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From Rotten Tomatoes, based on percentage of critics giving a positive review. After Black Swan I've added in some of the best rated movies from the IMDB in 2010 with at least 1000 votes.

[Poll #1673673]

And I'm bound to have missed out something awesome that I'm just too unhip to have seen. Fill me in in the comments.

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lsanderson.livejournal.com

The Meh option

Edited Date: 2011-01-28 01:52 pm (UTC)

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alitheapipkin.livejournal.com

Indeed, I wanted this for Harry Potter.

I've hardly seen any of those and to think when I was an undergrad I used to go to the cinema or the university film society about twice a week...

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i wanted to like harry potter, but somehow it felt like a collection of game cutscenes rather than a film.

From:

andrewducker

The beauty of GOOD/BAD is that if your views fit neither ying nor yang, neither alpha nor omega you are free to use the whole of the English language (and diagrams) to express yourself using the helpfully provided comments system.

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ciphergoth.livejournal.com

Yeah, only if we can be bothered. Of the three films I rated GOOD, only one is GOOD, the other two were OK.

From:

andrewducker

I frequently leave GOOD/BAD radio buttons blank.

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spacelem.livejournal.com

What if you click a radio button, and then decide you're not sure? You can't unclick a radio button. Ideally you'd have a radio/checkbox hybrid. It accepts either 1 or 0 (or more if you need it) inputs across all the options.

Good/bad works, but good/bad/other is better (people are comfortable with "other", it makes them feel that their choice is somehow recorded, even if it isn't really).

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fearmeforiampink

What if you click a radio button, and then decide you're not sure? You can't unclick a radio button.

Hit refresh?

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spacelem.livejournal.com

Hardly convenient if you have a long form.

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fearmeforiampink

True enough. I was arguing in the specific case rather than the general – if I did so on this survey, I'd not be bothered about hitting refresh and re-entering the data.

On longer forms I agree it could be more of an annoyance to do so.

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cairmen.livejournal.com

In which case...

Harry Potter - Pls grade film stock proprly. kthnkx.
Inception - Wobbly.

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Harry Potter - Pls grade film stock proprly. kthnkx.

if this by any chance means "light things so i can actually see the things that are meant to be spooky and dramatic", and/or "a gloomy plot element doesn't require the colours to be washed out", then +1.

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cairmen.livejournal.com

It does indeed.

My impression was that it's not that the scenes had been lit badly - they looked like they probably contained full contrast and colour depth in the original - but that the subsequent "grading" (colour-correction, as it's sometimes known) process had been used to desaturate the hell out of them and push them toward an extremely shadowy tone, to the point that when I saw the first few scenes in the cinema I thought the print was knackered, rather than anything to do with the filmmaking itself.