John Venable

John Venable

"The whole 'This som-a-nom-biching coun-tree' monolouge from Johnny Dangerously."

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Biography:
Been a movie reviewer for more than 4 years and have over 500 reviews online. I review for the common man. I don't care what other reviewers think of what I write, I'm trying to save people time/money by exposing cinematic poo.
Favorites:
Blazing Saddles American Beauty O Brother Where Art Thou? Monsters Inc. Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Publications:
Supercala.com
Critics' Group:
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
487
Total QuickRatings:
473
Location:
Dallas, TX

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
9/10 33% Terminator Salvation (2009) " Definitely a 'summer blockbuster' and has enough great moments in it to outweigh any groaners that it may also have. In fact, the good moments outweigh the bad about 20 to 1." — Supercala.com
Posted May 18, 2009
8.5/10 78% Burn After Reading (2008) " Worth viewing if only to see Clooney, McDormand, and Pitt all play what Malkovich's character refers to as a 'league of morons'." — Supercala.com
Posted Sep 14, 2008
10/10 94% The Dark Knight (2008) " Everything you've heard is true...brilliant." — Supercala.com
Posted Jul 24, 2008
7/10 55% Step Brothers (2008) " Not the best in the McKay/Apatow canon, but still...it's funny." — Supercala.com
Posted Jul 24, 2008
8.5/10 78% Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) " That'll do Indy, that'll do." — Supercala.com
Posted May 23, 2008
8.5/10 57% Transformers (2007) " Fun, but a bit too serious." — Supercala.com
Posted Jul 3, 2007
9/10 81% Live Free or Die Hard (2007) " Bruce Willis is still a bada** and this series might not be dead yet...I'm just sayin'." — Supercala.com
Posted Jun 28, 2007
8/10 40% Shrek the Third (2007) " The bar had been raised so high by the first 2 films that reaching it again proves difficult...and they came close. Check it out!" — Supercala.com
Posted May 18, 2007
9.5/10 54% Alpha Dog (2007) " Outstanding work from a young ensemble. Ben Foster steals the show in an over the top performance as an a**kicking, always-in-trouble, speedfreak." — Supercala.com
Posted Jan 12, 2007
7/10 76% Rocky Balboa (2006) " Stallone doesn't embarrass himself nor his fans...it's pretty good." — Supercala.com
Posted Dec 20, 2006
6/10 33% The Good German (2007) " Technically amazing, but not engaging enough to recommend as theater viewing unless you're an arthouse freak." — Supercala.com
Posted Dec 15, 2006
9.5/10 88% Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006) " Remember the people that the Borat film made fun of? They're in this film too, picketing outside of Dixie Chick shows...idiots." — Supercala.com
Posted Dec 15, 2006
10/10 65% Apocalypto (2006) " He can't keep his mouth shut when he has too much tequila, but dammit, this man can tell a story on film." — Supercala.com
Posted Dec 8, 2006
9/10 62% Blood Diamond (2006) " Djimon Hounsou is excellent and Kagiso Kuypers delivers an amazing breakout performance." — Supercala.com
Posted Dec 8, 2006
6/10 17% Turistas (Paradise Lost) (2006) " If you remove all the horror aspects of it, it works nicely as a tourism campaign for Brazil. Never has there been a dumber group of travelers; wait to rent it." — Supercala.com
Posted Dec 1, 2006
10/10 91% Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) " The film might as well be entitled Retarded America, but lumping these idiots in with our mentally challenged population would be an insult." — Supercala.com
Posted Nov 3, 2006
7.5/10 73% Flags of Our Fathers (2006) " It's good, great in spurts, but overall leaves one longing for a story better suited for film." — Supercala.com
Posted Oct 20, 2006
5/10 34% Woman on Top (2000) " Wildly mediocre." — Supercala.com
Posted Sep 23, 2006
5/10 10% What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001) " Well...you could waste a few hours of your life. Does that answer the question?" — Supercala.com
Posted Sep 23, 2006
5/10 46% What Lies Beneath (2000) " They could've cut 10 minutes out of the first hour easily...and it still might have been too slow." — Supercala.com
Posted Sep 23, 2006
6/10 10% The Watcher (2000) " Not half bad as a rental." — Supercala.com
Posted Sep 23, 2006
6/10 27% A Walk to Remember (2002) " Succeeds modestly as a teen movie. Expect anything else from it and you'll be disappointed." — Supercala.com
Posted Sep 23, 2006
5/10 32% The Black Dahlia (2006) " A beautiful mess." — Supercala.com
Posted Sep 15, 2006
9/10 87% Jesus Camp (2006) " This isn't the blind leading the blind, but it is the visually impaired leading the blind. Disturbing." — Supercala.com
Posted Sep 15, 2006
