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Well we are back with a new podcast this week. It was actually recorded about 3 weeks ago, but we didn’t get around to getting it edited until now. Yes, we’re slackers but hopefully it was worth the wait.
Topics include:
Brief discussion of films we’ve watched lately including Children of Men, Hot Fuzz, Elizabethtown, Idiocracy, etc.
Shia LaBeouf: Who is this guy and why does anybody give a shit?
Why the MPAA is bad for the movie industry.
How the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated sheds some light on the MPAA situation.
Live Free or Die Hard: Is it worth getting excited about?
Shitty sequels that kill all interest in the series as a whole.
Why Mel Gibson and Nicolas Cage rock!
And a whole bunch of other nonsense involving Bruce Willis, Arnold, and explosions.
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- Jones
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May 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 am
Hey, great podcast. Funny as tits as always. I love the site redesign, too, although I do have two questions regarding it. Firstly, is the five star public rating system above each post supposed to be reviewing that post (in other words, reviewing the review, podcast, or article), or is it there with the idea being that people will use it to tell you what they thought of the movie being reviewed, and you guys simply can’t remove it for non-review posts? My second question is a follow-up to that one, assuming that the star rating system is there for the public to review the movies that are being reviewed: seeing as how you guys rate movies on a four-point scale (fists, as it were), wouldn’t it be more cohesive for the star rating system to be four stars (or eight, for the sake of giving something a half of a star, two and a half stars, et cetera)?
And like that… I’m gone (and hoping to see another podcast soon).
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:22 am
Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear we continue to be entertaining on some level. LOL
I’m glad you brought up the star thing actually. I have been puzzling over how to implement it. My thought was that it should be for rating the post itself, but I realized this was vague before. I have now added the text “User Rating for this Post:” before the rating itself.
Does this help clarify it a bit, or is it still a bit vague?
Do you think it would be more useful to have it be a rating system reflecting the user’s opinion of the movie rather than the post itself?
I’m always up for suggestions. Thanks again.
Oh, and I love the rants on your site. A very entertaining read that, at times, had me on the verge of wetting myself. Keep it up!
May 24th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Hey, glad to help.
As to your questions, I don’t think that the “User Rating for this Post” text really clarifies anything; it just seems like placeholder text that could mean either/or if I didn’t know better. I think most people would interpret it to be, in the case of reviews, asking their opinion of the movie being reviewed, whereas they’d interpret it to be asking their opinion of the podcast/article in the case of, you know, podcasts and articles.
Conversely, people might just rate the posts as abstractly as they rate an article on a news website. I don’t think most people who rate a news article are rating the quality of the article, or any argument presented by the article, or even rating an editorial based on whether or not they agree with it; I think they just rate it in some arbitrary fashion. I’m not sure if it’d be more useful to have the rating system represent the movie being reviewed (in the case of reviews) as opposed to the post itself being reviewed (in the case of, you know, everything), but I think you’d get more informative results if the rating system represented the movie being reviewed, because a movie is something tangible, something that doesn’t need to be interpreted in order to give a rating to. If you understand what I just said with any amount of clarity, you’re a far more intelligent man than I.
Oh, and am I missing something, or did you guys not update the Blogger (or is it Blogspot?) page for the podcasts with the latest one?
May 24th, 2007 at 1:41 am
P. S. - Thanks for the feedback. I’d have posted two new articles by now (they just need to be spell checked), but the mobo on the computer all my stuff is stored on died a few weeks ago. Since it was integrated (I have one of those economy machines that I’ve been trying to turn into the computer equivalent of a rice burner), I needed to order both a new mobo AND a new video card (which is okay, since I was thinking about upgrading anyway). Look for a new post on or around Memorial Day.
For those of you not familiar with my recently-born “stand-alone news column”, you can check it out either at LiveJournal (http://ecksemdiem.livejournal.com) or Blogger (http://ecksemdiem.blogspot.com). Just pretend that I said something relevant to A Fistful of Reviews in this post.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:31 am
I actually completely understood what you said. Maybe I’m smarter than I thought!
In light of your feedback, I have decided to make the command decision to have them be used to rate the movie/podcast/article itself since that is probably how they would be used anyway.
