≡ Category: Classics That I Hate, Movie Reviews By Country, Science Fiction, Talkin' Trash, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: Bryan Singer
Year: 2000
Rating:
CLASSICS THAT I HATE
X-Men starts out with a thoughtful and resonant idea. If there were mutants in this world who had extraordinary abilities like the ability to read minds, walk through walls, or manipulate magnetic fields, how would governments react?
Director Bryan Singer is very explicit about […]
≡ Category: Action, Classics That I Hate, Movie Reviews By Country, Not Worth Your Time, Talkin' Trash, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Christopher Nolan
Year: 2005
Rating:
CLASSICS THAT I HATE
Let me just say that I started out as a huge fan of director Christopher Nolan. Nolan’s first film was Memento, a spare, surgically precise film noire. It blew me away. That’s why I find the bloated, humorless, Germanically heavy, joyless travesty that is Batman […]
≡ Category: Classics That I Hate, Movie Reviews By Country | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Year: 1992
Rating:
Boy, I’m going to take a lot of heat for this. Swordsman 2 is considered an alltime wire-fu wuxia classic, but I’m sorry to say that it’s just not that good.
Why not? After all, Swordsman 2 has a top notch cast (Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Rosamund […]
≡ Category: Classics That I Hate, Movie Reviews By Country | ≅ 1 Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Scorcese
Year: 2006
Rating:
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 […]
≡ Category: Category III, Classics That I Hate, Movie Reviews By Country | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/Drama
Director: Wilson Yip
Year: 2005
Rating:
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 […]
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian De Palma
Year: 1989
Rating:
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 […]
≡ Category: Classics That I Hate, France | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Horror
Director: Alexandre Aja
Year: 2005
Rating:
The story of a serial killer who targets a family living in a secluded homestead in the country, High Tension was a huge success in France, and led writer/director Alexandre Aja to a flourishing career in the United States.
For most of the running time, the picture […]
Country: United States
Genre: Blacksploitation
Director: Gordon Parks, Jr.
Year: 1972
Rating:
I don’t care if Superfly is considered a blaxploitation cinema classic. I still don’t recommend that you take 90 minutes out of your life to see it.
I admit that Curtis Mayfield’s score kicks ass. There’s some good NYC atmosphere, and you gotta dig those snazzy 70s fashions […]
≡ Category: Classics That I Hate | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: John Carpenter
Year: 1978
Rating:
Where do I start? The low octane pacing? The bludgeoning obviousness of it all? The deadly dull score?
I have to admit, back in 1978, a madman systematically picking off teenagers had a certain amount of novelty appeal, but the old saw of dead bodies […]
≡ Category: Classics That I Hate | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 1991
Rating:
The Silence of the Lambs won the Academy Award for Best Picture and has Anthony Hopkins’ most celebrated performance. What could I possibly have against it?
Well, the two central performances, to start with. Hopkins hams it up in the role of Hannibal Lecter, reducing what should be hypnotically […]
