tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post5195756991939164239..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: I Report, You DecideAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-51013587462303165212008-08-05T05:23:00.000-05:002008-08-05T05:23:00.000-05:00So, MONSTER (which I have not seen, btw) is overra...So, MONSTER (which I have not seen, btw) is overrated because Charlize Theron is a bit awkward with a Zippo lighter? My, such insight.<BR/><BR/>Movies I find overrated:<BR/>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<BR/>Garden State<BR/>Lost in Translation<BR/>Ray<BR/>Napoleon DynamiteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-80733915547145757482008-08-04T21:10:00.000-05:002008-08-04T21:10:00.000-05:00Jeff, you get my vote. AMERICAN BEAUTY was terribl...Jeff, you get my vote. AMERICAN BEAUTY was terrible in precisely the same way that CRASH was just a little bit worse, for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-88700664779310030072008-08-04T18:16:00.000-05:002008-08-04T18:16:00.000-05:00Who ever said CAST AWAY was good? No one I know. ...Who ever said CAST AWAY was good? No one I know. And I don't remember MINORITY REPORT getting particuarly great reviews either.<BR/><BR/>And certainly no one ever called the Ocean movies great.<BR/><BR/>Some of the films listed were OK if overrated, like CRASH and THE DEPARTED.<BR/><BR/>But where is the hideously awful AMERICAN BEAUTY on the list?<BR/><BR/>Jeff M.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-10543016147011287932008-08-04T17:45:00.000-05:002008-08-04T17:45:00.000-05:00I'd say that Thaler is wrong about A HISTORY OF VI...I'd say that Thaler is wrong about A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, but pretty spot on about the rest, among those I've seen (why exactly would I waste my time on the OCEAN films?). If anything, too kind about that insult to humanity CRASH, and just about angry enough about MYSTIC RIVER, though he fails to specifically cite Sean Penn's scenery-chewing as particularly embarrassing.<BR/><BR/>I didn't fall asleep during the INSOMNIA remake, but it was particularly unmemorable, and MINORITY REPORT was nearly everything that was wrong about every Spielberg film, as far as I stuck with it. (It starts with candy-coated dumb and gets worse from there.)<BR/><BR/>Notable that this list includes two films with the same titles as much better older films, CASTAWAY (with Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed, mostly good because of Donohoe and Nicholas Roeg's director's eye--can't tell a stroy to save himself, but boy he and if he had a cinematographer with him they sure knew how to frame an image) and Cronenberg's CRASH.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-52627666081830047032008-08-04T13:27:00.000-05:002008-08-04T13:27:00.000-05:00Damn, eviljwinter, you took the words right out of...Damn, eviljwinter, you took the words right out of my mind. Who is Eric Thaler and why do they pay him for his dumb opinions when I give mine away for free.Brent McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883838112004433045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-29990702249752347562008-08-04T08:17:00.000-05:002008-08-04T08:17:00.000-05:00Is this the same guy who said BLADRUNNER does not ...Is this the same guy who said BLADRUNNER does not work as a science fiction movie?<BR/><BR/>Why is he allowed to collect a paycheck as a critic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-47492167767689115182008-08-04T06:21:00.000-05:002008-08-04T06:21:00.000-05:00CASTAWAY is the only one I remember seeing out of ...CASTAWAY is the only one I remember seeing out of all of them (I may have dozed through MINORITY REPORT). I disagree with its inclusion. The others haven't even stirred any interest whatever.Benjiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05155472883124774755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-68461627199340893442008-08-04T05:18:00.000-05:002008-08-04T05:18:00.000-05:00CastawayCrashOcean's 12Ocean's 13School of RockThe...Castaway<BR/>Crash<BR/>Ocean's 12<BR/>Ocean's 13<BR/>School of Rock<BR/><BR/>The above I haven't seen. The rest I enjoyed, agreeing that Minority Report and The Departed were a bit overrated.Randy Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16627907086811387527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-26426630096921374692008-08-03T20:56:00.000-05:002008-08-03T20:56:00.000-05:00I agree completely on THE DEPARTED. The only other...I agree completely on THE DEPARTED. The only other I saw was MONSTER not bad, but a downer). I also saw half of MYSTIC RIVER and half of CRASH. I would have seen the other halves, but circumstances prevented it. What I saw, however, I liked.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.com