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DAN LYBARGER

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Biography: Dan Lybarger has contributed film articles to the Kansas City Star, Nitrate Online, The Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, and PitchWeekly. eKC tmi He has an M.A. in Writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a B.A. in English from Ottawa University.

Favorites: My favorite filmmakers are:

Billy Wilder

Akira Kurosawa

Agnieszka Holland

Buster Keaton (I attend a Keaton Festival every year in Iola, KS. This festival takes place seven miles from Keaton's birthplace in Picquay).

Orson Welles

Martin Scorsese

Peter Weir

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Woody Allen

David Lean

Charlie Chaplin Favorite Movies:

The Apartment

Europa Europa

Life Lessons (from "New York Stories")

Modern Times

Apocalypse Now

Rashomon

The Magnificent Ambersons

The General (1927)

Witness (Part of my fascination with this movie is due to the fact that my relatives are Dunkards, a religious order like the Amish)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

My Life as a Dog

Of course, Citizen Kane

Publications: County Cable, eFilmCritic.com, Hollywood Bitchslap, Kansas City Star, Lawrence Journal-World, Lybarger Links, MovieMaker Magazine, Nitrate Online, Pitch.com, Rotten Tomatoes, Script Magazine

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Kansas City Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews: 636
Total QuickRatings: 257

