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although i have to admit i laugh more watching this movie than the last few comedy i saw . the budget must have consist of pocket change from the actor . the production value be so low that they actual make it kind of fun to watch . remind me of the robot monster make up of a guy in a gorilla suit with a cardboard dive helmet on . in one scene a hapless victim get their arm and leg cut off . geez and hard to believe but the black knight scene from holy grail be more realistic . i keep wonder why the victim do not start shout none shall pass and it only a flesh wound and i have have bad . it be one of the funny scene i have see in the past year . the gladiator or demon be a stitch too . between the horribly cheap costume and the geeky look of the guy in it the end result be hysterical . truly a movie that be bad enough to be watchable . kind of like see a slow motion auto accident on film . | 0neg |
when george c. scott play the title role in patton and you saw him direct tank with pump of his fist and shooting at german dive bomber with a revolver and and spew profanity at superior and subordinate alike . the most action we get from gregory peck a macarthur and a figure from the same war of debatably great accomplishment and be when he tap mapboards with his finger and raise that famous eyebrow of his . compare peck performance with scott may be unfair . yet the fact macarthur be make by the same producer and score by the same composer begs parallel and a do the fact both film open with the general address cadet at west point . it clear to me the filmmaker be look to mimic that oscar win film of a few year before . but while peck look the part more than scott ever do and he come off a mostly bland in a story that feel less like drama than a wikipedia walkthrough of macarthur later career . to this day there be those who think he be a dangerous demagogue and others who say he be one of the great men who ever live and an opening title crawl tell u . it a typical dishwater bit of post vietnam sophistry about those who lead america military and very much of it time and but what we get here be neither view . macarthur a present here doesn not anger or inspire the way he do in life . director joseph sargent and who go on to helm the famous turkey jaw the revenge and do a paint by number job with bland battle montage and some obvious set use ( a when the chinese attack u. s. force in korea ) and while the script by hal barwood and matthew robbins trot out a macarthur who come across a good natured to the point of blandness and a bit too catch up in his public image and but never less than decent . here you see him step off the landing craft make his return to the phillipines . there you see him address congress in his old soldier never die speech . for a long stretch of time he sit in a movie theater in toyko and wait for the north korean to cross the 38th parallel so we can get on with the story while newsreel footage detail japan rise from the ash under his enlightened rule . peck co actor and marj dusay a his devoted wife ( youre my fine soldier ) and nicolas coaster a a loyal aide and burnish teary eye in the direction of their companion magnificence but garner no interest on their own . even when he argue with others and peck never raise his voice and for the most part win his argument with thunderous eloquence . when admiral nimitz suggest delay the recapture of the philippine and a point of personal pride as well a tactical concern for macarthur and macarthur come back with the comment represent just now and a i listen to his plan and i think i saw our flag go down . doubtless the real nimitz would have have something to say about that and but the character in the movie just bow his head and meekly accepts the insult in the presence of president roosevelt . the only person in the movie who macarthur seriously disagrees with be harry s truman and who ed flanders do a fine job with despite a prosthetic nose that make him resemble toucan sam . truman firing of macarthur should be a dramatic high point and but here it take place in a quiet dinner conversation and in which peck play macarthur a nothing less than a genial martyr . i have never be sell by peck standing at the upper pantheon of screen star while he deliver great presence but lack complexity even in many of his best know role . but it unfair to dock him so much here and a he get little help define macarthur a anything other than a speechifying bore . except for two scene and one where he rail against the surrender of the philippine ( he strike old glory and run up a bedsheet . ) and another where he have a mini breakdown while await the u. s. invasion of inchon and inveigh against communist undermine him at the white house and peck really play peck here and not the complex character who inspire the famous sobriquet american caesar . the real macarthur might have be worthy of such a comparison . what you get here be less worthy of shakespeare than shake the clown . | 0neg |
this film be do in really poor taste . the script be really bad . i feel really sad for the late gregory peck who take on the title role of this b movie adaptation of one of history great general . the movie be politically incorrect and downright insensitive to the others who fight the japanese in world war 2. there be a scene where i almost vomit and it show macarthur in a bunker in corregidor island talk to the troop like a seasoned politician when he come across a wounded and one legged filipino soldier . the soldier bleeding and die manages to sit up straight upon see the general and say represent ` no papa and no mama and no uncle sam and macarthur give his little pep talk that americans ` would never abandon the philippine . the scene end with the soldier be invigorate by macarthur word and give him a smart salute . i mean if there be a more condescending scene portray the u. s. a the great white savior of the world please tell me because this one take the cake . it show that filipino be damsel in distress incapable of honor and have to rely on the great american solely for redemption . it blatantly and purposely overshadow the contribution of the member of the usaffe ( united state arm force of the far east ) and these be filipino volunteer that be integrate in the u military during world war 2 and who die side by side with the american fight the japanese and who walk side by side with american in the death march of bataan and defend corregidor island by launch a guerilla offensive after macarthur leave for australia with his famous ` i shall return speech . my late grandfather and a filipino world war 2 veteran and usaffe soldier be one of the many who fight the japanese with honor and love for the home country . i think this movie do not give honor to them and to the thousand of others that macarthur rely on for intelligence preparation for his famous return in the leyte gulf landing . | 0neg |
lauren bacall and charles boyer do not provide the right chemistry here in this 1945 film . there be a good story here about the axis try to obtain coal to use for the upcoming war . unfortunately and this part of the story be not emphasize . instead and we deal with a supposedly bungling boyer . by the way and bacall be as british a vladimir putin . the real acting kudos go to veteran oscar winner katina paxinou . a be the case with her memorable pilar in the 1943 oscar winner and for whom the bell toll and paxinou again play a spanish revolutionary but this time she be a double crossing counter spy for the pro franco group . she be quite a vicious character here while especially and when she throw a 14 year old child out the window . she believe that boyer have give the child important material to hide . | 0neg |
yet another forgettable warner foreign intrigue thriller and this be render even less enjoyable by the irritate presence of lauren bacall and who and without humphrey bogart tender attention to humanize her and come off a her usual shrill and shallow self . even master gigolo charles boyer can not feign romantic interest in her . | 0neg |
( review in english and since swedish be not allow ) i saw this movie with extremely low expectation and and i can sadly inform you that the movie barely live up to them . as much a i love to see janne loffe karlsson on the big screen again and the writer should have realize early in the scriptwriting process that seven people fall into the water and isn not original or funny . the story be very thin and the joke be use and predictable and the one that ain not and be just plain boring . i smile like three time during the entire film . the placement of swedish findus product be ( unintentionally ) funny and why not just a big sign say while findus make it happen . göta kanal 2 doesn not need to be see at the cinema or on dvd and just wait for it to air on tv and it wont take too long . | 0neg |
ok now and let see . what be funny in the first movie . i know and people with funny accent and people fall into the water and silly boat crash and funny comment between the two team . in this movie they have twist the accent part to the max and no good . a whole a lot of people be fall into the water for uncertain reason and no good . boatcrash and check . funny comment between the two team and they try but fail . also and there be too may personality they be follow in this movie . this film should be about what be happen on the water and not on land . i be sorry to say that there be too far between the funny part and the sponsor of the film be exploit to the max . no good . all in all and i give it four out of ten since it have some funny part . | 0neg |
. for one of the bad swedish movie ever . forgive me for be dull . first of all i haven not see the first one ( i be bore that my reason for watch the 2nd before the 1st one ) and well i hope the first one be good than this and it be fill with weird cut scene and very strange plot change and for the people that have see this and think 4/10 be high ( belive me so do i ) and but it make me laugh a few time and because it be so bizarre so bad and i still laugh thinking of the punk that come up with this idea and what next det sjunde inseglet ii . sequel not base on novel or book doesn not turn out great to often and and this be a perfect example of one . ok i be gon na be honest with you represent i do laugh a bit and it get a few decent joke in it and slapstick humor . but do not buy it and rent it . just let some other idiot do it or download it . 4/10 this movie will be remember and the director be probably laugh out already . | 0neg |
this must be one of the bad swedish movie ever make . it be embarrass that such a bad script be allow to become a movie and show in cinema as recently a year 2006. i have never see so many visible sponsored product in one and the same movie . it shouldn not be that obvious . i can not understand why so many know actor even think the idea to even be visible in a movie like this . if i have any respect for some of the known actor in this movie before i saw the movie and it be go for sure now . i have hear that there will be a follow up movie to this one and i can not understand how that be even possible . | 0neg |
the story line be very straight forward and easy to follow and contain a lot of no brainer comedy to a point where it just get boring . some of the audience seem to find it funny but i like more intelligent humor . there be several know swedish actor in the movie and their performance be decent consider the script . lena endre be good look a always . i do not remember the original movie so i can not say if it good or bad . if you enjoy movie like sällskapsresan this movie might be worth take a look at . | 0neg |
dont ever ever ever consider watch this sorry excuse for a film . the way it be shot and lit and acted etc . just doesn not make sense . it all so bad it be difficult to watch . load of clip be repeat beyond boredom . there seem to be no normal person in the entire film and the existence of the outside world be and well and it just doesn not exist . and why do that bald guy become invincible all of a sudden . this film be beyond stupidity . zero . | 0neg |
after buy the dvd in a bargain bin due to the impressive amount of feature list on the cover and i pop it in the dvd player and everything look good . nice animate menu and a whole lot of extra feature . but when i play the movie itself and what a let down . it be the bad thing i have ever see and i have see some bad movie in my time . the comment that praise the movie here at imdb be actually from the people who make the film . so don not believe it unless you like to waste your cash . | 0neg |
i write a review of this movie far down after buy it on dvd and be sorely disapointed . i try watch it again after read a few of the comment make since then . be a film student and make similar budget movie myself ( ie no budget and shot on digi cam ) and i stand by my original comment . this be a no budget student project ( and not a particularly good one ) and release on video or dvd to look like an award winning film ( if you read the cover ) . so deceving the public into think it something it not . i want my money back under the trade description act . complete rubbish . | 0neg |
yes and this movie make me feel real horror and when i realize that i pay for it and spend more than 1 hour of my life try to watch it . the bald guy just give me the impression of be a psycho junkie actor and the girl be the bad actress i ever see . believe me if you appreciate your time avoid this movie and i understand a movie require money to be create and some movie do not have that money but that be no justification for a stupid plot and bad acting . i be always support independent movie and when it deserve the support and but movie like this make a bad name for this kind of movie . i be still traumatize . i will not trust in any nice cover anymore . | 0neg |
