any which way but loose is a 2 star movie in my system.
only good while high

Here's my scale:

0 - Watching may causes cancer
1 - Awful
2 - Very bad
3 - Bad
4 - Below average
5 - Average
6 - Pretty good
7 - Good
8 - Really good
9 - Great!
10 - Perfect

What would you rate THE ROOKIE?

That's a solid 3 (on your system) to me.

But a 7 on my system.

I never saw the rookie!

hey atsonic, can you rattle off a few of your movie 10's?

I used to like the reviews set-up in the UK film mag "Shock Xpress" - they'd have a review rounnd-up (giving each film a rating of 0-5 from each SX writer), then each SX staffer would have a bunch of films to review themselves. Needless to say, the negative reviews were usually the funniest (Troma films were given regular shoeings, as I recall, but my own favourite was for "Godzilla 1985", where the publisher gave it a thumbs up, whilst the editor said something alone the lines of "20 minutes of inept hilarity, followed by 70 minutes of sheer boredom". Eeh, them were the days...

casino, taxi driver, el topo, se7en, holy mountain, once upon a time in the west (though I think I gave it a 9, it's probably worth a 10), the dead zone, tetsuo: the iron man, reservoir dogs (I'd probably give Pulp Fiction a 9), videodrome, shawshank redemtpion (even though I never want to watch it again, I can't deny that it's perfect).. uhhh...

I dunno. Not many really... Just films that 100% accomplish what they set out to do without losing their entertainment value.. films that can be re-watched constantly and you always catch new details.. etc.

Troma has probably released more great films than any film studio in history.. followed closely by Anchor Bay.

i'd give that a 4 cos i "really liked it" though one must admit it has flaws & cheeze-- call me lowbrow.

it has to be hilarious when stoned, I agree with that.

i was 12 i think-- the same as stoned i guess?

Here's my scale of 0-10 using films as a reference, a la Rob Instigator:

0 - "Soul Man" (a film so painfully bad it defies any rational analysis)
1 - "Bloodsucking Freaks" (offensively rubbish, misogynist and thoroughly inept drivel)
2 - "Gangs Of New York" - only gets a 2 for Daniel Day Lewis, because otherwise this is one shitfest of a film, man.
3 - "Desperados" - should be a good film, is fairly boring, and loses major point for Quentin Tarantino's shocking acting.
4 - "Anthropophagous" - a very boring film, but with some great/funny splatter scenes, and it has a certain inept charm to it.
5 - "Requiem For A Dream" - misfires on quite a few levels, but the set pieces are astonishingly sleazy. It at least captures some of the essence of the book as well.
6 - "Weekend" - heralded the start of Jean-Luc Godard's boring period, but nonetheless has some great performances and scenes which stand out.
7 - "Throne Of Blood" - Kurosawa's fine retelling of "Macbeth", with a bravura performance from Tonishiro Minfune.
8 - "Female Trouble" - When it comes to picking the best of John Waters, it feels like to me trying to pick your favourite kid. However, I do have a real fondness for this trash epic, and Edith Massey also steals the show from Divine in places. Julien Temple "borrowed" one of the last scenes of this opus when directing the Sid Vicious "My Way" video.
9 - "Texas Chainsaw Masacre" - Still my favourite horror film of all time. It's relative lack of gore is more than made up for in atmosphere, pacing, ane tension. The last 20 minutes of this film are arguably the most terrifying in post-war cinematic history.
10 - "Aguirre, Wrath Of God" - One of Werner Herzog's masterpieces, with a stunning and iconoclastic performance from Klaus Kinski. If nothing else, the photography is nothing short of heavenly in places.

see if i was a point-scoring guy i'd break down into categories & assign 1-5 points to things such as:

cinematography
art direction
acting
screenplay
editing

say those categories add up to 25 points. but they you could do other categories right? like music/soundtrack, or audio editing, and special effects (and all that crap that makes up the oscar)

and sometimes a great story overwhelms shit like bad acting & low production values.

so ultimately for me the numbers are incomprehensible & the only thing i can say is "that shit SUCKED" or "best fucking movie EVERRRRR".

i think numbers are a tool of the illuminati :D

I'd give Bloodsucking Freaks a 5, it's hilarious... but the rest of what you said is true.

Love Ralphus.. and the music in it is amazing.

haha I gave it a 10 above.

If you want it really badly but don't want to pay a lot for it, it's on vhs on amazon for probably a penny or something. The VHS is cool, it comes in a holographic case with the music based short DRUMSTRUCK at the end...

I think the DVD may be out of print...

An amazing film, a total work of genius.

:)

I'd also reccomend Pinnochio 964, Rubber's Lover, Death Powder, Tokyo Fist, Tetsuo 2, Wild Zero, and Electric Dragon 80000v if you end up liking Tetsuo.

Yeah, it's funny that all my other film loving friends find it quite entertaining. Then again, I love "The Wizard Of Gore" (which "B.S. Freaks" borrowed very heavily from), and a lot of them find it as boring as fuck. So what do I know?!

yeah the imagination totally unleashed

16mm b/w film transferred to 35 for distribution looks awesome

oh wizard of gore is amazing.

I love the weird editing in that and how the audience is always the same people. As far as H.G. Lewis goes, I prefer "Gore Gore Girls", but...

That part in Wizard of Gore when he takes the coffins back to the graveyard and everything is RED... I love that.

i didnt like tetsuo 2

it was a huge letdown