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Rob Vaux

Rob Vaux

"?You know what a cautious fellow I am.? ? Harrison Ford, Raiders of the Lost Ark ?You rotten man. Here, let me take your rotten bloody picture? for the rotten bloody newspapers.? ? Arthur Kennedy, Lawrence of Arabia ?I tried to stand up and fly straight, but it wasn't easy with that sumbitch Reagan in the White House?? ? Nicholas Cage, Raising Arizona ?Are you gonna let it go or are we gonna drive around pissed all night?? ? Edward Norton, The Score ?Okay: I'm going home. Keep your money.? ? Kurt Russell, Big Trouble in Little China"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

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:
1704
Total QuickRatings:
867
Location:
The greater Los Angeles area.

Worst Reviewed Films

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F 35% Battleship (2012) " As alien invasions go, this ranks as one of the most inept in movie history." — Mania.com
Posted May 18, 2012
F 18% Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) " This film sucks on a level I can scarcely describe." — Mania.com
Posted Feb 18, 2012
F 73% Machete (2010) " The vehemence with which Machete articulates its morass of views makes the 'just kidding' claims very difficult to swallow." — Mania.com
Posted Sep 3, 2010
F 21% H2: 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
F 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
F 21% Caligula (1979) " I suppose certain college fraternities could make screening it part of their hazing rituals." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 24, 2007
F 14% 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
0/5 10% Dice Rules (1991) " To those of us who suffered through his brief moment in the spotlight, it's such a relief to say it: Andrew Dice who?" — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Mar 19, 2007
0/5 18% Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth (1992) " Try to defend it. I dare you." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Mar 18, 2007
F 40% Running Scared (2006) " I wonder if Peter Hyams can sue these people." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 23, 2006
0/5 15% Gunmen (1993) " Truly awful, though I'll never get tired of Patrick Stewart a'slummin'." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 9, 2005
0/5 13% Fair Game (1995) " Cindy Crawford can act; Joel Silver told us so, and he wouldn't lie to us..." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Aug 29, 2005
0/5 15% Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) " Oh yeah, the Bee Gees are much better than that other band." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Aug 29, 2005
0/5 19% Love Stinks (1999) " They got one word in the title right." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Aug 29, 2005
0/5 —— Dead Heat (1988) " Despite the overwhelming demand for Treat Williams/Joe Piscopo team-ups, this effort remains surprisingly hard to find." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Aug 26, 2005
F 31% The Longest Yard (2005) " Sad and ugly, the product of sadistic children devoid of moral compasses." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted May 26, 2005
F 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
F 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
0/5 14% The Scarlet Letter (1995) " A hysterically incompetent camp classic, highly recommended for English department faculty parties." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted May 26, 2004
0/5 82% Flash Gordon (1980) " If only Ming the Merciless had turned his death ray on the producers..." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 17, 2003
0/5 49% Kids (1995) " Utterly repugnant, child pornography masquerading as serious filmmaking." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 14, 2003
0/5 69% Travolti da un Insolito Destino nell'Azzurro Mare d'Agosto (Swept Away) (1974) " You don't need Madonna to turn pretentious pseudo-Marxist philosophy into an unwatchable film." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 11, 2003
0/5 10% From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) " Phoned-in on every level. Don't be fooled by Bruce Campbell's name on the credits: he's gone after the first five minutes." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 9, 2003
0/5 6% Universal Soldier - The Return (1999) " Close your eyes and repeat after me: pro wrestlers must never ever EVER try to act." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jan 9, 2003
0/5 29% Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) " A fossilized abomination, thankfully relegated to the bygone decade which spawned it." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 30, 2002
0/5 63% Hellraiser (1987) " Any resemblence to Clive Barker's real work is purely coincidental." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Dec 4, 2002
0/5 0% Death Wish 3 (1985) " The final, sorry rattle of Charles Bronson's career." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Oct 3, 2002
F 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
0/5 0% Highlander II: The Quickening (Highlander 2) (1991) " It would be best if we all just agree amongst ourselves that this movie never happened." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Aug 13, 2002
0/5 22% The Flintstones (1994) " Can you gaze upon it and dare to deny that the apocalypse is imminent?" — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Aug 9, 2002
0/5 3% Cool World (1992) " Mommy! Mommy! Make the bad man stop!" — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jul 26, 2002
0/5 24% Exorcist II - The Heretic (1977) Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jul 26, 2002
0/5 0% Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) " Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jul 26, 2002
0/5 36% The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) " MST'd films should NEVER be viewed sans MST." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jul 26, 2002
F 41% 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
F 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
F 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
D- 26% Your Highness (2011) " So monotonously repetitive that you'll forget penises were ever supposed to be funny in the first place." — Mania.com
Posted Apr 8, 2011
D- 10% Season of the Witch (2011) " Worst. D&D session. Ever." — Mania.com
Posted Jan 7, 2011
D- 16% Skyline (2010) " One of the worst movies of 2010: an appalling distinction in a year so bereft of quality filmmaking." — Mania.com
Posted Nov 12, 2010
D- 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
D- 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
D 41% Dark Shadows (2012) " [Burton] fails on levels I wouldn't have imagined possible." — Mania.com
Posted May 11, 2012
D 56% The Lorax (2012) " The character in the book never came down from that hole in the sky; one look at the movie and I'm ready to follow him." — Mania.com
Posted Mar 2, 2012
D 42% Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) " Concepts appear and are abandoned with ruthless efficiency; threats rise and are dispatched with the glum drudgery of a janitor cleaning up puke in the toilet." — Mania.com
Posted Feb 10, 2012
D 7% The Devil Inside (2012) " It must be January. The s****y exorcist movies are in bloom." — Mania.com
Posted Jan 6, 2012
D 25% Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) " A torturous slog through endless pages of Bridal Wet Dream magazine." — Mania.com
Posted Nov 18, 2011
D 36% Immortals (2011) " Immortals' beauty is undeniable - rendered with the stunning prowess of a true artist - but it sits atop an incoherent hash of pretense and bloodletting." — Mania.com
Posted Nov 11, 2011
D 9% 1911 (2011) " A haphazard grab-bag of context-free fight scenes, cardboard characters and constant title cards explaining key details that the film itself can't reveal in any other way." — Mania.com
Posted Nov 4, 2011
D 83% Puss in Boots (2011) " A milquetoast homunculi assembled by the most hackneyed form of studio groupthink imaginable." — Mania.com
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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