an unmarried woman name stella ( bette midler ) get pregnant by a wealthy man ( stephen collins ) . he offer to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turn him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own . thing go ok until the child name jenny ( trini alvarado ) become a teenager and thing gradually ( and predictably ) become bad . i have see both the silent version and sound version of stella dallas . neither one affect me much ( and i cry easily ) but they be well make if date . try to remake this in 1990 be just a stupid idea . i guess midler have enough power after the incomprehensible success of beach to get this make . this ( predictably ) bombed . the story be laughable and date by today standard . even though midler and alvarado give good performance this film really drags and i be bore silly by the end . stephen collins and marsha mason ( both good actor ) do not help in support role . flimsy and dull . really who think this would work . see the 1937 stanwyck version instead . i give this a 1 . | 0neg |
stella and star bette midler in the title role and be an unabashed tearjerker . set in upstate new york and stella claire work night a a bar maid and pouring and dancing in a workingman saloon . one night and in come a slumming medical intern and stephen dallas and who woo stella and and in the course of their affair impregnate her . she spurn both his offer of marriage and abortion and send him pack to a lucrative medical career and and raise her daughter herself in near poverty . flash forward 16 year and the daughter have grow into a gorgeous and loving and young lady . dr. dallas be not out of the picture and still maintain a tenuous and but care relationship with his daughter and . i be ramble and and bad yet and make the movie sound somewhat interesting . the acting and screenwriting be so over the top you will let out a groan in almost every scene . the chief offender be bette midler and but close behind be john goodman a her alcoholic buddy . each scene seem more contrived than the precede right up to the finale and which be truly a hoot . take a a dramatic piece and this film rate no more than grade d and but a camp and it score an unintended b plus . | 0neg |
1937 stella dallas with barbara stanwyck hasn not exactly age well how anyone think a semi updated version of the story would work now be a real puzzler . perhaps they think jaunty and cheerfully brash bette midler could make something out of it and but this hoary script defeat her . plot about a female bartender have a baby out of wedlock and and year later give the young girl over to the child wealthy father so she will have a shot at a good life and can not escape tatty and old fashion trapping and sentiment . midler work best with a movie director who can control her excess and but that fail to happen here while stephen collins be stolid a the man who change her life and but trini alvarado be well cast a midler daughter . this be what use to be refer to a a woman picture and a wallow and but it doesn not pass muster because it stay too faithful to it 1930 origin . half from . | 0neg |
i suppose that today this film have relevance because it be an early sofia loren film . she be 19 year old when the film be make in 1953. i view this film because i want to see some of sofia loren early work . i be surprise when she come on camera have have her skin bronze over in brown makeup to resemble an ethiopian princess . surely and today and this would have be view a a slur and to be avoid in movie making . it actually become annoy watch ms. loren in skin color paint throughout the film . yes and this film would have be good make if the real opera singer have make this movie . then and the singing and the actual facial gesture of the real artist would have be apparent . i discount the comment by others about whether the real opera singer be old and heavier in weight . as beautiful a ms. loren be at age 19 and still be today and the film would have be well receive a though it be be perform on the stage . after all and we do not see beautiful young people on stage with old opera singer back stage sing from behind the curtain . do not discount the success of use heavy weight opera singer . one only have to refer to the most artistically produce television commercial for the j. g. wentworth company with the opera singer on stage sing so professionally the praise of the company product . this be one of the best and entertain tv commercial produce to date . the quality of the movie print also make this production of a somewhat less quality . the color ink have fade much and that can not be help . to improve this film on dvd the production company should add english language subtitle so that we and who do not speak italian and can know what the lyric be say . it would help the story and teach it more than the narrator give 30 second of introduction to the scene . watch this film not because of the story of aida nor the fact that this be an opera . aside from ms. sofia loren none of her co actor be know nor remember by this writer . instead and watch this movie if you be a fan of ms. loren and wish to see her at age 19 no matter what the production be . larry from illinois . | 0neg |
sophia loren play aida and in one of the bad film of all time . she can not lipsync . in term of production value and the film be so bad and that at one point and while loren be mouth o patria mia and she lean onto what look to be a stone wall for support and and the canvas set billow and shake . | 0neg |
. and not in a good way . baseketball be a waste of film in all most every single way . it be offensive to all the sens . this doesn not necessarily bother me and i have see plenty of bad movie and really bad movie before and will see them again . baseketball though be a caliber film where you regret waste ninety minute of life sit through it . the reason baseketball offends me be that it star trey parker and matt stone in a film they do not write . any respect i have for david zucker have long since deplete . his recent spoof film be lazy mess that look and feel a if they be make by pre pubescent boys snicker at penis joke . airplane be a revolutionary and very funny comedy and watch baseketball you will be amaze to discover that they be make by the same person . i have so much respect for trey parker and matt stone . these men be the funny and smart comedian in mainstream entertainment today . their picture and south park episode be as relevant a they be funny . every joke even the fart joke have intelligence behind them . it easy to forget that there be a mature way to approach immaturity . i imagine baseketball be a major grow experience for them because they hate the film for all the right reason . it be a stupid mess with no sense of dignity or class . parker and stone have essentially whore themselves out . the film play like a 90 minute episode of family guy . parker and stone have never be great actor . they have be serviceable in their film . i can not really find a way to describe their performance in baseketball and other than the fact that it feel like they be spoof a spoof film spoof a spoof film . every line be deliver in such a silly winking way . it like they be try to make fun of the bad of these type of picture and yet they become them in the same way . i be remind of the south park episode how to eat with your butt where cartman sit in a movie theater watch a gross out comedy with no plot or plausibility except to gross out and parker and stone use the same voice they do in that scene for this entire picture . really it sad . and yet that be not my problem with baseketball . my big gripe with the picture be that i sit there know that parker and stone be knowingly follow this piece of crap script . i know that if they take the damn thing and rewrite it that this could have be salvage to the point of be watchable . there isn not any indication that zucker let them improv scene either . parker and stone be merely tool to a bad director . baseketball have some funny concept and i think parker especially if he be allow to take zuckers script could have elaborate on them more . instead we get potty humor . don not rent baseketball you can get the same laugh watch a group of grade schoolers joke around . | 0neg |
on the 1998 summer blockbuster hit baseketball ( 1998 ) represent this be one of those movie that be usually see on the big jumbo tron screen in a sport bar during the day when everyone be quite drunk . unfortunately and i be sober when i saw this movie . so quote the late gene siskel for this lame brain and suppose yukfest that come out two week after the far superior there something about mary in a one upmanship game during july of 1998. mary be a gross out fest and but in addition to the many gag and it have a lot of heart and which be why it be the high grossing comedy of that memorable summer . baseketball try to outdo mary and but it fizzle in more way that one . you take the creator of south park and trey parker and matt stone and who be fortunately not behind the movie but in front of the camera and the only member of zaz david zucker helm the picture in desperate need of a paycheck and and the other two jim abraham and jerry zucker clearly stay out or probably warn him against the picture and a small bit by now 90 year young ernest borgnine and waste his precious time in his distinguished career and die on a hotdog and singing i be too sexy a he videotape his will and jenny mccarthy and who have little screen time a borgnine not too weep trophy widow young enough to be his granddaughter and a big female part by yasmine bleeth a a dedicated social worker whose charge be underprivileged youngster and and the only interesting and meaningful player in this turkey and robert vaughn a a corrupt archrival and and pointless cameo by airplane . alumnus kareem abdul jabaar and the late robert stack who seem nostalgic for the 1980 masterpiece and it much fresher humor create by the zaz family . what do all these people make up . a desperate cast and crew try to replicate airplane . humor and mix it up with the crudity of south park and but fail in every way . to make this long 100 minute movie short and baseketball and a real game invent by david zucker and his friend in his hometown of milwaukee and be about two lazy loser ( parker and stone ) and their pint size mutual friend who invent baseball and basketball ( hence the title ) together on the driveway of one house . after borgnine dy and he bequeath the ownership of his baseketball team and the milwaukee beer to parker and stone . sure enough and the game go national and and archrivals vaughn and mccarthy want to take away ownership of the beer team from them . but bleeth be in love with both men and particularly parker and and one poor and sick charge in need of a liver transplant go ga ga over them . those be the character and not strongly develop . now witless gag ensue . blood and electroshock hair and egg throwing and screaming be among them . parker and stone nearly kill the youngster in the hospital and but he pull through the liver transplant . borgnine sings and rub ointment on his chest in the videotaped will . mccarthy and who seem to get over borgnine death by choke on a frank right away and quickly massage vaughn in the next scene . cheerleader dance in skimpy outfit . there be plenty of music on the soundtrack that be play for the hard of hearing . and david zucker force the parody of riverdance and titanic . parody forcing be nothing new to zaz and post airplane . and the naked gun series . and like siskel and i be sober as well and but i be also get sleepy . this movie should be play over and over to coarse mannered barroom patron who enjoy it a they chug down beer and but will they remain alert and awake and or pass out during the unfunny part . if they pass out and then they would not realize that they be luckily miss stupidity and absurdity . hat off to them . | 0neg |
eddie murphy delirious be completely and totally rude and crude and crass and lude . this be indeed the only way to describe this appalling and trashy piece of stand up . eddie murphy go for shock value rather than laugh to try and win his follow over . he do manage to be funny occasionally and but mostly lose the plot with obscene language and distasteful sex joke . forget it . unless you happen to enjoy eddie foul style . i do not think i will bother with eddie murphy raw . i much prefer eddie in the confines of a movie script . saturday and january 17 and 1998 video . | 0neg |
two year before he write and direct arthur and steve gordon have a minor hit with his screenplay for this crackpot comedic vehicle for henry winkler and then tv the fonz . a 1950s college thespian ( and all around jerk ) woo a co ed and get marry without any employment prospect on the horizon while to make end meet and he turn to the flamboyant world of wrestling and eventually become a gorgeous george like celebrity . turn likable winkler into an obnoxious goof off probably sound like an interesting idea at the time ( and a sure way to separate him from his television alter ego ) and but the joke and situation be often wrong head and mean and stag rather sloppily by director carl reiner . particularly crude be a wincing bit involve hervé villechaize ( of fantasy island ) put the move on polly holliday ( flo from alice ) . a henry beloved and kim darby look a little out of her element particularly when surround by all these tv ham render the romance aspect of the script inconsequential . half from . | 0neg |
this film be awful . not offensive but extremely predictable . the movie follow the life of a small town family in the mid 60 . the father and the principal at the school and be go through a mid life crisis . enter a pretty teacher from the big city who start challenge her student mind with some thought provoking stuff and like think for yourself . the principal doesn not agree with her teaching but she be pretty . you can connect the dot . his teenage daughter ( winona ryder wannabe tara frederick ) be feed up with the small town lifestyle and want to live . she get some bad advice and hang out with some bad boy and apparently family plan wasn not be teach at her school . shock . see that director paul shapiro have mainly work in tv and this movie play like a more adult version of an after school special or a very special episode of one of the more mundane sitcom . | 0neg |
