FilmCrave Points
| Activity | Points |
|---|---|
| Total Ratings | 127 |
| Total Reviews | 3 |
| Total Lists | 2 |
| Total Plots | 0 |
| Total Points | 149 |
paulproia's Information
Ranking Status: Rising Star
Name: Paul Proia
Gender: Male
Current Area: Lighthouse Point, FL
Home Town: Buffalo Grove, IL
Education: University of Kansas, BS in Journalism - 1992, graduating with honors (8th in my school).
Employer: Hollywood.com
Position: Senior Director of Ad Operations and Bus. Intel - Anything tied to advertising to support sales, and then learning about our industry to help the bottom line, increase revenue, or just get smarter about what we do.
About Me: Work for Hollywood.com, which is how I got interested in movies again. Lifelong baseball fan (Go Cubs) and freelance writer. Go buy Just a Big Kid: The Life and Times of Rube Waddell - I wrote it, and it's on Amazon.com and other good book sites...
Interests: Baseball, coaching youth sports, my son Casey, Leo women (my wife, Jeanne, is a Leo). Leo women are the weakness of the Proia men... My dad married two, my brother married one, and my wife is a Leo...
Movie Profile
Film I Love: Airplane!
Film I Hate: Titanic
Guilty Pleasure: It's a Wonderful Life!
Favorite Genre: Comedy
Least Favorite Genre: Sci-Fi
Movie Quotes: Just about anything by Groucho Marx...
Latest Movie Review
Rating of
0.5/4
Grab a Fly Swatter and Smack It
The movie got off to a bad start before I had even sat down - the theater charged me an extra $2.50 for the use of 3-D glasses. So, taking five to the movie that day (and not even getting a true matinee deal) was not a good way to start the show... Then the movie starts. Few funny lines, the use of 3-D wasn't really woven into the plot (a waste of technology) and nobody really needed a return to the idiocy of the late 60s, where old codgers belittle women, pick on Russians, and what not. And, at the end, you get a stupid Buzz Aldrin cameo that was not necessary. Proof that Hollywood thinks it can create anything animated and send it out there because parents will take children there hoping to get 90 minutes of stress-free …
Recent Rating History
| Movie Title | Rating | Overall | Add |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 3.0/4 | 3.1/4 | |
| The Breakfast Club | 3.0/4 | 3.2/4 | |
| O Brother Where Art Thou | 2.0/4 | 3.0/4 | |
| Duck Soup (1933) | 4.0/4 | 3.1/4 | |
| Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 2.0/4 | 2.6/4 |
Top Movie List
| # | Movie Title | Rating | Overall | Add |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 4.0/4 | 3.3/4 | |
| 2. | Airplane! | 4.0/4 | 3.0/4 | |
| 3. | This is Spinal Tap | 4.0/4 | 3.1/4 | |
| 4. | Groundhog Day | 4.0/4 | 3.0/4 | |
| 5. | Duck Soup | 4.0/4 | 3.1/4 |
