Two Star Movies
by Jackie Mason on August 6, 2006

Kris Weberg | August 6, 2006
Whose star system are we talking about here? Scott's? Ebert's?

Jackie Mason | August 7, 2006
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Kris Weberg | August 7, 2006
In that case, I'd guess that they pay a nominal fee or offer free publicity to some real critic to use his or her star ratings. www.imdb.com used to have such a deal with Leonard Maltin, for instance, and it's cheaper than paying someone on staff to rate movies.

Scott Hardie | August 8, 2006
Hey, at least you didn't pay ten bucks at the theater to see them.

How can I get sell my star ratings to these companies, I wonder? Everybody wants to know that Palindromes was a great movie.

Sometimes I wonder about those syndicated Leonard Maltin reviews on IMDb. Not only are they now twelve years old and counting – Col Needham must have struck the deal with Maltin back when Dakota Fanning was in the womb – but IMDB has staff reviewers, and pretty good ones at that.

Kris Weberg | August 8, 2006
IMDB no longer uses them, having switched to using amazon reviews (no doubt to get kickbacks for linked-through purchases).