Some review stats
A couple weeks ago Steve and Mat were asking me what our total review count was at. I just went into the database and crunched some numbers to pull out that information, along with some other stats.
I should note that if you start double-checking me, some of my figures won’t add up. This is because I designed the database to not be very strict. So Mat can rate Hell of the Living Dead as “An Inescapable Abyss out of 10″ and Steve can rate Zombie 5: Killing Birds as “negative infinity minus 1 out of 10″ - and it’s good for some laughs but I can’t really do math on those reviews. So little things like that will throw off the stats slightly but it’s not like we’re doing brain surgery here, I don’t think it will matter too much.
So, here are some numbers pulled from our reviews database…
We currently have 557 reviews: 453 movie, 43 game, 33 book and 28 music.
Mat leads the pack with 316 reviews, Steve has 101, I have 24, Brady has 12 and Sleepycast co-host Ronin has 9. Carlin also has 9, but the most important contribution he’s made has been this one. Oh, and some guy named Adam has 34. I have no recollection of this dude, but shout-outs to him for contributing back in the day.
Site-wide, the average score of our movie reviews is a 4.4 out of ten. By reviewer, Mat on average gives a movie a 3.7, Steve a 4.9, Brady a 4.5 and I’m more generous with a 6.9 average.
A breakdown of number of movies by score is as follows, with fractional scores rounded down (so a 4.5 review score is reflected in the 4 figure)…
0: 23
1: 32
2: 42
3: 38
4: 43
5: 34
6: 49
7: 83
8: 61
9: 39
10: 6
The six 10’s were given by Mat (Predator, Aliens, Robot Monster) and Adam (The Shawshank Redemption, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Shaun of the Dead)
Filed under: Commentary, Fun Stuff, Reviews
Wes Laurie said:
Shaun of the Dead a 10? More like a 4, perhaps 5..or maybe 3
MaT said:
I definitely wouldn’t give Shaun of the Dead a 10. I hated that movie. 3/10 for me.
I love how I’m the resident “This movie blows” guy
Jeff said:
I think Mat & Steve are much more likely to watch and review movies that they could probably guess will suck before they even pop in the DVD. I, on the other hand, tend to go for things that I know I will probably like (and I’m also simply an easier-to-please reviewer).
So kudos to Mat & Steve for doing the public service of watching bad flicks and warning us, so we can avoid them.
MaT said:
Or it could be the fact that Steve and I do the bulk of all the reviews, thereby skewing the results in an unbalanced way towards you guys
Stevie-poo said:
I try to watch movies that I think I’ll like, though the vast majority of them are ones I think are bad before hand. One thing is it’s easier for me to review bad movies. There have been a lot of movies that I’ve watched and liked, but had no idea how to explain why I liked them, thus I don’t review them.
Guess I just like to trash on things.