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SCOTT WEINBERG

""One dollar and NINE CENTS!"

"Not unless round's funny."

"My grandfather's work...was...doo-doo!""

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography: http://www.livejournal.com/users/sweinberg // Born and raised in Philadelphia, I got bit by the movie bug at a very early age. After my father brought home a massive Betamax, I began hanging out at the local Video Village (anyone remember those?) and they put me to work. For a few hours of work after school, I got all the free rentals I could handle. (If I told you how many movies I watched between the ages of 13-20, you wouldn't believe it...and yes, I did have a social life!) From West Coast Video to General Cinemas to Tower Video... if it dealt with movies, I worked there. After studying journalism and film at Temple University, I found myself quite unemployed. The Internet afforded me the option to pursue my goal of becoming a film critic, and it's a wonderful life indeed. Hopefully impressive-sounding resumé-type bio-blurb: Scott Weinberg is the author of over 1,900 movie reviews and is currently a member of the Online Film Critics Society, an organization that represents over 190 of the world's finest online film critics. Scott is the Managing Editor of eFilmCritic.com / HollywoodBitchslap.com, where he focuses on new theatrical releases, classics on DVD, cult films both obscure and atrocious, and extensive coverage of the Sundance, South By Southwest, Toronto, and Philadelphia film festivals. His reviews can also be found on websites such as Cinematical, DVD Talk, JoBlo's Movie Emporium (DVD Clinic), Horror.com, Daily-Reviews.com, The Apollo Movie Guide, Monsters at Play, MrSkin.com, and Netflix, while his opinionated movie rants can regularly be heard on WGN radio in Chicago and WMET radio in Washington D.C. Scott also writes features (and the daily Newsday Reports) for Rotten Tomatoes ... plus he just started doing a DVD column for Femme Fatales Magazine, which is pretty darn cool for a geek like him.

Favorites: (In no particular order):Fight Club, The Blues Brothers, Young Frankenstein, Dark City, Se7en, Airplane!, The Princess Bride, Miller's Crossing, The Lord of the Rings, Moulin Rouge, Alien

Publications: Apollo Guide, Cinematical, Daily-Reviews, DVD Clinic, DVDTalk.com, eFilmCritic.com, FEARnet, Hollywood Bitchslap, Horror Squad, Horror.com, Monsters At Play, Movie Insider, Rotten Tomatoes

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 5493
Total QuickRatings: 2139

