movie rating system
Last night we just watched the 79th Academy Award ceremony, the Oscars.
This juggled my thought process to a rather "nerdy" discussion I had with friends last Friday night.
We were all hanging out at my friend dechen's place, watching "the Prestige" on DVD, or "Batman vs. Woverine" as lpchao likes to put it. They were both subscribers to Netflix so there was a list of recent movies on the coffee table in front of us. Apparently, dechen had a very effective rating system for himself. Since the gross sale amount of a movie in $$ is not an accurate reflection of the quality of the movie (highly dependent on the marketing), and as sfong points out, to compare today's $$ to previous sale $$ record is not fair either (since inflation will swoon newer movie's income $$). d's proposed method of dividing overall sales by the opening week sales works surprisingly well! This will eliminate the $ effect, and if you think about it intuitively, it makes sense too. The better movies will have long staying power in theatre, thus the marketing hype of a flop may generate a big opening week, but will taper off.
The magic factor? according to d's spreadsheet (yes, he really did do this! =) 42!! -- no, not really, 3.75+
This juggled my thought process to a rather "nerdy" discussion I had with friends last Friday night.
We were all hanging out at my friend dechen's place, watching "the Prestige" on DVD, or "Batman vs. Woverine" as lpchao likes to put it. They were both subscribers to Netflix so there was a list of recent movies on the coffee table in front of us. Apparently, dechen had a very effective rating system for himself. Since the gross sale amount of a movie in $$ is not an accurate reflection of the quality of the movie (highly dependent on the marketing), and as sfong points out, to compare today's $$ to previous sale $$ record is not fair either (since inflation will swoon newer movie's income $$). d's proposed method of dividing overall sales by the opening week sales works surprisingly well! This will eliminate the $ effect, and if you think about it intuitively, it makes sense too. The better movies will have long staying power in theatre, thus the marketing hype of a flop may generate a big opening week, but will taper off.
The magic factor? according to d's spreadsheet (yes, he really did do this! =) 42!! -- no, not really, 3.75+
-- posted by Pooh Bear @
2/26/2007 12:43:00 PM
1 Comments:
This is quite a good system assuming you know nothing about a set of movies previously. I usually don't pay attention to $ generated by ticket sales, but these numbers provide a good rule of thumb.
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