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In 1984, The Karate Kid had some charm to it, even if it was little more than a poor man's Rocky. Alas, producer Jerry Weintraub failed to realize it was best to leave the story at the point where it had ended, and convinced Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita to make an extra effort to turn the film into a trilogy. Part III ... | 0neg | In 1984, The Karate Kid won a surprising Academy Award for best picture, going head-to-head at the awards with The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Breakfast Club (which actually was the winner that year). The next year, it managed to be even more successful, winning 14 of the 18 Academy Award nominations it got. It w... | In 1984, The Karate Kid was released; but, the story wasn't over. Although many sequels were made to this, one of the best ones were directed by Keet Ohtaki.<br /><br />Gunslinger's Tale had the best action scenes and plot twists seen in the film, which is mostly due to how the writer, Tom Littrell, who also directed a... |
The final installment in the Karate Kid series is predictable, poorly acted, and so bad it borders on the enjoyable. But not quite, it's just bad. In this installment Ralph Macchio's Karate Kid is absent, already having been in one too many of the episodes. The new Kid, played by Hillary Swank, is the teenage granddaug... | 0neg | The final installment in the three movie trilogy of what would have been a five movie series, "Return to The Blue Lagoon" is a bit of a letdown as it lacks both the sense of wonderment and the stunning scenery and cinematography of the first film. However, despite its shortcomings, it still makes very good use of the s... | The final installment in the series, 'Return of the Jedi', once again proves how well executed the Star Wars franchise was. The plot is basically what I stated in episode 11: A trap that will inevitably lead to certain destruction for a certain young man whose father, the Emperor, is about to make a big comeback. Howev... |
I had been delighted to find that TCM was showing this, as I love the 1992 version with Josie Lawrence, Jim Broadbent, Joan Plowright...This film had a luminous Ann Harding, a wonderful performance by Frank Morgan, but others' acting made the film more of a farce then the wonderful unfolding that the later film. Regina... | 0neg | I had been delighted to find the 1963 BBC production of "Women in Love" on the internet and decided to seek it out. I must have had a bit of a brain fade if I didn't realize at the same time that the screenplay was by Daphne du Maurier and the title sequence music by Delerium. This film must have been part of an attemp... | I had been delighted to see in the list of the winners of the New York Film Critics' awards that "The Big Blue" had won. The only thing that disappointed me was the fact that there had been no nomination for the wonderful original score by Ennio Morricone. I had been waiting eagerly for this movie to be released in Eur... |
Enchanted April was one of Harry Beaumont's last movies- he only directed a few more after this one. He had made the "Maisie" movies in the 1930s and 1940s. In the opening credits, it says "From the novel by Elizabeth", and completely leaves off the author's last name... rather odd, but since it was von Armin, they may... | 0neg | Enchanted April was one of the first films I saw as a child, and I loved it ever since. With the most adorable English countryside, the very best friends and the most charming characters in the world, how could it not be a wonderful classic. I believe it is a very underrated gem that is still just as wonderful to this ... | Enchanted April was one of the most beautiful movies I have ever felt the urge to write a review on. It has great characters, a beautiful setting and a plot that you will hardly find any faults with.<br /><br />What makes it all the most beautiful are the characters. It is obvious that the writer made a great effort to... |
I found this to be a tremendously disappointing version of a charming story. I thought the acting was on the whole quite good. Reginald Owen did chew the scenery, as mentioned by others, but I found him moderately amusing in his brief scenes. TCM has made an Ann Harding fan of me, and I thought she was fine as usual he... | 0neg | I found this to be one of the most enjoyable movies I have ever seen. It is certainly not without its flaws, especially the dialog. But the charm and wit of the actors (especially the two leads, Paul Scofield and Marius Goring) were so endearing that I found the movie to be both fun and thought provoking. I was particu... | I found this to be quite a funny movie. It has a plot. The lead actor is actually pretty good. The dialog was also decent. The thing I loved most is that there was a lot of real life touches to the movie. In this day and age of 90% of movies being either a bad copy of or blatant rip-offs, it's a nice to see something t... |
The 1935 version of "Enchanted April" manages to be simultaneously tedious<br /><br />and perfunctory. It is difficult to show the transformative magic of Italy shooting in a studio with only stereotypical Italian behavior to belabor. The transformation of the four strangers fleeing London is instantaneous in the cut f... | 0neg | The 1935 version of "Enchanted Island" is undoubtedly the film's best version. The film has a very unusual (for 1935) cast. It includes the famous stage actor, James Lee, and, of course, Fay Wray. Fay Wray was considered by many to be the "perfect" femme fatale in film. Also notable is a very early performance by the s... | The 1935 version of "Enchanted April" is much better. If you want to see a film that is not trying hard to make money, is funny, and very romantic, give this one a break! |
The basic story idea of ENCHANTED APRIL is excellent--two very unhappy wives meet and decide to pool their funds to rent an Italian villa for a month. To further defray costs, they get two other strangers to come along. What makes it interesting are the relationships both before and during this vacation--in particular,... | 0neg | The basic story idea of a man trapped in a time machine from a different part of the world than what he finds himself in, has been used many times before in many different forms. But it is here that it is perhaps most successful.<br /><br />Some of the story is obvious of course, for someone to travel from 1997 to 1302... | The basic story idea of this movie isn't particularly original, and it certainly isn't a story by Steven King, but this horror-mystery is done in a way that it is at least an interesting and unique one. The plot is told at a nice slow pace, which is much appreciated given the simplicity of the story, and the direction ... |
The Comic Strip featured actors from 'The Young One's' - a student based sitcom from the 80's. Comic Strip features included parodies of westerns, 'The famous 5', and The Professionals - all a lot funnier than this. Having said that Alexei Sayle puts in a good turn as a traffic cop with ambition and the soundtrack feat... | 0neg | The Comic Strip featured actors portraying real-life comic strips. This one has a "Superman" theme. The character played by Dean Martin (a super-annoying Clark Kent) is trying to find the bad guy but not succeeding. It might be a spoiler to reveal that the bad guy is Christopher (or Chris) Lee playing a character named... | The Comic Strip featured actors that really knew how to play strip-tease. John Philip law is one of the best of all time. This movie gets better every time I view it. The only down side is that we have to wait for the MST3 version of it. There is a ton of sex in this movie and the funniest way to view it is with plenty... |
I struggle to see the point of this movie. It is supposed to be a comedy but I didn't laugh once. The storyline is one that could have been interesting in a well made movie, but since this is acted by comics, the result is totally unbelievable (as comedies should be). The Comic strip series was very hit and miss, even ... | 0neg | I struggle to see the point of watching a movie without a storyline. Sure, it is good to have a theme, like with The Matrix, but it is not bad to have a theme without a story like this one. If you make a movie about a theme like this, you need a solid storyline. There are a lot of movies out there that seem like they a... | I struggle to see the purpose of this film. For those who don't want to listen so much as to see, the story is there, and the message is there. But what made those who liked this film enjoy this film? What I found in the movie was painful. The main reason? I know I do not need to read the words on a screen to know what... |
First of all, I just wanna say that I'm a very big Naruto fan. I love the Anime and the Manga stories. Also, the first movie just confirmed that Naruto is all about great fun, great action, great story, ... But then came the 2nd movie. I was very hyped because the first movie turned out great. But it didn't satisfy me ... | 0neg | First of all, I just love this movie and want everyone to watch it. Everyone in my family loved it too. But, when I told my friend about the movie and said I would recommend it that I didn't tell him the 'C','C', and 'C' that he talked about when we finished watching it.(I mean we were like laughing, not crying) But, a... | First of all, I just want to say that the original 1960 "I Dream of Jeannie" with Eddie Albert and Pamela Hensley (later of 1970's "Night Gallery") is and shall always be a true classic. I've seen the original about five or six times and never get tired of it. That's not to say that the original was without its problem... |
This ultra-low budget kitchen-sink yawn is the kind of film that can only be made in the UK in that, anywhere else in the world the fact the a market would need to exist before a green-light would be given. Most probably self funded this is clearly an attempt to redress important issues but ultimately undermines its po... | 0neg | This ultra-low budget kitchen-sink yawn is about a bunch of losers who hang out in the local diner, play video games, and get picked on by a local thug. I've seen tons of flicks, some pretty bad ones, and never have I seen one as bad as this. The dialog is laughable, the "action" (when you can call it that) boring, and... | This ultra-low budget kitchen-sink yawn goes on forever and never really tells us anything about the history of the Civil War. One guy falls for a woman and the film spends about 30 minutes or so laying on that one character. The woman has a baby then dies and the man leaves the baby with an abusive couple so the baby ... |
Hard up, No proper jobs going down at the pit, why not rent your kids! DIY pimp story without the gratuitous sex scenes, either hard core or soft core, therefore reads like a public information film from the fifties, give this a wide miss, use a barge pole if you can. | 0neg | Hard up, No proper jobs around, the only one is in the criminal element. They're always looking for "a man who knows how to fight". It must be a tough time to be young black man. Or is it. The story goes through the streets in Harlem with just enough pace & twists & turns to be interesting. But the characters, even wit... | Hard up, No proper jobs and all they have to do is a crime in a supermarket!!! They get enough food to last them for a year and a hundred years. Thats 365,000 days. That is 132 days (rounded up) of 3,000 per day.<br /><br />There is only one person that can stop, but what about that guy that lives in that mansion and h... |
Well OK, I've seen Wrath of the Ninja.<br /><br />It isn't something that I would recommend to people who aren't seriously into japanese fighting movies. This is a sort of japanese fighting ninja movie, with a complex plot. It's about these 3 old ninja schools that had these 3 "Swords of Sorcery". I saw the subtitled v... | 0neg | Well OK, I've seen Wrath of Khan, The Undiscovered Country and First Contact, but this was my first encounter with Voyager. I can say without an experienced viewpoint that they get the basic set-up down right. Even though the episodes have been made over almost 6 years (I think) and the characters are still very young ... | Well OK, I've seen Wrath of God, 1975, starring Kurt Russell and Michael Caine as Israeli agents sent to hunt down a "terrorist". This film had the exact same plot 7 years before but Michael Caine, in his own words, "was not himself". Well here comes this third film and, again, a major star leads a mediocre plot. This ... |
