Marin's film comments and critiques

Looper (2012)

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Rating: 0.0 / 5

Interstellar (2014)

With Christopher Nolan it's always been a love-hate relationship for me. Whereas he's made some realistically excellent movies such as Memento, The Pr... (more)

Rating: 4.0 / 5

Nymphomaniac (2013)

Lars von Trier once again pushes the limits of how much disbelief the audience can possibly suspend. And by this, I solely mean the kind of garbage na... (more)

Rating: 2.0 / 5

Enter the Void (2009)

I was familiar on some level with Gaspar Noé's previous work, namely [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Stand_Alone_(film)]Seul contre tous[/url] and... (more)

Rating: 4.0 / 5

The Watch (2012)

After seeing Tropic Thunder, I concluded comedy films with Ben Stiller aren't my cup of tea. Watching Stiller make pained facial expressions for 90 mi... (more)

Rating: 0.5 / 5

Sinister (2012)

Just when my appetite for the horror film genre was starting to come back after getting a bad case of film poisoning from V/H/S, Sinister came along t... (more)

Rating: 3.0 / 5

Piranha 3DD (2012)

I know from personal experience that if you try very hard to make something very stupid, at some point you'll just start making it more intelligently ... (more)

Rating: 0.5 / 5

Inland Empire (2006)

The picture is more an experience, a conveyor belt of half-conceived ideas and half-formed emotions, than the type of movie we're used to seeing, even... (more)

Rating: 5.0 / 5

GoldenEye (1995)

I used to love this film as a youngster. Given, I was really a big fan of all Bond movies. I guess I found all the gadgets, gizmos and secret buttons ... (more)

Rating: 1.0 / 5

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

This movie jumped out at me from the book I recently bought, "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". The book isn't actually as cheesy as it sounds... (more)

Rating: 4.0 / 5

Eraserhead (1977)

Lynch's debut feature film, one which started his rise to being a well-known and influential director, was the 1977 Eraserhead. It's a highly repul... (more)

Rating: 4.5 / 5

Cobra (1986)

Wow, what a bad movie. Cobra revolves around the concept of Stallone being a badass. The entire plot seems more like a side-thought after the writer (... (more)

Rating: 0.0 / 5

Prometheus (2012)

A shipful of idiots is sent on a first-contact mission to a distant world to meet the supposed fathers of humanity. Yes, that's the main idea, apparen... (more)

Rating: 1.0 / 5

The Hunger Games (2012)

Hunger Games is neither bad nor good, it inspires neither hatred nor wonder. It's so mediocre along every conceivable scale of value that I wonder why... (more)

Rating: 1.5 / 5

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