Scoring

Scoring is broken down into three main areas:

Intensity

A good movie should be an exilerating experience, hence, I will be awarding up to five cups of coffee as follows

 

Not really worth viewing unless you are suffering from insomnia.

Something of value in the movie, but be prepared to suffer for it

Pretty much worth viewing, the good stuff outweighs the bad

Definetely worth viewing, flaws are easily forgiven.

Not only worth viewing, but worth studying. May still have flaws due to budget restraints.

You'll notice that this rating system is pretty forgiving. This is intentional. The effort required to create an independant movie amazes me and I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt to anyone who gives me anything interesting. This is the main score for a film and will be heavily influenced by these two additional qualities.

 

Stupidity:Nudity Ratio

This will not apply to all movies, but obviously comes into play when reviewing Misty Mundae movies. Basically a really dumb movie can be saved with some really good nudity. I'm a guy. What can I say. However, there is a point where the movie is just too stupid and no amount of nudity is going to save it. Each item will be graded on a scale of 1 to 10 and presented in that format. As examples, any Playboy or Penthouse photo shot video would be rated 10 for stupidity and 10 for nudity giving it a score of 10:10. Hellboy on the other had gets a 1 for stupidity and a 1 for nudity giving it a score of 1:1. This score will give you a pretty good idea of what type of movie I am reviewing. Clever movies will have a low stupidity score, movies that have intentional dumbed down plots but are still clever will get fairly low stupidity scores. Scores of 10 on the stupidity scale will generally be reserved for Jes Franco films.

Budget

This will normally be a guess based on the overall look of the film. High budget films with low scores are likely to cause me to rant. Levels will be

No budget - likely financed by the filmmaker and his family

Low budget - financed by family and friends

Medium budget - produced by a small movie house like Fred Olen Ray or Seduction Cinema

Big budget - financed by big movie houses