Another week, another edition of the LAMBScores. This week features three incredibly different films that are all across the board in their ratings. We have The Watch, starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill, as well as Killer Joe, featuring McConaughey as a hitman, and then of course, Step Up Revolution, a 3D dance movie that the world so desperately needed. As always, feel free to post your own scores in the LAMBScores Forum, but please, read the rules beforehand.
Rotten Tomatoes: 0.85 (17%)
LAMB: 2.27 (11)
Average: 1.99
LAMB Bites:
Sobriety Test Movie Reviews: “With Orgies, Magnum Condoms, & Green Semen, The Watch Keeps Its Eye on All Kinds of Sex But Not Another Damn Thing”
Can’t Stop the Movies: “The further down the rabbit hole we go with the film, the more f**ked up it becomes.”
Rotten Tomatoes: 3.80 (76%)
LAMB: 4.05 (9)
Average: 3.87
At the Back
Filmophilia
Sobriety Test Movie Reviews
The Film Emporium
Film Phage
Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews
The Movie Waffler
LAMB Bites:
At the Back: “Compelling, funny, and gruesome.”
Front Room Cinema: “Killer Joe is challenging, intriguing and very provocative. One of the best films of the summer thus far.”
Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews: “Though the story may falter, Killer Joe still features a top-notch cast (especially a stand-out McConaughey), a tense and wild direction from Friedkin, and a great balance of dark humor and shocking violence/sex.”
Rotten Tomatoes: 2.10 (42%)
LAMB: 2.33 (6)
Average: 2.43
Fr. Dennis at the Movies
Can’t Stop the Movies
The Voracious Filmgoer
Sobriety Test Movies
Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews
Movies Hate You Too
LAMB Bites:
Can’t Stop the Movies:“It’s not all gloom and repetition, but even the more inspired sections are drug down by their simplistic routines.”
Movies Hate You Too: “Continuing the theme of lazy film making the screenwriters don’t even bother to hide the fact that they ripped off much of the boy/girl story from Dirty Dancing.”
Tags: Killer Joe, Step Up Revolution, The Watch
