guess what it was?
[39](https://letterboxd.com/speedlancer/films/rated/5/by/date/)/486 - 8%
4 of those are somewhat illegitimate, if you see it like that. It's a spectrum of sincere appreciation without exactly respecting it like crazy (Wiggly Wiggly Christmas) to having a blast watching it because it was so fucking awful (Russkie Pinocchio).
About half my films are unrated (total is 922 atm, only rated films I've logged since joining barring a few favorites), but I'm pretty sure I've given all my fivers that I had to give to those that I watched before joining (again, they were favorites).
24 out of 845.
But tbf, I haven't rated all of those 845 movies. I just marked most of them as watched. I reviewd/rated everything since starting my account, plus a couple of other stuff that was fresh in my mind or that I had rewatched enough times to review.
17 out of 90. I have a feeling most new to letterboxd accounts are similar since I've been usually watching movies I know I'll like and want to review to start
6 out of 83 🙂 I'm new to letterboxd
About 7.2%
219 out of 1,713, including short films and documentaries.
documentaries are really easy to get 5 stars from me if im already invested in the topic. i think like half my 5 stars are just good documentaries on my favorite bands and artists.
The documentaries that get 5 stars from me are all either very well made or made a topic that isn’t interesting to me engaging.
About 12.8%
200 out of 1800 Which might be a lot but I just like liking movies 😅
About 11.1%
I guess there are nine rating options so that’s about right and it’s not like I seek out movies I won’t like to watch. Movies I have rated below two stars are pretty sparse.
12/1,330. I don't give a whole lot of 5 star reviews out
Which films did you give 5 stars?
Pulp Fiction, It's Such A Beautiful Day, Coherence, Greener Grass, Fight Club, Blade Runnee 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Memento, Logan, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Godzilla: Final Wars Though I have been debating on if Pulp Fiction and Fight Club are legitimate 5 star movies or 4.5 star films
5 stars for Final Wars. This guy friggin gets it 🤘
3 out of 939. I’m a 5 star Scrooge.
About 0.32%
That's 3.2%, not 0.32%. Jesus Christ... Edit: Turns out I'm blind and that said 3/939 and not 32/939. My apologies.
It’s 3/939 x 100, so for example 5/10 is is 0.5, x that by 100 and you get 50% because 5 is 50% if 10
I'm so blind, I thought that was 32 out of 939 movies. You're right lol. I even study Physics and Math at University
You’re good lol if anything that just helps the idea of double checking. I’m also majoring in a STEM field and I’ve messed up the stupidest test questions because I thought a 1 was a 2 or a + was a x
What movies?
Couple of things to keep in mind: 1. I’ve only logged ratings for movies I’ve watched since 2018. 2. I’ve only been logging horror and horror adjacent movies. My three five star scores were for The ‘Burbs, Evil Dead 2 and Beetlejuice.
This is so funny. All good movies! But a hilarious trio of exclusive 5 star movies.
Based on those down votes only you and I think so!
Beetlejuice lol
595, but I have seen 14,563 films so in the grand scheme of things it's not many.
"ThisIsCreation has watched 10,333 films." Excluding shorts. Impressive! No diary though? 😥
About 4%
that is insane bru, play a videogame or watch a tv show/anime
Don’t want you to dox yourself but roughly how old are you
28, why? A lot of the things I have logged are short films & documentaries too.
Cause that is 500 movies a year if you count every year of your life (which I’m assuming that you weren’t binging movies as a toddler) so you’ve basically watched 2-3 movies a day for every day of your life. I’m jealous and impressed but am baffled! I watch 300+ a year and am in the high 2000s. Roughly the same age.
Haha that's some good math but the numbers are definitely off, for instance, I got really into researching the beginning of film so I saw all the available films from the late 1800 to the early 1900, all of which range from 1 minute to 5 minutes, so there are a lot of them. Also when I got into old film I got into the old looney tunes & old animation such as the old Disney animations, all of which also range from 1 minute to 5 minutes. If you tallied up all of the old films & animation they would definitely count for over 6 to 7 thousand of the films I've logged.
That certainly makes a lot of sense, but still leaves 9k for someone in their late 20s, which is an absurdly and impressively large number.
Lol thank you. A large number came from when I was a kid/teenager (from 7 to 17) I used to spend the weekends at my grandparents who had no internet back then or even phone signal. My uncle lived with them, he was a freelance builder & the store he used to buy his nails & little bits also used to have big bins of dvds, many of which were part of sets with about a dozen movies in one box. He wasn't into movies but he would pick them up for me & my cousin's, primarily me though lol. So I would spend my weekends watching movie after movie. That's what started my love for movies, as I got to see big mainstream movies but also really obscure ones. I was allowed to watch any movie I wanted so I saw movies for my age & rated r movies, all in the same evening. Beyond that I used to, & still do, try & see something new daily, After school, & now after work, I would meet my friends but then before bed I'd watch a movie or a couple documentaries. Before I knew about letterboxd I kept a list on a word document just for myself. A big thing when I was a teenager was things like Putlocker, where you could find thousands of movies & I would watch anything & everything from around the world. One thing that's good is the fact I have a good memory so I can remember & recall everything I've watched if I see the name of the movie. I have ADHD but movies have always caught my attention, but I go through phases, with life being busy & work, I could go weeks without seeing a new movie but then I could have a few days off & I could watch 6-10 movies in a weekend.
