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Post by spencer101f on Aug 15, 2009 15:47:15 GMT -5
MOVIE #1: ULYSSES
REVIEWS:
Positive:
"An effervescent, ingenious adaptation of the beloved story. I mean, it's Speilberg. There's no way it could've sucked." (Charles Koplinski, Illionois Times) Rating: 4.5/5 stars
"Well, there's not much gore in the film given its PG-13 rating, but there's something in this film that most films lately have lacked: a good, solid story. That's where this film shines." (Andrea Chase, Killer Movie Reviews) Rating: A-
"Finally, this is a film worth seeing. It's much better than 300 and The Odyssey, so I'm glad this film was made. I love the story, and the film stays pretty true to the source material...yet another first for Hollywood Cinema." (Spencer, Uniworks President) Rating: 4/5 stars
"It's innovative, inventive, and ingenious. Speilberg has done it again." (Ruth McCann, The Washington Post) Rating: 5/5 stars
"I loved every frickin' minute of it." (Wesley Lovell, Oscar Guy) Rating: 9.5/10
"With the dearth of good summer movies, and the end of summer approaching, it's about time 'Ulysses' comes and waters the drought of good movies." (Mike Hale, The New York Times) Rating: 9/10
"Just brilliant." (Roger Ebert, Movie Critic) Rating: 5/5 stars
"It had a few dull moments, but its charm is everlasting." (Christopher Smith, The Bangor Daily News) Rating: B
"A great popcorn flick finally comes along." (Steve Parsell, The St. Petersburg Times) Rating: B
"Great. Just great." (Anonymous Reviewer, IMDB) Rating: 3.5/5 stars
"Brilliant. Speilberg reigns as the king of cinema, and Williams adds charm to the otherwise dull plot." (Jeff Bayer, The Scorecard Review) Rating: 8.5/10
"I loved every minute of it...except the end...when it was over." (Jay Antani, Cinema Writer) Rating: 9/10
Negative:
"This story is boring, and Speilberg's directing gives me a headache. Williams is horribly miscast, and the film turned out to be more of a comedy than what it was intended to be." (Beth Accomando, KPBS.org) Rating: F
"Absolutely atrocious." (Keith Cohen, Entertainment Spectrum) Rating: 3.5/10
"I'm surprised this film is liked so much. It sucks." (Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel) Rating: D+
OVERALL RATING: 94%[/color]
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Post by spencer101f on Aug 15, 2009 15:47:49 GMT -5
MOVIE #2: JUST A LITTLE ROLLER DISCO
REVIEWS:
Positive:
"'Just a Little Roller Disco': Deliciously Subversive Political Satire." (BC, Bloody-Disgusting) Rating: 3.5/5 skulls
"Showcases Will Ferrell's comedy genius to perfection." (Mark Hinson, The Tallahassee Democrat) Rating: 9/10
"Will Ferrell and director/writing collaborator Adam McKay have carved out a comfortable comic niche in taking confidently clueless oafs and pulling the rug out from under the core of resolutely prototypical alpha male existence." (Spencer, Uniworks President) Rating: 9.5/10
"In 'Disco,' Mr. Ferrell finds his best role to date." (Anonymous Weekly Reviewer, IMDB) Rating: 5/5 stars
"Broad but not crude, dumb but not witless, clever but still snot-spittingly funny. Stupidly brilliant, in other words." (Mike Hale, The New York Times) Rating: 10/10
"Anchorman director Adam McKay has assembled a terrific cast and his hilarious script (co-written with Ferrell) ensures that each of the characters has their own funny moment." (Ruth McCann, The Washington Post) Rating: 4/5 stars
"The first third is the movie at its best--it has the looseness of improvisation. The second half is a struggle, but McKay recovers nicely toward the end, where so many stereotypes are eventually run down by the script." (Jeff Bayer, The Scorecard Review) Rating: 8.5/10
"Much like its star, 'Disco' is erratic, infuriating and very, very funny." (Jay Antani, Cinema Writer) Rating: 9/10
Negative:
