Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!druxo!knf From: knf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: NEW (possibly) way of rating movies Message-ID: <1039@druxo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 17:45:18 EST Article-I.D.: druxo.1039 Posted: Fri Nov 1 17:45:18 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:54:26 EST References: <61@birtch.UUCP>, <1362@mtgzz.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 33 >The nice thing about the -4 to +4 scale (or the 1 to 10 scale, for that matter) >is that it is not tied to some unit of measure (how many miles you'd drive, how >much you'd pay, etc.). This makes it: > 1) more durable (a $5 movie in 1934 would be very different from a $5 > movie today) > 2) more versatile (you can apply it to movies, books, TV shows, etc.) > 3) more objective (Scrooge, as Mark pointed out, is probably a lot > stingier than most people, so his ratings would be influenced > by that) > > Evelyn C. Leeper > ...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl How about a conversion scale: +4) Name your price. $6.00, plus an two hour drive to the theater. +3) $5.50 First run city. +2) $4.00 See it at the Mann Centiplex. +1) $2.00 See the matinee, or rent it. 0) $1.00 Wait for it to show on campus, or at the buck movie house. -1) $0.00 See it on cable -2) $0.00 See it on cable when its the only thing on other than Dick Clark's Celebrity Bloops and Blunders. -3) $0.00 Use it as background noise when you're doing the dishes. -4)-$5.00 You pay me. OK? Is every body happy now? '`'`` Ken '`'`'