Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp 1.2 08/01/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!bill From: bill@hp-pcd.UUCP (bill) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: How I Rate Films Message-ID: <6500036@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 20:52:00 EST Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.6500036 Posted: Mon Dec 17 20:52:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:18:13 EST References: <141@ahuta.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Corvallis, OR Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:ahuta:-14100:hp-pcd:6500036:000:1441 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 hplabs!hp-pcd!bill