Location: Kansas City

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Rotten 0/5	Rotten 0%	Super Capers (2009)	" Slower than a glacier at the South Pole. More powerful than the strongest insomnia cure. Able to empty theaters with a single frame. It's a turkey! It's a Hindenburg! It's Super Capers!" — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 0%	Dorm Daze (2003)	" The longer the film runs, the more interesting a watchdial becomes." — Kansas City Star Posted Sep 24, 2003
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 6%	Old Dogs (2009)	" Based on the quality of its script, 'Old Dogs' should have been put to sleep before the cameras started rolling." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" It's pointless to fault '2012' for being silly or perpetuating scientific and historic baloney. Instead, the new movie's unforgivable transgression is that it fails to make any of the apocalyptic destruction fun." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 14, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 22%	Next Day Air (2009)	" It delivers neither laughs nor chills and offers no visuals more interesting than the Exit signs on the theater doors." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 7, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 23%	Fired Up (2009)	" S-U-C-K! What does this movie do? It sucks! O-M-F-G! It sucks!" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 16, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 7%	Shutter (2008)	" 'Shutter' is a movie that's a few years behind its time, maybe even a few decades." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 20, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 26%	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	" With 'Drillbit Taylor,' however, Apatow hands the reins over to his prot�g�s and replaces his delicate balancing act with a steep, sudden fall." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 20, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 24%	Never Back Down (2008)	" Director Jeff Wadlow and screenwriter Chris Hauty offer viewers nothing that they can't see done better on Spike TV or one of the ESPN clones." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 13, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 14%	Untraceable (2008)	" 'Untraceable' is a thriller about computers that was probably written by one." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 24, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 21%	Fred Claus (2007)	" One wonders what made producer Joel Silver think this bizarre mix of incompatible genres would be a potential hit. Santa may have to skip his house for every winter holiday to come." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 8, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 13%	September Dawn (2007)	" Cain has co-written and directed a film that only the most bigoted of Mormom detractors could enjoy. Most viewers, if any are willing to part with their money or time, will simply laugh derisively." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 23, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 8%	I Know Who Killed Me (2007)	" There is no way that Lohan was in her right mind when she signed the contract for this one." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 26, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 16%	The Condemned (2007)	" Wiper loses the audience for good when he has some of his supporting characters give long speeches that thrash the contest before showing additional fights." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 26, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 11%	Perfect Stranger (2007)	" It's difficult to get involved in romantic situations where neither partner can lift their fingers from a keyboard." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 15, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 9%	The Reaping (2007)	" The most striking image in 'The Reaping' is a repeated shot of unusual looking wind chimes blowing in the breeze. By continually panning his camera to the chimes, director Stephen Hopkins unknowingly admits that the rest of his movie isn't worth watching." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 5, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 8%	Premonition (2007)	" Bullock has overcome dozens of similar turkeys in her career. For example, it would be nice to be able to forget 'Speed 2: Cruise Control.' Yapo, however, will have to cure cancer, AIDS and leprosy before viewers will forgive him for this movie." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 17, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 26%	Ghost Rider (2007)	" 'Ghost Rider' has an estimated budget of $120 million. While the studio might have been willing to spend all that money on this dull flop, it's reassuring that the rest of us don't have to spend a penny on it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 17, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 2%	Epic Movie (2007)	" Friedberg and Seltzer's most staggering achievement is rendering "Epic Movie" free from laughs." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 11, 2007
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 15%	Surviving Eden (2006)	" Writer-director Greg Pritkin ('Dummy') offers up a parody that's less enjoyable than the stuff he's mocking. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 24, 2006
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 26%	The Omen (2006)	" You know a movie is not worth the celluloid it's printed on when the only clever or even remotely original thing about it is its release date." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 7, 2006
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 18%	RevoLOUtion (2006)	" As a director, Carr has no sense of pacing (76 minutes seems like an eternity) and doesn't know when to tell Bret Carr the actor that his performance isn't working in a given scene. Carr's crying sequences look about as fake as a purple toupee." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 21, 2006
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 18%	RevoLOUtion (2006)	Click here to read article — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 20, 2006
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 7%	Basic Instinct 2 (2006)	" To get to those shots of Stone's chest and thighs, however, the audience has to wait through a two-hour story that's so tedious that the audience may walk out before Stone eventually liberates herself from her clothing." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 31, 2006
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 19%	Firewall (2006)	" From the moment that Paul Bettany's British accent mysteriously returns, we know there's trouble afoot." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 12, 2006
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 26%	Fantastic Four (2005)	" Michael Chiklis won't have to put on that uncomfortable Thing outfit again." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 9, 2005
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 40%	A Lot Like Love (2005)	" A Lot Like Love is one of those romantic comedies that features characters so annoying that one hopes they break up and save the gene pool irreparable damage." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 21, 2005
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 13%	Hide and Seek (2005)	" As for DeNiro, I'd rather seem him do another commercial than watch him waste both his time and mine on material that Steven Seagal would reject." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 27, 2005
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 12%	Are We There Yet? (2005)	" The movie never passes up an opportunity to insult viewers of all ages." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 21, 2005
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 31%	The Forgotten (2004)	" The filmmakers have their characters screaming and running for their lives, and it becomes exceedingly hard to figure out or even care why." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 16, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 11%	The Man (2005)	" It takes filmmakers of rare skill to make the reliable Eugene Levy unamusing and to reduce Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson to a series of angry poses." — Kansas City Star Posted Sep 9, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 11%	Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)	" Director Paul Schrader delivered a movie that the studio didn't like. Now Renny Harlin makes one that nobody likes." — Kansas City Star Posted Aug 21, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 19%	Thunderbirds (2004)	" It doesn't take long to miss the puppets from the original show." — Kansas City Star Posted Jul 30, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 15%	White Chicks (2004)	" *If you lie restlessly awake at night because you're deeply upset by the lack of flatulence gags in recent comedies, White Chicks* is the answer to your prayers.*" — eFilmCritic.com* Posted Jun 23, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 2%	Twisted (2004)	" Kaufman's personal touch is missing, as if he knew this thing wouldn't look good on a r�sum�." — Nitrate Online Posted Mar 9, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 19%	Chasing Liberty (2004)	" *The attempts at humor make a viewer long for the comedy and romance of Freddy vs. Jason." — Nitrate Online* Posted Feb 1, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 30%	Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)	" Ninety minutes of Kennedy's one-note primping in the movie gets as preposterous and monotonous as the Iraqi Information Minister." — Kansas City Star Posted Apr 18, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 7%	Boat Trip (2003)	" *A lot of movies aim for the lowest common denominator. Boat Trip* is merely low.*" — Nitrate Online* Posted Apr 9, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 8%	Kangaroo Jack (2003)	" *My four-year-old nephew can write his own name. This puts him several steps above the folks who wrote the screenplay for Kangaroo Jack." — Nitrate Online* Posted Jan 23, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 21%	Jason X (2002)	" Four hundred years into the future, human beings can conquer new planets and are still dumb enough to split up when a psycho killer is after them." — Kansas City Star Posted Apr 26, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 19%	National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)	" Once upon a time, anything associated with the name "National Lampoon" generated as many chuckles as a can of nitrous oxide. Now the effect is more like a laxative." — Kansas City Star Posted Apr 5, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 17%	The Queen of the Damned (2002)	" Fate made the mistake of taking Aaliyah instead of the film." — Kansas City Star Posted Feb 26, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 19%	John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001)	" If the director continues to make films like this, the delights he once offered will be nothing but a distant memory." — Lawrence Journal-World Posted Aug 22, 2001
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 12%	Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)	" It's about as appetizing as month-old leftovers from the Outback Steakhouse." — Lawrence Journal-World Posted Apr 18, 2001
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 24%	See Spot Run (2001)	" Because it fails on so many levels, one wonders why "See Spot Run" wasn't put to sleep during development." — Lawrence Journal-World Posted Mar 14, 2001
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 22%	The Invisible Circus (2001)	" The Invisible Circus feels less like a drug trip and more like the annoying side effects on the morning after." — Nitrate Online Posted Feb 19, 2001
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 9%	Head Over Heels (2001)	" Just like an unholy creature put together from the dead, Head Over Heels threatens to fall apart in motion and lives up to its pledge. " — Nitrate Online Posted Feb 12, 2001
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 2%	Battlefield Earth (2000)	" Legions of science-fiction fans will feel compelled to approach the ticket booth and scream for a refund." — Lybarger Links Posted Apr 2, 2001

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