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della myers ( kim basinger ) be an upper class housewife that live in a private condominium in the suburb with her twin child and her abusive husband kenneth ( craig sheffer ) . della give all the attention to the twin and neglect their house and her appearance and upsetting kenneth . on the christmas eve and she drive to the local mall in the night to buy wrap paper for the gift and and she do not find any parking space available . when she see an old car park on two spot and she leave a message to the owner call him selfish jerk . when the mall close and della car be hold by the driver of the old car and she be threaten by four punk chuckie ( lukas haas ) and the afro american huey ( jamie starr ) and the chinese american vingh ( leonard wu ) and the latin tomás ( luis chávez ) . when the security guard of the mall protect her and he be shoot on the head by chuckie and della speed up her car try to escape from the criminal . however she crash her truck nearby a forest while chase by the gang . she take the toolbox and hide in the wood and fight against the gang to survive . a couple of day ago and i saw the trailer of while she be out and i be anxious to watch the dvd . unfortunately the trailer be well than the movie and and i be totally disappointed with this dull and implausible collection of clichés . della myers be present a an insecure and neglectful housewife and inexistent a wife while the motherhood be her only interest in her concept of family . she be chase by four mean criminal but she defeat them with a toolbox that seem to be the batman utility belt . therefore and the plot be so absurd that irritate . the gang of criminal be form by the favorite cliché of american movie and with an afro american and a chinese american and a latin together with an american lord to be politically correct . kim basinger have a decent acting and but their child be too young for a fifty five year old woman . my vote be four . title ( brazil ) represent enquanto ela está forum ( while she be out ) . | 0neg |
word can not describe how utterly stupid this story ( and therefore bad this movie ) be . basinger and del toro . what be you think . so there a mall and it parking space be totally full . basinger character go in to buy a cup of tea and some packaging paper . when she come out and the whole place be so empty and that nobody hear two gunshot fire nearby . even though she live there and when she drive away from the baddie and she go to the most remote and godforsaken place possible instead of the near police station or at least a crowded place . come on . i would not even go into the infamous red toolbox and since other people have do that before . let alone how she kill the moronic thug one by one . this be so stupid and without the least bit of logic and i can only warn you watch it and it a total waste of time and honestly . | 0neg |
sorry and but aside from kim basinger do a good job act scar and this be one of the bad thriller i have see in awhile . logic be throw out a 4 young guy terrorize this woman outside a crowded mall then shoot a security guard . yet no one seem to notice . then and instead of scream for help or race back to the mall and she drive off and end up in the middle of the wood with the guy in hot pursuit . i can not even describe how silly it be see this woman flee from 4 retarded thug and carry a red toolbox and scream for god to come help her and and then have sex with one of them after brutally kill the others . please trust me and this be bad and a bit tasteless as well . | 0neg |
wow . rarely have i felt the need to comment on movie lately and but this one especially be beg for a beatdown . let start at the beginning . first and writer director susan montford put kim basinger in the tired old victim role and complete with the requisite abusive husband and dull suburban existence . let it be say right now that almost all content in this dull movie be completely hackneyed and trite . montford pathetic attempt at symbolism involve the christmas tree with no star be laughable . when she go out for some christmas wrap paper one dark and ominous night and della be furious that somebody double park their car on the busy shopping night of the year . she decide to do something about it and so she leave a nasty note on the car windshield . the next fifteen minute of the movie be devote to della walk around aimlessly in the shopping mall . when she finally get to her car and the thug confront her about the note and a cop be kill and and she run and and they catch up to her and and she get away and and they chase her some more and and on and on . everything be completely predictable and uninvolving . the thug be not scary or menace at all and and they all get pick off one by one in all the usual way . this be one of those movie in which all the action depend on the character be as stupid a you can imagine . why the bad guy do not just kill her instead of wait for her to hit them with a tire iron be beyond me . and once and just once and in a film like this and do the leader of the pack have to die last . what do it matter that they be all pick off one by one when they be all equally inept . much of the movie simply consist of lukas haas run around in the wood scream della . and the inclusion of joy division on the soundtrack of this wretched film be insult . the part that really make me run for my computer keypad be when della and exhaust and hurt and cry out to the heaven and where be you and god . where and indeed and be god when this movie be be make . i give it a 2 only because of competent cinematography and lighting and and it not as bad a btk killer and the ultimate marker for judge any terrible film . cheer . | 0neg |
even though many people here praise this movie and i have to warn you . it have no logic whatsoever . i think that basinger do a decent job at act and but you can not make a thriller if there be a great lack of realism . this scene paint a good picture for you of the movie represent while basinger be pursue by murderous thug she decide to sit down and gaze upon a picture she find from her pocket . the picture be from her daughter and it read we love you mommy . who do something like that . what the eff . and believe me when i say that it be not nearly as stupid a some other scene of the movie . someone state that this be a hidden gem . well and i have to strongly disagree and this movie have stay hide for a reason . and it not a gem . oh and and please and i do not even want to start comment about the red toolbox . it hurt my brain representd usually the lack of logic do not bother me if it be in small amount and but this movie basically be make possible only because of the lack of logic . but and i still give it a 4 because even though it be embarrassingly flaw in logic and it have certain mood that keep me watch till the end . so if you choose to watch this and you know you have be warn . | 0neg |
my and how the mighty have fall . kim basinger be a great actress but she be definitely slum when she take this role . this movie be bad for one reason in particular represent lapse in logic . it look like one of those movie that would have be passable with all it plot hole if it have come out in the 80 and 90 but in 2008 it just look real stupid . this be the bad thriller i have ever see and i have see the bone collector and twist . the story detail della ( kim basinger ) be just get from buy gift in a mall an be harass by a gang of thug that end up kill a cop that come to her aid . from then on she be chase by these idiotic goon through an abandon street and she get rid of them one by one with a toolbox full of tool . so many thing be wrong with this movie . a i say this movie leap over logic at every turn and with the exception of kim basinger and the acting be make for tv bad . hell and this pseudo thriller be make for tv bad . the way she kill each of these politically correct thug ( 1 caucasian and 1 hispanic and 1 asian and 1 african american all come together to stalk a caucasian woman . don not you just love america . ) be laughable to a fault . the way she kill the hispanic guy make me laugh hysterically . the sex scene with the main hoodlum be so out in left field that it make you shake your head in shame . i only recommend this to lover of bad film and no one else . anybody else especially kim basinger fan would do well not to own this flick . you do not want see an actress you respect in a film this bad now do you . of course not . you be warn . | 0neg |
well and let me start off by say how utterly hilarious this film be and i simply couldn not keep myself from laugh at the sheer stupidity of it . don not get me wrong and it be well act particularly by bassinger but the script be just and well the mind boggle truly . the premise be good and up until della actually witness the murder it be engage but after that it just go downhill . half way through the film the protagonist pull out her toolbox and of course instead of lob it at the guy head and she decide to pull out a screwdriver and car jack and finally a flare ( a in for a sinking ship ) respectively to kill her victim . then there be the final line that i promise and if it doesn not have you in stitch then i will eat my own left foot . i would recommend this film to those who simply want to laugh at some good old fashion and appalling film making . might i also suggest you watch out for the scene in the scrap yard with the guy fall from the one foot high plank of wood and get me every time . | 0neg |
who in their right mind do anything so stupid a this movie . accidental killing of a security guard . character that be so two dimensional that a two year old could have paint draw them . and good . a red toolbox of death . please . hypothermic weak thug . act from hell . stylistically this movie shift between teen comedy and thriller and voyeurism and . female . ( uhm ) rambo . unbelievable and it an insult to any think person . do not watch and walk away it more horrible than you may imagine . and on top of it all it try to be hip by be overly graphic in it violence . mr montford represent shoot em up be fun and funny and this be just pathetic and terrible . good luck next time . represent ( . | 0neg |
what a weekend . two day ago i watch the first half of war game 2 represent dead code and now while she be out . i be try to come to a decision which one be bad in term of pain in my mind while watch . i guess and while she be out be bad . it have all be say before in other comment represent unrealistic and illogical etc . the only thing i really have to add be that at some point i start feel more for the evil guy than for the woman because i would have recommend her for a darwin award if she actually die ( only watch first half and so i do not know ) . soon i be at two darwin award ( if that even possible ) for her immense stupidity . and and hey represent produce by kim basinger . so she do not only know the script but be also responsible for bring this waste of money to u and the people . i consider human who waste considerable amount of money to be evil because the money could have use to fee and clothe quite a few people instead of hurt 80 percent of those who saw it in the cinema and give 20 percent and which be idiot and a good opportunity to show just how much of an idiot they be . | 0neg |
this be one seriously disturbed movie . even though the boy deserve some of what they get . the sadistic gruesome execution be slightly over the top . the only character show some conscience early in the hunt be kill off before he could offer some help to the sad plot . at the beginning of the movie and there look to be some promise of a mediocre affair and but this be just a ploy to lull the viewer into a false sense of security and before the joy of what be to come . the only thing that could have save the movie for me be if jack nicholson have jump out of the bush and yell and and and where be the batman . kim basinger could have scream . now that would have be cool . | 0neg |
i remember the day in which kim basinger be nothing more than a pretty face who adorn movie with typical character of dumb blondie and romantic interest or damsel in danger . but and everything change when she win an academy award a best support actress for her role in the excellent movie l. a. confidential and and i think i be not the only one who be surprise by her solid performance . however and after that moment and her career do not follow the ideal path . sure and the prestige she win thanks to that movie make her to participate on moderately prestigious movie ( like people i know or the door in the floor ) and but we have never see her again on a substantial character . the movie while she be out do nothing to put her on that situation while and it be not only that her character be not too tasty and but also that the movie be really crappy . the screenplay from this movie could not be more hollow and basic . however and basinger brings some conviction to her character and and that make this poor movie to win a few point . this movie be full of clichés and generic villain . the work of director susan montford be truly disastrous for many reason but mainly and because the movie never get a good rhythm and tone . the end from this movie be extremely ridiculous . i do not recommend while she be out at all . this film commit the capital sin of be boring . | 0neg |
she may have an oscar and a golden globe and but this film show why she also be a perennial razzie nominee . to do a film that be so bad must be an indication that she need money . she could do ad on why you shouldn not talk on a cell phone while drive and especially at night on the way to a crowd mall . susan montford should stick to produce ( shoot em up ) a she be not very good a a writer or director . she be accost by four thug in the mall parking lot and and the first thing they do be tell her they have a gun . what do she do . she start push and curse them like she know martial art or something . she manage to get away and but get lose in the forest after crash . why do not she run to someones house . we get four thug with gun chase a lady with a toolbox . of course and their gun be no match for her wrench . ha . of course and she also have a tire iron and a screwdriver . those poor thug . now and she home for christmas and she bring a gun . | 0neg |
first of all and really kim basinger . your rich banker husband leave you alone in your beautiful and most likely pay in cash for home and and you can not even put on a decent shirt . i be a woman and and yes and i be go to come right out say it clean something and start with your hair . and while youre at it and it christmas eve . buy your kid some present . or at least a christmas tree . don not drive 40 minute to the crowd mall and park your car 3 mile away and cry about it the whole walk in and and simply buy wrap paper . also and the next time you decide to leave someone a nasty note and do not sign your name . i refuse to feel sorry for della . obviously and due to the fact that kim basinger be this masterpiece executive producer and she want you to feel bad for the poor white blond woman . we get it . alec baldwin be a jerk and but seriously and do not model horrible film after your own life . also and youre in you 50s . you definitely wouldn not have 8 year old twin . and those name . terry and tammy . way to let your kid grow up with any decent chance of ever respect themselves . it also pretty fantastic to hear the character in the film constantly call her beautiful or refer to her a a girl . obviously ms. basinger have some say about what go in the script . it also pretty awesome how none of the criminal can fight back . apparently and della magical ninja skill be impossible to beat . her driving skill be pretty nifty too . this film be so cliché and it hurt . wahhhhh . they spell your name wrong on the tea cup . or your husband put a hole in the wall but all you can think about be buy nail polish when youre at the mall instead of maybe some plaster and paint . or the woman you go to high school with buy the teddy you be look at . boohooo . the fact that she refuse to take off that bright trench coat while run through the wood scream and break everything in her path prof my point this woman be a moron . who think to grab the toolbox out of the car and but not their purse and full of identify artifact such a your address . i have never want the bad guy to succeed as much a when i watch this film . and do anyone else happen to catch the african american shirt the black guy be sport . oh yes and rewind and feast your eye on perhaps the most racially stereotypical prop in a film yet . don not waste and hour and twenty minute of your life . instead and go do what della couldn not figure out how to do . take care of your kid and and maybe brush your hair . that powerful ballad at the end though be pretty impressive . sing i will be home for christmas in the rain while your bloody arm cling oh so tightly to your wrap paper be about as emotional a it get . thanks della . | 0neg |
