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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Move Along Home (1993)
Putrid!
This has to be the worst episode, not just of this series, but of any Star Trek series! It even makes the TOS episode "Spock's Brain" look good!!
The New Mutants (2020)
A definite candidate for a Razzie award!
Boring, stupid, pointless.
And those are the best points of this wretched movie!
A Star Is Born (2018)
The Zombie Story!
This is now the 4th iteration of this tale.How many more times are they going to keep dredging up this seemingly undead tale? Is there any creativity left in Hollywood? All they seem to make are remakes, sometimes of great movies, though very often of movies that were not too great in their previous iterations, like this movie. (Disney has become the master of the "beating a dead horse" syndrome!)
This movie shows how you can take about 30 minutes of story and drag it out to 135 minutes of tedium! Boring and contrite and very highly overrated!
Enterprise: Regeneration (2003)
Yet another reason to loathe Enterprise
This show was an abomination, another in a long series of coffin nails by Rick Berman. Berman, who can almost single-handedly be blamed for destroying the Star Trek franchise has no business being in charge of anything. He needs to pursue a more suitable career, perhaps as a garbage man or Walmart greeter, something more akin to his (non)abilities.
This episode is a grand example of Berman's pitiful skills. He has no respect for canon. And when the series is failing miserably, he resorts to his ace in the hole, desperation slight of hand - the Borg. It didn't work on Voyager and sure as heck did not work on Enterprise! It requires a complete shelving of any logic to think that Janeway and Voyager could hold the Borg at bay, especially considering the thorough beating one Borg cube did to a large part of Starfleet at Wolf 359. And Archer and his Tonka Toy star ship and pathetic weaponry are going to fare well against the Borg? Puh-leaze! Gimme a break! Let's see...sometimes the Borg adapted themselves to the Starfleet weapons and were able to repel them and then in the next scene, other Borg were getting killed? Who wrote this krap??? And amazingly, Phlox was able to cure himself of Borgification?? And oh, by the way...did Archer's logs get lost at some point so that Picard and Enterprise D were completely clueless about the Borg??
Star Trek (2009)
If I could give it a zero (or lower) I would!
I have been a fan but never a fan boy of the Star Trek franchise since 1966. I have praise for some of it. I have loathing for some of it. The series Enterprise was god-awful. The last two movies (before this latest fiasco) were barely watchable.
That said, I have to say that this wretched pile of steaming crap by Abrams is the worst ever! Abrams has taken Roddenberry's dream and soiled it with this diarrhetic abomination! It is nothing more than the usual lame 21st century sci-fi flick with lots of glitzy special effects, no story, poor acting and lousy directing. Then, to try and sell this pile of dog droppings, Abrams vomits the Star Trek brand on top of it, trying to pass it off as part of the franchise.
Roddenberry is undoubtedly rolling in his grave over this mockery of his dream!
Kick-Ass (2010)
What a piece of crap!
This movie is confused about what it wants to be. A comedy? There was nothing funny about it. An action movie? Well, there was a lot of action and gratuitous violence. I have also heard some claim this is a parody of Kill Bill. Not bloody likely! Kill Bill (and all Tarantino flicks) was pure genius in the music, the camera angles, the story. Kick Ass had poor acting, pathetic writing and the directing was wooden!
Based upon the comments posted here, this movie apparently appeals to prepubescent fan boys that get off watching an 11 year old curse and maim other people.
I give this waste of celluloid a very generous 2 only because a rating of 1 should be reserved for complete trash like Battlefield Earth.
Lost (2004)
Is this show a joke or what???
My teenager raved about Lost, as though it was the greatest drama/Sci-Fi series ever created. I had never seen it, had no preconceived ideas about it before I sat down and watched the entire four seasons.
Overall, I am wondering if this was not some assignment for a junior high school writing class. The stories are poorly composed, the story lines are ho-hum boring and progress is measured in milliseconds of plot each episode! While many movies and TV series suffer from a gross lack of character development, Lost goes to the other end of the spectrum. Each episode has long, drawn out flashbacks, ostensibly to provide character background. This is a ruse, in fact, as the writers (if there really are any) use the flashbacks (and later, flash-forwards) as a gimmick to introduce new plot lines. There is also a great deal of continuity errors in these flashbacks, showing a lack of cognitive planning in the show's preparation.
