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From: bill@hp-pcd.UUCP (bill)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: How I Rate Films
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Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 20:52:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 17 20:52:00 1984
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Nf-From: hp-pcd!bill    Dec 12 17:52:00 1984

I don't know about other people, but I tend to get tired of reading
overly critical and analytical movie reviews written by apparently
self-proclaimed movie "critics".  Personally, when I go to see a 
movie I usually go for enjoyment, not just to be able to say I saw
it and proceed to fling around an opinionated critique along with
my own biased "rating" system.  Personally, I liked "Terminator".
The person I saw it with liked it.  The last three people I talked 
to who had seen it also liked it.  Even the local newspaper's movie
"critic" had nothing bad to say about it.

I guess you have to take most of the reviews and rating systems you see
on the net with a grain of salt.  They best way to determine whether
or not you'll like a movie is to go see it, not just take someone
else's (opinionated) word for it that the movie is a "dog"; don't
believe everything you read.

A few years back I saw "Monty Python Meets Beyond The Fringe", a film
which *in my opinion* would, on a scale of 0 to 10, need a periscope
to see -100.  Less than 20 minutes into the movie about two-thirds
of the audience had walked out.  I suppose here most people would
call that movie a dog; but then, there WERE a few people who sat 
through the whole thing and seemed to like it.  If one of them had
been a "critic" and proceeded to tell everybody that it was a truly
great film, would you believe them?  To each his own.

Bill Frolik
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