[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