'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

[Cold Bishop]

Are you sure?

[colinr0380]

The funniest thing about the populist lists is that now they have to reserve ten places at the top of their lists for four different films: the original Star Wars films, the Lord of the Rings, the first two Godfathers and the two 'volumes' of Kill Bill!

Ernest Scared Stupid has to be saved for number 11!

[MichaelB]

Since we've poked fun at the Capalert site, perhaps a move to the other end of the spectrum would even things up! The Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics site is wonderful with deserved howls of anguish at the disregard for logic in The Core and Armageddon, though (strangely in a similar manner to Capalert) there does sometimes seem a certain humourless rigid holding to rules at the expense of being caught up with an artistic mood or in the moment the film is creating, however outlandish.

One of the great things about being married to someone medical is that my wife can generally be relied on to provide an alternative perspective - for instance, she was highly critical of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days because:

(a) there was no way in hell that Gabita was as pregnant as she claimed to be (when she lay down on the bed, her stomach was completely flat!),
(b) aborting a fetus as far advanced as that would be a far bloodier operation than was made out;
(c) there is no way she would be up and walking a few hours later, and even if she'd managed to stagger downstairs she certainly wouldn't be pretending that nothing had happened.

On the other hand, she was extremely impressed with the fetus itself - she said it was worryingly convincing!

I seem to remember that she had nitpicks about Nic Roeg's Puffball too (especially the scene where Liffey goes for her scan), but was prepared to cut it a bit more slack because of the supernatural elements.

[Morbii]

Just to cut in, I always felt that Earnest Goes to Camp was Jules' best work.

[kaujot]

Since we've poked fun at the Capalert site, perhaps a move to the other end of the spectrum would even things up! The Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics site is wonderful with deserved howls of anguish at the disregard for logic in The Core and Armageddon, though (strangely in a similar manner to Capalert) there does sometimes seem a certain humourless rigid holding to rules at the expense of being caught up with an artistic mood or in the moment the film is creating, however outlandish.

One of the great things about being married to someone medical is that my wife can generally be relied on to provide an alternative perspective - for instance, she was highly critical of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days because:

(a) there was no way in hell that Gabita was as pregnant as she claimed to be (when she lay down on the bed, her stomach was completely flat!),
(b) aborting a fetus as far advanced as that would be a far bloodier operation than was made out;
(c) there is no way she would be up and walking a few hours later, and even if she'd managed to stagger downstairs she certainly wouldn't be pretending that nothing had happened.

On the other hand, she was extremely impressed with the fetus itself - she said it was worryingly convincing!

I seem to remember that she had nitpicks about Nic Roeg's Puffball too (especially the scene where Liffey goes for her scan), but was prepared to cut it a bit more slack because of the supernatural elements.

Watching House with my old roommate's girlfriend was just awful, because she is a nurse. Ruins everything about the Good Doctor. Something about him being "sued and losing his license."

[MichaelB]

The last line of an IMDB review of Eraserhead:

I give the film a rating of one because of its incapacity of clarity

There's an irony there, but I'll be darned if I can put my finger on it...

[Magic Hate Ball]

Not enough hamburger phones

HANG ON I'M ON MY IRONIPHONE AND IT'S KIND OF AWKWARD TO TALK ON

[Perkins Cobb]

I can't find the link now, but the very first of the 1,038 reader comments on yesterday's New York Times story on the economic bailout bill thought Congress was pretty "rediculous," too.

[domino harvey]

[swo17]

That username is perfect.

[swo17]

I like this guy's style:

Lakeview Terrace
3 stars (out of 5)

I thought this movie was going to be great by the previews. When I saw them, I was like "I'm going to see that". But then I saw it. It wasn't a bad movie, but at the same time I can't say it was a good movie either. The worst part was the way it ended... abruptly. Your like "is it over?" but by the prior series of events you know it has to be over.