Let's look at the first season a bit. Our intrepid travelers crash on a mysterious island and we are introduced to the main castaways as well as some minor ones and a fair share of NDs. Understandably, the early episodes have to spend some time developing these characters and we find they were, for the most part, pathetic individuals in their pre-lost days. Not only that, they are cookie cutter stereotypes! With one exception, I won't waste my time trying to comment on these people that were obviously dredged up from the lowest bowels of the earth. The exception is Hurley. He, more than the rest of the people combined, is completely useless. What is he? The Lost Ambassador of Good Will? When he isn't making ad-hoc golf courses or cheering up this person or that, he is running around, screaming like a Banshee about the evil numbers! (Do you think with all the running around and minimal amount of food, he couldn't have dropped a few pounds in his time on the island?)The character of Hurley might think he is a pariah of bad luck but the actor, Jorge Garcia, should really count his blessings that this no-talent person landed a sweet job like this! Speaking of the numbers, that is the most nonsensical and farcical subplot I have ever seen. Not that the rest of the subplots are much better! Smoke monsters, islands that mystically move, people with cancer or broken spines spontaneously healing, temporal shifts...who thinks of this garbage??? As bad as the first couple of seasons are, it only got worse! By the fourth season, the pre-high school writers gave up and started throwing in gratuitous violence. Seems every episode, one or more people would get shot, killed, stabbed, drowned, crushed...you name it! It really didn't matter. The dead ones come back as ghosts or whatever to talk to the living.
Lost...the name probably refers to the hours you lose (and will never get back) watching this trash!
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
A very sick movie!
That said, I have to admit it was the funniest movie I have seen in a very long time. My gut hurt from laughing so hard! The thing that made Borat work was that Baron Cohen stayed totally in character the entire time. If he had broken character even for a second, it would have made the movie a dismal failure.
This is a movie that someone will either love or hate. There is no middle ground. So, why do some folks loathe this movie? Aside from the movie overall being very crude humor, it exposes the true (and oftentimes nasty) underbelly of humankind and many folks prefer to not to believe that people are really like that. The amount of anti-Semitism (and other prejudices) that Baron Cohen seemingly innocently evokes from folks is frightening! Most people would rather bury their heads in the sand and try to convince themselves that they are above that. The truth is quite the opposite! Not many people want to openly admit that they are a bigot!
This movie is sick yet it makes a statement about mankind that cannot be ignored. It is also incredibly funny!
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Like watching a train wreck...you want to turn away but can't!
I, like many, was skeptical about this movie when a dear friend told me about it. I mean, come on, here's a movie about an Egyptian mummy rampaging in a dilapidated nursing home and two of the patients in the nursing home decide to dispatch the ancient horror. Oh, and by the way, those two patients are Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy! And did I forget to mention that Kennedy is black in this movie? How could such a concept be anything but fodder for the next group of movies on MST3000? But my friend insisted I see it so (with many misgivings) I rented it one night. It turned out to be one of the most enjoyable movies I have ever watched!! A longtime fan of Bruce Campbell, I knew the man had untapped possibilities never utilized in his other ventures (such as the Army of the Dead series.) Don't get me wrong...those movies are quite enjoyable and great entertainment but did not really show off Campbell's skill. In Bubba Ho-Tep, however, Campbell's enormous talent projects from the screen. If Elvis was indeed alive today, I have little doubt he would be very close to the way he was portrayed in this flick! Ossie Davis as JFK was very dignified.
While it is entirely conceivable that Elvis might still be alive as based on the explanation in Bubba Ho-Tep, one believes that the JFK character is just a bit off center (though there is the mystery of the scar on the back of his head!) Still, Davis portrays him as someone you would like to personally meet whether he is the genuine (if dyed) article or just a harmless nut case. The rest of the characters are good, if pretty much insignificant. This movie is absolutely about Elvis and Kennedy! The story is not so much sci-fi or horror as it is a statement about the way we treat our elderly. The special effects are primitive but flashy special effects do not a good movie make (are you listening, George Lucas?) Bubba Ho-Tep more than makes up for that in story and character. All in all, a surprisingly excellent movie!
Superman Returns (2006)
At least they use John William's theme music!
