http://nofilmschool.com/2005/07/actual-movies-explained/ Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo tries to start a film career in New York, without going to film school; hilarity ensues. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:37:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://nofilmschool.com/2005/07/actual-movies-explained/#comment-260 No Film School » The month in movies (special 2-month edition) Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:26:16 +0000 http://nofilmschool.com/2005/07/actual-movies-explained/#comment-260 [...] So. Without actually figuring out an ideal way of updating the Actual Movies page, I‚Äôm going to start a separate monthly post here where I reach a haphazard verdict on all the films I can remember seeing over the past month or so. This will allow all of us to engage in the universally enjoyable activity of debating things of little consequence–in this case, whether so-and-so movie fits into so-and-so category, as ill-defined by my arbitrary ratings system. This monthly post will include old movies as well as new ones. In case you have no idea what this is all about, the Actual Movies, Explained page contains the vague criteria behind this ratings system. Without further ado: Actual Movies 8 1/2 All About My Mother Bob Dylan: No Direction Home The Constant Gardener Cool Hand Luke Donnie Darko Gates of Heaven Pumping Iron The Shape of Things Pseudo-Actual Movies Amelie The Brown Bunny Corpse Bride Dead Man Dangerous Liaisons _____________land A History of Violence In America March of the Penguins The Motorcycle Diaries Not Actual Movies And 1 Mixtape: Volume 7 Broken Flowers Casino Crash Finding Never____ The 40 Year Old Virgin Gunner Palace Jack Johnson: The September Sessions Jungle Fever Wedding Crashers [...] [...] So. Without actually figuring out an ideal way of updating the Actual Movies page, I‚Äôm going to start a separate monthly post here where I reach a haphazard verdict on all the films I can remember seeing over the past month or so. This will allow all of us to engage in the universally enjoyable activity of debating things of little consequence–in this case, whether so-and-so movie fits into so-and-so category, as ill-defined by my arbitrary ratings system. This monthly post will include old movies as well as new ones. In case you have no idea what this is all about, the Actual Movies, Explained page contains the vague criteria behind this ratings system. Without further ado: Actual Movies 8 1/2 All About My Mother Bob Dylan: No Direction Home The Constant Gardener Cool Hand Luke Donnie Darko Gates of Heaven Pumping Iron The Shape of Things Pseudo-Actual Movies Amelie The Brown Bunny Corpse Bride Dead Man Dangerous Liaisons _____________land A History of Violence In America March of the Penguins The Motorcycle Diaries Not Actual Movies And 1 Mixtape: Volume 7 Broken Flowers Casino Crash Finding Never____ The 40 Year Old Virgin Gunner Palace Jack Johnson: The September Sessions Jungle Fever Wedding Crashers [...]

]]> http://nofilmschool.com/2005/07/actual-movies-explained/#comment-198 No Film School » We Three Kongs, Part 3 (2005) Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:28:33 +0000 http://nofilmschool.com/2005/07/actual-movies-explained/#comment-198 [...] More so than most films, Kong warrants a couple of different ratings. If I had to rate this movie at its best I’d give it five stars, but at its worst it is probably one-and-a-half. Most movies don’t have that kind of range, I think–a three-star movie, for example, would probably be between two and three-and-half, typically. Kong is really hit or miss. Thankfully, I don’t have to rate movies using stars, numbers, thumbs, or anything of the like (and I even seem to have abandoned my Actual Movie ratings system, which was a mockery of ratings system in the first place). [...] [...] More so than most films, Kong warrants a couple of different ratings. If I had to rate this movie at its best I’d give it five stars, but at its worst it is probably one-and-a-half. Most movies don’t have that kind of range, I think–a three-star movie, for example, would probably be between two and three-and-half, typically. Kong is really hit or miss. Thankfully, I don’t have to rate movies using stars, numbers, thumbs, or anything of the like (and I even seem to have abandoned my Actual Movie ratings system, which was a mockery of ratings system in the first place). [...]

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