It's perfectly ok that people dies in an animation, but there are just way too many death in this one. Start from the very beginning, the story is all around battles, fights, death, and revenge. It goes on and on for entire one and a half hour. It was interesting at the beginning, but I grew very tire after before the ... | 0neg | It's perfectly ok that people like this garbage. The humor is stupid and vulgar and the whole movie was like a school boy's joke. There is nothing to be said that would praise "Freddy Got Fingered" with a single word. It's completely worthless and a total waste of time for every single viewer!!! If these are the kind o... | It's perfectly ok that people try to tell old stories new ways but you wouldn't think that the producers would make this so bad. If it had been a completely original production it's still not worthy of such a plot. As it is, the film makers seem to have been trying to create something original and interesting, only to ... |
I'd have to agree with the previous reviewer: This film has awesome animation, but has problems throughout the rest of the movie.<br /><br />Plot holes are huge, dialog barely explains the concepts of the plot--the MAIN PLOT POINTS aren't even fully explained until the last five minutes of the film. The characters stat... | 0neg | I'd have to agree with the majority of the comments here. Pretty much everything is awful, it's a disgrace. I was hoping this would be good, but everything was just really bad. The acting seemed to be off the top, and the script was really really bad. This was a bad movie from beginning to end. | I'd have to agree with all the previous criticisms. The script was awful (I did laugh at the fact the "bad guys" won.) The action was not as good as it could have been - in some scenes I felt like I was just looking in rather than feeling part of the film. The music was way overdone - some parts (particularly during th... |
This movie stinks majorly. The only reason I gave it a 3 was because the graphics were semi charming. It's total disregard for a plot and the lack of even insubstantial surface character development made it seem like just a bunch of nice drawings. This is by far THE worse anime that came out of Japan. I can't believe t... | 0neg | This movie stinks majorly. The acting is terrible, the plot totally uninteresting, and they don't even try to make it any more interesting. I'm sure this movie had a few good scripts written in it, but they just threw it all away. Save your money and time for something less traumatic...like watching paint dry. | This movie stinks majorly. The effects are laughable, the characters are cardboard, and the story is so predictable. Why in the world would someone spend money to film this? |
I kind of had somewhat high expectations for this movie. I've always thought that Tom Selleck's lesser known movies (ie Runaway and Coma), where well above the ones he had more press for. Maybe the producers should have had a little more knowledge about former major league baseball players who became stars overseas. Th... | 0neg | I kind of had somewhat low expectations for this film...I mean it wasn't advertised that well after all so...<br /><br />To my amazement this was actually really good. It was not as great as some of the movies I had expected so much more from (such as Spider-Man 2), but I have still seen movies such as this one that I ... | I kind of had somewhat of a low opinion of Chris Rock, because I remembered seeing him on Full House. I watched the movie The Bowery, and I changed my opinion. The Bowery showed that this dude has talent. I was a bit nervous when I heard he was working on the movie I Love The 80s, because I was like "he has yet to deve... |
It's a kinder, gentler Cyborg movie with a love story. Awww. It's not as bad as it sounds. The action, when it is there, is decent and Jack Palance, Elias Koteas, and Angelina Jolie are always dependable. It's the fact that this is a sequel to the terrible Jean Claude Van Damme film, or is that the capper to the Master... | 0neg | It's a kinder, gentler Cyborgs this time. A guy's girlfriend gets attacked by one, he turns into the 'better' Cyborg (after re-watching the previous films), and then the new Cyborg rescues the gal, a group of kids, and saves the world. Sound like a Hollywood movie? It was. And I hate the fact that it's more fun to watc... | It's a kinder, gentler Cyborg series, sort of. If you have a choice of viewing 1,000 episodes of this or Cyborg or both, choose the third option. It just isn't worth your time or money. And even if you do go for Cyborg III, don't expect the same acting, and action, that we have gotten from the previous series. We have ... |
As a sci-fi and casual Angelina Jolie fan, I thought this obviously low-budget movie might be worth a look... maybe it had a few scenes or a storyline that would make up for all its other faults. Plus, it might be interesting to watch Angelina as she was embarking on her star-bound career.<br /><br />Oh how wrong I was... | 0neg | As a sci-fi and casual fantasy fan, I was definitely excited to watch "Stargate" when I first saw it listed as one of the new cable premieres on Showtime. It sure didn't deliver the science-fiction goods as the episodes are very formulaic with a mix of old-school fantasy and new-school space-fantasy sci-fi sprinkled on... | As a sci-fi and casual gore fan, I was curious to see the film. I was curious if it was really as bad as they say. It was, though at times very funny. The movie is in many ways, a post-modern pastiche, with the gore and sex appeal of various "B" movies, from Fulci to Romero. This film is an interesting experiment in ho... |
This movie is a cyborg in and of itself: half nonsense/half Lifetime Original Movie.<br /><br />As a cyborg, this movie has but one objective: to make you wish that you had spent the duration of the film in a dark room punching yourself in the testicles.<br /><br />Unlike many people, I did not rent this movie because ... | 0neg | This movie is a cyborg classic. It's not only unique, but it is one of those things that when you watch it, it makes you want to play with your machine more than ever. I saw a few posters saying that this movie is not a classic. I have no idea where those posters came from because this movie is classic. It's also one o... | This movie is a cyborgs version of "My Fair Lady" with a bunch of "Night of the Living Dead" in between. It also borrows liberally from "The Wizard of Oz". Its characters are caricatures, so its not supposed to be a deep movie: that may frustrate some people, but it was a big relief for me. I guess the big thing I like... |
Cybrog 2:Glass Shadow stars Elias Koteas as Colton Hicks (Rhymes with kicks!) a karate instructor who helps a Cash (Jolie) escape from Pinwheel, her creators who look to detonate her and destroy a rival company. Along the way Billy Drago and Karen Shepherd show up to displace the duo, while Jack Palance is there to del... | 0neg | Cybrog 2:Glass Shadow stars Elias Koteas as "The Agent" a cyborg who is trying to save a human that is on the run from corrupt organizations that want to use her for their own ends. This movie is the 2nd of the Cybrog series. The first one I saw was called "Cybrog" and it was great and probably the best action/sci-fi m... | Cybrog 2:Glass Shadow stars Elias Koteas as Thomas, an ex-con and professional hit-man, who kills the people he's been contracted to kill in a dark and dirty New York. However, this time around, his boss demands that his job isn't just to kill the people he's contracted to- He is also to make sure that he isn't, meanin... |
Two things are always signs that you`re going to be watching a bad movie :<br /><br />1 ) If you`re instantly reminded of other movies like THE TERMINATOR, HARDWARE or BLADE RUNNER during the title sequence <br /><br />2 ) If there`s a death during a sex scene straight after the title sequence<br /><br />There`s actual... | 0neg | Two things are always signs of a movie being a piece of garbage. The trailer for it is interesting, and they try to make a big deal out of your hearing the story for the first time. I'll start with the latter.<br /><br />Why is it you usually can't hear the opening credits? Why are they so quiet? It's the first thing y... | Two things are always signs for a bad thriller. For one thing, a cast of unknowns. And two, a 40 minute prologue. This film has both. Although there was no way to know it at the time, this film ended up being almost impossible to find. I found it very cheap at my local Blockbuster, and was pleasantly surprised to watch... |
Simply awful. I'm including a spoiler warning here only because of including a coupla jokes from the movie - there is nothing else to spoil, as it is already rotten. This dross was made during what must have been one of Sellers' "For A Few Dollars More" periods, when he'd participate in any crap for a few bucks. I'd se... | 0neg | Simply awful. I'm including a few key plot points (mostly just because these details are not spelled out in the show) so that those reading the comments on this board will understand why I found this piece of garbage just that.<br /><br />Penny has developed feelings for her new upstairs neighbor, who is apparently a w... | Simply awful. I'm including a full list of plot holes and "dramatic pauses" in an effort to warn others that this movie is pure drivel. If you go by the 101 reviews, you'd think that "A River Runs Through It" was a masterpiece. You'd also think that Brad Pitt had won an Academy Award two years before he actually did. <... |
I wasted 35 minutes of my life on this turkey before I gave up. The main character is completely clueless and astoundingly unsympathetic, but there is no humor in his blundering. As soon as he arrives in Germany, the screenwriter pulls the old "there's only one room in the hotel, you'll have to share a room with a pret... | 0neg | I wasted 35 minutes of this garbage. I was hoping that the story had a twist of some kind, such as: a secret experiment gone wrong, time travel, some kind of twist or an accident that brought about the creatures. Nope. I didn't find any of that here. They simply turned into a bunch of dinosaurs that seemed to have some... | I wasted 35 minutes of my life watching this crap. It was laughable to see SFX in a movie where the FX are obviously badly cut out and in place.<br /><br />If I were to rate this movie out of 10, there aren't enough stars. |
This movie moved much too slowly for my taste.The concept of the story is refreshingly different in that it explores the family dynamics of living with a mentally-retarded family member in a way that I have not previously seen on-screen.However,the execution of the concept was flawed.Each character was developed fully ... | 0neg | This movie moved much too fast, and left many of the things it needed to explain, unexplained. I still am unclear on why they did some of the things they did. For instance: why did Custer put the 27th in a position where it would be cut off by the cavalry? Why didn't they simply use the high ground they were on? | This movie moved much too fast; there were way too many characters to care about and way too much information which was rushed through the movie. The end of the movie was very abrupt and it took half the movie to set up the story at all and I didn't even think the story was that great at first, even though I thought th... |
