Why Disney invested close to $300 million on John Carter Of Mars, a pulp character that's a century old with no "brand recognition" to modern-day audiences, I will never know.
I'm amazed Doug failed to insert a "BOOMER WILL LIVE" joke considering that a dog manages to survive the Japanese attack. And he missed a golden opportunity to use a "MEIN FUHRER...I CAN VALK!" joke when FDR managed to get out of his wheelchair.
It means a film that has it's "heart" in the right place...but is hopelessly shameless at plucking one's heartstrings. Timothy Green is RANCID, one of the worst films I've seen since Transformers 2. It's appalling just how bad potential parents Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton are...they let...
Sorry to be shallow, but, pretty/appealing as some of these 'toon women are, they're far from "hot". When I think "hot", I think knuckle-gnawing, heart-pounding, eye-bugging, Tex Avery wolf-howling sexiness. Doug's list seems more like "nicest animated women". Yeah, Belle's name literally means...
While it's sad that Doug is hanging up the Critic's hat and tie, I respect any filmmaker who decides to retire a character that's still at the height of his popularity, for fear of totally running him into the ground (I wish Matt Groening had done this with The Simpsons circa the late 90's, or...
God, Charlie's Angels...I'm a heterosexual male, and even I thought this was exploitative, pandering garbage that was even worse by pretending it was some kind of "feminist" statement because the scantilly-clad leading ladies...um, kicked ass? It's interesting that this came out almost exactly...
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