Rateyourmusic.com introduces films to their website

[MacGuffin]

I guess it occurred earlier this week. This is the future of online film rating and recommendations, people, especially if it is anything like the music side of their website. It will obviously take a while to build up, but join and help build the database. I haven't started rating or adding movies, directors or anything like that yet, but I'm about to.

[Pop Trash]

I guess it occurred earlier this week. This is the future of online film rating and recommendations, people, especially if it is anything like the music side of their website. It will obviously take a while to build up, but join and help build the database. I haven't started rating or adding movies, directors or anything like that yet, but I'm about to.

Woooooahhhhh....I always thought there should be a sister site like that (the way allmusic has allmovie) to counter some of the retarded ratings of IMDB. That rules!

[Dukefrukem]

first ive heard of this site. what do i do here? rate music?

[Qrazy]

As someone who knows nothing about the site why do you say it's so good?

[Kurosawa Fan]

As someone who knows nothing about the site why do you say it's so good?

This.

[Pop Trash]

As someone who knows nothing about the site why do you say it's so good?
rateyourmusic is a great way to get into bands you might not have heard of otherwise, so I'm assuming you will be able to do the same with movies. My only problem with rateyourmusic is way too much of an influx of metal/prog fans, but I generally ignore most of the obscure metal bands that crop up as best of "such and such" year.

Right now, the movie section seems to be in some incubation state, so hopefully it will get better. Also, I kind of wish they would seperate it from the music site since music fans might rate music related movies too high and non-music stuff (or movies with a minimal soundtrack) less than they deserve.

[Dukefrukem]

The site doesn't have a very good navigation system. If they improved that, it would probably get more traffic.

[MacGuffin]

As someone who knows nothing about the site why do you say it's so good?

Over time, the site has basically become the most extensive music rating website on the internet. It has almost every album, and when it doesn't, you can add it and that takes like five minutes. It also has lists similar to IMDb and personalized recommendations. The format is awesome for the pages; you can provide reviews, watch YouTube videos corresponding to the item, catalogue your things rated, etc. Then on your profile page it all shows up very nicely (you can browse by year, see ratings by artist, by stars, tag titles). It's basically the best website for this sort of thing, so it was only so long before they introduced movies (I was starting to rate some stuff in IMDb, but it's just so insufficient and Criticker is ugly). The people on rateyourmusic seem to really care about art for the most part, and the administration is always a help. There's not really much more I can say; the film database is small right now, but the head of the site, Sharifi, has said something along the lines of how he wants RYM to be better than IMDb is basically all ways except IMDb's extensive information, so I'm sure it will get bigger. Try it out.

[MacGuffin]

The site doesn't have a very good navigation system. If they improved that, it would probably get more traffic.

What are you talking about?

[Dukefrukem]

Well the homepage for one is terrible. It looks like I'm visiting someone's blog. I'm signing up to try it.

[MacGuffin]

Well the homepage for one is terrible. It looks like I'm visiting someone's blog.

That's because you're not a subscriber, and it's not even that bad when you aren't. Also, what does that have to do with navigation?

[balmakboor]

Well the homepage for one is terrible. It looks like I'm visiting someone's blog. I'm signing up to try it.

Probably no worse than the navigation in this thread. I haven't yet seen a link to this supposedly wonderfully new movie site.

All I see on Rateyourmusic.com is, well, music.

[Dukefrukem]

That's because you're not a subscriber, and it's not even that bad when you aren't. Also, what does that have to do with navigation?

It's hard to see where to go. I need to get used to it but it just doesn't feel very thought out. It's not n00bie friendly.

[MacGuffin]

Probably no worse than the navigation in this thread. I haven't yet seen a link to this supposedly wonderfully new movie site.

It's not really new, it's a music site that is finally introducing movies using their amazing, easy to use, friendly and sleek design. www.rateyourmusic.com

[BuffaloWilder]

I've never heard of this site, either.

[balmakboor]

It's not really new, it's a music site that is finally introducing movies using their amazing, easy to use, friendly and sleek design. www.rateyourmusic.com

I guess what I mean is all I see is music reviews, mostly in Spanish. Am I missing the movie reviews somehow?

[B-side]

Hadn't heard of it until now, but it sounds cool. Time to check out the execution.

[MacGuffin]

I guess what I mean is all I see is music reviews, mostly in Spanish. Am I missing the movie reviews somehow?

