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Pan's Labyrinth is named film of the decade: Do you agree?
29 December 2009 11:48 AM, PST
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It's not only nearly the end of the year but the end of a decade and, as a result, time to look back over the movies released during that period.
Over on Metacritic, a site that compiles reviews of films and other media, there is a list of the top releases of the decade, according to the scores of leading professional film critics.
The top overall movie was Guillermo del Toro's excellent fantasy horror film Pan's Labyrinth from 2006, which has an overall score of 98 out of 100. Made for $19million, it earned $83million worldwide which, although not the massive heights reached by Hollywood blockbusters, is definitely a success for a Spanish language project, especially since it was not on full release at all cinemas in the UK.
The rest of the top five consisted of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (score: 97), Ratatouille (96), Spirited Away (94) and The Hurt Locker (94).
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First Red Band Trailer for ‘Repo Men’
24 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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Many trailers these days follow a specific formula: send the audience in one direction, give them the twist, and show everybody in the film looking really, really cool. This formula is written on trailer editors bulletin boards. Sadly, that means that when it’s used incorrectly, the trailer, and in man cases the film, become a subject for ridicule.
This happens to be the case with the trailer for Jude Law and Forest Whitaker’s Repo Men. The film follows quite close to the premise of 2007’s Repo! A Genetic Rock Opera, without any of the singing, or Anthony Stewart Head. In this film, a conglomerate puts artificial organs on an open market for people to purchase on a payment plan. When those people can’t pay, the Repo Men step in to essentially “repossess the merchandise.”
The trailer does a pretty good job for the first 90 seconds or so,
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- Matt Raub
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Metacritic's best- and worst-reviewed movies of the decade: How many have you seen?
18 December 2009 12:41 PM, PST
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Here's the perfect illustration of how critics and mainstream audiences don't always coincide. The site Metacritic has posted a list of the top-reviewed films of the past decade, and according to their data, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth is No. 1 with a score of 98. Just below it is the Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (97). It's a great list, packed with terrific movies like The Hurt Locker (No. 5), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (No. 9), No Country for Old Men (No. 23) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (No. 42). But with the exception of a few titles — Pixar (duh) and The Lord of the Rings
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- Missy Schwartz
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The 15 Worst Movies of the Decade
14 December 2009 2:58 PM, PST
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There were a lot of bad movies released during the past decade. That’s not anything that distinguishes the aughts from any other decade before it, but then most of these movies were bad in the usual, torturous ways. There is, of course, a lot of room for debate over these picks and readers should be aware that for my own sanity (sorry Rob Schneider), I purposefully skipped many top contenders. Without further ado, in descending order, our worst 15:
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
I’m not a fan of movies about really stupid people behaving stupidly, and that’s all that happens in this smoldering pile of TV adapted junk. Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott indulge their worst instincts in a laugh free assemblage of moronic Southern stereotypes and car crashes that’s like a horrible, Z grade 80s comedy nightmare come to life. It’s even got Burt Reynolds.
Lady in the Water
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Travolta and Williams Make You Nostalgic for Battlefield Earth
7 December 2009 7:14 AM, PST
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Over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, Old Dogs made $24 million, not exactly a blockbuster, but with a budget of $35 million, once this "film" (I promised myself years ago I'd stop using air-quote marks in speech and when writing -- a promise I've sadly failed to keep) is finished stealing from us, it might actually make a little cash.
That's a shame, because Old Dogs is the worst movie in botn Robin Williams' and John Travolta's career. And that's saying something. Because that list includes Battlefield Earth, License to Wed and Rv.
It's currently at 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is roughly 7% too high.
We know both men are capable of memorable work (Underrated Travolta films: The General's Daughter, Primary Colors. Undervalued Williams movies: this year's World's Greatest Dad, Insomnia.). So it's hard to imagine what made these two actors say
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- Ben Mankiewicz
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This decade’s biggest movie failure: Eddie Murphy’s ‘Pluto Nash’
30 November 2009 11:16 AM, PST
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Color me shocked on this one: The Eddie Murphy space adventure, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, is by far the biggest flop of the decade. The 2002 film was made for a reported $100 million but only took in $4.4 million domestically. That hurts.
Though the movie isn’t as bad as some of the other films on the below list, Pluto Nash was definitely one of the huge stinkers during the beginning of this decade.
John Travolta’s Battlefield Earth comes in at No.2 with Land of the Lost, Gigle and Town and Country rounding out the top five.
Here’s the top disasters from 2000-2009:
1. The Adventures Of Pluto Nash
* Release date: August 6th, 2002
* Estimated cost: $100 million
* Domestic gross: $4.4 million
2. Battlefield Earth
* Release date: May 12th, 2000
* Estimated cost: $75 million
* Domestic gross: $21 million
3. Land Of The Lost
* Release date: June 5th, 2009
* Estimated cost: $100 million
* Domestic gross: $65 million
4. Gigli
* Release date: August 1st,
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Top 10 flops of the 00's
30 November 2009
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With the decade coming to a close at the end of the year, it's time to take stock. Here is a list of the biggest financial flops of 2000's first decade.
