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Felix Gonzalez Jr.

Felix Gonzalez Jr.

Agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

Biography:
Born in Waco, Texas, I have always had a love for movies. The earliest films I remember seeing are "Grease" and "Grease 2." I was taken to a movie theater for the first time at the age of 9 (I was a late bloomer!). It was the summer of 1993, and the film was "Jurassic Park." I saw dinosaurs. I did not develop my true passion for movies until the age of 13. It was all due to one film. "Citizen Kane," perhaps? No. "City Lights"? Hardly. "It's a Wonderful Life"? I don't think so. No, it was actually the fantabulous, 1956 camp classic B-thriller "The Bad Seed." Through this movie, I was introduced to the wonders of filmdom, and I have never looked back. Throughout high school, I watched as many movies as I could, from classical Hollywood movies to silent cinema to foreign films. I acquired a basic, but promising, cinema vocabulary and a deep interest in flim analysis. I graduated from Baylor University in 2006 with a Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications and a minor in English. I am currently a graduate student in the Communications Department at Baylor. I have been a reviewer for DVDReview.com since May 2006.
Favorites:
(In alphabetical order) 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 2. 3 Women (1977) 3. 8˝ (1963) 4. Ace in the Hole (1951) 5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) 6. Alice (1988) 7. All About Eve (1950) 8. Annie Hall (1977) 9. Apocalypse Now (1979) 10. The Awful Truth (1937) 11. Bambi (1942) 12. Battleship Potemkin (1925) 13. Beauty and the Beast (1946) 14. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 15. Bicycle Thieves (1948) 16. The Big Sleep (1946) 17. Black Narcissus (1947) 18. Blade Runner (1982) 19. Blowup (1966) 20. Blue Velvet (1986) 21. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 22. Brazil (1985) 23. Breathless (1960) 24. Bringing Up Baby (1938) 25. Casablanca (1942) 26. Cat People (1942) 27. Cinema Paradiso (1989) 28. Citizen Kane (1941) 29. City Lights (1931) 30. The Conversation (1974) 31. The Crying Game (1992) 32. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) 33. Do the Right Thing (1989) 34. Dr. Strangelove (1964) 35. Double Indemnity (1944) 36. Duck Soup (1933) 37. The Exterminating Angel (1962) 38. Fahrenheit 451 (1966) 39. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) 40. Forbidden Games (1952) 41. Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein (1931, 1935) 42. The General (1927) 43. The Godfather Parts I and II (1972, 1974) 44. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 45. The Graduate (1967) 46. Great Expectations (1946) 47. His Girl Friday (1940) 48. Imitation of Life (1959) 49. In a Lonely Place (1950) 50. Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II (1944, 1958) 51. Jules and Jim (1962) 52. The Kid (1921) 53. King Kong (1933) 54. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) 55. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 56. The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) 57. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 58. Metropolis (1927) 59. The Miracle of Morgan?s Creek (1944) 60. The Misfits (1961) 61. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) 62. Monty Python?s Life of Brian (1979) 63. Mulholland Dr. (2001) 64. My Darling Clementine (1946) 65. Nashville (1975) 66. The Night of the Hunter (1955) 67. Nosferatu (1922) 68. Notorious (1946) 69. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 70. Ordet (1955) 71. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 72. Persona (1966) 73. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) 74. Pinocchio (1940) 75. The Producers (1968) 76. Psycho (1960) 77. Pulp Fiction (1994) 78. The Red Shoes (1948) 79. Rosemary?s Baby (1968) 80. The Seventh Seal (1957) 81. Sherlock, Jr. (1924) 82. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 83. Singin? in the Rain (1952) 84. Spirited Away (2001) 85. Strangers on a Train (1951) 86. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 87. Sullivan?s Travels (1941) 88. Sunrise (1927) 89. Sunset Blvd. (1950) 90. Taxi Driver (1976) 91. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) 92. The Third Man (1949) 93. Throne of Blood (1957) 94. Trouble in Paradise (1932) 95. Vampyr (1932) 96. Vertigo (1958) 97. The Wind (1928) 98. Wings of Desire (1987) 99. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 100. Written on the Wind (1956)
Publications:
DVD Review
Total Reviews:
340
Total QuickRatings:
7

