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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: 5494
Total QuickRatings: 2139

Location: Philadelphia, as seen in several wonderful movies

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Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 45%	Saw VI (2009)	" *Where Saw 6* earns a few points over its predecessors is in its devotion to simple but effective gallows humor.*" — FEARnet* Posted Oct 23, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 23%	Sorority Row (2009)	" I don't know what could make this movie seem dumber. Oh, and it's also a remake of What You Did Last Summer" — Horror Squad Posted Oct 16, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 11%	The Stepfather (2009)	" Dylan Walsh's demeanor is more compelling than the small handful of perfunctory kill scenes, all of which you'll see from six miles away." — FEARnet Posted Oct 16, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 80%	Survival of the Dead (2009)	" Evidence of a veteran horror guy who still has a few colorful stories left to tell. With zombies." — FEARnet Posted Oct 7, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 60%	Solomon Kane (2010)	" A well-shot, competently realized, and surprisingly entertaining mash-up of 16th century "wizards and warriors" and devil-may-care monster mayhem." — FEARnet Posted Sep 21, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 94%	Star Trek (2009)	" Hell, you could know nothing about the words "Star Trek" and still find a lot to enjoy here." — Cinematical Posted May 8, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 15%	The Spirit (2008)	" Someone should have gotten Robert Rodriguez on the phone." — Cinematical Posted Dec 26, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 71%	Splinter (2008)	" *A high-end feature-length version of The Outer Limits, combined with a fond enthusiasm for creative gore and populated by a trio of characters who are actually interesting." — FEARnet* Posted Oct 27, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 15%	Saw V (2008)	" There are only so many alternate flashbacks and massive explanations that a horror freak can take ... but I think the series is still amusing enough to warrant 90 minutes a year." — FEARnet Posted Oct 24, 2008
Fresh 4.5/5	N/A	South of Heaven (2008)	" It's the Coens meets Sam Fuller while watching Looney Tunes and making an '80s mix tape full of The Smiths and Depeche Mode. I (freak)ing loved it." — Cinematical Posted Oct 13, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	N/A	Seed (2008)	" Say what you will about Saw 3 and Hostel 2, but compared to this malignant wreck, those (yes, harsh and brutal) horror flicks have the subtext of Shakespeare and the moral compass of Superman." — FEARnet Posted Sep 10, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008)	" Just maybe worthy of a bored afternoon, provided you're either A) 14 years old, or B) a longtime fan of the "quest" movies and you want something to poke a little fun at. (Or maybe not.)" — FEARnet Posted Aug 22, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 60%	Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)	" For all its surprising little merits, Starship Troopers 3 still works as a piece of cheesy B-grade cinema fun." — FEARnet Posted Aug 19, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 44%	The Strangers (2008)	" *While The Strangers* certainly doesn't forge any new ground, there's always something to be said for a horror flick that forges old ground colorfully.*" — FEARnet* Posted May 30, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 37%	Speed Racer (2008)	" It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the entire movie was paid for by the makers of Tylenol." — Cinematical Posted May 9, 2008
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Seven Days Sunday (2008)	" The film is focused simply on telling the tale, and if the movie is exaggerated or "fictionalized" in any way, you can consider me duly surprised." — Cinematical Posted May 2, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 37%	Street Kings (2008)	" *Feels like stuff left over from a random episode of CSI: Dirty Cop Division." — Cinematical* Posted Apr 12, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 15%	Superhero Movie! (2008)	" It's cinematic junk food; I sat, I laughed, I left, I forgot all about it. (But at least I laughed.)" — Cinematical Posted Mar 29, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 7%	Shutter (2008)	" The main problem is that they spelled the title wrong. The first vowel should be an I." — FEARnet Posted Mar 23, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 56%	Spiral (2008)	" A surprisingly engrossing two-person character study that (gradually) reveals something quite a bit darker beneath the surface." — FEARnet Posted Feb 28, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 21%	Semi-Pro (2008)	" Ferrell is still able to wring some real chuckles out of a very familiar blueprint. I guess the guy's just that funny." — Cinematical Posted Feb 28, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 79%	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	" It's fast-paced and funny, strangely warm and suddenly creepy, disarmingly charming and admirably icky, all at the same time." — FEARnet Posted Feb 15, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 0%	Strange Wilderness (2008)	" The thing looks like it was shot over the course of six random (weed-filled) weekends, probably for fun at first, but then someone got the idea to release this glorified home movie into theaters. Bad idea." — Cinematical Posted Feb 8, 2008
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2008)	" A long overdue and very entertaining documentary on one of Hollywood's most colorful salesmen." — FEARnet Posted Feb 4, 2008
