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Haha.
I try to rate films based on a few factors... how entertained I was... rewatchability... stuff like that.. I try not to let outside influence affect my ratings; I don't care about the "importance" of a film when I rate them, for example.
I thought the film was entertaining; unfortunately, it is probably the only film I can think of that I really would never want to watch again. Not because it disturbed me... I just didn't like it. I didn't like any of the characters, I didn't like the plot, etc. It isn't something I can reccomend in any way, because it just didn't do anything for me beyond, "Oh, wow, that was pretty shocking for 1975!" I bet if I had seen this when it came out, it would have been mind blowing. But again, I'm not rating it on how important it was for the time. Because since then, we've had crazy-ass films like PERIOD PIECE with old men shoving pork rinds up their naked asses and chopping pig's heads off... or films like VISIONS OF SUFFERING, which is the most fucked-up thing I've ever seen, period... so, yeah, I dunno. It just didn't do much for me. I try not to let expectations get in the way of my ratings, and I try my hardest not to compare films to other films... but the whole point of the film was to be shocking, to show these atrocious acts.. and none of it shocked me.
It's certainly a very amazing work of art and I loved the music and the detached feeling of all of it. Still, a "6" in my ratings scale is still above average, so, yeah I guess I liked it well enough -- and I know that, in a way, the point of the film was to BE unlikeable. I respect it as a work of art, but as a film it didn't really excite me enough to ever want to watch it again.
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