My Rating System Explained

Overview

The video is a long-overdue explanation of the creator’s unusual movie rating system, originally invented in 2010 after about a year on YouTube. Instead of using numbers, stars, or letter grades to force movies into a strict hierarchy, the system uses fun, sentence-based “titles” or “awards” that reflect how personally the creator connects with a film—more about the vibe/impact than ranking.

Origin and Purpose

• Why it exists: The creator says they built the system for fun because traditional star/grade ratings “lock” movies into boxes.
• What they wanted instead: Reviews that show how they felt about a movie rather than where it sits numerically.

A (Made-Up) Top Tier

• The video introduces an exaggerated “best” label—something like “awesome-tacular.”
• It’s explicitly treated as a nonsense, made-up word.
• The recurring joke: people argue with reviews when their “awesome-tacular” reaction doesn’t match others’ expectations.

Where the System Becomes Structured Anyway

Even though it isn’t intended to be a traditional ranking:

• The creator admits there’s still internal structure.
• Confusion often comes from the middle labels and how they relate to one another.
• Numerical/letter systems are inherently ordered (e.g., A > B > C, 7/10 > 6/10), but their sentence-label approach doesn’t line up as naturally.

The Central Rule: Thumbs Up vs Thumbs Down

The system ultimately boils down to one hard dividing line:

• One side = good
• Other side = bad

Everything between is meant to be more like semantic titles, not a strict ladder of comparisons.

“Good Time” vs “Middle of the Road”

• The creator clarifies that “good time” (and similar mid labels) isn’t just a generic “okay” rating.
• They argue the most useful goal of a review is whether the movie is worth watching.
• They reference the idea of reviewers like Siskel & Ebert finding a “Goldilocks” zone by capturing thumbs-up vs thumbs-down clearly.

Alcohol Joke Framing

The categories are jokingly explained through alcohol context:

• Movies that are “better drunk” can land on either side (good or bad) depending on how alcohol changes the viewing experience.
• Alcohol can make fun movies more fun—or be needed to get through weaker ones.

Main Takeaway

Use the system like a thumbs up / thumbs down indicator.

• The in-between labels are descriptive semantics
• Not a strict comparative ranking

Personality in the Video

• The original reviewer/creator explaining the system (main on-camera speaker).