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Derek Smith

""Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean." - Nana, Vivre sa Vie"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Biography:: I am 26 years old and a recent college graduate working/living in San Diego. I have always loved movies, but the obsession took over about 5 years ago. Aside from movies, I enjoy reading, sports, and hanging out with friends.
Favorites:: http://www.cinematicreflections.com/Masterpieces.html
Publications:: Apollo Guide , Cinematic Reflections

Total Reviews:: 220
Total QuickRatings:: 52

Location:: San Diego

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
0/5	78%	The City of Lost Children (La Cité des Enfants Perdus) (1995)	— Cinematic Reflections Posted Oct 24, 2004
9/100	——	Wuthering Heights (2004)	" The DVD is presented in widescreen and the quality of the transfer is acceptable." — Apollo Guide Posted Mar 10, 2004
9/100	——	Wuthering Heights (2004)	" A self-indulgent vehicle that forces the viewer to sympathize with insipid, stupid characters only by pinning them up against even more despicable and vacuous ones." — Apollo Guide Posted Mar 10, 2004
15/100	44%	Delirious (1991)	— Apollo Guide Posted Sep 26, 2002
	92%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" Its boxing metaphor plays out in such mind-numbingly literal terms, there might as well have been a woman in a bikini announcing the beginning of each day's interview." — Cinematic Reflections Posted Dec 7, 2008
	86%	Garden State (2004)	" 'the biggest problems lie in the simplistic nature of the characters and the reliance on quirkiness, rather than genuine, realistic emotion, to connect with its audience.'" — Cinematic Reflections Posted Feb 5, 2005
25/100	——	You Are Here (2001)	— Apollo Guide Posted May 23, 2002
31/100	36%	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II - The Secret of the Ooze (1991)	" Not only insulting to your intelligence, but also harmful for children to watch." — Apollo Guide Posted Mar 1, 2003
32/100	83%	Hwal (The Bow) (2007)	" A painful experience that no amount of eye candy can make up for." — Cinematic Reflections Posted Mar 28, 2006
1.5/4	89%	How Green Was My Valley (1941)	" [Its] moralizing is dishonest and at times offensive. No matter how effectively a story is told, it's hard to buy into one that so often deceives its audience." — Cinematic Reflections Posted Oct 30, 2006
1.5/4	91%	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	" It remains stuck in a limbo state that more and more indie films find themselves these days, because of its non-committal attitude." — Cinematic Reflections Posted Aug 19, 2006
1.5/4	48%	Naqoyqatsi (Naqoyqatsi: Life as War) (2002)	" Socially aware, but so nihilistic and fatalistic that it's irrelevant since it is unwilling to push towards the social change that the prior films supported so adamently." — Cinematic Reflections Posted Mar 1, 2004
38/100	100%	The Birth of a Nation (1915)	" shocks audiences with its blatant racism yet remains one of the defining films of the silent era." — Cinematic Reflections Posted Sep 24, 2005
38/100	——	Honeybee (2001)	" 'What makes Honeybee so bad is its inability to get past the clichés and say something interesting.'" — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 9, 2003
2/5	71%	Stardust Memories (1980)	— Cinematic Reflections Posted Jul 24, 2005
40/100	84%	Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)	" It's amazing how little we end up knowing about the specific schools and the environment where these kids come from and how much time we're left watching them look cute." — Cinematic Reflections Posted Jul 1, 2005
2/5	88%	Crocodile Dundee (1986)	— Apollo Guide Posted May 11, 2005
2/5	82%	Akasen chitai (Street of Shame) (1956)	— Cinematic Reflections Posted Oct 24, 2004
2/5	15%	Dead Man on Campus (1998)	— Cinematic Reflections Posted Oct 24, 2004