so this be what actress kim basinger have succumb to . mmm to tell the truth the film title be something quite eye grab to get your interest and plot outline read so basic and but simplicity can have it strength . anyhow by the end of while she be out i be leave feel rather indifferent . not the worse ( despite be engulf by negative ) and but there easily way well in what be an causally lukewarm and but compact and unbalanced late night survival fable of a feeble suburban housewife strand in the wood try to fight for her life after she witness the death of a rent a cop that come to her aid and when she provoke an ugly exchange with some punk in a shopping car park . the problem here fall on the misguidedly erratic and foreseeable material ( take from a short story ) and along with the very variable performance . the flimsy script be poorly think out ( which isn not so good when your plot have a slight structure to hang off ) and so many wretched inclusion and dubious action just go on to find it way in this endless chain of event . a for the bunch of stereotypical goon ( lead by an unconvincing lukas hass a a loose canon ) terrorizing basinger and well they be less than threatening and but hopelessly clueless . watch basinger scrounge around in the dank wilderness with a red tool box in her hand ( do not ask me why . ) knock off these wannabe punk one by one become ridiculous because it do not elicit tension or emotion but instead clumsy jolt that be absurdly daft because of the stupidity of the lead up . basinger performance be stout like and but doesn not craft much empathy . craig sheffer show up a her hot head husband . strangely i couldn not keep my eye off the screen think to myself that red toolbox be hypnotic ( why would she be constantly carry it ) and what tool be she go to use to dispatch the next thug her choice be quite disappointing . watch her transformation through the traumatic situation when thing be finally turn around be rather empty and due to it unsure tone and the end be something you could see mile ahead . susan montford soberly slick direction lack cohesion and energy and a it pretty much chug along . i like the opening credit though and with it hauntingly sullen score ( which be the most effective thing throughout the feature ) and polished photography . no great shake . doesn not ask much of your time and but i wouldn not care to see it again . however with the inclusion of a joy division song and it make me grab a couple of their album for a listen . | 0neg |
it christmas eve and lazy and submissive housewife della ( kim basinger ) receive some violent threat from her troubled and abusive husband . leave her twin child in bed she venture off into the night for one last shopping spree at the local mall . it busy there and find a parking space be nigh on impossible and della take umbrage at one motorist who park in two space and she leave them a note say a much . return to her car after visit the shop she be confront by some yob and yup the owner of the car she leave a note on and they be very angry and want some fun with her and a kindly security guard step into assist her and but thing get out of hand and the guard be shot and della flees with the now murderous yob in hot pursuit and they shoot at her and she loose control of her car and crash and quickly grab her toolbox from the trunk and she hide in a deserted building site and but be soon caught and just before they try to rape and kill her and from her magical toolbox she produce a wrench and wound their leader chuckie and she manage to escape again into the nearby wood and in the fracas one of the gang be kill and it just happen to be the black guy here the night get bad for all involve a a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues . a similar plot line to eden lake draw me to this and but that be where the comparison end . this be a brainless and dumb film and shockingly script and horribly act by all involve and the doe eye disney esquire twin kid be horrible to watch and but it lukas haas a chuckie and that must take the plaudit in the bad acting department and although he be give a run for his money by the equally awful husband . a a film it plot line be completely telegraph all the way through and even in the set up early on della cell phone go dead and then in the shop her credit card have be cancel by her hubby and she have no cash and it christmas eve and now where could they be go with this i wonder . the only surprising part of this $ hit be when after kill all the clichéd bad guy with the content of her magic toolbox and she demand chuckie to f @ ck her and if my jaw have not already be on the floor at this films awfulness and it would surely have drop and smash on the floor . even the end be mess up and all the feminist granny want their pound of flesh be leave utterly disappointed . i do not think i could be far disappointed and but then i saw that guillermo del toro produce this dreck . | 0neg |
the genre of suspense film really take a dive in this one . the big problem be implausability . i realize that you need to create difficult situation which would cause suspense and the tense feeling of whats go to happen next and but this movie be so predictable and and be just not believable . i find that the more i watch this kind of movie and the more i be continually say thing to actor to direct them away from danger . continually make bad decision just border on be plain stupid . if they take the time to make it more realistic and i might have enjoy it a little . have say that and you might be good off stay away from this one . | 0neg |
i do not often give one star review and but the computer would not let me do negative number . the opening title tell u be in deep water already . although this be a low budget exploitation film and there be 17 producer credit . no . no . at the beginning of the story abusive husband kenneth come home to his family in an upscale gate community . the house be a pigsty . his wife and della ( kim basinger ) have let the child run amok all day . ok. be already in deep water . ms. basinger be 55 year old when the film come out . uh and be these her child or grandchild . it christmas eve . della drive to the mall and a lengthy scene that could have be cut . to bludgeon home the idea of eeeeeeevil male aggression rampant in the universe she drive past football player in full uniform playing in pour rain on christmas eve . sure . for a bonus she see a vehicle with a slaughtered deer tie to it . we get some actual suspense in the driving scene and though . it rain and traffic be bad . first we see della try to drive and smoke at the same time . then later della try to drive and talk on her cell phone at the same time and at one point turn completely around to check the cluttered back seat for the charger for the phone . she wander the mall and see an old friend from college and try to buy stuff but her credit card be decline gosh and maybe her husband be grumpy because he go break and but that too complicate for the script to follow . in the parking lot she run afoul of the most ludicrous gang in the history of film . one white boy ( lukas hass watch his career go down the toilet ) and one black and one asian and and one hispanic . imagine a company of up with people go to the bad and you will have the idea . although they have a gun she give them attitude . a mall cop come to investigate the ruckus and they shoot him in the head and fire more than once . the parking lot be crowd a can be and people everywhere and and nobody notice . della escape in her car and rather than choose a police station or well light safe area and she drive to a construction site and where she kill all four bad boys one at a time with simply the tool ( literally ) at hand . major spoiler ahead . she drive back home . the car poops out so she walk through the pouring rain . check on the child and go downstairs and and when her husband petulantly ask what she get him at the mall show him the gun and shoot him at point blank range . the experience with the four punk be suppose to result in personal empowerment for della . instead we know that her child will probably spend christmas in foster care or a group home and because the state will collect them while she answer to murder one charge . the four punk can be classify a justifiable homicide in self defense . the husband and different story . i be so glad i saw this on cable . if i would see it in a theater ( do it get any release . ) i would have be furious . a be and i be just sad see talent like ms. basinger and mr. haas waste themselves on garbage like this . one very good thing and though . this be write and direct by susan montford . ms. montford have not get another writing or direct credit since pass this turd . there be justice in the world . | 0neg |
a friend once ask me to read a screenplay of his that have be optioned by a movie studio . to say it be one of the most inept and insipid script i would ever read would be a bold understatement . yet i never tell him this . why . because in a world where film like while she be out can be green light and attract an oscar win star like kim basinger and a screenplay lacking in character and content and common sense be no guarantee that it would not sell . a so many other reviewer have point out and while she be out be a dreadfully under write woman in peril film that have abuse housewife basinger hunt by four unlikely hood on christmas eve . every gripe be legitimate and from the weak dialog and bad act to the jaw drop lapse of logic and but basinger be such an interesting actress and the premise be not without promise . here be a couple of thing that strike me represent1 ) i do not care how much we be suppose to think her husband be a jerk and the house be a mess with toy . since when do it become child abuse to make kid pick up after themselves . 2 ) racially diverse gang be rare everywhere except hollywood and where they be usually the only racially balance group on screen . 3 ) sure the film be stupid . but so be the countless thriller i have sit through where the woman be portray a wailing and helpless victim of male sadism . stupid or not and i find it refresh to see a woman get the best of her tormentor . 4 ) i love the end . 5 ) though an early reviewer coin this phrase and i really do think this film should be retitled the red toolbox of doom . | 0neg |
i can not believe the like of guillermo del toro and kim bassinger get involved in this piece of garbage . the script be so poorly write and the directing so weak ( both by the same person ) that it hard to find more one dimension character in a film . the dialog be so lame that this so called thriller get laugh out of the few fool that get into the theatre . the setup it tricky and invite you to believe you be go to watch a chilling thriller and suddenly it turn out into the most stupid persecution film . bassinger character be so dumb and that she actually stop to scream to god where be you . so the people after her can follow and and then take a leak . and then she apparently get into the small wood in the world and i mean and she run all over the place and the killer never loose track of her and and this happen in the middle of the night . it really make me wonder and be that really the best writing people in hollywood can find that they spend million produce it . | 0neg |
overall this movie be dreadful and and should have never be make . one of the problem with this movie be that there be no link to the audience and the character and for example and if she be about to be attack and you want to feel and oh my god and no . and but you do not in this case and you do not care because there be no link that have be make to know the character . in the trailer and it seem a though the movie would be great and yet there be no suspense what so ever really . there could have be maybe some mystery but there be not . all she have be a toolbox . be say on the dvd back and you would think that it be carefully plan this movie and and cleverly make and but it be not and the end and be just awful and very straight forward and and pointless too . the acting be either average or below average and maybe even low . in my opinion it be a waste of an hour of my life . the special effect and set be average too and nothing special what so ever . there be not much gore and or bloody violence and not much blood be show . this movie be advertise to make it sound quite amazing and yet really and it not even worth look for and i do not recommend this to anyone and unless they be easily satisfy and by a few fight and a boring story . | 0neg |
the only redeeming quality this movie have be the fairly original death scene . other than that this movie be a big dud . we have kim basinger and the beleaguered housewife slowly meander thru the local mall for the first 30 min . of the movie and which add nothing . then the movie pick up a bit a she have a confrontation with 4 punk who take up 2 parking space on this busy xmas eve . they begin to chase her after off the local security guard who try to help her . from there this movie get bad and way bad . i know it only a movie and you have get ta go with the flow but she get about a 5 min . headstart and she can not hide or find someone to help her . instead she drive to a half build subdivision beside a forest . in typical fashion she do everything she can to allow her follower to easily track her . but now she turn into one tough mofu . you get the point . do not under any circumstance buy or rent this movie no matter how much you like this type . it so illogical you will be question every scene . it be embarrass for basinger and craig sheffer and the rest of the cast and as well a the consumer . | 0neg |
where to start . oh yea and message to the bad guy represent when you first find the person you have be track ( in order to kill ) that witness a crime you commit and do not spend time talk to her so that she have yet another opportunity to get away . message to the victim represent when the thug be talk amongst themselves and argue and take that opportunity to run away and do not sit there and watch them until you make a noise they hear . message to the director represent if someone have a 5 or 10 minute head start in a vehicle or on foot and you can not have the bad guy on their heel or bumper right away . time and motion doesn not work that way . it would also be nice to think that a woman doesn not have to brutally kill ( 4 ) men in order to empower herself to leave an abusive relationship at home . | 0neg |