#10: 2008's "The Spirit". With a price tag of $60 million, graphic novelist Frank Miller's movie took in barely a third of that, despite a fabulous cast that included Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson and Spain's Paz Vega.
#9: The ambitious but too-pointed 1970¹s B-movie homage "Grindhouse". The movie made only $25 million but cost $67 million, which tainted maker Quentin Tarantino a loser in 2007. Meanwhile, America's enfant terrible has redeemed himself with "Inglourious Basterds".
#9: The remake of the 1970's classic, "Rollerball", released in 2002. $70 million price tag, $19 million in sales. The failure seems to have tanked the career of formerly success director John McTiernan, who later got 4 months for lying to the FBI in the Anthony Pellicano affair.
#7: "The Invasion
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- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
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The Biggest Flops of the Decade? Not Exactly
29 November 2009 2:23 PM, PST
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Here's the problem I have with a new list by The Hollywood Reporter covering the biggest flops of the
decade. When dissecting the movies that lost the most money over the past ten years, The Reporter writes, "Any judgments of
flopitude are necessarily subjective." Really? How?
In much the same way that you calculate hits based on money spent versus money earned, flops are determined by how much money they
don't make. There are, without question, some enormous failures here, but others are no bigger disappointments than several
disasters from the past decade, whether you're looking at percentages or gross dollars, and we'll compare those, too.
First, the Reporter list:
1 - The Adventures of Pluto Nash
$100 million/$4.4 million
2 - Battlefield Earth
$75 million/$21 million
3- Land of the Lost
$100 million/$65 million
4 - Gigli
$54 million/$6.1 million
5 - Town and Country
$90 million/$6.7 million
6 - Catwoman
$100 million/$40 million
7 - The Invasion
$80 million/$15.1 million
8 -
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- Colin Boyd
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Eddie Murphy's "Pluto Nash" Tops the List of Movie Flops of the Decade! See Complete Top 10 and Weep!
28 November 2009 8:27 AM, PST
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Eddie Murphy's "The Adventure of Pluto Nash" is the No. 1 flop of the decade according to The Hollywood Reporter. Big budgets, big stars with big egos, all clash to give us the biggest flops of the past ten years.
"Pluto Nash" was made for $100 million and only grossed $4.4 million, even out-flopping John Travolta's Scientology-homage "Battlefield Earth."
But Murphy and Travolta are not the only ones on the list. Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, and Halle Berry also made the cut. Even Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were not safe!
What other films made it to the Top 10? Here's the complete list of the Top 10 Flops of the Decade, The Biggest Turkeys:
1. The Adventures Of Pluto Nash
* Release date: August 6, 2002
* Estimated cost: $100 million
* Domestic gross: $4.4 million
2. Battlefield Earth
* Release date: May 12, 2000
* Estimated cost: $75 million
* Domestic gross: $21 million
3. Land Of The Lost
* Release
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Murphy's Nash Tops 21st Century Film Flops File
27 November 2009 5:26 PM, PST
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Eddie Murphy movie The Adventures Of Pluto Nash has topped a new industry poll of the film flops of the new century.
The 2002 film, which cost $100 million (£62.5 million) to make and recouped less than 10 per cent at the box office, edged out John Travolta's critically-panned Battlefield Earth in the new Hollywood Reporter list of shame.
Also making the top 10 flops are Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse, Catwoman starring Halle Berry, Gigli and summer film Land of the Lost.
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MSNBC's List Of Cinematic Turkeys Is A Turkey Itself
26 November 2009 9:58 AM, PST
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Is Eyes Wide Shut really one of the worst movies of all time?By Lee Pfeiffer
MSNBC has listed reader's choices for the biggest film turkeys of all time - and the list itself is the biggest turkey of all. Sure, there are the undeniable bombs that one would expect to find in any sane list of worst movies: Showgirls, Ishtar and Battlefield Earth. However, these readers must have been into the cooking sherry a bit too early to include Pulp Fiction (too much profanity), The Blair Witch Project (the camera was too shaky) and Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, which is regarded, at worst, as a noble failure but certainly not an outright turkey. Even the innocuous Mr. Bean is not spared. The readers must be of the same school of film criticism as the friend who once accompanied me to a screening of Lawrence of Arabia. At the conclusion of David Lean's masterpiece,
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- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
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Total Recall: John Travolta's Best Movies
23 November 2009 8:01 AM, PST
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Some actors are lucky enough to make the jump from television to film stardom. Some are lucky enough to get their careers back on track after falling off the A-list. But how many stars have been able to do both -- and walk away virtually unscathed from the flaming wreckage of Battlefield Earth in the bargain? Only John Travolta, ladies and gentlemen. Travolta buddies up with Robin Williams in this weekend's Old Dogs, which inspired us to take a look back at a filmography far more varied than you might remember. Dramas? Comedies? Thrillers? Cartoons? Heck, Travolta's done 'em all
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The Looking Glass War Concept Art
20 November 2009 9:07 AM, PST
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After concept work on Battlefield Earth, Red Planet, two Star Wars prequels and The Astronauts Wife, poor old Stephan Martiniere sure could use a break. Okay, that's not entirely fair - he also got to contribue to I, Robot which ended up being quite a clever film, at least in terms of it's imagery.
