![]() ![]() But, I'm sorry, did you say, "snakes on a submarine" and "television's dumbest disaster film"?! Hold my beer - I'm in! There are over three thousand films cataloged and capsule reviewed in this 800-page monster. Leslie Stevens ( The Outer Limits) was executive producer. With Davin Janssen, Hope Lange, Jason Evers, and Ivan Dixon. Flip, flip, flip, flip, aaaaaaaand.voila, on page 236, we find: Ratings are, of course, terribly subjective things - one man's trash is another man's treasure, as the cliche goes - but I defy anyone with even a passing interest in motion pictures to pick up Weldon's book (or its sequel), turn to a random page, and not find something that piques his or her curiosity. Michael Weldon's Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film is absolutely worth the six-star rating I would give were such a thing possible. How much further beyond "amazing" does one need to go when explaining how good something is? Also, no matter how much I love a book, five stars is the upper limit. If something is so awful that 1 star is too much, chances are good it hit the dreaded Did Not Finish pile, and I don't rate things I don't finish. ![]() I'm perfectly content to stick to the scale - you'll never find me saying stuff like, "I'd rate it zero stars if I could!" or "TEN STARS OUT OF FIVE!". ![]() ![]() I'm not one to tend towards the hyperbolic when it comes to book reviews. ![]()
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