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Marty Mapes

Marty Mapes

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography:
Marty Mapes is a web developer by day. He has a B.F.A. in film from the University of Colorado.
Favorites:
FAVORITE MOVIES (as of 1998): Koyaanisqatsi (1981, Godfrey Reggio), Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953, Jacques Tati), and Local Hero (1983, Bill Forsythe)
Publications:
Movie Habit
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
1291
Total QuickRatings:
18
Location:
Boulder, Colorado

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/4 33% What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004) " A colorful brochure; a Watchtower for new-age mysticism" — Movie Habit
Posted Jun 24, 2004
0/4 19% The Life of David Gale (2003) " The two words that kept springing into my mind were not 'smart movie' but 'utter crap'" — Movie Habit
Posted Feb 21, 2003
0/4 25% Formula 51 (The 51st State) (2002) " Utterly without redeeming social importance" — Movie Habit
Posted Oct 25, 2002
.5/4 18% Collateral Damage (2002) " Don't make any sudden moves, back away slowly, and whatever you do, don't make eye contact" — Movie Habit
Posted Feb 8, 2002
1/5 41% Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) Movie Habit
Posted Jul 26, 2002
1/5 93% Withnail and I (1987) Movie Habit
Posted Jul 26, 2002
1/5 94% Short Cuts (1993) Movie Habit
Posted Jul 26, 2002
1/4 —— Unseen (2008) " Recent films capture the soul and pace of the South; this one seems only to capture the stereotypes" — Movie Habit
Posted May 14, 2009
1/4 20% Shu shan zheng zhuan (The Legend of Zu) (Zu Warriors) (2001) " Such little regard for character or motive that it's a wonder I stayed awake" — Movie Habit
Posted Apr 14, 2006
1/4 —— Dinocroc (2003) " I found myself laughing at them and not with them" — Movie Habit
Posted Feb 4, 2006
1/4 55% Madagascar (2005) " An unfunny movie with a depressing premise and an unsolvable conflict" — Movie Habit
Posted Jun 4, 2005
1/4 1% Alone in the Dark (2005) " No subtext, no moral, no cultural observation, no substance; if it had calories, they would be empty" — Movie Habit
Posted Jan 28, 2005
1/4 16% Alexander (2004) " Doesn't earn the right to be three hours long" — Movie Habit
Posted Nov 25, 2004
1/4 20% Which Way Is Up? (1977) " Should have stayed in the vault." — Movie Habit
Posted Jul 12, 2002
1/4 3% Rollerball (2002) " Rollerball is just plain bad." — Movie Habit
Posted Feb 8, 2002
1/4 53% My First Mister (2002) " Sold as a lightweight dramatic comedy, Mister misses by far" — Movie Habit
Posted Oct 18, 2001
1.5/4 83% The Raid: Redemption (2012) " Grindhouse action flick needs more redeeming qualities" — Movie Habit
Posted Apr 15, 2012
1.5/4 —— The Moon in the Gutter (2009) " Characters with unreadable motives are hard to like, and no amount of atmosphere can help" — Movie Habit
Posted Jul 26, 2009
1.5/4 79% He Was A Quiet Man (2007) " Occasionally works as a black comedy, but there's nothing real or true in it" — Movie Habit
Posted Jan 17, 2008
1.5/4 —— I Am Legend () " Botched adaptation has Will Smith and a dog... if that's all you want from a movie" — Movie Habit
Posted Dec 20, 2007
1.5/4 36% Art School Confidential (2006) " Has the makings of a mediocre, after-school sitcom" — Movie Habit
Posted Jun 9, 2006
1.5/4 55% Con Air (1997) " Why now? Don't ask; just shut up and enjoy the ride." — Movie Habit
Posted Jun 9, 2006
1.5/4 91% Water (2005) " Tedious as a high-school health-class movie" — Movie Habit
Posted May 5, 2006
1.5/4 43% Casanova (2005) " Those who grew up with Three's Company reruns will recognize the story" — Movie Habit
Posted Feb 5, 2006
1.5/4 71% Thumbsucker (2005) " It's a great title. It screams "Look at me! I'm quirky!" But the movie has no substance." — Movie Habit
