Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: How I Rate Films Message-ID: <344@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 16:23:08 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.344 Posted: Wed Dec 19 16:23:08 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 02:24:55 EST References: <141@ahuta.UUCP> <6500036@hp-pcd.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 27 > 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". ... > 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 On the other hand, if one "self-proclaimed movie critic" called one of the most hysterical movies I had ever seen "a dog", I'd know better than to pay attention to his opinion. P.S. The scene in which Peter Cook explains why he became a coal miner instead of a judge is worth the price of admission. Seeing Cook and other ex-Fringers work with the Pythons is witnessing a great moment in comedic history. "AnyTHING goes in; anyTHING goes out; fish, bananas, old pajamas, mutton, beef, and trout..." -- "Those without forms must appear, however briefly, at the Bureau's Astral Offices on Nooker Street..." Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr