All films get a rating either out of 10 or a percentage out of 100. These results are calculated from reviews left by the audience members. Popular websites that calculate the reviews include Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix and IMDb.
The top rated films of 2016 include Zootopia at 1, Finding Dory at 5 and Civil War at 8. The top rated films of all time include The Wizard of Oz at 1, The Dark Night at 4 and Forest Gump at 13. These websites are for the audience's curiosity and allows them to make their mind up if they want to see the film they are interested in or not. Ratings for many things such as movies can be found on the cases of DVDs or even in the newspaper. Participants watch it and gives it a rating and then an overall calculation is made depending on their rating results. The audience that are picked to rate it are not biased and are chose randomly so it is fair. After watching a movie, you can go online and give it your personal opinion and rating based on what you feel the film deserves. Netflix has this option for movies and series - You can give it a star rating out of 5. YouTube has a Like/Dislike system with a comments section where audience members can interact with each other. The website of the film may also have a rating and review/feedback section on it as well.
The top rated films of 2016 include Zootopia at 1, Finding Dory at 5 and Civil War at 8. The top rated films of all time include The Wizard of Oz at 1, The Dark Night at 4 and Forest Gump at 13. These websites are for the audience's curiosity and allows them to make their mind up if they want to see the film they are interested in or not. Ratings for many things such as movies can be found on the cases of DVDs or even in the newspaper. Participants watch it and gives it a rating and then an overall calculation is made depending on their rating results. The audience that are picked to rate it are not biased and are chose randomly so it is fair. After watching a movie, you can go online and give it your personal opinion and rating based on what you feel the film deserves. Netflix has this option for movies and series - You can give it a star rating out of 5. YouTube has a Like/Dislike system with a comments section where audience members can interact with each other. The website of the film may also have a rating and review/feedback section on it as well.
IMDb
ImDb rate the films that they review out of 10, with 1 being really bad, and 10 being excellent. They have a huge database of films which give ratings as well as reviews and comments from viewers and critics. For example, IMDb gave The Shawshank Redemption a 9.3 out of 10, making it the joint first best film of all time according to IMDb. As well as the rating, it also gives other information, such as length, the genre and the plot of the film, the ratings system works by viewers of the film giving a rating of the film out of 10. Afterwards, the average rating is worked out by all the ratings being taken into account and worked out into an average rating out of 10.
Amazon Prime own the website, meaning that IMDb has very accurate ratings as there are 54 million people subscribed to Amazon Prime. If only one quarter of these subscribers left a review, it would be from a wide audience of people so the ratings are unbiased. It allows it to be much more accurate than other websites as they will compare and give a wide varied range of answers. Not only does IMDb have reviews on films and the plot overview, it also has information on actors. It will have their previous work on films, their ratings based on reviews on them from a range of movies that they are featured in and it tells you information about them and their life like a little biography. IMDb is one of the leading websites with reviews on films and actors.
ImDb rate the films that they review out of 10, with 1 being really bad, and 10 being excellent. They have a huge database of films which give ratings as well as reviews and comments from viewers and critics. For example, IMDb gave The Shawshank Redemption a 9.3 out of 10, making it the joint first best film of all time according to IMDb. As well as the rating, it also gives other information, such as length, the genre and the plot of the film, the ratings system works by viewers of the film giving a rating of the film out of 10. Afterwards, the average rating is worked out by all the ratings being taken into account and worked out into an average rating out of 10.
Amazon Prime own the website, meaning that IMDb has very accurate ratings as there are 54 million people subscribed to Amazon Prime. If only one quarter of these subscribers left a review, it would be from a wide audience of people so the ratings are unbiased. It allows it to be much more accurate than other websites as they will compare and give a wide varied range of answers. Not only does IMDb have reviews on films and the plot overview, it also has information on actors. It will have their previous work on films, their ratings based on reviews on them from a range of movies that they are featured in and it tells you information about them and their life like a little biography. IMDb is one of the leading websites with reviews on films and actors.
Metacritic
Metacritic is similar to IMDb as it analyses and reviews films, as well as games, and gives them a specific rating based on how good they were. Metacritic have their own rating system, and they give the films they review a rating out of 100. The criteria that they rate their films of include:
- Popularity.
- Trending.
- Cast involved.
- Thrill.
- Gore.
They give their ratings the same as what IMDb do, as they give the films they review a rating out of 100, the higher the rating, the better the film in the eyes of Metacritic fans and critics alike. They are also an extremely popular website, with alot of reviewers giving their own opinion of the films.
Metacritic is similar to IMDb as it analyses and reviews films, as well as games, and gives them a specific rating based on how good they were. Metacritic have their own rating system, and they give the films they review a rating out of 100. The criteria that they rate their films of include:
- Popularity.
- Trending.
- Cast involved.
- Thrill.
- Gore.
They give their ratings the same as what IMDb do, as they give the films they review a rating out of 100, the higher the rating, the better the film in the eyes of Metacritic fans and critics alike. They are also an extremely popular website, with alot of reviewers giving their own opinion of the films.