@alltimemarr said:

7 is not decent to me. 6 is decent, okay, nice. 7 is good. 8 is great. 9 is WOW, amazing, love. 10 is perfection <3

I'm strict? xD

Dunno about strict, but I definitely agree with your scoring legend.

@RustyShackleworth said:

Hi. I'm new to this board and I want to understand how the film ratings work here. My general impression is that the film ratings here are rather low even for successful, popular and critically praised films.

Some examples:

The rating here for Alien (1979) is 77%. On IMDB it's 8.5. Rotten Tomatoes: 97%

The rating here for Jaws is 74% IMDB: 8.0 RT: 97%

Saving Private Ryan: Here: 78% IMDB: 8.6 RT: 92%

The Maltese Falcon: Here: 77% IMDB: 8.1 RT: 100%

The Dark Knight: Here: 81% IMDB: 9.0 RT: 94%

Psycho (1960) Here: 81% IMDB 8.5 RT: 96%

E.T Here: 72% IMDB 7.9 RT: 98%

Thoughts?

1. ratings not manipulated by IMDb

2. people here are more into movies and saw more so they are less excited than someone who see 20 movies per year

3. i guess less teenagers rating everything black and white either 1 or 10

4. i would be curious about demographics, if it's really less American here which would explain the ratings mentioned by @alltimemarr Americans are always excited and loving everything or hating everything, but don't wanna really discuss this stuff here, it's movie database

i find ratings here closer to my own ratings since 5 means for me perfectly average movie, just not bad, not good, forgettable, 6 slightly above average, 7 is already nice movie, 8 is great movie, 9 is very rare, one of the few best of the year and 10 is pretty much instant classic, there is other thread about how people rate and people here i guess use whole scale and not just 5-10 and 1 for hated

@travisbell said:

So when you import your ratings from IMDB, they automatically count them here? How is that?

The exported lost you get from IMDb contains a list of ids alongside your rating. We map those ids to our ids and then create the ratings on our end. In the end you get (almost) all your ratings here.

Also, how do you rate movies on here when you visit their pages?

Click the star on the bottom button bar (far right). All if your account actions are on the bottom bar.

Thanks!