The music reviews you see are from the main page: a few times a week, the admins select certain reviews for display. As I have said, the films are only now being implemented into the overall site. If you are actually interested in starting a profile (I had thought more people used this site), there is a forum in their community dedicated to Films on RYM that I recommend reading.

In order to search for a movie, right now, you have to use the drop down menu by the search bar and look for what you want to find and then type it in the search bar and go. There is a list somewhere on the site (I'll look for the link if you want it) that lists all of the movies added so far (I think there's almost 200... slowly it will build).

[Dukefrukem]

Pretty easy to use once you sign up.

http://rateyourmusic.com/~Dukefrukem

[balmakboor]

The music reviews you see are from the main page: a few times a week, the admins select certain reviews for display. As I have said, the films are only now being implemented into the overall site. If you are actually interested in starting a profile (I had thought more people used this site), there is a forum in their community dedicated to Films on RYM that I recommend reading.

In order to search for a movie, right now, you have to use the drop down menu by the search bar and look for what you want to find and then type it in the search bar and go. There is a list somewhere on the site (I'll look for the link if you want it) that lists all of the movies added so far (I think there's almost 200... slowly it will build).

Ah. I'll do some exploring tonight.

[Watashi]

How is this different from criticker?

[MacGuffin]

How is this different from criticker?

It doesn't use the 100 point scale, it's an infinitely better layout, better community, originally it did music, better for cataloguing and likely recommendations.

[Kurosawa Fan]

This actually seems worse than Criticker. Sharing space with such a massive music library is a mistake. They need to separate the two ideas, not combine them. If I'm interested in movies, I don't want to visit rateyourmusic.com and be bombarded with music reviews.

[MacGuffin]

This actually seems worse than Criticker. Sharing space with such a massive music library is a mistake. They need to separate the two ideas, not combine them. If I'm interested in movies, I don't want to visit rateyourmusic.com and be bombarded with music reviews.

As I have said, it's not much for movies right now. Give it time, it isn't that difficult to make a ratings website better than Criticker I would guess.

[Kurosawa Fan]

As I have said, it's not much for movies right now. Give it time, it isn't that difficult to make a ratings website better than Criticker I would guess.

This is true, but I'd only be interested if it's a separate entity from rateyourmusic.com. It just doesn't make sense otherwise. I can't see it not becoming too crowded.

[Ezee E]

Criticker was amazing because you could use whatever scale you wanted, and it would adjust to it. So if you just did 1-10, perfect, criticker will figure out what you would give a 10.

[MacGuffin]

This is true, but I'd only be interested if it's a separate entity from rateyourmusic.com. It just doesn't make sense otherwise. I can't see it not becoming too crowded.

Fair enough.

I was under the impression more people knew about the site, because whether you like it overall or not, the layout is amazing. When it becomes more stronger a database, I'm nearly certain it will be excellent, but yes, as far as I know, the owner of the site doesn't seem like they will separate movies and music, however a URL change seems inevitable.

[MacGuffin]

I knew the top list would not be similar to IMDb:

http://rateyourmusic.com/films/chart

[Pop Trash]

I knew the top list would not be similar to IMDb:

http://rateyourmusic.com/films/chart
Sick. Are they doing individual year lists too?

EDIT: Nevermind I figured it out.

[trotchky]

Rateyourmusic owns pretty hard, yeah.

[Ezee E]

Only 200+ ratings. Wait until 1000.

[Pop Trash]

The only sucky thing I noticed is that some of the movie years were wrong. They had Inland Empire as a 2007, not 2006 film. Also The Ice Storm I believe was under either '96 or '98, not 1997.

[MacGuffin]

The only sucky thing I noticed is that some of the movie years were wrong. They had Inland Empire as a 2007, not 2006 film. Also The Ice Storm I believe was under either '96 or '98, not 1997.

That's easy to correct. Did you?

[Pop Trash]

That's easy to correct. Did you?

Na, I haven't signed up yet. I probably will, it needs my support.

[eternity]

Now I have a reason to use it.

[MacGuffin]

So, word is the movie and music sites will be separated.

[Pop Trash]

So, word is the movie and music sites will be separated.
I'm really loving the movies section. Rating movies there has become addictive.

[Qrazy]

I'm really loving the movies section. Rating movies there has become addictive.

How comprehensive is the database of movies of which to rate?

[MacGuffin]

How comprehensive is the database of movies of which to rate?

Comprehensive. It's easy to add movies, too. It's still a work in progress as of now, though; just thought I'd update this thread.