Alone in Its Awfulness
I’ve come to depend upon Metacritic as an arbiter and aggregator of cinematic taste. If I’m trying to choose between a few movies, I’ll consult Metacritic to see what the prevailing opinions are. I’ve never spent much time there, but I understand that Rotten Tomatoes is a similar resource.
Last week, I was amused to see that the new Christian Slater film, Alone in the Dark (based on the video game of the same name) had achieved an aggregated score of 10. That’s 10 out of 100. That’s earned Alone in the Dark the honour of placing 14th of Metacritic’s worst movies ever list (though it’s still 1 point ahead of Battlefield Earth).
Via Waxy, here’s an entertaining collection of quotes from reviews of the movie. This is my favourite:
If you took the 100 worst ideas ever conceived for a science-fiction film, rattled them around in a Lotto tumbler and spilled them out onto the screen at random, you could not produce a more asinine hodgepodge.
The warning bells went off in my head when someone told me that they’d cast Tara Reid as “a young genius anthropologist”. I was going to say that that’s worse than casting Mira Sorvino as an entomologist, but then I see that she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.
tijo 
Chris