I finally got hold of a DVD copy of this production and was agog with curiosity, since I had read so many people praising it to the skies, particularly Angela Lansbury's portrayal of Mrs. Lovett. I saw the Tim Burton movie a few months ago and thought it over the top and overly bloody; thankfully this version is not so... | 0neg | I finally got hold of a copy of this film and, what a treat it turned out to be. What a perfect film. A small film and perhaps one of the "best" films, not just the 80s but EVER. With its subtle sense of humour (you have to watch it a few times to catch all the jokes), excellent direction, great script and fantastic ca... | I finally got hold of the first two films on the DVD box and have been having a great time watching them. <br /><br />I watched the 90 minutes of The Thief of Bagdad on Friday evening, and then the 84 minutes of King of the Korsairs, also known as The Black Pirate, on Saturday to get in some work before my Sunday after... |
Some aspects of this production are good, such as the performances of Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, and Sal Mistretta. But am I the only one who is distracted by the horrible performance by Betsy Joslyn as Johanna? She is terrible! She slauters the songs with her screechy voice and overacts in a role... | 0neg | Some aspects of this production must have made the reviewers sit up in their chairs and say "What?". It did!<br /><br />In short, this version of Jane Eyre stands out from all the others. A young, small woman is the woman of the house. She has worked on the grounds, she has read her Bibles and scriptures alone, and she... | Some aspects of this production are quite good: the set, the score from the 1st act, and some of the performances are solid, but the overall play is not that well developed. It has some moments, but it is also pretty routine, particularly in the second portion. A major stumbling block is that so much of the story is to... |
Among the many accolades here for this production, there was one individual whose comments asked if he/she were the only one (who wasn't that enthralled by it) - i.e. giving this film 3 stars. However, the comment went on to indicate an overall liking of the story, and other production of same. Well, this person isn't ... | 0neg | Among the many accolades here, this film has been noted as one of the greatest horror films of all time. Having watched it a second time for the first time after many many years, it seems like a very weak movie despite some amazing visuals of the beast. Why is it so great when the creature itself is so dumb? I cannot f... | Among the many accolades here I'd like to point out that this film has a certain appeal for music lovers. Not only is there the music that has been mentioned quite a bit on this site (and is well recorded), but how about a real life love story of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the song "Give Peace a Chance" that became an a... |
This movie was one of the worst I have ever seen (not including anything by or with Pauly Shore). I couldn't believe that a film could actually be THIS bad!<br /><br />Coolio has to be the single worst actor (again, not including Pauly Shore) to ever "star" in a movie. The temptation to hit the STOP button during this ... | 0neg | This movie was one of the more entertaining movies I have seen about a specific time in US History, and as a bonus, I liked the fact that it was a love story, although I'm not looking to get turned into "Holes" or something like that, since they made it a love story of the early 1930's. When I first saw it, I enjoyed i... | This movie was one of my favorites as a child but upon viewing it as an adult I find the material very disturbing. As a parent, I couldn't have my kids watch this today. There are several frightening images especially when the villain takes the children away. I was particularly ticked off that in the end the monster to... |
Okay, I just had to sound off on this one... Like a tremendous mental-gimp, I've just sat through this film in its entirety.<br /><br />You'll note that the trivia section of IMDB points out that portions of the raising of the 747 were "borrowed" from Airport 1977. This really doesn't scratch the surface... Virtually a... | 0neg | Okay, I just had to say something to some of the others' comments here. First of all, I'm the type of person that will get angry with myself more that not enjoying a film than not liking it. I am a HUGE fan of the original Rambo, even though I don't think it's as close to a perfect flick as most say it is, it's still a... | Okay, I just had to give this movie a 10 out of 10. The story is so damn cool! It's the kind of movie that you can watch all the way through, and still go "That couldn't happen" afterwards. But then you realize that it does, and that it's a really good movie.<br /><br />The actors are all very good: Nicolas Cage is the... |
Boring, ridicules and stupid "Submerged" is a waste of time. The shootouts were a joke, real people do not just stand out in the open with out any cover, hoping to get shot first! So many things wrong or bad, not worth the effort to list, except one major flaw. At 500 mph for 20 minutes = about 166 miles west of L.A. a... | 0neg | Boring, ridicules and stupid "Submerged" is an action film about a secret government project named "The Abyss" which works to develop a submarine technology that will allow it's user to become invisible after ingesting an antidote that will then deactivate in twelve hours, killing the user. When a corrupt general is th... | Boring, ridicules and stupid "Submerged" is a real waste of time and the film's only entertaining moment is when the final title screen comes up. The only really redeeming quality about the film is the cast's ability to make crap like this so much fun to watch. Everyone is a complete joke and to their credit the film i... |
This is a terrible movie that only gets worse and seems to never end. The acting was bad, the plot was worse, and the special effects seemed to have been created by a 5th grade science class. Dennis Weaver is such a great actor and should have never taken such a part. My advise, DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE! | 0neg | This is a terrible movie, and one of those films that will never get a chance to be remade. It was stupid then, and it is stupid now. I have forgotten the name of the lead, but at one time he played the leading role in other movies of note such as the 1977 movie "Cannonball Run." He just looks tired and disinterested i... | This is a terrible movie! I saw the theatrical version, and the ending was the biggest joke I've ever seen. The acting was terrible, even the big guns weren't very good. It's a sad thing to see big names in movies doing such a terrible job. I can only imagine that the director was too stupid to hire competent actors, o... |
This film has to rank down there with Ed Wood films. A terrible script and bad, bad acting.<br /><br />A machine gun fight in front of plate glass windows; minutes go by before anyone is hit and nobody has cover - not one window ever breaks. You'd think after a fire fight like that the big U-Haul truck might be riddled... | 0neg | This film has to rank as one of the best movies ever produced in South Africa. I remember seeing it on a large screen at a cinema in Cape Town when i was a teenager. i've seen it several times since but each time it makes me cry (which is a tribute to the actors). It was great to see Charlton Heston in a good film and ... | This film has to rank as one of the few movies I have ever watched which has upset me so much at the end. It's very disappointing that it's such a rare film. It is brilliant and the acting is brilliant. Everyone is brilliant. It is the most accurate film I have ever seen on child abuse which is so rarely shown on the s... |
"Submerged" is definitely NOT "the worst movie ever". It does have its flaws, such as borrowed footage, crazy script and non-existent special effects (these are the worst), but it also has some good points too. The acting is surprisingly good, there are LOTS of familiar faces whom you probably know if u're a b-movie fa... | 0neg | "Submerged" is definitely NOT "the first Canadian horror film", but it is an effective and somewhat unique horror flick.<br /><br />The film follows the story of four girls who take some friends out to a local lake on a hot day. The girls' boat breaks down and they end up stranded on an island in the middle of the lake... | "Submerged" is definitely NOT "the best thriller you'll ever see". In fact, it's definitely below average. A guy, obsessed with water, discovers his wife cheating on him. A series of events takes our hero to a dangerous lake in his town.<br /><br />This is one of the WORST thrillers I've ever seen, and that's saying a ... |
There is part of one sequence where some water rushes into the sunken plane, everything else that happens in this movie is stock footage for Airport 77. You can even make out Jack Lemmon and Christopher Lee in some of the shots. A total rip off? Well almost by definition. There may be more stock footage in this film th... | 0neg | There is part of one scene where a man has been shot to death, but he sits up, starts to talk and is shown again. That's it as far as any kind of special effects are concerned, which is a blessing really because it is the script that lets everything down.<br /><br />From the opening credits it is obvious what sort of f... | There is part of one scene in 2001 that is the single most shocking bit of visualism ever committed to film...and of course the rest of the film is filled with weird images and images that can't be unraveled to a purely intellectual level. I'm just astonished at the level they were able to get to with this film. It nev... |
You have to see this movie, it's a big footnote in the history of film. When this film was made, American film industry reached the bottom of sucking. See this movie, laugh, and feel sorry for yourself for wasting the last 2 hours of your life. It's the worst acting I've seen and even worse directing. The villains laug... | 0neg | You have to see this. It is very funny and original. It is about a man that works as a security guard and he has to take care of a building called "St. Thomas". It is a very old school that is about to be demolished. You see some stuff in the beginning of the movie but you'll have to look carefully because there is a r... | You have to see this movie to believe how incredibly bad it is! It's amazing these people get such high ratings, it's sad. There's an opening scene where the people are in a huge warehouse where there's tons of people and only one set of guards. There's a second scene where they're in an even bigger warehouse with a LO... |
This is really a terrible film by any of the regular yardsticks. Plot, storyline, acting, effects, direction - I could go on. Suffice to say it's poor. However, it has a certain appeal. Many totally out of context sex scenes appear, it's fun looking for the Batman references. Umm - that's it. Poor really, don't bother. | 0neg | This is really a terrible movie, I have a question or 2 if you will. First off, where is this island and why wasn't the real name of the island given out? I'm from around there and the movie didn't show the local people there. How could there be "nobody else" on that island besides 400 cops, the bad guy, the good guy, ... | This is really a terrible movie. The script and direction are awful. The "actors", actually the only ones this movie doesn't pay shame on are the "special" effects people - they did a decent job with a low budgeted film. If you have nothing better to do one night and you're a huge fan of bad cinema, you might enjoy thi... |
Pun intended. This low budget action/horror vehicle for Don Wilson's ability to kick things is the stuff direct-to-video fare is made of.<br /><br />The plot: Wilson is a humorless vampire hunter who comes under fire from local law enforcement after he is forced to slaughter creatures of the night in view of the public... | 0neg | Pun intended. This low budget film goes about as far as you can go in trying to be 'original' and failing miserably. It's an idea I'm sure some people might have but in a bad way! The main characters are completely flat, bland, and even worse the plot doesn't work; it's so obvious as to be insulting to anyone that will... | Pun intended. This low budget movie starts with a bit of promise. First we are shown an old ghost ship, now docked, in a New England port. Well, as soon as they take it out of the water, you know someone is just waiting to pull some really cheap effects out of a wooden tub. Oh well...<br /><br />However, the ghost crew... |