"An inane parody of a triumphalist celebration of all-American sporting heroism." (Eric Melin, Scene-stealers.com) Rating: 0/10
"There are laughs to be had within Talladega Nights but they're certainly not worth the money a trip to the cinema will surely cost." (Steve Parsell, The St. Petersburg Times) Rating: C-
"Some of the jokes here are funny. Most are not, while the characters are simply too silly to make us give two hoots about them. Worse, the movie collapses under the weight of a ton of syrup in the second half." (Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel) Rating: D
"Never as entertaining as it can be." (David Denby, The New Yorker) Rating: 0/5 stars
"It's not that ethnic and cultural stereotyping can't be funny -- Lord knows the laugh industry would be nothing without them -- it's just that movies like this one keep punching the same buttons over and over again." (Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies) Rating: Thumbs Down (D-)
"Just plain awful." (Keith Cohen, Entertainment Spectrum) Rating: 1.5/10
OVERALL RATING: 77%[/color]
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Post by spencer101f on Aug 15, 2009 15:48:07 GMT -5
MOVIE #3: AUSCHWITZ
REVIEWS:
Positive:
"I have no doubt that this movie may seem but a glissando of a complex series of emotional notes, but I can say that I was torn up every which way by the end of it." (Ruth McCann, The Washington Post) Rating: 4/5 stars
"Its issues are infinite and moveable. It's a bold and challenging work." (Mike Hale, The New York Times) Rating: 8/10
"It is a majestically sombre, always gripping film, told with immense restraint and no hint of sensationalism." (Chris Bumbray, Jo-Blo's Movie Emporium) Rating: 4.5/5 stars
"I was incredibly moved by this film, the way it delves into emotional investment, the power of literature to humanise, the whole ambition to encompass the responsibility of a nation for the evil that occurred." (Spencer, Uniworks President) Rating: 4.5/5 stars
"No doubt there is a fine line between a film that intends to be morally ambiguous and one that feels incomplete." (Ben Lyons, At the Movies) Rating: Thumbs Up (A+)
"Magnificent. Much better than the Holocaust-driven films to come before it." (Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel) Rating: A+
"This was incredibly moving." (Keith Cohen, Entertainment Spectrum) Rating: 9.5/10
"It was emotionally touching and ever so powerful." (David Denby, The New Yorker) Rating: 5/5 stars
"Incredibly great filmmaking, scriptwriting, and acting." (Charles Koplinski, Illinois Times) Rating: 4/5 stars
Negative:
"Auschwitz does not succeed as a coherent film, despite some fine work by actors and the filmmakers' best intentions. " (Jeanne Kaplan, Kaplan vs. Kaplan) Rating: C-
"The film...hankers after something redemptive. But whatever difficult possibilities about guilt and silence it explores are dissolved into disconcerting blandness." (Steve Parsell, The St. Petersburg Times) Rating: D-
"Not another one..." (Roger Ebert, Movie Critic) Rating: 1.5/5 stars
"How do you solve a problem like Auschwitz? It's deep and layered and Oscary and left no emotional impression. It happened and I left" (Diana Saenger, ReviewExpress.com) Rating: 5.5/10
"This was plodding and earnestly morose." (Linda Cook, Quad City Times) Rating: 4/10
"Suffers chiefly from a distasteful thematic overemphasis, though not far behind is the film's rather insistent self-flattery." (Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com) Rating: 1/5 stars
OVERALL RATING: 79%[/color]
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Post by spencer101f on Aug 15, 2009 15:48:22 GMT -5
MOVIE #4: DANCING FEVER
REVIEWS:
Positive:
"Though it has a few easily overlookable cliches, the film is touching, enlightening, and downright creepy as shit." (Ben Lyons, At the Movies) Rating: Thumbs Up (A)
