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Mark Ellis

Agrees with the Tomatometer 59% of the time.

Publications:: Schmoes Know

Total Reviews:: 22

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2.5/5	39%	The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)	" Usually I can get into this movies, I get invested, I want to root for the characters but it took to long to get anywhere in this movie. There wasn't that Disney magic sprinkle you'd think would be in a movie like this. " — Schmoes Know Posted Aug 18, 2012
3.2/5	66%	The Expendables 2 (2012)	" Some good one-liners and some you don't even understand. Stallone was harder to understand in this movie than Bane was." — Schmoes Know Posted Aug 18, 2012
3/5	66%	The Campaign (2012)	" Is it silly and sometimes stupid? Yes, of course it is, but it's a comedy and it made me laugh enough to where I can get it to 3/5 Schmoes." — Schmoes Know Posted Aug 10, 2012
3.8/5	55%	The Bourne Legacy (2012)	" I was hooked and then it left me a bit flat at the end. Maybe I'm just spoiled because of The Avengers where I always want to see someone team up or go against each other. If that happens with this franchise it seems like it would fit." — Schmoes Know Posted Aug 8, 2012
2.9/5	74%	Hope Springs (2012)	" It was like watching a basketball game trying to focus on the point guard match-ups and the centers....but the story just wasn't something I bought all the way through; I was never convinced that Tommy Lee Jones' character could complete this journey." — Schmoes Know Posted Aug 8, 2012
4.25/5	32%	Total Recall (2012)	" There are clear nods to the previous film but it doesn't hit you over the head with them; thus this one feels like it's own movie. I thoroughly enjoyed myself if this film. Wiseman's best. " — Schmoes Know Posted Aug 3, 2012
3.1/5	17%	The Watch (2012)	" It made me laugh and even though it got untangled towards the end I had fun watching it. I'm gonna give this movie the same score as my mom, who accompanied us to the screening, 3.1 Schmoes. Decimals run in the family." — Schmoes Know Posted Aug 2, 2012
3/5	70%	Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012)	" Falling in and out of love, one goes out with someone new and the other gets jealous. who will end up with whom? That is the roller coaster ride that is this film and if you buy into the premise, it will enhance your enjoyment of the film immensely." — Schmoes Know Posted Aug 2, 2012
4/5	87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" It's the largest in scale of any of Nolan's Batman movies. The tone felt more like a comic book than any of the rest, and I wanted the darker, reality feel. But it's a good ride, and it closes out the trilogy well." — Schmoes Know Posted Jul 18, 2012
3.7/5	53%	Savages (2012)	" John Carter lives on the other side of that line; Kick-Ass would be happy selling his pot business and doing something else...but that becomes impossible when you get mixed up with people like Benicio Del Toro and Salma Hayek. Bad news and I had a blast." — Schmoes Know Posted Jul 6, 2012
3/5	76%	Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012)	" The other thing you learn is that she had an interesting childhood...both her parents are preachers, traveling ministers. "Do ya feel the power of the Lord upon you"?? 700 Club on steroids kinda stuff." — Schmoes Know Posted Jul 6, 2012
3.5/5	79%	Magic Mike (2012)	" I really enjoyed the movie. Solid cast, great performance by Tanning and Soderbergh's style makes you feel at ease when you shouldn't. If you have a problem watching a movie about male strippers, pretend they're comedians, pretend they're magicians. " — Schmoes Know Posted Jun 28, 2012
4.5/5	73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" Just like Spiderman, when this movie runs into a dead end, it gets itself out very quickly. I enjoyed being totally immersed in this world. If they want to take their time telling the story it's cool with me because I loved watching this movie." — Schmoes Know Posted Jun 27, 2012
4/5	70%	Ted (2012)	" It's a hilarious film that gets a little slow towards the end simply because it has to tell a real story. It gets even funnier with a couple gut-punches at the end. It's hysterical and the funniest movie I've seen so far this year." — Schmoes Know Posted Jun 26, 2012
4.1/5	56%	People Like Us (2012)	" It's grounded, it's real the entire time and that's a testament to the cast. Chris Pine has really impressed me. Let's forget about This Means War, because I'm pretty sure eveyone else in the general public has so he gets a pass." — Schmoes Know Posted Jun 26, 2012
2/5	35%	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)	" This movie is even sillier than I thought it would be. You talk about shark-jumping, fridge-nuking. I have a new one for you, horse leaping! Once that happens, that's when it goes off the rails and begins it's descent into Movie Hell" — Schmoes Know Posted Jun 21, 2012
2.8/5	77%	Brave (2012)	" This was not the story that I was expecting or hoping for. Without giving anything away, bears figure prominently into this, more so than I would have liked. And I'm a fan of bears." — Schmoes Know Posted Jun 16, 2012
2.5/5	41%	Rock of Ages (2012)	" It falls into a lot of the same pitfalls that the music of this era did; it starts out fun, catchy, and has a great hook, but then it gets full of itself, bloated, difficult to work with, and by the time it realizes it made a mistake, the magic is gone." — Schmoes Know Posted Jun 15, 2012
3.1/5	22%	That's My Boy (2012)	" Let's talk about Sandler, because he's doing a character here. You wonder is it gonna be a Little Nicky thing, Jack and Jill, where it gets annoying? No, I laughed and never got sick of this character." — Schmoes Know Posted Jun 15, 2012
4/5	73%	Prometheus (2012)	" Maybe we came from someone else, maybe we are just living in a giant petri dish, who knows? I had a great time in the theater, I was in this world, and I find myself afterwards asking questions, what more do you want out of a movie than that?" — Schmoes Know Posted Jun 8, 2012
2.9/5	58%	The Dictator (2012)	" The biggest problem with the movie is that it has all these crazy dictator jokes, which are funny but when it tries to be a movie, it fails miserably. You don't buy any of it." — Schmoes Know Posted May 29, 2012

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