Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Star Wars Mania

Episode 3 opens at midnight tonight here in the Windy City. A co-worker of mine has tickets for the 4:30 AM showing. I'm only worried because Michael Wilmington at the Tribune gave it 4 stars. I tend not to agree with his reviews.

I suppose that stars are particularly appropriate for rating this movie.

I have a friend whose favorite movie is Jaws. He rates moves on a JAWS scale. A one-star movie is a J movie. A two-star movie is a JA movie. You get the idea. A truly excellent movies is a JAWS movie. There has only been one such movie, according to him, and that is Jaws itself.

I find numeric ratings
Vaguely grating.
Does ranking movies as trash or treasure
Really require cardinal measures?

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