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Audiences Give Remember the Titans the Highest Score of the Millennium!

Citations. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CinemaScore alternatives -- 93.107.205.166 (talk) 18:05, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A+ but not F?

Given that CinemaScores are biased in favor of films (early audiences tend to include a lot of fans of the stars/director/genre/franchise), an F score is more unlikely and -- IMO -- more noteworthy. The numbers bear this out: 19 F's vs. 77 A+'s.[1]

Is there a reason we haven't listed them? - SummerPhD^v2.0 23:40, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Of course: because it's hard work. With calm and a lot of trust. Mauro Lanari --82.84.17.33 (talk) 05:24, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of A+ films

@Nardog: I'm trying to say that, if the HTML5 of WP doesn't provide better solutions, we are forced to choose between the annoyance of some films whose title repeats and the impossibility to see how many times the filmmakers are on the list. And since an entire paragraph of the article is dedicated to this second aspect, it would no longer be verifiable. That's why IMHO so it's the lesser evil. But if the consensus decides otherwise, obviously that's fine. --Mauro Lanari 82.84.35.66 (talk) 09:26, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like saying the sorting feature is the only way to count directors. I don't understand your fixation on the directors. The list is clearly a list of films, not directors, nor are the directors necessarily defining factors of the A+ scores. Why not include distributors—since CinemaScore is often more indicative of how faithful the marketing for a film was than of the quality of the film—for example? Using rowspan just to split directors makes no sense to me. Nardog (talk) 06:04, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Several films in the 2010s are missing from the List of A+ Films, including: The Imitation Game, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, The Case for Christ, A Question of Faith, America: Imagine the World without Her, and Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos. Their scores are not publicly accessible on Cinemascore site, as with all movies that didn't get a wide enough release like Woodlawn and Peanut Butter Falcon, but you can find articles about them getting A+ scores. 137.189.74.205 (talk) 05:38, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In light of the article statement (now temporarily caveated) that smaller releases are not announced widely AND the above note that several films that look like objective outliers have scores that "are not publicly accessible," perhaps someone should prune the inaccessible from the mainstream? ntnon (talk) 04:56, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing Cinemascore

Not sure where else to put this but I've seen various references to CinemaScore and some of these citation were better than others. For more recent films it is relatively easy to find posts on the official CinemaScore Twitter feed and link to them. Deadline.com often publishes CinemaScore grades and sometimes includes other information about audience demographics and even scores from PostTrak so you can get a whole lot of good information from one single reference, if available this is usually the best option and many editors are already doing this.

Some references to Cinemascore simply link to the front page of the website ~~http://m.cinemascore.com~~ and empty search box and include a comment telling readers to type in the name of the film and search it, and this doesn't seem particularly helpful or the best way to do reference CinemaScore. I suggest linking to https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ which includes both a long alphabetical list of scores and also the search box.

The CinemaScore website change so you cannot access the long list of all ratings on a single page. The last good version of the CinemaScore long list was Archived May 2019 at the Web Archive and it can be useful if you want to reference scores from before 2019 but other better sources are not available. It is just a shame CinemaScore does not make it easy to reference their website directly instead. -- 109.76.154.21 (talk) 04:29, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I also have a question maybe someone can answer, I notice that the article List of Star Wars films links to CinemaScore but it does something more clever https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/c3RhciA= and when you click on this link you not only get search results but instead of the entire very long list you get a shorter more limited list. It seems like the list has been filtered base on the keyword "Star" thanks to that last bit of code in the search URL but I don't know how it works or how to create more links like that. If anyone knows how to craft these more specific URLs please do explain how to make them, so that maybe we can give readers and editors more useful and relevant links, and not an empty search box or a very long list. Again though I recommend linking to Deadline.com when referencing CinemaScore. -- 109.76.158.242 (talk) 13:51, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

When searching on Cinemascore, after typing a few letters (e.g. STAR) the box shows some suggestions, and below that there is a link "View Full List" and you can copy that link, to get a page of short page of results including the search terms. (Other examples: Alien, Black, Jack, Spider, Tyler.) -- 109.79.91.135 (talk) 15:45, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

They've changed their website so this no longer works. They still fail to provide any useful way to link results on their website beside the empty search box on the front page, so again your best bet is to instead reference sites such as Deadline.com (to a lesser sites such as The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, or Box Office Mojo sometimes have articles that include CinemaScore grades). -- 109.78.248.150 (talk) 20:31, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

An archived discussion about linking to CinemaScore. -- 109.79.168.251 (talk) 14:02, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There was a discussion[2] about deleting the template {{Cite CinemaScore}} and that discussion reiterated the importance of linking to other better sources rather than an empty search box on the CinemaScore website. -- 109.79.64.54 (talk) 02:32, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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