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Since when does Hollywood shy away from controversy?

zarq — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:25:39 -0800

The Producer Cites Religious Controversy. The Director points to a recessionary trend against "serious" movies. A new film about Charles Darwin's life ("Creation") is reportedly having difficulty finding a US distributor. ( Creation: IMDB / Official Site / Trailer / Spoiler-laden review from Roger Ebert / LA Times review // Darwin: Previously on MeFi).

Blindspots

flatluigi — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:20:38 -0800

Blindspots is a continually-updated collection of movie reviews based around one very interesting concept -- how accessible they are to the visually impaired. Movies that score high in accessibility include "The American President" (10/10) and "Ghosts of Mississippi" (9/10). At the other end of the scale are "101 Dalmatians", "Buddy", and "Spawn", each receiving 2/10.

Lifetime, wow!

XQUZYPHYR — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:52:14 -0800

Lifetime, Wow! A blog devoted to watching, reviewing, and ranking Lifetime movies, including such classics as Fifteen and Pregnant, Fatal Trust, and Love Sick: Secrets of a Sex Addict.

Rant Of The Century

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:30:20 -0800

Mark Kermode reviews Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. "Is that a nest of tables? No, it's Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley having some red hot passionate embrace that is positively teaky." More of the good doctor's reviews: Daddy Day Camp "Excrementally terrible" Death Proof "A really half-witted idea" Die Hard 4.0 "Like watching Hits On 45 of action movie clichés" Good Luck Chuck "This thing is eating my soul from the inside." Transformers "The aesthetic sensibilities resemble that of someone who has just ingested half a ton of weapons grade plutonium." But he doesn't hate everything... here he is on Inland Empire and Control and Black Sheep "Money can buy art, but it can't make squishy sheep movies." Several more on the 'tubes. And catch him weekly via this BBC podcast with Simon Mayo He also interviews people: Warren Clarke on a Clockwork Orange set visit David Cronenberg Werner Herzog - during which Herzog is shot! Shane Meadows Guillermo del Toro Edward Woodward on a Wicker Man set visit Neil Young who he now likes but didn’t used to He's more than slightly obsessed by The Exorcist (Presenting this excellent documentary. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7) Until very recently he didn't own a television. He gets mentioned in the odd advert. Presents his alternative Oscars every year. And in what remains of his free time he plays bass in an a skiffle band.

Now that's a pan!

GriffX — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:19:31 -0800

And so it came about, this week, that I gazed at a black screen and saw words so calamitous that they might have been written in my own blood: “Screenplay by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher.” Anthony Lane reviews "The Phantom of the Opera" in the current New Yorker. Now THAT'S how you pan a movie! Does anyone have any other favorite un-favorable reviews?

Overstating Perhaps?

adrober — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 15:59:29 -0800

"This is frankly one of the greatest films ever made." Harry Knowles reviews "Return of the King."

The Matrix Unloaded

aznblader — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:05:16 -0800

This guy has hit the nail on the head. I've been marveling at how it was possible to completely screw up the sequels to what I consider the greatest action movie of all time. Matt Feeney has precisely and eloquently pinpointed everything wrong with the Matrix sequels.

KirkJobSluder — Sat, 09 Mar 2002 08:06:07 -0800

The Time Machine opened in wide release this weekend but according to multiple reviews ( including this one) it looks like great-grandson Simon managed to transform a socialist metaphor for the dangers of industrialization into yet another special effects-loaded romantic movie. This seems to be an overall trend in Hollywood to remove the socio-political content from adaptations following The Count of Monte Cristo and Planet of the Apes. Perhaps we should just stick to the book on tape.