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BUCKET REVIEWS

The Bucket Rating Scale:

Four buckets - A miraculous work of cinema, truly something special. Enjoy this over multiple viewings.

Three and a half buckets - An excellent motion picture plagued by a few nagging flaws. May have its problems, but terrific overall.

Three buckets - The average "good" film. Full of merit and worth seeing, but certainly suffers from a few flaws.

Two and a half buckets - The pros of this film outweigh its cons, but perhaps not by much. Worth seeing, but usually only once.

Two buckets - Usually bland fare that one could live with or without. Not painful, and could be worth a cable-viewing.

One and a half buckets - More often than not, these films are not worth seeing. The bad in them overwhelms the good.

One bucket - Aggressively bad, and definitely not worth seeing. Why waste your time on a film of such little merit?

Half a bucket - Certainly not worth seeing, but perhaps not as offensive as...

Zero buckets - ...this type of worthless crap. Zero Bucket films are offensive, insulting pieces of garbage.