I like the concept, but the site design is really over the top for something that should ideally be very minimal. An entire screen of real estate barely holds 3 "one sentence reviews".
Great idea, this is typically how people review films and albums to their friends - a short sentence. It will be interesting to see how it develops with more content.<p>The short sentence format sounds compatible with some sort of Twitter interaction. Have you considered allowing users to tweet their review and use a hash tag to reference your site and the film in question? Or have it the other way round - they can sign in with their Twitter account (or use OAuth) and their review gets tweeted. Those are just quick ideas - there must be something that can be done in this space.
This site reminds of MG Siegler's (the TC writer) site Reviews in Haiku: <a href="http://reviewinhaiku.com/" rel="nofollow">http://reviewinhaiku.com/</a><p>While I like the idea of your site, I think the minimalist approach of Reviews in Haiku is ideal for micro-reviews. I was a little distracted by everything on your site.<p>Good luck!
If your goal for now is to let us give you feedback, you should put in some reviews for movies that everyone has seen.<p>I haven't seen those three movies, which makes it harder for me to gauge whether the reviews are any good.<p>On the other hand, some of the music reviews are transparently bad.<p>I'm not sure if the ratings apply to the movies, or to the reviews. And since the people doing the rating are probably also not sure, that makes the ratings less useful.<p>Will you have the ability for multiple users to compete to provide different reviews, which then are ranked as they (the reviews, not the items being reviewed) get rated by the community?<p>I could see this evolving into a cool resource, but it's hard to tell from what you've got so far.
Heh, it's a decent concept, but this site, however, is essentially MetaCritic with less staff.<p>I actually have a regular feature on my blog (<a href="http://shortformblog.com/" rel="nofollow">http://shortformblog.com/</a>) that's got some stuff in common with this. I call it "One-Word Album Reviews."<p>Here are a few samples:<p><a href="http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-we-forgot-the-mainstream-bands-this-week" rel="nofollow">http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-we-for...</a><p><a href="http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-now-we-do-them-when-we-feel-like-it" rel="nofollow">http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-now-we...</a><p><a href="http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-no-vampire-weekend-sophomore-slump" rel="nofollow">http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-no-vam...</a>
Way too complex landing page.<p>It's like shopping in a grocery store. If you present them with 25 different types of strawberry jam, they become less likely to buy any at all. Because the mental cost of weighing options to make a decision outweighs the expected value.<p>Same goes for employee savings plans. Employees given too many options for saving plans become less likely to choose a plan at all.<p>View your user interface as a decision tree. At each level, don't make me decide between more than 5 elements at a time.<p>Using this logic, I would chunk your Recent Movie Reviews and Recent Music Reviews into one Recent Reviews element to reduce complexity, to move decisions to a lower tree.<p>But make sure they don't keep deciding between Music\Movies in a bunch of child nodes, they should only make that decision once: Do-No-Repeat yourself philosophy.
I'd drop the description on the Music/Movies overview page and add a recent/popular review. get the content of the site one step closer. when the user drills in then give them the description/synopsis.<p>Have faith in your content! Thats why you want people to visit.
Those feature sentences are so complex that I would have less trouble scanning the information out of a paragraph of easy english.<p>I love the idea though!
Great idea.<p>But: what I see there are not reviews, they're summaries. One-sentence reviews would be great, but a review should help me decide if I should see the movie, not summarize the plot. "Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day." is not useful to me at all.
Very slick. I only ever read one sentence (from Rotten Tomatoes) anyway, so this fits my usage pattern for reviews.<p>Are you planning to harvest tweets and other social media to help beef up your review base?<p>I've bookmarked your site for next time I look up film reviews.
Is this the site you were asking about in <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=622042" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=622042</a><p>What did you choose ?
it's a bit like <a href="http://blippr.com" rel="nofollow">http://blippr.com</a> but no reason there can't be two (or three) similar.<p>I like the layout, and colours, looks easier to find media than Blippr. Good luck.
I agree that the design is a bit overdone, but I don't think it's too bad.<p>The most annoying thing to me is that several of the snippets are more than one sentence long. :(