Can you compare TV Series with Movies?

Invidioso said:
I want a Boku No Pico Movie ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

H31NST31N said:
Can you compare TV Series with Movies?

Personally, I feel like I cannot rate movies and series on the same scale or list. I think that movies and TV series are very different; they have different budgets, different production, different target audiences and different messages and goals and are watched at a different pace with a different mindset. I have put off rating any movies on my list since it just doesn't feel right to compare them to series.

What do you guys think?

GlennMagusHarvey said:
I disagree, since I rate everything on how much I enjoyed/appreciated it personally.

For some videos that are very, very short, such as 15-second shorts (e.g. Kochin-Pa!) or several-minute music videos (e.g. Shelter), it may be difficult to really assess how much I enjoyed it, but in that case, if I just ask myself "did you enjoy it?", the answer might probably just be "meh", or I might not even have an answer in which case I simply don't bother rating it. I mean, I don't actually need to rate everything, do I? (Answer's no, in case it wasn't clear.)

Budgets and production processes don't affect my enjoyment (directly); I largely ignore information about them before I watch a thing.

Target audiences are also meaningless because the question I am asking is "how much did I enjoy it?", not "how much would someone else enjoy it?".

Similarly, the "messages" and "goals" and "pacing" are all according to my own experience of it, so there's no ambiguity wherein I might attempt to discern what others think of a work. In fact, not even what the creator(s) think of a work is important beyond just post-watch trivia.

I will say that I often find that movies are more capable than half-hour episodes of covering an in-depth story arc, but are less capable than a full series at presenting a setting and then telling a full-size story within it. In that sense I do have some bias toward two-cour series, but one-cour series don't really seem much different from a movie in terms of the kind of storytelling I can generally get from each.

As for the ratings themselves, I usually only rate stuff that I actually have a specific opinion on. For example, I don't have an opinion on Evangelion Death and Rebirth that's distinct from the TV series, so I just rated the TV series and not Death and Rebirth. On the other hand, I have a (rather strongly negative) opinion of End of Evangelion, so I rated that. If a movie forms part of a series I might also rate it the same as the rest of the series if all I have is one overall opinion rather than something distinct to each part; I've done this for multi-series/multi-season works.

H31NST31N said:


I agree, if you rate everything solely based on your own enjoyment of it, it makes things a lot easier. But I rate things according to the review guidelines, where enjoyment is but one of the criteria. So instead of rating how much I enjoyed something, I rate how good or bad I believe it was.

Because of this, I feel like I actually want two separate lists: one for anime series and one for movies - where I can fairly compare series with other series without the chance of any unfair comparisons.

GlennMagusHarvey said:
Well, how do you decide how "good or bad" you believe it was?

H31NST31N said:


Largely by the criteria given in the review guidelines. So I look at the plot, the characters (and their arcs), the animation, the music and sound as well as my enjoyment overall. I try to rate every criteria as objectively as possible, with the exception of enjoyment, of course.

That said, in some of these criteria, movies and series will be different; movies will mostly get much higher animation rating than series and series will mostly receive higher character rating (due to there being more time to spend on the characters, as mentioned). So I just feel like judging them by the same criteria at all times would be unfair.

GlennMagusHarvey said:
I understand that you say you're using the catrgories MAL provides in its review framework. I'm asking how you purport to rate "objectively" within those categories.

Based on what you've said so far, it seems your criteria for animation involve animation detail and/or fluidity (based on the presumption that movies likely have more budget to blow on the animation) and your criteria for characters involves fondness for rhe characters and/or level of detail in characterization (which would explain why spending more time with them would improve it).

(But that's because you value these things in your appreciation of the work, right? So that's why I question whether these are really separate from "enjoyment".)