It really depends on what a person's personal rating system is. For example, my rating system is thus:
1 to 2 stars = strongly hated it/hated it
3 to 4 stars = strongly disliked it/disliked it
5 to 6 stars = kinda liked it/liked it
7 to 8 stars = really liked it/really, really liked it
9 to 10 stars = loved it/really, really loved it
Therefore, my rating this movie a six would simply mean that I liked it. It's not a bad rating at all coming from me. It just means I liked it rather than loved it.
That's part of the problem of peace movie rating sites that leave it up to people to interpret what the numbers mean -- so many of us have a different idea of the numbers scale.
Obviously, IMDB needs to adopt the system that Netflix has, and make it clear what each number stands for. That way, people aren't making it up as they go along, leading to a wrong idea of what it means when they see a movie rating. Some people might look at the 6.9 of this film and think that it was a negative reflection of the film, when actually it could mean that the film is "really liked" -- which is how I interpret that number.
Please excuse typos/funny wording; I use speech-recognition that doesn't always recognize!
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seahawk3133
10 years ago
I agree with it depends on how a person rates...
Myself - 1-3 are movies not worth watching - these are garbage (only rated 1
movie as a 1)
4 - only if really desperate (nothing else on)
5 - don't go out of your way to watch but OK if you do
6 - I recommend watching - a decent movie
7 - very good movie - these everyone should watch at sometime in their
life
8 - a must watch - movies that should be no question in a top 500 list
9 - the best of the best - if not if top 250 all-time list,then the
list is flawed - most should be top 100
(have 48 of 700 listed as 9's)
10 - I don't use it for my own system - but on here, my top 10 movies
I list as 10
This movie - 7 / 10
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