fail . i would love to give this crap a 0. yes and i register just to rate this garbage . i want to go back in time and cut my wrist . heres some copy and paste to take up 10 line . fail . i would love to give this crap a 0. yes and i register just to rate this garbage . i want to go back in time and cut my wrist . heres some copy and paste to take up 10 line . fail . i would love to give this crap a 0. yes and i register just to rate this garbage . i want to go back in time and cut my wrist . heres some copy and paste to take up 10 line . fail . i would love to give this crap a 0. yes and i register just to rate this garbage . i want to go back in time and cut my wrist . heres some copy and paste to take up 10 line . fail . i would love to give this crap a 0. yes and i register just to rate this garbage . i want to go back in time and cut my wrist . heres some copy and paste to take up 10 line . | 0neg |
ok and if youre a woman who get aggression issue and you might like this movie . hate your significant other . this movie be for you . for the guy and it will be a bag of laugh . it sad when former award win actress have to do cut rate movie . the only really good part be the last 10 second . even that be a load of cheese . my wife be pick the bad movie lately . this be what you get ( i ) for let my wife pick movie base on read review on movie rental site . | 0neg |
kim basinger star a della and a desperate housewife with a somewhat abusive husband and who get into trouble while she out at the local mall do some last minute christmas shopping . after place a hastily scrawl hateful note on a piece of paper and sticking say paper in the windshield of a car that take up two parking space and she find out the owner of the car be the rainbow coilition of villain comprise of a white guy and a mexican and a chinese guy and a black . they confront her about the note and cap a helpless security guard and and the chase be on . during the course of the film della will go for hunt to hunter a she unleash her inner bronson . i find this to be a somewhat tense little thriller . the acting be good enough ( except for a few scene and the why god why bit be cringe worthy in it badness though ) it come undone a bit due to the sheer fact that the villain della chase from or after be mind numbingly stupid . if they hadn not have the intellect of any give home alone baddie and perhaps their eventual defeat would be something to savor instead of the meh reaction it evoke . the unbelievability factor i be willing to overlook a both the director and one of the producer have part in bring shoot em up to the screen ( a film which while throw credibility out the window be immensely fun ) . this film while never attain the height of that film and be good in it own right . my grade represent c anchor bay dvd extra represent commentary with writer or director susan montford and producer don murphy while a 25 and a half minute making of while a trailer and two tv spot for this film while and trailer for low learning . | 0neg |
this think long lose flick sometimes come available on the web . so i buy me a copy . well and of course the acting be terrible and the story line be childish but it do have his moment . i think people who search this one also know the backstory of it . it be make by a grindhouse cinema owner for an extreme low budget . but for me he surely do not spoil the money on prop but on the make up . the make up be for that kind of flick well do . the zombie be watchable and the gore be intact . the only problem with that kind of movie be the quality of the pelicule . it terrible and luckely no hiss on the sound but sometimes it way too dark . so you have to watch clearly to see the gore . in a funny way they try to sell this one a really not for the squeamish . a voice over tell in the beginning of the movie to watch out for a sign and a man appear with green flash and that tell you there be gore on the way . of course that doesn not work and make me think of cannibal girl and have that annoy bell when the red stuff start to flow . they have the original idea and cannibal girl be make a year earlier . don not go for the storyline and go for the zombie and notice a continuity mistake . when the girl and guy be make love first she take of her bra and then they make love and suddenly her underwear be back on . try to do that and or be i get a bit offline and . eat it you ugly corps . | 0neg |
what this . a canadian produce zombie flick that i have never hear of before . a mortician work on the body of a recently decease young man . this allow for an extended flashback that show how the guy get there . basically and he and friends go to a cemetery on friday the 13th and raise the dead thanks to his silly chanting . cut back to the morgue where our dead body come back to life and kill the mortician and owner ( who get his eye pop out ) . the final wtf . shot have the funeral home owner in a straight jacket and screaming and i be not crazy . amazingly and he have his eyeball back . run a scant 58 minute and this be certainly one oddity in zombie cinema . it feel a lot long and but put me in some kind of trance where i couldn not stop watching . the film also have one of those if you see this image and turn away from the screen gag . it be the image of an old man get sick in a theater ( prophetic . ) and when he pop up ( only twice ) the blood begin to flow . the scene be pretty damn gory for the time period . there be a great gaffe where a zombie chop off a girl right hand with a shovel and but when he pull the fake hand into the frame to chomp on it be a left hand . | 0neg |
i remember devil dog play on tb almost 20 year ago and and my old sister and her friend watch it and laugh all the next day . it not that bad for a make for tv horror movie and but it be derivative ( mostly of the exorcist ) and businesslike and for lack of a good word . it would not blow you away with artful cinematography or great acting and but it not a waste of time and either . it the kind of movie you watch to kill a couple of hour when you aren not in the mood to think too hard . however and if you go into the movie look for some laugh and you would not be disappoint . the early scene and with lucky the devil dog a a cute little puppy with child of the damned eye be hilariously non threatening and and the climactic blue screen effect of a giant black dog ( with horn . ) be pretty side splitting . and keep an eye out for the cloaked satanist in maverick shade toward the beginning . not a great horror film by any stretch of the imagination and but i wish they still make stuff like this for tv . | 0neg |
the concept of this make for tv horror movie be ludicrous beyond word and but hey and it be the late 1970 and literally all stupid horror format be pretty damn profitable and so why not exploit the idea of a satanically possess dog . the plot of devil dog be easy to describe to fan of the horror genre represent simply think of the omen and replace the newborn baby boy with a nest of german shepard pup . seriously and i be not kid and that what the movie be about . during the opening sequence and member of some kind of satanic cult buy a female dog in heat only to have it impregnate by satan himself . you would think that the lord of darkness have other thing on his mind than to fornicate with a german shepard and take over the world one evil puppy at the time and but apparently not . exactly like little damien in the omen and one of the puppy be take in by model family and grow up to become a beautiful and charismatic animal . but lucky that the dog name be pure evil and liquidate annoy neighbor and nosy school teacher in derivative and tamely execute way . he also inflict his malignant character on the family wife and child and but he can not force the father ( richard crenna ) to stick his arm into a lawnmower because he a chosen one . the whole thing become too moronic for word when crenna eventually travel to ecuador to search for an ancient wall painting and get advice from an old witchdoctor who speak perfect english . i guess he learn that living in isolation atop of a mountain his entire life . director curtis harrington ( what the matter with helen and ruby ) and lead actor richard crenna ( wait until dark and the evil ) desperately try to create a suspenseful and mysterious atmosphere and but all be in vain . scene like cute puppy eye spontaneously set fire to a spanish maid or a dog dodge bullet without even move evoke chuckle instead of fright and and not even spooky musical tune can chance that . the special effect be pathetic and especially near the end when the satan dog mutate into an utterly cheesy shadow on the wall . devil dog be a truly dumb movie and but it definitely hilarious to watch late at night with some friend and load of liquor . there be entertain brief cameo of martine beswick ( dr. jekyll and sister hyde ) a the terrify cult queen and r. g. armstrong ( the car and the pack ) a the evil fruit and vegetable and puppy salesman . and and yes and that annoy daughter be the same kid who get blow away complain about her ice cream in carpenter assault on precinct 13 . | 0neg |
a dog find in a local kennel be mat with satan and have a litter of puppy and one of which be give to a family who have just lose their previous dog to a hit and run . the puppy want no time in make like donald trump and fire the mexican housekeeper and how festive . only the father suspect that this canine be more then he appear and the rest of the family love the demonic pooch . so it up to dad to say the day . this late 70 make for tv horror flick have little go for it except a misplaced feeling of nostalgia . when i saw this a a kid i find it to be a tense nail biter and but revisit it a an adult i now realize that it merely lame and boring and and not really well act in the least bit . my grade represent d . | 0neg |
devil dog set your heart racing . it brilliantly pace and the end come like a bolt out of the blue and plunge itself into the very centre of your be . you will never look at your dog the same way again . in fact you will start thinking of have it put down by a priest . fantastic . | 0neg |
very dull and obvious and tedious exorcist rip off feature a doberman with red eye that the extent of the special effect in this make for tv cheapie . richard crenna be about as animate a a chew toy . very 70 dress and music only add to the torture . should put you to sleep almost as fast a the corpse vanishes and or the blue hand . practically worthless . moocow say eaghhh what a stinky dog . represent equal 8p . | 0neg |
this horror movie be really weak . that be if this be the correct movie i be comment on . nothing really terrible go on a a family adopt a cute little german shepard pup . i have a german shepard and it be a really good dog . i do not get the idea to get one from this movie though and but rather from the comedy k 9. that be another story all together though . this movie really doesn not have much horror at all a the most horrific scene be at the end and it look really cheesy . also and we see a guy almost put his hand into a lawn mower . that be about it . the father suspect something though and a his family seem to be get rather strange and somewhere he find out if you hold a mirror to them while they be sleep you can see if they be possess . all in all a really weak horror movie even by television standard . television movie that do work be out there a this house possess be pretty good and there be another haunt house movie about a woman and these strange creature that be also rather good . this one be really rather dull . | 0neg |
amy poehler and rachel dratch be among the funny woman to have be on saturday night live . it unfortunate that they and along with tina fey and maya rudolph and be on snl during the long stretch of unfunny writing and sketch making ( circa 2002 2006 ) the show have ever have . still and these two woman most especially know what funny and and they know how to write a funny movie . you will notice in the credit of this movie that dratch and director ryan shiraki write the story for spring breakdown and but who write the actual screenplay and consisting of dialogue and all the important fill in the blank material that make a story into a multidimensional movie . yep and just shiraki . just one guy write the dialogue for this movie and and no woman apparently write the script with him . the result be a pretty cliché spring break movie that doesn not so much spoof the faux holiday as much a exploit it equally as much a mtv do every year . if dratch and poehler and and even co star parker posey could have contribute their handwriting to the screenplay and it would have be far less cliché . the premise be original and be about three thirty something woman who be unpopular in high school ( and apparently college and too ) who never have the fun spring break trip they allegedly dream about . i say allegedly because you never quite know what fun be to these character . they enter talent show in the past where they sing stale pro woman anthems like true color and and spend their night together hold make your own pizza party . even though none of them be especially unattractive and the outside world appear to treat them like they be . there a scene where a blind student of poehler ( play by poehler real life husband will arnett ) ask her out on a date and only to touch her face and immediately change his mind . if poehler character be suppose to be unattractive and they obviously hire the wrong actress . the movie continue to show promise and even though we have our doubt about the main character and when posey bos and texas senator kay bee hartmann ( jane lynch and funny a always ) hire posey to watch over her unpopular college age daughter ( amber tamblyn and playing yet another woman who attractive in real life and but not in the eye of any character in this movie ) while she go to a laguna beach like vacation spot for spring break . poehler and dratch come along and they reluctantly get booze up and party like they apparently should have when they be in college and and then come the ultimate showdown with the sorority bitch lead by sophie monk . sophie monk be an incredibly attractive woman who have a body both woman and men would kill to have for different reason . unfortunately and her movie career be off to a rough start with the abominably unfunny date movie ( 2006 ) and the disappointing click ( 2006 ) . here and she play a southern belle and although her voice sound like she steal delta burke voice box . she ham it up a little too much and try too hard to play a conniving bitch that she come off as much like a caricature of spoiled college kid a the rest of the extra . spring breakdown be release straight to dvd despite the star power of amy poehler and but rightly so because the story be way too cliché . it may as well have be call national lampoon spring breakdown and and the magazine probably wouldn not have sue for trademark infringement because of the free publicity . if director shiraki have give at least one woman the creative input and especially rachel dratch and this movie would have be great and not nearly a run of the mill a frat house comedies we have see before . i know dratch will come up with another funny concept and and hopefully be allow to fill in the rest of the screenplay herself . she funny enough and and she deserve good than this half baked comedy that would accept stiffler brother with open arm . | 0neg |
they really can not get stupid than this film deal with 3 loser who try to capture the college spirit during the annual spring break festivity at many of our high school of learn . the problem be that these loser try to do this 15 year after their college year when one be assign to watch over the daughter of a woman senator be groom to be the next vice president . trouble be that her daughter be anything but popular and but of course she come out of all that . the girl go through drunken rage and exotic dancing and other absolute nonsense . it really can not get much bad than this awful film . | 0neg |
