Every element of this story has been done a billion times. Better. We don't need a mishmash, done worse.
- MI2
But most of all, I was disappointed by the ending. This is one of the greatest weaknesses of films right now: they reach the third act, the explosions start, the score turns the volume up, and Bob's your uncle.
- X-Men: First Class
This film is too serious and too melodramatic to function as a musical, and too preposterous to be taken on its own terms as a drama.
- Footloose
I couldn't help thinking back to that seventh grade play. It really is on that level. The script, the songs, are the sort of thing a group of middle schoolers would pound out in hurried Times New Roman on the school computers, and then cobble together a production from.
- Gnomeo and Juliet
Like a block of cardboard with delusions of grandeur.
- The Andromeda Strain
I think it was Jason Reitman who said that good movies made him despair, because their greatness intimidated him, but bad movies inspired his creativity, because they made him think over what he could improve on. I also think Jason Reitman (if it indeed was him) would have a very good time thinking about the missed opportunities of Sherlock Holmes. This is an intriguing concept, but it misfires. The result is a bad picture, but not the abhorrent badness that causes critics like myself to rant about the gathering dark age of cinema today. The bad that makes you think, a la Reitman or Holmes, what could be improved.
- Sherlock Holmes
By cramming all the material into one paragraph the effect would be gone. Billie August's film most emphatically does not understand this.
- Les Miserables
My verdict shall be brief, my retribution swift.
On the basis of the auteur theory, I would usually give this movie a pass. Yes, it contains its implausibilities, but surely because Zhang Yimou is an important director it must have redeeming value. Well, no.
- House of Flying Daggers
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