MS9's Movie Ratings -------------------- I base my ratings on acting, directing, cinematography, story, character, screenplay, theme/message, costumes/props, location, sound, soundtrack, special effects, logic, consistency, accuracy, creativity, originality, interest, general enjoyment, and overall power of the film. I ponder the film subjectively with these criteria in mind, then capture my feelings into an objective rating. During this process, I'm not biased toward any film genre or actor. My rating system is the typical "stars" system, where all ratings are out of 5 stars, (ie. 0/5 <--> 5/5). Note that I use a finer granularity of 1/8 (or 0.125), though. >= 3 ... thumbs up! < 3 ... thumbs down! 5/5 must also stand the test of time, and hence may be "pending" in some cases. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date Movie Seen Title Rating ---- ----- ------ PRE/99 Seven Beauties 3.5/5 11/99 The Rock 4/5 11/99 Toy Story 2 4/5 11/99 Pi 3.5/5 11/99 Heavy Metal 2/5 12/99 Barry Lyndon 2/5 1/00 The Mummy 3/5 1/00 The Matrix 4.5/5 1/00 Never Been Kissed 2/5 2/00 Wild Things 2.5/5 2/00 The Muppets Take Manhattan 5/5 2/00 The Ring 1.5/5 2/00 Easy Virtue 1/5 2/00 Sabotage (missed start) 3/5 2/00 Secret Agent 3/5 2/00 Blackmail 3.5/5 2/00 Rich & Strange 2.5/5 2/00 Shadow of a Doubt 3/5 2/00 The Lady Vanishes 4/5 2/00 Young and Innocent 2.5/5 2/00 Rebecca 3.5/5 2/00 Suspicion 4.5/5 3/00 There's Something About Mary 4/5 3/00 The Wedding Singer 2/5 3/00 Blood for Dracula (1974) 2.5/5 3/00 Boiler Room 3.25/5 3/00 Four Weddings and a Funeral 2.375/5 3/00 Foreign Correspondent 3/5 3/00 Saboteur 3.75/5 3/00 Jamaica Inn 1/5 3/00 Stage Fright (missed start) 2.75/5 3/00 Mr. and Mrs. Smith 1.75/5 3/00 Strangers on a Train 4.375/5 3/00 Lifeboat 2.75/5 3/00 The Wrong Man 4/5 3/00 I Confess 2.875/5 3/00 Rear Window 5/5 3/00 The Man Who Knew Too Much (v2) 3.875/5 4/00 Vertigo 5/5 4/00 Rope 4/5 4/00 North by Northwest 5/5 4/00 Topaz 0.5/5 4/00 Torn Curtain 2.5/5 4/00 Frenzy 4/5 4/00 Family Plot 3.125/5 4/00 The Birds 4/5 4/00 Marnie 2.25/5 4/00 Transformers: The Movie 1.25/5 4/00 Flashdance 3.875/5 4/00 Raising Arizona 3.375/5 5/00 True Romance 3.25/5 5/00 The Bicycle Thief 3.75/5 5/00 Exotica 3/5 5/00 Mean Streets 3.25/5 5/00 Salo 3.5/5 5/00 Mission: Impossible 2 3.75/5 6/00 Last House On The Left (cut) 3.625/5 6/00 American Movie 3.25/5 (Coven 3.75/5) 6/00 The Insider 3.125/5 7/00 Halloween 3.375/5 7/00 American Beauty 4.125/5 7/00 The Professional 4.5/5 7/00 Cinema Paradiso 4.375/5 8/00 Saturday Night Fever 4/5 8/00 My Cousin Vinny 4.5/5 8/00 The Graduate 5/5 8/00 TRON 4/5 8/00 Stray Dog 1.5/5 8/00 War Games 4.5/5 8/00 Leon: The Professional (uncut) 4.5/5 9/00 I Spit On Your Grave (uncut) 3.5/5 9/00 Grosse Pointe Blank 1.75/5 9/00 Fight Club 3.75/5 (pending re-watch) 10/00 Gladiator 2.875/5 10/00 Night of the Living Dead (1968) 3.5/5 10/00 The Karate Kid 3.875/5 10/00 Rain Man 5/5 10/00 Meet the Parents 3.125/5 11/00 The Exorcist 3.25/5 11/00 Fargo 4/5 11/00 The Shawshank Redemption 4.75/5 11/00 Austin Powers: IMOM 1.625/5 12/00 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 3.5/5 1/01 2001: A Space Odyssey 4.875/5 1/01 Falling Down 3.625/5 1/01 Office Space 1/5 1/01 Pinocchio 3.875/5 1/01 Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS 2.25/5 1/01 Lady and the Tramp 3.5/5 1/01 Airplane! 