this movie be extremely depress . the character be so cold . the mother and who be he main character and be everything but motherly . ok and she be unhappy in her marriage and always put her husband and child first . her husband dy . she then go to visit her son and meet this hunk who be sleep with her daughter and end up sleep with him . until this part and the movie be all right . not excellent and but it can be watch . the guy be charm and who can blame her . ok it not very motherly to sleep with your daughter lover but let blame that on the shock of lose her husband . she become totally obsess with the guy . i think this be the part where i start to dislike the movie . she always there want to please him in an old fashioned way with snack while he be work on her son house ( i guess this be the only thing she ever learn to do ) and a if it be the only way she could get his attention . the guy obviously be not very interested ( actually and it seem more like he consider sleep with her a charitable activity ) and instead of be insult by that and she continue to beg him to go to go to bed with her and to be nice to her when he become very abusive . i want to please you and she tell him in a desperate way while he be insult her very badly . what outrage me in this movie and be the utter lack of self respect the mother have for herself . she tell craig something like i be just a shapeless lump the first time they sleep together . this movie be an insult to woman kind . if it have be me and i would have buy myself a little object that would have bring me the same satisfaction and a lot less emotional pain . positive . | 0neg |
although there be some snippet in this 4 part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform and these be not very well develop and in contrast to the many snippet from those who feel that the drug that happen to currently be illegal be a scourge for which the only imaginable solution be incarceration of even those who be guilty even of mere possession of such drug . although this program and a a whole and leave the viewer with the impression that the drug war be largely a futile exercise and a waste of money and and for that it deserve some praise and almost nothing in this documentary address the very real problem that total war against those who merely possess illegal drug obviously cause and contributes to very real problem that most drug warrior themselves would tell you and if ask and they think the drug war be design to solve . for example and while many minute be spend on the surge in violence associate with the rise popularity of crack cocaine in the 80 and at no point do this program even hint that the very law design to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug seller to enforce their contract and business arrangement in court of law and force them to resort to violence to stay in business . but instead of see the law a an important cause of the violence and the drug themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame . inexplicably and alcohol prohibition and the violence that ensue and and the subsequent reversal of prohibition and be totally ignore by this program . this program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotype of drug user and and it be these that be the primary force in drive the very expensive and very problematic drug war . the possibility of incorporate drug other than alcohol into a happy and successful life be not really touch on . use of any drug in excess be probably go to cause personal problem and but not all user do their drug in excess and just like not all alcohol user be alcoholic . if you want a point of view from someone who believe that adult have a moral right not to be incarcerate and have their life ruin by the criminal justice system just for use drug that the government and for mostly very arbitrary political reason rather than reason base on sound social policy and legitimate science and have decide to totally prohibit and whose user it have decide to not so metaphorically wage war against and just forget about it . none of that be in here . on the other hand and this be hardly in the category of anti drug propaganda . it be mostly an interesting neutrally presented history of drug in 20th century united state like marijuana and lsd and heroin and cocaine and mdma and and oxycontin . but there be a significant element of various people point of view with regard to drug law and and most ( but not all ) of that be not very thoughtful or well inform and slant in favor of the drug warrior mentality and especially with respect to drug other than marijuana . the criminal justice system and along with it often harsh life ruin penalty and be obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem and but unfortunately there an epidemic in this nation of an a yet unnamed disease whose primary symptom be a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it come to certain drug and a lack of compassion for fellow human and a prejudice against people who use the drug that be not governmentally approve and perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison or policing industry and and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity . it morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for do so and and the mere possession of an arbitrarily select group of drug be clearly not such a reason . this be really the primary issue when it come to drug and yet this program ignore it . so and in sum and the part of this program that neutrally present history without feed stereotype of drug user that be at the heart of the drug war mentality be pretty good and interesting and entertaining . but when it come to present a rational non radical point of view with regard to drug policy and and give the viewer examples not only of people with drug problem but also the many people who successfully incorporate drug into happy and successful life and it pretty disappointing . | 0neg |
the fbi story ( 1959 ) be warner bros. 149 minute epic tribute to the famous criminal investigation agency . from a book by don whitehead come a somewhat laborious screenplay by richard l. green and john twist and be direct with only a modicum of flair by mervyn leroy . however it do have splendid colour cinematography by joseph biroc and a helpful score by the studio musical magician max steiner . the movie chart the history of the bureau from it lowly beginning in the twenty to modern time and it all see through the recollection of age fastidious agent chip hardesty ( james stewart ) a he relate his investigative experience in flashback to a class of bud young agent . but it all very long winded and episodic . and a it progress it begin to look like a tv mini series instead of a major movie production a the young hardesty run the american crime gamut from take on such notorious criminal figure a baby face nelson and ma barker and dillinger etc . to sort out nefarious organisation like the ku klux klan and nazi spy ring and the red menace . and here it have to be say that only for the screen presence and appeal of it star the fbi story would probably have end up a forgotten disaster . moreover and this be another problem with the picture stewart be leave to carry the entire movie almost on his own . with the exception of vera mile who have the thankless role of be his long suffering but devoted wife he be surround by a cast of minor player . throughout you find yourself half expect someone like robert ryan and jack palance or even raymond burr to make a welcome entrance a a mobster or a police chief or whatever . but nothing quite as imaginative a that ever occur . pity . the film do however manage to give a good look inside the working of the bureau . with the help of stewart narration we learn about the thousand of men and woman who work for the organisation which include the hundred of agent in the field . and we be also treat to a peek inside headquarters which house the gigantic record section and we also get a glimpse of the chemist and fingerprint expert meticulously go through their daily chore . another plus for the movie be max steiner remarkable score . heard over the title be a powerful and rousing and determine march while for the picture gentler moment there be an attractive love theme . but quite ingenious be the menacing and ominous march theme for the ku klux klan sequence . and good still be the rhythmic latin american music the composer write for the south american scene especially the exciting fandango like orchestration for the arrival of the federal troop on horseback . the fbi story be one of five score the composer write in 1959 which include samuel bronston naval epic john paul jones and the charming rom com cash mccall and delmer daves seminal western the hanging tree and daves a summer place from which derive the young love theme which be to become a major hit tune for steiner well know a theme from a summer place . the fbi story just about pass muster a a movie thanks to biroc rich colour cinematography and steiner wonderful music and of course jimmie stewart who make anything watchable . classic but implausible line from the fbi story . a the bland nick adam ( who have just blow up a plane with 43 people on board and include his mother ) be be lead away handcuff he turn to the arrest officer and blurts represent in case i get any mail you can send it to canyon city prison for the next month or so after that you can send it to hell . wow . | 0neg |
pedantic and overlong fabrication which attempt to chronicle the birth of the federal bureau of investigation . begin quite promisingly and with a still relevant probe into an airplane explosion and however the melodrama involve james stewart and wife vera mile just get in the way ( mile have a habit of play tepid wife under duress and and her frayed nerve arrive here right on schedule ) . esteem director mervyn leroy helm this adaptation of don whitehead book and but despite the talent involve and the picture fail to make much of an impression . best performance be turn in by murray hamilton a stewart partner and however most of the dialogue be ludicrous and the dogged pacing cause the movie to seem twice as long a it be . half from . | 0neg |
this film be to the f. b. i. history a knott berry farm be to the old west . shamelessly sanitized version of the federal bureau of investigation fight against crime . hoover heavy hand ( do he have any other kind . ) show throughout with teevee quality script reading actor and cheesy set and cheap sound effect and light 101. with jimmy stewart at 20 % of dramatic capacity and vera mile chew the scenery and the film feature every c lister know in the mid fifty with nary a hint of irony or humor and from the amazon jungle to the back yard barbecue and everything reek of sound stage and back lot . even the gunshot be can and familiar . i imagine mervyn leroy get drunk every night . except for a few ( very few ) interest exterior establish shot and nothing here of note beyond a curio . | 0neg |
this movie certainly prove and that also the good american can do terribly good propaganda . no question be ask and no comment be make on power abuse or police terror and when james stewart and solid and convincing a always and solve all the story from dillinger to 5th column more or less singlehandedly . june allyson a his regular love interest hold up the family value and e. j. hoover be executive producer . and child or non guilty bystander be never harm and when the professional execute . not to speak of civil right and which be never break or home and which be never intrude . and if the fbi service would not be enough and steward also give his son life for the country in ww ii . perfectly make and if you wouldn not know good . | 0neg |
not much to say beyond the summary and save that this be an example of j. edgar hoover constant attention to maintain a good pr profile . they do not make movie this bad very often and especially with the like of jimmy stewart and vera mile in the blend . too bad . . | 0neg |
recap represent doctor markov have develop a new theory how to produce energy and knowledge that might unbalance the world . he keep his knowledge cod and secret and desperately want out of the soviet union . kgb on the other side desperately want the new technology . so and they set a scheme in motion . during a rescue attempt to free markov and kgb step in and take markov to a secret location and lure him to reveal his secret by say they be in sweden and and work for the un . a a backup and kgb kidnaps markov estrange daughter . cia now send their best agent and a team of ( swedish . ) ninja to thwart kgb and rescue markov and his daughter . comment represent a cult movie that despite not be very good need see . the movie be quite ambitious but lack in many area . first off be that it be very dark and probably to conceal location and bad effect and that some scene be hard to comprehend . you can not see what be happen . the second thing that it be lack be martial art and despite be a ninja movie . sure there be some and of quite poor quality and but mostly the ninja fire automatic gun or set of explosion . the automatic gun pose a problem too a they seem to have a endless supply of ammunition . and the ninja seem almost immune to bullet while soviet guard die like fly . what do it have that speaks for it then . the idea and ambition foremost . some actually and and especially for a swedish movie and decent action scene albeit not of martial art . some nice slow motion scene and pretty much blood and gore . and some very interesting new weapon technology that make the victim heart or brain explode . mostly all part that you look for in a b movie . because it definitely be a b movie and no mistake could be make there . but if you expect it and and watch it like a b movie and it be entertain . but do not forget and it be not only a b movie it be set in the eighty . some girl and for example and besides wear . let say interesting clothes and have lethal dos of eye shadow and makeup . in all and see for the cult status and the ambition . enjoy it and and then forget it . 4/10 . | 0neg |
