Movies from the 2000s – Page 2 – Really Awful Movies

Damage

The Damage tagline is “bring the pain,” so it could be that there’s some filmic kinship with Roadhouse through its Zen koan, “pain don’t hurt.” But Damage is kind of a reverse Roadhouse (the remake, that is): instead of a cage fighter being pulled into bouncing, the arrow points in the opposite direction. Stone ColdContinue reading “Damage”

The Ruins

For The Ruins, the gulf between expectation and execution is great – as is the movie. Who knew? After all, the Netflix description – “an idyllic vacation in Cancun takes a dangerous turn for four young Americans when a mysterious tourist persuades them to join an archaeological dig” at surface level, reads like you’d beContinue reading “The Ruins”