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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1554561" data-attributes="member: 812">I own fun movies that I watch often that I didn't rate a 10, either. These are exclusionary criteria -- that is, they provide reasons to exclude candidates. Anything that doesn't fit those criteria does not get the 10. That's not the same thing as saying EVERYTHING that fits those criteria DOES get the 10.In my case, they often do. I can think of many, many things I would change about Major League, but then I neither own it nor watch it repeatedly, so it fails on all three criteria for me.I'll say this: I watch films repeatedly for two reasons: because I want to relive the enjoyment I felt the first time I watched it, or because I feel like there's more for me to get out of the film. If it's only the first reason, then the film is unlikely to garner a 10 rating from me. It's the latter reason that distinguishes the 10 films.Schindler's List is not a very good film, as far as I'm concerned.But for example, there's a couple of films that I haven't watched repeatedly that are indeed NOT on my list. All About Eve, for one. Great film, but I only watched it once. I intend to watch it again, but I just haven't. Likewise Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?I tried to come up with criteria I could actually apply in some sort of organized fashion. I'll admit that they aren't perfect criteria, but I could never really generate a list of "perfect" films. How do you define "perfect"? Perfect for who? I could list off hundreds of films that might fit some definition of "perfect". Instead, I thought to lay out a straightforward set of criteria that I could then use to include or exclude films from my list.Because I'm that sort of anal-retentive dork who does things like that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />It was an interesting exercise. It made me look at my shelf and say, "Why HAVEN'T I watched this film more often?" Or, "Why on earth do I watch that stinker over and over again?" There's films I used to watch compulsively that I now no longer look at twice.As I said, you need to be finding NEW things in the movie each time you watch it.Watched Hard-Boiled again last night. It DEFINITELY goes on my list. Good grief I'd actually forgotten how amazing that movie is.</blockquote>

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