Movie & Internet series (Finale): I wanna watch movie!
Don't know what you want to watch? Look here! From the previous article, we can find out information of movies, either new nor old one. However, what we should do if we really want to watch movie, but do not know which to watch? In this case, recommendations are needed! You will see some of the movie review websites in the following, hopefully they can help you to decide which to watch!
As I mentioned from the last articles of this series, IMDb is a movie database, but at the same time, it is a place for netizens to give their opinions. For example, you can view a list of reviews of 2012 from this website. The most important thing is, you can view them without login, of course, if you want to give a comment of films, you still need to register an account.
To view movie reviews, you can simply enter a movie name to view it; or you can start from viewing "now playing movies". Besides of these choices, you can select this from the top menu: Movie->Top 250. You can view the Top 250 voted by users. Interestingly, most of them are productions of 90s in Top 10. Then scroll down, you will see a column called "Category", you can view the top 250 from different categories. Maybe you can find your favourite from here!
Like its name rotten tomatoes, the worst movie will definitely have a grade of rotten tomatoes. The reason is, they use a meter called "tomato meter", more positive comments, the tomato would be fresher. The tomatoes are all came from critics of the Internet, you can read all their reviews online.
Furthermore, you can view reviews by putting movie titles in the search bar or find from DVDs, now playing movies and the "Best of"! You can find the "best of the rotten tomotoes" by year, genre or all time. Also you can find the Academy Adward's winners on that page.
One of the funny page is the "certified fresh", what is "certified fresh"? See the description from Rotten Tomatoes!
Rotten Tomatoes awards the Certified Fresh accolade to theater releases reviewed by 40 or more critics (including 5 Top Critics) that score at least 75% or higher on the Tomatometer. A film remains Certified Fresh unless its Tomatometer falls below 60%.
It means, the movies which can get "Certified fresh" is guaranteed as Good by 75% of the users and 40 or more critics. Although they may not suit your taste, they are good movies in most of the users' heart.
3. MRQE (Movie Review Query Engine)
A new try! MRQE is founded in 1993, a website for movie reviews. After you arrive MRQE, you may attracted by the little orange bars after the movie titles. It is users' rating and critics' rating. You absolutely know what users' rating means, but what about critics' rating? The critics rating is a formation of critics in many medias, like newspaper, magazines, etc; For example, New York Times or The Wall Street Journal.
You can see all the critics' comments at the same time, if you do not have time, just look for the orange chart! It is a integration of the list of critics. Sometimes you may see a interesting phenomenon: the result between users and critics have a huge difference. To decide to believe who's opinion is depends on your wisdom and your feeling!
It is not just for now playing movies, you can look for the reviews by inputting movie titles on search bar or look into other sections, like DVD, Box-office result of US, etc. Besides of reviews, you also can view the news, trailers or blogs about that movie. You also can look for the recommendation of MRQE's staff, like 2009 summer movie guide, or simply select "Best by genre" or "Best of the 2000s". It does has a column called "Best by actors", but only a few actors can be selected.
For the "Best by genre", it does not like IMDb's one with traditional genres, the MRQE has many special genres, like "Best Workplace Movies", "Best Star Trek" or "Ranking Religion on Film". It is fun and special, you may find out the next movie you want to watch in the spare time!
It is a service provided by MRQE, it used Twitterverse to gain information from Twitter. Therefore, you can see lots of tweets on this site. Of course, as it gain information directly from Twitter, I guess it search tweets by keywords, so you may find something unrelated tweets.
In this site, you can find movies in theatre, DVD and upcoming movies' tweets, just like the main MRQE website. It is also a good way for you to know more people's comment from different sites!
This is also a site used Twiterverse to gain information from Twitter directly. The most significant difference is that it also calculated the results automatically, you can see the percentages of good or bad comments on movies easily, and when you touch the movie titles, it will show four reviews with pictures of good or bad. Moreover, you can sort those tweets in rating, popularity and names.
Unfortunately, as it is a new service, you can only find out new movies' comment on this site.
Also, as tweets are judged by computer automatically, it may occurred some misjudgement. Just like the one above, a user commented Christmas Carol as "highly recommended", however the system misjudged that comment as bad comment, maybe it caused by the negative keyword "unreal".
Nevertheless, I think the misjudgement is just minority case, they will not affect the percentages a lot, mostly 5%, I guess?
It is a website for you to find movies that suit your unique taste. It is easy, you just need to input your favourite movie's name, click Like more, then see the results!
Picture Tutorial:
If you want to get the results from the front page, one word is needed:
Input the whole phase above to the search bar on front page!
Then it will shows the result on the front page without accessing the information page of that movie. After complete your search, you can also use the genre from left to squeeze the search ranges. Although it does not require log in to view the results, but if you create an account, Juuni can help specifically help you to find movies you may like, also you can add some movies into your wishlist.
It is a website specifically recommend movies by clarifying your favourite movie types, it is not following traditional movie genres, they make an effort to re-categorize movies in special genres, like mood, it has five sub-categories: Suspenseful, Stylized, Exciting, Rough and Bleak. You may find your Mr Right on this site! Try it!