"An extraordinarily cliche melodrama that otherwises satisfies the guilty pleasure hormone." (Spencer, Uniworks President) Rating: 4.5/5 stars
"What can I say? It's my new guilty pleasure." (Chris Bumbray, Jo-Blo's Movie Emporium) Rating: 4/5 stars
"A touching, sentimental dance flick, unlike most of the crap out today in Hollywood." (Ruth McCann, The Washington Post) Rating: 3/5 stars
"Funny, scary, creepy, touching, heartfelt, insane, calm, tranquil, peaceful, outstanding, intriguing, and downright awesome." (Jeanne Kaplan, Kaplan Vs. Kaplan) Rating: B
"It was good, but it lacked charm." (BC, Bloody-Disgusting) Rating: 3/5 skulls
Negative:
"It's the usual case of great dancing, bad acting, and even worse dialogue in this very guilty pleasure for fans of the genre." (Diana Saenger, ReviewExpress.com) Rating: 1/10
"Wow, horrendously awful." (David Kaplan, Kaplan Vs. Kaplan) Rating: D-
"Overtly cliche and cheesy, but it's not fun by any means." (Steve Parsell, The St. Petersburg Times) Rating: D-
"Predictable dance melodrama with little to recommend or remember." (Mike Hale, The New York Times) Rating: 4/10
"It falls down the rabbit hole of genre cliches and never returns...unlike Alice." (Beth Accomando, KPBS.org) Rating: D+
"This is a cliche-ridden movie by people to whom formula is clearly mother's milk." (Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies) Thumbs Down: F
"An oddball dance drama, but cliche regardless." (Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel) Rating: D
"Meh, it was alright, I guess." (Jackie K. Cooper, Jackiecooper.com) Rating: 1.5/5 stars
OVERALL RATING: 68%[/color]
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Post by spencer101f on Aug 15, 2009 15:48:43 GMT -5
MOVIE #5: MEGAN & DON'S HOLLYWOOD LIFE: THE MOVIE
REVIEWS:
Positive:
"This film isn't my cup of tea, but it was pretty damn funny." (Ben Lyons, At the Movies) Rating: Thumbs Up (B-)
"Just great, I must say. I think I'll use that as my catchphrase now." (David Denby, The New Yorker) Rating: 3.5/5 stars
"I am a fan of Megan and Don, and the film is a great treat for the fans." (Spencer, Uniworks President) Rating: 3/5 stars
"It was pretty good." (Ruth McCann, The Washington Post) Rating: 3/5 stars
Negative:
"If only this film was good." (Mike Hale, The New York Times) Rating: 3.5/10
"I couldn't stand it. It was so annoying." (Jeanne Kaplan, Kaplan Vs. Kaplan) Rating: F
"This film lacked something very important: heart." (Steve Parsell, The St. Petersburg Times) Rating: F
"Can films NOT suck, please? Oh wait, since this came out, I guess that'll never happen." (Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel) Rating: D-[/b]
OVERALL RATING: 55%[/color]
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Post by spencer101f on Aug 15, 2009 15:49:03 GMT -5
MOVIE #6: THE THIEF
REVIEWS:
Positive:
"Absolutely hilarious and then some." (Ben Lyons, At the Movies) Rating: Thumbs Up (A-)
"So laughably atrocious that it's actually somewhat campy and pretty decent." (Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel) Rating: A
"I don't care what everyone else says...I LOVED this frickin' film!" (Lori Hoffman, Atlantic City Weekly) Rating: 8.5/10
Negative:
"There is no reason on Earth why this film exists." (Kurt Loder, MTV News) Rating: 2/10
"It's 'The Bank Job' meets 'The Collector,' and I hated both of those movies as well." (Ruth McCann, The Washington Post) Rating: 0/5 stars
"Wow, this film sucks...but that's no shocker there." (Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews) Rating: 0/5 stars
"Absolutely awful. I can't believe I wasted my life on a dramedy and didn't even laugh once." (Mike Hale, The New York Times) Rating: 3/10
"Why did I even sit through the entire damn thing?" (Spencer, Uniworks President) Rating: 0/5 stars
"Just plain God awful crap." (Steve Parsell, The St. Petersburg Times) Rating: F
OVERALL RATING: 06%[/color]