Worst Reviewed Films

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1/5 —— Virgin Territory (2007) " What cements the film's utter worthlessness is the complete lack of charisma in the two leads." — DVD Review
Posted Sep 2, 2008
21% Spread (2009) " Ashton Kutcher is unwilling (or unable) to make himself the object of the same judgmental lens through which he has "Punk'd" other celebrities." — DVD Review
Posted Nov 23, 2009
67% Brüno (Bruno) (2009) " For all of its button-pushing, the end result is almost as superficial as its egocentric hero." — DVD Review
Posted Nov 16, 2009
—— Fire and Ice (1983) " Its ambiguously gay villain notwithstanding, Fire and Ice just doesn't hold the weight, either visually or thematically, that its creators probably hoped it would." — DVD Review
Posted Oct 29, 2009
—— Camille (2009) " The only people who might enjoy it are necrophiliacs--or masochists. Either way, they have issues." — DVD Review
Posted Oct 16, 2009
—— Blood Rain (2009) " If you can forgive the occasional convolution, you may find something to enjoy here." — DVD Review
Posted Oct 7, 2009
55% Surveillance (2009) " It is staggering to think that a film could be so horrifically nihilistic and so painfully boring at the same time, but Lynch has done it." — DVD Review
Posted Sep 30, 2009
40% Fighting (2009) " Fighting consistently feels like a patchwork of better movies without their excitement or rooting interest in character." — DVD Review
Posted Sep 23, 2009
56% The Soloist (2009) " When [Catherine] Keener's Mary Weston suggests that Lopez may be exploiting Ayers, it is tempting to wonder how the filmmakers would react to the same accusation." — DVD Review
Posted Sep 11, 2009
39% Children of the Corn (1984) " How Children of the Corn continues to be so successful and popular 25 years after its release still remains a mystery ...." — DVD Review
Posted Jul 30, 2009
14% I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) " What truly makes [the film] so detestable is its disingenuous attempt to justify itself with a tacked-on call for acceptance of all people and lifestyles." — DVD Review
Posted Jul 15, 2009
—— Night Train (2009) " ... King betrays his own objective to make a classical thriller and succumbs to the standard triteness of direct-to-DVD schlock." — DVD Review
Posted Jul 6, 2009
88% Fast Company (1979) " There is nothing particularly memorable about Fast Company, even at the most superficial level." — DVD Review
Posted Jun 29, 2009
68% Revolutionary Road (2008) " It plays like Douglas Sirk without the irony." — DVD Review
Posted Jun 3, 2009
35% The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) " It reaches a level of mediocrity that leaves the previous entries in the dust ...." — DVD Review
Posted May 12, 2009
52% The Fast and the Furious (2001) " ... when characters are not racing at breakneck speed, the movie as a whole ceases to move." — DVD Review
Posted May 12, 2009
76% 8 Mile (2002) " ... Rocky with a rap beat ...." — DVD Review
Posted Apr 13, 2009
65% Quantum of Solace (2008) " If only [Bond] had a villain as self-reflective as Heath Ledger's Joker to ask 'Why so serious?'" — DVD Review
Posted Mar 31, 2009
70% I Am Legend (2007) " There are some good points, but there are too many ineffectual aspects that keep I Am Legend from being the sophisticated film it was clearly meant to be." — DVD Review
Posted Jan 27, 2009
26% Eagle Eye (2008) " This is nobody's idea of an intelligent political thriller (or satire), but it is an orgy for the senses." — DVD Review
Posted Jan 6, 2009
65% Coach Carter (2005) " How terribly ironic that the story of an educator who dared to challenge the mental capacity of his students can produce a film that so shamelessly spoon-feeds its audience." — DVD Review
Posted Dec 22, 2008
72% Stranger Than Fiction (2006) " It could have been great. But it's just okay." — DVD Review
Posted Dec 2, 2008
—— Christmas Cottage (2008) " It's a little like holiday leftovers--still warm and filling but not as fresh or tasty as the first Christmas Day meal." — DVD Review
Posted Nov 29, 2008
—— Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (2008) " With by-the-numbers characters and only a marginally interesting setup, however, even younger viewers may grow impatient as the film makes its way to a pretty good climax." — DVD Review
Posted Oct 16, 2008
—— Virgin Territory (2007) " ... somehow manages not only to not be sexy, but neither witty nor engaging on any level." — DVD Review
Posted Sep 2, 2008
50% Smart People (2008) " ... a deadly dull narrative about four depressed stereotypes who spend an hour and a half going from unhappy to slightly less unhappy." — DVD Review
