Soon I’m going to start posting film reviews and thought it prudent to explain the grading system I will use. We will grade a film on four different parts:

Aesthetic Appeal-Purely the look of the film (cinematography, use and believability of special effects, editing, sound, and nostalgic appeal)

Story-Just the story taking acting, cinematography, and anything else but structure, writing, and originality out of the equation.

Acting-Their performances taking into consideration if the role was out of their typical mold/typecast, and how well they evoke the audiences emotion.

Each of the three sections can be graded as follows:

🙂 🙂 Amazing

🙂 Good

😕 Not good but not bad

😦 Bad

😦 😦 No redeeming qualities whatsoever

The Total Film Score will be based on each section being combined or neatening each other. For instance a film has two happy faces for Aesthetic Appeal and a sad face for acting and a sad face for story the overall score will be Indifferent face (not good or bad). Now if the film has two happy for story one happy for aesthetic appeal and one sad for acting total score is two happy faces. A film can get up to six but its very unlikely. I don’t expect all of you to agree with my grading of a film but to use it more as a measuring stick. I will try to be a consistent as possible so even if you hate my highly graded films and low my low graded film you still have a good chance of figuring out what to watch.