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rick.ca:
--- Quote ---if you've never been in a top-rated movie can you be a top-rated actor? I think not.
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It might be possible to over-think this. ;)
A rating can mean different things. How good or successful or talented an actor is. How popular they are. How much I like them. But what I'm thinking about is some measure of how important information about them is—in the context of my movie collection. There are a number of different ways and reasons a person may be "important." There's no question Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are important—regardless of whether I like their work. But I already know more about them than I will ever need or care to know. On the other hand, there are character actors who have had 50-year careers and appear in 20 movies in my collection. And I know the name, but can't match it to their face. So in the context of my need for information, such a person is even more important. And their photo is critically important because it's what causes me to think, "Oh yeah, that guy." It's what gets me interested in the other information information, as in, "Where have I seen him before?"
I believe a rating that's based on an analysis of my collection might be very effective in helping focus on the hundreds of people I will find of interest—for a variety of reasons—while paying less attention to the thousands who are of little interest.
The only thing that concerns me is hot young actresses don't have the career record to warrant a high score. Maybe your script could give them bonus rating point for being on a "hot list." ;)
--- Quote ---Awards and Nominations? For me, the most.
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Yes, I suppose a script could count the number of entries with "won" and "nominated." Separately—a win is worth at least 10 times a nomination. Putting too much weight on this may unduly disadvantage those working in countries where there are fewer awards or for which award results are not posted. A Hollywood actor who does not have at least 100 nominations should probably be deleted from the database. :D
--- Quote ---Is it possible to change IMPAwards script...
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It's a plugin, so nostra would have to revise it to make this configurable. It would be nice if it were. I always choose the large poster if one is available.
buah:
--- Quote from: rick.ca on January 19, 2010, 02:14:38 pm ---... so nostra would have to revise it to make this configurable. It would be nice if it were. I always choose the large poster if one is available.
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What is seen it cannot be unseen. Will it be seen? ;)
deazo:
Hi Buah, thanks for your effort in this.
FYI, I tried your tool, and I get to the step of choosing the image, but once I click OK (the step when it should download and incorporate the image in the people info page), nothinf happens.
Have u seen that before?
mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
Awards would be a good rating scale, but I have reservations. Example, 1 academy award = how many golden globes or teen choices ? What if the award was for an album instead of a movie? Eccchh, way too much work. Even getting a list of the different awards would be ugly, let alone rating them.
There's also an issue with movie ratings...it's not reasonable to get at them.
- Imdb access for every movie in a filmography (in my case 3,000 X 54,000 = too big a number)
- There are no shared fields between movies and people, so script access would involve violating the scripting environment design. If it's even possible, Nostra would almost certainly plug the hole.
- dll is out. It's too much effort for me to install another compiler at this time, and it's unmaintainable if I'm not around.
- stand-alone app is too cumbersome.
- Imdb http://www.imdb.com/chart/ has some interesting stats that might be usable in place of movie rankings. 54,000 X 4 or 5 would be marginally OK.
- allmovie also has similar things for genre http://allmovie.com/explore/genre/horror-654
Anyway, it needs more thought.
mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
--- Quote from: deazo on January 19, 2010, 06:31:09 pm ---
Hi Buah, thanks for your effort in this.
FYI, I tried your tool, and I get to the step of choosing the image, but once I click OK (the step when it should download and incorporate the image in the people info page), nothinf happens.
Have u seen that before?
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Go to the TOOLS->PREFERENCES menu option. Select PLUGINS from the left-side column. On the right-side a list of available plug-ins will be displayed. Select ImdbImage. Under the list, a series of checkboxes will appear with the options for ImdbImage. Make sure PHOTO has a checkmark, and that SILENT MODE does not.
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