Mike Sage

Mike Sage

"Exercise gives you endorphines, endorphines make you happy; happy people just don't shoot their husbands! (Legally Blonde)"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 63% of the time.

Biography:
Freelance writer and film critic in Toronto, writing for Peterborough This Week, PopMatters.com and BlogTO.com, also a budding filmmaker, with first short: "Decoding Aleil" having debuted on Canada's Space: the Imagination Station
Favorites:
Death Becomes Her, Contact, Braveheart, Gladiator, The Ring, Dawn of the Dead (remake), Mulan, The Descent, The Departed, Children of Men, 300
Publications:
Peterborough This Week
Total Reviews:
205
Location:
Downtown Toronto.

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/5 4% Happily N'ever After (2006) " Call me rash, but I wager the worst flick of 2007 is Sarah Michelle Gellar's latest clunker, Happily N'ever After." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jan 9, 2007
0.5/5 11% All The King's Men (2006) " I didn't hate every second of All the King's Men. The film is book-ended by two cool bird's eye shots of the Louisiana State crest...Combined, these symbolic images last about 2-3 minutes. I did, however, hate every other second." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Sep 26, 2006
0.5/5 15% The Wicker Man (2006) " Watching Cage karate chop Leelee "Made-for-TV" Sobiesky into submission is almost worth the price of admission. Well, assuming admission was free. " — Peterborough This Week
Posted Sep 5, 2006
0.5/5 69% Curious George (2006) " Curious George is unbearable animated torture: monotonous, hackneyed and lethally cute" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Feb 16, 2006
0.5/5 9% Catwoman (2004) " this flick is so Giglicious ... I laughed so much I almost forgave Pitof for being in heat and spraying this cinematic violation all over DC's trademark vixen" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jul 26, 2004
1/5 8% 10,000 B.C. (2008) " The actors speak in fluent anachronistic English. The dialogue is prehistoric but not in the way Emmerich intended." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Apr 15, 2008
1/5 26% John Tucker Must Die (2006) " Betty Thomas's sloppy storytelling and comic incompetence can be forgiven but to portray young women as flighty airheads obsessed with boys over all else is downright offensive." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Sep 5, 2006
1/5 6% Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) " This sequel is just a string of lame slapstick gags, where Steve Martin acts handicapped, makes a fool of himself and gets a wetsuit stuck up his butt." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jan 2, 2006
1/5 55% Madagascar (2005) " Lesson learned? If you're insufferable, unfunny and charmless in live action, your voice alone is probably just as annoying" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jun 21, 2005
1/5 31% The Forgotten (2004) " The art direction is shoddy and sparing, the antagonists more laughable than menacing, the ending more PG than Full House. Amnesia never sounded more appealing. " — Peterborough This Week
Posted Oct 6, 2004
1/5 22% Van Helsing (2004) " Universal serves up a bloated, over-priced mess crammed full of the worst CGI effects this side of the Hulk" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jun 10, 2004
1.5/5 27% Seven Pounds (2008) " Smith and Dawson both look like death, so watching their romance-on-life-support is painfully dreary and tragically unsexy" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Dec 23, 2008
1.5/5 54% Mamma Mia! (2008) " Unfortunately, Streep and her ancient co-stars create pure torture whenever on screen together. This is the Catwoman of movie musicals" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Sep 9, 2008
1.5/5 11% Fool's Gold (2008) " Never do we believe that these two might actually be capable of hooking up off-screen, and this romantic flatness kills your appetite to keep watching." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Apr 15, 2008
1.5/5 8% Premonition (2007) " I had a premonition this might be a forgettable mediocrity, but I was wrong. It's actually a laughable turd." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Mar 19, 2007
1.5/5 24% Lady in the Water (2006) " Lady in the Water sounds wacky but it's mostly just boring." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Sep 5, 2006
1.5/5 19% Step Up (2006) " Stealing freely from Save the Last Dance but unintentionally nixing the wicked dance moves, this teen turd doesn't even have the logical sense to remove its hunky lead's shirt." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Sep 5, 2006
1.5/5 10% Elektra (2005) " The curse of the new Bennifer has birthed a deformed fury that not even sexy red ninja lingerie could save" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jul 6, 2005
1.5/5 21% AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (2004) " Just as the director sucked the soul and scares out of Resident Evil, he's torn every ounce of dread, tension and awe from Sigourney and Arnold's respective flagships" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jul 6, 2005
1.5/5 39% The Grudge (2004) " Well this is not only the biggest disappointment of the year, but one crummy way to ruin my Halloween." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Oct 25, 2004
1.5/5 15% White Chicks (2004) " One character almost has it right when she describes it all as Jerry Springer. But even the Ringmaster has standards: Reverse racist drag is so three seasons ago." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jun 21, 2004
1.5/5 23% Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) " this lukewarm snore hasn't a chance in *#$@ of ruffling your feathers let alone deserving its proverbial title of fear." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Sep 4, 2003
1.5/5 79% Open Range (2003) " Open Range is a bad case of a much too open-minded director in terrible need of a good lasso" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Sep 1, 2003