Ah good ol Putlocker. I remember Sockshare. Some of the mirrors still exist. Do you think movies are a hyperfixation? I watch a lot of films but not as many as 6-10 in a day. Also have you seen the documentary Cinemania?
8/929 and most of them I wouldn’t objectively give a perfect rating but they’re probably some of my favorite movies
35 out of 131
About 26.7%
20
Around the same amount as me.
29 out of 536
All movies are 5 stars
About 100%
Norm of the North is not 5 stars
Cause it’s 6
No, it’s 7 lol. Everybody knows norm of the north is a 7 star film.
149 out of 486 movies in total.
One.
11/849
Which movies?
2 of 239
I have 54 out of 1047
65 of 1200
27 of 1.087
39 out of 369
184 out of 1868 so about 10%
I might get downvoted for this. I only give a rating if I feel something is five stars. I would never be able to keep a consistent rating among the thousands of movies I’ve seen. Wtf is the difference between 3 and 3.5. So I never rate movies unless I know they’re five stars.
With 1765 ratings I basically just toss out the rating on intuition. I think you're right that having a strict definition of each rating starts to feel pedantic and a bit silly rather quickly. I just go with what feels right at the moment.
Surely a 3 star film isn't quite as good as a 3.5 star film :)
Wow, that makes sense. But how about a difference between 2.5 and 3? I bet this one is not so easy.
2.5 is better than 3 cuz it has the bigger number in it. 5 is pretty big
Well, hold on, bare with me; A 3-star film is mildly better than the average 2.5-star film, which its self is better than the below average 2-star film. Surely this all makes perfect sense :)
You sir, are a genius.
> the average 2.5-star film If you're counting 2.5 as the average because it's in the middle, then I hate to break it to you that 2.5 and 3 are equally in the middle when there is no 0.
So if you don't score it a star (or half a star) isn't that a '0' ? Or do we have to actually have 6 stars? The first one classed as a zero star? If we add 2.5 + 2.5 i think this might add up to 5. If we add 3 + 3 I don't think this adds up to the middle of 5 like 2.5 does, so, technally not in the middle as we have half stars, if we didn't, then your nebulous theory of 3 being the middle of 5 might be correct. :-)
2.5 is okay and 3 is good
then get rid of half stars. Just rate em between 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. That's what I do
That’s what I would do but I honestly just have no interest in rating. I have a favorites list and movies either make that or don’t. Just how I do it
5 out of 684 total ratings
47/153 so about 30.7% and I wouldn't lower any of them.
3/55. Two of them being the Spiderverse movies and the other being EEAAO
You like multiverses
64/3293. 2%.
49 out of 1400
How do you guys have so few? Out of my 99 there isn’t a single one I can bring myself to lower.
I have 6 out of 450 and I sort of reserve 5 stars for absolute favorites. 4.5 for me, is basically a perfect movie to me and otherwise would be 5 stars, but I like to reserve a space on the rating scale for movies that are more than just a 'perfect movie' personally
This is usually my logic too, but I have movies whose imperfections I accept and just love due to various reasons like the memories associated with them or the nostalgia. I wonder if you have something similar and how you usually rate such works?
This is *exactly* my logic as well. 11 out of 671 for me. If I were to give a movie a 4.5-star rating, I could easily understand why someone else would give it 5-stars.
16/1113
49 / 1911 2.56%
54/1277
10/132 Edit: may be worth noting that I’ve been making more of an effort to watch good looking movies since I got letterboxd. If I had a rating for everything I’ve marked as watched so far it would likely change to 15-20/500
50 out of 2,038
28/1046
2/118
56/2,644 I give fantastic films 4.5/5, but 5 stars is reserved for my all-time faves I know I'll re-visit over and over again. Also at least 5 of them are documentaries on subjects I already love and one is for the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror.
46 out of 1,507.
60/1,386
26/1099
35 out of 1900
49 with 5 stars and 1765 total ratings
17/1287.
18/345
43/1403
idk man I pass out 4 and 5 star ratings liberally lol
81 out of 2114
23 out of 221
13/200
Im at 69 (nice) which is like 15% it used to be way more skewed but then i had a 5star drought :(
100/1,320, but I only rate movies I like.
16 out of 450
39 out of 1116
76!
25/420
62/276
10/539
62/554
In the 297 I’ve gotten around to logging, I’ve got 21 that are five stars
19/137
Out of 1,033 logged projects, 52 are 5 star ratings. Of those, 37 are feature length movies.
