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• RE: Them ratings - RGA 20:39:51 02/02/11 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Them ratings posted by Victor Khomenko on February 02, 2011 at 07:59:27

  Hey not everyone is going to like every movie that some people consider great films. Citizen Kane is often rated as the best film ever made and I just can't see why. It was good but I would not place it in the best of anything list. I have seen it several times and maybe one day it will click.
  
  I watched A Clockwork Orange and shut it off it was so bad. Then I made myself watch it again all the way through the next day and it clicked and it still remains one of my favorite all time movies. Perhaps the reviewer needs to see it again or he/she was in a bad mood when he watched it.
  
  Conversely, some movies get overrated when the expectations are very low. When you expect it to be terrible and it winds up being somewhat mediocre it may be rated as "good" rather than mediocre. Take Transformers - I was expecting it to be the worst move ever made - Hollywood crap etc. And yet I walked out of the theater somewhat grinning. So I thought - gee that was pretty good. Then it came out on DVD and I thought - hey I could watch that again. WRONG! Dreadful waste of time. But at the time I first saw it - for whatever reason it was a bit of guilty pleasure hoot. Second time around it was banal drivel - so I traded the DVD in to get some vinyl.
  
  
  
  

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• I just bought Leonard Maltin's 2011 movie guide and it's got some shockers - Doug Flynn 12:23:45 02/02/11 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Them ratings posted by Victor Khomenko on February 02, 2011 at 07:59:27

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• Audiences' tastes... - mkuller 11:00:15 02/02/11 (3)
  In Reply to: RE: Them ratings posted by Victor Khomenko on February 02, 2011 at 07:59:27

  ..."No one went broke underestimating the public's taste." P. T. Barnum
  
  Just take a look at the movie listing at your local multiplex.
  

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  • Adam Sandler - manerac 13:39:59 02/02/11 (2)
    In Reply to: RE: Audiences' tastes... posted by mkuller on February 02, 2011 at 11:00:15

    Total lifetime gross on his movies = $1.8 BILLION.

    Gotta love "Shakes the Clown" at the bottom of the list at $115,000 total gross, and also the only one I might want to see again.

    http://boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=adamsandler.htm
    

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    • Wow! I know I spent at least $30 on "Shakes"... $ well spent...N/T - musetap 15:14:14 02/02/11 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Adam Sandler posted by manerac on February 02, 2011 at 13:39:59

      N/T
      " Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
      
      

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    • Loved it. * - mr grits 14:37:58 02/02/11 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Adam Sandler posted by manerac on February 02, 2011 at 13:39:59

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• Have you seen studies of American's knowledge of evolution, the high belief - tinear 09:01:31 02/02/11 (4)
  In Reply to: RE: Them ratings posted by Victor Khomenko on February 02, 2011 at 07:59:27

  in angels, the sheer inability to point out their own nation's capitol on a map?
  It's a little amazing they even watch Kubrick!
  

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  • Evolution is taught in public schools... nuff said. - Victor Khomenko 15:32:13 02/03/11 (2)
    In Reply to: RE: Have you seen studies of American's knowledge of evolution, the high belief posted by tinear on February 02, 2011 at 09:01:31

    Equivalent of hot dogs for food.
    

    
    
    
    

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    • Evolution is fact. Ever heard of dog breeding? How about fruit fly experiments? Birds with wings - tinear 16:19:22 02/03/11 (1)
      In Reply to: RE: Evolution is taught in public schools... nuff said. posted by Victor Khomenko on February 03, 2011 at 15:32:13

      that cannot fly? Bird wings with skeletal fingers?
      You may as well doubt atomic structure. "Electricity is a theory," Victor said shortly before jamming his screw driver into an electric socket and immediately bursting into flame.
      

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      • "Evolution is fact. " LOL! If you say so... nt - Victor Khomenko 17:04:21 02/03/11 (0)
        In Reply to: RE: Evolution is fact. Ever heard of dog breeding? How about fruit fly experiments? Birds with wings posted by tinear on February 03, 2011 at 16:19:22

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  • Bingo! - C.B. 13:30:48 02/03/11 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: Have you seen studies of American's knowledge of evolution, the high belief posted by tinear on February 02, 2011 at 09:01:31

    What, you mean the California Angels don't exist any more?
    "You weren't afraid of being born--why would you be afraid of dying?" Alan Watts
    
    

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• I'd forget Netflix ratings & consider IMDB - David S. 08:46:21 02/02/11 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Them ratings posted by Victor Khomenko on February 02, 2011 at 07:59:27

  At IMDB, A Clockwork Orange holds an 8.5 out of 10 star rating, while Kramer vs Kramer sits at 7.7.
  
  
  

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• RE: Them ratings - violinist3 08:13:18 02/02/11 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Them ratings posted by Victor Khomenko on February 02, 2011 at 07:59:27

  On my netflix account they use a rating system based on my own ratings.It's sort of a computer program that figures out what I like based on the movies i've watched and rated. I would rather that they base the ratings on public opinion.
  

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