even 20 plus year later and ninja mission stand out a the bad movie i ever manage to sit through . scandanavian ninja silently enter a scene and fire their obnoxiously noisy sub machine gun with wild abandon and and then silently leave . wow and how will we find those silent invisible assassin . just follow the shell casing and smoke . painfully bad dialog ( or be it brilliant and just poorly translate . ) and not an asian in sight in the cast and and a whopping total of 3 asian among the stunt crew . the plot be ridiculous and the act pretty much non existent then again and ninja can not act . save yourselves avoid watch at all cost . | 0neg |
you have be foul and beat up in submission by my harsh statement about femme fatale or gun n gal movie . now come another breed in disappointing rediscovery represent ninja movie . many of these i have see before and and let me tell you and they aren not all that crack up to be . they usually do not stick to the point . this and among all others and suffers from no originality . what a ninja got to do with prevent a nuclear holocaust in russia . and isn not this suppose to be a martial art movie and too . do plenty of gunfire sound like an incredible action movie to you . be blood the number one reason to love this to death . will you waste some of your hard earned cash over a lady singing in her see through tank top . the answer to these important question be find in the ninja mission and which should be in the martial art section of your video store . for even more nonsense ninja fun and try check out those godfrey ho movie put out by trans world . you get what you deserve and and that a promise . recommend only for hardcore ninja addict . | 0neg |
have low expectation go in and the opening new footage ( clock at over five minute ) of husband come a a pleasant surprise . i would not say the new footage be grade a material and but it provide a very solid foundation for what could have be a good all original film . unfortunately and this be put together in 1955 and during a time of one day shoot schedule . after the new footage and jules white decide to just thumbtack stock footage from brideless groom into this short and make for a not so smooth story transition and which jules and felix adler try to remedy with a quickie bit of new footage at the end and give u the old and wear out end of the boy ( moe and larry in this case ) get shoot in the butt . negative . | 0neg |
scary and but mostly in the sense that will it be over before i turn 70. i saw this a a late night re run in about 1976 and think it would never end . like cracker and it good than nothing ( but just ) . ray milland be a little scary because he look a if he be stuff by a taxidermist . yvette mimeux look a if she smoke up all the beautiful downtown burbank brown . it a sort of roy rogers version of rosemary baby . this be one turkey that should never have be make . if you have insomnia and it 1 represent30 on saturday morning and there nothing on but replay of the 1972 roller derby chamionship and then i guess it beat that . but god help you if this be your only choice for entertainment . | 0neg |
please note that i haven not see the film since i discover it in 2007 and and my town be small and doesn not carry it . however and i really want to say something about it . i be actually do research for university on the title character richard maurice bucke and would like to point out that the person they base the main character on be in reality completely different . hollywood idea of people and artistic license grant and the real dr. bucke totally endorsed hysterectomy to cure insanity in woman and and would never have practice anything as liberal a represent in the film . i think it laughable to see various film critic who write for legitimate newspaper who say this film have some historical basis . the only actual fact i can see be the friendship between dr. bucke and walt whitman . please do not waste your time on a film with such a disregard to the horror that real woman experience at the hand of this doctor who have now be glorify by the film industry . | 0neg |
this be a complete disappointment . the act isn not bad and but the production be just so bad that at time i felt i need to stop it and but i sadly make it through and be able to finish it a bit embarrass by the whole poor movie . it be o. k. if you be o. k. with cheesy moral plot and do not mind watch a movie that vastly misconstrue whitman . if you want a cheesy fictional story go for it . | 0neg |
i try twice to get through this film and succeed the first time and it be like pull teeth and fail the second time despite a great dvd transfer . the problem . it simply too boring . if you can get to the dramatic courtroom scene and which take up most of the second half of the film and you have it make and but it tough get to that point . there be some interesting talk by abraham lincoln ( henry fonda ) during the trial . the end be touch a lincoln walk off and they superimpose his memoral statue over the screen . it a nice story and well act and such . but it lack spark in the first half and discourage the viewer from hang in there . i suspect the real abe lincoln be a lot more interesting than this film . | 0neg |
every movie from the thirty be dated and but if you be to watch only john ford movie it would seem more dated than if you watch others . i. e. grand hotel be comparatively modern melodrama . with ford and there always the hard sell of someone nobility ( abe and the joads ) . always the over emphasis of some heavy badness . always the poorly craft and awkward and obvious script . this be no exception . it just a rather belabored device to deliver sentiment . and sentiment be all this have go for it . what ford do here doesn not make me appreciative of lincoln and it just make me wonder how the state be ever settle by the population of complete moron depict here . ford go on to make decent movie . this be too date to be anything but bad . it feel entirely false . henry fonda with a fake nose be bizarre . and no one from illinois would pronounce the trailing s and or say shonuff . | 0neg |
i haven not read a biography of lincoln and so maybe this be an accurate portrayal . and maybe it because i be use to the equally alienating and unrealistic worshiping portrayal that unnaturally deify lincoln a brilliant and honorable and and the savior of our country . but why would they make a movie represent lincoln a a buffoon . while henry fonda make an excellent lincoln and his portrayal of him a an aw shuck and i be just a simple guy seem a little insulting . [ grant and that be bushie jr. whole campaign and to make u think he be just a regular guy so we wouldn not care that he a rich and privileged moron but that a whole other story . ] not only do the film show lincoln a sort of a simple ( almost simple mind ) kind of guy and the film state that lincoln just sort of get into law by accident and and that he wasn not even that interested in the law only with the falsely simplistic idea of the law be about right and wrong . in the film he not a very good defense attorney ( he lounge around with his foot on the table and make fun of the witness ) and and the outcome be mostly determine by chance or luck . furthermore and partly because this be finance by republican ( in reaction to some play sponsor by democrat that have come out ) and partly because it be just the sentiment of the time and the film be unfortunately religious and racist and conservative . don not waste your time on this film . | 0neg |
a a dane i be proud of the handful of good danish movie that have be produce in recent year . it a terrible shame and however and that this surge in quality have lead the majority of danish movie critic to lose their sense of criticism . in fact and it have become so bad that i no longer trust any review of danish movie and and a a result i have stop watch them in theater . i know it wrong to hold this unfortunate development against any one movie and so let me stress that villa paranoia would be a terrible film under any circumstance . the fact that it be hype by the critic just add fuel to my bonfire of disillusionment with danish film . furthermore and wait until it come out on dvd be very little help against the unshakable feeling of have waste time and money . erik clausen be an accomplished director with a knack for social realism in copenhagen setting . i particularly enjoy de frigjorte ( 1993 ) . a an actor he be usually funny and though he generally play the same role in all of his movie and namely that of a working class slob who down on his luck and partly because he a slob but mostly because of society and and who redeem himself by do something good for his community . this be problem number one in villa paranoia while clausen cast himself a a chicken farmer and which be such a break from the norm that he never succeed in make it credible . it be much bad and however and that the film have to make twist and turn and break all rule of how to tell a story to make the audience understand what be go on . for instance and the movie open with a very sad attempt at visualize the near death experience of the main character with the use of low budget effect and bad camera work . after that and the character tell her best friend that she suddenly felt the urge to throw herself off a bridge . this be symptomatic of the whole movie while there be little or no motivation for the action of the character and and clausen resort to the low form of communicate whatever motivation there be represent tell instead of show . thus and at one point and you have a character talk out loud to a purportedly catatonic person about the way he feel and because the script wouldn not allow him to act out his feeling while and later on and voice over be abruptly introduce and quite possibly a an afterthought and to convey feeling that would otherwise remain unknown to the audience due to the director ineptitude . fortunately and at this point youre roughly an hour past care about any of the character and let alone the so called story . the acting and which have frequently be a problem in clausen movie and can be sum up in one sad statement represent søren westerberg bentsen and whose only other claim to stardom be a a contestant on big brother and be no bad than several of the heralded actor in the cast . i give this a negative rating . | 0neg |
i have see romantic comedy and this be one of the easy or bad attempt at one . a lot of the scene work in a plug and play manner insert strictly to conform to the romantic comedy genre . usually this be okay because be deal with a genre and but the challenge generally reside in make it original and new and inventive . this movie fail to do so . there be no sense of who the character really be and apart from sylvie moreau ( who be the real star of this movie and not isabelle blais ) . they fit into this one dimensional cliché and they become nothing more than simple puppet serve the purpose of a very light narrative . the pacing of the movie can become annoying and rhythm lack and and the editing be fill with unnecessary close ups . i should also mention the overly stylized decor make some scene devoid of any naturally and or rather and make the attempt at naturally seem too obvious . of course and along with that and you have the right on cue sappy music which unfortunately often sound mismatched . i can not believe that a movie who make obvious woody allen allusion end up be this deceptive . if you expect a good light hearted romantic comedy and this be not it . or rather and this a poor attempt at it . you will only leave the theater wonder why this film have be get such praise when cinema be now more than 100 year old and there be far superior quebecois director make good flick . le aimants be a good movie for what it be . but it a bad one if you regard cinema a an art and director a auteur . | 0neg |
the point of the vastly extend preparatory phase of this star be bear story seem to be to make ultimate success all the more sublime . summer phoenix be very effective a an inarticulate young woman imprison within herself but never convincing a the stage actress of grow fame who both overcomes and profit from this detachment . even in the lengthy scene of esther act lesson and we never see her carry out the teacher instruction . after suffer through esther ( largely self inflict ) pain in excruciate detail and we be give no persuasive sense of her triumph . the obsessive presence of the heroine pain seem to be mean a a guarantee of aesthetic transcendence . yet the cause of this pain ( poverty and quasi autism and judaism and sexual betrayal ) never come together in a coherent whole . a 163 minute film with a simple plot should be able to knit up it loose end . esther kahn be still not ready to go before an audience . | 0neg |
a shame that even a talented director and desplechin and could not muster a decent performance out of a bleakly talented actress and phoenix and esther kahn lack the substance to convey a very concise and clear plot . in an attempt to fulfill the concentric circle of an actor plight and the performance and presentation be too contrived and poorly execute to draw any compassion from the viewer . in an overly long running time and the redundancy of esther struggle be too melodramatic to be effective and reduce the storyline into a frail frame of a disastrous display . the content be incoherent and gratuitous a phoenix struggle to carry out desplechin instruction and just a esther be supposedly try to do the same . never feel a convincing victory over esther pain and we never feel a victory in phoenix talent . | 0neg |
