Keith, B just said it. It's as though the director tried to do an Americanized HK actioner, and just didn't know how. Antonio Banderas snoozed his way through his role. I don't think that Lucy "EWWW" Liu could act her way out of a paper bag if you left the business end open, ripped out the bottom and put neon "Exit" signs to mark both. Gregg Henry, as the villian of the piece, made Snidely Whiplash look like Hans Gruber in "Die Hard".
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:16:04 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Rotten Tomatoes Picks Worst Movies of the Last Decade Bad Boys 2 is just pure excess and can at least be appreciated for the sheer level of bayhem *heh* on the screen. Ballistic is just horrible. Watching it will make you yearn for Bay's migraine inducing, quick cutting action porn. -- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote: > > Wow, really was that bad, huh? > Can you give me a quick indication of why? I mean, i find it hard to imagine > how something could be so much worse than "Bad Boys 2"... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@...> > To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 4:33:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Rotten Tomatoes Picks Worst Movies of the Last > Decade > > > > > > > Oh, and Keith -- you spared yourself much pain by missing "Ballistic: Ecks vs > Sever". When I finally saw it (letting it filter all the way down to cable), > the only things I wanted to sever were my optic nerves. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody > hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: keithbjohn...@... > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:01:36 +0000 > Subject: [scifinoir2] Rotten Tomatoes Picks Worst Movies of the Last Decade > > > > > > > Not at all surprised to see "Catwoman" on tis list, despite some of you who > inexplicably thought it was some kind of sly tongue-in-cheek > masterpiece.(George, didn't you send a favorable review of it from England? ) > Also not surprised to see "Battlefield Earth" on there. I tried to watch that > one rainy Sunday morning when I didn't want to go anywhere--and turned the > channel after ten minutes. Never saw this "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" flick. > The trailers were so bad I avoided it. Same for Eddie Murphy's "Adventures of > Pluto Nash", "Norbit", and anything with "Big Mamma" in the title. > > Thoughts? Anything on here undeservedly, to your mind? Anything not on here > that should be? > > ***************************** > http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/ > > Intro | How It Works > > Over the last decade, we've collected reviews for thousands of movies. Most > films, even profoundly mediocre ones, can expect to receive at least cursory > support from the pundits. However, once in a while, a film will take such a > critical drubbing that further attention is warranted. That's where our Worst > of the Worst list comes in. We've compiled a veritable cornucopia of dull, > foolhardy, and outright terrible films, from legendary duds ( Battlefield > Earth ) to chuckle-deficient comedies ( Epic Movie ), from hapless sequels ( > Basic Instinct 2 ) to scare-free would-be fright fests ( Alone in the Dark ). > We've pored over the reviews to bring you the lowest Tomatometers of the > decade -- including several ( All About Steve , Whiteout ) that were released > within the last several weeks. In other words, we suffered for our work -- > now it's your turn. > > > • Each critic from our discrete list gets one vote, all weighted > equally. > • Reviews without ratings are not counted toward the results. > • Because reviews are continually added, manually and otherwise, we > have a cutoff date at which new reviews are not counted. The current cut off > date is 9/21/2009. > • The movies contained in this list are from 2000 to 2009. > • We rank the movies by Tomatometer. in the event of a tie score, the > film with more reviews is ranked more highly. > > > > > > Microsoft brings you a new way to search the web. Try Bingâ„¢ now > _________________________________________________________________ Bing™ brings you maps, menus, and reviews organized in one place. Try it now. http://www.bing.com/search?q=restaurants&form=MLOGEN&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MLOGEN_Core_tagline_local_1x1
