From [email protected] Tue Aug 15 18:57:56 EDT 1995 Article: 72282 of alt.sex.movies Path: news.eznet.net!news.sprintlink.net!mhv.net!news.westnet.com!news1.exit109.com!news.net99.net!news.fc.net!paranoia.com!imp From: [email protected] (Imperator) Newsgroups: alt.sex.movies Subject: Re: review: Arrowhead (plus a lot of weird imperial bureaucracy) Date: 15 Aug 1995 16:06:56 GMT Organization: Overcome by Paranoia Lines: 114 Message-ID: <[email protected]> NNTP-Posting-Host: primus.paranoia.com Status: RO [email protected] (Frans Postma) responded to one of my responses :-) [snip] >> Note for those not following the Private series closely: >> "Arrowhead" is the #24 of the Private Film series ("The >> Tower 3" was #23). > > And #25 just arrived (_Apoclypse Climax_) with Melissa Hill, yeah! Is that a sequel to "Arrowhead"? (i.e. are the crew the same idiots?). [snip] >>> Rating: 3.20 >> >> You are too lenient. Rating: 1.85. All the marks are due to > > Hmmm, that would make it not worth a rental and you would miss all > those nice girls. Didn't you think it was worth a rental? It's not a > movie you'll see again-and-again all right, I agree on that. > > (this also proves that you should not review movies immediatly after > you saw them, I'll try to remember that) You are right on both counts. Of course, this was not a review and it WAS right after I watched thre movie (I always wait for a few days before I start compiling the reviews to ensure objectivity (yeah, right! :-)). I'll revise the rating to 2.00 i.e. bordering between: "Sucks as much as the average American rental" and "Rent only if you are really, REALLY fond of the gals in the cast, AND you have cash to burn" Speaking of the ratings I have decided to make the following clarification to the Imperial system that has always been at the back of my mind: 0.00-1.00 are the really vile crap. The some total of Leisure Time falls here as do the excessively botched "normal efforts" (Ninn, Nymphette does Hollywood). You should consider yourselves real experts if you only suffer one or two tapes of this range every year. 1.00 is the rating of the average 90s one-day wonder cheapo with 4 ordinary (i.e. no outdoors, no 3somes, no raunch) b-g's and 1 g-g. The range 1.00-2.00 should NEVER be rented knowingly, but you are bound to be trapped (usually due to the boxcover) many times in your renting career. 2.00 is the rating of: (a) the average 90s rental with some aspirations that fell through, OR (b) the average Silver Age (1984-1988) one day wonder. Usually, 2.00's of type (a) have tremendous casts and tremendous waste of resources and so are annoying. B-type 2.00s are usually enjoyable and quite honest. The range 2.00-2.50 is already described. 3.00 is the rating of the average Golden Age film that does not fall in the masterpiece >3.35 category. A good example of this type is a non-Swedish Erotica Seka flick. The average decent budget Euro, or the average extreme raunch Euro is also a 3.00 A note on the Ages according to Me. Note that like all historical divisions these are approximate :-). -The Golden Age is 1976-1984. I have slightly extended it from the traditional 1977-1982 to include "Misty B." and the many excellent movies of 1984. The Golden Age ends with the retirement of Annie and the rise of Ginger (not that it was Ginger's fault of course :-)). The fringe period is great fun, since it includes the first Angel&Ginger flicks and Bridgette Monet. -The Silver Age (my real sentimental favourite) should strictly be 1984-1986, i.e. up to the retirement of Ginger and Traci, but 1987-1989 had many nice movies with essentially the same stars as 1984-1986, so I'll include 1988. -The period 1988-1995 can be divided and named in many ways. A friend calls it the Cheapskate Age or the Crap Age, but it is innaccurate since it ignores Leslie&Stagliano. The term "Silicone Age" only applies to post 1992 IMHO. The term Neon or Pretentious Age for 1989-1992 does include most of Blake, but it really disregards the rest of the crap... I mean the material :-). So, my opinion is that the traditional apellation of "Iron age" is the best and safest. Ok, now I got going with my bureaucratic pronouncements, let me go a bit further :-) In the matter of Silly Cones, there can be only 5 PGALW (Personality Goes A Long Way) Pardons at any time. Mine of course, being Imperial, have more weight than those of you mere mortals :-). In any case, I would be interested to hear yours. Note that these are PERSONALITY pardons, not "She makes me horny, so we'll forgive her" ones :-). That means Raven does not qualify, nor does Victoria P. Mine are: -Ashlyn -Nina -Crystal W. -(tentative) Juli A. Juli is only tentative because I realized that I have had an overdose of her and have got a bit sick of seeing her. Number 5 I keep as a trump card. Shane has a lot of personality (of the vacuous coed type -I love that) but a whole damn Imperial Pardon is a bit too much. Let her roast :-). Sandra Scream certainly shows that PGALW, but her boobjob is also very good so she really doesn't need a pardon. Leena has personality bu, though it has gone a long way, it has not gone ALL the way to forgive her terrible job. All right, batch run is over, so enough with the idle thoughts and schemes. Back to work. Imperator