overlong drama that isn not capable of make any real point . so she become an actress so what . she learn to love big deal . there be a certain eccentricity among the character and in the dialog and situation and but the kind which be bad for the movie and cause it to often seem absurd . summer phoenix and play the lead and talk and behaves like a semi retard person and so there be no choice but to watch the movie a about a retarded girl that make it in the world of theater which be clearly not the intended point . we be tell early on ( in that barry lyndon like narration ) that she learn to hide her emotion and which certainly explain her autistic stone face and but the movie suffers for it . she basically walk around like a zombie and and her success a an actress isn not quite credible give her lack of emotion . occasionally and the movie have that dull and sleepy feel of a dogma 95 movie . be it one . i wouldn not be at all surprised . summer phoenix be sister of joaquim phoenix and the late river phoenix . nepotism rarely work . if you would like to see my hollywood nepotism list and with over 350 picture or entry and contact me by e mail . | 0neg |
i have see this film because i have do ( my job include see movie of all kind ) . i couldn not stop thinking who give money to make such an awful film and also submit it to cannes festival . it wasn not only boring and the actor be awful as well . it be one of the bad movie i have ever see . | 0neg |
this movie be one of the bad i have ever see . pure drivel . how anyone could develop a connection with the heroine and or have empathy for her and be beyond me . i felt i be watch a case history of a schizoid individual with borderline personality disorder . just terrible . in it most generous light and this can be see a an attempt at produce and art film except i could not and for the life of me and find any art in it at all . if this woman have live in todays world and she would have be whisk off to a mental institution and give a couple of day treatment with anti psychotic medication . that and or simply allow to roam the street and become a bag woman . why other character in this movie find anything redeeming in her and try to aid her in her quest to become an actress speaks more to their pathology than any convincing characteristic she have that make her worth that effort . | 0neg |
boring and appallingly act ( summer pheonix ) . she sound more asian than jewish . some of the scene and costume look more mid 20th century than late 19th century . what on earth fine actor like ian holm and anton less be do in this be beyond me . | 0neg |
i rent this think it might be interesting and and it might have be an interesting story except that be be tell in such an uninteresting manner . hard to follow and strange editing and disjointed storyline and the character mumble and all in all a dreadfully dull waste of time . i just couldn not get into it and do not care what happen to the character not even ian holm could save this film . unless you need a cure for insomnia and i would skip it . negative and and that be generous . | 0neg |
i go to school with jeremy earl and that be how i heard of this movie and i do not really know if it be in the theater at all . i do not recall the name . i have see it and it be like one of those after school special . the acting be ok and not great . the plot be kind of weak and the line be pretty corny . so the only comment i can give this movie be eh i borrow the movie from jeremy and if i be in a movie rental place and this be one that i would walk past and after watch it i wouldn not recommend it to anyone past middle school age . i have also notice that many time when urban kid be portray and the slang be overuse or just outdated . many time i think thats what make their character unbelievable . | 0neg |
the opening shot be the best thing about this movie and because it give you hope that you would be see a passionate and well crafted independent film . damn that open shot for fill me hope . a the film progress in a slow and plod manner and my thought be vary in relation to this film represent be there too much butter in my popcorn . do the actor have to pay the director to be in this film . do i get my ticket validate at the box office . yes and dear reader . i saw this film in the theatre . this would be the only exception i will make about see a film at home over a movie theatre and because at home you can turn it off . be there any redeeming value . peter lemongelli a the standard college nerd have his moment and especially in a dog collar . other than that this film go from try to be a comedy and to a family drama to a spiritual uplifter . it succeed on none of these front . oh and and the girlfriend be realllllllllly bad . her performance be the only comedy i find . | 0neg |
i do not know it be possible to release a movie this bad . the labeling sound so promising and but you would think that with a cast of 20 and at least one of them would be able to act . my wife leave me and go to bed after the first 20 minute . she make a wise decision . | 0neg |
the acting be some of the bad i have ever see and the character be totally unconvincing . this could be overlook to some extent if the plot be interest and which the plot to the prodigy be not . it sort of a bad mix between fresh and animal house and except that both of those movie be good . | 0neg |
within the first few minute of this dutch thriller and we learn that krabbe be a gay alcoholic writer who sleep sans underwear and fantasize about murder his roommate and try to steal a magazine from a news stand and and lust after a studly young man he meet at the train station . and he the hero of this nonsensical movie that be all dress up ( except for krabbe in at least one scene too many ) but have nowhere to go . the basic plot be very simple but be drag out to nearly two hour before reach a pointless conclusion . verhoeven have a nice visual flair but resort to scene of wild hallucination and overt symbolism and and gratuitous gore when he run out of idea . | 0neg |
i saw this movie in my international cinema class and be gross out from get go . this movie be nothing but one scene of blatant shock value after the next . the 4th man be about an alcoholic writer name reve and who have vision of his in pending danger . he meet up with a woman name christine when give a lecture at a local book club and and only decide to stay with her when he discover how attractive her boyfriend be . to put it plain and reve like the dutch sausage . so reve concocts a plan to seduce christine boyfriend so he can ultimately have sex with him . but it later discover that christine have have 3 previous husband and who she all murder . now reve and christine boyfriend could be the 4th man . the storyline make sense with no plot hole . the editing and everything else that be technical about this movie be perfectly fine . the movie be just gross and i felt the need to vomit in some part . basically and this isn not my cup of tea . the movie open with reve get out of bed in just a t shirt . so in the very beginning and you get to see reve lovely pecker flop around a he walk around his cramped apartment in a hangover state . later on he have a dream where his pecker get cut off by a pair of scissors and and they do show it along with the blood fountain that ensue . reve fondle a statue of jesus and have homosexual sex in a mausoleum . plus there a lot of blood . more blood than all the freddy krueger movie combine . not that i have anything against shock scene and but this movie be just so blatant when it come to shock . the whole movie be revolve around the shock value . so if any of this be your cup of tea and watch this movie . otherwise and stay far far far far far away from this one . my mind be still scar . | 0neg |
even if this film be allegedly a joke in response to critic it still an awful film . if one be go to commit to that sort of thing at least make it a good joke . first off and jeroen krabbé be i guess the poor man gerard depardieu . naturally i hate gerard depardieu even though he be very funny in the iron mask three musketeer one . otherwise to me he be box office poison and jeroen krabbé be bad than that . the poor man box office poison . really that be not be fair to the economically disenfranchise . if the 4th man be suppose to be some sort of critique of the bourgeoisie . what be i say . it isn not . let just say hypothetically and if it be suppose to be and it wasn not sharp enough . satire be a tricky thing . if it isn not sharp enough the viewer become the butt of the joke instead . i think that be what happen . the story just end up a a bunch of miserable disgust character do nothing that anyone would care about and not in an interesting way either . ( for a more interesting and worthwhile application see any luis bunuel film . very sharp satire ) [ potential spoiler alert ] really and the blow job in the cemetery that jeroen krabbé character work so so hard to attain . do you even care . be it funny . since mr. voerhoven be suppose to be a good film maker i will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it be some misanthropic joke that get out of control . though i be guess he do not cast jeroen krabbé because he the bad actor and every character he play have be a pretentious bourgeois as . except he incompetent at it . so it become like a weird caricature . do you think mr. voerhoven do that on purpose . and jeroen krabbé be the butt of the joke as well . i just do not see it . so you understand the dilemma i be face with here right . it be the bad film ever because he suppose to be a good director . so there be some kind of dupery involve . i know patch adam be horrible without even see it . do not be dupe by the 4th man deceptively allure packaging or mr. voerhoven reputation a a good director etc . etc . | 0neg |
i be really horrify by this eerie movie . what an unusual dark atmosphere . and such a creepy musical score . really promise . indeed and after ten minute you really start sweating and and feel uncomfortable and for you start fear the bad . this movie have the atmosphere of a true nightmare and and what bad it all come out . for one hour and a half i have be try to fight complete boredom and fall asleep and but the monstrous soundtrack keep me awake . nuit noire be a truly horrifying picture for your eye and your ear and your intelligence and and most of all represent your wallet and since the thought of spending precious money on a movie ticket for this cheap amateuristic homevideo be the big horror of all . | 0neg |
i do not know what this movie be about and really . it like a student art school project . they never say why the world be dark and but it be always darkness except for second a day . there be long and interrupt shot of insect of all sort for no reason . what little dialogue there be in the movie be a inane and nonsensical a the image . a black woman enter the main character apartment . somehow she become pregnant overnight and then get shoot in the head . the main character take care of the body until it become a cocoon after which a white naked woman emerge . i have never be so blown away by how bad and pointless a movie can be . honestly and i would like someone to watch it so they can tell me what they think it about . but i wouldn not wish this level of hell on anybody else . | 0neg |
this movie appear to have be an on the job training exercise for the coppola family . it doesn not seem to know whether to be an a or a b western . i mean and the hero be call hopalong cassidy for god sake . william boyd must be spin in his grave . all the b western cliche be here . the two gun pearly toothed hero in the white hat with the trusty steed ( c amon thunder ) and the all in black beard villain and the heroine in distress and the rancher in trouble and the cowardly sheriff and over the top bad guy etc . the acting and with few exception and be strictly from the yakima canutt school of act . chris lybbert ( who . ) a the hero and louis schweibert ( who . ) a the villain look like they would have be more at home in a 30 poverty row quickie . the addition to the cast of veteran performer martin sheen and robert carradine and clu gulager and will hutchins help a little and but they be not give enough to do to salvage this one . what be the point of the martin sheen or robert carradine framing sequence . be we to believe that the sheen character be a ghost . what be the purpose of the black glove . it just do not make sense . be a great lover of western from all genre and i try hard to find some redeeming quality in this film . the cinematography be quite good and the setting look very authentic . aside from the hero and main villain and the other character look authentic . if the producer be go to resurrect the hopalong cassidy character and they might have give some thought to portray him a he be originally write a grizzled foul mouth ranch hand with a chip on his shoulder and the kind of part lee marvin would have excel in . what else can i say but . on thunder and on big fellow . | 0neg |
we saw this on the shelf at the local video store and saw coppola in the credit and get excite . that be the one and only time this movie raise any interest . i could never quite work out if it be an attempt at a humourous film that fail miserably and or an attempt at a serious film that fail miserably . in general and the entire production seem incredibly amatuerish . the sound in particular be absolutely dreadful and especially in the scene shoot in the little bar while the dialogue be so corny in part it be unbelievable . very disappointing . | 0neg |
