Movie Ratings

Here's one way to critique movies and establish a semi-consistent method of rating films. (The end score generally agrees with my feelings if I had to score it qualitatively! I think I've done a fairly good job quantifying what I find important in movies.)

A list defining terms for the following table:

Score: The sum of the points earned. The perfect score is 10. (I'm keeping in mind IMDB's out-of-ten rating system.)
Acting: Was everyone's acting good?
Eyecandy: Were the visuals beautiful to behold?
Music: Was the music good?
Plot: Was the plot good?
Edifying: Was the film's overall message good? (Will it make you a better person?)
Entertaining: Was the film successful in distracting you from your worries?
Immorality: Did the film refrain from indulging in immorality?
Violence: Did the film refrain from indulging in violence?

If the answer is yes, then the film gets the corresponding points. I've put Y for yes and N for no, and left the oppositely-answered squares blank, for ease of reading.

A table of movies I've rated and the system for rating them out of ten stars.
Film	Score	YY/MM/DD	Acting 0.9	Eyecandy 0.6	Music 1.0	Plot 0.9	Edifying 2.1	Entertaining 1.1	Immorality 2.1	Violence 1.3	Category
Ponyo	9.55	11/05/30				Y/N					Child
Toy Story 3	9.4	11/01/16		N
Letters from Iwo Jima	9	11/06/23			N						Adult
La grande illusion	8.9	11/07/24						N			Family
Fantastic Mr. Fox	8.2	11/05/26	N			N
Harvey	7.95	11/06/19		N	N	Y/N
"Cowboy Bebop"	7.65	11/05/28							Y/N	N
The Mating Season	7.5	11/06/05	N	N	N
Shutter Island	7.4	11/06/17			Y/N		N
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	7.2	11/01/11	N		N	N
Anatomy of a Murder	6.8	11/07/22					N	N			Adult
The Dark Knight	6.6	11/01/11					N			N
RV	6.6	11/01/11	N	N	N	N
Inglourious Basterds	4.5	11/01/11					N		N	N

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