So in my spare time lately (I'm underemployed at the moment) I've been tinkering a lot with my Film Viewing database.
Basically what this means is "doing data entry"—entering and rating more and more films. It's fairly tedious work but somehow it's also engaging and engrossing. And the database as a whole is starting to get "robust"—it's starting to reach that sweet spot where I can command it to produce certain types of output, and get results that I feel are reasonably accurate. For instance, just as a test, I asked it to show me all the movies from the 1980s that I've given a rating of 8 or higher to (out of ten). I'm pretty pleased with the results, a list of 30 films which I think I could defend as the "best films of the 1980s."
Anyone want to have a good-natured argument about it? Anything I've left out? Anything I've wildly over-rated?
I chose the 80s more-or-less at random, and will happily present the results of a different decade upon request.
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I would rate "Raging Bull" as a 10, just based on cinematography alone. Just my humble opinion.
The cinematography and editing are both top-of-the-line, but I remember there being certain aspects of the story that I didn't enjoy. That said, I really need to see it again--I'm pretty sure I've only seen it once.
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