in this day and age of incredible special movie effect and this one be a sore disappointment . the actor seem stiff and uninspired and a be the dialogue . western be not common fare for hollywood so much these day and but movie like silverado prove that somebody out there still know how to make a good one . consider that and it be hard to conceive that anyone would go to any expense at all in release and much less create such a weak film a this one . if you love and be look for a good western and keep look . | 0neg |
hopalong cassidy with a horse who be not white and not name topper . go figure . this travesty do a gross injustice to the great of all cowboy hero and hopalong cassidy . the actor who play him be young versus old and blond haired versus white haired and kill people versus shoot the gun out of their hand . will the real hopalong please stand up . one of the bad movie ever make and and believe it or not and by the person who bring u the grandfather saga . | 0neg |
i enjoy watch western film but this movie take the biscuit . the script and dialogue be laughable . the acting be awful and where do they get them from . music be ok i have to say . luckily i do not buy or rent the movie but it now dispose of . i be gear up at the beginning when the stranger ( martin sheen ) start to tell his story . i have to admit i do enjoy the confrontation between hopalong and tex where hopalong shot tex finger off and tell him to practise for 40 year to reach his league . but thats where it all go pear shaped thereafter . i have to watch the whole film in the hope that it would get good and never do . | 0neg |
the closing song by johnny river be the only great thing about this movie . unfortunately that be all the positive i can say about this western movie . i have to write 8 more line for my comment to be post and but there be more than 8 line of awful in this western . i be not sure if the movie be a tribute to hopa along and or just a spoof . the hero and the villain in this movie be too plastic . not realistic at all . a lot of the support actor in this movie look authentic and but the shooting scene be a joke . a previous commentator think this movie be great and and in the comment take a cheap shot at president bush . this be not a democratic or republican western . it be just a bad western movie to be sell commercially . i wonder if it make any money . at time i think i be watch a movie make by college movie student . if that be the case and then it be a great movie . | 0neg |
one hour and eight minute and twelve second into this flick and i decide it be pretty lame . that be right after hopalong ( chris lybbert ) drop on his horse from a tree to rejoin the good guy posse . i be pretty mystify by the whole hopalong cassidy or great bar 20 gimmick which do not translate into anything at all . obviously and the name coppola in the credit couldn not do anything to guarantee success here and even with more than one list . if you make it to the end of the film and you will probably wind up ask yourself the same question i do . what exactly be the hook with the glove . what up with the rodeo scenario . who be the stranger suppose to represent . why do they make this film . i could probably go on but my energy be drain . look and there already a western call the gunfighter from 1950 with a guy name gregory peck a the title character . watch it will make you feel as good a watch this one make you feel bad . that one i can recommend . | 0neg |
this be almost certainly the bad western i have ever see . the story follow a formula that be especially common to western and martial art film hero learn that family or friend have be murder and so hero set out to exact revenge and foil the ineffective lawman and rescue the kidnapped loving damsel and and murder the expert arch nemesis in a brutal duel . this formula have often be successful otherwise it wouldn not be a formula but gunfighter be the most sophomoric execution of it you will ever see . the scripting be atrociously simple mind and insult while it sound like a high schooler write the dialogue because it lack depth and maturity and and realism . the sound be bad while it sometimes look dub . the cinematography be lame and and the set be sometimes just facade . the acting be pitiful while sure and some of the performer could blame the script and but others can not use that excuse . i hope i never see chris lybbert in a speaking role ever again while every time he say a line that should be angry or mean and he do nothing more than low the timbre of his voice and he just sound like a kid try to act macho . and speaking of chris lybbert and who play hopalong and check out his dud ( if you dare to watch this film ) represent he wear these brand new clothes that make him look more like roy rogers than a hard working and down and dirty cowboy . if you enjoy inane cinematic fare that serve merely to worship the imagined grandeur of hopalong cassidy and then get this and but if you have more than two neuron and watch something else . | 0neg |
a dreary and pointless bit of fluff ( bloody fluff and but fluff ) . badly script and with inane and wooden dialogue . you do not care if the character ( indeed and even if the actor themselves ) live or die . little grace or charm and little action and little point to the whole thing . perhaps some of the set and setting will interest those gap between the board of all the building may be true to the way life be live . the framework encounter be unnecessary and distracting and and the hoppalong cassidy character himself be both boring and inept . | 0neg |
i read the back of the box and it talk about mary shelley and percy shelley and lord byron . i thought and wonderful . this will be great . i be so wrong . the story be all screw up . in fact i still do not get it . it just seem to me that all the character do be drink and smoke ( opium . ) and have sex . not that those aren not good movie quality and but please . where be the story . i make myself finish the movie and and yes and it do pick up towards the end and but by then the movie be almost over . rent it if you really want to . just do not trust the back of the box . | 0neg |
don not waste your time on this dreck . a portrayed and the character have no redeeming value and watch them interact be sheer torture . gothic be entertainment at least and this be crap . if you like watch pretentious and spoiled poet strain to outwit each other and this may be right up your alley . lord byron be portray a a complete jerk and and why the others would choose to spend more than five minute with him be truly bewildering . mary shelly appear to be the only character with any spine whatsoever and but even she come out of the whole ordeal without an ounce of respect . what a waste of time . see gothic instead . i also remember see another superior movie base on the same subject matter and but do not catch the title . i be hop this be it and but no such luck . not recommend . | 0neg |
oh my . how can they make movie of such beauty and but that be so terribly bad . i mean and even uwe boll doesn not make crap like this . there be not even a hint of a decent story and multi layer character and or attraction . it just a random sequence of pointless chatter join together to make a amovie . i suppose only child up to 3 year of age could enjoy it and give the world be so utterly dimensionless and the story so incoherent and that anyone old would be annoy by it . but then again and it far too scary for anyone under 6 year of age and that there probably no one that should watch this movie at all . take my advice and stay far and far away from this movie . your little daughter can make a good storyline and and though she probably isn not able to draw picture this pretty and her tale be much more worth listen to . and please and in the name of whoever you believe in and do not expose your child to this piece of . i will give it negative and and that exclusively for the graphic and because the story and character development be so awful they would deserve a negative rating . and if you decide to watch it anyways . remember that i warn you . | 0neg |
this be one of the bad write movie i have ever have to sit through . the story nothing new but it a cartoon and so who care and as long a it pretty and fun . i be not go to go as deep a the characterisation and or i will be here all day ( except to say that there aren not any while the character change personality whenever it convenient to the plot ) and but whoever write the script and visual direction should be forbidden access to so much a pencil and paper . thumb down . i would vote to cut their thumb off . narrow in on an object or prop . cut back to character close up . character give a knowing look and which the audience will not even remotely understand . repeat that several time and with different object or prop . make the character pay no attention at all the huge lump of rock be float around and crash into each other and generally rain destruction all over and and which could kill them all at any moment but make them stop and gasp in fear when they see a harmless look and almost pastoral green rock in the distance . the whole thing be a long succession of event and action and and behaviour that be only there for the convenience of the writer and to save him have to think or make any effort at all to write the story properly . this be the plan 9 of cg cartoon and except that it doesn not have ed wood groan factor to make it fun to watch . do yourselves a favour represent spend your cartoon budget on pixar movie . | 0neg |
a a young black or latina woman i be always search for movie that represent the experience and life of people like me . of course when i saw this movie at the video store i think i would enjoy it while unfortunately and i do not . although the topic present in the film be interest and relevant and the story be simply not properly develop . the movie just keep drag on and on and many of the character that appear on screen just come and go without much to contribute to the overall film . have the director do a good job interconnect the scene and perhaps i would have enjoy it a bit more . honestly and i would recommend a film like raise victor over this one any day . i just be not too impressed . | 0neg |
first off and i must admit that both film i have see by this director i saw without title and so may have miss the point . my czech isn not bad but and have sit through two of his film and i wish i hadn not even try to learn . samotari be too cool . way too cool . it about ten different story line that weave in and out together . that not so deeply unusual in a town the size of prague ( tiny and really . ) the main character be between 20 and 30. they have get job and only one study . the best character be the young balkan girl . her sentiment be echo by immigrant here every damn day . that about it . the only great character . everyone else be make their own life hell quite on their own . how can i sympathise with such obvious incompetence . perhaps there be interest bit with japanese tourist but do i need another stereotype in film . if you like alright music and see this film . if you want to laugh at others stupidity and see this film . if you like irony and dry humor and see an original jarmusch not an imitation . and under no circumstance see ondricek film and septej ( whisper . ) that be unless you enjoy homophobic stereotype . | 0neg |
this bogus journey never come close to match the wit and craziness of the excellent adventure these guy take in their first movie . this installment try to veer away from it prequel to capture some new blood out of the joke and but it take a wrong turn and journey nowhere interest or funny . there almost a half hour waste on show the guy do a rock concert ( and lot of people watch on free tv since when do that happen . ) surely the script writer could have do something more creative while look at how all the random element of the first movie be neatly tie up together by a converge them at the science presentation . not in this film and which pretty much end the bill and ted franchise . the joke be over . the grim reaper be toss into the mix and for whatever reason . this infusion and like the whole plot and be do poorly and lack spark for comedy or audience involvement . there a zz top impression and hammer in for no reason . there light and smoke and mirror and noise . but nothing really creative or funny . skip this bogus thing . | 0neg |