how can a movie with amy and posey and raechel have nothing funny in it . believe it or not house bunny do this good and funnier . hopefully the principal have a good holiday and get some money this movie be an embarrassment to all of them . it be a cliché from begin to end . clichés can work well with a script and or at least an idea . this movie do nothing but use cliché after cliché rather than idea or script . it use the preexist persona of the actress rather than develop character . bad and sad and and rubbish . now i apparently have to have ten line of text for a comment . really . why . a an it ops manager this be another example of sloppy coding . | 0neg |
this be the single bad movie i have ever see . i can not express how bad it be . i honestly want to kill myself several time through this atrocious experience just to have the pain end . i recommend instead of see this movie and you bathe in acid then you will at least know a fraction of the pain without all of the scar . i have such high expectation when i read the back of the dvd case and and when in the beginning it add that jesus be follow them i be so excited . then by the end i want to kill myself . i mean a twenty three minute introduction to the most annoying character in the history of cinema . just pain . monkey could have do a good job edit this trash . at least they would have throw feces and blur some of the garbage . it would have make it good to have not see any of the horror . it wasn not that i do not get the joke and it that they be not only not funny and they repeat themselves like twenty time . apparently and something isn not funny unless you see it like a million time . do not under any circumstance see this . people have rat manos the hand of fate a the world bad movie . i have see that too and agree that it be bad . but ala it be only the second worst . fatty drive the bus be by far bad . this deserve all kind of harsh language and but i can not write that here so just imagine i swear a whole bunch . | 0neg |
i have see a lot of movie in my life and but not many as bad a this . it be a movie that make fun of fat people and have no real story and have bad actor and be not funny and much more . be this a movie that you would like to see . i guess not . i guess that the maker of the movie be try to be original and creative and but it look like it be make by a 12 year old child with absolutely no cinematic skill at all . the so call funny part be as funny a throughing pie in the face of people and or break wind . of cource if this be the kind of humour that you like and then this be the movie for you . dont waste your money on this movie . | 0neg |
you know how sometimes you can watch a crappy movie with friend and laugh at all the shortcoming of the movie . well this be beyond that . i buy the dvd at tower record because it be like $ 3 . 00 and i would hear this be a movie you could laugh at . it be really nothing short of pathetic . about 30 minute into the movie and my friend start ask me to turn it off . around 45 minute they beg me . after an hour and we compromise to fast forward to the end and so we could see how the conflict be resolve ( and because we have be watch the whole time for matt walsh ) . seriously and do not watch this movie . it be beyond painful . | 0neg |
i completely agree with jamrom4 . this be the single most horrible movie i have ever see . holy crap it be terrible . i be warn not to see it . and foolishly i watch it anyway . about 10 minute into the painful experience i completely give up on watch the atrocity . but sit through until the end . just to see if i could . well i do and now i wish i have not . it be disgust . nothing happen and the end be all preachy . no movie that bad have the right to survive . i implore all of you to spare yourself the terror of fatty drive the bus . if only i have heed the same warning . please save yourself from this movie . i have a feeling those who rat it highly be involve in the making of the movie . and should all be wipe off the face of the planet . | 0neg |
i be a big fan of troma but i can not figure out why they buy the right to this movie and it so boring i felt like i be watch for 3 hour . some where on the plot summary it say but what satan doesn not know he stick with annoy tourist well they do not seem to bother him in the movie and just me . the only good thing about this movie be the actor who play satan and i like bad movie but it be just boring . | 0neg |
weak bobby pineapple salsa flay and mario batali bring this down . flay be the bad . definitely a one trick pony and i think they could have get other american chef to come to the table on this one a the iron chef . the kind of dish this duo come up with really . do not reflect on the creativity of the original iron chef series . i do not think batali even go to chef school and actually . there be a lot of great chef in america and i just wonder why they do not appear on the food network . it would also help to have more regional ingredient and perhaps co host who can handle the pressure . i like alton brown and but he be a bit too flippant or funny for this role . | 0neg |
the show echo bubble sound effect use to put me to sleep . a very soothing show . i think i might have sleep through the part where there be danger or peril . i have also hear that some set up shot for a show on sponge diver be shoot in tarpon spring and florida . i would assume lloyd bridge never dive there . i only remember the show in rerun and although it be never edge of the seat exciting we would make up our own underwater episode in the lake at my grandmother house . imagine the echoed bubble sound and narrate our adventure in our head . i thought flipper have good undersea action . of course and he have the advantage of be in his natural environment . | 0neg |
kurosawa really blow it on this one . every genius be allow a failure . the concept be fine but the execution be badly blur . there be an air of fantasy about this film make it something of an art film . the poverty stricken of tokyo deserve a fairer and more realistic portrayal . many of them have interest story to tell . a very disappointing film . | 0neg |
nope and i be just not go to get with it here . i refuse to go along with the program . don not you suppose that perhaps this movie be just a tad over rat . look at the reader comment and their star rating represent most be 6/10 and positive or good . i think this be an instance when the rating may say more about the people render them than the movie itself and which be unique . how many other sex fantasy about simulated bestiality complete with horse coupling have become mainstream hit a catalog dvd title . i watch this movie with a pervade sense of anticipation and expect firework and and instead get someone pop a gucci shopping bag . it look great and but once the thrill have be spend even the twist end do not do much to save it . the film background story say it all represent director film about 25 minute of borderline hardcore fake bestial sex for another movie and be inform the footage will not be appropriate and set it aside and wait two or three year for a smattering of critical acclaim to build up and then construct an entire feature around that 25 minute and film roughly 70 minute of otherwise unrelated and excruciatingly boring footage and insert the 25 minute chunk in a a dream sequence . that the 25 minute of film in question be strikingly odd and original and shock in a deliberate and calculate manner go without say . but we aren not here to evaluate that 25 minute alone and we must consider the entire film and and ask ourselves why people be so enthusiastic about the movie . or be they just enamor by it background story and history of have be ban by people who be stupid enough to be offend by it . perhaps it be an anti clerical agenda that appeal to them . hat the western religion of catholicism and christianity be one of the few remain socially acceptable bastion of intolerance just today it be reveal that the bbc routinely skew their broadcast with anti christian and anti western sentiment in the furtherance of political correctness . you can say anything you want about the bible and pedopheliac priest and the institutionalized cruelty of the church and and how much white men and their inhuman religion suck the dimpled skin off a golf ball . but say one negative thing about non westernized religion and and you be toast . this movie be tailor make for such a sentiment and with a wrinkly old dry up priest who have an entirely unwholesome on screen relationship with two pretty 14 year old french boys complete with inappropriate touching and fawning and fondling and fumbling and groping and and patting of the backside . ewww . and then there be the horse coupling and photograph in such fetishistic closeup detail that portion of the film could be use a visual aid for a biology class on animal husbandry . yes i understand the thematic relevance of the imagery large animal phallus with a wealth of reproductive fluid just wait to be unleash like fire extinguisher but if i want to watch horse and you know and do it and i would like go live on a farm . have their genitals in my face be about as entertaining a watch someone use a bathroom . be this movie just a sort of artsy diversion for social deviant . probably and though i will grant the artistic execution of most of it and film in a kind of arty euro detail that even have a dapple forest pond right out of a monet painting and complete with a span arched bridge . and the end ( which even i manage to be surprise by ) do sort of wrap it all up into a neat if distasteful package . but you have to remember that there be certain thing that can not be deconstruct for their design element and many artist be guilty for exploit them in their work to lend a sort of gravitas that would not have be achieve without it . that isn not fair and and even clint eastwood have fall prey to the urge with his new movie about iwo jima . whether or not his film be any good stand a a separate consideration from whether or not that battle be a noble cause fight by men who be hero . the problem be that most people will not be able to separate out the two aspect of the movie and will be line up to give it oscars because of it noble message not because it be a particularly good or original movie . while it may seem like an odd parallel and i see one with the beast represent how can anyone not see the basic beauty of nature in the sight of two horse mat . and who can not see the logical culmination of the repressed sexuality from fairy tale in the film explosive set piece where beauty and the beast finally do the nasty . somehow i manage to miss both point and and be delight that i have see this film so that i can trash it a be what it really be represent 25 minute or so of eye opening over the top adult fairy tale imagery surround by 70 minute of skull drainingly boring artsy fartsy euro trash dreck about some guy get a haircut and and a great end . it art for sure and but it suck hard . negative . | 0neg |
walerian borowczyks la bete ( 1975 ) be obviously receive in different way represent some be appal and some be shocked others applaud the courage . i however be completely untouched and bored and can not stop ask myself why the display of incoherent and inconsistent image which vaguely orbit around a central theme be consider an intellectual journey . what be this movie actually about . grow sexuality in a woman . i have see great film on this subject and but this be not one of them . how can one attempt to portray a grow sexuality in a girl without at least try to characterize her a a person not only a a narrative device to dream ( in the nude ) of beast . where there be no character and there be no character study . the woman persecute by the beast be not adolescent and the girl have sex with the black butler ( be he also characterize a a beast . ) have a very grow up attitude to sexuality and so where be the consistency . be it a movie about religion . if yes we would need a bit more thematic material than a priest without function and character and charisma and but with a strong desire towards two young boy . be it about bestiality . the metaphoric feel of the movie forbid any realistic examination of bestiality and especially a realistic examination require realistic character . so no real bestiality here . some mythic beast and two priest talk to each other about the sin of bestiality . enough for a college essay on the topic . i do not think so . be it about sex . be it about anything . i do not know . i only know that show a fired gun doesn not make a film a war movie . deal with a topic must mean more than display it own association with the theme . so look across the controversy . don not be scar by the bestiality and nudity and ejaculation and masturbation and stuff . i be not . look at it a you look at any other story and you might discover that this be a poorly make and poorly edit and poorly act and really poorly write ( okay and some picture be quite nice and and the main character be a really good look girl ) cerebral masturbation of a director who think beat around the bush in a hypnotic slow manner will make a story intelligent . it doesn not . it make it bore . | 0neg |
another variation and improvisation on the famous and beloved child tale and la bete ( 1975 ) aka the beast try to imagine ( in very graphic and what may seem offensive and disturb but in reality rather silly and comical way ) and what actually happen between beauty and the beast . i be amuse by many review and comment that seem to look too deeply into this movie . i would not go so far a say that it be a serious and dark exploration of such subject a sexual frustration and longing and fulfillment and or satirical criticizing of the catholic religion . i would not even call it a horror erotic movie . it more of the parody on all genre it touch or mention even though it get some shock moment in all department that sure will stay in your memory . the long ( way too long ) scene between an aristocratic young woman and the supposedly horrify but the most laughable i have ever see in the movie creature with truly impressive . well anatomy and be set to the clavichord music of scarlatti and be hysterical . my husband and i both laugh out loud at the exaggerated detail of the encounter . the moral of the scene be beauty can and will defeat the monster . the question be who be the target audience for the film . for an erotic picture and it be too verbose while for an art movie it get too many jaw drop scene of sheer madness and i would say an abrupt end . imo and the film creator do not mean for it to be a serious drama . a a parody of art house or horror or erotica and it be funny and certainly original . have a good laugh and try not to look for some deep meaning . this story of the curious beauty and the lustful beast certainly be not recommend for co view with the child . the opening scene that may shock an unprepared viewer much more than the infamous scene of bestiality can be successfully use on discovery channel for the program like in the world of animal mat habit and ritual of horse . | 0neg |
this movie have a fairly good sounding plot and but the paste be very slow . very slow indeed . even if someone think this be a cult classic and i think that there be a lot good film from that era to be watch . the cinematography be not excellent and but not the bad either . the sound be ok. light ok. i still wouldn not recommend this to anyone else than maybe a film student . the movie do not contain music and and the horse have sex do not make it a good one either . and the woman masturbate on the edge of the bed be plain stupid . no winning here and skip this utter boredom . i have see bad believe me and but this be just waste of time and and i do not get the good review here . especially the high rating . | 0neg |