1.5/5 19% The Life of David Gale (2003) " It isn't long before we yearn to see David Gale as the poster-boy for deserved capital punishment." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jul 16, 2003
2/5 64% Watchmen (2009) " Watchmen isn't a superhero movie, it's a pretentious turkey that thinks it's better than the genre." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Mar 12, 2009
2/5 64% Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) " Barring direct-to-DVD Disney sequels, the first Madagascar was one of the worst animated flicks of all time. The bad news is Escape 2 Africa reunites the same cast and directors that made the first DreamWorks flick such a turkey." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Dec 2, 2008
2/5 91% There Will Be Blood (2007) " And the winner of the overrated Oscar front-runner award goes to..." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Apr 15, 2008
2/5 51% Nim's Island (2008) " here is in fact no actual villain or conflict or tension or fun, and let's face it: we all know Jack will make it back safe and sound (sorry kids, but Wendy Or doesn't have JK Rowling's narrative cahoonas)" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Apr 15, 2008
2/5 90% The Simpsons Movie (2007) " Doh! What a colossal disappointment. The Simpsons Movie has its funny bits but so does the average Marge-centric episode. But this is a highly anticipated 90-minute episode for which audiences have to pay." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Aug 29, 2007
2/5 20% The Invasion (2007) " The Invasion is Nicole Kidman's latest unsuccessful summer attempt to prove she's a versatile actress." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Aug 29, 2007
2/5 37% Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) " somehow Jessica Alba's acting has taken a turn for the worse, and Chris Evans has the audacity to only take his shirt off for three seconds" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jun 27, 2007
2/5 70% Ocean's Thirteen (2007) " somewhere between the locker room ass-slapping, the bland heist plot develops, as if it really matters" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jun 27, 2007
2/5 26% Ghost Rider (2007) " Outside of maybe X-men's Jubilee, I can't think of a comic character less deserving of the big-screen treatment than Ghost Rider. But what do I know? Maybe the idea of Nic Cage in unyielding biker leather sounded good on paper." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Feb 16, 2007
2/5 84% Bridge to Terabithia (2007) " It's an appropriate thing this film is about the strength of imagination because you'll be needing yours if you plan on surviving until the final credits" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Feb 14, 2007
2/5 16% Eragon (2006) " It's no wonder you can expect a spoof called "Epic Movie," in theatres next spring, from the makers of Scary Movie." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Dec 19, 2006
2/5 72% Stranger Than Fiction (2006) " Stranger than Fiction is more high-concept than high-brow; a comedy heavy on gimmick that falls a little short of cunning." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Dec 6, 2006
2/5 23% RV (2006) " if getting rained on by fecal matter and fisticuffs with ferocious raccoons (played by three tracks of off-camera Foley-SFX) tickle your funny-bone, then by all means board this trailer-park dump." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Apr 28, 2006
2/5 33% The Sentinel (2006) " worse than those episodes of 24 featuring cougars chasing Kim Bauer" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Apr 24, 2006
2/5 7% Basic Instinct 2 (2006) " the most gratifyingly God-awful guilty pleasure since Catwoman, another gem co-starring Sharon Stone" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Apr 5, 2006
2/5 29% Fun With Dick and Jane (2005) " Don't waste our time with sentimental homeless crap" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Dec 28, 2005
2/5 38% Flightplan (2005) " Rumor is Ms. Foster's picky about scripts. It's an interesting notion, but it doesn't quite explain the existence of Flightplan" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Nov 16, 2005
2/5 46% Constantine (2005) " Reeves is more wooden than the cross and is about as sexy" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Mar 6, 2005
2/5 30% Flight of the Phoenix (2004) " If you think sweltering UV rays, deadly sandstorms and dwindling water sources are bad, you haven't had to contend with Giovanni Ribisi's heinous new bleach blond hair" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Dec 27, 2004
2/5 27% The Stepford Wives (2004) " Leave the comedy to the Witherspoons, Nicole. When we want a good dose of self-loathing depression, we'll give you a call." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jun 18, 2004
2/5 55% The Girl Next Door (2004) " An epic lurcher of a teen comedy, this is one homely girl next door you'd be best to stand-up." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Apr 14, 2004
2/5 49% The Passion of the Christ (2004) " pretentious cinematography and gritty realism aside, there's not a whole lot in this torture chamber to be passionate about" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Mar 22, 2004
2/5 87% Mystic River (2003) " Less a taut whodunit than a dreary who-cares-it, Mystic River is muddy-swamp-slow and about as appealing to look at" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jan 17, 2004
2/5 69% Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) " gaping logic holes (baddies who kick heroes while they're down instead of killing them) and lethargic pacing make this more like That Dull Time We Spent on Vacation in Mexico" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Sep 21, 2003
2/5 48% S.W.A.T. (2003) " Severely Washed-up Asinine Tossaway." — Peterborough This Week
Posted Aug 10, 2003
2/5 17% The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) " a dull concoction of literary antiheroes that brings back unwelcome memories of torturous high-school English classes, where even bloodsuckers, shape shifters and buccaneers somehow managed to bore us to tears" — Peterborough This Week
Posted Jul 21, 2003
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