Don Wilson stars as Jack Cutter (Ooh real tough name!)a vampire slayer who goes up against a vampire army, you see the story is a little different because vampires can't be killed with silver, crosses or sunlight but rather through snapping their necks (How convenient as it cuts down on the budget) and it's here Cutter... | 0neg | Don Wilson stars as Jack Rippner, an up and coming actor/producer for the movies, who is secretly planning his own assassination. Don Wilson plays Jack Rippner as a very likable and smooth actor, which is why he is hard to take seriously as a murderer.<br /><br />Rippner invites his friends over to his home to attend t... | Don Wilson stars as Jack Lynch, the 1'th of his kind being a werewolf. You get to see everything that's wrong with the movie, like bad acting from the main guys, badly done fight scenes and the script also has some holes in it (I can't give out this information though because it would be a spoiler).<br /><br />The movi... |
I think vampire movies (usually) are wicked. Even if the film itself isn't all that good, I still like it 'cos its got vampires in it. But this stinks. It really does give vampire movies a bad name.<br /><br />For a start, the cheapness really shows. I'm not usually that bothered about low budget films - one of my favo... | 0neg | I think vampire movies (usually) suck. If you can't think of a decent vampire movie, just watch another. They always seem to have some sort of point; some kind of hidden meaning. Like the "Ringing" scene in the film, the characters are trying to explain this concept to each other. How we as a species try to explain dea... | I think vampire movies (usually) are great but I couldn't take this one. The best vampire movie was The Lost Boys. Vampire movies about witches being used is usually pretty bad. I've seen every vampire movie in existence and The Lost Boys is STILL the best. This vampire thing made me want to shoot myself. Why people th... |
While credited as a Tom and Jerry cartoon, this is not the cat-and-mouse team but an earlier Mutt-and-Jeff rip-off featuring them going to Africa and disguising themselves in the stereotypical burnt cork makeup to try to blend in. While the dialect humor is mostly lame, there is a brief musical sequence involving "blac... | 0neg | While credited as a Tom & Jerry entry since "Slick Hare", "Rats in the Hole" was never filmed with actual Tom & Jerry. It was done with T&J voice actors Mel Blanc and Leo McKern, but was shot as a cartoon (i.e., a live-action Tom and Jerry was never envisioned, let alone filmed, for this short). "Rats in the Hole" is a... | While credited as a Tom Cruise vehicle (which it certainly is), what is not often realised is that this is equally (or more) Tim Robbins' outing. The two actors play the sort of companions they played together in 'Rain Man', but this time, the relationship of Cruise's Alex and Robbins' Peter is more equal.<br /><br />T... |
Tom and Jerry are transporting goods via airplane to Africa. But being white men, they're worried they won't be safe, so they put on blackface to fit in. Once they're wearing it, they adopt black dialect and fully inhabit their new characters. They crash into the ocean and use the wing of the plane as a raft. Before re... | 0neg | Tom and Jerry are transporting dynamite to an old theater that needs to be demolished so the city can build better facilities. The problem is, they discover the TNT is on its way to the set of an opera.<br /><br />Well in their normal antics, they spill the dangerous stuff around, making some hilarious scenes, includin... | Tom and Jerry are transporting a shipment of jewels from the train station to a boat for an old couple. But they get side-tracked into doing all sorts of silly things like painting the boat, going to the movies, and even running a bar. In reality, there are only two main gags here. I won't spoil them for you but they t... |
I was under assumption that this was the cat and mouse duo but it wasn't instead it was something that shouldn't have been made not even for its time. They disguise themselves in the "blackface" fashion because they fly to Africa and they even act like Stepin Fetchit and all the others rolled into one. There are some c... | 0neg | I was under assumption that 'The Haunting' and 'The Changeling' were really very similar films, but I have to say that they are completely different! 'The Haunting' is just pure horror. It's all about the scary and creepy aspects of the haunted house while this film's main focus is on the character Alice Drablow.<br />... | I was under assumption that this movie was very bad. Then I started to see all good movie critic about it. Then I decided to see it. I was amazed. <br /><br />1. First it's really very good looking movie (even to the eyes of an uneducated person, like me.<br /><br />2. The storyline... What storyline? The director trie... |
My God, the things that passed for entertainment in this country...<br /><br />This is *not* the "Tom and Jerry" you may have enjoyed on Saturday Mornings, featuring a hapless cat and a clever mouse. This is a much earlier animation series, featuring a pair of Mutt-and-Jeff clones who get themselves into various scrape... | 0neg | My God, the things that some people will say. A film which attempts to be a "chick flick", but lacks the sentimentality and the plot depth that most films like this possess...it's supposed to be a "woman's film", so it's supposed to be "heartwarming", so that the women (and their husbands) will get their moneys' worth ... | My God, the things that would have made this movie better...<br /><br />The first thing that the movie missed was explaining anything. Everything was explained to the audience by the end of the prologue, then all the characters just started running around the palace without a good reason, and in the end it made no sens... |
For a scientifically-engineered super-dog that was supposed to be the answer to petit crime, CHOMPS was a chump.<br /><br />All I ever saw Chomps do was sit, or walk, or run. Or run, then walk, then sit... and then get back up again and stretch, and then walk, and then jog to K-Tel dance hits. And sometimes it had all ... | 0neg | For a scientifically-engineered super-dog that is a part of a deadly war program in which dog "soldiers" are trained to kill, this super-dog does pretty well for himself - and is the film's most likeable character. A good mixture of suspense and comic elements. | For a scientifically-engineered super-dog that gets to befriend the "Next Action Hero," a new breed of super-dog with the heart of a human must be able to do much more than just look and behave like a human. The producers and cast of "Man With the Golden Gun" certainly recognized this, and had a lot of fun showing you ... |
C.H.O.M.P.S. is very much like any number of cheesy late 70s Disney family comedys-The Cat from Outer Space or Unidentified Flying Oddball, for instance. Utterly devoid of anything creative, beating the same cliches to death, yet vaguely entertaining in a mindless sort of way. The actors won't win any awards, nor will ... | 0neg | C.H.O.M.P.S. is very much like the "B" "camp" movies that have been made for years. But that doesn't mean it is bad....not at all.<br /><br />The plot has the standard slasher theme (and a few twists) with the bad guy's motives being revealed about 3/4's of the way through.<br /><br />It is so bad that at times, you ca... | C.H.O.M.P.S. is very much like all bad SciFi movies, even some of that genre's best ones (Plan 9, for example). It just isn't real. But, in that respect, it's not all bad. It's great fun to watch something really silly, and I definitely fell in that category with this one. All the acting is of a suitably horrible quali... |
i think south park is hilarious, and i have no problem w/them taking shots at people on the left, but you'd think that, after taking a whole movie to attack celebrities for risking their careers taking on an illegal war, and then being GASP right along, they would have the sense to start giving w. and the bastards ruin... | 0neg | i think south park is the funniest show in the world. and if you don't think so im sorry to say but u don't get it. you must watch the first 4 seasons and after u will get it then u can see the last season which is also very very funny and i must say if u don't like this show you are in a dillema cause the next series ... | i think south park is one of the worst tv shows! but this special (or film maybe) is good! the plot is about how a guy, gets sexually beaten up at work. in the special he takes revenge on the perverts (people who touch themselves). in this special there are really good effects, even though it is old it doesn't look tha... |
An awful film; badly written, badly acted, cliched, hackneyed, dross. The premise is such a good one and a chance to educate about black cowboys but the film is truly dire. It is a curious mix of a bad 1950's Randolph Scott B movie and a bad 1970's spaghetti western. The villains are cardboard, the flashbacks laughable... | 0neg | An awful film; badly written, badly acted, and badly directed. All the scenes just drift and drift until they reach the end, which is reached when the plot has deteriorated into a muddle, so that the movie can't even be described as being watchable! It could have had the look of a good film, a film with some pretension... | An awful film; badly written, silly storyline (after reading other contributors reviews I feel compelled to be more specific - the story is a thinly disguised version of Jane Eyre - it's all there: the governess, the tyrannical father who is a tyrant to his grown daughter AND her son, the beautiful woman who the good g... |
This move is bad on so many levels I don't even know where to start. OK - the good points - Peebles is beautiful as a dirty outlaw in black leather. Some of the landscape photography was stunning. That's about it. Oh, and it was a nice touch having the buffalo head above the bar door in Freemanville, I figure it was a ... | 0neg | This move is bad on so many dimensions, from the acting, the directing and the dialogue. The plot is so ludicrous, I've forgotten most of it - and have spent the last three years in the vain hope it gets released on DVD, it's so entertaining.<br /><br />Anyway, the main villain is a guy who's killed several dozen child... | This move is bad on so many levels. The acting ranges from bad to REALLY bad. A young and slightly attractive woman who's job it should have been to save those who fell into a lake, winds up being saved by two guys because of her stupidity. As a mother to a child, I see a huge problem coming out of the movie. The fathe... |
It's not just that the movie is lame. It's more than that. This movie is just unnecessary. Do we need another Western? How about a western with afro-Americans in the titles roles? Sound stupid, implausible and a lame attempt at modernizing the genre? It is. Incredibly lame and simple minded. It's like that lame Baz Luh... | 0neg | It's not just that the dialogue is weak, it's not just that the acting is so-so, and it's not that the plot is contrived. Those are all valid points. But more than anything, it's that the movie is boring! I'm not just talking about the first hour, I'm talking about the movie as a whole: it's just plain boring. That's a... | It's not just that the screenplay is very poor, the characters are very poor. Most of the film is pointless, with a very poor plot and a very poor 'twist'. The cast are OK, but the very basic plot of a man getting killed by his ex-girlfriend, while having sex with his new girlfriend, is so unbelievable, that it's total... |