[domino harvey]

NetFlix review of McCabe and Mrs Miller

[Forrest Taft]

NetFlix review of McCabe and Mrs Miller

Wow, fantastic insight. But I´m curious Domino, is this reviewer, donkeyams, really 60% similar to you?

[colinr0380]

I was going to ask the same thing! Maybe domino, like myself, just likes Asian themed films where snowy landscapes accentuate the drama? I wonder what donkeyarms thought of Snow Falling On Cedars, Smilla's Feeling For Snow et al?

[domino harvey]

Donkeyarms has only rated 17 films, and a lot of them are Rohmer titles-- that appears to be where we meet

[jesus the mexican boi]

Problem Child Tantrum Pack, July 30, 2007
By A. Sandoval
this movie is the frickin funny you have to have it in your dvd libery

[domino harvey]

The best part of Problem Child (and Screwed) is how the screnwriters are the same Oscar-nommed ones behind Ed Wood and the People Vs Larry Flynt-- talk about versatility!

[MichaelB]

The best part of Problem Child (and Screwed) is how the screnwriters are the same Oscar-nommed ones behind Ed Wood and the People Vs Larry Flynt-- talk about versatility!

I don't have my Faber edition of the Ed Wood script immediately to hand to check their exact words in their introduction, but I believe Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski were appalled by the way Problem Child turned out - they conceived and wrote it as a dark, very adult comedy, and it ended up as a moronic children's film that got reviews like "this script wasn't written, it was fingerpainted" (their own masochistic citation). They seriously thought their careers were over before they'd even begun, which is why they were so grateful to Tim Burton for not only rescuing them but also for filming their script with virtually no changes.

[Murdoch]

Not a review, but I found this customer discussion asking the region of the La Dolce Vita Deluxe Edition:

will it play on my usa machine?

How I would love to have a usa machine.

[kaujot]

USA! USA!

[MichaelB]

I thought all DVD players were made in Japan these days? Or was it South Korea?

[domino harvey]

Maybe USA Machines are those swear-filter things

[The Digital McGuffin]

IMDB daily poll on 29th October:

Roger Ebert was recently taken to task for reviewing the movie Tru Loved, even though he only watched 8 minutes of it. (Read more here.) We ask: Have you ever critiqued (in any way) a movie that you've turned off (or never seen)?

and 67.1% opt for:

Oh, sure. Plenty of times I have critiqued a movie without having seen much (or any) of it.

[life_boy]

Another Netflix reviewer: DH 1212

Here's the paring.

Old Joy
* out of *****
This movie starts out like it will be the awakened friendship between two men who want to discover something new and different about themselves. They meet go off for a romp oin the woods and discover what??? The conversations between them are so lame and so are the characters that while watching it I kept sighing and hoping that this movie would enlighten and inspire me. But alas it did nothing but waste time.A little hot-tub semi-homo-erotic action makes all the difference....NOT. This movie is awful!!!! Don;lt waste your time on it. Watch "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" or an Ed Wood orginal instead. Kelly Reichardt go back to film school and try again.

The Bucket List
***** out of *****
This movie speaks volumes about having joy in your life, how to see things in a different way,accepting and understanding differences, confronting your fears and other demons that keep you from being in touch with yourself and others, and moving on with life. I do not understand how this went under the radar at this years Oscars but in my opinion Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson have made a modern classic about the human condition and the human spirit that will stand the test of time. And now it's time to put together my own bucket list...thank you Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson so very, very much. D. Harvey Alcoa, Tennessee

[yoshimori]

IMDB daily poll on 29th October:
67.1% opt for:

Oh, sure. Plenty of times I have critiqued a movie without having seen much (or any) of it.

Legend has: Vladimir Nabokov was once asked at a party, after he'd spent five minutes excoriating a production of Hamlet (or some such) that it was becoming increasingly clear he had not attended, how he could attack a work he hadn't seen. His answer: "My dear fellow, why would I waste my time on something as bad as I've just described?"