Change Your Image
ocangaceiro-1
Reviews
Vanderpump Rules (2013)
Is this show satire or serious?
Once I figured out that this was serious, and that viewers are supposed to care about these empty, vapid, narcissistic scumbags, my interest plummeted.
Too bad it wasn't mockumentary. None of the people on screen have even a single redeeming quality. But awful people can be interesting...these awful people are not.
It's impossible for me to understand why we're supposed to be interested in people just because they like expensive things and plastic surgery. I'm at a loss to explain or even understand the appeal of looking in on lives like these.
Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007)
So terrible I almost couldn't turn it off....almost
This movie is simply dismal. The script is among the worst I've ever seen brought even to home video. Just about every scene is an awkward, poorly set up contrivance, the jokes are howlers. And once again we have actors overdoing the stereotype of an Italian-American accent by using a New York accent...in a movie that takes place in Boston.
Everything about this movie was bad, the conversations between the Italian and Italian-American characters being the very worst of it. Not five seconds goes by without a cliché, which almost becomes comforting in its predictability.
For a while I watched this movie just to see if it was as dismal as it seemed when I first tuned in. It was. I went against my rule of always watching movies through to the end, but ended up turning it off. I have no idea how it even ends, and I don't even care.
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Good talent gone to waste
I guess young people need something to watch, but this was a catastrophe. Both Josh Hartnett and Shannyn Sossamon have talent and screen presence, but the script was embarrassingly bad. I shudder to think anyone took it seriously as true-to-life sounding expressions of sincerity. The hackneyed part of the obnoxious friend whose utterly un-friendlike behavior propels the plot more than the action of the principals makes this a difficult movie to watch. I pat myself on the back for having watched it from beginning to end; It almost feels like kind of a form of religious flagellation I suppose, not too much worse than the one the main character undertook.
It never ceases to amaze me that intelligent studio people read scripts like this one and then green-light them.
Borderline (2002)
It actually occurred to someone to write this?
A miserable movie. The script is plain awful, and the acting other than Gershon's is rotten, but then again, the actors had few options with such a laughably bad script to work with. Every interaction between characters is stilted, and even when the acting isn't technically awful, it's more on par with a made-for-TV movie. Like I said, only Gershon holds her own in this thing.
This movie played like some non-cinema person's fantasy about how cool it would be to make a movie. Sure, they try for a sort of big twist at the end, but by then the gratingly juvenile quality of the movie makes it not matter very much.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Weird review
"Nonetheless, I find KILLING dull, boring, and unworthy of my time." My goodness, well isn't this just the most blowhard-ish statement on the boards for this movie! "Unworthy of my time". Who are you, Louis XIV, who announced menacingly, "I nearly waited" when his lackey came running up exactly at the prescribed time?!?! LOL It's a movie- it was obviously worth enough time to sit down and write a review, and even include the equally blowhard-ish device of giving your review a name: "Ted's review: C-". I suppose some people like talking about themselves in the 3rd person, like critics on a show who use it as a device, but here?
Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar (1986)
Sometimes appealing, mostly dull and pretentious
I've read the positive reviews posted before mine, but all I can take from this movie is a headache...a ton of pretentious and long-winded dialogue is all you get in nearly two hours of this movie. The cinematic techniques of the filmed video and off-color lighting are interesting and the attempt at creating different psychic spaces with these effects is noble, but in the end the movie is just two people going on and on and on, when in reality one would have just screamed "Get lost!" and left.
Veja Esta Canção (1994)
Kind of embarrassing
Cacá Diegues has done a lot better. It was a good idea- 4 episodes showing love in different social classes in Rio. But the script is so embarrassingly bad, and at times the acting (especially the cabaret girl in Pisada de Elefante) is awful. Great actors participate: the great Fernanda Montenegro, Fernando Torres, Pedro Cardoso, Debora Bloch, are all great, as they are in everything they do. It's too bad that the script is so rudimentary and often cheesy. Of course, the music is great too. But the acting and music can't save the movie. Good thing the worst episode is the first one...it gets better after that.