My house of appreciation for cinema lives on this page. From articles about the industry to many, many Top 10 lists highlighting my favorite moments in feature films. Most notably, my up-to-date scientific breakdown of the Top 100 Hollywood Films of all time.
How does one compare an animated film like Toy Story to a gritty crime thriller like Goodfellas to a laugh out loud comedy like The Nice Guys? It sounds impossible, unless you break it down. And I mean really break it down.
Also, I feel like most other lists on IMDb or the American Film Institute or Rotten Tomatoes are inherently biased, suffer from being prisoners of the moment, and consist of laziness in not going back and editing reviews for older films when ranking newer releases. To be fair, it is human nature to biased even when we try not to be biased. We all have our own tastes in film. We all favor certain acting styles, pacing of films, and one genre over another. With that said, I made my own criteria or scientific Hollywood method to rating a movie using a point system over 6 large categories and 20 sub-categories.
So what are these 6 categories? Are they weighted the same? Well, no they aren't weighted the same. They are weighted by their importance to a film, in my opinion. The 6 main categories are: Acting, Cinematography & Production, Audio, Writing/Directing/Post-Production, Reception, and Legacy/Impact. Within each of these categories are anywhere from 2 to 7 sub-categories with points ranging from [1 to 2], [1 to 3], [1 to 5], or even [1 to 10] in the most important sub-categories. The higher the number, the better the movie was in that certain category.
Here are some examples of my sub-categories and their point range... Lead Acting [1 to 10], Casting [1 to 3], Production Design [1 to 5], Score [1 to 5], Pacing [1 to 3], Dialogue [1 to 5], Originality/Adaptation [1 to 6], and many more that add up to a cumulative max score of 100 points for the perfect film.
In my scoring, I use as much definitive evidence in the form of award nominations, accolades, and industry testimonies as I can. And then, I score based on how I viewed the film. The most bias in my rankings, to make this list my personal own, is one additional sub-category called My Personal Enjoyment which is worth [1 to 10] points actually making the max score for a film 110 points. In the true spirit of film-making, there is no perfect film, as we all tirelessly pursue that unachievable goal in the next film and the next film we are a part of. That said, the real perfect score is 100 which some movies on my list do in fact reach.