This is the worst movie of ALL TIME! It's one of those that is so ridiculous and the acting so bad that you turn off the video 1/3 into it so that you can use your time for better purposes like cleaning the toilet. If you actually watch the whole thing, GOD help you. | 0neg | This is the worst movie I have ever seen. It is terrible. I have seen bad movies before, especially movies from the 80's and 90's, but this just was awful. The acting was terrible. The way the movie was shot was terrible. The movie was just plain bad. I just cant seem to find anything positive to say about this film. Y... | This is the worst movie I have ever seen! The film is a big big joke, the acting is terrible and it's not funny. Please don't get me wrong this is supposed to be a comedy. But when you see something like this how can you make it funny! The jokes are just so stupid so the movie is just a joke the movie is not even the j... |
Wow, what a racist, profane piece of celluloid garbage, and what an insult to the great genre of Westerns.<br /><br />Exploitive? Sex scenes abound, profanity abounds, violence and gore abounds.....everything that gives modern movies such a good name, especially among those who prefer classic-era movies. This is the ki... | 0neg | Wow, what a racist, profane, stupid, cliched, sexist, offensive video. I had to laugh out loud at some of the things that come out of Michael Dudikoff's mouth. "F****in', faggot, f*****' faggot, s**t, f****in' faggot..." I'm not kidding. Seriously, he is a big piece of trash. I can't believe that the guy who portrayed ... | Wow, what a racist, profane and offensive movie. I didn't think there would be such a thing as a worse piece of garbage after Boogeyman II. Even Boogeyman II made B movies look like Citizen Kane.<br /><br />The movie starts off with Boogeyman's ghost getting revenge on Michael Madsen for being too angry at him. It's ne... |
In my opinion, the movie was laughable--bad dialogue. Whoever wrote the script--please keep your day job. It's definitely NO Godfather or Goodfellas. It's good to be on the otherside of the table--poor choice of words. Some of the characters were clowns. But what do you expect from a low budget movie with no name actor... | 0neg | In my opinion, the movie was well-crafted. The writing is engaging, and the movie offers a lot of emotional rewards.<br /><br />I was impressed with the storyline. I could not find any plot holes, which is common with movies today. For example, I often feel as though you should have to double check that events actually... | In my opinion, the movie was really bad. It wasn't funny at all, so I don't think I can get to know any actors who work in this movie. I don't really think that the writer's idea is very well written and is not to harden to understand! It is not that funny after all. I know the movie was about a bad marriage and a woma... |
Sometimes, changes to novels when they're made into films are not only necessary, but a good thing. However, in the case of Northanger Abbey, it's a very, very bad thing. Not only is the story itself ripped to shreds, but the satire is almost completely absent from the film, and it's mixture of romance and intrigue doe... | 0neg | Sometimes, changes to novels when they are turned into films, don't really work, such as the recent (1995) versions of "The English Patient" and "The Wings of the Dove". But then, there are other changes, as in the case of "Dead Beauty".<br /><br />The film is based on a fantasy story by the author of "Lovecraftsian" h... | Sometimes, changes to novels when they're translated to film are inevitable, but one can usually count on a degree of faithfulness to the original story. Often that's not the case, especially with books that have been around for a long time. The recent translation of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1920) by Harold N. Stone, t... |
Poor Jane Austen ought to be glad she's not around to see this dreadful wreck of an adaptation. So many great Jane Austen movies have come out recently that this one deserves to be permanently buried along with two other movies I despise-The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and the 1969 version of David Copperfield. My mai... | 0neg | Poor Jane Austen ought to be spun in her grave on reading some of the comments on this movie. I just saw this one for a second time and am as annoyed by the commentaries, if not as the other reviewers than by the reviewer who took it upon him/her to rate and rank this film. If ever there was an example of the adage tha... | Poor Jane Austen ought to shake her head in horror just listening to a synopsis of this movie. "Emma" was never intended to be a morality play, or a case of "Do unto others before they do to you!" It wasn't meant to say anything at all except that, "If you look up at the wrong sky, you may be mistaken. And if you look ... |
Normally BBC productions of Jane Austen are pretty good but Northanger Abbey is just odd. What were they thinking? This film has little of Austen's charm and ironically mimics the Gothic novels that Austen so wonderfully mocked. Not only that, the "gothic" sequences are tacky, over-the-top, and frankly silly. The actre... | 0neg | Normally BBC productions of Jane Austen novels have been better. This one was awful. I couldn't watch it to the end. It was a real waste of time. I have read this book a dozen times and I find it very funny. The adaptation is a total mess. The actors are not convincing at all, the dialog is not written by Austen (excep... | Normally BBC productions of Jane Austen's novels are rather tepid affairs that are not much more than an exercise in making pretty costumes. The P.C. Vidor adapted "Emma", of course, as "Clueless", for the benefit of those in the United States who did not actually pay any close attention to the novel. For the rest of u... |
Is it possible to give a 0 out of 10 rating? Because this one deserves it. While I'm not a big fan of Jane Austen's books, I sat through this one with two women who are. Well, at least we had a big laugh about how bad this film is. Robert Hardy was the only actor with any charisma in the whole thing, though he overdid ... | 0neg | Is it possible to give less than one star to a film? I think I can justify it. Not one original thought went into this film, just 101 cleverly put together clichés. I have not laughed so hard in the cinema at a film since Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This film truly made me laugh out loud more than many other films... | Is it possible to give this movie more than one star? It's horrible, even for a B-movie, and the fact that it got made in the first place is incredible. To those who say that it's okay, you obviously are not in the least bit "fussy". I know people get in fights at worse things, but this movie is so bad, that if somebod... |
My first hugely disappointing BBC/Jane Austen flick. The tone is off, the costumes are off, the hair is off, the music is from outer space, and Robert Hardy, bless him, looks like he's really annoyed to be in such a stinker. Even some of the casting is off. No, I take that back, a good director can make a silk purse ou... | 0neg | My first hugely disappointing BBC/Jane Austen mini-series, but not a complete loss.<br /><br />I could see the effort at creating period detail, and I appreciated their attempt at keeping the dialogue in some semblance of Elizabeth's voice. So we end up seeing many of the lines and expressions that Austen penned, and i... | My first hugely disappointing BBC/Jane Austen/romantic comedy viewing - what's the worst Jane Austen film? Is it Pride and Prejudice? I've seen all of the Austen adaptations, and this was a huge let down. So many great Austen lines were ruined by a terrible script, badly executed by the actors, badly delivered by the c... |
My mom, my cousins, and I are pretty big Jane Austen fans. We know all the words to the 1995 Pride and Prejudice masterpiece, and have watched Gwyneth Paltrow's Emma an embarrassing number of times. I've read all the books, and I've even sat through Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion a few times. So my mom and I thou... | 0neg | My mom, my cousins, and I are all really big fans of the movies, so we went to the local movie theater to watch this movie, and I actually thought it was great. I mean, I love talking with my mouth full of food, and this movie was pretty much comedy all the way through. I thought the plot was very smart, and I loved ho... | My mom, my cousins, and I watched this in the theater, and we were totally not into it. I found it to be utterly boring, nothing of any interest, and a big waste of time. The plot was pretty dumb. The only really interesting and compelling characters were the dog and the bear, but this was hardly original since "K-911"... |
This movie started off well enough, sticking to the mood of the book fairly well even if the acting was not top notch. The soundtrack was torturously bad. Saxaphone and electric guitars? It was gratingly incongruous. The female singer was positively dreary! In the second half of the film the story takes a decidedly dar... | 0neg | This movie started off well, but in the last half hour just sort of fizzled. A good plot turned weak, boring and, in the end, sad. You could forgive some of the lame plot twists if they had some humorous moments to follow, but that just wasn't the case. I was laughing the whole time, but it wasn't the "what kind of dem... | This movie started off well enough, with the opening credits being shot on a digital camcorder, but then went downhill, fast! The storyline had a lot of potential. The special effects were OK, and the acting was good all the way around. That was all I got from the movie, except for a few shots of animals. It seems they... |
The BBC and the Arts & Entertainment Network should be ashamed of themselves for foisting this unfortunate production onto the world. The acting is, with the exception of Robert Hardy as General Tilney, amateurish at best and excruciatingly painful at worst. The costumes are over-the-top and feature some truly ghoulish... | 0neg | The BBC and the Arts Council have given the British film industry its best opportunity in years by backing a slew of projects that may not be destined to the cinema but are destined to be seen on our telly-screens. So, I had a real pleasure in viewing Joe Swanberg's 'Driller Killer'.<br /><br />The story is about a you... | The BBC and the Arts Council should be ashamed after seeing this film. This is a prime example of how films on similar themes tend to be shot. For the most part the actors aren't that bad it's the whole film which could have been avoided were the story not to be so dull.<br /><br />The film tries to pass itself off as ... |
Shaky hand held cameras (this piece was shot for television mind you, not film) not only keep you utterly conscious of how horrible the cinematography is in this film, but make you absolutely unable to become immersed in the story. Poor Miss Austen must be rolling in her grave. All I can say is, if you enjoyed the nove... | 0neg | Shaky hand held cameras (this probably looks good on a TV), boring narration and characters...<br /><br />I'm not sure the people who made this film have really had much exposure to New York City, the real city that is; the one that I've grown up in; the place where the filmmakers have decided to portray and depict the... | Shaky hand held cameras (this shot you), and a story that didn't make a lick of sense (why did the killer break the window when he could sneak in the front door? Why did he keep a mask on after going inside and then take it off inside?), made this a frustrating, almost unwatchable horror movie. I was a little shocked t... |
The filmmakers were clearly on drugs. That's the only explanation I have. How else do you explain this travesty of a Jane Austen adaptation? Northanger Abbey is a parody of a Gothic novel. But this film was made as if it WERE a Gothic novel. The bizarre music and dream sequences to me suggest drug-induced hallucination... | 0neg | The filmmakers were clearly on to something when they had the "narrator" read: "On the next episode of `A&E Television Networks,' we continue with our special report on the great American writer Edgar Allen Poe." There were a LOT of great American writers to be found on this 60's TV show. I think I remember `The Twilig... | The filmmakers were clearly on the verge of being "good," but fell shy of the mark. First of all, it's obvious that the writer didn't know a lick about "bad" people. For example, the character who was the father was obviously a jerk, but the way the film was shot was confusing. The "fathers perspective" was so dark, an... |