So I went ahead and changed it to 4 stars, rather than 5 to coincide with the fist rating system we use on the site and I changed the text to just say “User Rating”. If it’s good enough for the IMDb then it’s good enough for me! LOL
And you’re not going crazy or anything. The eblogger link was not updated for the podcast and I will eventually eliminate it, but I have just been too lazy to do so as of yet. The reason for this is that now that the site is in Wordpress I can link the RSS feed directly off of this site, rather than having to use a third party blogging tool.
The original RSS feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/AFistfulOfReviewsPodcast still works as all I had to change was what that linked to from eblogger to Wordpress. This way it causes no disruption to those who are already subscribed to the podcast. The transition is seamless.
I was actually thinking ahead for a change when I set that up. So if you have any links to it you can change them to http://feeds.feedburner.com/AFistfulOfReviewsPodcast and you’ll be all set.
Enjoy!
P.S. - Looking forward to the new rants. Sounds like I may be pissing myself come Memorial Day!
May 27th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Great podcast, as usual.
I find it interesting to hear about the rating system in The States, as in Australia it is completely different.
In Australia the rating system is as follows
G - General. Suitable for all viewers
PG - Parental Guidance is recommended
M - Recommended for Mature Audiences
MA - Anyone under 15 must be accompanied by a parent of guardian
R - Must be over 18 to see this movie
X - Only used for Porn
In Australia, Spiderman 3 for example is rated M, 300 is rated MA and Hostel was rated R.
It seems a little easier to me, but that may be because I am used to it.
The same ratings are basically used for televios, but it is accompanied by a letter that states what is in the program.
V for violence
L for coarse Language
S for Sexual references and/or sex scenes
SN for Supernatural themes
H for Horror (may constitute for supernatural themes)
D for Drug use and/or drug references
MP for Medical procedures
A for Adult themes
N for Nudity
W for War themes or footage
B for Colourful behaviour
This gives the parent a fair idea of what is in the show. So if a TV show is rated M(L,D,S) The parent know the show has bad language, drug references and sex references, and can then make a decision based on that.
I really enjoyed your action movie topic, and I got me thinking, how about you and Dale list your Top 10 One Liners of all time. Not just from action movies, but from all movies. Star Wars - May the force be with you, Dirty Harrys - Go ahead make my day, Taxi Driver - You talkin to me……. all these a great one liners, but what would be your favourites?
Anyway, keep up the outstanding work and I look forward to the next one, hopefully in less than 2 months.
Mike
Sydney, Australia
May 28th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Well, our television rating system over here in the states is pretty similar to your’s, although our’s is far less detailed. Our’s has the rating with the content description under it. There’s TV-Y (targeted towards kids, or “youths”), TV-Y7 (targeted towards olders kids; this is the only rating that will sometimes have “FV” under it, for “Fantasy Violence), TV-G (targeted towards the general audience), TV-PG (the television equivalent of our PG movie rating), TV-14 (the television equivalent of our PG-13 movie rating; I don’t know what the one year difference is about), and TV-MA (targeted towards mature audience). The various descriptors under the rating are V (violence), L (language), S (sex), and so forth.
Personally, I think that media (video games included) should just have content descriptors (sex, nudity, violence, etc.) that’s preceded by volume descriptors (brief, mild, heavy, extreme, etc.), eliminating any of these ratings that are based purely on some movie/television/video game lobbyist’s opinion, sans whatever s/he’s been bribed..
May 30th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I like the Australian television ratings more than the domestics. In Australia, for example, I would know when a show would include Medical Procedures. That way, were I an enthusiast of medical procedures, I would know which program to watch. And “Colorful Behavior”, well, that could cover all sorts of things. I don’t know if I’d be able to turn off any program that promised to exhibit “Colorful Behavior”. Is punching a midget in the face considered “Colorful Behavior”? And if someone pissed on a ghost that would have to be considered both “Colorful Behavior” and “Supernatural Themes”. And what about actual coloring, like with crayons? Is this
“Colorful Behavior”? I am intrigued.
May 30th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
I would like to combine a few of them. I, for one, would enjoy a show using “nude violent medical procedures”
Sounds like a good time…….
Mike