What followed was a surprisingly varied career.
Throughout his career, Roth has produced both great films and terrible films.
Theyre more renowned for their ridiculously gruesome violence and their colorful cast of lovable scoundrels.
Still, a movie adaptation couldve succeeded just by copying those elements.
Borderlands ignores everything fans love about the games and offers nothing exciting for newcomers.
Bruce Willis replaces Charles Bronson in the role of Paul Kersey and Hollywood flash replaces gritty thrills.
Butthe remake is too bland and uninspired to spark such outrage.
But it doesnt have an awful lot to say about the phoniness of that kind of modern activism.
It strikes that unique balance of being hard to watch but impossible to look away from.
Hostel: Part IIpretty much just offers more of the same.
After he reluctantly lets them in, they seduce him, then end up trapping and torturing him.
But Reeves performance just about carries the film.
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Hes committed enough to take the audience along on his characters wild journey.
It set out to beThe Goonies, but it ended up being more like a third-rateHarry Potterclone.
Theres nothing in The House with a Clock in Its Walls that hasnt been done in other movies.
But the movie succeeds when it just focuses on having fun.
Theres something to be said for pioneering a whole new subgenre.
In that sense, its sort of like a horror version ofThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
This hilarious twist puts a refreshing ironic bite over all the gore.
It revolves arounda serial killer dressed as a Pilgrim who picks off his victims around Turkey Day.
When the feature version finally came together in 2023, it didnt disappoint.
