Roger Ebert, National Treasure

[lumineaux]

"A movie review should determine what a movie hoped to achieve, and whether it succeeded. The ambition of "Drive Angry 3D" is to make a grind house B movie so jaw-droppingly excessive that even Quentin Tarantino might send flowers. It succeeds. I can't say I enjoyed it. But I can appreciate it. It offends every standard of taste except bad. But it is well made .

Of course it stars Nicolas Cage. Is there another actor who could or would have dared to sign on? Cage is a good actor in good movies, and an almost indispensable actor in bad ones. He can go over the top so effortlessly he rests up and makes lemonade for everybody. "

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110224/REVIEWS/110229990

Comments

[artisticphoenix.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Obviously this is a movie that Ogedei will insist on seeing.

[lumineaux.livejournal.com]

I think we need to do a bad bad movie night.

[math5.livejournal.com]

Yes, reading the commentary I was thinking that it might have made it to the funny side of bad.

[artisticphoenix.livejournal.com]

I read the review. The best part for me was the end...

"Oh, and the 3D? For an extra charge you get to wear glasses that make it look like it was shot where the sun don't shine. "

Poetry!