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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/Action
Director: Steven Spielberg
Year: 1998
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CLASSICS I HATE
First off, I don’t want to take anything away from director Steven Spielberg’s main accomplishment with Saving Ryan’s Privates: his depiction of the battle at Omaha Beach is a masterpiece of sound design, art direction, special effects, acting…hell, basically the entire arsenal of filmmaking. It’ll blow […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/Drama
Director: Ridley Scott
Year: 2000
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CLASSICS I HATE
Let’s get something straight. I don’t hate Gladiator, but when a movie gets practically universal acclaim, wins the Oscar for best picture and isn’t very good, I figure it’s my responsibility as a critic to say something.
Ridley Scott is a damned good director. He made the […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Marc Forster
Year: 2002
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CLASSICS THAT I HATE
You might think Monster’s Ball is a serious film about serious subjects like the death penalty, grief, racial prejudice and so on. After all, didn’t Halle Berry win the Oscar for her portrayal of Leticia Musgrove, the widow of a con executed by Old Sparky, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1992
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CLASSICS THAT I HATE
I remember well reading the script for Basic Instinct before it came out. I couldn’t wait because the director was Paul Verhoeven, who up until that time, could do no wrong. His previous SEVEN movies had all been excellent (Total Recall, RoboCop, Flesh+Blood, The 4th […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Scorcese
Year: 2006
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Also known as The Retarded, Martin Scorcese’s Oscar winning bauble is reminiscent in tone of his other great triumph at the box office, Cape Rear–oops, I meant Cape Fear, an equally jejune genre exercise.
The Departed is based on the infinitely superior Infernal Affairs, an elegant Hong Kong thriller […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/Drama
Director: Wilson Yip
Year: 2005
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Let’s get one thing straight. I don’t hate SPL. It’s just that it’s considered to be a classic of modern HK filmmaking, and I was ultimately disappointed by it. I feel like it’s my duty to let you know why, especially if you like the movies I tend […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian De Palma
Year: 1989
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Brian De Palma is an infuriating director. For every good movie he gives us, like Blowout, The Fury, Phantom of the Paradise, or The Untouchables, he gives us a tone deaf travesty like Bonfire of the Vanities or an out and out abomination like Casualties of War.
Ostensibly […]