When you are looking for a movie do you pay attention to the star rating?
By snowy
@snowy22315 (180452)
United States
June 22, 2024 9:05am CST
I usually try to find movies that are about 7 stars or over, because I am pretty sure I will like it. However, if the content seems interesting, I will sometimes ignore that rule. Last night I watch Disappearance which is an older movie with Harry Hamlin and Susan Dey..(Partridge Family) Haven't seen her for years. It is a movie I have seen before, but probably not for many years. Anyway, at first I didn't remember it, and thought the topic seemed interesting so I watched it. I liked it quite a bit, although it only had 5 stars. I do like to watch movies that the majority of viewers seem to like, but one I had on before this one, had a high star level, but it wasn;t my cup of tea. To me a movie is like a book, if it doesn't capture my interest in the beginning, I am not going to watch it. I won't give it long to engage me unless I read a review that says start slow..but builds to an amazing conclusion or something.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50205)
• United States
22 Jun
I haven’t seen Susan Dey in forever. We just watch what looks good to us.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
I would probably not watch a movie with 4 stars. I would think it would be dumb or something. This movie was made in 2002.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
@Tampa_girl7 He was Soo cute!! I think my fave is the day was Kurt Russell..such clean, cut American good looks.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50205)
• United States
22 Jun
@snowy22315 I loved the Partridge Family. David Cassidy was my first celebrity crush.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
Sometimes they can be deceiving..everything might look pretty good on the surface, but it could end up being bad Of course you can always go on to something else.
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@LadyDuck (471337)
• Switzerland
22 Jun
@snowy22315 - During the past few days I have watched several movies about the Financial crisis of the year 2007/2208. Interesting to see how things went.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
@LadyDuck Is The Big Short one of those movies? I can't think of any titles really that were about that
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
@TheHorse Actually they do have up to 10 stars .like 4.8 out of 10. It kind of depends on what scale you are looking at I guess .what the stars are.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
It is on the point scale I think..stars usually are one thru five I think.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
22 Jun
@snowy22315 One through five is what I usually see.
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@LindaOHio (178119)
• United States
23 Jun
We sometimes find a movie we both like which doesn't have a lot of stars. It just depends. We go by the subject matter. Have a good day.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
23 Jun
Some of the poorly rated ones are deceptively good.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
24 Jun
@sarik1 OK sorry, I guess I misunderstood.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
26 Jun
Yes, sometimes the plot doesn't pull you in.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
Well, sometimes am not sure whether they are critic or audience scores. I don't look at them that carefully usually.
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@eliza_godinez12 (5726)
• Philippines
22 Jun
Not really...I usually check its reviews.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
Well, the reviews can be part of the star rating. They consist of those who have seen it
@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
I usually give them a look.If something has all stars ,out know it is gonna be good!
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
It is on Prime video I believe and a couple of the free channels too I think.
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@Juliaacv (51098)
• Canada
22 Jun
@snowy22315 I think that it is also on Youtube as well as Tubi.
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@RasmaSandra (79714)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Jun
I just know what movies I like and watch those or my DVDs and videos, You know I don't know a single one of the latest movies that have come out, I enjoyed seeing Susan Dey in LA Law series,
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
23 Jun
I had forgotten she was in LA Law. Most know her fro The Partridge Family.
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@Marilynda1225 (82710)
• United States
22 Jun
Wow Susan Dey is a blast from the past. Haven't seen that movie and usually I'll watch a movie if it seems interesting to me. I rarely pay attention to the star ratings. Sometimes I like movies with low star ratings and don't like some that have high stars. Guess I'm weird 
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
22 Jun
I think we have all had similar experiences .now if the audience likes something and the critics don't, I will still watch it.
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@RevivedWarrior (2188)
• India
23 Jun
The star rating is sometimes faulty. Since the star ratings are initially when a movie is released, I wait for at least a day or two, before seeing the movies at the theatre. I had a few experiences where I watched horrible movies on the day of release or next day based on the star rating. For the ones I watch online, I check all the factors including genre before deciding to watch. So far, looking at the all factors has helped me in watching movies of my choice. Thanks
@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
23 Jun
Yes, sometimes I watch movies that aren't very good depending on who is in them.
@yugasini (12893)
• Secunderabad, India
24 Jun
I stopped going to theatre for movie since 5 years. I prefer watching movies in home itself , I don't want my hard earned money for wasting movies. I'm not watching movies in home even on Telivision also. I watch movies on my Lenova tab, I mostly watch Telugu (local language) and Hindi movies and webseries of both languages also.
