{"id":3375,"date":"2024-01-31T09:45:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2024-02-03T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T21:30:16","slug":"movie-rating-aggregator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/movie-rating-aggregator\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Rating Aggregator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Update: I built this! You can check it out and subscribe at www.seeordontsee.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love going to the movie theater. The darkness, the recliners, the smell of the popcorn. It all makes me happy. I go see a movie about once a week and before I buy my tickets I take a peek at sites like IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes to check up on how the movie is being received. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t read reviews, instead I just glance at the overall scores to see if the movie I have in mind is worth a 2 hour investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I usually take a look at 3-4 apps or websites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IMDB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rotten Tomatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Metacritic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Letterboxed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s not a major time suck, but it does take a few minutes to pull up each site, wade through the ads and pop ups and all the visual noise. All I want is the rating number from each so I can get a sense of the sentiment and I can quickly make my determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started playing around with the idea of an Instagram or TikTok account that just had these numbers front and center for each major new movie release. Simple and clean – I can get what I’m after with just a glance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked around to find something like this. I could not find it. So I opened up Figma and created a mockup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the data I need to make a movie decision – all in one place.<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I left empty space at the top and bottom of the screen to account for all the extra UI elements that Instagram and TikTok add to a story\/post. All the important elements are safe and won’t be overlaid with extra visual noise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main numbers from each of my favorite 4 movie rating sites are front and center at the top of the screen. I used IBM Plex Sans Condensed for the type mainly because it remains super readable even at the small size that I need to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall it is simple, but nice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then starting thinking, it would be cool if the 4 numbers were averaged together for a ‘super score’. It would make it ever easier to gauge the overall movie sentiment from critics and reviewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few more mockups in Figma:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left Aligned Avg Super Score<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Right Aligned Avg Super Score<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I then thought it might be interesting to add a color to visually represent the super score. This would even make the overall movie sentiment even more obvious with just a quick glance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So I created a couple more treatments in Figma which include the color indicator:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Super Score highlighted with Pale Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Movie Box highlighted with Pale Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Overall, I’m happy with the simplicity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish this existed as an Instagram account or maybe even a weekly email. It was fun to play around in Figma and who knows, maybe I’ll ship this one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can check it out and subscribe at www.seeordontsee.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: I built this! You can check it out and subscribe at www.seeordontsee.com I love going to the movie theater. The darkness, the recliners, the smell of the popcorn. It all makes me happy. I go see a movie about once a week and before I buy my tickets I take a peek at sites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[14,58,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}