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Mark Bourne

Agrees with the Tomatometer 92% of the time.

Publications:: DVDJournal.com , Film.com

Total Reviews:: 429

Location:: Seattle, WA

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
50%	Sex and the City (2008)	" ...'Yes,' she said. 'It's Star Trek for women.'..." — Film.com Posted Feb 2, 2009
——	Saving Sarah Cain (2007)	" ...will probably find a welcome reception among the nominal "family values" audience, but they deserve "nice" and "decent" movies that offer more engaging and challenging fare than this..." — Film.com Posted Jan 15, 2008
——	Family Guy - Blue Harvest (2008)	" The duplicated scenes from A New Hope are so shot-for-shot faithful that the whole project feels boxed in by its reverence rather than freed up to cut loose with the fearless bravado that we tune into Family Guy for." — Film.com Posted Jan 15, 2008
5%	Good Luck Chuck (2007)	" What isn't forgivable, though, is being boring, and Good Luck Chuck has all the engaging magnetism of an unflushed toilet." — Film.com Posted Jan 15, 2008
20%	Death Sentence (2007)	" Bacon, as usual, is very good even when he's slumming, and as a trashy B-movie redo of Death Wish the movie works well enough for a Saturday afternoon with a case of brewskies." — Film.com Posted Jan 8, 2008
17%	The Last Legion (2007)	" There are, after all, aimed at young audiences plenty of movies more mean-spirited, indiscriminate and obnoxious than The Last Legion. But at the same time there are plenty that are, alas, less frustrating." — Film.com Posted Dec 17, 2007
45%	The Wasp Woman (Insect Woman) (The Bee Girl) (1959)	" It's poorly written, cheesily acted, low-budget, and completely camp, but because it's Corman it's a touch ahead of its ilk thanks to some clever lines and flavorful directing. Utterly ridiculous but lovable." — DVDJournal.com Posted Sep 18, 2007
22%	The Giant Gila Monster (1959)	" Camp value is provided by a truckload of 1950s B-movie cliches and dreadful song breaks -- "The Gila Monster Crawl" among other "rock & roll hits" -- by its lead, Don Sullivan, who through this movie rose from nothing to complete obscurity." — DVDJournal.com Posted Sep 18, 2007
——	The Atomic Submarine (1959)	" Even for a meager exploitation film, The Atomic Submarine isn't anything to brag about." — DVDJournal.com Posted Mar 5, 2007
——	First Man Into Space (1959)	" Space Age hardware footage (including cockpit shots of Chuck Yeager) meets rampaging space-mutant theatrics." — DVDJournal.com Posted Mar 5, 2007
67%	Let's Make Love (1960)	" Cukor ... directs with all the panache of an unwanted contractual obligation. Indeed, Marilyn disliked the script but accepted Let's Make Love to fulfill her Fox contract." — DVDJournal.com Posted Jul 26, 2006
87%	Frenzy (1972)	" Rather than classic Hitchcock, Frenzy feels more like a lesser director's cookie-cutter 'Hitchcockian' knock-off." — DVDJournal.com Posted Jun 27, 2006
17%	I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)	" It's conventional and derivative and middlebrow enough to fall back on broad stereotypes of what audiences in Omaha thought of the 'hippie movement.'" — DVDJournal.com Posted Jun 18, 2006
64%	It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)	" Proudly displays all of the limitations of its bargain-basement budget." — DVDJournal.com Posted May 31, 2006
——	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)	" The prose is so purple and the tone so overripe that ... what wants to be mature, sensual romance-novel boilerplate becomes instead a plodding exercise in intriguingly cast camp." — DVDJournal.com Posted May 14, 2006
75%	Ziegfeld Follies (2006)	" Technically it's magnificent overkill, from Minnelli's swooping crane shots to the turning, floating 'Hello Dali!' carnival-wedding-cake scenic design to the intense Technicolor that burned holes in retinas." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 23, 2006
80%	A King in New York (1957)	" Taking a fire hose to HUAC is an impulse worth applauding, but the overall movie is so tone-deaf and tired that the method sinks the message." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 14, 2006
22%	The World's Greatest Lover (1977)	" Even those of us with a longtime and well-earned affection for Gene Wilder have to respond to The World's Greatest Lover ... with a dispirited sigh." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 9, 2006
73%	In Like Flint (1967)	" ...tries to top its predecessor by sending übermensch Derek Flint to Moscow, outer space, and the Isle of Uppity Brassiere Models ... sloppy pacing, shoddy production values, and Lee J. Cobb looking like he's planning a stern call to his agent." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 8, 2006
90%	Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different (1972)	" However, by refilming the sketches for a cinematic format, with new editing, camerawork, close-ups ... yet without the give-and-take energy of a live studio audience, what on TV was seat-of-the-pants fresh is here flat and overproduced." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 8, 2006
84%	Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home (1986)	" It's a lightweight, entertaining, relentlessly mainstream action-farce. A high old time, no question. Too bad it's such lousy Star Trek. Here's where the series 'jumped the shark' -- and found that it was a whale." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 8, 2006
21%	Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (1989)	" ...delivers all the pleasure of a plucked pubic hair." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 8, 2006
44%	Dr. Phibes Rises Again! (1972)	" ...falls prey to the familiar Curse of the Sequel -- it's a noticeably lesser, lazier work." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 8, 2006
——	Countess Dracula/The Vampire Lovers - Midnite Movies Double Feature (2003)	" ...the movie's raisons d'être are Pitt's sexy exsanguinations of comely Madeline Smith, who is so perfectly Bambi-eyed and winsome that she could have sprung from the head of Chuck Jones." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 8, 2006
98%	Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (Nosferatu the Vampire) (1922)	" ...the score by Christian Death, Electric Hellfire Club, and other post-pube gloomsters isn't ill-used here.... [The print] looks as though it's been run across a cheese grater." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 7, 2006
