How come no film on this site has gotten 5 stars?

bigmovie would be delighted to tell you why


the top rated has 53 reviews, 4.5 stars. if there were 10 2 star reviews and 43 5 star reviews the film would have 4.4339622641509 stars.

thats an extreme (and long numbered) answer, but all it takes is a few people who give it less than perfect to get it down from five, and there will always be those people, even if it is perfect. which, by the way, i highly doubt anything on this site is look at rotten tomatos reviews, even really popular films never get quite perfect reviews when you add them all together.

I think it's better to have no 5 stars, I mean look at a sport like figure skating, the first competitor never gets higher than a 5.5 out of 6, NEVER. Because there needs to be room for ambition, u can't beat a film thats a perfect 5, but u cna beat a 4.9, and that gives us filmmakers motivation, also, if a film has 49 5 star reviews, someone will watch it expecting Citizen Kane, and when they don't get it theyll feel it over rated and give it 4 stars. I've never given a perfect 5 myself, cause therees always something in the acting or screenplay that is a little off

HDK, exactly what i was about to say

if I enjoy a film a lot, I'll usually just give it all 5s regardless.

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look at http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lord_of_the_rings_the_return_of_the_king/, even really popular films never get quite perfect reviews when you add them all together.

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A lot of movies have ****ty things in them.

I think Dr. Strangelove got 100 percent on that site. That's because it's perfect.

yeah, a lot of old stuff got 100%. reviewers used to be much kinder.

Plus, Dr. Strangelove is an amazing movie. It should get 100%. So should Casablanca and Citizen Kane. I mean, Citizen Kane IS considered the best movie of all time (or at least the most important for filmmakers). And Casablanca is just an awesome movie. I like it better than Citizen Kane. The only thing is: Citizen Kane was groundbreaking. Moreso than Casablanca.

I think because multiple people vote, your never gonna have all 5 stars. That means everybody that votes all have to love it, in all 6 categories.

everybody has different tastes. So it doesn't really mean ther isn't a perfect film.

If a critic gives something 5 stars or 1 star, it's one person. but if you look in the Entertainment weekly at the grades for the theatrical films all added up, almost all average a B or C. No f's, no a's, even if the critics indivisually gave it that.

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I think Dr. Strangelove got 100 percent on that site. That's because it's perfect.

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Hell yea.

In order to have a film be rated as a 5 it needs to have NEVER received a review less than a 5. The second someone reviews it with a 4 or less, the average is no longer a 5.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com