Author: Rob Vaux

I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

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Memoirs of a Geisha builds a beautiful garden, then runs an interstate through it to let more people in.

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Progressing from nowhere to nothing and leaving only a greasy taste in the mouth as a reward.

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While Babylon A.D. isn’t the worst big-budget sci-fi film ever made, it comes near enough to merit avoiding at all costs.

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Whew! That was close: something almost happened there for a minute.

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I suppose certain college fraternities could make screening it part of their hazing rituals.

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House of Wax is cheap, dirty entertainment, and it knows it.

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Dragging your boyfriend/husband to this movie will give him the leverage to demand multiple screenings of Jerry Bruckheimer films as penance. Ladies, you have been warned.

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You say ‘psychotic codependency’ like it’s a bad thing.

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God help us, there’s going to be a director’s cut, isn’t there?

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Fool! Dost thou not know that creepy children have cursed our screens in numbers too great to count, and by now, we find them marginally less terrifying than navel lint?

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Only someone so smart could make a movie this stupid.

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If you hear the phrase "Italian caveman epic" and your heart doesn't sing at least a little bit, then I pity your sad and joyless existence.

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Stop for a moment and ponder just how stupid it is to blow the ending of your movie in the title.

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It doesn’t suck. Please take a moment to pick your jaw up off the floor and we’ll continue.

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Rarely has the phrase "going through the motions" felt more fitting.

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This couple has endured for over 900 years; the least Tristan & Isolde can do is show us a reason why.

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Robbing casinos? Shit, these guys should be in charge of Katrina relief!

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Fee. Fi. Fo. Meh.

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Oh come on. Like you couldn’t smell this turkey rotting from miles away.

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A tedious, astonishingly irritating march through scene after scene of quasi-Jungian horse flop.

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