One of his assignments appears to be character designs for a film of The Looking Glass War, the Frank Beddor Alice in Wonderland spin off that Charles Roven is currently shepherding towards the big screen. After the break, some big and frightening pictures of some dudes in armour that seem to be spoiling for a right royal ruckus, as well as Alyss Heart, Beddor's heroine.
These four characters are identified only by a card suit, respectively Club, Diamond, Heart and Spade. This refers to their class in the heirarchy of Wonderland. I think these are simply
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- Brendon Connelly
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From Paris With Love Posters: A Potential Travolta Hair Disaster
9 November 2009 1:04 PM, PST
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John Travolta is getting right up there with Nicolas Cage as an actor making increasingly questionable hair decisions. Battlefield Earth was the first sign of the horror to come, and while it's never quite gotten worse than that, take a look at the Old Dogs poster and try to convince me something horrible isn't happening here.
So if bad Travolta hair = bad movie, we might need to worry about From Paris With Love, the new action thriller from Taken director Pierre Morel, about two spies (Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) working together to prevent a terrorist attack. Crave Online has two new posters for the film, which feature both Travolta and Rhys-Meyers carrying guns and looking intense... with Travolta veering ever so slightly toward crazy.
Check out smaller versions of the two posters below, and witness the hair travesty for yourselves.
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Shankman Gets ‘Rock of Ages’ and Oscar Gigs
20 October 2009 5:23 PM, PDT
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Director, producer, and choreographer Adam Shankman has landed two new Hollywood gigs. The first is an adaptation of the Broadway musical “Rock of Ages” for New Line Cinema, and the other is producing the upcoming 82nd telecast of the Academy Awards.
“Ages” is a jukebox of 80’s rock anthems from Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Steve Perry, Poison and Asia. The film centers on an aspiring musician and an actress who fall in love against the backdrop of classic rock.
According to Variety, Shankman hopes this will be, “Mamma Mia! for dudes.” Maybe it’s just me, but he might be overestimating how many “dudes” want to see choreographed dance moves to “We Built This City.”
Shankman, who directed Hairspray and is preparing for Hairspray 2, is no stranger to song and dance films and is currently a permanent judge on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance.
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- Jeff Leins
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The Decade's Worst Movies And Haunted Cereal Around The Blogosphere
5 October 2009 3:30 PM, PDT
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--First up Around the Blogosphere today is a list from Rotten Tomatoes. This is pretty common knowledge, but in case you didn't know: Rotten Tomatoes is a review aggregator. They collect reviews from around the biz and assign ratings to identify how "Fresh" or "Rotten" a movie is. Well now they've compiled a list running through the worst reviewed movies of the last 10 years. Yes, "Battlefield Earth" is among them. (Rotten Tomatoes)
--Next up is a great post that I missed last week from Cinematical's Monika Bartyzel. It's a list, part of the site's Cinematical Seven series, that runs through the "Best Big-Screen Geek Girls." To be fair, one of the players actually comes from the small screen: Felicia Day, of "The Guild" fame. Monika states right out front that Day inspired the list, so her presence is properly justified. (Cinematical)
--Closing out Around the Blogosphere today with a pair
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Banderas 'Wins' Worst Film Award
30 September 2009 9:16 AM, PDT
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Antonio Banderas' action film Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever has topped a new poll to find the worst film of the past decade.
The Spanish actor's 2002 movie, co-starring Charlie's Angel Lucy Liu, is number one on the 100 Worst of the Worst list, compiled by Rottentomatoes.com.
Critics gathered thousands of reviews from the last 10 years for the countdown.
Japanese horror flick One Missed Call closely trails Banderas' film at two, while Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio and comedies King's Ransom and National Lampoon's Gold Diggers round out the countdown at numbers three, four and five respectively.
Other notable entries are Heather Graham's Killing Me Softly in 12th place and John Travolta's Battlefield Earth at 27th.
Chris Klein and LL Cool J's sci-fi film Rollerball followed Travolta's flop at 28.
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Banderas, Liu appear on 'worst film' list
29 September 2009 12:09 AM, PDT
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Antonio Banderas, Heather Graham and John Travolta have been named as some of the stars of the worst films of all time in a bottom 100 movie list. The poll, which was created by film criticism website Rotten Tomatoes, featured pictures such as Battlefield Earth, Pinocchio and Killing Me Softly. The number one spot was given to a film called Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever, starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu, which told the story (more)
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Surrogates Review
26 September 2009 11:28 AM, PDT
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In “Surrogates,” FBI agents (Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves—fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles—enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust?
Willis still takes a beating better than any action star in the business. But there are really only two significant action sequences in what’s otherwise a murder mystery set in a future world. Oh, and pretty much everyone now owns a surrogate robot body—usually a blandly prettier version of themselves—through which they can live vicariously, feeling everything good that the surrogate experiences,
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How Bad Can It Get? Rt's Worst of the Worst List Will Tell You!
24 September 2009 11:45 AM, PDT
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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
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