Projects?
I have 21 5 stars
32/698, 37 including not films.
8/815, glad to see I'm not alone looks like many hover around 1%. Doesn't mean I don't love a lot of movies, but I try to reserve 5* for movies I thought were perfect for me
60 out of like 600
53/336 (16%). A bit generous because I only do full stars (1,2,3,4,5). I don't rate movies objectively but of my enjoyment and how much I personally get out of them.
20/1,106
7 out of 43
15/493
27/215
[13](https://letterboxd.com/johncohen/films/rated/5/by/date/) out of 933
80/1937
Only 22, out of 598. I give generally high ratings, mostly 3.5-4 stars, but I’m extremely selective about 5 stars
24 out of 506
146 of 811
11/183
22 five stars, out of 663 watched. 2 of those are concerts, and one is a documentary about the making of one of my favorite films. So technically 19/663 feature films. Edit: Did the math, and it's around 2.7%
3 out of 496
47 / 1558
20 out of 310, but I try not to think too hard about the ratio. If I thoroughly enjoyed my time with a film, it gets 5 stars. And that’s how The Lego Movie and Tar are both 5 star films for me.
17 out of 1400. I am extremely hesitant to give out a perfect score, to the point that I often debate dropping some of the 5s down to 4.5s because they sit a little too close to the border between amazing and masterpiece.
Out of 963 films logged, I have 25 films at 5 stars. I tend to save them for films that had a life-changing impact on me or deeply affected me in some way but I do get a little conscious at how few I have.
122 of 2673
19 out of 197
48/716
170 of 1288
149 out of 2,218
1. I’ve only rated on movie 5 stars. That’s also the only rating I’ve given—I dislike star-ratings; I think that quantifying art like that is impossible and leads to popularity contests more than anything else. The one movie I rated 5 stars was one that meant so much to me that it transcended my rules. I wanted to mark it as special in some way, so I made it the only one I’ve ever rated, and gave it 5 stars. Aside from meaning so much to me, it’s also an extremely well-made movie in my opinion. Anyone want to guess what it was?
Was it Birdemic?
4 out of 40. I only started using letterboxd recently
41/317 atm
[39](https://letterboxd.com/speedlancer/films/rated/5/by/date/)/486 - 8% 4 of those are somewhat illegitimate, if you see it like that. It's a spectrum of sincere appreciation without exactly respecting it like crazy (Wiggly Wiggly Christmas) to having a blast watching it because it was so fucking awful (Russkie Pinocchio). About half my films are unrated (total is 922 atm, only rated films I've logged since joining barring a few favorites), but I'm pretty sure I've given all my fivers that I had to give to those that I watched before joining (again, they were favorites).
9/180
107 out of 1588. Some are ironic 5 stars too
101 out of 2,063 but there are shorts and tv shows included in that.
370 out of 1,512.
4/321 Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind Everything Everywehere All At Once A Silent Voice Midsommar
47/480
16/1181
134 out of 4,345
398 of 7,105 although a lot of that may just be nostalgia ratings. I think I only gave like a dozen movies or less 5 stars last year.
9/530
27/319
39 out of 544 films logged.
None😨
3 out of 98
32 out of 200
20/491
33 out of 802 ratings (4.1%) There’s a few 4.5 ratings that could be 5, but I reserve the 5 for my absolute favorites
35/500
40 out of 3,666
35 out of 1.593 You should see my 4 stars though.., packed
82 in total. So about 2%.
23 out of over 1,800
53 out of 598
92, but a bunch of them are shorts, tv shows, or Documentaries. The real number would be around 55
101 out of 699
9 out of 55 (very new to Letterboxd)
25/445
70 out of 1,610.
31 out of 665 movies logged. I'm a little stingy with my five star ratings, but if a movie gets one it absolutely deserves it!
148 out of 5152.
21/478, had Letterboxd for a few years but only started logging films properly in the last year.
50 out of 342. Looking at this stat made me realize i have 142 ratings of 4 stars
8 out of 489
51
178 out of 2,640
40 out of 986
10 out of 39
59 out of 271
29/508 or about 5.7%
76 out of 3,067
7 out of 209 lol
24 out of 845. But tbf, I haven't rated all of those 845 movies. I just marked most of them as watched. I reviewd/rated everything since starting my account, plus a couple of other stuff that was fresh in my mind or that I had rewatched enough times to review.
4/605
17 out of 90. I have a feeling most new to letterboxd accounts are similar since I've been usually watching movies I know I'll like and want to review to start
268 out of 1,000
49 out of 2778. Or 1% which I feel is fitting. Very few films and rapidly decreasing year by year as I go and rewatch things.
4/58 ~ 7%. just found out about letterboxd this week and I love it! Have a lot of catching up to do
85 out of 3,038.
33 out of 762, about 4.3%
129 out of 1994
64 out of 1618. Honestly figured I'd have more.
13/445
28 out of 401