tek's films index page

Item One: Ratings system
For quite awhile I had a sytem of tiers for each category, but I'm slowly working on moving the categories into a system using frames, so all movies in each category will be on one page, basically. And the new rating system will use different numbers of "smileys" or "hearts." But even among the reviews that have been moved, I originally just had a link to the ratings system in the lefthand navframe of each category, but now I'm slowly working on adding links to each individual review (because I will sometimes link to my reviews on other sites, so people clicking from there wouldn't see the navframe.)

Item Two: Genres
Okay, I'm probably going to keep coming up with different categories, and never be entirely happy with any of them. And I often won't even be sure which categories to put certain films in, but I'll do my best.

Item 2b.: Anime & Cartoons (animation)
Most of my categories here are specific genres, or at least I try to make them so. However, I'm generally against considering animation a genre unto itself, cuz it just ain't so. Cartoons and anime can be made for any age group, they can be dramatic or comical, they can fit into any live-action genre you care to name. So why put them in their own categories, instead of spreading specific animated movies amongst the other categories based on genre? I dunno. Maybe just cuz I like them so much. I'm afraid I can't think of anything else to tell you.

Item Three: Links.
On the line below the title, I'll try to provide links to both official and unofficial sites, for reference. These may include The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Rotten Tomatoes, and Wikipedia, whenever possible. (I also used to link to MovieTome, which for a while changed to something else, then back to MovieTome, and then redirected to MetaCritic, so I'm sick of it all and I'm going to slowly work on removing those links.) I may also occasionally include a link to a favored fansite. Official websites (by companies involved with a film's production, distribution, release, etc.) will sometimes be harder to find, particularly for older or smaller films. But I'll do what I can. Sometimes these will just be listed as "official website," other times I might call links "DVD site" or "theatrical site." (In some cases instead of "official" or "DVD," I may name the studio or company that distributes the film.)

Item Four: MPAA Ratings
I have changed my mind a few times about whether to include MPAA (or CARA) ratings in my reviews, but currently I'm thinking yes. So it'll take awhile to add this data to old reviews. Bear in mind that different countries have different ways of rating movies, but as I'm in America, I'm going with the American ratings. Of course, alot of movies are unrated. And alot of them have been released in different rated (or unrated) versions. So... I dunno; I guess some things I may not bother mentioning a rating for, if there are different versions (on the other hand I might possibly list it as whichever rating I happened to watch).

Item Five: Apologies & explanations
Believe me, there are a great many things about this whole project for which I feel the need to apologize. For example:

Item 5a.: I suck
Yeah, I'm no good at writing reviews. The most useful thing you're likely to find here is what rating I give a movie, and I'm rarely even sure about that, so even that's probably not very useful. So why do I bother with this whole project at all? Two words: obsessive-compulsion. Though... some of my reviews are actually much better than others.

Item 5b.: Opinions
Of course, anything I have to say about these movies (including my ratings), is merely my opinion. You all are completely entitled to your own opinions. You may completely disagree with some or all of what I have to say here. I don't mind, and I hope you won't mind, either.

Item 5c.: Memory
Since I don't trust my memory at all, I will generally try to refrain from making entries for many movies here unless I've seen them recently. Which is just as well, because I haven't the time for doing much work on this section of my homepage, anyway. So I'm afraid there are a great many movies I've seen in the past that I won't be able to write reviews of until such time as I rewatch them, which may be years off.

Item 5d.: Content
These pages will include movies which debuted in theaters or on video, to the best of my knowledge. Anyway... for TV movies, please see my TV reference pages. I may sometimes be mistaken about where to put a film, but I'll do the best I can.

Item Six: Attraction.
I have always indicated attraction to female characters (including animated ones) in my reviews by saying "who we like" (parenthetically after their name). This has always caused me stress for a number of reasons, but not to do so would also cause me stress, for a number of reasons. I've decided recently that I should stop doing this in new reviews, and when I have time, go through all my old reviews and remove these parentheticals. It'll be a long time before I can complete that task, and it's going to be painful for me. And sometimes I may find other ways to mention attraction, if I feel it's really important for some reason. But do bear in mind when reading any of my reviews: if I don't specifically mention attraction, that doesn't mean I don't feel it. Obviously, in TV and movies and comic books and whatnot... most of the people are going to be attractive. I'm saying that up front, right here, to help alleviate the pain I'll feel at not specifically mentioning it in each of my reviews. In real life I hate attraction, but in entertainment... it can be nice, as long as there's more to the story, and the characters themselves, than just that. And I guess that's all I have to say on the subject.

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