Location: Philadelphia, as seen in several wonderful movies

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Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 34%	Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)	" For all its glitches and oddities, Repo! impressed me on sheer force of strangeness, originality, and audacity." — FEARnet Posted Nov 7, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	Rogue (2008)	" The best flick of its kind since Lewis Teague's drive-in classic Alligator. And that was 1980." — FEARnet Posted Aug 5, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 46%	The Ruins (2008)	" It's both craftily creepy (in a subtle way) and powerfully visceral (in a kick-ass way), plus it delivers its payload in a slick and efficient 91-minute burst of nastiness." — FEARnet Posted Apr 4, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 48%	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	" *An unapologetic throwback to the days when comedies didn't have* to be all that original -- just as long as they were funny.*" — Cinematical* Posted Mar 16, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 69%	Red (2008)	" A simple tale of how love and affection can sometimes inspire some of the nastiest human emotions imaginable." — FEARnet Posted Jan 28, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 23%	Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)	" Fun, forgettable stuff -- but also a (slightly) better film than the reviews would have you believe." — FEARnet Posted Jan 2, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 20%	Return to House on Haunted Hill ()	" There's just too much "down time" and not enough energy to keep the flick afloat." — FEARnet Posted Oct 18, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 70%	Right at Your Door (2007)	" A pretty chilling affair." — FEARnet Posted Aug 26, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 33%	Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)	" A dry and dreary little affair, one that's almost shamefully beholden to B-flicks that are a lot more energetic and a lot less intent on being taken so seriously." — FEARnet Posted Jun 11, 2007
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Restless Natives (1985)	" A pleasant enough traveling companion for 91 unremarkable minutes, but not a flick you'll remember a week from now." — DVDTalk.com Posted Jun 7, 2007
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 9%	The Reaping (2007)	" *When a movie can't even make something like "biblical plagues"* worth watching, you just know you're in the hands of filmmakers as lazy as they are lost.*" — Cinematical* Posted Apr 5, 2007
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 15%	The Return (2006)	" Austerely directed but shamelessly dry, uneventful and derivative." — FEARnet Posted Mar 1, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 35%	Reno 911!: Miami (2007)	" *Hearkens back to comedy classics like Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach, specifically in the areas of quality control, production value and chuckle quota." — Cinematical* Posted Feb 24, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 84%	Rocket Science (2007)	" *For all its quirky characterizations, semi-clever dialogue and convention-defying plot contortions, Rocket Science* is a fairly schizophrenic affair.*" — Cinematical* Posted Jan 23, 2007
Fresh 4/5	N/A	The Rodgers and Hammerstein Collection (1945)	" Cool in a cornball kinda way, but hey, these movies are considered classics for a reason." — DVD Clinic Posted Dec 21, 2006
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 76%	Rocky Balboa (2006)	" *I'd probably agree that Rocky Balboa* is the best entry since the first one -- but we're not exactly placing it up against any tough competition, now are we?*" — Cinematical* Posted Dec 20, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 93%	Rocky (1976)	" A "guy movie" mega-classic that's really gotten better with age." — DVDTalk.com Posted Dec 6, 2006
Rotten 1.5/5	N/A	Relentless 4 (1994)	" *Oh yeah, the sexy psychologist is played by Famke Janssen, so there's a little kitsch value that Relentless 4* has over Relentless 3.*" — DVDTalk.com* Posted Nov 10, 2006
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Relentless 3 (1993)	" Sunk by spotty pacing and an overall lack of forward momentum." — DVDTalk.com Posted Nov 10, 2006
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 85%	Romancing the Stone (1984)	" A surprisingly witty script, some really excellent chemistry between Douglas & Turner, and a large (and very welcome) portion of comic relief by Danny DeVito. Fun stuff." — DVDTalk.com Posted Aug 13, 2006
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 23%	RV (2006)	" This is an ugly, desperate, witless little movie that, even if you happen to like it, will evaporate from your memory in the time it takes to flip the channel." — DVDTalk.com Posted Aug 13, 2006
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Robert Ludlum's Covert One - The Hades Factor (2006)	" I doubt even the hardcore Ludlum enthusiasts will find much to love here; I'm told this mini-series deviates pretty wildly from the source material -- and not in a particularly good way." — DVDTalk.com Posted Jul 16, 2006
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Road House 2: Last Call (2006)	" *So yeah, it's a mindless, silly mess. But hell, it's also called Road House 2, so you probably knew that going in." — DVDTalk.com* Posted Jun 29, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 40%	Running Scared (2006)	" It's a slick, simple, crazy flick that's well aware of how slick, simple, and crazy it is." — DVD Clinic DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 27, 2006
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 50%	Red Dawn (1984)	" *C'mon: The Dirty Dozen* meets The Breakfast Club? That's just awesome.*" — eFilmCritic.com* Posted Jun 2, 2006
