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Edward Champion

Edward Champion

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography:
As part of a multimillion-dollar laboratory experiment financed through government pork and shady corporate subsidies, the idiosyncratic gestalt entity Edward Champion (referred to lovingly by professionals in the field as Gadzooks Toast VIII) came into being sometime in the mid-1970's. He discovered a variety of things during the ensuing stage of Pavlovian self-awareness: (1) He was fond of images that flickered at 24 frames per second; (2) he was more devoted to coffee and Kit-Kats as a form of cinematic sustenance over popcorn; and (3) he proved exceptionally finicky when it came to certain titles. Accordingly, after stints as a filmmaker, writer, college radio DJ, public access television producer and one-time front man of possibly the worst garage band of all time, he stumbled upon the role of film critic, which he continues to practice when not immersed in other creative endeavors.
Publications:
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Total Reviews:
83

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
13% Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 (2000) " Suggests that the words 'A Joe Berlinger Film' should be uttered in the same context as mass murderers, neo-Nazis and born again Christians." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Feb 7, 2001
44% Flawless (1999) " A sin for which Schumacher can never be forgiven." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
47% Detroit Rock City (1999) " Seems just as fascinated with irresponsibility and rampant destruction as the savages who destroyed the Great Library of Alexandria." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
80% Bowfinger (1999) " Consider the other side of comedy's quick descent into the mire -- top talents compromising their comedic strengths to appeal to the broadest possible audience." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
28% Drive Me Crazy (1999) " Four score and ten minutes was the length of the flick." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/4 66% The Devil's Advocate (1997) — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
64% EdTV (1999) " A far cry from the elaborate fictional universe suggested by The Truman Show." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
71% Get Bruce (1999) " Plays more like an aloof paean to the comedy writer than a penetrating documentary." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
59% Blast from the Past (1999) " Wilson and co-writer Bill Kelly, after serving you a collection of lies, ask you to take the premise of this movie seriously." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
71% Enemy of the State (1998) " An action movie with a message, even if the message itself is about as profound as a plate of lima beans." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
54% For Love of the Game (1999) " Dear Mr. Raimi:" — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
26% Breakfast of Champions (1999) " Too obsessed with circumventing the ideas that could have made it a esoteric delight." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
41% Celebrity (1998) " There's only so much that can be done with the stock characters and situations that Woody continues to employ." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
67% Dogma (1999) " Smith seems to prefer standing on his own dogmatic soapbox rather than co-existing in the underground trenches that his characters inhabit." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
36% Dog Park (1998) " That not-so-rare movie in which an alleged comic prodigy ... is given a blank check by a studio to allow his so-called comic magic to run rampant." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
46% Forces of Nature (1999) " An endless barrage of unfunny jokes about the horrors of marriage." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1.5/4 39% Fear (1996) — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
4/10 41% Agnes Browne (1999) " Ah, aintcha charmin' now, Missie Angelica Houston, getting a bit of that ol' Irish spirit." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
4/10 46% Deterrence (2000) " The ending is as ridiculously conceived as the Pet Rock, securing this film's place in movie history as the politically-themed heir apparent to Def-Con 4." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
4/10 26% Diamonds (1999) " Represents the closest approximation of the moviegoing experience with a charitable donation." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
5/10 32% All the Pretty Horses (2000) " The editors have assembled it as if they were attempting to create a soufflé using a Cuisinart." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Feb 7, 2001
5/10 63% The Broken Hearts Club (2000) " A wooden (though somewhat entertaining) endurance test of a movie." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Feb 7, 2001
5/10 56% Deep Blue Sea (1999) " It is not only implausible ... but it is mega-stupid." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
5/10 73% Snatch (2001) — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
6/10 56% The Gift (2000) " Raimi fails to deliver a snappy visual worthy of the outlandish angles that hallmarked his early efforts." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Feb 7, 2001
6/10 19% The Beach (2000) " Too few cinematic bon mots scattered about to give this film even a dubious cult audience." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
6/10 22% The General's Daughter (1999) " The film is weighed down by such ludicrous moments as a major character committing suicide to (yet again) Carl Orff's Carmina Burana." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
6/10 77% Gladiator (2000) " Editing that looks as if the film had been handed to a demented butcher in post-production." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
6/10 82% Fantasia 2000 (2000) " The magic was being forced on me in a tight commercial package, almost as if a subliminal message was chanting 'The Mouse is God! The Mouse is God!' as I was watching it." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
7/10 88% Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000) " Friedkin ... could not decide whether The Exorcist was an artistic film that explored the cosmic yin-yang of humanity or simply a two-bit horror film." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Feb 7, 2001
87% The Blair Witch Project (1999) " All that's needed is a voiceover from John Larroquette." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Mar 19, 2001
3/4 75% Nixon (1995) — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
—— Les Bonnes Femmes (The Good Girls) (1960) " Claude Chabrol is the French New Wave director that got away." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
77% Eyes Wide Shut (1999) " A Voltairean parable of circumstance disguised as a commercial film." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
3/4 14% Canadian Bacon (1995) — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
93% La Vie Rêvée des Anges (The Dreamlife of Angels)(The Daydreams of Angels) (1998) " Reminiscent of The 400 Blows in the way that it captures a specific feeling at a specific age." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
3/4 88% Titanic (2012) — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
81% The Emperor and the Assassin (Jing Ke ci Qin Wang) (1998) " A torrid sensory experience that eludes the mind but pleases every other body part." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
88% Fantastic Planet (1973) " Jonathan Swift would be proud of the Oms." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
67% Broken Vessels (1999) " Works in large part because of the novelty of the script." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
8/10 95% Best in Show (2000) " Has enough laughs to offset its slow spots." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Feb 7, 2001
8/10 67% Sleepy Hollow (1999) — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
8/10 81% Better Living Through Circuitry (2000) " A earnest little movie that covers its ground succinctly and refreshingly without the clueless flavor-of-the-month approach one would expect from a one-hour MTV special." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
8/10 67% Small Time Crooks (2000) " Woody Allen set out to make a funny movie with Small Time Crooks, and nothing more. And he succeeded." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
3.5/4 97% Good Will Hunting (1997) — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
3.5/4 88% Twelve Monkeys (12 Monkeys) (1995) — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
9/10 57% Dr. T & The Women (2000) " Altman has demonstrated that he is a master of tailoring a star's persona to fit within his vision as neatly as a locomotive jetting through a tunnel." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Feb 7, 2001
9/10 71% Man of the Century (1999) — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
9/10 67% The End of the Affair (1999) " An enchanting Chinese box." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
9/10 89% 42 Up (1999) " Now that his subjects have gone through a significant portion of their lives, the cinematic result is more poignant than ever." — 24 Frames Per Second
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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