When giving out a review I always see this:
PQ - 5/5 or 4/5 etc..........
AQ - same thing given in numbers

I am okey with all that, But can we say something about the story of the movie? If it is good or bad?
Let say SQ - short for STORY QUALITY can we grade it too like the PQ/AQ
for me I just don't buy a certain bluray movie because of the PQ and AQ.
I appreciate it if you guys can say if the movie is worth buying due to the quality of the story.


Peter

It was prett good. But the cardboard acting didn't help move the story along. But I would say it's worth getting.

I'm don't dig this idea. This site is AVS - Audio / Visual Science forum. The reviews here aren't movie "reviews" in the traditional sense, they are reviews of a movie's audio and video performances.

There is a multitude of other "plot review" sites out there... too many to even fathom; this site is ultra specific in its purpose and to begin to factor a movie's watchability into the scenario muddies everything up.

A movie's enjoyability apart from audio/visual quality is far too subjective a thing, and doesn't belong in the portions of the forum/review section that are meant only to grade AV quality. If you're really Hell-bent on getting that kind of info while at this forum it should be kept completely in This Section. (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=44)

Personally, when I come to this site I don't care how Person X felt about Movie X as a film, I only care how it performed in the audio and visual fields. If I care about whether or not a movie is worth watching as a movie I'll go to Rotten Tomatoes, Peter Travers, Roeper, or some other critic/site with tastes somewhat close to my own. Integrating that kind of judgment into reviews/threads here would be like looking for speaker recommendations based on audio performance only to find that a reviewer factored in how much he likes the music being played on them into the equation.

I think many people assume that you already know something about the movie, so they tend to only comment on the quality of the blu-ray. With blockbusters most of us do probably already know something about plot, acting, etc. However, with lesser known movies, your suggestion is a good one and would help many of us decide whether to investigate a particular title a bit more. Of course there are many places that offer reviews of movies, so any comment need not be too detailed--just enough to give a hint as to who might enjoy the film.

Just use IMDB to get content (story) ratings

Why would you log onto a tech site to get the content review of a movie?

Why would you log onto a tech site to get the content review of a movie?

You wouldn't! But if you observe, you will see that with certain movies such as the Orphanage or Hot Fuzz, people will begin to ask whether it is the type of movie they would like. What are similar titles? I certainly don't think we should become a movie review forum, but I do feel that with movies that may not be that well known to everyone, a sentence or two could do no harm. If someone starts writing two page reviews--no, that is not allowed!

As I said, I dont have a problem with grading the PQ/AQ grading. This is only a suggestion, I am not asking to change your way. If noone dont give a damn about how good the story or how bad the story fine so be it. But I will never buy a movie because of the QUALITY of AUDIO and PICTURE, You guys are right, just look for a different source or sites to find out if the movie is good or bad. Thanks for all your input I appreciate it.

You wouldn't! But if you observe, you will see that with certain movies such as the Orphanage or Hot Fuzz, people will begin to ask whether it is the type of movie they would like. What are similar titles? I certainly don't think we should become a movie review forum, but I do feel that with movies that may not be that well known to everyone, a sentence or two could do no harm. If someone starts writing two page reviews--no, that is not allowed!

This is exactly what I want to see in a review, since someone already giving his praise about the PQ and AQ why not give a short sentence or a side note how good is the movie also or how bad is the movie.

Just use IMDB to get content (story) ratingsI use that and rottentomatoes.com. If one person gives their opinion of whether the movie itself is good or not then that is just one person. But those sites give averages for lots of people. For instance, if I go to rottentomatoes and 95 out of 100 professional reviewers liked the movie, then if I had only read a review from one of the 5 who disliked it I would have gotten a much different impression than seeing that only 5 out of 100 disliked it. And vis versa.

--Darin

I use that and rottentomatoes.com. If one person gives their opinion of whether the movie itself is good or not then that is just one person. But those sites give averages for lots of people.
This is pretty much the complete answer right here. You can't do too much better than IMDb + Rotten Tomatoes for finding the consensus opinion of a particular movie - IMDb for "regular joes" and Rotten Tomatoes for critical opinion.

However, you may be surprised to learn that Netflix user votes outnumber even IMdb votes by at least one or two orders of magnitude. Personal opinion is a strange thing and you might find even critical reviews useless in comparison to your own tastes. I really think Netflix are the industry thought leaders on content ranking and you might find it interesting to read about the Netflix Prize (http://www.netflixprize.com/) for improving movie recommendations.

Edit: And just to defend the "science" of this discussion, I think the statistical analysis of content ranking systems makes for an interesting topic - not that we're going to venture that far in this thread necessarily.