If you have no interest or patience for statistics, please skip to the final paragraph of this comment. After a careful study of voting patterns for about 1,000 movies rated on this site, I noticed at least three virtually unique facts about the moviegoer rating stats posted under the "User Rating" heading for Yellow (which was summarized as 4.4 out of 10 as of 3-3-08):
1)There are WAY too many ratings in the "2" category, usually one of the least used (even for crappy flicks). Here it is 20.3 per cent, about the same as the number of "10" ratings, and about DOUBLE the number of "1" ratings. With other movies "bad" enough to score higher than 10 per cent in the "2" category, there's pretty much always 30 per cent plus in the "1" category. Obviously, somebody with too much time on their hands tried to beat the system of weighting out the often political preponderance of "10" and "1" ratings by stuffing the ballot box with "2" ratings.
2)This person, who probably supplied more than half of the "2" ratings, tried to duck under the radar by not making a pretense of justifying their possibly nefarious motives. The only user comments as of 3-3-08 were from people who rated the movie "6," "7," "8," and "10." If someone honestly hated this film enough to record three dozen negative votes, why not submit at least one negative comment, unless there were underlying financial incentives or hate-crime type racial or misogynist motives?
3)Even though Yellow is the type of movie (ethnic, arty and potentially titillating) which normally attracts participation upwards of 20 per cent from "Top 1000 voters," this group has submitted only 8.3 per cent of the vote as of 3-3-08: more evidence of a ballot box stuffed with bogus votes.
Roselyn Sanchez gave her all for this film, as she recounts in the DVD extra "Roselyn Sanchez on Yellow." She says she worked out with a trainer eight hours daily in her native Puerto Rico before filming began, "because I wanted to look shredded when I was naked." Her nude scene in the movie is extremely minimal, even compared to Demi Moore's in STRIPTEASE. Quoting Ms. Sanchez, "this is a dance movie with a lot of heart . . . something I created for me as a vehicle to show I can dance." She lost 12 pounds in training, and had to endure cortisone shots to complete filming after injuring her shoulder. This kind of "sisu" prompted me to rate it 7 out of 10, despite the lack of credibility given the scarcity of her bona fide stripping. (For those without time to view the 18 deleted scenes totalling 28:59 minutes on the DVD, the main affect of the deletions on the substance of the film was that the back-story on protagonist Amaryllis Campos' (Sanchez) mentally scarred New York City neighbor, the poet Miles Emory (Bill Duke in a flashy performance) was sharply trimmed. Obviously, this production is lazily patterned as a Puerto Rican FLASHDANCE in some respects, but without the scenery of downtown Pittsburgh, a credible love interest for Amaryllis (the one she has here is really creepy, and feels like it was scripted in at the last minute as an afterthought), and the picturesque welding scenes, it is unlikely to be as memorable for the general audience decades from now as its predecessor is today.
1)There are WAY too many ratings in the "2" category, usually one of the least used (even for crappy flicks). Here it is 20.3 per cent, about the same as the number of "10" ratings, and about DOUBLE the number of "1" ratings. With other movies "bad" enough to score higher than 10 per cent in the "2" category, there's pretty much always 30 per cent plus in the "1" category. Obviously, somebody with too much time on their hands tried to beat the system of weighting out the often political preponderance of "10" and "1" ratings by stuffing the ballot box with "2" ratings.
2)This person, who probably supplied more than half of the "2" ratings, tried to duck under the radar by not making a pretense of justifying their possibly nefarious motives. The only user comments as of 3-3-08 were from people who rated the movie "6," "7," "8," and "10." If someone honestly hated this film enough to record three dozen negative votes, why not submit at least one negative comment, unless there were underlying financial incentives or hate-crime type racial or misogynist motives?
3)Even though Yellow is the type of movie (ethnic, arty and potentially titillating) which normally attracts participation upwards of 20 per cent from "Top 1000 voters," this group has submitted only 8.3 per cent of the vote as of 3-3-08: more evidence of a ballot box stuffed with bogus votes.
Roselyn Sanchez gave her all for this film, as she recounts in the DVD extra "Roselyn Sanchez on Yellow." She says she worked out with a trainer eight hours daily in her native Puerto Rico before filming began, "because I wanted to look shredded when I was naked." Her nude scene in the movie is extremely minimal, even compared to Demi Moore's in STRIPTEASE. Quoting Ms. Sanchez, "this is a dance movie with a lot of heart . . . something I created for me as a vehicle to show I can dance." She lost 12 pounds in training, and had to endure cortisone shots to complete filming after injuring her shoulder. This kind of "sisu" prompted me to rate it 7 out of 10, despite the lack of credibility given the scarcity of her bona fide stripping. (For those without time to view the 18 deleted scenes totalling 28:59 minutes on the DVD, the main affect of the deletions on the substance of the film was that the back-story on protagonist Amaryllis Campos' (Sanchez) mentally scarred New York City neighbor, the poet Miles Emory (Bill Duke in a flashy performance) was sharply trimmed. Obviously, this production is lazily patterned as a Puerto Rican FLASHDANCE in some respects, but without the scenery of downtown Pittsburgh, a credible love interest for Amaryllis (the one she has here is really creepy, and feels like it was scripted in at the last minute as an afterthought), and the picturesque welding scenes, it is unlikely to be as memorable for the general audience decades from now as its predecessor is today.