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That said, here's the list since I started writing reviews in 1995:
| Title | CR reader's opinion 1-5 | Siskel and Ebert and Roeper (or guest) | Steve's Rating $2-$8 | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Anything about virtual reality "VR" is a buzz-word, not a great story idea | ||||
| Fear Dot Com | down down | |||
| Simone | down up | |||
| Johnny Mnemonic | 1 | down down | ||
| The Net | 1 | down up | ||
| Hackers | 2 | down up | $3 | review |
| Virtuosity | 1 | down up | ||
| Strange Days | 2 | down up | $4 | review |
| Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace | ||||
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Blatant movie vehicles for TV stars The 90's SNL stars have a particularly bad track record | ||||
| The Anchorman | SNL's Wil Ferrell | |||
| Marci X | Lisa Kudrow, Damon Wayans | |||
| Elf | up up | SNL's Wil Ferrell | ||
| Dickie Roberts | SNL's David Spade | |||
| My Boss's Daughter | Ashton Kutcher | |||
| Boat Trip | down down | SNL's Horatio Sanz | ||
| Old School | down up | SNL's Wil Ferrell | ||
| Just Married | down down | Ashton Kutcher | ||
| Eight Crazy Nights | down up | SNL's Adam Sandler | ||
| The Hot Chick | down down | SNL's Rob Schneider | ||
| Punch Drunk Love | SNL's Adam Sandler | |||
| Master of Disguise | down down | SNL's Dana Carvey | ||
| Mr. Deeds | down down | SNL's Adam Sandler | ||
| Corky Romano | SNL's Chris Kattan
E&R's "10 Worst of '01" | |||
| Pootie Tang | down down | SNL's Chris Rock, again | ||
| Joe Dirt | down down | SNL's David Spade
E&R's "10 Worst of '01" | ||
| Down To Earth | down down | SNL's Chris Rock tries again
E&R's "10 Worst of '01" | ||
| Dude, Where's My Car | Ashton Kutcher | |||
| Little Nicky | down down | Adam Sandler & SNL pals | ||
| The Ladies Man | down down | SNL's Tim Meadows | ||
| Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo | down down | SNL's Rob Schneider | ||
| Screwed | SNL's Norm MacDonald | |||
| Three to Tango | down down | Neve Campbell, Matthew Perry | ||
| SuperStar | down down | SNL's Mary Catherine Gallagher | ||
| Love Stinks | Stewart French (3rd rock) | |||
| Ringmaster | down down | Jerry Springer | ||
| The Waterboy | down down | SNL's Adam Sandler | ||
| Orgasmo | Trey Parker (south park) | |||
| BASEketball | down down | South Park creators acting | ||
| A Night at the Roxbury | down down | SNL disco characters | ||
| Love! Valour! Compassion! | 5 | up up | Jason Alexander | |
| Trial & Error | 2 | up up | Michael Richards | |
| Commandments | down down | Courtney Cox | ||
| Romy and Michele's High School Reunion | 4 | up up | video: $5 | Lisa Kudrow |
| Fools Rush In | 2 | down up | Matthew Perry | |
| The Pallbearer | 1 | down up | David Schwimmer | |
| Ed | down down | Matt LeBlanc | ||
| Mr. Wrong | 1 | down down | Ellen DeGeneres | |
| She's the One | 2 | down down | Jennifer Aniston | |
| Private Parts | 2 | up up | $5 | Howard Stern. review |
|
Over-rated actors Richard Gere, Demi Moore, Tom Green, Steven Seagal, etc. | ||||
| Dodgeball | Ben Stiller | |||
| Open Range | up up | Kevin Costner | ||
| Malibu's Most Wanted | down down | Jamie Kennedy | ||
| Half Past Dead | down down | Steven Seagal | ||
| Stealing Harvard | down down | Tom Green | ||
| Dragonfly | Kevin Costner | |||
| The Mothman Prophecies | down down | Richard Gere | ||
| Freddy Got Fingered | down down | Tom Green
Ebert's "Worst Film of '01" | ||
| Exit Wounds | Steven Seagal | |||
| 3000 Miles to Graceland | up down | Kevin Costner
E&R's "10 Worst of '01" | ||
| Monkey Bone | down down | Brendan Frasier
E&R's "10 Worst of '01" | ||
| Dracula 2000 | Wes Craven | |||
| For Love of the Game | down down | Kevin Costner (baseball, again) | ||
| Road Trip | down down | Tom Green | ||
| Universal Soldier: The Return | van Damme | |||
| Runaway Bride | down down | Richard Gere and Julia, again | ||
| Twin Dragons | Jackie Chan (see Double Team) | |||
| The Corruptor | Chow Yun Fat | |||
| Knock Off | van Damme | |||
| Wrongfully Accused | Leslie Neilson | |||
| Black Dog | Patrick Swayze | |||
| Fire Down Below | Steven Seagal | |||
| The Glimmer Man | 2 | $2 | Steven Seagal. review | |
| Daylight | 1 | down down | Stallone.