4.25/5 2/01 Air Force One 4.5/5 2/01 My Dog Skip 1.25/5 2/01 Toy Story 4.125/5 3/01 Eyes Wide Shut 4/5 3/01 Malena 3.25/5 3/01 Erin Brockovich 3.875/5 4/01 The Shining 4.875/5 4/01 Truth or Dare 3.25/5 5/01 The 39 Steps 3.625/5 5/01 Ghostbusters 4.125/5 5/01 Miss Congeniality 2.25/5 5/01 Memento 2.875/5 6/01 Tomb Raider 2.75/5 6/01 Hangmen 0.75/5 7/01 Stand By Me 4.25/5 7/01 Shrek 3/5 7/01 Robocop (uncut) 3.375/5 7/01 Superman II 3.375/5 8/01 Rush Hour 2 3.5/5 9/01 Nosferatu (1922) 2.25/5 9/01 Planet of the Apes (1968) 4/5 11/01 Monsters, Inc. 3.625/5 12/01 Vanilla Sky 3.75/5 (pending re-watch) 1/02 The Cell 3/5 1/02 A Beautiful Mind 3.75/5 1/02 Orange County 1.75/5 3/02 Fantastic Planet 3.25/5 3/02 Clerks 2.75/5 4/02 Two Thousand Maniacs 3.375/5 4/02 Teknolust 1.5/5 5/02 Spider-Man 3.625/5 5/02 Star Wars II: AOTC 3.75/5 5/02 Enough 2.75/5 7/02 The Collector 3.75/5 9/02 One Hour Photo 3.75/5 10/02 Dead Alive 2.25/5 1/03 Gangs of New York 3.75/5 5/03 The Matrix Reloaded 3.75/5 (pending 3rd watch) 6/03 Finding Nemo 3.5/5 7/03 Terminator 3: ROTM 3.75/5 8/03 The General (1927) 3.75/5 10/03 The Fearless Vampire Killers 3.25/5 11/03 The Matrix Revolutions 3.25/5 12/03 Jacob's Ladder 3.25/5 12/03 The Last Samurai 3.125/5 2/04 Master and Commander: TFSotW 2.25/5 2/04 50 First Dates 3.75/5 6/04 Fahrenheit 9/11 4/5 6/04 Spider-Man 2 2.5/5 8/04 Apocalypse Now Redux 3.75/5 10/04 Saw 3.5/5 11/04 The Incredibles 2.25/5 12/04 Meet the Fockers 2.75/5 2/05 Videodrome 1.5/5 2/05 Sideways 3.75/5 4/05 Fever Pitch 3/5 5/05 Compartment 2/5 5/05 The Ring (2002) 3.5/5 5/05 Star Wars: Episode III - RotS 4/5 6/05 Das Boot (director's cut) 4/5 6/05 Lord of the Rings: TFotR (dir) 3.75/5 6/05 Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love 2.75/5 7/05 Trainspotting 4/5 8/05 Unfaithful 3.5/5 8/05 Night and the City 3.25/5 10/05 Chinatown 3.5/5 10/05 Marathon Man 3.25/5 10/05 Bandit Queen 3/5 10/05 Collateral 3.25/5 11/05 The Rainmaker 2.5/5 11/05 Love Story 3.75/5 11/05 Gone with the Wind 4/5 1/06 The Sound of Music 4.25/5 1/06 King Kong (2005) 4/5 1/06 Capote 3.25/5 1/06 Bad Timing 1.75/5 1/06 Walk the Line 3.25/5 2/06 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 3.75/5 2/06 Brokeback Mountain 3.25/5 2/06 Garden State 1/5 2/06 Sweet and Lowdown 2.75/5 2/06 The Seven Year Itch 2.25/5 3/06 Kramer vs. Kramer 4.25/5 3/06 Pushpak 3.25/5 3/06 Seven Chances 3.375/5 3/06 Batman Begins 2.25/5 3/06 Lost in Translation 3.75/5 3/06 Breakfast at Tiffany's 2.25/5 3/06 Wait Until Dark 3.75/5 4/06 A Clockwork Orange 4.5/5 4/06 Monsoon Wedding 2.75/5 4/06 A Nightmare On Elm Street 2.75/5 4/06 The Others 3.625/5 4/06 Mulholland Dr. unrated 4/06 The 40 Year Old Virgin 1.5/5 5/06 Wedding Crashers 1.25/5 5/06 Birthday Girl 2.75/5 5/06 The English Patient 3.5/5 5/06 Punch-Drunk Love 2.25/5 5/06 The Pianist 4.5/5 5/06 Derailed 2.25/5 5/06 Signs 3/5 6/06 The Constant Gardener 2.5/5 6/06 Birth 3.25/5 6/06 Paycheck 3.75/5 6/06 Caught 2.5/5 6/06 A Streetcar Named Desire 3.5/5 7/06 Bend It Like Beckham 4/5 10/06 Chasing Amy 3.625/5 1/07 The Pursuit of Happyness 3.5/5 1/07 Casablanca 3.5/5 1/07 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.75/5 1/07 The Mirror Has Two Faces 3.25/5 1/07 Crash 2.5/5 1/07 Fatal Attraction 3.75/5 1/07 