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Mervius

""I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. And all those moments... will be lost in time... like tears in rain." -- Blade Runner"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography:
Grew up loving movies and books (especially of the science fiction genre). Attended Clarion University of Pennsylvania, then Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Have since worked 9 years in film and video. Started science fiction website in 1998, which got me noticed by Pittsburgh radio station (B-94, 93.7 FM), where I then did movie reviews on Friday mornings for a year. Quit to devote more time to website.
Favorites:
Titanic, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Braveheart, Blade Runner, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Excalibur, Forrest Gump
Publications:
Fantastica Daily
Total Reviews:
548
Total QuickRatings:
60
Location:
Pittsburgh, PA

Worst Reviewed Films

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0/5 0% Hero And The Terror (1988) Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 24, 2002
0/5 56% Without a Clue (1988) Fantastica Daily
Posted Sep 13, 2002
1/5 27% Major Payne (1994) Fantastica Daily
Posted Jun 27, 2003
1/5 18% Santa Claus - The Movie (1985) Fantastica Daily
Posted Jun 27, 2003
1/5 44% Timecop (1994) Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 18, 2002
1/5 71% Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 18, 2002
1/5 10% Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 4, 2002
1/5 7% Dunston Checks In (1996) Fantastica Daily
Posted Sep 20, 2002
1/5 18% Rent-A-Cop (1988) Fantastica Daily
Posted Aug 7, 2002
1/5 60% Class of 1984 (1982) Fantastica Daily
Posted Aug 3, 2002
1/5 47% Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Fantastica Daily
Posted Aug 3, 2002
1/4 9% Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) " Expelled is an embarrassing, uninformed, misinformed, river dance of manipulation and logical fallacies." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Apr 20, 2008
1/4 8% Prom Night (2008) " The movie is so relentlessly uncreative that I can't imagine anybody who has ever seen a couple slasher flicks enjoying it." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Apr 15, 2008
1/4 4% House of the Dead (2003) " Where does one begin in describing a movie as relentlessly and unforgivably bad as House of the Dead?" — Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 11, 2003
1/4 63% Cabin Fever (2002) " Perhaps it's my detestation for self-indulgence in movies, but I was put off beyond words by the level of artistic masturbation inherent in every frame of this one." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Sep 11, 2003
1/4 34% Bringing Down The House (2003) " Thanks to the film's shallowness and simplicity, many people who will laugh at this movie will indeed laugh right along with the stereotypes, not at them." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Mar 7, 2003
1/4 49% Jackass - The Movie (2002) " See Jackass if you're already a fan. Otherwise, avoid at all costs." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 25, 2002
1/4 17% Queen of the Damned (2002) " I haven't been this riled about a movie since Highlander 2: The Quickening. This is a steaming pile of fecal matter." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Aug 3, 2002
1/4 3% Rollerball (2002) " "A brain-dead exercise in incompetence."" — Fantastica Daily
Posted Feb 10, 2002
BOMB 19% On the Line (2001) " The characters are hollow and ridiculous, and the story is flimsy throughout." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 25, 2001
BOMB 22% In Dreams (1998) " A bizarre, slow film that is ineffective on all levels." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 14, 2001
1/4 6% Corky Romano (2001) " How did this movie ever get made? This is truly awful." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 11, 2001
1/4 22% Little Nicky (2000) " Poorly conceived, poorly produced, terribly edited. This just sucks on all levels." — Fantastica Daily
Posted May 8, 2001
1/4 8% The Forsaken (2001) " A painfully derivative pretender of a horror flick." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Apr 27, 2001
1/4 33% Just Visiting (2001) " It's not funny. It insults my intelligence. It sinks to a new low, among films in general." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Apr 6, 2001
22% Pokemon 3: The Movie (2001) " Your kids might love 'em, but it's not a healthy appetite you'll be feeding by taking them to this movie." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Apr 6, 2001
1.5/4 2% Disaster Movie (2008) " The filmmakers understand that comedy springs from incongruity. However they seem to lack the timing, craft, and spirit that go into such." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Aug 29, 2008
1.5/4 54% Mamma Mia! (2008) " A Frankenstein's monster of a musical, with ABBA tunes stitched together using the DNA extracted from successful musicals." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jul 18, 2008
