It’s been a while since we last posted, but let’s forget about all that. To put it quite simply, we got a little bit bored with how we were doing things. Not because we don’t love films. We absolutely LOVE films. It just became pretty clear to us that we were reviewing them in exactly the same way as everybody else – and we don’t want Electric Torture to be like every other film site. What’s the point in doing something if you’re not doing it your own way?
Anyway, we’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how we mean to go on. We still want to write about films new & old, but we’ll be avoiding tagging an arbitrary star rating to the end of our reviews. It’s completely counter-productive to give films a mark out of 5 or 10. Film is an art-form and any opinion on it is entirely subjective. Who are we to say that all 3-star films are exactly equal and worthy of such a mark? So, at the end of each review, rather than a star-rating, we’ll conclude with three words that we think best sum up the film. These three words will be green, amber or red to show whether the reviewer enjoyed the film, thought it was just alright, or didn’t particularly like it. This colour-coded system is purely to highlight the subjective opinion of the reviewer. We understand that some readers come to film reviews and skip to the end just to see a rating. Our system will hopefully cater to everyone, showing the opinion of the reviewer without the need for a numbered rating system.
Also, since we’re a film site run by film students, we want to make our content more student-orientated – so we’ll end our reviews with a couple of suggestions of other films which you could consider as wider reading. For example, these could be films that we think have similar themes, or possibly contain the same actor displaying some variety to their star persona. Simply put, we’ll choose films that we feel are comparable in some way.
Finally, 2014 is a special, special year for film – marking the 20th anniversary of modern classics Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump & The Shawshank Redemption. We’ll be bringing you a variety of features throughout the year to celebrate the enormous and enduring impact that these films have had on so many people. We’ll also be trying out a ton of other film related features as we attempt to make this website into something we can be truly proud of.
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