Preface

• Well, the title kinda sums up it!

One Year of My Movie Thoughts

• Hello, hello everybody!
• That’s right, today is the one year anniversary of the founding of My Movie Thoughts.
• This year has flown by and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all, the fans, for coming to this site and supporting it and just engaging with anything I have to say.
• This site isn’t my job, I don’t get paid for it, it’s just me talking about what I love and I’m unbelievably appreciative to all of you guys who read through all my posts, comment, tell your friends, and just have a good time along with me.
• Here’s to another year with even more content and all the better of it to come!

New Rating System

• The other announcement other than the thanking part is a new rating system I’ve developed.
• Originally, over the first couple of reviews I didn’t even do ratings on this site. I’d just give my review and get out with a little bit of conclusion.
• Then I decided to do a scale of 1 to 5, which worked pretty well but not perfectly.
• The 1-5 scale was something (from the beginning) I found to be very vague and if I gave something a 3.3/5 that would seem like just some random number. You all might not know how I arrived there.
  • There were exceptions of course, like a 5/5 is something I considered to be a great film and 4/5 is almost there but still some issues here and there.
• And very recently there have been movies that I’ve given super high scores but might not deserve THE highest ranking I have.
  • Or the other way, where it was a phenomenal movie that I gave a super high score despite its issues but did deserve a high ranking.
• So if that didn’t make sense, the summary is: I developed a new style of movie rankings because having no system would drive ME crazy (not to mention you guys) but also to be a bit more clear on how much I liked the movie and how much I think you guys would like this movie/if you should even see it.
• And yeah I will bold each one at the end of the review just to make it clear what I’m rating the movie officially.
• SOOOO, the new highest rating instead of ‘5/5’ is “Five Stars.”
  • I originally was going to do YouTube video reviews which I might transition into in a couple years when I have better equipment, but anyway Five Stars was going to be my original highest ranking. It’s something smooth to say, it’s something professional, and it’s also just a great summary of how awesome something is. It’s not five actual stars (like the symbol) though, because it isn’t THAT profession.
  • Five Stars will basically take over for 5/5.
• Then, the next highest rating will be, “It’s Awesome and Worth Seeing Multiple Times.”
  • Not just worth seeing multiple times, but it’s also awesome.
  • Replay value isn’t everything in a movie, but I always say that a movie is good if I want to go back and see it again.
  • So in this case, the movie is so awesome it’s worth seeing multiple times.
  • This will take the place of 4/5 and essentially anything between 4 – 4.9/5.
• Then we have, “It’s a Good Time and Totally Worth Checking Out.”
  • One of the main reasons I’m doing this rating change is because sometimes I’d give a movie a 3/5 and my friends would think it’s a bad movie.
  • But 3/5 is good, it’s fresh, and in place of 3/5 and 3.5/5 is this rating.
  • It is a solid time, it’s a good movie, it’s worth checking out. Maybe not more than once, but if you see it, you wouldn’t regret it.
  • The last of the positive ratings!!
• Then movie from the fresh side to the rotten side, we have the antithesis of the last rating which is, “ehh it’s okay, but you can probably skip this one.”
  • Because I think of myself as just a fan of movies, here it is just spelled out to you: it’s okay but probably not worth checking out.
  • Maybe on cable, but not worth your time and money in the theater.
  • Essentially taking the place of 2.5/5 and just the bad movies that aren’t horrible.
• Then we have the penultimate one, “yeah it’s pretty lousy and DEFINITELY not worth your time.”
  • Essentially all the 2/5s and anything that (as you can tell) isn’t worth checking out.
  • This one goes out to all the Jupiter Ascendings in the audience…
• Then we arrive at the final one, the Transformers 4 of all movie ratings… It is… UNWATCHABLE.
  • All caps!
  • Yeah these are the bottom of the barrel, the worst of the worst, the ones that I couldn’t stand and neither should you.
  • And yes, you can read that in the Kimmy Schmidt theme song voice if you want.

In Conclusion

• Well I hate to end on that bad note, but thank you guys again so much for getting My Movie Thoughts to one year, and I can’t wait to do even more with it!
• Let me know if you like this new style of ratings and whether or not there are certain ones that are confusing.
  • I’m still toying with a couple of em myself…
• And as always, thanks for reading guys.

Update

• Hello All!
• I just wanted to make a slight apology, but not really.
• The past few months, as you all could probably deduce, weren’t great for movies.
• There were plenty of movies that came out, but not a ton of reviews for me to do.
• That being said, I was able to crank out 2 reviews, a LOT of Trailer Talks, and some news coverage.
• THAT being said, this month of May will be a little lackluster the first week.  Of course we got an Avengers Review coming at you guys tomorrow night, followed probably by an Avengers Spoiler-Talk.
• Then some news, trailers, if it’s worth talking about but then a review of Pitch Perfect 2 (cuz you guys know I’m reliable like that), definitely a review of Tomorrowland, definitely a review of Poltergeist.  And I’ll try to squeeze in either Hot Pursuit or San Andreas depending on which I have more time for.  Possible both, but with school wrapping up… Eh?
• This summer will be chocked full of content though.

In Conclusion

• In Conclusion, there’s the “slate” of My Movie Thoughts reviews hopefully coming at y’all for the next month or so, and yeah I apologize on behalf of the months of March and April at the cinema…  And ya know, for me not posting as much…  Anyways, and as always, thanks for reading guys.

Update

• Hello all!
• For those of you who don’t know, this is the month that My Movie Thoughts dies.
• Whoa, whoa, whoa, before you click away let me explain myself.
• This site isn’t going anywhere, it’s running strong and I’m loving doing it.
• BUT, March and April are the two worst movie months of the year from my standpoint.
  • January and February are the worst in quality, but they’re still being cranked out, and maybe you get your one good one.
  • But March and April? Quality never exceeds mediocre and there are so few releases actually worth seeing.
• So my average movie review count for a normal month (about 4 new releases) will probably dip to possibly 2 new releases.
  • Expect one for at least Insurgent.
• That being said, I will try to do a few “Classic Reviews” of older movies, or some of my favorite movies.
• As well as trailer talk, news coverage, etc.
• Also, two bits that will be big:
  • Discussions.
  • TV Show Reviews.
• I said in my 30 Rock review that you can expect a LOT of TV shows reviews coming up, and I’m currently working on one, with two others being drafted.
  • TV Show reviews take like 10 times the hours as a movie review (which I can crank out in about an hour)
• And Discussions, as I’m calling them, will now be featured once a month(-ish)!
  • You guys really responded well to my RUMOR: Is Spider-Man Going Back to Marvel?, which is actually my favorite post on this site thus far.
  • So I wanted to make a monthly bit of longer posts where I talk about a current topic in the movie world.
  • I the next one about halfway done, and I think you guys will really like it….

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So guys, that’s the March Update! Hope you all stay tuned in to the site over the next couple months before the Summer Movie Season is ushered in with all her glory. And as always, thanks for reading guys.