Kids-in-mind "provides parents and other adults with objective and complete information about a film's content so that they can decide, based on their own value system, whether they should watch a movie with or without their kids." Informative AND unintentionally hilarious! From the somewhat kid-friendly
Ratatouille (
A rat smokes a mushroom over a chimney, and with another rat they are struck by lightning, thrown from the roof and to the ground (they have electrified fur but are otherwise OK).) to
more decidedly non-
kid-
friendly fare,
and everything in between.
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posted by (bb|[^b]{2})
on Apr 21, 2008 -
81 comments
The Color of Top Grossing Movies. A movie’s theatrical poster is only a very small part of the larger marketing and hype machine that turns movies into spectacular blockbusters, but as part of a whole, they are fairly representative of the “image” of any given movie. So, as an exercise in color trends, and to see if any significant pattern emerged, I decided to break down the colors of 25 posters — the top 5 of each MPAA category.
posted by brain_drain
on Sep 12, 2007 -
35 comments
This Film is Not Yet Rated (SFW trailer) and a
hilarious (audio NSFW) version.
(2:05)
"How does one follow-up an Oscar-nominated documentary (2004's Twist of Faith) about sexual abuse perpetrated by members of the Catholic Church? If you're Kirby Dick, you deliver another exposé of institutionalized misconduct by taking direct aim at the ratings system of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)." Interviews with the director, Kirby Dick:
1,
2,
3. Not available on DVD until January '07, but the Amazon
Reader Reviews are worth a look see.
posted by spock
on Nov 28, 2006 -
21 comments
Amazon's "Top Selling Videos" Here's a mystery: Amazon has a page showing their top selling VHS videos. It is "updated hourly." Before you look at what the top sellers are, take a guess. I doubt that anyone would think that the 1
994 Richard Simmons "Sweating to the Oldies" video would be listed as No. 1 -- particularly in view of the fact that it is described as being "unavailable."
The others in the top 10 are also interesting: #3 is the 1945 black and white
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". Would you guess that #7 is "
Fatso", a 1993 comedy starring Dom DeLuise?
I may be wrong but I suspect that Amazon's ratings are not accurate. Now I wonder about their book ratings . . .
posted by AJ
on Feb 10, 2006 -
24 comments
filmaffinity.com looks like another useful tool to get recommendations for your viewing pleasure-once more of us start rating! It's in English and Spanish now (with more languages yet to come).
Movielens seems promising as well.
IMDb Pro looks cool too, though I haven't gone
that far. However,
this guy says beware!!
posted by HyperBlue
on Jan 30, 2005 -
11 comments
Rate My Professor! A searchable database of student ratings of their college professors. In what must be a wonderful reflection of the current status of the American and Canadian higher education systems, the ratings include entries for how easy the professor is and, of course, how hot they are. So click around, visit your alma mater, and let that jerk who almost flunked you in freshman comp feel your wrath!
posted by robocop is bleeding
on Nov 22, 2004 -
74 comments
Professor Pollkatz's statistics. Interestings graphics on Bush approval/disapproval.
This one, for example, clearly proves that whenever Bush's approval was high, it was driven by an event (the two major events being September 11 and the Iraq war) and steadily declined afterwards.
This page shows that FOX polls consistently overrate Bush, while Zogby polls consistently underrate him.
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posted by Eloquence
on Dec 4, 2003 -
20 comments
StumbleUpon is a browser plugin-in that "uses member ratings to form collective human opinions on website quality." The plugin-in then uses these ratings to recommend websites, much like Amazon.com recommends books.
posted by theWoodpecker
on Jan 5, 2003 -
10 comments
The end of an era? The Miss America crowning had just 12 million viewers tune in this past Saturday, the lowest viewership in the history of the pageant. Are people turned off by this type of competition? Or are there just
better things to do on a Saturday night?
posted by MediaMan
on Sep 25, 2002 -
36 comments
The Emmy nominations are out and the news nominations go to the biggest story, September 11. No surprises there. PBS has 41 nominations and Fox has 0. No surprises there either. Does this say something about the news industry and it's ability to discern serious news from chaff? Is Bill Moyers a national treasure? Do you think perhaps Murdoch should rethink the direction of his media empire?
posted by nofundy
on Jul 31, 2002 -
19 comments
Spider-Man "too violent for kids" The British Board of Film Classification has given the Spider-Man film (which opens here in the UK today) a '12' certificate because of its violence, meaning no one under that age can see it. Some local authorities have exercised their power to reclassify it as a 'PG' to open it up to younger viewers.
The BBFC's argument runs that "The violence is set in a modern urban setting with a clear message that the use of violence is the normal and appropriate response when challenged." In fact, I'd say, the film suggests that an appropriate response when challenged is to put on an armoured exo-skeleton and fly around on a jey-powered glider. How can the BBFC not get the concept that this is a
fantasy?
posted by jonpollard
on Jun 14, 2002 -
45 comments
At least they ask before they track your web usage. We're all familiar with Neilsen ratings and how a few select families get to decide when 20/20 will finally end. I guess it was only a matter of time before they came sniffing around looking to track popular websites. People who sign up get gifts, prizes and free technical support - at least that's the deal for
Canadians.
posted by Salmonberry
on Apr 1, 2002 -
4 comments
Restroom Ratings is a site where you can scope out the possible nastiness of a bathroom before you need to go use it. Most of the rated bathrooms seem to be centered around the Minneapolis, MN area. You can even
send a restroom e-card to your friends (or enemies).
posted by manero
on Dec 24, 2001 -
11 comments
No surprises here. Or are there? And just when the networks are separating the subjective wheat from the more obvious chaff, look what's waiting in the wings. Can't wait.
posted by ethmar
on Dec 7, 2000 -
6 comments
Gomez.com looks like they're doing the same thing that
Bizrate is doing: rating the dotcommerce companies. It seems like a lot of companies have been copying the Amazon interface, now I see why. In the 'Ease of Use' category, Amazon is number one in
books,
toys, and
music (they would have swept all their categories but
Borders won for Video).
posted by mathowie
on Oct 29, 1999 -
0 comments
