SAMICO2 Scale

Dear All,

I know I have not been able to deliver on my promise of regular movie reviews, though I have been watching quite a bit more than I can handle.

So I decided to send brief reviews and a new feature with them.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the SAMICO2 scale !!

Let me explain.

I am going to review movies on the following parameters:

Story/ Script (S) Acting (A) Music/Sound Effects (M) Intangibles (I) Cinematography (C) Overall (O) 2nd Look (2)

Most are self-explanatory, I am including Music and Sound effects since some will be Indian movies, Intangibles will basically be whether the film did justice to its genre, be it comedy, drama, horror etc and 2nd look means whether or not it is worth that.

Now the scaling system.

Story is graded 2, 1, 0, -1, -2

Acting 2, 1, 0, -1, -2

Music 1, 0, -1

Intangibles 1, 0, -1

Cinematography 2, 1, 0, -1, -2

Overall 1, 0, -1

2nd look 1, 0, -1

I have given some of the more important parameters greater range. I have included negative points since some movies are really BAD! So the maximum is 10 and the minimum -10. Theoretically then its a 20 point spread, and so a film that gets a 3 mightn't be necessarily that bad, but it still isn't good.

I will try this system out for a bit, see how it goes.

I do look forward to suggestions and alterations from the mathematically more versed and artistically more inclined.

Regards,

Shobhit