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Just watched my 600th bad movie and I think Turbo Kid broke my rating system
So I keep a spreadsheet of every bad movie I watch, and last Tuesday I hit 600 entries. I did not plan this, it just happened, and when the counter rolled over I sat there at my desk in Columbus wondering what I've done with my evenings for the past several years. The weird part is Turbo Kid was number 600, and it is not bad at all, it is actually a great movie with a BMX bike and a guy in a hockey mask, so now my whole system is broken because I can't decide if it counts. My rule used to be simple, if it has a talking animal or a scene where someone yells a name three times, it goes in the book. Turbo Kid has neither, but it made me feel the same way as the truly terrible ones, that warm feeling of watching something made by people who cared too much. Now I'm sitting here with 600 rows and maybe 40 of them don't belong, which is an 6 percent error rate I can't live with. Do I delete the good ones and admit the count was fake, or do I keep a second tab for movies that are actually fine, and has anyone else had to redraw the line like this?
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the_jamie16d ago
Your math is a little off there. 40 out of 600 is 6.6 percent, not 6, but honestly that's not the part that bugs me. The real issue is your rule itself sounds kind of made up on the spot. Talking animals and someone yelling a name three times are two totally different things, so it's not really one rule, it's just two random things you noticed in bad movies once. Turbo Kid not having either doesn't mean it can't count, it just means your rule was never measuring what you thought it was. If the thing that ties all 600 together is that warm feeling of people caring too much, then the good ones belong in there too and your count was never fake.
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