Fresh 3/5	N/A	Storm Warning (2007)	" Derivative, obvious, and simplistic, but it's also shot with a lot of style, edited with a lot of kick, and (best of all) it knows just when to deliver its goods and roll the credits." — FEARnet Posted Dec 24, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 86%	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	" It's awash in grimly gorgeous sights, mercilessly dark humor, oddly amusing tunes, and all sorts of strange goings-on ... Burton and Depp strike gothic gold once again." — FEARnet Posted Dec 16, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 72%	Stephen King's The Mist (2007)	" A big, meaty monster movie that's as entertaining for its Lovecraftian beasties as it is for its more "intellectual" aspirations." — FEARnet Posted Nov 20, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 24%	Shrooms (2006)	" Fans of the horror genre will appreciate the "leftover" stuff because it's presented in a relatively fresh package, but leftovers they remain..." — FEARnet Posted Nov 20, 2007
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 18%	Saw IV (2007)	" It's a been-there, done-that sort of sequel, but it's still more creative than most of what passes for Hollywood horror these days." — FEARnet Posted Oct 26, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 87%	The Shining (1980)	" *Obviously this 2-disc doozy is the "must own" version of The Shining. Yes, even if you own the older DVD." — FEARnet* DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 25, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 26%	Sex and Death 101 (2008)	" *Unapologetically sexy, oddly unpredictable and ultimately kinda (yes) sweet, Sex and Death 101* is just a solid little comedy.*" — Cinematical* Posted Oct 12, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 73%	Stuck (2007)	" The director approaches the fact-based story with equal amounts of disdain, fascination and bemusement." — Cinematical Posted Sep 13, 2007
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 14%	Skinwalkers (2007)	" Not only is this a seriously goofy werewolf movie -- but they snipped out most of the juicy bits in order to earn a PG-13 rating. Gotta love it." — FEARnet Posted Aug 13, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 74%	Sunshine (2007)	" Boyle and company start out with a smoothly claustrophobic space adventure, take a dark right turn into disaster territory, and end up squarely in a horror story. I enjoyed the trip." — FEARnet Posted Aug 6, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 90%	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	" Instead of trying to make the "be-all end-all ultimate mega-Simpsons episode," they went with their proven formula and delivered one of the year's funniest movies." — Cinematical Posted Jul 29, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 93%	Sicko (2007)	" Moore does a damn fine job of bringing "hidden" information to light in a fast-paced and surprisingly entertaining fashion." — Cinematical Posted Jul 2, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 41%	Shrek the Third (2007)	" It's just that when you're offered two delicious treats in a row, and then the third one feels rushed, bland and undercooked, it's tough not to feel a bit disappointed." — Cinematical Posted May 18, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 59%	Summer School (1987)	" Reiner keeps everything moving while letting Harmon do the heavy lifting as his young co-stars sprinkle the chuckles around." — DVD Clinic Posted May 14, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Shadow Walkers (2006)	" Seven people and six mutants wandering through a series of basements and boiler rooms." — DVDTalk.com Posted May 13, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 100%	The Shark Is Still Working (2006)	" *An absolute must-own for anyone who's seen Jaws* at least 10 or 12 times.*" — FEARnet* Posted May 13, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 62%	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	" The first film in the series I'd choose to describe as "sloppy," and given the money and talent behind these flicks, that's one serious disappointment." — FEARnet Posted May 4, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	N/A	Spider-Man 2.1 (2004)	" *Clocking in at a meaty 136 minutes, Spider-Man 2.1* manages to improve upon an already darn fine film.*" — Cinematical* Posted Apr 20, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 54%	Seraphim Falls (2007)	" One last pass through the editor's office could have turned a darn good movie into a truly great one, but fans of the genre will almost certainly enjoy it." — DVDTalk.com Posted Apr 16, 2007
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 12%	Slow Burn (2007)	" As tiresome as it is beholden to a dozen (much better) crime stories." — Cinematical Posted Apr 13, 2007
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 47%	Shooter (2007)	" A perfectly watchable time-killer that delivers on its promises but also kind of wears out its welcome." — Cinematical Posted Mar 23, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Suicide (2004)	" Of interest mainly to those who seek out the weirdest and most 'underground' sort of exploitation flicks." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 21, 2007
Fresh 4.5/5	N/A	Shogun (1980)	" This the kind of mini-series that the networks don't even ATTEMPT anymore!" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 21, 2007
Rotten 2.5/5	N/A	Suffering Man's Charity (2007)	" Wavers between broad comedy, dark humor and mild thriller territory, never once settling on an approach -- and suffering mightily because of it." — Cinematical Posted Mar 20, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 25%	Saw III (2006)	" I'm pretty impressed with the way in which the producers keep finding new and uniquely disturbing ways to up the ante." — FEARnet DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 10, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 96%	Silence of the Lambs (1991)	" *Not since The Exorcist* had a horror flick been this applauded! It was almost as if ... "horror" were its own legitimate genre!*" — FEARnet* Posted Feb 9, 2007

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