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Wesley Lovell

""The lamp has gone out and I'm writing in the Darkness." - The English Patient. A statement on the true power of love."

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Biography:
Movies have always been a passion for me. Even when I was a child, I wanted to see movies that my grandparents wouldn't want me to see. Everything changed for me in 1990 when I sat down to watch the Academy Awards for the first time. I had a personal favorite going into the race and knew little to nothing about the awards themselves. Against odds that I was not aware of then, Driving Miss Daisy took home the trophy for Best Picture. I was ecstatic and it became my personal mission to study the Academy Awards and become a first rate prognosticator. In 1996, I founded The Oscar Guy, my personal website for the Academy Awards. Over time as I finished my studies in film, I began writing reviews in order to embellish my site. In 1997, I joined the Online Film Critics Society and have been a proud member ever since. In 2006, I was elected a governor of the Online Film Critics Society and am working on a number of projects that I feel will bring further prestige to the organization. I graduated from then Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) in 1999 with a BS in Communications/Mass Media. Through my studies, my intense love of movies grew and I have used much of that training to increase my filmic vocabulary and continue to work to increase my knowledge of historical contexts.
Favorites:
There are many movies that I enjoy but among my most beloved are Sunrise, Schindler's List, Citizen Kane, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
Publications:
Apollo Guide , Oscar Guy
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
780
Total QuickRatings:
16
Location:
Springfield, Missouri, USA