The Producers (2005) 2.25/5 1/07 Schindler's List 4/5 1/07 Rounders 3.75/5 1/07 Shampoo 0.75/5 2/07 Psycho (1960) 5/5 3/07 Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out 3.5/5 3/07 Bee Season 2.5/5 3/07 In The Bedroom 3.5/5 3/07 Frida 3.5/5 3/07 Munnabhai M.B.B.S. (Hindi) 3/5 3/07 Catwoman 1/5 3/07 Terms of Endearment 3.5/5 3/07 Minority Report 3.625/5 3/07 Closer (2004/I) 2.5/5 1/08 The Color of Money 3.125/5 1/08 Pather Pachali (aka Song of the Little Road) 3.75/5 2/08 The Namesake 3.75/5 3/08 Monster's Ball 3.875/5 3/08 The Accused 3.375/5 3/08 The Magdalene Sisters 4.25/5 4/08 The Lake House 2.25/5 4/08 Borat: CLoAfMBGNoK 3.25/5 4/08 The Da Vinci Code 3/5 4/08 The Sixth Sense 4.5/5 4/08 The Godfather: Part III (director's cut) 3/5 4/08 Driving Miss Daisy 3.5/5 4/08 The Grudge 1/5 4/08 High Fidelity 2.5/5 4/08 The Nutty Professor (1963) 2/5 4/08 Adaptation 2.5/5 4/08 The Green Mile 3.75/5 5/08 I Am Sam 3.5/5 5/08 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 3.25/5 6/08 Monster 3.5/5 6/08 Mystic River 3.5/5 6/08 The Passion of the Christ 3.75/5 6/08 Panic Room 3.375/5 7/08 Mr. Mom 3.375/5 7/08 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 4.25/5 7/08 The Mistress of Spices 2.25/5 7/08 House of Sand and Fog 3.375/5 7/08 The Joy Luck Club 3.25/5 7/08 La Balia ("The Nanny") 0.75/5 7/08 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2.25/5 7/08 The Scent of Green Papaya 2.75/5 7/08 Devdas (2002/I) 3.5/5 7/08 Sleepy Hollow 2.5/5 7/08 Little Miss Sunshine 4.125/5 7/08 Easy Rider 3.5/5 8/08 Catch Me If You Can 3.25/5 8/08 L'Appartement 2.75/5 8/08 Amélie 3.375/5 8/08 Reindeer Games 2.75/5 9/08 Nishabd 2/5 9/08 I Think I Love My Wife 2/5 9/08 The Bourne Identity 3.75/5 9/08 Cold Mountain 3.25/5 9/08 The Bourne Supremacy 3.5/5 9/08 The Bourne Ultimatum 3.875/5 10/08 Halloween II 3.25/5 11/08 Bedazzled (2000) 2.75/5 11/08 The Devil Wears Prada 3.25/5 11/08 Breaking the Waves 3.875/5 12/08 Breach 3.75/5 12/08 Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut unrated 12/08 Bill Cosby: Himself unrated 12/08 The Virgin Suicides 2.75/5 1/09 The Money Pit 3.25/5 1/09 Popeye 2/5 1/09 Risky Business 3.5/5 1/09 Slumdog Millionaire 4/5 1/09 Ocean's Eleven 3.625/5 1/09 Ocean's Twelve 3/5 1/09 Ocean's Thirteen 2.5/5 2/09 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 3.75/5 2/09 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 3/5 2/09 Palo Alto 1.75/5 2/09 The Wrestler 3.5/5 2/09 Aparajito (aka The Unvanquished) 3.125/5 3/09 The Maiden Heist 3.25/5 3/09 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 3/5 3/09 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 4/5 4/09 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2.875/5 4/09 The Last King of Scotland 3.875/5 5/09 Juno 2.75/5 5/09 Disturbia 3.75/5 6/09 This Is Spinal Tap 3.25/5 6/09 Super Size Me 3.5/5 6/09 The Darjeeling Limited 2.75/5 6/09 A Bronx Tale 4/5 7/09 Goodfellas 4.25/5 7/09 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2.75/5 8/09 The Hangover 3.5/5 9/09 Under Our Skin 3.25/5 11/09 What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (aka What the Bleep Do We Know!?) unrated 12/09 It's a Wonderful Life 5/5 12/09 Avatar (IMAX 3D) 4.75/5 7/10 Inception 3.375/5 8/10 Cast Away 3.75/5 11/10 The Hurt Locker 3.25/5 11/10 Michael