[ivank]

http://criticker.com/ is a good alternative. For each movie, it shows you ratings from users sorted by their rating-similarity to you. I've found it really helpful to see all the ratings in addition to getting a predicted rating. I often use the individual ratings to figure out whether a movie is in the cluster of what people-like-me watch, and also to see whether opinion is unanimous or divisive.

[amazon_not]

It might be great, but personally I don't like the UI. The throwback layout, poor spacing and positioning spiced with non-relevant and distracting ads just put me off. But then again that's just me, I bet somebody loves it.

I do however take issue with numerical scoring that is then changed to a value based word score upon submission. People are notoriously bad at scoring things on a 0-100 scale. It also begs the question why there is 0-100 scale when a non-disclosed word score is applied anyway.

The final nail in the coffin was that they lost my activation email and won't let me in without it. To add insult to injury there isn't an option to resend the email. The only way to proceed is to email support and wait upon their indulgence.

NEXT!

[ivank]

Yes, it's imperfect and a little ugly.

> then changed to a value based word score upon submission

Your numerical score is still there. You can pretty much totally ignore the descriptors and think of the tiers T1-T10 as percentiles.

> begs the question why there is 0-100 scale

This lets you rate to any granularity you like to precisely order your movies. After you have a large number of rated movies, you might want to tweak the scores to bump a movie into a higher or lower tier.

Also, if you already have ratings in imdb, you can import them with http://www.criticker.com/?im