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.
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.
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 think it’s maybe the Babe: Pig in the City sequel that’s polarizing and not the original Babe?