New features at wogma.com

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Audio reviews: Now you can hear wogma reviews at indicast. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed or you can get them by e-mail.
Genre by rating table: A lot of movie watching is “mood” based. Check out the genre-wise table. So, if you are in the mood for a slapstick movie today, just see how wogma has rated the movies in that genre.
Easy search: Now you can search for a movie review by rating or by genre or by movie title or by cast/crew name. Use the search menusat the top of every page.
Parental Guidance: Each review now will have a quick, short note on how appropriate the movie is for kids. Find information on sexual content, violence, the concept and the look and feel of the movie. Of course, I’m no child psychologist, I just point out things that I’d consider before deciding to take my kids along for the movie or not.
There might be issues I’m missing out on commenting, please point those out in the comment space or shoot an e-mail, and I’d be more than happy to add them if I can.

- meetu, a part of the audience

Comments (6)

Sumit:

A Must Add:

Contact Details for all and sundry involved in the making of the movie. Just in case the movie watching experience was so bad that we want to strangle/torture/bitch slap etc. the person responsible for it.

Case in point, the cinematographer for Sarkar Raj. Soft focus on the subject is part of the creative licence, out of focus is not. In the close up sequences, my eyes reflexively kept trying to focus on the screen. Now I know how my auto focus lenses feel.

posted 3 years, 10 months ago Sumit has posted 4 comments and has rated 0 movies. See Sumit's page for more details.

meetu:

ROFL!...and here i thought i was getting annoyed only as a lay person, who doesn't know the technicalities. Thanks for the hearty laugh, Sumit!

posted 3 years, 10 months ago

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Mayur:

I am not sure whether it conforms to the predefined scope of wogma or not, but can we have reviews for international cinema ?
In addition to that can we have short reviews or just ratings for older movies which were released before wogma, so that people ll be able to refer those for their DVD options.(I know this is a long process, but juz an idea)

posted 3 years, 10 months ago Mayur has posted 38 comments and has rated 0 movies. See Mayur's page for more details.

meetu:

Hey Mayur, i'd love to have reviews of international cinema. i've approached a few friends to do them, but time is the contraining factor.

Unfortunately, i'm not sure if i should be doing them myself. i haven't watched enough world cinema to be able to comment on it. i know, i try to keep history of movie-makers behind while reviewing a movie, but it does form a context at the back of my mind. Let's just say, i'm not confident enough to comment on a Majid Majidi or an Almodovar.

I've done a couple of video reviews when there were no new releases in a week. But, wouldn't want to do it in weeks that have a release, only because i think too much reviewing will wear me out. There is a thing like too much negativity, considering that I don't like more than 50% of what I watch.

I sort-of avoid quick reviews, because i think the reader is entitled to a "why?" behind the "awesome/awful" adjectives. Because what i find awesome might be awful for the reader and vice versa. The point being, if the reader knows why, he/she can decide whether that's a deciding factor for them.

But, since you are suggesting so, I assume there might be other people who'd be interested in such short reviews. Maybe, i can conduct a poll. Maybe people are not interested in the "why?". Maybe I can just to rating reviews for 5 movies a week that i have already seen. What do you think?

Thanks for the suggestions, Mayur.

posted 3 years, 10 months ago

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Mayur:

Well personally I don't think once movie gets released, it belongs to one Haneke or Polanski(I used my favorite directors, sorry for tht :) ) but it belongs to you and me, viewers like us. When i watch movie, its my movie. So u don't ve to worry about the creators and creation process of cinema. I think you would be a perfect judge for any cinema(whether local or foreign). There are two reasons for that, first, your opinions are honest(giving poor ratings to Black Friday is no joke, i must admit its one of my favorites) and second, u almost never get carried away. And anyways a good movie is a good movie, whether directed by David Dhawan or Bergman, and vice versa.(people might thrash me for using these two in the same stmt :)) Anyways this is what i feel so you can choose to ignore it.
About the ratings/short reviews : I think "why" is always better than "what". Atleast people ll ve idea about some good movies which they missed.
About negativity factor, instead of providing short reviews for all the movies you tolerated, you can juz maintain one "favorites list". So that it would be an acknowledgment for good movies and nothing else.(lot of negativity can be balanced here :))

posted 3 years, 10 months ago Mayur has posted 38 comments and has rated 0 movies. See Mayur's page for more details.

meetu:

In the spirit of honesty, Mayur, I must admit that I did get carried away by your appreciation of the reviews here :) The bubble broke as soon as I remembered the people who hate me for not liking "Jaane tu..." enough.

I really like the idea of having more reviews on here. I can just add to the rating by genre table and have a weekly post with latest updates. I'll have to work around the logistics of doing that. I've always wanted 'Sholay' and 'Chupke Chupke' to know that I love them. Thanks for pushing me to think about this.

posted 3 years, 10 months ago