Ice Cubes In My Coffee rates films using coffee cups. Not stars, not thumbs… coffee cups… FILLED coffee cups. Because there is nothing I like better than 5 filled, hot cups of coffee. And you know what I hate? You guessed it… NO cups of coffee! So here is a little guide to the ICIMC rating system so you have a better sense of how these movies stack up.
5 cups:
5 cups means this movie was damn near perfect. I loved it and think everyone should see it immediately. Honestly there are not a lot of 5-cuppers out there. I reserve it for the best of the best.
Example: The Matrix
4 cups:
4 cups means this movie was really good. Not perfect, not earth-shaking, but really good. Definitely check it out if you want a good movie to watch. There are a lot of 4 cup movies in my list because there are a lot of movies I like that I’ve included here. But I just don’t like them enough to consider them damn-near perfect and worthy of 5 cups. So most only get this far.
Example: Batman Begins
3 cups:
3 cups is kind of like “whatever.” It wasn’t great but it wasn’t horrible either. It was just kind of okay. You could do worse but I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch it if I were you. This category is filled with films I just didn’t really feel much about either way - good or bad. Whatever.
Example: 30 Days of Night
2 cups:
2 cups is not good. While not altogether horrible, it is definitely flawed and I wouldn’t recommend it. You should probably grab something else instead and save yourself the trouble.
Example: Resident Evil: Extinction
1 cup:
1 cup is bad, in case you hadn’t guessed. A one cup movie pretty much sucks and you should not watch it.
Example: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
0 cups:
0 cups means “Holy-mother-of-pearl was that a TERRIBLE movie!! How in the blue blazes did that even get made!!??”. This rating is reserved for the worst of the worst. Not only should you not see it, you should be angry it even exists! It’s appalling that film makers and writers with talent and skill get turned away or shut down while crap like this makes it out into the movieplexes to poison our minds and dumb us down into numb oblivion. 0 cup movies are insulting to any person with a thought in their head.
Example: Good Luck Chuck