——	The Lost Continent (1951)	" Well, one positive thing might have come from this cheapie 1950s sci-fi flick. It's the births that resulted from backseat couplings when it played the drive-in circuit." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 7, 2006
——	Antigone (1974)	" This Broadway Theatre Archive DVD is from a videotape master that's in poor shape or is a, say, 3rd-generation dupe. It's plenty watchable, but expect a soft, low-definition image with thin, occasionally bleeding color." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 7, 2006
——	Working (2002)	" As the show's script says, 'everyone should have something to point to.' Fans of the original Working, and of musical theater in general, can point to this particular 're-imagining' as a missed opportunity." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 7, 2006
29%	The Time Machine (2002)	" Dishwater: 10, Wells: 0" — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
63%	Powaqqatsi (1988)	" Reggio's work may be mesmerizing and technically engrossing, but it's also narrowly self-righteous. Instead of expanding our consciousness, he instead seeks to squeeze it into his point of view through a movie that tries to tell us what to think." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
——	Copacabana (1947)	" However, hardcore Marxists already know that, as Groucho's first solo film appearance, 1947's Copacabana was a once-over-slightly effort that the Master himself dismissed before the cameras even rolled." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
57%	A Night in Casablanca (1946)	" Point some of that blame at the cumbersome screenplay and lackluster director Archie Mayo, a.k.a. 'that fat idiot' to Groucho, who said Mayo 'emasculated' the picture." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
53%	The Magic Christian (1970)	" ...drips with low-gloss British Mod Pop style and a would-be Richard Lester vibe, but with no clue about how to put its abundant British talent, chiefly Peter Sellers, to any worthy purpose beyond playing at adolescent cynicism." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
33%	Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)	" Yorga's Southern California styles and setting are now Brady Bunch retro-chic, while its self-conscious exploitation of the era's newly liberated 'free love' attitudes has in 30 years slid from being cool to quaint." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
48%	Bamboozled (2000)	" ...where most of us in his audience will lean forward to hear a whisper, we turn away from a shout. Oh, how Bamboozled shouts." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
95%	Things to Come (1936)	" [Image Entertainment's] original 35mm studio masters ... were themselves far from pristine ... making the phrases 'beautifully restored' and 'pristine new film-to-video transfer' more than a little disingenuous." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
80%	Sherlock Holmes - Dressed to Kill (Prelude to Murder) (1946)	" ...patched together from hand-me-down remnants. Director Roy William Neill and the writers seem to be just going through the motions while waiting for that final smack from the clapboard. Rathbone delivers a magnetic performance to the bitter end, though." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
——	Hoffman (1970)	" Miss Smith's emotional transformation, which we're presumably expected to mirror, is hard to swallow and comes across more as a discomfiting Stockholm Syndrome breakdown than a tender opening of her eyes and heart." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
71%	The Valley of Gwangi (1969)	" It says something about the production and about Harryhausen's artistry when we realize that Gwangi, the snarling dinosaur created from a tabletop model, is the most realistically alive character on the screen." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
80%	The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)	" For a good number of fans, Bernard Herrmann's fine score is the chief appeal here." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
80%	The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)	" However, it came from a source print marred by frequent jolts of dirt and blemishes, a built-in distraction created by the the sofa lint commonly sandwiched into c.1960 image-compositing." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
——	The Black Scorpion (1957)	" ...a drive-in programmer that's run-of-the-mill even by period B-flick standards." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
——	The Doctor and the Devils (1985)	" ...bloated, lifeless, and toe-tagged. D.O.A." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
91%	Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (2004)	" ...other additions -- most egregiously at the climax -- are just intrusive and reduce our interpretive choices by replacing them with one choice, purely science-fictional in a George Lucas 'midichlorians' sense, that's a diminishment, not an illumination." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
51%	Cecil B. Demented (2000)	" If you're under 25 and believe in your cute rebel-'til-I-die heart that indie cinema is inherently True ***ing Art that gives the finger to The Man in Hollywood, then Cecil B. Demented may be your masturbatory fantasy." — DVDJournal.com* Posted Apr 6, 2006
2%	Battlefield Earth (2000)	" Watching Battlefield Earth is to a movie-watching experience what having a yeast infection is to having sex." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
2%	Battlefield Earth (2000)	" Warner Home Video is not marketing Battlefield Earth's inevitable DVD release as some sort of 'camp classic' in the Ed Wood so-bad-it's-good vein. Instead ... as a DVD this is a first-rate product." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 6, 2006
33%	Premature Burial (1962)	" Ray Milland emotes, by turns, dour gloominess or manic eyeball-spinning through a weak script that bears too little sense and too many similarities to its predecessors, Usher and Pendulum." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 5, 2006
88%	The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)	" ...all the witty improvisational zing of a Celine Dion concert." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 5, 2006
10%	Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)	" ...this final sigh of a movie manages to send the series out with a feeble yet breathing dignity. It's bad, but it's better than III in that it does try to rise above itself." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 5, 2006

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