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BOB BLOOM
Bob Bloom

PUBLICATION(S)
• Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
• rec.arts.movies.reviews

BIOGRAPHY
I was born in New York and am a 1970 graduate of Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, was a bachelor's degree in journalism.
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STATS
Total Reviews: 821
Total QuickRatings: 484

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• Location: Lafayette, Ind.


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" The movie paints crude and insulting portraits of Israelis and Palestinians, going in for the basest stereotypes that would only bring a smile to the face of a Klansman." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008)35%
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" What is most extraordinary about Semi-Pro is that someone actually provided money to produce it. The funding probably came from someone who did not - or could not - read the script." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Semi-Pro (2008)21%
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" The humor is strictly grade school. The movie is missing the wit and charm Hess, who directs, created for Napoleon Dynamite and White and Black used in School of Rock." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jun 16, 2006
 
Nacho Libre (2006)39%
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" It can stand as the quintessential example of big moviemaking ineptitude." -- rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Battlefield Earth (2000)3%
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" If an original thought found its way into this horror-comedy it would die of loneliness." -- rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Idle Hands (1999)16%
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Posted Oct 12, 2001
 
Corky Romano (2001)5%
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" Blackball is a cinematic dirty bomb, a mediocre “comedy” that offers as many laughs as a dentist’s drill. " -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Feb 11, 2005
 
National Lampoon's Blackball (2004)38%
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" The screenplay ... is more a bunch of bromides, pronouncements and touchy-feely Dr. Phil-Oprah cliches randomly tossed together on sheets of paper." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jul 11, 2003
 
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003)37%
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" Sloppy and derivative." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Aug 22, 2001
 
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001)19%
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" This is a movie that is totally forgettable. As a matter of fact, I've forgotten about it already." -- rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Head Over Heels (2001)10%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)25%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Reindeer Games (2000)25%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
What Planet Are You From? (2000)43%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Hollow Man (2000)27%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Astronaut's Wife (1999)16%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Haunting (1999)17%
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" This stinker barks. It has been fermenting for a couple of years as the creative minds behind it continued to cut, recut then cut again, trying to make steak out of ground beef." -- rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The 13th Warrior (1999)34%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
End of Days (1999)11%
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" It is a movie that contains laughs, but they are more of the embarrassing type than ones created by humorous situations." -- rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
My Favorite Martian (1999)13%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Blue Streak (1999)36%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)30%
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" [It] could have used lots of sharpening." -- rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Blade (1998)54%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Brokedown Palace (1998)27%
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" The only people who will get any enjoyment out of this feature are those who love to ogle Matthew McConaughey shirtless ..." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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" 27 Dresses is cinema for the simple-minded. Everything is spelled out for the audience in capital block letters." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
27 Dresses (2008)40%
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" No one in the movie speaks like a real person. Even the youngest cast member talks as if footlights and a proscenium hemmed him in. " -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Nov 3, 2007
 
Martian Child (2007)30%
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" Most of the townspeople are archetypes. In fact, you get the feeling the town is populated by character actors and not real people. " -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Oct 20, 2007
 
The Final Season (2007)25%
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" Mr. Bean’s Holiday is a movie that offers intermittent laughs and some funny sequences, yet does not come together as a whole. It lacks focus and pacing. " -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Sep 1, 2007
 
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)50%
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" ... An insipid potboiler that strains to be some sort of sexual thriller, but leaves you cold and bored instead." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Apr 12, 2007
 
Perfect Stranger (2007)10%
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" The comedy, for lack of a better description, is not funny. It is churlish, childish and petulant." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jun 2, 2006
 
The Break-Up (2006)34%
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" Firewall offers nothing new nor original. It is a retread, formulaic to the nth degree, with every cliché telegraphed reels ahead of when they occur." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Feb 23, 2006
 
Firewall (2006)19%
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" The Patriot Act should be invoked to keep this trite feature from public consumption. " -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jan 27, 2006
 
Annapolis (2006)10%
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" The movie lacks style and pacing; Franco and Myles look too contemporary. They would be more at home with their romantic problems on some Fox or WB drama ..." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jan 15, 2006
 
Tristan & Isolde (2006)32%
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" Freedomland is sloppy; plot points are introduced, then left dangling; characters who are involved throughout most of the feature simply disappear ..." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Feb 23, 2006
 
Freedomland (2005)24%
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" The movie is so elementary, so simplistic, offering stock situations and cardboard characters who ... remain unchanged that it plays like an extended version of a sitcom ..." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Feb 4, 2005
 
The Wedding Date (2005)10%
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" Catwoman should be a fantasy fest enjoyed by every fetishist and dominatrix in the country. " -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jul 23, 2004
 
Catwoman (2004)10%
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" The Cat is a letdown, I ruefully confess. Once again the studio has made Seuss a mess. " -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Nov 20, 2003
 
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003)12%
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" Characters -- Vampire and Lycan alike -- pose, strut and try to look menacing, but they’re as scary as a congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Sep 19, 2003
 
Underworld (2003)29%
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" I guess I’m not as worldly and sophisticated as I envisioned myself because I found Le Divorce to be tedious and pretentious with only intermittent flashes of humor." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Aug 26, 2003
 
Le Divorce (2003)38%
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" After viewing Bad Boys II I think the II in the title stands for II long, II loud, II dumb and II bad." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jul 18, 2003
 
Bad Boys II (2003)24%
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" Instead of adding some playfulness, some comic book zest, (Ang) Lee has directed an angst-ridden excursion into suppressed emotions, guilt and scientific irresponsibility." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jun 19, 2003
 
Hulk (2003)61%
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" The Hunted serves no purpose, offers no message, has no redeeming qualities. It only does a disservice to the men who bravely wore their country's uniform." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Mar 13, 2003
 
The Hunted (2003)31%
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" No excuse can be found for wasting celluloid on this trying and tiring feature. If any movie needed to be taken for a one-way ride to the swamps of New Jersey and buried, it is Analyze That." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Dec 6, 2002
 
Analyze That (2002)27%
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" I Spy is an embarrassment, a monotonous, disjointed jumble of borrowed plot points and situations. It's as flat as an open can of pop left sitting in the sun." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Nov 3, 2002
 
I Spy (2002)15%
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" Exposition litters Ghost Ship like barnacles on a rusty hull. At times the film sits dead in the water while characters stand around updating each other on events we’ve already seen." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Oct 23, 2002
 
Ghost Ship (2002)13%
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" As stale as last week's white bread." -- Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jul 23, 2002
 
Men in Black II (2002)38%
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Posted Jan 25, 2002
 
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)74%
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" They should have stuck to the promise emblazoned on the original movie's poster: 'No sequel.'" -- rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Scary Movie 2 (2001)13%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Exit Wounds (2001)32%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
What's The Worst That Could Happen? (2001)11%

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