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ROB VAUX

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Biography: A native Californian, Rob Vaux grew up in the greater Los Angeles area before attending college in Minnesota and graduate school in Syracuse, NY. He moved back to So Cal after earning his M.A. and currently works as a writer and editor, as well as serving as a film critic for Mania.com and The Sci-Fi Movie Page. He's also a faithful fan of the Anaheim Angels, though he considers the Rally Monkey a dubious asset at best. He lives in the suburbs, has three black cats, and probably liked The Phantom Menace more than you.

Favorites: Brazil, The Third Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Throne of Blood, West Side Story, Wings of Desire, Miller's Crossing, John Carpenter's The Thing, and too many others to count. The Lord of the Rings is moving up with a bullet.

Publications: Filmcritic.com, Flipside Movie Emporium, Mania.com, Sci-Fi Movie Page

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 702
Total QuickRatings: 870

Location: The greater Los Angeles area.

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Rotten F	Rotten 21%	Halloween II (2009)	" *Blood and guts are fine, and nihilism can be quite powerful in the right hands. But Halloween II* uses them to cover up an utterly blighted experience.*" — Mania.com* Posted Aug 28, 2009
Rotten F	Rotten 51%	Funny Games (2008)	" *The appalling sadism it eagerly employs in the name of, well, decrying sadism, becomes all the more infuriating when Funny Games* repeatedly tells us it's for our own good.*" — Flipside Movie Emporium* Posted Mar 13, 2008
Rotten F	Rotten 13%	I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007)	" Pro-gay? Don't make me laugh, Happy Madison. I wouldn't want you to break the streak." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Jul 19, 2007
Rotten F	Rotten 40%	Running Scared (2006)	" I wonder if Peter Hyams can sue these people." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Feb 23, 2006
Rotten F	Rotten 31%	The Longest Yard (2005)	" Sad and ugly, the product of sadistic children devoid of moral compasses." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 26, 2005
Rotten F	Rotten 1%	Alone in the Dark (2005)	" The three stars have seen better days, but I'd like to think they could still do something classier and more dignified than this. Like gay porn." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Jan 27, 2005
Rotten F	Rotten 15%	White Chicks (2004)	" It goes places... bad places. Creepy, skin-crawling, 'no, mommy, not the clown suit' places. Places that chew at the subconscious and lurk in the hidden recesses of nightmare." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Jun 23, 2004
Rotten F	Rotten 0%	Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)	" You'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot. You'll be more entertained getting hit by a bus." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Oct 2, 2002
Rotten F	Rotten 40%	The Scorpion King (2002)	" Oh come on. Like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Apr 24, 2002
Rotten F	Rotten 2%	Battlefield Earth (2000)	" This isn't a movie, it's a crime against celluloid. You don't so much watch it as stare at it in gape-jawed disbelief." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Oct 24, 2001
Rotten F	Rotten 10%	Dungeons & Dragons (2000)	" Dungeons & Dragons, a misbegotten exercise in abject incompetence, produces all the magic and fun of a slow root canal." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Oct 24, 2001
Rotten F	Rotten 25%	Caligula (1979)	" I suppose certain college fraternities could make screening it part of their hazing rituals." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Oct 24, 2007
Rotten D-	Rotten 7%	Basic Instinct 2 (2006)	" Basic Instinct 2 would be a magnificent exercise in transcendental camp... were it not for the pleading, deluded look behind its leading lady's ice-blue eyes." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Mar 30, 2006
Rotten D-	Rotten 4%	BloodRayne (2006)	" Michael Madsen? Michelle Rodriguez? 'I'll take "Actors Who Should Never Appear in Period Pieces" for $500, Alex.'" — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Jan 7, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 23%	Planet 51 (2009)	" After positing its central gimmick, it more or less stands there for 90 minutes, waiting for applause that never comes." — Mania.com Posted Nov 21, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" So distressingly po-faced that even the funny bits smack of faux teen gravitas." — Mania.com Posted Nov 20, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" The audience paid for money shots, and money shots are what they get." — Mania.com Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 18%	The Fourth Kind (2009)	" As Truth, it's bullshit, and as Bullshit, it isn't remotely entertaining." — Mania.com Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 28%	Pandorum (2009)	" *Remember the scene in Star Trek* where Dr. McCoy talks about all the horrible ways you can die in space? Pandorum is basically a visual aid for that speech.*" — Mania.com* Posted Sep 28, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 30%	Gamer (2009)	" For starters, it's just plain goofy." — Mania.com Posted Sep 5, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" You can actually hear the writers pulling ideas out of their butts and flinging them willy-nilly at the screen." — Mania.com Posted May 22, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 28%	Fast & Furious (2009)	" *You know why movies like Fast and Furious* are so easy to pick on? Because they take themselves so damn seriously.*" — Mania.com* Posted Apr 2, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 4%	Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)	" *Even by the admittedly lowered standards of video game adaptations, the new Street Fighter* movie stinks.*" — Mania.com* Posted Feb 27, 2009