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 33%	Room 6 (2006)	" If you're a hardcore horror completist, I'd say it might be worth a Netflix rental, but that's about it." — DVDTalk.com Posted May 25, 2006
Rotten 1.5/5	N/A	Ring Around the Rosie (2006)	" *Drably directed, sloppily written, and an absolute chore to sit through, Ring Around the Rosie* is something you'd find on HBO19. And skip it.*" — DVDTalk.com* Posted Mar 21, 2006
Rotten 1/5	N/A	Revenge of the Red Baron (1994)	" Astonishingly inept, ridiculously unwatchable..." — DVDTalk.com Posted Mar 5, 2006
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Rage & Discipline (2004)	" A little bit better than the usual Corman fare, but it's still a pretty predictable tale, all the same." — DVDTalk.com Posted Feb 28, 2006
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 40%	Running Scared (2006)	" *I see Running Scared* as a slick, sick, and sly satire of all the action flick conventions, but maybe I'm just nuts.*" — eFilmCritic.com* Posted Feb 23, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 97%	Repo Man (1984)	" *Right up there with the 1980s cult classics like Heathers, Buckaroo Banzai, and Brazil." — DVD Clinic* Posted Feb 18, 2006
Rotten 1/5	N/A	Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2005)	" Bad horror movies are one thing, but bad horror movies that exploit real-life murders to make a few bucks... Ugh, that's just creepy." — DVDTalk.com Posted Feb 7, 2006
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 14%	Rebound (2005)	" *Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if Rebound* was written, shot, edited, and released over the course of ... let's be generous and say three weeks.*" — DVDTalk.com* Posted Dec 10, 2005
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 64%	Roll Bounce (2005)	" Worthy of a 99-cent rental, if only so you can witness the howlingly awful performance by Wesley Jonathan as a self-appointed roller-disco mega-lord called "Sweetness." Kid had me in tears, I swear." — DVDTalk.com Posted Dec 10, 2005
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Rikky and Pete (1988)	" Weirdly endearing and free-spirited characters wandering through the lovely, wide-open expanse of the Australian outback." — DVDTalk.com Posted Nov 20, 2005
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 100%	Return of the Dragon (1973)	" Certainly the only movie in history to have Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris do battle in the Roman Colosseum." — DVD Clinic Posted Nov 18, 2005
Rotten 1.5/5	N/A	The Ritual (2000)	" You've never heard of it, you'll never rent it, and you certainly won't miss it." — DVDTalk.com Posted Nov 3, 2005
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	The Resurrected (1992)	" The thrills, chills, and intermittent gore-spills are way too few and far between to keep the loyal horrorheads from getting restless." — DVDTalk.com Posted Oct 18, 2005
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 68%	Rumble Fish (1983)	" An offbeat experiment that, while certainly not a brilliant movie, flies far more than it fails." — DVD Clinic Posted Oct 11, 2005
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 82%	Rock School (2005)	" Where you'll find a bunch of raucous and talented kids, you'll find at least one glory-hungry grown-up intent on stealing the spotlight." — DVDTalk.com Posted Sep 23, 2005
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 17%	Revolver (2007)	" *Any semblance of a cohesive narrative arc is junked early on, and those who can sit through Revolver* and claim to have "followed it completely" is a bald-faced liar.*" — eFilmCritic.com* Posted Sep 10, 2005
Fresh 3/5	N/A	The Rainmaker (1956)	" *Pretty entertaining for the most part -- even if you'll be laughing at the movie as much as you are with* it.*" — DVDTalk.com* Posted Jul 21, 2005
Rotten 2/5	N/A	Raging Sharks ()	" C'mon, I bet it's been at least a month since you've seen a movie about ravenous sharks turned loco by the appearance of a radioactive alien space nugget from beyond Mars." — DVDTalk.com Posted Jul 9, 2005
Fresh 3.5/5	N/A	Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles - The Complete Campaigns (1999)	" There's still some good, geeky fun to be found within the whole of the Roughnecks saga. (It's just that the show seems to go down best when ingested in small doses.)" — DVDTalk.com Posted Jul 3, 2005
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Roy Jones Jr's Greatest Knockouts ()	" It's a pretty basic package, sports fans. Let's face it: There's not too many ways to describe this DVD aside from "Roy Jones knocks 14 guys out."" — DVDTalk.com Posted Jun 12, 2005
Rotten 1.5/5	N/A	Reform School Girl ()	" The old flicks were entertaining by accident because they tried to be good. The new ones tried to be awful on purpose … and they succeeded all too well." — DVDTalk.com Posted Apr 14, 2005
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 67%	Reeker (2005)	" *I could name about a half-dozen horror movies that are very similar in story to Reeker, but this one's an improvement over most of those flicks." — eFilmCritic.com* Posted Apr 11, 2005
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 20%	The Ring Two (2005)	" So predictably beholden to its predecessor that you can practically smell the reek of formula cooling on its hide." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 20, 2005
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Reefer Madness - The Movie Musical (2005)	" Maybe a few bong hits would make this thing funnier." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 2, 2005
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 60%	Ring Of Fire - The Emile Griffith Story (2005)	" Ring of Fire is not about boxing. It's about the importance of tolerance and the power of forgiveness." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 2, 2005

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