Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 6)

Happily, Helen Hunt takes the “ick” and “ick” out of chick flick.

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Affleck probably got the part of the blind superhero because he was the only actor too inebriated to duck when the producers flung objects at his head.

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If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it’ll be around to miss for long.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Caligula is sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash. If it is not the worst film I have ever seen, that makes it all the more shameful.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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I really should dynamite this movie just for forcing me to watch Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler try to act. The dude plays himself and I didn’t believe it – that’s how bad he is.

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If Threat Matrix made it onto the ABC schedule, imagine the shows that didn’t.


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I don't know if Oliver [Stone] is going through detox or what, but ever since Natural Born Killers, he's moved the camera around like an epileptic in an earthquake.

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Alison Skipworth: You forget I’ve been an actress for forty years.

West: Don’t worry dear, I’ll keep your secret.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
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I went into the Plymouth Theater a comparatively young woman, and I staggered out of it three hours later, twenty years older, haggard and broken with suffering.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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One can’t judge Wagner’s opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don’t intend hearing it a second time.

(1792 – 1868) Italian composer
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Whenever I see Denise Richards I tend to say the same thing Dustin Hoffman’s father said in “The Graduate”: ‘plastics’.

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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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To imagine that there was a whole process required to bring this film to screen is almost too painful to imagine.

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Michael Madsen? Michelle Rodriguez? ‘I’ll take “Actors Who Should Never Appear in Period Pieces” for $500, Alex.’

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It’s difficult to know what’s going on, and even harder to care.

British broadcaster, writer & film critic
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Is it trying to be a parody of itself?

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You can actually hear the writers pulling ideas out of their butts and flinging them willy-nilly at the screen.

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God help us, there’s going to be a director’s cut, isn’t there?

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Your expectations of how bad The Lone Ranger is can’t trump the reality.

American film critic & televison interviewer
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… logic be damned if this film needs an artificial catharsis to keep audiences from falling asleep.

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There’s a bright young director behind Silent Hill: Revelation and a very strong cast to bring the story to life, but the movie is still terrible.

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