Bobbles wrote: There are, however, films where a plot summary and a brief clip are enough to make it perfectly clear to me that I would never, ever want it watch them for any reason whatsoever (Final Destination part whatsit, for instance). In that case, I have no complaints about rating them a zero.
wow, are you saying that you rate movies you have not seen (let alone from start to finish) ??
I'm starting wondering, how much of the voting here (or on imdb for that matter) is based on real, personal viewing of a film, and how much is actually just based upon what people hear from their friends, other reviewers or "a plot summary and a brief clip" ...
And I am also wondering what rating those movies would be getting if their votes would not be tarnished by their bad reputation.
It's a bit sad, because it makes the voting system all the more unreliable.
PedroPT wrote: but i guess the right thing to do is not to rate it. but i often think how can someone rate a movie 1/10 and was able to see it till the end?
that's a very good point! although I must admit that sometimes I couldn't stop a suspenseful movie, e.g. horror flick, but when the film and the suspense is over, I am left quite empty and realize that I didn't enjoy the movie at all (apart from the suspense), warranting a bad rating.
It's kind of how you think you feel for someone who you have sex with, when afterwards you realize that you don't have any connection to that person at all, and all that connected you was your sexual arousal, which, when gone, may leave you just as empty as the abovementioned movie, once you realize that kinship, friendship or love were all missing.