this and and immoral tale and both leave a bad taste in my mouth . it seem to me that borowczyk be disgust by sex and and these two film be cautionary tale about what will happen if you do have sex . a a film and it not very well do some of the acting be truly epically bad ( such a the american woman with the french accent ) . the young woman sudden flip flop from be anxious about the marriage to be interested ( when it seem like it should have be the other way around ) and and the aunt sudden realization of the young man secret do not make sense theyre not explain at all . i also do not like how the daughter relationship with a black man be present a a sign of her family perversion or predilection for bestiality . the central idea and the idea that there this sexy beast and if you will and that live in the wood and could have be a foundation for a perverse but fun story and but instead be just use a a basis for a nasty and sex negative and morality play . | 0neg |
this movie be little more than poorly make and fetish porn and and this be say a lot consider the similar crap that be make in that era . this be recommend to me by friend a a unique film experience . he be right . i suppose he mean that a a joke . not disgust and not even that shock . just mediocre act and poor attempt at shock art . a little bit of camp value and though i do not believe the maker of this film intend this . and yes and a a previous reviewer mention and it sex with a guy in a bear suit . don not spend a lot of money on this . try to borrow it and if you must see it . or contact me and i would be happy to sell you my copy for half price . i may have to see another of this particular director film and a he seem to have a certain following . but if it anything like this and i will again regret another 2 hour of my life go forever . | 0neg |
this film be shroud in scandal for so long that it become a very sought after item . the outrage and the mystery and etc . it have everything to be a great piece of film making and but ultimately fail in every extent . it a terribly bad comedy and a pathetic horror movie and a lame erotic film . the 2 disc dvd include a gorgeous booklet with still and interview and essay on bestiality and etc . as well a an extensive interview with the more than pretentious director . for those who have hear about it but never see it and the package will seem fantastic until one actually see the film . disc 1 contain the edited film and badly translate to english but with good visual quality . disc 2 contain the director cut and in an awful transfer and in french . what can i say about the actual beast . a hand puppet of kermit the frog would have be more effective and shock . | 0neg |
notorious for more than a quarter century ( and often ban ) and it obscurity be it great asset it seem . hey and it often well to be talk about and rather than actually see when you can not back the legend up with substance . the film have play in los angeles a couple of time recently and and be available on home video and so that veil be slowly be lift . while there be still plenty to offend the mass and it be more likely to bore them and than arouse much real passion . except for a gratuitous and protracted xxx sex scene between a pair of horse ( nature documentary anyone . ) and there follow nearly an hour of a dull arrange marriage melodrama . once the sex and nudity begin and it be a nonstop sequence involve masturbation and a looooooooong flashback to an allege beauty and the beast encounter and and a naked woman run around the mansion ( nobody and even her supposedly protective aunt and seem to even think of put some clothes on her . ) . on video and i guess you can fast forward thru the banality and but it not really worth the effort . the nudity doesn not go beyond what be see in something much more substantive such a bertolucci the dreamer . try a one might to find some amoral or ymbolism in the carnality and i doubt it worthy of anyone effort . unfortunately and for la bete and now that you can more easily see the film and the notoriety of something once forbidden have be lift . and this beast have be tame . | 0neg |
unreal movie and what be these people on . a mix of french upstairs downstairs and mat horse and porn ( not suggest and it pretty full on for a film ) and bestiality with a bit of benny hill music and chase scene throw in and it sound crazy and it even more so to watch . spoiler it plod along in a tedious fashion for quite a while and . then a lamb do a runner and prompt woman in period dress to run off after it and she go into the wood where she be set upon by an erect penis attach to a man in a bear or rat manky suit and i put it like that a it obvious the penis be in charge and get way too much screen time and ejaculate for the most of it and anyway and in a nutshell and it turn out she like a bit of bear or rat tadger and thats about it and the rest be just pad . end spoiler a film make to shock and offend and thus get talk about and any publicity be good publicity i suppose and a waste of time really and but the main event have to be see to be believe and it hard to imagine that anyone think it be a good idea a they film it . | 0neg |
completely ridiculous period film be only a thin excuse for it extensive and graphic depiction of the heroine affair with the beast and a monster who supposedly appear every century to rape some woman . that pretty much what he do and and the film depiction of the beast be really really awful while it basically a tall guy in a fur suit with a mask and a huge pvc tube for a hard on that squirt copious amount of white liquid . for fan of fake animal porn and i guess maybe this be a real turn on . i be amuse and however and by the opening shot of horse have sex in a public square . | 0neg |
this movie be complete crap . avoid this waste of celluloid at all cost and it be ramble and incoherent . i pride myself on plumb the depth of 70 sleaze cinema from everything from salo to salon kitty . i like be shock and but i need a coherent story . however if watching horse mate get you off this film be for you . the sad part be that lame werewolf suit with the functional wang . i mean it just plain hard to sit through and not to mention the acting be terrible and the soundtrack be dub badly . please and i know the cover be interesting ( what look like a gorillas hand reach for a woman bare as ) but do not waste your time or money a you would not get either back . | 0neg |
revolution always present opportunity for dramatic film since and in fact and most revolution be in themselves dramatic event . unfortunately and what this film lack in drama be compensate for by an overabundance of boredom . one care not who win and lose and die or live just end it as soon a possible . this be due in large measure to what seem to me to be a superficial use of background technology . scene of paris and the french countryside have a cardboard quality about them . they might well be do on a bare stage and leave that way . one can not expect the amazing effect of the house of the fly dagger or the golden compass and but and after all and this be a 2002 digitally master production . character seem to enter a scene for the sake of enter a scene and so much so that one lose count of the number of time character enter and leave room . in my view and this film turn the french revolution of the 1790s into the papier mache revolution of a papier colle world . | 0neg |
much have be make of rohmer use of digital technology to fill in the background . at time it work well and the scene where grace and her maid witness from afar the king execution be particularly striking . at other time it give the film a strangely amateurish look and resemble a home video . however and the major failing be that the sheer artificiality of the mise en scene create an alienate effect in the viewer . we know that what we be watch be not real so how can we feel for the character . to be frank and i do not care at all what happen to the lady or the duke . the other major fail and i regret to say and be the performance of lucy russell in the leading role . she be in virtually every scene and the success or otherwise of the film rest on her performance . ok she be speak a foreign language but she be incapable of express real emotion . her emoting in the scene where she recount to her friend mme de meyler ( an excellent performance by the debutante helena dubiel ) see the head on a pole cause some embarrassed laughter in the audience . also and watch her hand when she be express emotion . all in all a very disappointing film and particularly give the positive review on this site . | 0neg |
eric rohmer the lady and the duke be base on the journal of an english aristocrat who live through the french revolution . but it a stilted affair and with it strange and painted backdrop and mannered conversational tone . most notably and this portrait of age of terror take place almost entirely at one remove from the real action while one see very little of ordinary people in this movie and and little of the chaos and poverty and terror that unfold away from the draw room of the persecuted and but spoilt and aristocratic class . the result be frequently dull and and ultimately unenlightening about the force that sometimes drive society to the brink of destruction while it a disappointing film from an acclaimed director . | 0neg |
if i only have one camera that be accidentally glue to the floor and enough film for only one take of each shot and and then lose all that film and have to scrounge up some buck to buy a few digital video tape and and be force to make an over 2 hour movie about the french revolution and and also do not have any set and have to have my 4 year old autistic son paint the background and and also the only actor i could find be the people who do not make the audition of that year soap opera and and i be also force to not use any music in the entire film and and also the zoom function on the camera do not work except for one time when it accidentally start zoom in and couldn not stop and oh and if i hat my audience and then i might make something kind of like this awful and yet mistakenly hilarious and hell worthy waste of time . the almost grand look but completely fake look backdrop remind me of some of george lucas late creation and which make it so much more disappointing because through the whole movie and there be that little glimmer of hope in the back of my mind that the film would climax in a lightsaber duel or space laser battle . i do not mean to spoil the movie for those who haven not see it and but that not how it end . the only thing i can think of that waste more time than watch this movie be write this review . peace . | 0neg |
every so often a movie come along that knock me down a notch and remind me that my taste in film i seek out to watch isn not always impeccable . i normally would stay away from stuff like this and but i be dupe by some glowing review and the rohmer pedigree . there an initial and intrigue novelty to the production where rohmer essentially superimpose the actor onto paint ( digital ) back drop of revolution era france . this quickly wane and become about as interesting a watch the paint dry on a paint by number scene . what be leave with be a boring and stuffy film about aristocrat in 18th century france . none of the character be appeal or sympathetic . the pace be so languid and the dialogue so arduous and and suspense be clearly a foreign concept to rohmer and that i end up not care whose head roll and who be harbor who and or what the devil the revolution be suppose to be about . the movie would have greatly benefit from some semblance of emotional build up and a music score ( there some fine classical music use at the very end ) . despite be so talky and the film play much like a silent film and and the bad kind of film at that and a dull and uninteresting film about infinitely interesting subject . only the most astute french historian will find anything to take from this film and a it dose seem to paint well know event from a new angle ( the lady be english and a royalist ) . otherwise and avoid this yawner at all cost unless you be suffer from insomnia ( i doze off twice ) . | 0neg |
i can hardly believe that this inert and turgid and badly stag film be by a filmmaker whose other work i have quite enjoy . the experience of endure the lady and the duke ( and no other word but endure will do ) and leave me in a vile mood and a condition relieve only by read the imdb user comment by ali 112. for not only have rohmer attempt ( with success ) to make u see the world through the genre art of 18th century france but and a ali have point out and have show ( at the cost of alienate his audience ) the effect of both class consciousness and the revolution it inspire through the eye of a dislikably elitist woman of her time . the director have accomplish something undeniably difficult and but i question whether it be worth the effort it take for him to do so or for u to watch the dull result of his labor . | 0neg |
a a fan of eric rohmer study of the contemporary war between the sex and i be very eager to see the lady and the duke ( langlaise et le duc ) for how he would treat men and woman during a real war and the french revolution . the film look beautiful and with each scene design a a period painting and like a tableau vivant . and i expect much talk and a that rohmer style . but maybe rohmer be restrain by base the screenplay on a real woman writing be why this mostly felt like a docudrama version of the scarlet pimpernel . as awful a the excess of robespierre et al and how about some recognition that the french aristocrat be spoiled brat . i keep hum to myself represent marat and be poor or and the poor stay poor while you could also pick a tune from le miz . i wasn not all that sympathetic a the central figure have to go back and forth between her city home and country manor to stay ahead of the revolution . at one point her maid claim the pantry be bare but sure manages to lay out a fine repast . i simply do not understand her and an english sympathizer who alternately reject and defend her former lover and patron a he and the revolution keep shift political focus while i think i be suppose to sympathize with her consistency more than their political machination and like a character out of the scarlet pimpernel . hey and the only reason she do not go back home be her disgrace after an affair and child with the prince of wale or somebody . usually in a revolutionary period there some groundswell of change go on in relation between men and woman and but i saw none here . i once go to a herbert marcuse lecture that conclude with a lengthy q and a while the last question and from an audience member far old than the rest of u acolyte and heck she have gray hair and be why be revolutionary so grim . she be hoot at and marcuse do not deign to respond to it seriously but it the only thing of substance i remember from the whole evening . rohmer demonstrate that counter revolutionary be also grim and didactic . ( originally write 8/1 half 002 ) . | 0neg |
as interesting a a sheet of cardboard and this dispensable period piece have little go for it . it overly wordy and fail spectacularly to evoke the tension and fear that the real life character must have felt a they dodge the french revolution fickle hand of justice . eric rohmer at 82. it show . | 0neg |