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
12/100 —— Rapid Assault (1997) Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0.5/4 18% Dance Flick (2009) " I may like this genre of comedy, but a film like this makes me hope it's going to fade soon." — Oscar Guy
Posted Aug 15, 2011
0.5/4 6% The Last Airbender (2010) " The Last Shyamalan." — Oscar Guy
Posted Jul 3, 2010
0.5/4 20% Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) " Michael Bay knows how to spoil any film he touches, taking an extreme step down from the surprisingly fun original." — Oscar Guy
Posted Apr 2, 2010
0.5/4 —— April Fool's Day (2008) " The remake ignores the fun of the original in favor of a twisted tale of revenge." — Oscar Guy
Posted Aug 10, 2008
0.5/4 32% Superstar (1999) Oscar Guy
Posted Jan 29, 2003
15/100 —— Vamps: Deadly Dreamgirls (1996) Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
17/100 —— Bloody Streetz (2003) " Fails to credibly portray a haunted character by imposing its own high-minded opinions without presenting a much-needed counter-point." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 30, 2003
17/100 —— The Minion (1998) Apollo Guide
Posted Sep 26, 2002
19/100 —— Marco Polo: Return to Xanadu (2004) " The special features on the Marco Polo DVD are about as worthless as the film." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 22, 2004
19/100 —— Marco Polo: Return to Xanadu (2004) " The story is so unbelievably cheap and unoriginal that, ten minutes into the film, you're wondering just how much more you can sit through before walking out." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 22, 2004
20/100 —— Mummy's Kiss (2003) " Recommended only for mature audiences who have no desire to see a movie about Egyptian intrigue but want to see a pornographic escapade set in two bridged time periods." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jul 30, 2003
2/10 50% Mondo Trasho (1989) Oscar Guy
Posted Jan 1, 2000
21/100 —— Deadly Ransom (2000) Apollo Guide
Posted Apr 4, 2011
21/100 —— Deadly Ransom (2000) " It's hard to imagine anyone finding this movie entertaining." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
24/100 —— Love Relations (2003) " The menu selection is better put together than any part of the movie." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 25, 2004
24/100 —— Love Relations (2003) " The quality of production, performance and writing is enough to serve as a warning to independent and new filmmakers of what not to do." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 25, 2004
24/100 0% Dragon And The Hawk (2001) " Dragon and the Hawk is a weak attempt at capturing the finesse and charm of Chan's films - one that never succeeds." — Apollo Guide
Posted Apr 3, 2002
1/4 18% Stan Helsing (2009) " A darkly humorous horror comedy that fails to re-ignite the spark that made Scary Movie so much fun." — Oscar Guy
Posted Aug 15, 2011
1/4 10% Saw 3D (2010) " It wasn't the finale I had wanted, relying mostly on unimpressive revisions on previous films attempting to create a series-spanning plot against one man." — Oscar Guy
Posted Aug 15, 2011
1/4 44% The Green Hornet (2011) " A childish film written from a grade school perspective with neither quality nor excitement." — Oscar Guy
Posted Aug 15, 2011
1/4 17% Priest (2011) " A poorly conceived, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking." — Oscar Guy
Posted Jun 9, 2011
1/4 11% A Little Night Music (1977) " An abomination of a stage-to-screen adaptation, with disjointed performances that avoids some of the musical's best tunes in an effort to make it more audience friendly." — Oscar Guy
Posted Jun 22, 2010
1/4 67% Daybreakers (2010) " Squandered potential at its most obvious." — Oscar Guy
Posted May 22, 2010
1/4 15% A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) " The nightmare on Elm Street is not how scary (or not) the film is, but how it destroys the franchise." — Oscar Guy
Posted May 9, 2010
1/4 43% Jennifer's Body (2009) " Attempting to instill wit into a witless horror flick, Diablo Cody shows that her faux-hip dialogue does not a feature make." — Oscar Guy
Posted Dec 12, 2009
1/4 16% Max Payne (2008) " A thrill-less video game adaptation." — Oscar Guy
Posted Oct 21, 2008
1/4 26% Ghost Rider (2007) " An abysmal excuse of a film featuring Nicolas Cage's worst performance yet and only marginally improving on the Spawn formula." — Oscar Guy
Posted Apr 28, 2007
1/4 8% Doogal (2006) " A jumble of bad movie cliches strung together into an overly simplistic tale of a pooch who gets in trouble over candy." — Oscar Guy
Posted Jul 25, 2006
1/4 10% Catwoman (2004) " And what would the film be without its performances? Better." — Oscar Guy
Posted Sep 5, 2004
1/4 15% Garfield - The Movie (2004) " For fans of the comic strip, "Garfield" is a severe disappointment." — Oscar Guy
Posted Sep 5, 2004
1/4 12% Timeline (2003) " With the exception of the original "Jurassic Park", films based on Crichton's novels have been not only unsuccessful but horrendously awful." — Oscar Guy
Posted Jul 11, 2004
1/4 31% Underworld (2003) " Underworld is a profoundly disappointing movie with nary a good performance and saved only by its bounty of eye candy." — Oscar Guy
Posted Nov 11, 2003
1/4 21% Wild Wild West (1999) Oscar Guy
Posted Jan 29, 2003
27/100 —— Mach 2 (2001) Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 27, 2001
28/100 23% Predator 2 (1990) " The filmmakers have tortured the audience with their banal ramblings and pointlessness." — Apollo Guide
Posted Nov 15, 2003
28/100 0% Legion of the Dead (Le6ion of the Dead) (2002) Apollo Guide
Posted May 17, 2003
29/100 —— Critical Mass (2001) " Delivered in a hackneyed, humdrum way that supplies the audience with minimal action and a plethora of boredom." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 5, 2003
33/100 —— Black Heat (2003) " This sad excuse for a motion picture should be as quickly forgotten as John Waters' Mondo Trasho." — Apollo Guide
Posted Aug 16, 2003
35/100 —— Airboss (1997) " A pedestrian action movie that rolls out every cliché in the book and is dragged down by a humorless plot and weak performances." — Apollo Guide
Posted Mar 27, 2001
36/100 —— Screw Loose (1998) Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 12, 2004
36/100 18% Cruel Intentions 2 (2000) " Just when it starts to win viewers over as an endearing and romantic film, the twist ending destroys this effect." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jun 19, 2001
36/100 0% 3 Strikes (2000) " 3 Strikes put its team to bat and struck out without a hit." — Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
37/100 —— Love Comes Softly (2003) " The special features on the DVD of Love Comes Softly remind me of those shirts that say you did something "and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"." — Apollo Guide
Posted Mar 27, 2005
37/100 —— Love Comes Softly (2003) " The film's pace is abysmal like too little grass spread across too much lawn." — Apollo Guide
Posted Mar 27, 2005
37/100 —— Storm Catcher (1999) Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1.5/4 —— The V.I.P.s (1963) " Trying to shoehorn a talent ensemble into a trite premise results in unmitigated failure." — Oscar Guy
Posted Aug 15, 2011
1.5/4 49% The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) " The only thing more emblematic of this franchise would have been had the ship sank at the end." — Oscar Guy
Posted Aug 15, 2011
1.5/4 23% Sucker Punch (2011) " Had Zack Snyder left no idea undeveloped, he might have had a better film, but underdevelopment appears to have been his motto." — Oscar Guy
Posted Aug 15, 2011
1.5/4 —— The Summer House () " A trifle of a short film with no seeming purpose." — Oscar Guy
Posted Aug 9, 2011
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