Also, movie producer also concern of the power of Internet communities and they can view the opinions from the public instantly after movies aired on theatres. Producers can receive different comments from the Internet, it can also be the tools for their self-improvements. Let's look forward to viewing their improvements!
RottenTomatoes
MRQE
Flicktweets
Twitcritics
Jinni.com
Twitterverse
Twitter API wiki
As I mentioned from the last articles of this series, IMDb is a movie database, but at the same time, it is a place for netizens to give their opinions. For example, you can view a list of reviews of 2012 from this website. The most important thing is, you can view them without login, of course, if you want to give a comment of films, you still need to register an account.
The Tomatometer measures the percentage of positive reviews from Approved Tomatometer Critics for a certain movie.
(Quoted from RottenTomatoes website)
Furthermore, you can view reviews by putting movie titles in the search bar or find from DVDs, now playing movies and the "Best of"! You can find the "best of the rotten tomotoes" by year, genre or all time. Also you can find the Academy Adward's winners on that page.
One of the funny page is the "certified fresh", what is "certified fresh"? See the description from Rotten Tomatoes!
Rotten Tomatoes awards the Certified Fresh accolade to theater releases reviewed by 40 or more critics (including 5 Top Critics) that score at least 75% or higher on the Tomatometer. A film remains Certified Fresh unless its Tomatometer falls below 60%.
It means, the movies which can get "Certified fresh" is guaranteed as Good by 75% of the users and 40 or more critics. Although they may not suit your taste, they are good movies in most of the users' heart.
3. MRQE (Movie Review Query Engine)
A new try! MRQE is founded in 1993, a website for movie reviews. After you arrive MRQE, you may attracted by the little orange bars after the movie titles. It is users' rating and critics' rating. You absolutely know what users' rating means, but what about critics' rating? The critics rating is a formation of critics in many medias, like newspaper, magazines, etc; For example, New York Times or The Wall Street Journal.
You can see all the critics' comments at the same time, if you do not have time, just look for the orange chart! It is a integration of the list of critics. Sometimes you may see a interesting phenomenon: the result between users and critics have a huge difference. To decide to believe who's opinion is depends on your wisdom and your feeling!
It is not just for now playing movies, you can look for the reviews by inputting movie titles on search bar or look into other sections, like DVD, Box-office result of US, etc. Besides of reviews, you also can view the news, trailers or blogs about that movie. You also can look for the recommendation of MRQE's staff, like 2009 summer movie guide, or simply select "Best by genre" or "Best of the 2000s". It does has a column called "Best by actors", but only a few actors can be selected.
For the "Best by genre", it does not like IMDb's one with traditional genres, the MRQE has many special genres, like "Best Workplace Movies", "Best Star Trek" or "Ranking Religion on Film". It is fun and special, you may find out the next movie you want to watch in the spare time!
It is a service provided by MRQE, it used Twitterverse to gain information from Twitter. Therefore, you can see lots of tweets on this site. Of course, as it gain information directly from Twitter, I guess it search tweets by keywords, so you may find something unrelated tweets.
In this site, you can find movies in theatre, DVD and upcoming movies' tweets, just like the main MRQE website. It is also a good way for you to know more people's comment from different sites!
This is also a site used Twiterverse to gain information from Twitter directly. The most significant difference is that it also calculated the results automatically, you can see the percentages of good or bad comments on movies easily, and when you touch the movie titles, it will show four reviews with pictures of good or bad. Moreover, you can sort those tweets in rating, popularity and names.
Unfortunately, as it is a new service, you can only find out new movies' comment on this site.
Also, as tweets are judged by computer automatically, it may occurred some misjudgement. Just like the one above, a user commented Christmas Carol as "highly recommended", however the system misjudged that comment as bad comment, maybe it caused by the negative keyword "unreal".Nevertheless, I think the misjudgement is just minority case, they will not affect the percentages a lot, mostly 5%, I guess?
Umm...You still cannot find a movie to watch for? Try this!
It is a website for you to find movies that suit your unique taste. It is easy, you just need to input your favourite movie's name, click Like more, then see the results!
Picture Tutorial:
If you want to get the results from the front page, one word is needed:
like: <*input your favourite here*>
Input the whole phase above to the search bar on front page!
Then it will shows the result on the front page without accessing the information page of that movie. After complete your search, you can also use the genre from left to squeeze the search ranges. Although it does not require log in to view the results, but if you create an account, Juuni can help specifically help you to find movies you may like, also you can add some movies into your wishlist.
It is a website specifically recommend movies by clarifying your favourite movie types, it is not following traditional movie genres, they make an effort to re-categorize movies in special genres, like mood, it has five sub-categories: Suspenseful, Stylized, Exciting, Rough and Bleak. You may find your Mr Right on this site! Try it!
Conclusion
Before the century of Internet, movie reviews often seen on newspaper or other print media, however, Internet's bloom make lots of netizens can express their opinions on movies. As we can see, movie review's sites already became more and more integrated with those social communities websites, like Twitter, Facebook, and this definitely is the trend and future of movie reviews and Internet. Also, movie producer also concern of the power of Internet communities and they can view the opinions from the public instantly after movies aired on theatres. Producers can receive different comments from the Internet, it can also be the tools for their self-improvements. Let's look forward to viewing their improvements!
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