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24,696 | [
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24,698 | [
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24,708 | [
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24,721 | [
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24,766 | [
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24,782 | [
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24,784 | [
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24,790 | [
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24,808 | [
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24,809 | [
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24,810 | [
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24,814 | [
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24,828 | [
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24,829 | [
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24,835 | [
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24,837 | [
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24,839 | [
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24,844 | [
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24,853 | [
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24,866 | [
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24,867 | [
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24,873 | [
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24,876 | [
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24,877 | [
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24,905 | [
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24,914 | [
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24,926 | [
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24,931 | [
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24,940 | [
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24,941 | [
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24,945 | [
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24,965 | [
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24,991 | [
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1 | [
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5 | [
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7 | [
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11 | [
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15 | [
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19 | [
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20 | [
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25 | [
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26 | [
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27 | [
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30 | [
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31 | [
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37 | [
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39 | [
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40 | [
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42 | [
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43 | [
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44 | [
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52 | [
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59 | [
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72 | [
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this movie could be a gem! I thought wrong.<br /><br />Frightmare is a boring, overplayed, half assed homage to the fright films of yore. The story is an... | 0 |
75 | [
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77 | [
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87 | [
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90 | [
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91 | [
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95 | [
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97 | [
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106 | [
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116 | [
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119 | [
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120 | [
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123 | [
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124 | [
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127 | [
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132 | [
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133 | [
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] | 201 | 261 | Despite having a very pretty leading lady (Rosita Arenas, one of my boy-crushes), the acting and the direction are examples of what NOT to do while making a movie.<br /><br />Placed in southern Mexico, Popoca, the Aztec Mummy (real Aztecs, by the way, DID not made mummies) has been waken up by the lead characters and s... | 0 |
139 | [
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141 | [
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153 | [
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159 | [
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161 | [
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164 | [
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165 | [
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170 | [
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184 | [
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] | 163 | 222 | I've liked Milos Forman's movies since I saw "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus" (two big masterpieces), but when I saw "Hair", I kept wondering if this was the same Milos Forman. This movie is boring and uninteresting to say the least. OK, the music is pretty good, but on screen it only seems like a bunch ... | 0 |
188 | [
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] | 227 | 284 | I should start off by saying I have something of a love-hate relationship with musicals. Some of them are fantastic, some are downright crap. So I expected Hair to fall into one of those categories. However, it didn't, falling instead in the middle.<br /><br />The songs aren't brilliant, though the "Sodomy" song did ma... | 0 |
194 | [
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] | 178 | 266 | In 1904 Tangier, a wealthy American woman and her two children are kidnapped by Berbers, murderous desert pirates who scorn the Moroccan government and, by doing so, kidnap "American pestilence", which attracts the attention of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Fictitious historical epic is less a grand adventure than... | 0 |
196 | [
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] | 174 | 207 | and I still don't know where the hell this movie is going? I mean really, what is this movie about? Is it about demonstrating Sean Connery's complete lack of Arabic? Is it about showing that if he could play the role of a Moroccan warlord then he was a natural to play the role of Ramirez in highlander? Why was Teddy Ro... | 0 |
201 | [
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] | 147 | 201 | Honest young insurance agent Ronald Reagan (as Eric Gregg) is optimistic, but poor. His wife, scheming Sheila Bromley (as Nona Gregg), longs for the finer things in life. Describing herself as "not weighted down with tons of righteousness," Ms. Bromley begins to spend more money than Mr. Reagan earns. Bromley obtains t... | 0 |
207 | [
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] | 170 | 206 | The filmmakers try to paint the influence of the Mondovis and Robert Parker as a travesty on par with the German occupation of France and the reign of Fascism. But they never find a victim in this film. We hear wine makers, critics and distributors bemoan that while the wine industry grows it becomes increasingly homog... | 0 |
209 | [
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] | 143 | 204 | I've heard people compare this movie to Sideways. How this comparison was made, I'll never guess because this movie was in no way comparable to Sideways.<br /><br />These 2 films were as different as Star Wars and the Thornbirds. The only thing they had in common at all was they both had wine as a subject.<br /><br />T... | 0 |
213 | [
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] | 185 | 227 | There were so many classic movies that were made where the leading people were out-and- out liars and yet they are made to look good. I never bought into that stuff. The "screwball comedies" were full of that stuff and so were a lot of the Fred Astaire films.<br /><br />Here, Barbara Stanwyck plays a famous "country" m... | 0 |
214 | [
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217 | [
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] | 187 | 243 | An odd, willfully skewed biopic of Dyan Thomas in which we hear little more than a dozen lines of his poetry. Instead we have to endure a raw character exposée seen through the prism of his proto-bigamous relationship with wife (Sienna Miller) and childhood love (Keira Knightley). Matthew Rhys plays Thomas with suffici... | 0 |
222 | [
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] | 202 | 242 | This film is about the complicated friendship, romance and deceit between two men and two women during the World War II.<br /><br />A lot of effort has been put to make "The Edge of Love"look the right period. However, I find this effort too excessive, particularly in terms of the tone of the colours. Most of the first... | 0 |
226 | [
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] | 216 | 249 | The (DVD)movie "The Tempest", directed by Jack Bender, was published in 2001. It didn't make its way to German cinemas and neither the director or an actor were able to receive an important award for this movie. The movie refers to the Shakespearean play "The Tempest" which was published at the end of the 16th century.... | 0 |
228 | [
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] | 227 | 296 | I keep waiting for Peter Fonda to start acting. For someone who comes from such a talented family, it's a mystery to me why Peter Fonda can only play Peter Fonda trying to play someone else. And, that's the good news in this disappointing dog of an adaptation of The Tempest. A string of loosely connected ideas that onl... | 0 |
232 | [
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] | 214 | 251 | This movie just didn't do it for me. I like horror and splatter movies but this one has very little to do with horror. The effects are cheap and when they chop of one of her feet it looks so fake. The same goes for the other effects like the tongue torture and the gut sex. They could have spent of few extra bucks on th... | 0 |
233 | [
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] | 180 | 239 | Not near as well made as the "Guinea Pig" flicks it was inspired by ("Flowers of Flesh and Blood" or "Devil's Experiment") and not conveying any real philosophy, this video feature, which is barely feature length, adds hardcore sex (with mosaic censoring) to its inspiration. The special make-up effects, which include s... | 0 |
250 | [
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] | 225 | 274 | These days, writers, directors and producers are relying more and more on the "surprise" ending. The old art of bringing a movie to closure, taking all of the information we have learned through out the movie and bringing it to a nice complete ending, has been lost. Now what we have is a movie that, no matter how compl... | 0 |
256 | [
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] | 181 | 208 | What do you do with all the material that does not make the final edit of a film? You might keep it aside in case a director's cut or extended version is released one day. You might sell some it as stock footage to be used in a part of another film. You might just bin it. Or you might collect it, accumulating more and ... | 0 |
259 | [
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] | 253 | 283 | This one kind of is like an earlier movie from 1987 "Masters of the Universe" based on the cartoon "He-man". Basically, you have a great old world and they for some reason have to have nearly all the action of the movie take place on modern earth. Well I guess it is not so modern earth now and that it is an ancient wor... | 0 |
260 | [
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] | 186 | 225 | If you are ever in the mood for a truly terrible film, it would be hard to find something that could even compare to this. I have spent a lot of time watching a lot of terrible movies just for the sheer joy I get from it, and man, this is one of the worst. This movie was so bad, I had to buy the third Beastermaster onl... | 0 |
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