Posted Oct 6, 2005
1.5/4 51% Transporter 2 (2005) " A bigger, sillier plot; too many CG special effects; and not nearly enough straightforward action" — Movie Habit
Posted Sep 1, 2005
1.5/4 19% She Hate Me (2004) " Seems like the ramblings of an insulated, precocious teenager" — Movie Habit
Posted Feb 9, 2005
1.5/4 48% Silver City (2004) " Characters inhabit different movies, and the trademark Sayles complexity seems forced, not organic" — Movie Habit
Posted Sep 19, 2004
1.5/4 72% Open Water (2004) " The characters are so badly drawn that we don't empathize with them" — Movie Habit
Posted Aug 11, 2004
1.5/4 67% Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004) " You'll be more likely to scratch your head in puzzlement than to pull your mouth into a smile" — Movie Habit
Posted Jul 9, 2004
1.5/4 29% The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) " A tedious, silly, overbudgeted, overwritten popcorn flick" — Movie Habit
Posted Jun 11, 2004
1.5/4 4% Godsend (2003) " A bland story with nothing going for it but a moderately timely premise" — Movie Habit
Posted May 5, 2004
1.5/4 7% Envy (2004) " The laughs are few and far-between, and the ending doesn't come soon enough" — Movie Habit
Posted May 5, 2004
1.5/4 29% The Punisher (2004) " The comic-book tone is quickly supplanted by cruel scenes of torture and horrible revenge" — Movie Habit
Posted Apr 16, 2004
1.5/4 55% The Girl Next Door (2004) " After empowering its heroine, it demeans her, which kills all the fun" — Movie Habit
Posted Apr 9, 2004
1.5/4 12% Cold Creek Manor (2003) " Nothing in Cold Creek Manor is as creepy or scary as it's supposed to be" — Movie Habit
Posted Mar 3, 2004
1.5/4 14% Welcome To Mooseport (2004) " 22 minutes of sitcom entertainment, padded out to a long 90 minutes" — Movie Habit
Posted Feb 25, 2004
1.5/4 75% House of Sand and Fog (2003) " Not nearly as interesting or nuanced as it seems to think it is" — Movie Habit
Posted Dec 31, 2003
1.5/4 77% Bad Santa (2003) " Terry Zwigoff flips the bird at holiday cheer" — Movie Habit
Posted Nov 25, 2003
1.5/4 90% Whale Rider (2003) " An excellent first performance can't balance naïve writing and direction" — Movie Habit
Posted Jul 2, 2003
1.5/4 30% Hollywood Homicide (2003) " It asks too much and offers too little" — Movie Habit
Posted Jun 18, 2003
1.5/4 56% Ararat (2002) " Ararat feels like a book report" — Movie Habit
Posted Mar 19, 2003
1.5/4 34% Tears of the Sun (2003) " On the whole, Tears of the Sun isn't interested in politics. It is content to be an 8-year-old on the playground, making explosion sounds with its mouth and spitting out tough-sounding jargon." — Movie Habit
Posted Mar 12, 2003
1.5/4 18% The Jungle Book 2 (2003) " Rent the 1967 original and leave this sequel to the wolves" — Movie Habit
Posted Feb 18, 2003
1.5/4 66% Shanghai Knights (2003) " Shanghai Knights is a mess. A few ground rules would have helped immensely." — Movie Habit
Posted Feb 10, 2003
1.5/4 42% Two Weeks Notice (2002) " The shallow characters and simple writing make the movie seem like a cartoon" — Movie Habit
Posted Dec 25, 2002
1.5/4 29% The Accidental Spy (Te wu mi cheng) (2001) Movie Habit
Posted Nov 22, 2002
1.5/4 48% Undisputed (2002) " It would not be unfair to say that Undisputed glamorizes prison and boxing, two of the last things I'd want anyone to aspire to." — Movie Habit
Posted Aug 28, 2002
1.5/4 29% The Accidental Spy (Te wu mi cheng) (2001) " Shows that Jackie Chan is getting older, and that's something I would rather live in denial about" — Movie Habit
Posted Aug 12, 2002
1.5/4 74% Signs (2002) " A big disappointment." — Movie Habit
Posted Aug 7, 2002
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