S&E's "10 Worst of '96" | |
| Cop Land | 1 | up down | $3 | Ray Liotta, Stallone. review |
| Turbulence | 1 | (n/a) down | Ray Liotta | |
| G.I. Jane | 2 | up up | Demi Moore | |
| Double Team | down down | van Damme as twins | ||
| Sudden Death | 1 | up up | van Damme | |
| Maximum Risk | van Damme | |||
|
Marketing to the teenage audience I'm just not part of their target demographic. | ||||
| Torque | ||||
| Grind | down down | |||
| 2 Fast 2 Furious | up down | |||
| Final Destination 2 | down down | |||
| Biker Boyz | down down | |||
| Jason X | down down | |||
| The New Guy | down down | |||
| Sorority Boys | ||||
| Van Wilder | down down | National Lampooon | ||
| Slackers | down down | |||
| Crossroads | Britney Spears | |||
| crazy/beautiful | up up | |||
| The Fast and the Furious | down up | |||
| TomCats | down down | "tripe"
Roeper's "Worst Film of '01" | ||
| Get Over It | ||||
| Sugar & Spice | down up | |||
| Whatever It Takes | down down | "forgetable..." | ||
| Final Destination | up up | "good, for it's genre..." | ||
| Scream 3 | ||||
| Drop Dead Gorgeous | down down | |||
| American Pie | down up | |||
| The Rage: Carrie 2 | ||||
| Varsity Blues | ||||
| The Faculty | alien teachers | |||
| Strangeland | from Dee Snider! | |||
| Urban Legends | down down | |||
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | down down | the sequel | ||
| I Know What You Did Last Summer | down down | video: $4 | from the creators of Scream | |
| Scream | up down | |||
| Screamers | down down | |||
| Primal Fear | 3 | down up | ||
| Fear | down up | |||
| The Fan | 1 | |||
|
Disaster films Nice effects, but where's the plot? | ||||
| The Day After Tomorrow | ||||
| Vertical Limit | down up | |||
| The Perfect Storm | up up | |||
| Deep Blue Sea | up up | Jaws, bio-engineered | ||
| Lake Placid | down down | 50 foot alligator. "Dreadful" | ||
| Armageddon | up down | video: $4 | giant meteor threatens Earth | |
| Deep Impact | up down | $6 | giant meteor threatens Earth. review | |
| Firestorm | ||||
| Hard Rain | down down | a.k.a. "The Flood" | ||
| Titanic | up up | $7 | S&E's "10 Best of '97" review | |
| Anaconda | 1 | up up | remember Congo? | |
| Volcano | 2 | down down | lava everywhere | |
| Dante's Peak | 1 | down down | lava everywhere | |
| Twister | 3 | down down | ||
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Movies where the ads make me suspicious
Sometimes you just get that feeling... | ||||
| Garfield, The Movie | ||||
| S.W.A.T. | up up | |||
| Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | down down | |||
| View from the Top | up up | Gwynneth Paltrow, Mike Meyers | ||
| Kangaroo Jack | ||||
| Juwanna Mann | down down | |||
| Scooby Doo | down down | |||
| Blade II | up down | better than Blade 1? | ||
| Super Troopers | ||||
| Kung Pow | ||||
| Vanilla Sky | up up | |||
| Rat Race | down down | |||
| Legally Blonde | up up | |||
| Driven | down down | remember Days of Thunder? | ||
| Just Visiting | up down | |||
| See Spot Run | down down | |||
| Dungeons & Dragons | down down | |||
| Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 | up down | standard horror fare | ||
| Charlie's Angels | down down | "eye candy for the blind" | ||
| Hollow Man | down down | |||
| The Nutty Professor II: The Klumpz | up up | |||
| Gone in 60 Seconds | down down | |||
| Mission: Impossible 2 | down up | the first wasn't that good | ||
| Viva Rock Vegas | down down | Flintstones, less the original cast | ||
| Ready to Rumble | down down | Pro wrestling - say no more | ||
| Red Planet | space horror | |||
| Mission to Mars | down down | space horror | ||
| Pitch Black | space horror | |||
| Supernova | space horror | |||
| Reindeer Games | ||||
| Dudley Do-Right | down down | video: $3 | Brendan Fraser | |
| EDtv | up down | Truman Show meets MTV | ||
| Office Space | up up | by B&B's Mike Judge | ||
| Blast from the Past | n/a up | $5 | Encino Man 2? review | |
| Psycho | down down | Razzie for worst remake | ||
| Major League III - Back to the Minors | ||||
| Species II | ||||
| Spice World | down down | Razzie for worst actress | ||
| Con Air | 2 | up up | more crashing planes | |
| Air Force One | 5 | up down | crashing planes | |
| Speed 2: Cruise Control | 1 | up up | crashing boats | |
| The Relic | 1 | up up | ||
| Face/Off | 3 | up up | dir: Broken Arrow | |
| Broken Arrow | 1 | down down | ||
| The Stupids | straight to video | |||
| Escape from LA | 1 | down up | ||
| Bulletproof | 1 | down down | ||
| A Rich Man's Wife | 1 | down down | ||
| Two Much | down down | |||
| The Substitute | down down | |||
| Before and After | down down | |||
| All movies were added to my list before their opening day, and I think I've only made a few mistakes (see "Oops"). However, many of the films on this list seem to have unusually short runs in the theatre. Maybe I'm on to something? |
Oops!
I shouldn't have boycotted . . .
-- Open Range -- View from the Top -- crazy/beautiful -- Deep Impact -- Titanic -- Air Force One -- Love! Valour! Compassion! -- Romy and Michele's High School Reunion These are highlighted above in light grey. |
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