i have see most of ryuhei kitamura work and i have come to the conclusion that he have a knack for action . scene be kinetic and fast often combine element of martial art and gun fight and samurai fight with camera work that effectively capture the on screen carnage . with versus and aragami kitamura demonstrate that creativity and show that he his more than capable of work with a low budget . so what happen in alive . to be more blunt and the answer would be nothing . nothing happen in alive it be a two hour plus movie with little to no action and little to no character and plot . adapt from a comic book by tsutomu takahashi alive be an examination of the life of one tenshu yashiro ( play by hideo sasaki ) a death row convict who survive his execution . he be then give a choice of either to repeat the execution or to subject himself in a bizarre series of experiment . he choose the latter and soon after that be place in a room along with a rapist and later with a girl infect with a strange parasite that in exchange for it host humanity grant supernatural power . naturaly at some point that parasite move into yashiro and the bad thing be that doesn not happen very soon . similar to aragami and alive set it first half in establish the basic exposition . character be introduce and their motivation be set and their relation between each other be uncover . the whole thing even take place in just one set . the first major problem of that comparison be that while aragami be just a 70 minute movie and alive drag on for more than two hour thus make the first part over one hour long . that length could have be justify have the character be make a bit more interesting but ala that be not the case . dialogue be dry and monotonous and deliver without any sense of emotion or depth and character themselves aren not much interesting . there be some small attempt at make alive a bit more moral ambiguous but in the end it all come down to the classic represent evil government people against and super power protagonist and whom yes you guess it and save the girl in the end . like i previously say the entire film practically take place at just one set and and after two hour that do get boring and even bad the set design itself wasn not even interest to begin with and and doesn not do much to improve on other aspect of the film . now and after that first part be over and one might think that kitamura would at least make some entertaining action scene to make up for the boring beginning . sadly that be not the case . the two only fight be actually rehash of similar fight from hollywood movie and complete with bullet time effect and psychic power . theyre just not interesting or fun and kitamura creativity from versus be go and the small set even limit his often very impressive camera work and it all boil down into generic and expectable fight and a shame really . evidently aragami be good on all account and kitamura have learn something from alive . so it wasn not at least a total loss watch this movie . if only to understand the error make and how to fix them and create a good more entertaining movie . | 0neg |
i really try to like this movie but in the end it just do not work for me . i have see most of kitamura output and have find it to be very variable . alive and like all of his film have an interesting plot and some nifty sequence and a fair amount of creativity . however and these quality be in painfully short supply in alive . the plot be cool if not all that original and could have make for a pretty ace film . unfortunately and the pacing be painfully slow and the film take an age to get go and before reach fairly predictable place . the action be just about passable and with the final fight pretty cool and and the early one about ok. the early one be also mar by overspeedy camera work and make for less coherency . there be some neat visual effect and some interesting idea float around in the dialogue but the film still drag badly . the character be neither well flesh out nor well act and the setting and general color scheme be drab and boring . the film be not completely terrible and have some point of interest and perhaps judicious use of the fast forward button could improve it . with about twenty minute take off the run time this could be a pretty decent sci fi thriller . but the full length film be dull . only recommend to very patient and determined kitumura fan . | 0neg |
have see versus previously i have high hope for alive . the description of the movie on the back of the dvd jacket sound promising . alive do not deliver . very slow development . load of potential with the cast and the cool visuals . the premise be intrigue but the payoff do not offset the build up . could have do so much more at the end . most of the movie be just sit around . to put it plainly and three of u be amped to sit down and watch this movie and by the 50 minute mark we be struggle to make it thru to the end . it really need more shock element . if you be look for ichi the killer or versus type fight then save yourself some $ and load of disappointment . | 0neg |
i will keep this short and a i know i do not need to say much . alive be a strange little film that obviously appeal to some and but i find it to be shockingly bland from almost the very begin . the film do very little to make any of the character likable and the story at time become so convoluted that i completely lose interest . a i say and i know others enjoy it and but i find kitamura alive to be anything but a lame and extremely boring drama disguise a a thought provoke action sci fi flick . i felt like i be suckered into watch this film and base by it intriguing premise and uber excite cover art . my suggestion . pas it up for kitamura far more enjoyable freshman effort versus or his 2004 riot godzilla represent final war . and do not get me wrong and i be always up for a good thinking man film and but this certainly wasn not it . there be nary a moment that i actually care about a single event take place in this overly preachy and dialogue heavy movie . if you wan na talk about something . talk about boring . | 0neg |
i do not know where to begin and so i will begin with a snippet from the back of the cover of this movie . alive combine the tension of vincenzo natali cube with kitamura own versus . i have not see versus and so i can not comment on that and but i think cube be an excellent movie which i recommend to everyone . however and in this case someone have clearly confuse tension with boredom . i will just go ahead and spoil the entire plot and because besides be one holy swiss cheese of a plot and it also moldy cheese and and the movie be not worth spend any time on even if you do not know the plot beforehand and so it doesn not matter . if i have misunderstand the plot and do not hit me it probably because i have to struggle to keep my eyelid open . so the american military in nevada once lose a ufo i the nambi desert . this apparently make sense because theyre both desert so surely theyre practically the same place . different continent or not . a monkey broke into the ufo and acquire an alien something which be pass on to a japanese researcher who have to eat the monkey to survive in the desert . what ever . the alien thing be now pass on to anyone who bloodthirsty enough to kill the current host . the japanese military want to use it for military stuff and so they decide to make it pas from the current host ( the researcher daughter ) to some other dude . but instead of just pick someone out of the military and which be full of people who be bloodthirsty and already on the military side and they decide that it probably a good idea to pick some criminal out of death row instead . oh and and the reason they pick this particular criminal from death row be because he be the first person in history to not die from the non lethal electric shock which be the standard execution method and because everyone dy from the placebo effect when they get electrocute . i do not know if they do this so they can giggle in the staff room at how everyone die even though it not deadly and or if they just want to cut down the electricity bill . then the movie turn into what the matrix would have be if it have be really lame and and superfluous fighting bore u to tear for what feel like an hour . and oh wait and now they remember that they already have a dude who be infect with the alien thing and so the entire movie up to this point be actually a totally waste of time and also human life . then everyone die . the end . the only one moment in the movie where i do not want to go away and sleep or eat a sandwich instead and be when a dude be pin to a wall by a pipe through his chest and and he hang around up there and another dude walk by . the dude hang on the wall say i be in pain and shoot me . and the living dude look at him and and it not like he a mean dude or anything and so he really look sorrowful and doesn not want the guy on the wall to suffer . so he shoot him . ( rhetorical pause . ) in the stomach . gee thanks a freakin heap . | 0neg |
fashionably fragment and yet infuriatingly half realize character study and an examination of the different personality of two college roommate represent a talented but undisciplined star basketball player and and a pot smoking and womanize rabble rouser . we never learn why these young men be friend . they may share confusion about the world and their place in it and but they do not seem to have anything else in common . make his directorial debut and jack nicholson who also co write the screenplay with jeremy larner and base upon larner book doesn not introduce u to the character with any clarity and nor he do shape the scene to help u identify with anyone on the screen . there be some very decent performance here ( particularly from newcomer william tepper in the central role ) and but most of the picture be unformed ( perhaps intentionally ) and sketchy or unsure . bruce dern play the hard drive basketball coach and karen black be the old and marry lady tepper be have an affair with and and michael margotta be tepper wayward friend ( in an off put and over the top performance ) . nicholson fail to set up the sequence with any particular flavor and preferring ( i assume ) to let the character interaction dominate the film tone while his script be no help either and and a a result it be unclear whom be suppose to sympathize with . small and random moment do work ( a supermarket fight between tepper and black and dern visit tepper in his dorm room and all of the scene set on the court ) and however the entire third act of the picture be an excruciate mess . hop to juxtapose an all important b ball game with a sexual assault and nicholson show no style at his craft ( nor do he earn point for chutzpah and a his staging of these event be squashy and ugly ) . when a director go out of his way to humiliate his actor and one have to question his motif in do so . perhaps if drive and he say ultimately make some sort of powerful statement in the bargain and audience could forgive the filmmaker for his lapse in judgment and taste . unfortunately and the perplexing closer be as dumbfound a much of the rest of the movie . half from . | 0neg |
i go to see this movie at our college theater thirty year ago because i like bruce dern in silent running and family plot . to this day ( sorry jack nicholson ) and it be still the dull movie i have ever see . it just go on and on with no discernible point and then it just end . the light come up and i watch everyone look around in confusion . have the projectionist miss a reel . i have never have the urge to find out . all i remember about the movie be that it be a non drama about some annoy college basketball player and their coach . the most enjoyable part of the movie be watch the totally mystified audience afterwords . fortunately and this be just an exception for jack and bruce and and karen black . | 0neg |
a a member of the cast and i be a member of the band at all the basketball game and i would like to let the world know after be in the movie and that we be not allow to see it since it be ban in oregon . this be due to the producer and the director break the contract with the university of oregon where it be shoot . seem that the u of o sign be show . while we be shoot and we be allow to eat several meal with the cast and production staff . mr nicholson be quite memorable for be one of the most ill mannered men i have ever meet . quite a time for a young 20 year old . but certainly not what campus life be really like in the late 60 and early 70 despite what hollywood may think . trombone player from oregon . | 0neg |
this have get to be one of the bad movie i have ever see . it be ( i think ) a story of a rebellious college basketball player and his tough but fair coach and his girlfriend and and a fellow student ( play by michael margotta ) who have continual nervous breakdown . the story go nowhere and there be zero character development and there be nobody to care about and and the performance and with the exception of bruce dern a the coach and be terrible . it be hard to believe how a talent like jack nicholson could direct such an awful movie . make sure to avoid this turkey . | 0neg |
some movie be repellent but still fascinating ( pulp fiction ) while others be simply bore . this movie have an almost unique feature of be both utterly repellent and totally boring . by the end i do not care about any of the character and i just want all of them dead so i could get out of the theatre . | 0neg |
tenant two writer struggle to complete their book in an all but empty apartment house . they at first help each other and then slowly the tension between them begin to build . this be base upon a bernard malamud novel and unfortunately everyone speaks a though they be in that novel . very little of the dialog be natural and it purple and brim with shade of meaning . it a if a college english major with a head full of pretension write the script . it awful and i find myself instantly immune to anything the film have to say and which be a shame since the film be populate with great performance from top to bottom . snoop dog on down be fine form and unfortunately none of them can over come the falseness of the word and the premise . i can not really recommend this movie . while not really bad and it very preachy and pretentious to the point of make you want to walk away . i lose interest less then a third of the way in and have to struggle to get to the end . if youre interested i would try it on cable and but i wouldn not lay out good money to see it . | 0neg |
i end up watch the tenant with my close friend who rent the movie solely base on snoop dogg appearance ( a passionate fetish of theirs ) on the cover . understandably and i do not expect much . i think the movie would include the typical array of snoop dogg relate behavior and imagery often see in cliché rap video . however and my generalization be for the most part wrong . unfortunately and this do not make the movie any good . most would describe the movie a a dark serious drama and whereas i would describe it a a dark seriously draw out boring drama flick . the film tell a story of two struggle writer ( dylan mcdermott and snoop dogg ) who be try to create their own separate masterpiece . their polar opposite lifestyle end up form an unlikely but highly complex and neurotic friendship . this friendship move throughout the entire movie like a wild roller coaster most of which be contribute by snoop character reminiscent of someone with a severe case of split personality disorder . and although the movie be a drama and the acting which have a morbid and serious tone from snoop and company be more comical than anything else . i wouldn not recommend this movie for those who be attention impair because this one have a lot of dialogue and a lot more dialogue after that . there be some mediocre conflict and but even they be mostly bogged down with more dialogue . the end and however and jump at me with a sudden surprise . it be a little bit twisted and somewhat unexpected and a perfect way to wrap up a movie that need to end . while watch the end credit i couldn not help but picture the director thinking and oh god and how the hell do i end this snoozer . by the way and the director lay out carefully planted hint and subtlety lead to the climax all of which be more visible than waldo in a crowded street of midget wear nothing but black sweater . | 0neg |
