REAL REVIEW
An entertaining movie, much like a good meal, is worth the price you pay. And even though a bad movie, unlike a bad meal, probably won’t give you the runs, paying $10 dollars to see it will make you feel like shit.
Vacancy
Some movies you go into expecting the world, and when you are instead confronted with mind numbing mediocrity, you tear up the ticket, and lambaste the film to anyone who will listen. I think films like Waterworld fall victim to this. Waterworld was not a good film, but it wasn’t Earth-shatteringly bad either. However, the expectations got the best of it, and it quickly became the whipping boy for big budget bombs. Read the rest of this entry »
Zodiac
Production Budget: 15 Pesos
Worldwide Gross: $82,763,748 (You people should
be ashamed of yourselves)
I was going to pass on writing a review for this movie because despite what you may think, actually, despite what most people say about me, and directly contrary to what my girlfriend would tell you, I do have the slightest shred of integrity. So, I must confess, I didn’t watch this entire movie. To be quite honest, about thirty minutes into the film, my Real Review counterpart and I started fast-forwarding through the movie, first at 4x, and when that proved to be woefully inadequate, at 8x. Remarkably, the movie still managed to move slower than a filled to capacity short bus in the break down lane. Read the rest of this entry »