6/10 41% Beerfest (2006) " It's one of those films that looks like it was more fun to make than it is to watch. I wanted it to be great, but it's only good." — Supercala.com
Posted Aug 25, 2006
8.5/10 74% The Illusionist (2006) " An amazing team of talent both in front of and behind the camera stretch a short story into a romantic fairy tale for adults that works." — Supercala.com
Posted Aug 18, 2006
9.5/10 91% Little Miss Sunshine (2006) " The writing is genius, the performances wonderful, and the film as a whole is a complete success." — Supercala.com
Posted Aug 17, 2006
7/10 68% Snakes on a Plane (2006) " If it could've been a little more stupid, it would've been bad-good. It's worth a look for those who love bad cinema. " — Supercala.com
Posted Aug 17, 2006
7.5/10 68% World Trade Center (2006) " Not the conspiracy theory rant one would expect from Stone, not at all. It's not a great film, but a good one that was made with love." — Supercala.com
Posted Aug 8, 2006
8.5/10 72% Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) " Pray to Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey that Ferrell keeps making silly movies like this." — Supercala.com
Posted Aug 4, 2006
6/10 26% John Tucker Must Die (2006) " Made for teenagers and they'll be seeing it no matter what we say. I would too if I was 16 and saw the poster. Wait for the DVD." — Supercala.com
Posted Jul 27, 2006
9/10 39% My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) " Uma is sexy, Luke is funny, and the script is hilarious...check it out!" — Supercala.com
Posted Jul 20, 2006
5.5/10 24% Lady in the Water (2006) " It's an ambitious mess at best, and the invented mythology is delivered to the viewer with the subtlety of a sledgehammer." — Supercala.com
Posted Jul 20, 2006
4/10 12% Little Man (2006) " The best film I've ever seen with a full grown man masquerading as a baby...hmmm." — Supercala.com
Posted Jul 14, 2006
6.5/10 69% A Scanner Darkly (2006) " It's a great looking film and the destination is worthy, but the journey leaves you wanting something more." — Supercala.com
Posted Jul 14, 2006
6/10 21% You, Me and Dupree (2006) " Kate Hudson looks great in a swimsuit and heels...is that enough to recommend theater viewing? Not really." — Supercala.com
Posted Jul 13, 2006
9.5/10 54% Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) " More fun than the cantina scene from Star Wars, Davy Jones and his barnacle-encrusted crew alone make this a must see!" — Supercala.com
Posted Jul 7, 2006
9/10 75% Superman Returns (2006) " Try to ignore the parallels Singer draws between Christ and Superman...go ahead, I dare ya." — Supercala.com
Posted Jun 28, 2006
4.5/10 11% Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) " The plot is a mish-mash of several Saturday morning cartoon plots and/or bad movie plots." — Supercala.com
Posted Jun 16, 2006
7.5/10 27% The Omen (2006) " Has one of the best on-screen deaths ever put on film...truly grotesque and effective." — Supercala.com
Posted Jun 9, 2006
9/10 81% A Prairie Home Companion (2006) " Altman's direction and Keillor's writing mesh perfectly in this quirky, yet 'homey and welcoming' film." — Supercala.com
Posted Jun 9, 2006
10/10 74% Cars (2006) " Pixar is truly the Ferrari of animation studios...another winner!" — Supercala.com
Posted Jun 9, 2006
8/10 34% The Break-Up (2006) " This is a very watchable film...not your standard rom-com garbage." — Supercala.com
Posted Jun 2, 2006
7/10 57% X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) " Not as cool as the first two, but worth a look just to see Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut run through things." — Supercala.com
Posted May 25, 2006
5/10 25% The Da Vinci Code (2006) " Would've worked better as a made-for-TV mini-series." — Supercala.com
Posted May 19, 2006
3/10 32% Poseidon (2006) " If a ship flips over and it's full of people that nobody cares about, does it matter if anyone makes it out alive? Allow me to answer that rhetorical question...no." — Supercala.com
Posted May 12, 2006
9.5/10 70% Mission: Impossible III (2006) " Is that Simon Pegg from Shaun of the Dead? Yeah, it is!" — Supercala.com
Posted May 5, 2006
9/10 84% Akeelah and the Bee (2006) " A Karate Kid-esque story of a intelligent girl that battles against the pressure to 'keep it real'...and wins." — Supercala.com
Posted Apr 28, 2006
10/10 91% United 93 (2006) " Good luck having a 'nice day' after leaving this film. You'll be an emotional wreck in need of a hug." — Supercala.com
Posted Apr 27, 2006
8/10 41% American Dreamz (2006) " The Weitz brothers are a 2-headed John Hughes for post-2000 audiences...not always critically aclaimed, but almost always loved by the public. Once again, they succeed." — Supercala.com
Posted Apr 21, 2006
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