Tag: bad movies

Review: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Fifteen minutes into the midnight showing of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra the film burned and broke. That was my favorite part of the movie. No, I’m not kidding. If I hadn’t been there with my children and students I would have walked out shortly after they got it back up and running. I …

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Review: A Matter of Loaf and Death

I’ve been a big fan of Wallace & Gromit ever since Heather and I saw The Wrong Trousers in a tiny-screened art house theater. The kids grew up on the original three shorts, and we loved Curse of the Wererabbit as well. However, none of us much cared much for Nick Park’s latest, A Matter …

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Review: Igor

My patience for bad movies and even less-than-awesome movies is diminishing quickly. To that end, my reviews for bad movies will grow smaller also; it’s bad enough to lose 90-120 minutes of your life to a bad movie, but why give it the attention you would give a good movie when you really just want …

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Making it right

As an apology to moviegoers everywhere, M. Night Shyamalan has been touring the country visiting with people and offering to make things right with everyone who saw The Happening–by letting them kick him in the crotch. “I figure I have it coming,” said a hobbling Shyamalan. “That movie really was a turd sandwich.” Shyamalan is …

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Review: Worst movie I saw in 2008

I have found that it is certainly much easier to write a list than to actually try to assemble words into sentences and sentences into words, so on that note: The Top Ten Six Reasons why M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening Is Terrible (contains spoilers, but they aren’t as spoily as watching this movie) Zooey …

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Review: Jumper

I was kind of apprehensive about seeing Jumper, as it starred Hayden Christensen, whom I despised from the Star Wars prequels. However, my brother, who generally has  good taste in movies, liked it alot and after much cajoling convinced me to see it. This was the second worst movie I saw this year. The main turd-in-the-Coke …

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