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Movie Gradings

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Stars, Thumbs and Tomatoes Oh My !!! There are a number of movie scaling nomenclature which goes around and to me they never could convey on what to expect from a movie. So after years of watching movies and reading reviews I have now devised a much simpler (at least in my opinion) movie rating scale.  It is split across five grading worse to best, so let us delve into the first and the worst category. 1. Where's the Exit So this is quite literally the bottom of the barrel. Movies so bad that you don't care for the price of the ticket or the warm popcorn and cold fizzy cola that you holding on to. Nothing can incentivize you to stay in your seat any more. The sweet embrace of death, the prospect of gouging out your eyes all seem better options than sitting through another minute of the turd fest rolling in front of you.  For me there are very few movies that have every descended in to the depths of this infamy. Some examples that pop up for me are Cats (2019), Die Ha...

Creativity Lost

There was a time when Hollywood was a source of creativity and inspiration. Characters, stories, settings and visuals so engrossing that they would bleed into other media and avenues and inspire content creation in those areas. But sadly, Hollywood has lost that Midas touch. Movies are either adaptations from other mediums or reboots or retelling of older movies and stories. Relying mostly on the feeling of nostalgia to drag people into the cinema seats.  Take the last "normal" year that we had seen, 2019, the top ten grossing movies were as follows: Highest-grossing films of 2019 Rank Title Distributor Worldwide gross 1 Avengers: Endgame Disney $2,798,800,564 2 The Lion King $1,663,943,394 3 Frozen II $1,450,026,933 4 Spider-Man: Far From Home Sony Pictures $1,132,927,996 5 Captain Marvel Disney $1,128,462,972 6 Joker Warner Bros. $1,074,251,311 7 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Disney $1,074,144,248 8 Toy Story 4 $1,073,394,593 9 Aladdin $1,051,693,953 10 Jumanji: The Next...