Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 3)

Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story finally made it to the drive-in.

(John Bloom) (1953 – ) American film critic, writer & actor
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Is it trying to be a parody of itself?

film critic
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Earthquake epic 10.5 presents a choice: Either run screaming or pass the beer and savor a camp classic… it is so phenomenally bad it borders on spoofed genius.

American television critic
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Julianne Moore] spends the entire film walking the razor’s edge: gauging the difference between brilliance and disaster before assertively losing her balance.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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The first act occupied three hours… I enjoyed that in spite of the singing.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
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One feels that the composer must have made a bet, for all his professional reputation was worth, that he would write the most hideous thing that had ever been put on paper, and he won it, too.

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Was there no one connected with this project who read the screenplay, considered the story, evaluated the proposed film and vomited?

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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George Moore wrote excellent English until he discovered grammar.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Communication Language Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

The movie’s just such a pain in the ass.

American movie critic
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I want something that will keep me awake thinking it was the food I ate and not the show I saw.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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Ryan O’Neal is so stiff and clumsy that he can’t even manage a part requiring him to be stiff and clumsy.

(1944 – ) film critic & motion picture screenwriter
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To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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It’s an underestimation of the intelligence of your average eight year old to believe his or her rapt attention can be held for long by a film like this.

film critic
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The incompetent who directed this film is Mike Mitchell, who’s probably some buddy of (Rob) Schneider and Adam Sandler, and whose main talent up until this point was cleaning potato chip crumbs off Sandler’s couch.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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Orlando Bloom was so wooden he could have played the horse.

Irish film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Not as fun as Survivor but essential to the Republic.

American television critic
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This couple has endured for over 900 years; the least Tristan & Isolde can do is show us a reason why.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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It not only promotes every stereotype and invokes every cliché of Brooklyn lore, it combines them all into an insulting composite, fuses that to the chrome-and-fins of the pointless Fifties, and then – weirdly – pretends it’s Shakespeare.

film critic
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What’s next, “The Old Woman who lives in the Shoe – with Shoulder-Fired Rocket Launchers?”

American film critic
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[Raymond] Massey won’t be satisfied until he’s assassinated.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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