Rotten D	Rotten 50%	Twilight (2008)	" Supporters may argue that future installments bring more depth, but soup this thin rarely improves with age." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Nov 23, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 7%	Babylon A.D. (2008)	" *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.*" — Mania.com* Posted Aug 31, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 44%	The Strangers (2008)	" Yes, OK, bad things happen to good people. Consider the message received... about seven movies ago." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 29, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 9%	10,000 B.C. (2008)	" My poor brain hung in there for as long as it could, but it lost its grip during the giant chicken attack and I haven't seen it since." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Mar 11, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 41%	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	" *As sorority party filler or a double bill with the likes of Cruel Intentions, this movie can't be beat." — Flipside Movie Emporium* Posted Mar 1, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 10%	Fool's Gold (2008)	" Director Andy Tennant seems to have found a mythical Zen space of bad comedic timing." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Feb 8, 2008
Rotten D	Rotten 51%	Bee Movie (2007)	" *Beyond its basic concept, Bee Movie* hasn't the first idea where to go.*" — Flipside Movie Emporium* Posted Nov 5, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 54%	Across the Universe (2007)	" Across the Universe actually renders the greatest rock and roll music ever written as desperate and irritating as Britney Spears' flop sweat." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Sep 14, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 20%	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	" The material here makes one wonder how low you have to set the bar before it becomes irrelevant." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 9, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 24%	Evan Almighty (2007)	" It simply regurgitates what marketing research has told it we want to hear, along with a few shots of pooping birds in a vain attempt at laughter." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Jun 24, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 37%	The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)	" Yeah Johnny, it's got a Hemi. Too bad the rest of your movie is such a broken-down lemon." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Jun 15, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 17%	Georgia Rule (2007)	" *It might have helped to put as many women behind* the camera as we see behaving badly in front of it.*" — Flipside Movie Emporium* Posted May 11, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 9%	The Reaping (2007)	" 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?" — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Apr 6, 2007
Rotten D	Rotten 16%	Eragon (2006)	" God help us, there's going to be a director's cut, isn't there?" — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 19, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 13%	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)	" We may not have seen the end of this nascent franchise, but the beginning leaves depressingly little hope for improvement." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Oct 6, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 34%	The Black Dahlia (2006)	" It slides from pulp classic to guilty pleasure to cautionary example to full-bore train wreck." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Sep 14, 2006
Rotten D	Fresh 70%	World Trade Center (2006)	" Who wants to feel good about 9/11? I sure want to feel good about 9/11!" — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 8, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 24%	Lady in the Water (2006)	" A tedious, astonishingly irritating march through scene after scene of quasi-Jungian horse flop." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Jul 20, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 32%	Click (2006)	" *The first half of Click* is merely unfunny; the second is the most shameless appeal to sentiment since The Day the Clown Cried.*" — Flipside Movie Emporium* Posted Jun 23, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 24%	The Da Vinci Code (2006)	" Not even Ian McKellan can bring it to life... and when Ian McKellan throws in the towel, you know the difficulties are too large to fix." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 19, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 33%	The Sentinel (2006)	" It's obvious that nobody believed in this project longer than it took for the check to clear." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Apr 21, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 27%	The Shaggy Dog (2006)	" The Shaggy Dog is wholesome, yes. And safe. And homogenized and soulless and utterly devoid of anything worthwhile." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Mar 11, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 10%	Annapolis (2006)	" Real-life military trainers -- regardless of gender -- never make you say, 'Wow you're hot!' They make you say, 'I'll do whatever you want, please don't hurt me.'" — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Jan 27, 2006
Rotten D	Rotten 51%	The Producers (2005)	" *Flaccid, shambling, and ill timed, The Producers* evokes the crumbling remnants of its predecessors, devoid of their energy or charm.*" — Flipside Movie Emporium* Posted Dec 9, 2005
Rotten D	Rotten 10%	Aeon Flux (2005)	" Not even the sight of Theron in stylized bondage gear can atone for the muddled story, hackneyed action, and dulled-down effects." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 2, 2005
Rotten D	Rotten 35%	Must Love Dogs (2005)	" 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." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Jul 28, 2005
Rotten D	Rotten 33%	Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004)	" It compounds what to some of us are already fatal errors, while bringing nothing new to those who love the stage version so dearly." — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 22, 2004

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