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Post by spencer101f on Aug 15, 2009 15:49:25 GMT -5
MOVIE #7: DARLENE: SWEET HOME ALABAMA
REVIEWS:
Positive:
"I loved Darlene, and now I'm IN love with Darlene." (Mike Hale, The New York Times) Rating: 7.5/10
"Hilarious!" (David Kaplan, Kaplan Vs. Kaplan) Rating: B+
"Just great, I must say." (David Denby, The New Yorker) Rating: 3.5/5 stars
"Hilarious!" (Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies) Rating: Thumbs Up (B+)
"I thought it was a cute little movie." (Ruth McCann, The Washington Post) Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Negative:
"This was terrible." (Steve Parsell, The St. Petersburg Times) Rating: D
"I REALLY wanted to like it. Unfortunately, my expectations were too high, I s'pose." (Spencer, Uniworks President) Rating: 1.5/5 stars
"Another downright horrendous movie." (Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel) Rating: D
OVERALL RATING: 49%[/color]
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Post by peter on Aug 15, 2009 16:26:28 GMT -5
My film Duma Key's being released too. Did I sent you a private message too? I can't remember
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Post by spencer101f on Aug 15, 2009 16:36:36 GMT -5
Yes, you did. My bad. Damn, so many films this week....it's hard to keep track of them. Sorry, I'll add it, too.
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Post by spencer101f on Aug 15, 2009 16:36:58 GMT -5
MOVIE #8: DUMA KEY
REVIEWS:
Positive:
"A great film for horror fans and a great tribute to the horror genre." (BC, Bloody-Disgusting) Rating: 5/5 skulls
"Just plain and silly fun." (Mark Hinson, The Tallahassee Democrat) Rating: 7.5/10
"Absolutely awesome." (Spencer, Uniworks President) Rating: 9/10
"It was stupid fun." (Mike Hale, The New York Times) Rating: 7/10
"I loved every second of it, and I usually hate this genre." (Ruth McCann, The Washington Post) Rating: 4/5 stars
Negative:
"This was awful." (Jeff Bayer, The Scorecard Review) Rating: 2/10
"This sucked worse than my ex-girlfriend." (Anonymous Weekly Reviewer, IMDB) Rating: 0/5 stars
"Was the director high when he wrote this? He must have been held up at a bank robbery, then." (Jay Antani, Cinema Writer) Rating: 1.5/10
"An inane parody of crap that still sucks." (Eric Melin, Scene-stealers.com) Rating: 0/10
"There are some interesting bits, but overall, the film falls flat." (Steve Parsell, The St. Petersburg Times) Rating: C-
"Could the horror genre possibly get any worse?" (Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel) Rating: D+
"Never as entertaining as it could have been." (David Denby, The New Yorker) Rating: 2/5 stars
"It's not that I didn't like it, but I just didn't find it interesting...at all." (Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies) Rating: Thumbs Down (D)
"Just plain horrific...in the not-so-good way." (Keith Cohen, Entertainment Spectrum) Rating: 3/10
OVERALL RATING: 44%[/color]
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Post by phillip on Aug 15, 2009 18:35:31 GMT -5
This is amazing! Thanks for the excellent review!
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Post by proxio on Aug 15, 2009 18:37:45 GMT -5
I had a feeling Ulysses was going to score well, there's been enough promotion and info given about where it will also do good at the box office and probably have long legs.
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Post by spencer101f on Aug 15, 2009 19:15:30 GMT -5
More coming later tonight... I promise to finish this week ASAP.
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Post by thisisajoke on Aug 15, 2009 19:14:55 GMT -5
What is considered positive? Above a 60% or something?
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Post by BlueLick on Aug 15, 2009 19:16:54 GMT -5
Just added in my info for Dancing Fever.
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