The Top 10 Overused Movie Review Quotes
10) "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss ten bucks
good-bye" - I believe this is a semiannual favorite for
anything written and directed by Woody Allen.
9) "Cool!" - used appropriately once every few years
or so for such classics as STAR WARS, THE WRATH OF KHAN,
TRON, HEAVY METAL, TOP GUN, THE MATRIX, etc.
8) "It Rocked" - overly used in every teencentric ad placed
for the cinematic abortion known as DETROIT ROCK CITY.
7) "Excretable," "Sophomoric," "Tasteless," and "Brilliant"
- four perennial favorites for every movie Kevin Smith
puts out (Note: I'm in that twilight zone of movie-goers
who is just a little too old to quite "get it" when it
comes to Smith's flicks, but not so old as to hate or be
shocked by them).
6) "This Movie Was Out of Gas" - which several right-wing
republican Reviewers used for WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR.
5) "Righteous!" - painfully resurrected by Christian-Rock
aficionados upon the release of Mel Gibson's THE PASSION
OF THE CHRIST.
4) "It Sucked" - my favorite two-word headline for the train
wreck that was TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000.
3) "It Blew Chunks" - TWISTER. Nuff said.
2) "They should pay US to watch this crap." - a variation
of which must have been in every college newspaper upon
the release of CALIGULA.
And the number one overused movie review quote of all
time is...
1) "It stinks!" - before Jay Sherman, I clearly remember
adults saying this when as a small boy I walked out of
a theater after sleeping through 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
(Note: which I later loved as a teenager).