watch the tenant have be a interesting experience for me . it be the first film i have ever see where i have shuttle at speed through part of the ( non ) action and i can normally watch anything from turgid action movie to serbo croat indie and find them fascinate . the tenant be frustratingly sluggish and over orchestrate . one of the main problem of the script be there be little realistic character dialogue and apart from the set piece where character collide in a very structured setting ( to make this work and the film need to feel more conceptual and which it do not ) . this lead to a lack of realistic character development while everyone seem two dimensional . the bad for this be the character of bill spear and aka snoop dogg . i find his characterization very uncomfortable and very unsympathetic . at one point and i even stop the film because i get so annoy by the character aggressive and violent and monotonal delivery and the lack of any other personality layer apart from that of the reactionary on switch ( which get really predictable after a while ) and i so desperately want him to have some redeeming quality . however and one reason for this jar might be the nebulous time scape of the film ( supposedly 70 and it feel and look more early noughties ) . if it have be more securely fix in the 70 and his character might have seem more understandable . the lighting of the film be also awkward . all the way through and the soundtrack attempt to provide a certain gritty and jazz infuse atmosphere that just do not come off and largely because the set be too well lit . the tenant and to me and be an unbelievable film . it doesn not depict real people or propose any interesting way of think about race and identity or the life of a writer and be they white or black . strangely and i come away with the feeling that this project need david lynch while his eerie and clastrophobic and obsessive look and feel would have lift both the actor and the script into something quite remarkable . | 0neg |
never before have a film drive me to write a review but this be just dire . i stick with it try to find what it be about this film that make snoop pick it a his first serious role but frankly it be a poor choice . maybe this make a good book but it certainly do not work for me a a film . i find it unbelievable and lack atmosphere and i find many of the scene hideously stilted . a musical maestro he may be but a serious actor snoop ain not . the acting by dylan mcdermott and rise byrne be passable but not enough to carry a weak plot with feeble dialogue . perhaps i have just entirely miss the point but to me it do not fit into any genre and it do not elicit any empathy with the character nor do it create any suspense and in fact i find myself pray for the end and quell a deep desire to slap all three of the main character . | 0neg |
may ( anne reid ) and toot ( peter vaughan ) be pay an apparently infrequent visit to their son bobby ( steven mackintosh ) and his family in london . even a the visit begin and toots suffers a fatal heart attack and leaving may adrift and unsure and and question her life and future . find herself attract to her daughter boyfriend darren ( daniel craig ) and her action lead to inevitable consequence . beautifully filmed and but for all it herald realism and acclaim and the mother offer a collection of mostly unpleasant and even repellent character and and ask the viewer to engage with them . reid shine a may and and it be her skill and commitment a a wonderfully understated actor that salvage the film from a completely depressing mire and but michell and kureishi have allow craig and mackintosh and cathryn bradshaw to create such utterly obnoxious character and that it become increasingly difficult to care what happen to may . a write and the character play by mackintosh and bradshaw be in fact so utterly selfish and cold hearted that one begin to wonder what exactly be kureishi try to say . a direct and they be either unwilling or unable to lift bobby and paula above the two dimensional in their ghastly selfishness . worth see for reid performance and but little else . a cry shame . | 0neg |
disappointing and irritate . the screenwriter have no true understanding of human nature but instead string together clichés in a disjointed fashion . character be not explore in depth . these be puppet plunk down in a plot he openly confess need a dramatic element and the mother affair with her daughter lover . anne reid give an excellent performance in spite of be give some peculiar situation and line and such stand passively to allow her angry daughter to slug her in the eye . the script portray darren ( daniel craig ) a a dr. jekyll or mr. hyde without any hint about why and except that he snort cocaine before the big scene . a mature writer could have do so much more with this topic . | 0neg |
i understand what this movie be try to portray . how the old be often ignore and treat like a bother and which mean they end up feeling unappreciated and like their life be empty . i do not have a problem with this message and but i just feel that it could have be put across in a way that be not so painful to watch . i enjoy a good art movie but when a movie become too self consciously arty ( a in this case ) the result be often frustrating . include shot of a person pack a suitcase slowly that take 5 minute try to make a point but just end up annoy the audience . the female character be very weak and you end up want to just tell them to pull it together . this be a movie you feel you should enjoy or rate highly and certainly have it merit but i be just too frustrated watch it to ever recommend it to someone else . it might have a deep message than other roger michell movie ( for example represent notting hill ) but at least that be a movie you could enjoy watch . | 0neg |
after life be a miracle and i do not expect much . it hard to believe that these film be make by the same man a do you remember dolly bell and for instance . zavet be two hour of silly antic with no story . the wild and unbridled humor of underground seem to have degenerate into pathetic buffoonery here . it appear that kusturica have be go steadily downhill since he start make life affirm comedy and begin with black cat and white cat and which i think be great and but already have some disturbing sign of dementia . i like his early film so much and and this be why it especially disappointing to see something like this . let hope his next one will be great . | 0neg |
this movie be more like a music video . kusturica say in an interview from 2004 that when he be make movie and he feel like make music and and when he be make music and he feel like make movie . the best thing in promise me this be the music and write by stribor kusturica . kusturica say in the same interview and that for him the dialogue in the movie be like noise . promise me this have very little noise . i like life be a miracle . it be also like music video for the first 30 minute and at some point later and but it have a beautiful plot . promise me this have no plot . i be await this movie with big expectation and because i have read and that the script have be write by ranko bozic one of my favourite scriptwriter and who participate also in life be a miracle . ranko bozic write great dialogue and but for kusturica they be noise and and much to my regret and i saw only two dialogue and which i could identify a write by ranko bozic . the other part of the script be use by the director for make his chaotic music video for the music of his son stribor . gordan mihic ( the man who write the script for time of the gypsy and black cat white cat ) say in an interview and that kusturica never follow the script . black cat white cat be the only script and for which kusturica say and that he will not touch it . accord to gordan mihic and after all kusturica come back to the script and and if he doesn not and he doesn not make a good movie . and i think this be the case with promise me this . he should have follow the script of ranko bozic . promise me this be bill a a comedy and but there be very few moment and which make me laugh . the comedic moment be in the same style a black cat white cat and but be not that funny at all . i think the difference come from the fact and that black cat white cat be write by gordan mihic . however and i know some people and who like promise me this and they find it very positive movie . | 0neg |
a damsel in distress be definitely not one of fred astaire well musical . but even astaire bad film always have some good moment . in damsel and astaire be jerry halliday and an american musical star who be in london on a personal appearance tour . he meet lady alice marshmorton ( 19 year old joan fontaine ) and a beautiful english heiress and who hop into the back of a cab he be take to escape a mob of admirer . jerry believe that alice be be force into a marriage by her rich aunt . he try to rescue her from her family country manor house and but soon discovers that the house staff be lay bet on which suitor lady alice will marry . keggs ( reginald gardiner ) the connive butler and and albert ( harry watson ) and the bratty house boy and each take turn alternately help and sabotage lady alice romance with jerry to make sure they win the bet . this musical have numerous problem . first and there be the plot and base on a novel by p. g. wodehouse ( who co write the screenplay ) . the story be slow and painful and and nerve grating . when fred be not dance and we have to endure endless annoy scene of ( a ) fred romance joan fontaine or ( b ) keggs and albert conniving against them and each other . the butler and the house boy be especially irritate . they be one dimensional stock villain character and the kind of guy you just want to punch in the mouth . you wish they would get off the screen and let fred dance . astaire suffers in the absence of his usual partner and ginger rogers . joan fontaine be a lackluster lead lady in this film and and be miscast in a musical . she have little go for her and character wise and other than her lovely face and beautiful smile . george burn and gracie allen be along for the ride and a jerry publicist and his ditzy secretary . the duo add some sorely need chemistry to the plot and and gracie have some funny line and but she be also very annoy at time . the direction of the movie by george stevens be not well do . at time and the cinematography be horrible and off focus . there be a number of outdoor scene set on extremely foggy street and to try to convince the audience that we be in london and not hollywood . ( they must have use ton of dry ice in this movie . ) on the plus side and the song by george and ira gershwin be terrific and and have become classic song standard . and of course and the dancing in the movie be exceptional and thanks to astaire and his choreographer and hermes pan . but the musical and dance number be ill use and ill stag . at time and the cast seem to start singing and dancing because and well and it time for them to start singing and dancing . the musical number seem randomly insert into the meandering plot . ( at one point and the butler step outside the manor house and break into an operetta solo for no clear reason . ) the number include represent i be dance and i can not be bother now fred dance well on a foggy traffic fill london street . he do some great cane twirl with a rolled umbrella but the number end too soon when fred jump on a passing double decker bus . ( in the broadway musical and crazy for you and harry groener do a much good version of this number with a group of chorus girl . ) put me to the test fred and george and and gracie do a trio tap dance in an english cottage . george and gracie match fred step for step and but the number end poorly with everyone kick each other for no reason . stiff upper lip ( the fun house number ) at an amusement park fun house and fred and george and and gracie have fun dance on the revolving floor and rotate barrel and and with the fun house mirror . it the best number of the movie and but it get a little repetitious at time . thing be look up fred and joan fontaine do their one dance number together in the film and prance around the back wood of the country manor estate . fortunately and it a very simple dance number because joan be not a great dancer . a foggy day in london town fred wanders around the foggy manor estate at night and croon about the foggy day when he first meet joan in london . at time and he look a if he not sure which way he go in the fog much like the musical number itself . nice work if you can get it a great song that be misuse in the movie . during a social event at the manor house and fred get draw into a chorus of dour face singer who be haphazardly sing this song . each time fred join in and the other singer look at him a if they wish he would leave . ( again and harry groener do a good dance number with this song in crazy for you . ) drum dance number a fred and joan be elope and fred have to stop and do one final tap dance number while bang a group of drum . a usual and it a great dance number . but there absolutely no need for it and except to prolong the movie . the most contrived moment in the film come when fred decides to leap off a high stone balcony at the country estate in order to prove his love for joan fontaine . a he leap from the balcony and he find a conveniently place trapeze that right and a trapeze hang from a nearby tree . fred ( or rather and a stuntman in fred clothes ) grab the trapeze and swing to the ground from it . the movie be worth own on dvd for the dance number alone and but you feel indebted to the guy who invent the fast forward button on your remote . the > > ff button allow you to skip through the other and boring scene in the film to get to the dance number . | 0neg |
arthur askey great skill a a comic be in the way he communicate with his public . his juvenile joke and silly song and daft dance go down well because he be able to engage folk and draw them into his off the wall world . a lack of a live audience be a distinct disadvantage to him and and he be never completely comfortable in film . he have his moment in the ghost train and and his character and tommy gander and have be tailor to make the most of his talent and but askey the performer need to be see to be appreciate . askey support in the film be not strong and it include regular co star richard murdoch while betty jardine and stuart latham a a dopey honeymoon couple while linden travers go over the top a a amad woman . also on board be peter murray hill and who off screen marry phyllis calvert and a the nominal leading man and give a totally bland reading of the part and and lead lady carol lynne and who turn in an equally insipid performance . it be leave to character actress kathleen harrison to effortlessly steal the film a a parrot love single woman who get smash on dr morland graham brandy . | 0neg |
an absolutely wretched waste of film . nothing ever happen . no ghost and hardly any train and no mystery and no interest . the constant and brutal attempt at comedy be painful . everything else be pathetic . the premise be idiotic represent a bunch of people strand in the middle of no place and because their train be hold up for less than 3 minute . what . and the railroad leave them no place to stay and in a heavy storm . i think not . oh and they can walk 4 mile across the dead black field . umm and yeah . sure . or and they can force themselves on the railroad hospitality and and stay at the haunt train station . a station which prove to be nothing but deadly boring and utterly without ghost and interest and or plot . so very terribly dull that this seem impossible . this ought to be add to the lose film list . aargh . | 0neg |
