As the year goes on and I'm 60+ films deep (and I look back at last year's 100+ ratings), it's dawned on me that I rate far too many films as 7 or 8 out of 10 and very few films 5/10 (I don't think I've ever given below a 4/10).
It skews my ratings artificially high and devalues the top ratings for those films that deserve it. Conversely, the stinkers don't get singled out either. To demonstrate this, my Letterboxd ratings arewere* a mess. A different approach is needed.
🍔 Tried a smash burger from a place nearby called Arnie’s — outrageously good! 😋 I’ll be back…
🃏 Won another tournament in our monthly poker league: 9 players, 1st prize was 6x the buy-in 💵 back-to-back wins move me up to 3rd at the halfway mark, only two points behind
📱 Broke my six-year-old iPhone, three months before I was going to upgrade to the latest model; have bought another old one off eBay to bridge the gap 😩
🎟️ Went to the cinema to see John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) …for the first time! 7/10
💼 Received (and accepted) a full-time job offer; start mid-July 🥳
📚 Started re-learning Latin—entirely for my own amusement—30 yrs after reading it at school; Cambridge Latin Course I, Chapters 1–2 ✅