Are the standard deviations listed in the genre and tag sections the deviation of all reviews within a genre, or the average standard deviations of reviews of films I. That genre? Could it be the case that family films for example have a high standard deviations of reviews because it has both unpolarizing good films and unpolarizing bad films?
Let's say we look at a genre with only two movies in it. One received three five-star reviews, and the other received three one-star reviews. If your dataset is just all reviews of movies in this genre, it will have a high standard deviations, despite opinions on both movies being unanimous.
I am surprised how little variation is explained across genres. It looks like the SD of the top one is only 10% higher than the lowest. The scale (1-5) kind of compresses the variation. There is also the problem that different people are rating the different genres so it is not really a like for like comparison. One interesting point of analysis would be to look at the relative variation for the same person. So if person A usually does a 3,4 for most movies and then gives a 5, we would get more signal than from a person that only scores 1 and 5.
> I am surprised how little variation is explained across genres.
Yeah, it was surprising just how tight this was. It would be nice to see a histogram showing standard deviation by film (e.g., among films with at least 1000 reviews, what % show between 1.00-1.02 std). Perhaps, there is some issue with looking at standard deviation itself and some other measure may be better or at least more intuitive for getting at the question of polarization
Rambo: First Blood Part II may have a higher bodycount than the original, but it's certainly not "grittier". And doing a faithful adaptation of the book would practically guarantee a worse reception and lack of funding to make it in the first place.
I am surprised that 'the Room' does not appear anywhere in the analysis. Is it simply too bad to garner any positive reviews? I've heard that some smaller theaters in the US will show it on a more or less regular basis, selling plastic spoons and other room-related paraphernalia along with it, quite like with the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
A bit off topic, at a cinema I used to work at back in the day, we'd show that movie twice a week on Friday and Saturday nights, and we'd sell bags full of toilet paper, newspaper and cookies. People would come all dressed up and it was an overall very popular event, ending in the showing room being totally trashed afterwards every single time (lots to clean up for us staff 😅). Never saw it myself, though.
Tank Girl is a great movie. Ditto Bio-Dome.
Are the standard deviations listed in the genre and tag sections the deviation of all reviews within a genre, or the average standard deviations of reviews of films I. That genre? Could it be the case that family films for example have a high standard deviations of reviews because it has both unpolarizing good films and unpolarizing bad films?
Let's say we look at a genre with only two movies in it. One received three five-star reviews, and the other received three one-star reviews. If your dataset is just all reviews of movies in this genre, it will have a high standard deviations, despite opinions on both movies being unanimous.
I am surprised how little variation is explained across genres. It looks like the SD of the top one is only 10% higher than the lowest. The scale (1-5) kind of compresses the variation. There is also the problem that different people are rating the different genres so it is not really a like for like comparison. One interesting point of analysis would be to look at the relative variation for the same person. So if person A usually does a 3,4 for most movies and then gives a 5, we would get more signal than from a person that only scores 1 and 5.
> I am surprised how little variation is explained across genres.
Yeah, it was surprising just how tight this was. It would be nice to see a histogram showing standard deviation by film (e.g., among films with at least 1000 reviews, what % show between 1.00-1.02 std). Perhaps, there is some issue with looking at standard deviation itself and some other measure may be better or at least more intuitive for getting at the question of polarization
Rambo: First Blood Part II may have a higher bodycount than the original, but it's certainly not "grittier". And doing a faithful adaptation of the book would practically guarantee a worse reception and lack of funding to make it in the first place.
I am surprised that 'the Room' does not appear anywhere in the analysis. Is it simply too bad to garner any positive reviews? I've heard that some smaller theaters in the US will show it on a more or less regular basis, selling plastic spoons and other room-related paraphernalia along with it, quite like with the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
A bit off topic, at a cinema I used to work at back in the day, we'd show that movie twice a week on Friday and Saturday nights, and we'd sell bags full of toilet paper, newspaper and cookies. People would come all dressed up and it was an overall very popular event, ending in the showing room being totally trashed afterwards every single time (lots to clean up for us staff 😅). Never saw it myself, though.
I love The Room. One of my favorite movie-viewing experiences.
I was surprised The Room didn't show up. Maybe people legitimately like it, versus there being lack of consensus?
Yeah, maybe it is less polarizing because it is so much fun to watch, and people will therefore rarely give it an extremely bad rating.
I think it’s maybe the Babe: Pig in the City sequel that’s polarizing and not the original Babe?
Yeah Babe 2 is polarizing—my reference was to the Babe franchise. I forgot how big that movie was in the early 90s.