Epinions Recent Reviews for Trotterman

Quizno's: Side Effects Can Include Dizziness and Drymouth

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:20:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - So I work with this lady. I'm guessing she's a smoker. I don't have actual firsthand knowledge of this. She doesn't ask for those paid smoke breaks generally unavailable to all us clean-breathers. She does, however, seem to have this constant dry...

Snakes on a Plane: The Magic and Pageantry That is...."Snakes on a Plane."

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:35:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - Oh yes little crackers, your beloved author is in high spirits today, for the miracle has come. After months of ever-increasing hype the long-awaited Samuel L. Jackson vehicle "Snakes on a Plane" hit theaters this weekend, and yours truly was on hand...

Tommy Lee Channels the Masters with Modern Western

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:07:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - I should start by proclaiming myself to be a big fan of western films who had the misfortune of growing up in a time when the genre has, for the most part, become passe in Hollywood. Therefore, it is going to be hard to hide my enthusiasm for the...

Live Men Walking...Out of the Theater

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:55:31 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - Review: Confinement has long been a plot device of the horror genre, most particularly in the zombie genre, and it is hard to get more confining than a maximum security prison. This is the scene for Dead Men Walking, one of the latest from the folks over...

I Say...This Film is Really Horrid

Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:32:57 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - Well my gute freunde, if you're reading this then one of two things has been made abundantly clear. Either the world did not come to an end as a result of 6-6-06, or I, much to my surprise, have been residing in hell for some time. Let's hope it's the...

Oh My God...this guy is nuts.

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:55:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - I've always sort of enjoyed the films from director Barbet Schroeder. You've got a May-December romance between two Colombian gents who also happen to be professional killers in "Our Lady of the Assassins." Who can forget Jennifer Jason Leigh and that...

Devil(ishly Good) In Disguise

Wed, 4 Feb 2004 02:21:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - I have heard, more than once, a theory pertaining to Hollywood films and there only being some small number of story ideas. These ideas are then given their own characteristics, but when you get down to the nuts and bolts it's all the same. You combine...

Jesus H. Christ....a SMWO submission

Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:24:29 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - No faithful readers, you favorite neighborhood misanthrope has not replaced you weekly dose of feel-good socialism with a essay on the Messiah. He has merely elected to participate in the Stinky Movie Write-Off and his contempt for the film to be...

Crying Hobbits and the Ensuing Manlove

Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:06:10 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - I just don't know. Maybe it's because I don't really care for the dominance of Western Civilization over the heathens that supposedly plague the rest of the world. It could be that I have a life that exists primarily within the parameters of reality...

French Quarter: A Tale of the Hidden Tourist Trade

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:24:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - This review will be a tad unconventional compared to some you might see on this sight. I'm not going to give you a list of places to go, or tell you to have some beignets and coffee. Okay, yes I will, have some beignets and coffee. But this review wi...

No Review Title Can Match the Book's

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 04:02:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - I absolutely must start by saying I am a Democrat, a liberal, a caucasian, a heterosexual, an agnostic, a college graduate and an extremely proud American. So imagine my anger alternating with tremendous glee as I flipped through the pages of what has al...

Silly Clancy...tricks are for kids!

Mon, 8 Sep 2003 03:34:40 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - I guess I should start this review by stating that I have never been a big Tom Clancy fan. Despite that fact, am I somehow drawn by some unseen force to his books detailing the life and times of America's favorite reluctant spy, Jack Ryan. This phen...

Trans World Dome: Dome Sweet Dome

Mon, 1 Sep 2003 03:09:15 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - Just to clarify up front. This facility is now known as the Edward Jones Dome. Now if anyone with...

What might be the first film with drugs, dogs, fire, feces, bondage, beer and auto-eroticism

Mon, 1 Sep 2003 01:17:02 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - Before getting to each and every item on our review title shopping list, allow me to send out this p...

Do You Believe in Magic?

Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:46:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - The next month will feature an interesting battle in the race for "Most Heavily Anticipated Film of All Time." Opening next month, of course, is the first installment in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Opening tomorrow, a film for people of this...

Vampirism and Vapidity all in one handy book.

Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:08:57 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - Well, it's been six weeks so get ready for the latest novel from James Patterson. The most prolific distributer of bombastic mayhem this side of Ari Fleischer, Patterson assaults bookshelves and misleading bestseller lists November 19th with his latest...

Those pesky kids....and that dog

Tue, 2 Oct 2001 04:25:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - One of the sad truths about America today is that we often hear nothing about books until they have inspired a film. Then when you want to buy the book, you have to put up with this stupid movie tie-in cover. Oooh! I hate movie tie-in covers!
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Kids do the darndest things.

Tue, 2 Oct 2001 01:14:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - Let me preface this review by saying that I am quite thankful director Larry Clark ("Kids" "Gummo") didn't develop this idea in his head. It's bad enough the events of this film took place in real life. If Clark could have actually imagined them...

"Do you have any idea what falls into an industrial sausage press?"

Sun, 26 Aug 2001 20:33:13 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - The nostalgia surrounding old television programs that invariably leads to their being turned into feature films didn't start in just the last few years. Boob tube classics have turned up on the silver screen for years. One looks back to the year 1987...

Beast of Burden

Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:12:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - With a funny title and the one-time Mahatma Ghandi now playing the Ma-hitman Grande, "Sexy Beast" is fast becoming the hip gangster flick of the year. Slick and stylish, it takes the proverbial "one last job" story and puts a completely different spin...

Wait a minute....I'm dead?!?

Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:06:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - Coming in a bit under the radar screen this week is the supernatural flick "The Others" starring Nicole Kidman ("Eyes Wide Shut"). Buried beneath the publicity of "American Pie 2" and likely to lose the under-17 crowd to the Farelly Bros. cartoonish...

"Stifler's Mom! Stifler's Mom!"

Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:08:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - The paltry meal that was the summer movie season may once again be saved by some hearty dessert. The idiot who wrote that sentence should be shot. What? I wrote that? Oh, just kidding about the shooting thing.

"American Pie 2" is about to...

The Big Payback

Sat, 4 Aug 2001 13:47:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - If revenge is a dish best served cold, then Alexandre Dumas must have been able to whip up a mean gazpacho as well. "The Count of Monte Cristo", along with "The Three Musketeers" helped propel the author into the air of Victor Hugo and Honroe de Balzac...

Hollywood Triumvirate Unable to Pull Off Classic Heist Film.

Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:02:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Edward Norton....ask someone to name the single greatest actor from each of the last three generations and you could very well hear those three names. Imagine if you could get all three of these guys not only in the...

Artificially sweetened

Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:09:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Trotterman - There are a number of expressions that warn against having more than one person in charge of any given endeavor. "Too many cooks spoil the broth." "There were too many chiefs and not enough braves." The list goes on and on. There is a reason a cliche...