Author: Rob Vaux

I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

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Progressing from nowhere to nothing and leaving only a greasy taste in the mouth as a reward.

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Whew! That was close: something almost happened there for a minute.

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Not even Ian McKellan can bring it to life… and when Ian McKellan throws in the towel, you know the difficulties are too large to fix.

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Rarely has the phrase "going through the motions" felt more fitting.

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That isn’t brimstone we’re smelling on Ghost Rider. It’s something else.

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Real-life military trainers – regardless of gender – never make you say, ‘Wow you’re hot!’ They make you say, ‘I’ll do whatever you want, please don’t hurt me.’

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A tedious, astonishingly irritating march through scene after scene of quasi-Jungian horse flop.

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It's flawless in its flaws, without a single redeeming element to obscure its idealized awfulness.

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Memoirs of a Geisha builds a beautiful garden, then runs an interstate through it to let more people in.

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At least it’s not in 3D.

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As a routine thriller Firewall is barely functional, but as a waste of talent, it’s positively amazing.

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Robbing casinos? Shit, these guys should be in charge of Katrina relief!

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Stop for a moment and ponder just how stupid it is to blow the ending of your movie in the title.

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It's a car movie made by people who couldn't find reverse in a Volkswagen; a puzzle box thriller assembled by the functionally insane.

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You could do worse… by which I mean you couldn't possibly do worse.

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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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Only someone so smart could make a movie this stupid.

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House of Wax is cheap, dirty entertainment, and it knows it.

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Oh come on. Like you couldn’t smell this turkey rotting from miles away.

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

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