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Introductory Notes
Item One: Ratings system
Item Two: Genres
Item 2b.: Anime & Cartoons (animation)
Item Three: Links.
Item Four: MPAA Ratings
Item Five: Apologies & explanations
Item 5a.: I suck
Item 5b.: Opinions
Item 5c.: Memory
Item 5d.: Content
Item Six: Attraction.
For quite awhile I had a sytem of tiers for each category, but I eventually moved the categories into a system using frames, so all movies in each category will be on one page, basically. And the new rating system will use different numbers of "smileys" or "hearts," instead of tiers.
Okay, I'm probably going to keep coming up with different categories, and never be entirely happy with any of them. And I often won't even be sure which categories to put certain films in, but I'll do my best.
Most of my categories here are specific genres, or at least I try to make them so. However, I'm generally against considering animation a genre unto itself, cuz it just ain't so. Cartoons and anime can be made for any age group, they can be dramatic or comical, they can fit into any live-action genre you care to name. So why put them in their own categories, instead of spreading specific animated movies amongst the other categories based on genre? I dunno. Maybe just cuz I like them so much. I'm afraid I can't think of anything else to tell you.
On the line below the title, I'll try to provide links to both official and unofficial sites, for reference. These may include The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Rotten Tomatoes, TV Tropes (these links will occasionally be for the book or whatever a film is based on, rather than for the film itself), and Wikipedia, whenever possible. (I also used to link to MovieTome, which for a while changed to something else, then back to MovieTome, and then redirected to MetaCritic, so I'm sick of it all and I'm going to slowly work on removing those links.) I may also occasionally include a link to a favored fansite. Official websites (by companies involved with a film's production, distribution, release, etc.) will sometimes be harder to find, particularly for older or smaller films. But I'll do what I can. Sometimes these will just be listed as "official website," other times I might call links "DVD site" or "theatrical site." (In some cases instead of "official" or "DVD," I may name the studio or company that distributes the film.)
I have changed my mind a few times about whether to include MPAA (or CARA) ratings in my reviews, but currently I'm thinking yes. So it'll take awhile to add this data to old reviews. Bear in mind that different countries have different ways of rating movies, but as I'm in America, I'm going with the American ratings. Of course, alot of movies are unrated. And alot of them have been released in different rated (or unrated) versions. So... I dunno; I guess some things I may not bother mentioning a rating for, if there are different versions (on the other hand I might possibly list it as whichever rating I happened to watch).
Believe me, there are a great many things about this whole project for which I feel the need to apologize. For example:
Yeah, I'm no good at writing reviews. The most useful thing you're likely to find here is what rating I give a movie, and I'm rarely even sure about that, so even that's probably not very useful. So why do I bother with this whole project at all? Two words: obsessive-compulsion. Though... some of my reviews are actually much better than others.
Of course, anything I have to say about these movies (including my ratings), is merely my opinion. You all are completely entitled to your own opinions. You may completely disagree with some or all of what I have to say here. I don't mind, and I hope you won't mind, either.
Since I don't trust my memory at all, I will generally try to refrain from making entries for many movies here unless I've seen them recently. Which is just as well, because I haven't the time for doing much work on this section of my homepage, anyway. So I'm afraid there are a great many movies I've seen in the past that I won't be able to write reviews of until such time as I rewatch them, which may be years off.
These pages will include movies which debuted in theaters or on video, to the best of my knowledge. Anyway... for TV movies, please see my TV reference pages. I may sometimes be mistaken about where to put a film, but I'll do the best I can.
I have always indicated attraction to female characters (including animated ones) in my reviews by saying "who we like" (parenthetically after their name; and btw, I know it should be "whom," but I don't care). This has always caused me stress for a number of reasons, but not to do so would also cause me stress, for a number of reasons. (I've more recently tried to reduce my misgivings by occasionally saying things like that a character is "easy on the eyes" instead of "who we like.") But do bear in mind, when reading any of my reviews: if I don't specifically mention attraction, that doesn't mean I don't feel it. Obviously, in TV and movies and comic books and whatnot... most of the people are going to be attractive. In real life, I hate attraction, but in entertainment... it can be nice, as long as there's more to the story, and the characters themselves, than just that. And I guess that's all I have to say on the subject.