since most review of this film be of screen see decade ago i would like to add a more recent one and the film open with stock footage of b 17 bombing germany and the film cut to oskar werner hauptmann ( captain ) wust character and his aide run for cover while make their way to hitler fuehrer bunker and once inside and they be debrief by bunker staff personnel and the film then cut to one of many conference scene with albin skoda give a decent impression of adolf hitler rally his officer to ultimate victory while werner character be show a slowly come to realize the bunker denizen be catch up in a fantasy world some non bunker event be depict and most notable be the flooding of the subway system to prevent a russian advance through them and a minor subplot involve a young member of the flak unit and his family difficulty in survive this film suffer from a number of detail inaccuracy that a german film make only 10 year after ww2 should not have include while the actor portraying goebbels ( willy krause ) wear the same uniform a hitler and include arm eagle goebbels wear a brown nazi party uniform with swastika armband the s soldier wear german army camouflage and the well documented scene of hitler award the iron cross to boy of the hitler youth be show a have take place inside the bunker ( it be do outside in the courtyard ) and lastly and hitler suicide weapon be clearly show a a belgian browning model 1922 most account agree it be a walther ppk some bit of act also seem wholly inaccurate with the drunken dance scene near the end of the film be notable and this bit be show a a cabaret skit and with a intoxicate wound soldier ( his arm in a splint ) maniacally goose step to music while a nurse do a combination striptease or belly dance and all by candlelight . this be actually embarrass to watch the most incredible bit be when werner captain wust gain an audience alone with skoda hitler and hitler be show a slump on a wall bench and drug and delirious and when werner character begin to question him and hitler start scream which bring in a ss guard who mortally wind werner character in the back with a gunshot this fabricate scene be not base on any true historic account werner character be then haul off to die in a anteroom while hitler prepare his own end and hitler farewell to his staff be show but the suicide be off screen and the final second of the movie show hitler funeral pyre smoke slowly form into a ghostly image of the face of the dead oskar werner or hauptmann wust this film be more allegorical than historical and anyone interested in this period would do good to check out more recent film such a the 1973 remake hitler represent the last 10 day or the german film downfall ( der untergang ) if they wish a more true accounting of this dramatic story and these last two film be base on first person eyewitness account and with hitler represent the last 10 day be compile from gerhard boldt autobiography a a staff officer in the fuehrer bunker and downfall be do from hitler secretary recollection and the screen play for der letzte akte be take from american nuremberg war crime trial judge michael musmanno book ten day to die and which be more a compilation of event ( many obviously fanciful ) than eyewitness history it be surprising that hugh trevor roper account and the last day of hitler be never make into a film . | 0neg |
i be shock by the ridiculously unbelievable plot of tigerland . it be a liberal fantasy of how the military should be . the dialogue be difficult to swallow along with the silly thing colin farrell character be allow to get away with by his superior officer . i keep think and hey and there a reason why boot camp be tough . it suppose to condition soldier for battle and turn them into one cohesive unit . there no room for cocky attitude and men who would not follow order . i be root for bozz to get his butt kick because he be such a danger to his fellow soldier . i would not want to fight alongside someone like him in war because he be more concerned with people feeling than with do what be necessary to protect his unit . . | 0neg |
i get this movie in the $ 5 bin at walmart . i would not recommend watch this move . i might give it to one of my friend if i be angry at them and want them to suffer for 2 hour . i look at the cover and skim through the summary and think it be a war movie . i wish i would have know how boring this movie be go to be before turn it on . it be my mistake to think something be go to happen in this movie . it just about a group of people go from one boot camp to another . the drill sargents treat the soldier very badly and the main character try to help people get out of fight in vietnam . okay and here be my rant about this movie represent to me and this movie be slow and hard to watch . it be just one of those movie that you put in and be stick watching because you want to turn it off but your hanging on to a string of hope that it might pick up towards the end . it doesn not . after the movie be over i through it behind my t. v. because i be angry that i waste almost 2 hour of my life watch it and and another 10 minute write this review to warn people about it . | 0neg |
i realise that the u army be demoralise by 1971 and but this film be unbelievable . it be suppose to be a training camp not the ss punishment battalion in a sven hassell novel . the writer must be a real army hater . the psycho sergeant who keep beat the crap of people belong in a prison cell and and the useless black top sergeant should have be sack a well . these men be go overseas and the receive unit would surely have wonder where all the unusable damage recruit be come from and and an investigation would have ensue . the scene that blow it completely be the electrocution one . farrell and the allege barrack room lawyer and would have have the instructor over a barrel for issue an illegal order ( to torture pow in contravention to the geneva convention ) and actual assault on an enlisted man and sexual assault and conduct unbecoming an officer . intead he just walk away . after this and discipline brake down into a madhouse level and the film become unwatchable . i do not know how it end and i go to bed . | 0neg |
while some scene of training be realistic and too many of them depict military instructor a ex nazi type . obviously and the people who write the screen play be either anti military type or write a film for that audience . i be a viet nam vet and and even during this period and military instructor who behave in the manner some of these do would probably still be serve time in military prison . and i really love the scene where the hero and his buddy ( both private ) be sit down in the captain office and smoking cigarette and talk and cuss with the captain a if he be their buddy . this sort of thing never happen in training or in a formal situation and a be the purpose for the scene . at the end i ask myself and what be this film about . a it seem to wander around all over the place with no focus except i hate all authority . thank god i get it from the library and do not pay to rent it . | 0neg |
i watch this a few day ago and so detail be get hazy . the film be shoot on hand hold camera and and a lot be make of this at the time it be release originally and since we hadn not have many studio picture make in this way . i can not help but feel this be more of a gimmick than anything and design to make the audience think that what we be see on the screen hasn not have all the compromise that come with a big budget and and so be more real . however what we have here isn not much more than a not a good rip off of the first half of full metal jacket and so anyone who have see that and or any one of the other rip offs there of and will know what to expect . the main problem i have be the stereotyped character and with the weedy soft kid out of their depth and close harmony singing and ebonics spout black dude and world weary sergeant and bitter and twisted psycho etc etc . all be put into the sort of situation that would provide the most friction and tension at any give time . maybe this be intentional to highlight the stupidity and injustice of the situation and maybe it be laziness and or maybe it be just a committee try to appeal to the big audience and all i know be it be annoy . one novel thing be the mixture of volunteer and draftee ( where normally all the character would have be force into the situation and ) although only the scene between the two main character really make much play of it . this seem to be the main pivot of the plot and with the volunteer come to their sens and the draftee gain a sense of duty and self worth and but it all do in a rather force and unsubtle way . the other big bug i have be how all the character ( with the exception of the psycho and the real softy ) would react to each inevitable conflict with at first aggression and threat of violence and face with farrell ubiquitous stoicism and immediately back down and be all reasonable and diplomatic . i guess if i have to find a plus it would be the act from the two lead and which be strong and very convincing and tho consider the formulaic nature of the character and this wasn not too hard . in my imagination and bozz grow up to be zeke off tour of duty and and for my money and 4 episode of that would be more fun to watch . | 0neg |
hard to describe this one if you be a fan of rus meyer film back in the day and you will surely be please to see that haji be still look really hot and though forry ackerman have not fare so well ( what be he do still make these movie anyway . if i go up to him with a camera will he be in my movie . ) . it be a pretty fun premise a superhero whose giant mammaries be her secret weapon but sometimes it do not pan out for the whole length and and the joke be on a level with your average joe e. brown comedy ( or and abbott and costello if that your thing ) basically just bad pun . still and i find this movie fascinate to watch and and for more than 2 reason . good job and but still a fundamentally flimsy production . | 0neg |
kitten natividad and of russ meyer film fame and play chastity knott and a woman who have find she have breast cancer and so she go to south america to get some special fruit ( crockazilla . ) that be suppose to have heal power . after go down on some of this fruit ( which appear to be plastic banana on stalk ) chastity be endow with some mystical magical power that make her a super hero and specifically and the double d avenger . note that she also wear a pair of panty a a mask . in writing and that all sound pretty good . in execution and well and it leave more than a little to be desire . it seem that chastity own a pub and a local strip joint be upset because she take away their business so some of the stripper ( include haji and also of rus meyer film fame ) go after her to ruin her . of course and chastity fight back in the guise of the double d avenger . watch her do a wonder woman type spin to change into her outfit and also lose her balance due to excessive centrifugal force . bad joke and lame double entendres fly like there be no tomorrow . with the inane theme song playing over and over this come off like a twisted 70 live action kid show with adult content and although while this be unrated it could probably get away with pg 13 at the bad . and it probably a blessing that the faded star keep well cover . this make doris wishman chesty morgan film look positively wonderful in comparison . special appearance by forest j. ackerman but so what . very stupid and and i be never buy another film with joe bob briggs on the cover . negative . | 0neg |
well and i suppose the good news concern william winckler 2001 opus and the double d avenger and be that it manage to unite three of rus meyer mammarian marvel kitten natividad and haji and raven de la croix in one picture . ( i can only assume that lorna maitland and tura satana and babette bardot be busy the week they shoot this thing . or else manage to see a copy of the script in advance . ) the bad news and though ( and there plenty of it ) and be that this film if it can even be call that and have be shot straight to video be a complete misfire and a total abortion and an out and out atrocity and an absolute abomination and and truly one of the bad picture that i have ever see . look no further for the lame superhero movie ever make . the plot here and such a it be and deal with kitten gain superpower after fellate the rare cockazilla plant in south america to cure her breast cancer ( oy ) and and later battle a trio of megalunged bikini dancer back in l. a. too bad that every lame boob joke trot out fall completely ( you should pardon the expression ) flat and that there be zero actual nudity in the film at all ( other than some old photo of kitten in her heyday ) and and that some shave cream and a papier mache boulder be the sum total of the special fx . the meyer gal here be a bit long in the tooth or saggy in the chest and to put it kindly and although sheri dawn thomas and a bikini girl ooga booby ( . ) and do manage to and uh and stand out nicely . so why have i give this juvenile and unfunny and fail embarrassment of a movie 2 star instead of 1. to be succinct represent joe bob briggs . his voice over commentary in the special feature of the dvd i just watch be absolutely hilarious and especially when he pull out around 100 synonym for the word breast from the 1 and 000 plus on his web site canonical hooter list . the man be a national treasure and and he manage to upgrade this skeet of a disc to coaster status . | 0neg |
dreary . schlocky . just plain dreadful and awful . let be honest and when you sit down to watch something call the double d avenger you aren not expect great art or even mild mainstream entertainment . you be probably expect a cult film type and maybe get some good look at some impressive bust . you do not get really either of these in the video . the story and a it consistent with most of these type and be inane represent kitten natividad run a local pub and find out she have breast cancer and fly down to south america for a fruit that claim to be a panacea for any ill and a super human ability giver and return and fight and dress a the double d avenger and a group from a local strip club want to edge out the competition . a story go and i have see a lot bad and but a another reviewer note the execution be horrendous . the action sequence lack zip and drive and motivation and and be tissue thin . the act isn not even properly campy and the dialog be the pit . nothing and and i mean nothing be funny from the wince pun to the heavy hand boob reference . all could be forgive if the girl could make up for it and but they all fall way short . kitten and haji and and raven de la croix be all quite old ( still lovely in their own way ) yet expose nothing and become the antithesis of what they be try to be represent old and campy caricature of their former self . instead and they look so lame and desperate more because of the vehicle they be star in rather than their own ability . there be some other lovely lady and but you really do not see much of anything . pg 13 definitely could be an appropriate rating for this . the material and the actress and and director be all tired and tiresome and and date and again not funny . it be a brutal hour plus sit through this and and that be a shame a i be expect something campy and fun . the guy play bubba by the way be the only real laugh for me . not that he be good at all mind you and but every time he open his mouth i keep think how truly awful he be . the lone bright spot here at all be see mr. sci fi himself and forrest j. ackerman and play the curator of a wax museum and chat to his wax frankenstein affectionately call frankie . other than that this be a complete bust now how be that for another tired and dreadful and trite pun . | 0neg |
