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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: How I Rate Films
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 16:23:08 EST
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> 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