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CatBus
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What Does Everyone Here Think of Star Wars?
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14-Sep-2016, 12:46 PM

LuckyGungan2001 said:

And yet you gave it a six out of ten right? To me, a six out of ten means that it’s good, or at least above average.

Star ratings are really useless without context for this very reason–the abstract aggregate numbers don’t even mean remotely the same thing to different people.

To me, five out of ten means at no time were you ever wondering why you bothered watching the movie, but also at no time after watching the movie were you particularly pleased that you saw it. It passed the time, was worth whatever money you spent on it, but was pretty empty. Six out of ten means it’s somewhat entertaining when watching it, but still pretty empty. Four out of ten means you sighed and looked at your watch a few times, and hurried out when it was over.

I also give Jedi a 6 out of ten. It’s wildly uneven. Some parts are 7.5, some are 3.5. In the SE, the highs are about the same, but the lows drop down to 0 and are more frequent, so I’d say the SE hurt Jedi’s reputation much, much more than Clerks. I love it because it’s part of the trilogy. On its own merits, I’m not sure I’d use the word love. FWIW, I give Star Wars a 7.5, Empire an 8 (both OOT), and TFA a 5.5. TPM, AOTC, and ROTS get 0.8, 0.6, and 0.3 respectively. The Holiday Special gets a 2.