An extremely weak movie, suffering from an asinine story, poor scripting, mediocre directing and the acting for the most part was just plain awful! Special effects, especially Superman's flying, were interesting and not badly done. Marlon Brando added nothing to the original movie and continued that tradition (postmortem.) Brandon Routh's claim to fame is that he looks eerily like Christopher Reeve but does not have Reeve's stage presence. Kate Bosworth is wooden and could never exude the personality that Margot Kidder gave the Lois Lane character. James Marsden proves his pathetic acting in the X-Men series was not contained solely to that vehicle. Langella, being one of the few polished actors in this turkey, presented a good performance, as good as he could manage with the crappy lines he was given. The same applies to Kevin Spacey. Two and a half hours long, it felt more like four hours of tedium!
King Kong (2005)
Great entertainment!
Much has been written here about this movie, both pro and con. Yes, the plot had holes, to wit: The crowds in New York (during the Kong rampage seem to disappear and reappear at times. It seemed very cold yet Ann, dressed in a very loose, brief dress did not seem to be bothered by it, even when on top of the Empire State Building. (Anyone that has been there knows that even in summer, it is cool and breezy 102 stories up.) How did they get Kong from Skull Island onto the ship? How did they keep him anesthetized on what is a very long voyage from the South Pacific to New York and how did they feed him during the trip? (And what did they do with all that monkey poop that must have been generated?) How did they sneak him from the docks to the theater so that nobody ever saw the big guy until the premiere night? I could go on ad nauseam but why? People! This is a science fiction movie, not a National Geographic special! There is no Skull Island, no 25 foot tall ape, not now nor in the 1930s! This was entertainment, pure and simple.
So, we should ask ourselves, "Was I entertained?" And the answer is an unequivocal yes. In writing, an author is able to use something called literary license to bend the rules to suit his story. Jackson simply did the same thing in his epic motion picture. And that is even more allowable because this is science fiction. This whole debate reminds me of the discussions about why Captain Kirk should have pushed the 3rd button and not the 4th button on the transporter panel. Hello? This is not real, folks! Sci-ence Fic-tion!
Then there are comments about the cast. Yes, Jack Black and Adrian Brody were probably not the first choices, but so what? They did a good job in their roles! And few have anything bad to say about Naomi Watts' performance which many agree is deserving for an Oscar! The film is beautiful to watch and the dinosaur battles (as well as the other beasties) are state of the art! The most impressive thing about this movie? The romance between Ann and Kong. It is a fine line that a director must skirt when creating this unorthodox romance. Handled poorly, it would be comical, farcical and just ridiculous. Jackson, with a surgeon's touch, crafted a beautiful, very touching romance that left more than a few people in the audience misty eyed when Kong met his demise.
In summation, take the movie for what it is, folks. Entertainment and damn good entertainment at that!
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Maybe the worst movie of the year.
Put 100 monkeys in a room with 100 typewriters and they would likely come up with a better written script than George Lucas was able to cobble together for this last (thank God!) entry in the Star Wars franchise. To make matters even worse, his directorial skills are perhaps more pathetic than his writing! My personal opinion is that no capable director that took one look at the script would ever be willing to try and direct this bomb.
Add to this quagmire of crap some of the worst acting possible. Hayden Christensen needs to use some of the salary he garnered and take some rudimentary acting lessons. Natalie Portman, who has shown herself to be a credible actress in past movies, seems to have left her acting skills home for this one. This isn't to say that all the actors turned in bad performances (though there wasn't much they could do with this script!) Ewan McGregor was quite good and Ian McDiarmid, as always, was superb. And the best performance in this? Frank Oz and the CGI Yoda.
Someone really needs to explain to Lucas that computer graphics are supposed to enhance a movie, not be the movie! It seemed as if George tried to cram in as many special effects into each scene and all he succeeded in doing was to give the audience a headache from visual overload.
Don't bother buying or renting the DVD. If you really must see it, wait till it comes onto network TV so you don't have to waste any money on this pathetic load of crap!
Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story (2003)
A Very Weak Effort!
Essentially a worthy subject to explore, but extremely poorly executed. Annie Potts' acting is wooden and devoid of any sense of realism. The sad part is that none of the actors were any better.
A true waste of film!
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Even Laughton couldn't save this movie.
Other than being so bad, that it was humorous, this movie has no redeeming characteristics! Bad acting, bad writing, bad makeup, bad sets...you get the idea? And to think that there have been multiple remakes of this turkey??? I suppose they figure that some day someone may finally get it right!