Northanger Abbey is not my favorite Jane Austen novel, but it has its charms. This movie doesn't. It has some of the same character names as the book, but the story is drastically altered, and the sweetest man in the whole Austen canon (unless Emma's Mr. Knightley gets pride of place) is made out to be a heartless and ... | 0neg | Northanger Abbey is not my favorite Austen novel, but I do like the novel as the original was, which is a satire of the Gothic novel. I'm not saying it's the same kind of dark humor as you'd get from the P.G. Wodehouse novels, but Jane Austen is really poking fun at the genre: what are the tropes used and how does the ... | Northanger Abbey is not my favorite of Austen's work, and while it's not a total disaster (and certainly does deserve a five stars from avid Austen readers such as myself), it certainly is sub-par compared to the superior Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, two of the great classics of English literature.<br... |
What an awful adaptation. The worst part was the music. Saxophone muzak and synthesizers playing in a story set in the early 1800's?????? The only character that didn't bore me to sleep was Robert Hardy. I had to fight to keep my eyes open on this one, and I love Jane Austen movies usually. I didn't even rent it, I bor... | 0neg | What an awful adaptation. The original cartoon was so good because it was dark, scary and had a sense of humour. This "adaption" is not dark or scary. It doesn't have any sense of humour either. It appears to just be a rip off of other animations and the story is just like the original. When I first heard they were mak... | What an awful adaptation. The original novel has some very creepy scenes about an evil old house and ghost story. When they cut and edited the novel for TV they have ruined all the original creepy things. The actress in it was so stupid and annoying as a ghost, it ruined it. The casting people should have never cast he... |
I'm afraid I did not like this adaptation. When I started watching it I had a strange feeling of watching some 70s TV series, due to the filter and the musical score. I did not like the end scene. Mr Tilney appears dressed only in his waistcoat. Jane Austen would never have a gentleman ride out without a frock coat. Lo... | 0neg | I'm afraid I did not watch it to the end. I got as far as the bit where the girl makes that weird movement with her hand and then starts to get chased by the guy. I have to say that this movie has a really bizarre plot twist in it. I have never seen a film with a plot like this before. At times I found myself watching ... | I'm afraid I did not like it. Yes, I admit there was one scene that really made the whole thing a little bit interesting (just in the beginning of the movie), where one can see the mother and her male colleagues enjoying a 'cute' little game together. It goes like this: the guy catches his hands down the female colleag... |
Poor Jane Austen. This dog of a production does NOT do her wonderful tongue in cheek novel any justice. Starting at the top ... poorly adapted. The screenwriter deserves extra low marks for trying to -- come to think of it, I don't know WHAT she was trying for, but suffice it to say she missed the mark by light years!!... | 0neg | Poor Jane Austen. This dog of a film does great damage to her reputation, by pretending to 'adapt' the Jane Eyre novel and then doing anything but adapt it in any kind of a faithful manner. Not one thing in the film bears even the slightest relation to the book.<br /><br />The movie is about as faithful to the original... | Poor Jane Austen. This dog of a film had her spin on "The Birds." Just about every scene from "The Birds" is repeated: birds pecking at windows (twice), birds pecking at people's eyes, bird pecking on a woman in a tub, birds pecking at a baby, and more. I'm not sure what the writers of this turkey thought they were doi... |
(This might have a spoiler)<br /><br />When I first started watching this movie, I thought it was OK. The music was good and that bizarro dream sequence I was willing to forgive, but the lack of looks in the main character and all of the other characters for that matter made me uninterested in watching the rest of this... | 0neg | (This might have a spoiler)<br /><br />I can't say enough good things about this flick. I gave it a 10; it definitely deserves to be much higher. In my eyes, it's in the same league with classics like Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings! <br /><br />I think a huge reason why this movie was so amazing was because of the ... | (This might have a spoiler)<br /><br />I found this movie to be pretty cool, the idea of a young girl being able to see future events and the way she was supposed to help was a good one. The only problem with this story is that she was about to die so in the end you don't really know if it's true or not. It's good at m... |
This is a terrible movie, that is barely recognizable from the book, although they have sort of similar plots. The time it takes to watch this movie (which is only 1.5 hours) would be much better spent doing anything else, including watching grass grow. The addition of poorly done fantasy scenes make Catherine seem ins... | 0neg | This is a terrible movie, in every sense of the word. This is the worst film I've seen in ages. This is not a bad movie, this is not a terrible movie, this is a movie I want to be forgotten. The acting was horrendous, the dialogue uninteresting and the direction was terrible. The worst part was when the director tried ... | This is a terrible movie, and I have a feeling that this is how it will ultimately be remembered in history. It isn't a terrible movie in the sense that it is so overblown and poorly produced that it is funny. The acting is terrible, the writing is abysmal, the direction is amateurish, it is a long time, the gore is te... |
It is hard for a lover of the novel Northanger Abbey to sit through this BBC adaptation and to keep from throwing objects at the TV screen-in fact, if Jane Austen herself were to see this, she would be somewhat amused and possibly put out. Maggie Wadey's adaptation has made Northanger Abbey into what it satirized, the ... | 0neg | It is hard for a Christian to review this movie since it includes a fair amount of profanity and other bad language. However, I did view this film and I found it to be well done and very well acted.<br /><br />It tells a touching story about a man who has been led to join an army. He then falls in love with a beautiful... | It is hard for a person who spent 32 years in the United States Navy, who retired a Vice Admiral, to judge this movie, but a review without some perspective, I don't think, can be fair to those who did make the film--and it is a decent film. I have seen a lot of films--some better than this, and some worse. But I have ... |
We really don't know where to begin when talking about this movie. But we'll start with the plot. We sincerely suspect that whomever wrote/produced/directed this movie never read the book. Because they missed the entire point. SATIRICAL, not horror. Just a hint. Second, the bath scene. Enough said. Third, the added cha... | 0neg | We really don't know where to start with this one. The story? Well, it's about as believable as anything you've ever picked up at the used bookshop. It's got it all: stupid children, pointless conversations, and, sadly, a lack of any real dialogue throughout.<br /><br />The acting? Not good. Far from it. There are one ... | We really don't know where to start criticizing this movie. It's an ensemble comedy, but everyone is bad, really bad. Maybe it's the accents, or maybe it's the directors, or maybe it's the actors, but this movie should be locked away in a vault and forgotten about.<br /><br />We love Britney Spears, but that's not why ... |
I've seen some terrible book-to-film adaptations in my day, but this one tops them all! The bizarrely unattractive cast detracts from the story, which is, in itself, untrue to the book. Mr. Tilney is nothing like handsome; as for Catherine Morland, a rat-like appearance makes this heroine a difficult one to sell to a s... | 0neg | I've seen some terrible book-to-film adaptations, but I have to say this has to be the worst of all time. The movie bears absolutely no resemblance to the book. The casting, while I'll chalk up the horrible acting to that fact, completely missed the mark. There was about 5 minutes (I think) of dialog from the book. The... | I've seen some terrible book-to-film adaptations, including "Little Women" from 1994 and The Tenant of Wimpole Street from 1995. (I have not yet seen the 1933 version of "Jane Eyre") I can appreciate some of the choices the director and editor made in cutting what is a long book into a movie. I've read the book but had... |
Awful, dreadful, terrible. The actors are bad, the music is ridiculous and the filming pathetic. I rented the DVD and had to force myself to watch it until the end.<br /><br />My advice: read the book, it is much better and you won't have to put up with all these silly images and ridiculous dreams Catherine has.<br /><... | 0neg | Awful, dreadful, terrible. The actors are uniformly horrible. Robert Downey Jr. is no good here, and Anthony Edwards is his usual boring self. The script is terrible. The only reason I saw this one is a review I read in the film section of Playboy. Not worth any time or money that one is, in fact, not worth any time or... | Awful, dreadful, terrible. The actors just don't seem to fit, not an ounce of chemistry between the leads, the script is laughable, unbelievable, the direction is lackluster, there's no atmosphere, nothing to care about, everything is either overacted or just plain underacted. The dialog is awful - people just waffle o... |
Now and again, a film comes around purely by accident that makes you doubt your sanity. We just finished studying the novel, "Northanger Abbey", at school and decided to refresh our memory of this unexciting piece of humourless garbage with the BBC adaptation.<br /><br />The funny thing about Northanger Abbey is that i... | 0neg | Now and again, a film will come along that seems like an odd one out, that doesn't quite fit into any genre. A really good one is 1932's King Vidor epic ALL THIS, ALL THAT, AND HEAVEN TOO. It's an excellent film that's really quite hard to define. It does have a plot--sort of. It has strong characters and excellent per... | Now and again, a film comes along that makes a very small slice of an experience, but it's done so well that if you see the experience itself, you look at it differently. If you were witness to any one of the events depicted in this film, this film enhances the experience because it forces you to think about the experi... |
I watched "Fuckland" a long time ago. I lied if I'd tell that I remember it in detail; what I remember most vividly is the irritation it provoked me and the feeling of a total waste of precious money and time, not only my time and money invested in watching the movie but also the director's.<br /><br />Supposedly, "Fuc... | 0neg | I watched "Fuckland" a long time ago, and I am really surprised that I didn't feel a strong urge to comment on the film earlier. A few years later, I was doing a research for a writing class, and I searched for the film, and discovered that the film actually wasn't made in 2000 as people thought at the time of its rele... | I watched "Fuckland" a long time ago. I found this film, which was shot in Vancouver in 1968. The acting is so-so but there are some funny moments to be found if you watch carefully for them. I have found "Fuckland" interesting more than amusing. There is a bit of a romance as well as a bit of a fantasy in this movie. ... |
