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.
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.
Definitely. It's already possible to tweet a review by hovering over it. This should display a few different ways of sharing it. If you select twitter then it will shorten the permalink to the review, add a #onesentencereview hashtag and populate the status with as much of the review comment as can fit in the remaining space.
I have certainly thought of reversing this this by checking for the #onesentencereview hashtag and populating the review that way. Might be a cool weekend project for me to do while watching the Oscars.
I really like this idea. You can allow A LOT more people to sign in and interact (without directly signing up with you) if you let them use the site with their Twitter.
My wife "reviews" movies in a different fashion, and as a loving husband, I've learned to adjust.
Me: What's the movie about?
Her: It's starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
Me: Oh, who's in it?
Her: It's about them having to crack the code to some....
Anyways. I've learned to ask "Who's in it?" first. And it works like a charm.
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.