Jackson's This Is It unrated 11/10 Philadelphia 4/5 12/10 The Box 2.75/5 12/10 Back to the Future 4.75/5 12/10 Back to the Future Part II 3.25/5 12/10 Temple Grandin 3/5 12/10 Back to the Future Part III 3.75/5 1/11 Quest for Fire 3.875/5 1/11 Edge of Darkness (2010) 2.25/5 1/11 Knight and Day 3/5 1/11 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 3.5/5 1/11 Shutter Island 3.25/5 2/11 The Fighter 3.25/5 3/11 Toy Story 3 3.625/5 3/11 Grown Ups 2.25/5 3/11 Winter's Bone 3.25/5 4/11 Up in the Air 2.25/5 4/11 Freakonomics 2/5 4/11 The Social Network 3.75/5 4/11 The Dark Knight 2/5 4/11 TRON: Legacy 2.5/5 4/11 Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey 3.75/5 7/11 The King's Speech 3.375/5 9/11 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 2.25/5 9/11 The Town 3.375/5 10/11 21 Grams 2.5/5 1/12 The Company Men 2.5/5 2/12 The Human Centipede (First Sequence) 2.5/5 3/12 The Tree of Life 2.375/5 3/12 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2.5/5 3/12 True Grit 3.625/5 3/12 The Butterfly Effect (director's cut) 2.75/5 3/12 Irréversible 3.25/5 4/12 Virgin 2.375/5 4/12 The King of Comedy 3.25/5 6/12 Ted 3.25/5 6/12 People Like Us 3.75/5 8/12 Final Curtain: Part 12 - Opening Night unrated 8/12 Deliverance 3.75/5 9/12 Here Comes the Boom (sneak preview) 3.25/5 1/13 The Departed 3.875/5 3/13 Vampires vs. Zombies unrated 6/13 Argo 3.125/5 8/13 Black Swan 3.75/5 12/13 Christmas Vacation 2.5/5 1/14 Vacation 4.5/5 5/14 European Vacation 2.375/5 6/14 Frozen 3.125/5 9/14 Vegas Vacation 2.75/5 12/14 The Nightmare Before Christmas 2.5/5 12/14 Adventures in Babysitting 3.75/5 12/14 The Wolf of Wall Street 3.75/5 12/14 Silver Linings Playbook 3.625/5 4/15 Scream 3.375/5 6/15 The Cider House Rules 3.125/5 7/15 Wild 3/5 7/15 Scream 2 3.25/5 7/15 Scream 3 2.75/5 9/15 Twisted 2.75/5 9/15 Almost Mercy 2.5/5 9/15 Black Mass 3.75/5 10/15 Adventureland 3.25/5 1/16 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3.75/5 1/16 The Revenant 4/5 2/16 Children of the Corn 2.375/5 3/16 Hellraiser 3.125/5 12/16 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 3.25/5 3/17 Finding Dory 2.75/5 10/17 Bleed for This 3/5 10/17 Brüno 3/5 11/17 La La Land 3.25/5 2/18 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 3.625/5 3/18 Patriots Day 3.125/5 5/18 Terminator Salvation 2.5/5 5/18 Wonder 2.75/5 7/18 Yellow Submarine 2.75/5 8/18 Won't You Be My Neighbor? 3.25/5 9/18 Sweeney Killing Sweeney 2.25/5 11/18 Mean Girls 3.25/5 12/18 In the Line of Fire 3.75/5 3/19 Ice Age 2.125/5 5/19 The Firm 2.75/5 6/19 Sleepaway Camp 2.5/5 6/19 21 2.75/5 6/19 Toy Story 4 4.25/5 8/19 Milk 3.25/5 9/19 The Lion King (2019) 3.25/5 12/19 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 3.75/5 1/20 Little Women 3.25/5 1/20 Knives Out 3.75/5 1/20 Tuesdays with Morrie (TV Movie) unrated 4/20 Vault 2.75/5 6/20 House on Haunted Hill (1959, b&w) 3/5 6/20 Manchester by the Sea 3.625/5 6/20 The Big Sick 3.25/5 6/20 The Cabin in the Woods 2.625/5 7/20 Footloose (1984) 3.75/5 7/20 Footloose (2011) 2.25/5 10/20 The Killing (1956) 3.5/5 12/20 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 2.75/5 6/21 Leviathan 2.5/5 6/21 The Great Muppet Caper 3.875/5 7/21 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 4.25/5 7/21 Honest Thief 3.25/5 7/21 Porky's 1.75/5 7/21 