When you think about it, a lot of places can tell filmmakers how to make movies: Columbia College. UCLA. USC. NYU.
| * | But how many of them can tell filmmakers ways to avoid bad reviews of their movies? |
| * | I can. |
| * | I offer 100 ways to warn filmmakers – beginners and veterans – on how they can avoid making simple errors that can cost them major critical points when their pictures go to market. |
| * | Let’s face the ugly truth. Creative inbreeding in Hollywood has reached “Deliverance” proportions. I defy anyone to sit through three movies — any three of any genre – and not notice the same rusty lines of dialogue, the same arthritic visual devices, even the same lame props and set-ups. |
| * | Except for a handful of filmmakers who actually think outside of the Cliché Box (Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme lead the very short list), many Hollywood storytellers seem content to let their movies become narrative viruses that simply replicate themselves as quickly as possible, with different casts, of course. |
So, here come the 100 lamest, most unimaginative ways filmmakers can dare critics to dis their works. As for those filmmakers who continue to use the following elements of creative stagnation, I can only say on behalf of film critics everywhere, “Thank you. You’ve made our day.”
Ways to Get a Bad Review: 41-50 
Ways to Get a Bad Review: 51-60
Ways to Get a Bad Review: 61-70
Ways to Get a Bad Review: 71-80
Ways to Get a Bad Review: 81-90
Ways to Get a Bad Review: 91-100
Stay tuned for more “Bad Review” tips.
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