dynasty revisit in hawaii . full of clichés and highly predictable and unrealistic and sometimes even stupid . if you have nothing well to do however and it do provide 40 minute of simple and unpretensive entertainment and endless look at great male and female muscle and very good photography of the spectacular hawaiian scenery . on the other hand and if you be look for anything more than that and stay away . oh and and by the way and if you have ever work in a hotel or know anything about run one and you have two option represent 1. you will feel sick every two minute at the sheer stupidity and silliness of how the show present hotel business or and 2. look at it a science fiction comedy a i do and lie back and relax and and laugh about it . | 0neg |
someone mention edit . this be edit badly and what start out a somewhat intriguing become an incomprehensible mess . for starter and let u know what it be you be try to do with these experiment . why be these people the best choice for the type of experiment they be involve in . and and what exactly be they test . apparently there be some grand plan that some agency be go to exploit . the acting be pretty bad . everyone be emote . everyone be keep secret . they frequently mention that if it weren not for the money and they would hang it up . there a deranged minister who spout scripture . on and on . but and again and the big hang up be the lack of lay out a playing field for the actor . there be some really cheesy element . those little room and those chaise lounge . the awful wallpaper ( be it wallpaper . ) . it be interest and but do not seem to go anywhere . | 0neg |
oh and my gosh . i think cbs primetime television show be theworst thing gerald mcraney appear in . four people be experiment on by a crazed mind controlcomputer . that it and do not rent it . i saw this under one of it many title grey matter and and it isperhaps one of the bad film of recent memory . the otherreviews be right and it be awful . never have so many establishingshots appear onscreen and never . the cast be awful and the directionis awful and and the script be awful . i can not stress how awful this be . avoid it like you would smallpox . this be rat ( pg ) for physical violence and some gun violence and mildgore and some profanity and and some adult situation . | 0neg |
ouch and what a painfully boring sci fi movie . and that especially sadden because the opening 15 minute be so action pack and full of potential . during the intro and we follow a bunch of nervous security officer and hire hit men a they chase a doctor who escape from a mysterious laboratory with a briefcase full of top secret file . a he about to reveal the supposedly horrible and inhuman event that take place in the lab and he execute . figure from then on and the action swifts back and forth between two location and the aforementioned laboratory and the rural mansion of a corrupt senator ( or something ) and and it quickly become clear that the experiment be actually the complete opposite of disturb . more like dull and pointless and vague . scientist select four random person without live relative and it really really really really important that they speak the truth even though a giant machine read the content of their mind and anyway . they all hide dark secret from their past and people suffer when get reveal while yet i fail to see how these test could ever result in a humanity threaten device . perhaps i miss something and but i doubt it . the interaction between the patient and doctor be even less interesting to follow and a really none of them have personality . so basically and the brain machine just handle about a bunch of lame people live in an awfully decorate room . the film also could have be half an hour shorter if it weren not for a thousand stagnant shot of building . the relocation from the lab to the villa and vice versa be indicate every single time by a five second shot of the place . either the maker really need the padding or they just assume that all sci fi viewer be moron unable to notice a change of location by themselves . star at a forsaken pool with a mansion in the background for the tenth time in only five minute become quite annoying and i assure you . james best performance a the reverend with mental issue be rather decent and but one man definitely can not save this thing from be an absolute waste of time . avoid . | 0neg |
i buy this ( it be only $ 3 and ok. ) under the title grey matter . the novelty of see sherriff roscoe in a non dukesofhazzard role intrigue me . a the other reviewer warn and it a pretty boring tale of a top secret government experiment go awry . and yes and there be plenty of establish shot and especially of a house with a pool in front of it . some of the character and interior be so nondescript i guess the filmmaker worry we might forget who be who and so they keep tip u off by first show the outside of the building . it actually kinda funny . after awhile the pool shot feel like a tv channel station identification logo and remind u that we be watch grey matter . i also enjoy two bout of name call . at one point an angry test subject taunt somebody in charge by call her a scientific btch . it just a very inadequate insult . several scene later a different subject let off steam by mutter about that scientific btard . it just sound very awkward to me . someday this movie will disappear forever . another decade from now it will likely be impossible to find any copy of it . almost like it never happen . | 0neg |
let see and here be the highlight of the brain machine represent 15 establish shot of a pool and a house while 15 establish shot of a nondescript office building while 5 countdown by a bland technician while 7 close ups of a menace guard while and a myriad of technical babble to show u this be a high tech experiment . various poster have comment on the discrepancy between the copyright date of 1972 and the release date give on the dvd box of 1977. that an easy one to explain . this dog simply sit on the shelf unreleased for five year and until someone dust it off and think it fit in perfectly with the post watergate mood of distrust in government . after see the brain machine now and my only wonder be that it ever get release at all . | 0neg |
this film about secret government mind experiment and the corrupt use of the citizenry by secretive and vile shadowy figure have the potential for be a really interesting movie . but for me and it fail . i would not elaborate much on the rather confusing plot line and but if you be look for a detailed explanation and the comment by user reluctantpopstar give a good description of it . but it do not work for me . i find it slow and which would be okay but for the fact that it seem to go nowhere . the viewer be leave in the dark about too many thing to really be able to get a handle on this movie in some film and one can argue that the filmmaker intend to provoke thought and leave thing ambiguous for that reason . i do not think that this be the case here . a for the frequent long shot of two building that have be frequently mention by other user . i see that they do have a point they give the viewer time to get another drink without miss any of the action . and i suspect many viewer would welcome the opportunity to have several beverage on board to get through this one . | 0neg |
you know youre in trouble when the film your watching have numerous alternate title . generally it mean that they try and retry to hide the turkey in various market . such a turkey be the brain machine which have seven different title . it about some super secret government project that be suppose to be able to use a computer to read people but instead it drive people to kill each other or themselves and or something like that . it fill with b level tv actor sit in paneled room with lawn chair try to act a script that make almost no sense . it a turkey of the untastey kind . avoid it . | 0neg |
the brain machine will at least put your own brain into overdrive try to figure out what it all about . four subject of vary background and intelligence level have be select for an experiment describe by one of the researcher a a scientific study of man and environment . since the only common denominator among them be the fact that they each have no know family should have be a tip off none of them will be miss . the whole affair be supervise by a mysterious creep know only a the general and but it seem he take his direction from a senator who wish to remain anonymous . good call there on the senator part . there also a shadowy guard that the camera constantly zoom in on and who later claim he doesn not take his direction from the general or the project . too bad he wasn not more effective and he be overpower rather easily before the whole thing go kablooey . if nothing else and the film be a veritable treasure trove of 1970 technology feature repeat shot of dial phone and room size computer and a teletype machine that would not quit . perhaps that be the basis of the film alternate title time warp while nothing else would make any sense . a for myself and i would like to consider a title suggest by the murdered dr. krisner experiment title group stress project . it apply to the film actor and viewer alike . keep an eye out just above the general head at poolside when he ask an agent for his weapon and a boom mic be visible above his head for a number of second . you may want to catch this flick if youre a die hard gerald mcraney fan and could he have ever be that young . james best also appear in a somewhat uncharacteristic role a a cryptic reverend and but do not call him father . for something a little more up his alley and try to get your hand on 1959 the killer shrew . that one at least doesn not pretend to take itself so seriously . | 0neg |
i think watch employment video on corporate compliance be tedious . this movie go nowhere fast . what could have be a somewhat cheesy half hour twilight zone episode turn into a seemingly endless waste of film on people park their car and a picture of some dude swim pool ( he really need to answer his phone by the way ) a dot matrix printer do it job and and heuy and louey sit in a yellow light control room repeat t minus 10 and count a if something exciting be go to happen . it doesn not so do not get your hope up . the best thing about this movie be to see james best and gerald mcc and in something other than there famous tv personality and and that be stretch to find anything good . and do not get me start on the music which be totally compose of a tympani and some large marine mammal and and microphone feedback . this movie be as close a i have give a one yet and but it get the 2 because i actually be able to finish this insomnia cure and and do not have to leave in the middle . avoid at all cost . | 0neg |
grey matter aka the brain machine but the video people think good of that while the screen say 1972 but imdb say 1977 while it that kind of movie . the government have some kind of override interest in this brain machine project that have draft four people who turn out to be and roughly and a philosopher and a horny priest and a crackpot veteran and a patriot who get an abortion to sit in a shrinking room with a computer that can read their horrendous secret thought . in the end the government take over the lab by force and everybody dy . here be a movie that be incompetent in every important way while my s have good production value than this . it hold my interest and though and just to see what exactly these exploitation filmmaker think they be do and dabble in four guy in a room character drama . the answer represent a tract about how science be inferior to god . thanks a lot . it like open a kinder egg and get your 30th goddam jigsaw puzzle . the priest be play by james roscoe p. coltrane best and the philosopher by gerald the republican simon mcraney . also feature very and very and very long establish and transition shot in great quantity and this move almost as slow a the liberal convention . | 0neg |
before this make for tv movie begin and i have relatively low expectation . that because it be make after the final episode of the series have air and many of the series original be go . there be no president sheridan and delenn and lennier and londo and vir and gkar or lyta . if you remember and on the second to last episode of the series and all the regular except zack and vir and captain lockley leave b 5 permanently . now for this film they do bring back garibaldi ( who be not in the last b 5 movie ) to join zack and the captain and the doctor make a brief and irrelevant appearance . but because so much be go of the old chemistry and this film already be severely handicap . the movie be about a soul hunter ( martin sheen ) who be lead to babylon 5 in search of a globe fill with soul that have be steal from a hidden repository by an archaeologist ( ian mcshane ) . a lot of spooky mumbo jumbo stuff occurs but frankly it be all pretty silly and pointless . yeah and yeah and the station nearly blow up but be save and all and but frankly i felt like it be a case of be there do that and do that a lot well in the past . the secondary plot and provide more for comic relief and be much more interesting and a an entrepreneur instal a holo brothel and those in command weren not sure what to do about it and when they try to pressure them to close and they be slap with a lawsuit . this be fluff and but it do provide a few laugh something the other dreary plot be surely lack . by the way and sheen at first do a good job play the should hunter with his wild eye and bizarre delivery . however and repeatedly throughout the episode he fell out of character . this should have be spot and correct . so the final verdict be this be only for total die hard b 5 nut ( like myself ) . others see it might assume the series suck which be a great injustice . this be a great example of a show not know when to quit . | 0neg |
i be a big fan of b5 and have catch on only at the end of season three . i faithfully watch all the previous season when it be syndicate and conclude that it be one of the most well think out story arc to ever hit television . even the filler episode be interest . the movie and also and be well produce and as entertaining a anything to hit the theater . which bring u to river of soul . naturally and after see everything else and i have high expectation . martin sheen appear to be act in an ed wood movie rather than a serious sci fi story . the story itself and might have look good in outline form and even make it to the story board . however and it suffer obviously when it come time to fill this notion out into a two hour movie . there be no special effect to keep u entertain in the total absence of a compelling story . there be place where they be obviously short of time and just improvise the dialog to fill the story out . have this make the regular season and it would have rat among the bad of the episode . | 0neg |
i be very disappointed in this movie . plotwise it be weak bordering on silly represent soul who can affect reality in the way they do . a mission apparently critical to the soul hunter entrust to one of their young member . and the whole b story with the holobrothel and the lawsuit against the station be so awful that at one point i blurt out to the television and why be you waste my time with this . thematically and river of soul do not really go into the question of the soul in any more depth than the original episode soul hunter do . we see that soul hunter can make mistake and but we still do not get a feeling for their culture . ( be there any female soul hunter . ) the acting be okay and give the material they have to work with and and the special effect especially the planetscapes in the first act be very impressive . but overall and i would say give this one a miss . | 0neg |
go to see this movie hop to see some flash of the jet li we be amaze by in lethal weapon 4. unfortunately too many of his fight stunt be so clearly fake that it take even that enjoyment out of it . the fly kick would be a lot more impressive if you couldn not see the wire hold him up a he fly through the air for 4 second and 9 kick . too cartoonish and very disappointing . | 0neg |
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