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It is both amusing and bemusing to be browsing Netflix for 'that one movie that I've forgotten the name of and only remember seeing an ad for the DVD on television today' and stumbling across titles where I can only stare at them and think "I gave four stars to *that*? Was I high?"

Date: 2012-01-29 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com
...That was one of the films that I dropped to a two star rating. (:

Date: 2012-01-29 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mszappata.livejournal.com
Well, I feel I'll soon be somewhere in the same boat... Do I get it right that you saw only its ad and rated it based on this ad?

Date: 2012-01-29 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com
Actually, no. Netflix sent us the movie, we watched it and sent it back. And I said "That wasn't awful but God it wasn't good."
Which was why I was surprised to see that I'd rated it with four stars, and why I changed it back to two.

Date: 2012-01-29 07:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mszappata.livejournal.com
Sorry if I'm bothering you, but the word "sleep-rate" was quite new to me, and I failed to find it in the four online dictionaries I tried. So I asked questions to a couple of Russian communities. And as I 'wasn't very precise' either, there were some arguments about what part of speech it is, whether it is spelled correctly after all, who was better at translating and all that jazz.

Now,putting it my way, while you were looking for a certain film on Netflix, which was rather difficult to do 'cause you hardly remembered any details, you were surprised to find that you'd overrated a few films including *that one*. So after a slight shock or whatever-it-was you dropped their rating. Can I take it for the final version?

Date: 2012-01-29 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com
No worries. (:
I was not very impressed by the film. I think that for "Wanted" two stars is an accurate rating. "Sleep-rate" is a word that I created, to be sort of like sleep-walking. But instead of walking around while I was asleep, I might have been on Netflix rating movies while I was asleep, because I couldn't think of any other way that it could have gotten four stars.
Am I less confusing now?

Date: 2012-01-29 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mszappata.livejournal.com
You were not from the very beginning ) There's just some difference between what you say to yourself, because you needn't go into detail, and how the others get you (with my English as a second language, the case is even more complicated.

Now I know even slightly more than I wanted, so thank you for your time and consideration:)

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