I will confess that once I started watching this movie, it had a hold on me that forced me to watch it through to its conclusion. Quite possibly this was some latent voyeuristic tendency in me that wanted to see our hero get it on with his victim, or maybe fascination that they got funding to make, distribute, and show... | 0neg | I will confess that once I had seen this movie when I was younger I enjoyed it. I remember watching it as a little kid, but as I have aged the message that is portrayed is just wrong.<br /><br />The main characters are 2 boys who are "stuck". Their own father is a drunk, their father-figure who is an ex-con "stuck" in ... | I will confess that once in a while I will sit down with the TV guide and see what is on, and will sometimes watch something from the guide to avoid the boredom of doing nothing. In the middle of watching "Happiness" on TCM one night, I found myself drawn not to the movie, but to the woman on the screen. That evening, ... |
The preposterous premise of this flick has to do with Argentina reclaiming the Falkland Islands, having failed through force in 1982, by impregnating the European women inhabitants with Argentinean sperm thereby diluting the ethnic purity until it favored Argentina. Yeah, right. The reconnaissance is done by our hero/v... | 0neg | The preposterous premise of this movie is that women living in the 1920s have somehow acquired sophisticated knowledge of modern psychology. There is hardly a person alive today with no idea about the role of libido in the sexual life of human beings. In fact most people with any education know the name Freud. But appa... | The preposterous premise of this movie is that the same thing would happen twice. I suppose the director was trying to tell an entertaining tale from the American Revolution, but he failed because the story was preposterous, not the theme.<br /><br />And it's not true. The movie pretends to be a documentary, but it's n... |
This is an absolutely horrid excuse for a show. People say its witty and intelligence? I don't see how? Maybe because the characters use fancy words? Maybe because they are snooty, use dry humor, and have 2 dimensional personalities. I went to an Ivy league school and nobody acted anywhere near as obnoxious as these ch... | 0neg | This is an absolutely horrid movie that I have never seen in over twelve years of living. I remember watching it as a little kid. All I remember about it is the two main characters and every scene including the worst and the funniest. I remember having to cover my eyes for the part with the cat when the girl takes what... | This is an absolutely horrid movie. The script is not bad, it just soars off the rails after the first few minutes, and never looks back. And that's really an understatement. The movie takes a turn at the first scene, it should have kept going, but instead turns into a complete piece of rubbish. The story makes no sens... |
Usually when I don't see a show on an original run, I find it later on cable and realize it's a gem. The "Gimore Girls" is one of those rare exceptions. I'm glad I missed it.<br /><br />I truly despise shows that fill every minute of the actors space with rambling, stupid, boring banter. This is one hour of just that. ... | 0neg | Usually when I don't see a good show, I take it upon myself to write a terrible review on IMDb so that a few of the other 1000 viewers of said show might be swayed away from it. When it comes to this show, however, I have to take a different approach, as I feel I owe it to the writers. I mean, come on, in every show th... | Usually when I don't see something I like about a movie, I still love it. But I loved nothing about this movie. There were no good parts. The whole time I was watching the film, I kept thinking that it had to get better, but the whole time it was slow and boring. It starts with a big car chase from hell... then it swit... |
I tired on several attempts to sit down and watch this program "Gilmore Girls". It baffled me for I just couldn't put my finger on what this was about. Was this about a young woman having a baby young in life and never growing up? Was this about the daughter being more responsible than the mother? Was this about a rebe... | 0neg | I tired on several attempts to sit through "Blinded By The Light," and here are my reasons: 1. The movie starts with three scenes that don't have any connection to anything else: a plane flying over some farm land - the pilot sees his shadow and falls in love with a guy doing manual labor in a farm field - the title ly... | I tired on several attempts to watch this movie. It really just isn't very good. To start with, it's over 2 hours long but the story line is so predictable and boring, it never seems to end. I don't know if I'd call this a comedy really ... some things are funny at first, but the whole story really isn't that funny. Al... |
When I first watch this series, the impression I got was that the characters were charming and funny, Lorelai and Rory in particular were witty and intelligent conversationalist albeit a bit too talkative. After watching it for some time, however, my opinion changed.<br /><br />The main characters slowly revealed thems... | 0neg | When I first watch this movie I was quite amazed with how good this first movie was considering how it was in the making. But then there came the sequel. I've never seen a sequel worse then this. It took several movies, TV-shows and TV-movies to try and top it. This is just awful. The first movie was decent, great and ... | When I first watch this film I was quite impressed. It is interesting to see how much of the American Dream that can be achieved in America. Yes it has it's problems, like crime and war etc, But it is a country that is always growing and always moving towards something better. <br /><br />It is very hard to believe tha... |
I decided to watch this show and give it a go but I found it to be boring, and more importantly dull.....Dull.<br /><br />There is far too much sarcasm and the characters are all dull, there is far too much talking and the character Lorelai...just keeps talking on and on and on.... During a second glance felt like suff... | 0neg | I decided to watch this movie again because I enjoy the acting of Pierce Brosnan. I loved his roles as James Bond, etc. This movie was horrible! He went from James Bond to playing a fat loser with a lot of money. The plot was ridiculous with the kid who can tell when a person touches something. It's totally unfair that... | I decided to watch this movie because it was listed as one of the best horror films of the 80's. Even the box for the DVD was appealing.<br /><br />I thought that this movie sucked the whole time I was watching it. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with Freddy's 4th nightmare. It is a complete rip off of that movie...in ... |
It's been mentioned by others the inane dialogue in this series and I agree.<br /><br />If Mom and daughter were really that sharp-witted they should be Queen and Princess of the Universe, not kicking around in some little town.<br /><br />I've really tried to watch a few episodes but when the witty staccato mumbling p... | 0neg | It's been mentioned by others but the biggest plus in this movie is Bill Paxton's excellent performance. While a very young Chris Penn makes a decent turn as the "good guy," Paxton makes his character the "wilder and cooler one." In an era of violent and overzealous cops, Paxton's character reminded me almost of a mode... | It's been mentioned by others that the first episode of this series was shown 4 days after the Challenger Explosion. I was 14 in high school at the time and although we did not have HBO, we were getting in the habit of buying tape recordings of shows in the series. I purchased a recording of the first episode and watch... |
This is one of four 1970s movies by TV writer Lane Slate about sensationalistic murders in small towns. They feature likable TV personalities as police chiefs and quirky characters as town regulars, including light-touch love interests. The others are: They Only Kill Their Masters (James Garner, 1972); and The Girl In ... | 0neg | This is one of four films that I have seen at the World Premiere's of the 33rd Annual Berlin Film Festival. Most of the films have been shown on the same day as the other three, as well as other films in the festival, so unfortunately my review will only be about the first time I had actually seen two of the films, but... | This is one of four films that are being shown on the BBC this weekend to mark the 60th anniversary of a significant event in British history. I suppose it's fair to point out that they may only exist now because of the 'I remember when...' adverts and it is only 'I remember when...' that seems to work as a brand name,... |
at first i thought 'nasaan ka man' might be one of those progressive new filipino films. as someone noted earlier, the movie does not look poorly made. it's clear that the directors used more expensive cameras to shoot, better angles, better sound equipment, good-looking actors, and nicer locations.<br /><br />however,... | 0neg | at first i thought 'nasaan ang love' was made on the streets like 'wizards of waverly place' but to my surprise, they didn't make use of real streets and houses in the movie! they made use of fake-looking streets and houses and the actors were a bit weird and corny. the problem with nasaan ang love is that it seems to ... | at first i thought 'nasaan kaalike' is a regular movie, i was quite hopeful in the beginning but when it came to the end i felt that there are many mistakes in this movie. here is a point i would like to raise:<br /><br />* in this movie the producer keeps saying that his son (mohanlal) is now very weak. as an actor hi... |
Derek Jarman has shown us time and time again that dialog is not his strong suit. He is a painter, and paint he does. His films are almost always visually splendid, but about as exciting to watch as paint that is already dry. Watch his movies in fast forward, the really fast setting that you can only get on DVD. In The... | 0neg | Derek Jarman has shown us in this movie where he lives and what he does.<br /><br />On the 30th March 2002, at the beginning of Easter, when spring in England is in the air, the film begins with a scene where Jarman walks slowly out of his front door into the street for a breath of the morning air. I love this shot bec... | Derek Jarman has shown us that he is a good actor on several occasions but he should know best that he should be a good writer as well. At least his previous entries in the Death On The Nile series were worth watching, but "The Burning Moon" was so dull and bland that I left 18 minutes into the thing. This thing is so ... |
I was loaned this DVD by the director of a film I am working with, in which I play an actor who is playing Prospero. Knowing his own style, I did not expect anything resembling a "classical" interpretation of the text.<br /><br />What I have found is sometimes striking, sometimes evocative, but often meandering and ted... | 0neg | I was loaned this DVD from a friend, who said it was a great movie and that it reminded him of a classic comedy. I watched it last night, and even though I enjoyed it I have to say it was anything but classic. I watched it with my wife on a weekend, just to fill time before heading to the store and then to the beach. I... | I was loaned this DVD by a friend and I watched it with trepidation. It had gone directly to video on release and was advertised as a 'Drama set in Asia' with a 'Femme fatal'.<br /><br />With the exception of the beautiful Helen Shiner, I wasn't sure whether I ever saw a girl. Not only that, but the plot seemed very co... |
This was an interesting adaption of William Shakespeare's last known solo play but in my humble opinion, a terrible one. Jarman tries to change the personalities of the characters for a start. He makes Miranda seem insane after being stuck on the island for so long, Prospero is no different - a mix of madness and self-... | 0neg | This was an interesting adaption of the short story by Edgar Allen Poe. It was shot like a documentary for some reason and kept for a while but never was released or seen again until being on youtube.com at last. When I saw it for the first time I thought the story, itself, was a masterpiece of writing, but I don't rem... | This was an interesting adaption of the novel, and if there was more of a background story of what was going on, it would have worked alot better. This is one of those movies where you have to be in the right mood to watch (and like it). If not, it can seem boring. A lot of things didn't seem to work for me (besides th... |
