Wicked Whispers

Date sent:        Sun, 9 Feb 1997 04:33:08 -0800 (PST)
From:             Jamal Dunbar ([email protected])
Subject:          Re: review: Wicked whispers (ratings) (fwd)


There was a major error in Frans' review--he mistakes Melanie Moore for Debi
Diamond.  Diamond doesn't appear in this half of the movie--that old trick
of crediting the cast of the entire movie on both halves, even though
some performers only appear in one half.

# Wicked Whispers
c 34 1994 Cal Vista, Thomas Paine
. Brittany O'Connell, Marc Wallace
. Brittany O'Connell, Madison
. Lili Xene, Rod Fontana
. Melanie Moore
. Melanie Moore, Marc Wallace
. Samantha York, Cal Jammer, Stephen St. Croix {DP}
. Roxanne Blaze, Teri Diver, Stephen St. Croix

Plot: Budding screen writer, Marc Wallace new office, an old bungalow
      on a studio lot is haunted.  Psychic, Melanie Moore helps Marc
      make contact with the spirits.

Frans wrote:

>> End of movie, worth a rental. In case anybody here likes ratings, I'll
>> adopt the current system of 1-5 and give this one a 3.0 (witch is in the
>> middle and therefore perfectly save :-)

I liked it too.  Enough so that I'll will probably rent the 2nd part
(Burning Secrets) when I get the chance.  I hope that Roxanne appears in
the 2nd part, but I'm afraid that she doesn't.  Has anyone seen Burning
Secrets?  Is Roxanne in it?

Imperator wrote:

>Frans! I'm ashamed of you. :-) The canonical rating scale, duly followed 
>and sanctioned by the Imperial authorities is from one to FOUR. This started
>from following the Hustler "erectness" scale. However bloody Hustler is 
>too generous with its 4's. So your benevolent monarch (that's me, if you 

Uh, Hustler is actually a 5 point scale 0-4 (limp, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, erect).
(I guess you're not a C programmeri, eh Imp?)  They don't give out that many
fully erect ratings, although maybe the movies they do give it to don't
deserve it.  They do give out a lot of half-erects (the exact middle of the
scale).

I thought he might be talking about my new rating system (1.0 - 5.9).  After
After all, I've noticed Frans reviews bear some resemblence to my own (with
his own improvements).  Maybe great minds just think alike.

I also tend to give just about everything a 3 (or close to it).  That's why
I had to introduce a second digit to distiguish among all the threes.

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c [Ratings] [Year] [Video Company], [Director] [{Time}]
. scene list

Explanation of ratings: 

 Letter        My        
 Grade  1-10   Rating   AFW      HEVG      AVN      Comments
+-----+-----+---------+--------+---------+-------+---------------+
|  A+ | 10  |  55-59  | 5H 5V  | 5E      | 5A    |  Excellent    |
|  A  |  9  |  50-54  | 5W 4V  |         |       |               |
|-----+-----+---------+--------+---------+-------+---------------|
|  A- |  8  |  45-49  | 4H     | 4E      | 4A    |  Very Good    |
|  B+ |  7  |  40-44  | 4W 3V  |         |       |               |
|-----+-----+---------+--------+---------+-------+---------------|
|  B  |  6  |  35-39  | 2V 3H  | 3E      | 3A    |  Good         |
|  B- |     |  30-34  |    3W  | 2E      | 2A    |  Fair         |
|-----+-----+---------+--------+---------+-------+---------------|
|  C  |  5  |  25-29  | 2H 3W  | 2E      | 2A    |  Poor         |
|  C- |  4  |  20-24  | 2W     | 1E 2E   | 1A 2A |               |
|-----+-----+---------+--------+---------+-------+---------------|
|  D  | 2 3 |  15-19  | 1W     | 0E      | 1A    |  Awful        |
|  F  |  1  |  10-14  | 1C     |         |       |               |
+-----+-----+---------+--------+---------+-------+---------------+