this be the most pointless film i have ever see a there be no plot and the actor do not seem to care . 90 % of the film have absolutely no plot whatsoever and i laugh so much my rib begin to ache . the bit where the old men when to capture robert duvall be ludicrous . on a directorial level make a noir film do not involve lot of rain sequence and pointless closeup on the main character . this be a failed attempt to create a noir thriller and instead alienate the viewer with incoherent scene . see a this be base on a amanuscript by john grisham i do not count this a one of his book to film adaptation a it display none of the suspense and engage storyline a film such a the firm or the rainmaker . | 0neg |
what up with robert pretentious altman . be he save on light . everything be so dark in this boring movie that it be laughable . i mean and have you ever see a lawyer office where everyone work by candlelight . don not waste your time . in fact and do not waste your time with anything altman make represent it all a pretentious waste of film . | 0neg |
rarely have i witness such a gratuitous waste of talent . there be almost nothing constructive to be say about this hopeless swamp of a film . what few interesting strand the film seem to promise initially turn out to be little more than red herring . actor of stature robert duvall and robert downey and jr. be deploy in role which go nowhere while a director of occasional genius produce a film which look like it be film through a coffee stain camera lens while a writer ( john grisham ) who have never produce anything of merit and discovers new depth of under motivated incoherence . the film have a cheap and lecherous feel about it but barely at the level of commentary it really part of the aesthetic . normally and i come on to the imdb to write balanced and generally appreciative comment . this egregious disaster of a film just make me want to produce an endless and bilious rant . i would not and but only because i no longer want to occupy my mind with this trash . | 0neg |
this be one of the bad movie i have ever see . while feature good actor the movie doesn not live up to the expectation . the most dramatic thing about this movie be the music and which pretty much sum up the movie represent compensate for a bad and confusing storyline by have know good actor and loud and dramatic music . it doesn not change the fact and that this be a very boring movie to watch . earn itself a score of 1 . | 0neg |
in spite of it impressive cast and crew pedigree gingerbread man crumble early and often . the plot be unrealistically convolute and the actor sport bad accent and director robert altman participation amount to collect a pay check . once again he have assemble an impressive cast ( like woody allen and everyone want to work with altman ) that this time around to the letter be miscast . but that only part of the problem . kenneth branagh be rick magruder a high power georgia lawyer who in the film heavy hand open scene manages to get himself preposterously seduce by a mysterious catering company waitress who convince him she be in grave danger from an ex husband and a loony dad . with red flag everywhere the astute lawyer plod on even manage to get his child in harm way . fight of gun and fist follow along with a requisite car chase and if that not enough there a hurricane thrown in for the ridiculous finale . branagh play macgruder with a mealy and unconvincing southern accent . run around in a trench coat in all kind of weather he blind to the obvious in order to keep the story go . hipster bob downey jr. be every bit as bad a a p. i. but with a little more emphasis on the bad accent . robert duvall a the old man be boo radely all grow up en crazy than a bed bug serve some thick slice of ham but at least his twang be plausible . the female lead ( embeth davidtz and darryl hannah and famkhee jansen ) be lean leggy and unemotive . even the celebrity lawyer do cameo ( vernon jordan ) be wooden with the few throw away line they have . in addition to pay little attention to his actor and altman mise en scene drip with spanish moss be murky and shapeless and his action scene comic book . it lack his offbeat touch and observation ( he do inform the viewer that the star and bar still wave in georgia ) that make a well do altman so unique . unfortunately and gingerbread man be altman at his bad and even if the pay be the same . | 0neg |
do anyone who be make this movie and particularly the director and spare a thought for the logic of the story line . these be not mere plot hole and but plot graf and that become ever deep a we lose any sympathy for the main character and his plight . that be and if you be kind enough a viewer to valiantly ignore the fact for most of the movie that the character be either servant to the grave hole plot and or boring and unlikeable . or and in the case of downey and hannah character and apparently superfluous . in ponder the reason for existence of downey character significant screen time in the movie and i decide that either the director have like his character and unnecessarily increase his screen time ( unlikley and a the director do not change anything else about the script he actually need to ) or that his character be go to be sacrifice on the altar of bad plotting . i will leave you to guess which one it be to be . i have to keep check the cover of the dvd to confirm that this really be make by credible talent . i can not understand why robert altman would take this job . surely he have some power to pick and choose . actually and i can not understand why anyone would take this script on and except a first time director look for the experience . i suppose robert downey jr. need the money for his habit . i suppose kenneth branagh want to try a southern accent . i suppose robert duvall be only give a few page of the script and think the role in isolation sound intriguing . these be the only motivation i can see that would coerce good actor to take on role in this movie . a for robert altman and plenty of effort have go in on his part to make the movie look fantastic . i find myself notice how he have frame such and such a scene and or use the bright orange float vest in another scene to draw the eye movement and or impose a beautiful filter to create a particular mood . i do not typically notice such thing in movie and since most movie i bother to watch to the end actually engage me for reason of good story tell and interesting character with understandable motif . i watch this to the end only because some ridiculous element of optimism in myself keep look at that dvd cover and be convince that and due to the talent involve and there have to be some redeeming factor in this movie . nice direction . but that not why i watch movie . | 0neg |
i rent this dvd for two reason . a cast of great actor and and the director and even though robert altman can be hit or miss . in this case and it be a big miss . altman attempt at create suspense fell on it keester . after see kenneth branagh in a good film like dead again and i do not think he could possibly contribute to such a turkey and and i hope it do not ruin his reputation . robert duvall seem to have fall the way of most one time oscar winner . on a downward spiral that include act in eat money film such a this one . duvall be once a great actor in excellent film and even though his best performance be not tender mercy and but the great santini . this movie be truly a big waste of time . i give it a negative . | 0neg |
this movie be like real life and by which i mean not a lot happen in the available 2 hour or so and and not much game plan or plot be evidence by the frequently invisible cast ( their invisibility be due to the experimental lighting a mention by many reviewer ) . a big bore . no big surprise that altman helm this he be a very variable performer ( yes we all love gosford park and but pret a porter anyone . kansas city . dr t. and the woman . aaargh ) and but the fact that the raw material be a john grisham tale and and the excellent cast that you will perceive through the gathering gloaming of your insistent slumber make this truly a masterpiece of bad film . and no and it be not so bad it good . it just bad . | 0neg |
i think i have see all of the grisham movie now and generally theyre all very poor and except for the rainmaker and but this one be so bad it unbelievablewarning spoilerishit one of those movie where the character do the stupid irrational thing that no one would ever do . he a lawyer for christ sake . why when his child go miss do he not call the police . oh yes it because all the police hate lawyer so theyre just ignore him and let him be attack . when he arrest for murder they just let him go free and he would be lock up in a cell pending a bail hearing . why would you drag your kid halfway across the country when you could easily protect them at home . the police do not bother to try and find an escaped mental patient and they do not bother to interview his daughter . a for the ridiculous end . in summary and silly and very unrealistic and a complete waste of time . negative one of the bad film ever make . | 0neg |
there be not a single sympathetic character in this entire movie . be it the lawyer play by kenneth branagh that be suppose to be pull for . well and let see we learn he a sleazebag defense attorney who get criminal off on technicality . he treat his coworkers like cattle and get them involve in his own personal crisis ( in the process and get one of them kill ) and jeopardize the safety of his kid and threaten his ex wife new boyfriend and try to strong arm the police and school administrator and all this for what . because he be think with his little head . i be really pull for the father and his gang to beat the stuff out of the lawyer and drown him in the swamp . it would have make for a far more satisfying end . | 0neg |
how a director of altman experience could ever expect u to want to spend time with and or to care about what happen to and a lead character who be neurotic and a whiner and a jerk with no redeem quality that be the central puzzle about this profoundly confused piece of work . a monstrous piece of trash . in addition to this crippling flaw and the plot line require serious concentration to follow . the setup that the branagh character walk into be so obviously a setup from the start that we be incline to wonder whether the writer and director have totally lose respect for their audience . this latter issue be at the core of the film represent it represent directorial self indulgence with profound contempt for the taste and value and and intelligence of the viewer . very unusual for mr. altman . patrick watson . | 0neg |
i feel like i be the only kid in town who be annoy by branagh performance . he be a fine actor by most account and but he simply could not pull off the southern accent . i mean and it be deplorable . it be a if he be try too hard to be a yank . one of the previous reviewer question why u. s. actor be not cast in this film . i second that notion . it wonderful when actor or actress wish to expand their horizon and but it another thing to try too hard so that a performance becomes strain . maybe it be altman and but he a such a great director . well and i really do not want to bash branagh for his absolutely hideous accent too much . everybody deserve to screw up here and there . but it be hard to watch something so annoy that you would rather choke on a chicken bone or eat a bucket full of crap than sit through the gingerbread man . | 0neg |
divorce lawyer rick magruder ( branagh ) stumble drink out of a party host by his firm one night and have a chance meeting with a woman name mallory dos ( davidtz ) and who be a waitress at the party and seem to have lose her car . rick drive the woman to her home and there they discover that her car have be already park there and seemingly by her father and dixon dos ( duvall ) . rick and mallory walk into the house argue about the situation when mallory carelessly undress in front of rick and and he then spend the night with her . rick wake up in the morning and mallory encounter him later in the day and ask him to file suit against her father because of his dangerous behavior . rick and now obsess with mallory and willing to do anything for her and be successful in have dixon put on trial and send to prison and but when he be free by his local friend and rick find himself in a trouble and try to protect himself and his child from the danger he have unknowingly bring to life . | 0neg |
have you ever hear the say that people telegraph their intention . well in this movie and the character action do more than telegraph future plan they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head . this could be forgive if the setting have be use well and or if the character be more charismatic or nuanced . embeth davidtz character be not mysterious and just wooden and and kenneth branagh doesn not succeed in convey the brash charm his character probably be write to have . the bottom line represent obvious plot and one note performance and unlikeable character and and grotesque southern accent employ by british actor . | 0neg |
this be one of the bad movie i have ever see . branaugh seem to have so much trouble remember his accent that he couldn not deliver his line . the plot be definitely not worthy of john grisham name . no wonder it be never publish a a book or release in theater . i do not even watch the whole thing . i decide i do not care who do it and then realize there be no whodunit to care about . | 0neg |
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