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0.5/5
|
15%
|
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) |
"
Mega Swindle vs Giant Rip-Off"
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What Culture
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
|
0.5/5
|
66%
|
The Blind Side (2009) |
"
Sing it together with me my brothers, thank the Lawd for he created the white man that he might teach them po' negroes the value of good Christian chariddy."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
23%
|
Sucker Punch (2011) |
"
Thanks for nothing Zack Snyder."
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What Culture
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
The Love Guru (2008) |
"
Do you remember Mike Myers? Well I suggest that you hold on to that memory and lock it tight inside you, because The Love Guru wants to destroy it."
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What Culture
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
15%
|
Anuvahood () |
"
People wet themselves, and messily eat or ironically endorse the carefully placed products, plus a woman from Big Brother has ketchup sucked off of her feet."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
82%
|
Two Lovers (2008) |
"
Please, don't be fooled by this. It's all showboating scenes, pretentious ideals and NO realism whatsoever."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 13, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
20%
|
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"
Bayformers 2 is a mess of a story loosely glued together with lame jokes, fighting pixels and Megan Fox's ass."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
37%
|
From Paris with Love (2010) |
"
It's stupid, it's unoriginal, and it makes very little sense... but that's not all bad."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
7%
|
Holy Water () |
"
This is a real low for Linda Hamilton, and her career has largely consisted of collecting benefit cheques from the dole office."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
41%
|
Death at a Funeral (2010) |
"
The only scene in which the audience noticeably reacted to the film's efforts to extract some belly laughs came in the depressingly derivative poo jokes."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
64%
|
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2012) |
"
Headline 'serious teen issues' are crammed down our throats in the most inane and unbelievable way imaginable."
—
What Culture
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
38%
|
X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) |
"
I haven't been this disappointed by a film since the new Indiana Jones."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Baby Mama (2008) |
"
This is one of those terrible terrible creations that just leaves me feeling a little uneasy about the way the film industry works."
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What Culture
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
Make It Happen (2008) |
"
Another dance movie this year? Seriously, where the heck do they keep coming from?"
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What Culture
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
Rivals (Les Liens du sang) (2009) |
"
Why remake a decade?"
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What Culture
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
86%
|
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson (2008) |
"
This movie has confirmed my suspicion that people need to leave Hunter S. Thompson's story alone for a while."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
The Tempest (2010) |
"
As a re-imagining, particularly by a director so well renowned, The Tempest is depressingly pedestrian."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
31%
|
The Uninvited (2009) |
"
Take a 'concept', strip it bare of all layers of meaning, remake it with added genre cliches and scantily clad American teens in order to a 'wider audience'. Voila."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
70%
|
The Firm (2009) |
"
A watchable, but disappointing, movie that brings nothing new to the serious topic it addresses."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010) |
"
I found myself laughing more at badly composed scenes, lame make-up, and poor performances than at the humour."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) |
"
For a film about the dangers of falling asleep it tried damn hard to make the audience nod off."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
6%
|
The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
The Last Airbender is a horrific mish-mash of genres that follows a depressingly large number of dead ends in adapting its source material."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Isle Of Dogs () |
"
By the time the plot reached its ridiculous conclusion, I was resigned to sitting back and enjoying the absurdity of it all."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Tron Legacy (2010) |
"
I'm not saying don't bother seeing it, because there's still some fun to be had from the swaggering, fragmented plot, I'm just saying that we deserved much better."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
I Spit On Your Grave (2010) |
"
Gory and violent without really hitting home in either a visceral or meaningful way, and there are chunks that are actually quite dull."
—
What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
Hereafter (2010) |
"
So ridiculous was Hereafter that I laughed out loud several times at the ill thought-out, quasi-spiritualist philosophy it vomited from the screen."
—
What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
82%
|
Buda as sharm foru rikht (Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame) (2007) |
"
Stretching this to feature length was a sad detraction from a clever and emotionally effective story."
—
What Culture
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
38%
|
The Eagle (2011) |
"
This stilted view of 'Roman honour' is one big, phony cliché. Still, the fight sequences are good..."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
55%
|
Australia (2008) |
"
A funny frankenstein that's worth seeing just to point and laugh at."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
70%
|
American Teen (2008) |
"
It pains me to say it, but as far as I can see it's an extended and slightly better crafted example of those fake 'reality TV' shows."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 13, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
64%
|
Adam (2009) |
"
Too neatly packaged for my taste, Adam's rigid structure leaves the characters serving the story rather than the story expanding the characters. "
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
19%
|
Just Go with It (2011) |
"
High concept nonsense of the worst kind, exploiting Valentine's weekend to earn a bit of cash with a predictable love story and lacklustre Sandler humour."
—
What Culture
Posted Feb 11, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
47%
|
The A-Team (2010) |
"
It may well annoy a few of you as much as it occasionally did me, but it will probably also elicit a good few laughs."
—
What Culture
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
76%
|
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest (2010) |
"
The layers of narrative prove too diffuse, and there is not a good enough arc to hold a cinema audience for the duration."
—
What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
64%
|
Secretariat (2010) |
"
Secretariat is cliched, unrealistic and predictable, but it will make you feel good"
—
What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
53%
|
The Thorn in the Heart (2010) |
"
This is an interesting vignette. Even if nostalgia and flights of fancy cause Gondry to lose focus."
—
What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
58%
|
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) |
"
It's also a kind of two-dimensional romance, a kind of flippant look at life on a mental ward, and (...) kind of made me want to give Zach Galifianakis a hug."
—
What Culture
Posted Feb 1, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Get Smart (2008) |
"
There's enough packed in there to warrant a viewing if you fancy a bit of fun."
—
What Culture
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
Angel (The Real Life of Angel Deverell) (2007) |
"
The sumptuous visuals make it eminently watchable."
—
What Culture
Posted Apr 8, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Body of Lies (2008) |
"
Russell Crowe has finally realised he's just an ordinary fat guy now, and taken a role he can accurately portray."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Dean Spanley (My Talks with Dean Spanley) (2008) |
"
A witty and watchable period drama, but in danger of being remembered more for its service to O'Toole than for the impression it leaves on audiences."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 24, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Gran Torino (2009) |
"
This would be a fitting conclusion to a long and illustrious career."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 14, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Surveillance (2009) |
"
This strange thriller mixes a penchant for grittiness with the surreal and very very dark stylings of David Lynch, who happens to be the father of the director..."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 13, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
34%
|
The Burning Plain (2009) |
"
Deep-seated emotional problems are examined in a complex movie that, as ever with Arriaga, refuses to fit into a straightforward narrative."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 13, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
Duplicity (2009) |
"
Julia Roberts and Clive Owen are reunited for the first time since Closer, and they're a messed up couple again. But this time they're secret agents, which is cooler."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 13, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Traitor (2008) |
"
If it doesn't succeed in challenging you perception of the war on terror, it might challenge your view on Steve Martin."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 13, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Sugar (2008) |
"
A portrait of an immigrant, a sports movie commentating on the machinations of American sport and a coming-of-age drama: Sugar is not short of subject matter."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
41%
|
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"
The remake deviates from its source material, giving something new for fans of the original to enjoy/moan about, and employ some imagination with a few of the killings."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
Sunshine Cleaning (2009) |
"
Well worth a look for those who aren't too disillusioned with the post-Juno Indie film scene."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
Public Enemies (2009) |
"
Once Mann is done establishing his characters the film begins to get down to the most interesting element he brings to the project: the saddening decline of a giant."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 1, 2011
|
86%
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