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Slate's Hollywood Career-O-Matic
Check out the first graph...
Perhaps the most devastating critique—of not just the movie but of Shyamalan himself—was a simple graph plotting the Rotten Tomatoes scores of the director's movies over time, posted by Alex Tabarrok at the economics blog Marginal Revolution:
Thanks for the link, sumi!
What the hell have I seen Jason Flemyng in? He looks & sounds damn familiar.
I note in passing that Riptide is a stupid name for a guy who does tornadoes.
Tep, I second Plei's rec on Tangled, with a side of minor trigger warning: if you've recently had a run-in where your mom pushed any or all of the hot-buttons she spent your childhood installing, best not to see it right that minute.
Is Jason Flemying one of the cast from Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels ?
What the hell have I seen Jason Flemyng in?
He's in Hanna and Primeval.
Tep, I second Plei's rec on Tangled, with a side of minor trigger warning: if you've recently had a run-in where your mom pushed any or all of the hot-buttons she spent your childhood installing, best not to see it right that minute.
Unless you need a cathartic movie. In which case, PUT IT IN AND PUSH PLAY.
Slate's Hollywood Career-O-Matic
I typed in Keanu and it looked like the graph was trying to spell Milliways.
Unless you need a cathartic movie. In which case, PUT IT IN AND PUSH PLAY.
YES YES YES.
Speaking of cathartic animated movies, the other day my Dad decided that the best movie for him to watch was UP. He says he's fine. I was kind of gobsmacked. In terms of movies I am not going to watch for a while after Mom's death, UP is kinda near the top, along with Big Fish.
Oh, I love Big Fish. But I can see that, for sure.
Caught part of Vampires Suck on cable. It's AWFUL. The beauty of the Scary Movies and Not Another Teen Movie was that they lambasted whole genres, and lots of movies. This is simply one long mocking of Twilight and honestly, it's not funny enough to sustain a whole movie.
The kids and I actually saw UP in the theater the day my mom passed away (after we knew). It was very bittersweet but everyone loved it.