1.5/4 27% What Happens in Vegas (2008) " In the end, only the one-dimensional characters on screen seem capable of believing that love has been found in this dreadful mire." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jun 17, 2008
1.5/4 37% You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) " You Don't Mess with the Zohan is not as awful as the despicable Little Nicky, but it aspires to the same sloppy adolescent-stream-of-consciousness depths." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jun 6, 2008
1.5/4 45% The Strangers (2008) " It would indeed be nice to be able to tell you that the movie has an engaging story, but alas, this product is as faceless as its inscrutable antagonists." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jun 6, 2008
1.5/4 7% Shutter (2008) " This movie elicits perhaps more laughs than any of the entries that have preceded it in the Asian horror remake franchise." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Mar 24, 2008
1.5/4 26% Drillbit Taylor (2008) " The kind of uninspired comedy where the producers have wrongly assumed that inserting the right people into the right gimmicky situation will write its own hilarity." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Mar 24, 2008
1.5/4 16% Jumper (2008) " This movie represents more proof that [Hayden] Christensen, without good dialogue and/or good directing, is a thespian adrift without a paddle." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Feb 17, 2008
1.5/4 23% Mad Money (2008) " Mad Money is a first-gear, uninspired comedy that wastes some solid talent (not to mention the audience's time)." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jan 21, 2008
1.5/4 41% 27 Dresses (2008) " Unless you're a sucker for romantic movies of any quality, I suspect you'll want to avoid the cliché-ridden, uninventive 27 Dresses." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jan 21, 2008
1.5/4 13% First Sunday (2008) " It's not bad enough that we have one obnoxiously over-the-top character, there are in fact two of them here competing for the dishonor of damaging our collective last nerve." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jan 11, 2008
1.5/4 0% One Missed Call (2008) " One is tempted to wonder whether the actors, producers, and director worked from a plot outline and merely inserted pronouns to come up with something resembling dialogue." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jan 5, 2008
1.5/4 21% Eternal (2004) " The movie wields stylish production but little else." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Sep 3, 2005
1.5/4 10% The Wedding Date (2005) " The Wedding Date is bland, awkward, and overly familiar." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Feb 3, 2005
1.5/4 13% Boogeyman (2005) " The only audience likely to buy into this nonsense consists of people who are too young to have much experience with movies in general, let alone horror movies." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Feb 3, 2005
1.5/4 9% White Noise (2005) " Unoriginal and reliant on cheap scares, White Noise isn't worth your time." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jan 7, 2005
1.5/4 40% The Grudge (2004) " A confusing, unintentionally funny horror movie that is unlikely to imprint its terror mark on the house in which it died (i.e. Hollywood)." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 24, 2004
1.5/4 10% Taxi (2004) " Taxi is a dreadful mess. The comedy is frustratingly uninspired, and the leads are never convincing." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Oct 8, 2004
1.5/4 21% Resident Evil - Apocalypse (2004) " ...consists of a premise and the resulting countless action scenes, with plot and dialogue only being stumbling blocks that [screenwriter] Anderson cannot seem to navigate." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Sep 11, 2004
1.5/4 22% AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (2004) " Boring vs. Stupid might have been a better name, because I'm not sure which adjective is the more fitting to this nonsense." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Aug 13, 2004
1.5/4 20% Thunderbirds (2004) " [The] adults are all one-note caricatures, seemingly less real than their original marionette counterparts." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Aug 3, 2004
1.5/4 10% Catwoman (2004) " The best thing that I can say about it is that at least Halle Berry has an Oscar and will probably survive this act of poor judgment." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jul 22, 2004
1.5/4 70% Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (2004) " Filled with one-note performances (that quickly wear out their welcome) and mean-spirited humor, the movie at times aspires to the depths of absolute abomination." — Fantastica Daily
Posted Jun 18, 2004
1.5/4 23% Van Helsing (2004) " Van Helsing tries to be too many things %u2013 homage, action movie, special effects exercise, and comedy %u2013 and it's never really any of these things." — Fantastica Daily
Posted May 7, 2004
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