I have read all of Shakespeare's plays, seen productions of a majority of them and even acted in and directed some. I do not necessarily believe that Shakespeare must be done in the "traditional" fashion, but I hated this movie.<br /><br />There is nudity that is gratuitous and unnecessary. There is grotesqueness that ... | 0neg | I have read all of the reviews on this site, and found it very hard that only a low 3.4 out of 10, but I found that really strange. It is not the best movie in the world, and it has it's moments that you can't even see, but I loved it so much. There are some good movies, like "G" which are only for people who like that... | I have read all of Proust's monumental seven part work, and have seen all of the movies made out of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice." "In Search of the Perfect Woman" is the most successful of all of these, taking the original story to a completely different world and time. I can think of no better work... |
This movie was recommended to me by some academics. From their comments, I had some pretty lofty expectations. But this movie was nothing but disappointing. The aim of the director is obvious--to use an interweaving of speeches/poems as a way to argue against the Bush doctrine. But the director fails miserably at this.... | 0neg | This movie was recommended to me by a friend who said it was excellent. So I went to see it.<br /><br />I was not very disappointed. It could have been better, even though I liked it, but all in all it was very entertaining, especially the scenes set in the zoo, which were actually filmed in the zoo it took place in. (... | This movie was recommended to me by my friend's brother and it was great. He was a bit slow on the uptake for a movie like the Blair Witch Project, but that's not a problem because this is a completely different movie! "The Grudge" is a Japanese ghost story. It follows a young couple that moves into a creepy house. Bot... |
Despite the fact that the plot follows the well-known recipe of "who did it", which has characterised all the Perry Mason movies so far, the characters of the present film are not so well-developed and the selected cast fails to give them flesh and blood. Of course, in general, the Perry Mason movies are not significan... | 0neg | Despite the fact that the idea in "L'Ami Fritz" may have been original at a time it is still unoriginal today. And its originality is not very clear. A middle aged successful German lawyer and businessman wins in a lottery that changes its rules and allows its participants to choose someone dead and living he would lik... | Despite the fact that the original 1975 version was really bad. I saw it in the late 70's and found the first 20 minutes of this one very promising with a cool atmosphere. I even bought the video of this one and only kept it for 10 years. <br /><br />When I saw it again last night I had 23 years more experience and wha... |
Of all of the post-1985 Perry Mason movies I have seen, this one is my least favorite.<br /><br />I confess I have never liked Diana Muldaur as an actress. She only seems to know how to play one type of character - a hard-bitten career woman with some undefined chip on her shoulder who for that reason is extremely diff... | 0neg | Of all of the post-1985 horror movies I've seen, this was the worst of the bunch. Everything that was wrong with the plot was thrown in and it left the story completely incoherent. I've always liked Kathy Lee on "Hollywood Squares"--but how did she get on the board with this one?<br /><br />The story revolves around a ... | Of all of the post-1985 Batman films, I thought Batman and Robin was the best. I think this film is the worst of all of them. The storyline has no action, mystery or suspense. It's very boring and slow.<br /><br />I've seen this movie around 3-4 times in the theatre (mostly at midnight, when no one is watching or at al... |
"People stranded in a country house during a storm discover that the home was the sight of an unsolved murder years before. During a dinner discussion of the incident, the lights go out and, when they come back on, they discover that one of the guests has been killed. Fearing for their lives, the guests attempt to find... | 0neg | "People stranded in a country on the brink of war don't have a choice but to choose up sides and help the side that seems friendly" is a good principle, but it doesn't really work, when said country's politics seem to favour those who would make the film. But this isn't the only one of many political pitfalls this film... | "People stranded in a country whose leaders will not defend its citizens from an unprovoked invader. A country under the tyranny of its paranoid and brutal rulers. An oppressed countrymen who fight back to defend their land...<br /><br />Such is the plot of the new film "The Devil's Playground," a tale drawn straight f... |
I find Herzog's documentary work to be very uneven. Fata Morgana, a companion piece of sorts to Lessons of Darkness, lacks not only the harrowing spectacle but mostly the discerning eye of an author. It is by comparison amateur looking, aimless pans left and right across the desert the kind of which you would expect fr... | 0neg | I find Herzog's documentary work very good when he explores real issues and is able to relate this to real people who have been affected by globalisation. In the case of the Amazon, the impact of western society on the cultures of the jungle has been well documented, and Herzog is in many ways the first to do this. Thi... | I find Herzog's documentary work extremely interesting and very beautiful. I have never been so moved by any filmmaker's documentary work as I have with Herzog. Herzog is one of the first filmmakers I had heard of. I saw it was an Oscar nominee, and was not aware that he had actually won an Academy Award for Best Docum... |
This is not a movie. This is a collection of random shots taken in a fascinating part of the world, dubbed over with some random text. The footage is not that great and the text is not that great either. The end product is excruciatingly dull.<br /><br />On the DVD, turning the commentary on can provide some entertainm... | 0neg | This is not a movie. For all the plot "twists", the "character development" and every other bit of nonsense that passes for a screenplay this is a documentary on a particularly gullible monkey.<br /><br />The whole "story" is completely baseless and ridiculous. It's made by people who obviously had no experience with f... | This is not a movie. It is an attempt at showing how a person has managed to survive a year without paying any attention. It looks like some home video made by some of his friends. With a few exceptions, it is boring. It is sad how someone can produce this work of such a very low quality. The only redeeming part of thi... |
Released at a time when Duvivier was going again from strength to strength ."Black Jack" which was sandwiched between the overlooked extraordinary "Au Royaume des Cieux" and the dazzling stunning "Sous Le Ciel de Paris" , is a jumble,which Duvivier himself hated,which is not surprising.There's almost nothing to write a... | 0neg | Released at a time when the movie industry was entering the golden age of film making, this highly rated western set the pace for many others to follow in the 1930's and 40's. The great John Wayne portrayed the role of a young cowboy who's just out of a series of unfortunate events, has a run in with the law, escapes j... | Released at a time when even the American movie industry could no longer defend its reputation, and the fact that a film such as "Candleshoe" was allowed to take place, "Damsel in Distress" is a sad testimony to the decline of Hollywood.<br /><br />The plot, in many ways, resembles that which provided inspiration for "... |
OK so it's not great either, but only because of how great Laurel and Hardy have been in the past. If this film received a total overhaul, with picture quality enhanced, add new dubbing to the badly dubbed voices and added a nice unobtrusive background music then this film would truly start to take shape. As it is, it ... | 0neg | OK so it's not great. There's some rather crude comedy and some bad editing but it seems like it would have been pretty bad. The story is just horrible and just a silly asides for the first five minutes were nothing to write home about. And the script is just bad. It's supposed to be about the guy who writes the film a... | OK so it's not great, but this movie has a lot of good things going for it.<br /><br />First of all, it's funny, as in the first movie. Very good one-liners and witty dialogue. I could watch this if it was only for the language. Just a couple quotes that might just illustrate what I mean if you haven't seen the movie a... |
Oh, why did it have to end like this? Laurel and Hardy's last film, from the crudely cranked-up Cuckoo theme (with erroneous credit to Hal Roach) to the closing "Nice mess"/"I couldn't help it" schtick, this is the duo as a grotesque parody of themselves. In between, their relationship is now solely constructed of unce... | 0neg | Oh, why did it have to be a zombie movie? Was there no one thinking of doing something else? Zombies are way out of date, if you're going to make a zombie movie, make it a good one, make it original, don't do what we've all done already, there's nothing new to say about zombies.<br /><br />One thing I've noticed, after... | Oh, why did it have to be a great, talented director remaking such a mediocre film (which, when it was originally made, the director was probably a hack in the first place)? All this remake did was make a couple of characters a lot meaner than they had to be, by the way it was written. It also reduced the overall numbe... |
I just watched Atoll K-Laurel and Hardy's last movie together and known here in the states as Utopia-on Internet Archive expecting to see some extra footage since the IA version had a running time of 2 hours and 21 minutes. Turns out that it's basically the same version I previously watched on the bargain basement VHS ... | 0neg | I just watched Atoll K-Laurel + Hardy. Its just so nice to watch these old movies.<br /><br />I've seen most of the Laurel and Hardy films, and this was a pretty good one. I had also heard that this was a very popular Laurel and Hardy one. But this is one of the ones I hadn't watched in a while, and I thought this one ... | I just watched Atoll K-Laurel and Hardy short. It is a very funny short. I think the best. They have lots of laughs at some scenes. As always their routines are great! I think this film is the greatest! I've to make a list of my all-time-favorite films! I'll try to do it this night or over the next few days! This is on... |
This movie was difficult for me to watch. Stan looked very old and ill compared to what I remembered, and Ollie was heavier than I ever recall in another film. Most difficult though were gaps in the script/production where I found myself wondering, "How did they get from here to there???" It took nearly half the film b... | 0neg | This movie was difficult for me to view and I don't think it was for viewers. The character of the boy, the story and it's message, everything about it all seemed quite forced. I don't care if it is based in a true story, true things do not always make for great cinema. And while the filmmakers tried to make "a film wi... | This movie was difficult for me to get through, and that is only because of the horrible special effects. When they tried to make a movie, the actors (they were very good)and the storyline was great, but the special effects in the movie failed miserably. The story is about a group of people in NYC that are trying to fi... |
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