While personally reviewing and rating films for our database, only 56 movies, out of 715 films reviewed..... have gotten the 10/10 ranking, (less than 8%).   Naturally, some of the films rated a 10 were due either to a great story, or possibly great acting, and occasionally just because the movie was appealing for personal reasons.    Only nine of the 715 films are ranked 1/10.

Am wondering if others find it as rare to rank a film with the best, at 10/10.

It appears that the highest rated movie overall in our database is "MOV OG FUNDER", quite an achievement for a film that is barely an hour long.  What a great production that film was.

Hey Zab..... after reading your post, the idea came to see if we can see what other people have rated films just from our B-A database.  In our data-base alone, you have rated 1333 films (nearly twice as many).

You've rated 66 movies a perfect 10/10, (just under 5%), but you are a bit more kind-hearted when it comes to giving a movie just a rating of a 1/10..... as you've only done that for 14 films.

When you mentioned having ranked 3981 films (nearly 4000!), it makes us realize just how many boy-related films are not in our database.   It's impossible to list many of them, simply because the information, photos, etc are scarce.... even on the web.

Like you, there are a lot more films that have been viewed than have been rated in the B-A database, probably closer to 2000 or 2500 movies.    (But no where near the 4000 or so you've been able to see!)

I used to spend a lot of time on IMDb message boards and one of the arguments that some of the members there used was that no movie should ever be rated 10/10, because that would mean it's perfect, and no movie will ever be perfect. Which I thought was the dumbest argument ever. What's the point of having a scale of 1 to 10 if you're not allowed to use the whole thing?

People there took movie rating way too seriously. A lot of people also went on and on about how their ratings were "objective," which again I think is BS. Movies can't be rated objectively. I may have pretty strong opinions about which movies I think are good or bad, but I would never be pretentious enough to claim that my ratings are objective. They're completely subjective.

I try to spread my ratings somewhat evenly across the whole span of the scale, with a bit of a curve in the middle, so that there are more movies rated 4, 5, 6 or 7, and fewer 8, 9 or 10. As for the bottom of the scale, I used to be a little weary of awarding a movie a rating of 1/10, because I thought that should be reserved for only exceptionally bad films. But these days I'm really tired of all the crap I see on TV and movie screens and my tolerence for it has gone down a lot. When something is bad enough to offend me or annoy me, I don't hesitate to give it a 1, a 2, or a 3 if I'm feeling really generous.

My ratings on this site (and on IMDb) are dated. My tastes and opinions have changed somewhat since I started using these rating systems, so if I were to review all my ratings, I'd probably make a lot of changes. I don't think I really care enough to bother, though. For some reason, I'm not as obsessive about that sort of thing as I used to be.