When Jim showed me the light and I finally closed my boards, there was one thing that kind of bugged me; different people had written a shitload of movie reviews in one of the threads called “Movie Suggestions.” I always liked reading other people’s reviews, and I definitely want to hear more about other people’s opinions on films. (I used to not care so much, now, with the amount of shit being published, more and more I find reviews to be a handy way to filter the cream from the crap.)
So, I made a little movie review section on my website. It’s a little crude, as it is, but I hope people will take a look at it and give me some useful suggestions. You can find it here.
One of the things I need to do is change the star-graphics on the ratings-system, since I stole the graphics from another website, and I’m sure they’re going to be none too happy about it. I also need to make it possible to add comments to the reviews, in the same way you can do that with my journal entries. That requires me to make a generic table for all kinds of posts, like I already did in the Shadowrun section of my website. Another thing I need to do is modify the scripts I made to auto-generate the webforms, to accept a label, other than the database name, which is particularly ugly in the section where you can submit a new movie to the collection of movies you can add reviews to. All that in due time. I’m happy with it as it is, since it kind of pushed me to make the webform scripts more sophisticated and versatile.