Posted Aug 27, 2008
48% The Ruins (2008) " ... soft-core torture porn that quite literally sets up its pretty, Hollywood protagonists for brutal sacrifice." — DVD Review
Posted Aug 1, 2008
21% Semi-Pro (2008) " ... a film that is bipolar in its intentions, at once trying to make us laugh at Jackie and care about the rest of the characters, but it's a losing battle on both sides." — DVD Review
Posted Jun 20, 2008
27% Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) " ... Newell and Harwood completely missed the mark with this one, turning a complex love story into a superficial period film with no heart or heat." — DVD Review
Posted Mar 12, 2008
71% Beowulf (2007) " At the end of it all, if you take away the violence, the defiantly in-your-face nudity, and Angelina Jolie, you will find very little story underneath." — DVD Review
Posted Mar 10, 2008
17% Saw IV (2007) " ... any serious consideration of the killer's fascination with violence is superseded by the director's (and the returning viewers') own sadistic pleasures." — DVD Review
Posted Feb 27, 2008
52% Margot at the Wedding (2007) " Pretty slim pickings here as far as supplemental features go." — DVD Review
Posted Feb 22, 2008
52% Margot at the Wedding (2007) " ... after submerging the viewer in a hotbed of emotional insecurity and self-loathing for an hour and a half, it offers no real hope or movement beyond what it started out as." — DVD Review
Posted Feb 22, 2008
67% Passion (Godard's Passion) (1982) " In spite of its best intentions, the film is a frustrating, even challenging, but ultimately empty experience." — DVD Review
Posted Feb 14, 2008
—— Maneater (2007) " Genius Products obviously didn't think much of this film either, and they have given it an appropriately shoddy DVD release." — DVD Review
Posted Jan 17, 2008
—— Maneater (2007) " What's that? Oh no, it's a man-eating tiger! Everyone, run for your lives! Oh wait, it's not a tiger. Oh my God, it's worse! It's a Sci Fi Channel original! RUN!" — DVD Review
Posted Jan 17, 2008
—— Jackass 2.5 (2007) " ... Paramount's new release, which, even by Jackass standards, is pretty sloppy." — DVD Review
Posted Jan 2, 2008
—— Jackass 2.5 (2007) " Jackass 2.5 is little more than a slapdash attempt to keep public interest in the franchise until the third movie goes underway (and it is coming)." — DVD Review
Posted Jan 2, 2008
23% Balls of Fury (2007) " The film is one long joke that just sort of lies there, flat and without purpose." — DVD Review
Posted Dec 19, 2007
23% Balls of Fury (2007) " In perhaps the movie's sole bit of irony, it completely lacks what it boasts so furiously--balls." — DVD Review
Posted Dec 19, 2007
79% A Mighty Heart (2007) " It would have been nice if Paramount had provided more substantial features on Daniel Pearl himself as these supplements provide only sketchy background." — DVD Review
Posted Nov 13, 2007
79% A Mighty Heart (2007) " ... A Mighty Heart fails to do the story justice or to flesh out the heroic people involved." — DVD Review
Posted Nov 13, 2007
29% Cutting Class (1989) " It is safe to say that the film would not be remembered at all today were it not for the presence of Brad Pitt ... and this is the only explanation for its release on DVD now." — DVD Review
Posted Nov 2, 2007
29% Cutting Class (1989) " Positioned as both a slasher movie and a comedy, the movie pretty much fails on both counts." — DVD Review
Posted Nov 2, 2007
—— Blade: House of Chthon (2007) " I am not surprised at all that the series was quickly cancelled, though the pilot on its own makes an entertaining, if lackluster, TV movie." — DVD Review
Posted Sep 25, 2007
5% Delta Farce (2007) " Although no special features in the world could make this DVD worth your money, the ones that are presented are still disappointing." — DVD Review
Posted Sep 13, 2007
5% Delta Farce (2007) " The only farcical aspect of it is that it was greenlit in the first place." — DVD Review
Posted Sep 13, 2007
93% Halloween (1978) " The only fathomable reason for Anchor Bay's new DVD edition of Halloween is to coincide with the theatrical release of Rob Zombie's remake." — DVD Review
Posted Sep 5, 2007
—— Masters of Horror - Tom Holland: We All Scream for Ice Cream (2007) " Some interesting visuals make this an attractive release, but (to make a really bad pun) this revenge tale is a dish best not served." — DVD Review
Posted Aug 13, 2007
—— Masters of Horror - John Landis: Family (2007) " Though there is plenty of gore, that does not equal frights, and there are few real surprises to be found here." — DVD Review
Posted Aug 12, 2007
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