Out of 1O...how much does a Rating influence you?

Zero. It's interesting to look at. One of the first things I did when I found IMDb before I signed up was look at ratings. It was for fun, like guessing which had a higher rating, Fight Club or American History X. That kind of thing. It's interesting to get an idea for a ballpark, but a film would have to be pretty high or pretty low to be interesting. If a movie's trailer didn't even inspire me to give it a second though, but it has an 8 or higher on IMDb, that's oddly intriguing. Likewise if it looks like a Oscar bait and it's in the 5' or 6's. A different kind of truth is told about the movie then.

It's all subjective though. It's all just stuff to think about. If I look at a rating before I watch a movie, then I'll know if it's wrong or not. Ultimately, I don't rate movies with numbers and ratings like 3 stars or thumbs up mean nothing to me. Generally speaking, I'll trust people when they say a movie is good, but not when they say a movie is bad. If someone says it's not worth your time, watch it anyways. You don't want to miss what could be your favorite movie because some schmuck thinks it wasn't good. That'd be pretty dumb.