Porky's II: The Next Day 1.375/5 8/21 The Monster Squad 2.375/5 9/21 Jesus Christ Superstar 2.5/5 9/21 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 4/5 10/21 Poliziotto superpiù (Super Fuzz) 3.25/5 11/21 Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace 3.25/5 12/21 Star Wars IV: A New Hope 5/5 12/21 Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back 4.25/5 12/21 Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi 4.5/5 12/21 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 3.125/5 12/21 Jingle All the Way 3/5 2/22 The Unholy 2.375/5 2/22 Forrest Gump 3.75/5 2/22 The Tender Bar 2.5/5 2/22 Mission: Impossible 2.25/5 3/22 Napoleon Dynamite 2/5 5/22 Big 4/5 5/22 Short Circuit 2.75/5 6/22 Top Gun 3.125/5 6/22 Independence Day 2.25/5 6/22 Armageddon 3.125/5 6/22 The Goonies 2.875/5 6/22 Field of Dreams 3.75/5 6/22 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 1.625/5 6/22 Pearl Harbor 3.375/5 6/22 Con Air 3.25/5 6/22 Unbreakable 3.5/5 7/22 CODA 3.5/5 7/22 Groundhog Day 2.75/5 7/22 Paper Moon 3.375/5 7/22 Tombstone 1.875/5 8/22 A League of Their Own 3.25/5 11/22 Love Story 3.375/5 12/22 Titanic 5/5 2/23 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 4.75/5 2/23 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 4.125/5 3/23 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 4/5 3/23 Top Gun: Maverick 3.25/5 4/23 Good Will Hunting 4.5/5 4/23 Dazed and Confused 3/5 6/23 Air 2.75/5 6/23 Patriot Games 2.375/5 6/23 Up 3.375/5 6/23 Liar Liar 2.75/5 6/23 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 4/5 6/23 The Flash 3.375/5 7/23 Boyz n the Hood 3.875/5 7/23 Life Is Beautiful 3.5/5 8/23 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 2.625/5 8/23 M3GAN 3.25/5 8/23 Happy Gilmore 2.75/5 8/23 Billy Madison 2.5/5 8/23 Barbie 3.25/5 10/23 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 2.75/5 10/23 The Holdovers 3.25/5 11/23 Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody 2.875/5 12/23 When Christmas Was Young [TV movie] 2.125/5 6/24 Beetlejuice 2.75/5 7/24 Interstellar 3.5/5 2/25 Wicked 2.5/5 8/25 The Roaring Game 3.125/5 (pending re-watch) 8/25 Anora 3.75/5 12/25 Chicago 2.5/5 Favorite Techies/Sci-Fi ----------------------- 60s 2001: A Space Odyssey 70s Star Wars 80s Tron, The Terminator 90s The Matrix 00s Avatar (IMAX 3D) 10s Star Wars series Favorite Directors ------------------ 1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Stanley Kubrick 3. Steven Spielberg Most disturbing film (A-films) ------------------------------ 1. Saving Private Ryan 2. The Passion of the Christ 3. The Revenant 4. Gangs of New York 5. Saw 6. Slumdog Millionaire 7. Se7en 8. The Last King of Scotland 9. The Wrestler 10. Unfaithful 11. Cast Away 12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 13. House of Sand and Fog 14. Black Swan 15. Halloween II 16. Breaking the Waves 17. The Hurt Locker 18. Deliverance 19. Winter's Bone Most disturbing film (B-films) ------------------------------ 1. Last House on the Left (uncut version) 2. Salo 3. Irreversible 4. Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS 5. The Human Centipede (First Sequence) 6. Bandit Queen 7. I Spit On Your Grave 8. The Magdalene Sisters Goriest film ----------------- 1. Dead Alive 2. Robocop (uncut) 3. Two Thousand Maniacs