2/5	45%	The Great White Hype (1996)	— Cinematic Reflections Posted Oct 24, 2004
2/5	50%	Higher Learning (1994)	— Apollo Guide Posted Jul 18, 2004
2/5	63%	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)	— Apollo Guide Posted May 11, 2004
2/5	27%	Consenting Adults (1992)	— Apollo Guide Posted May 11, 2004
2/5	33%	Little Big League (1994)	— Apollo Guide Posted Feb 28, 2004
2/5	63%	Me Myself I (2000)	— Cinematic Reflections Posted Dec 22, 2003
40/100	52%	The Fast and the Furious (2001)	" I recommend this movie to hardcore automobile aficionados, 12-year old boys and dead people." — Apollo Guide Posted Jun 13, 2002
46/100	63%	The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)	" An informative, and relatively long, interview with Peter Weir is included on the DVD." — Apollo Guide Posted Mar 10, 2004
46/100	63%	The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)	" As a low-budget first film, director Peter Weir could've done worse, but I'm thankful that his career continued in a very different direction than this film would suggest." — Apollo Guide Posted Mar 10, 2004
46/100	——	What Girls Learn (2001)	" Heavy-handed musical score, trite dialogue, hammy acting, and one-dimensional characters." — Apollo Guide Posted Nov 25, 2003
47/100	——	Forbidden Relations (1982)	" 'Rather than allowing us to digest the story as it actually happened, the filmmakers seem to be deadset on making sure we reach the same conclusions as they did.'" — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 9, 2003
48/100	——	The Shipment (2001)	" 'Characters are brought together through ludicrous connections that are so unbelievable, it makes it difficult to laugh at even the few jokes that are funny.'" — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 9, 2003
2/4	65%	Perfect Blue (1999)	" [An] nime thriller [that] often plays as an examination of identity and celebrity, but ultimately gets so lost in its own complex structure that it doesn't end up saying much at all." — Cinematic Reflections Posted Aug 19, 2006
50/100	20%	Casper Meets Wendy (1998)	— Apollo Guide Posted Dec 7, 2002
52/100	19%	Wannabes (2000)	" Its over-simplistic and small-minded approach to the material does more than severely limit what it can accomplish." — Apollo Guide Posted Oct 29, 2003
52/100	6%	Exit to Eden (1994)	— Apollo Guide Posted Sep 9, 2002
54/100	50%	Extremities (1986)	— Apollo Guide Posted Jul 9, 2002
56/100	——	The Aviator (1985)	— Apollo Guide Posted Jul 28, 2002
57/100	64%	Houseboat (1958)	— Apollo Guide Posted Mar 22, 2003
58/100	82%	Thirteen (2003)	" Co-writer/ director Catherine Hardwicke has a talent for bringing emotion to the screen, but she must learn to channel it toward a deeper understanding of the characters." — Apollo Guide Posted Sep 29, 2003
58/100	33%	One Night at McCool's (2001)	— Apollo Guide Posted Jun 12, 2002
59/100	41%	Where the Truth Lies (2005)	" A delightfully seedy mystery who's joy lies only in the journey." — Cinematic Reflections Posted Dec 6, 2005
59/100	——	The Photographer (2000)	" There are no extras on the disc." — Apollo Guide Posted Jan 20, 2005
59/100	——	The Photographer (2000)	" Disappoints because it's an independent film that's as predictable and cliché-ridden as a weak, formulaic studio picture." — Apollo Guide Posted Jan 20, 2005
3/5	100%	Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)	— Cinematic Reflections Posted Jul 1, 2005
3/5	97%	Stalag 17 (1953)	— Apollo Guide Posted May 11, 2005
3/5	100%	Ministry of Fear (1944)	— Apollo Guide Posted May 11, 2005
3/5	63%	The Goonies (1985)	— Apollo Guide Posted May 11, 2005
3/5	65%	The Last Supper (1996)	— Cinematic Reflections Posted Feb 5, 2005
3/5	94%	Stray Dog (Nora inu) (1963)	— Cinematic Reflections Posted Feb 5, 2005
3/5	100%	Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 2 (1959)	— Cinematic Reflections Posted Oct 24, 2004

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