A delight.  A warm, funny, amiable, totally enjoyable film.  I liked the premise going in but thought that, at almost 2 hours long, it would be a snoozefest. Wrong. It was over before I knew it.  (I should add that I’m a Food Channel addict and how people whip disparate ingredients into something that tastes and looks good fascinates me.) A great cast that’s completely in sync.

FF=0

Silly, convoluted storyline, some good set pieces, decent effects, and Kate Beckinsale.  My kind of movie.

FF=2

A gorefest, but not as depraved or sadistic as other recent releases in the genre. Its echoes of Straw Dogs and some genuine heroics save it from the trash heap with Hostel and The Devil’s Disciples.  Still, hard to watch.

FF=4

I’d heard people call this 1980 job pornographic, but really, with John Gielgud, Peter O’Toole, Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, how pornographic could it be?  Well, very.  By the end it’s outright porny porn.  Even so, virtually unwatchable, except for laughs.  Might work for a bad-movie night—just make sure there’s lots of beer.

FF=8

I liked the first 3/4 quite a bit, liked what its had to say about the phoniness and pretentiousness of the art world, where incoherence and just plain weirdness are consistently mistaken for profundity, but I felt it took a too-obvious way out at the end.

FF=0

I’d heard this 1970 film (penned by Roger Ebert) was so bad it was good.  Uh-uh.  It’s so bad it’s unwatchable.  Silly story padded with bad singing, awful acting, all to the refrains of an unlistenable score.  AAAAAAARGH!

FF=8

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!  I will watch it many times before I die.

FF=0

A film with serious horror that doesn’t take itself seriously.  Some icky, funny stuff.  Favorite line: “I think there’s something wrong with me.”   (Ya think?)

FF=0

I laughed only once in this entire flick – and I can’t remember why.  Terrible.

FF=6