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] | 137 | 168 | Being a 90's child, I truly enjoyed this show and I can proudly say that I enjoyed it big time and even more than the classical WB cartoons.<br /><br />I don't know why; early 90's cartoons had something special; I don't know if it was the uncertainty atmosphere, a generational change, whatever. But "Tiny Toons" kept t... | 1 |
24,101 | [
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24,103 | [
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24,104 | [
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24,106 | [
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24,107 | [
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24,108 | [
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24,109 | [
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24,110 | [
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when I look at the comments here it seems as if most people have seen a completely different film than I have. I've just seen it... and liked it. Not in the way, that it made me happy, but in the way of having seen a good film!<br /><br />The film needs some patience, yes. And yes, the main ch... | 1 |
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24,112 | [
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24,113 | [
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24,114 | [
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24,115 | [
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24,116 | [
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24,117 | [
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24,118 | [
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24,119 | [
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24,120 | [
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24,121 | [
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24,122 | [
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24,123 | [
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24,124 | [
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24,125 | [
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24,126 | [
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24,127 | [
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24,128 | [
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24,129 | [
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24,130 | [
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24,131 | [
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24,132 | [
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24,134 | [
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24,135 | [
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24,136 | [
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24,137 | [
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] | 497 | 638 | It is 1969. Phoebe(Camilla Belle) is an 11 year old girl growing up with an idealized vision of her 19 year old sister Faith(Cameron Diaz). Faith is the doer, the truth-seeker, the fixer of all the wrongs in the world. Then one day, Phoebe and her mother Gail(Blythe Danner) receive word that Faith is dead. Faith has ki... | 1 |
24,138 | [
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] | 416 | 485 | If I look hard enough, flaws can be found in this film, primarily with the script. I found the character of Wolf not totally convincing. However, those were my only "complaints." Because when this movie started on Cable, I was just going to record it and watch it later. However, from the beginning, with the eerie music... | 1 |
24,139 | [
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24,141 | [
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24,142 | [
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] | 122 | 144 | As a father of four in his forties I thought this film made compelling viewing - if not edge-of-the-seat stuff. I deserves a far higher rating than the 4.3 that it had when I wrote this. (I gave it 7.)<br /><br />I agree with some of the comments about the characters but Cameron Diaz was, again, sparkling in yet anothe... | 1 |
24,143 | [
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24,144 | [
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24,145 | [
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] | 52 | 70 | Well, I AM "the target market" & I loved it. Furthermore my husband, also a Boomer with strong memories of the '60s, liked it a lot too. I haven't read the book, so I went into it neutral & I was very pleasantly surprised. It's now on our "Highly Recommended" video list.<br /><br /> | 1 |
24,146 | [
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24,147 | [
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] | 114 | 151 | Take away all parts of the movie that were "present" day and stick to the flashbacks. Then you would have had a great story. Faith and Wolf's story and their relationship was the best part. Diaz and Eccleston were wonderful. Brewster was ponderous to sit through. Surprised to see Blythe Danner as mom. She was great. Al... | 1 |
24,148 | [
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24,149 | [
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24,150 | [
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24,151 | [
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24,153 | [
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24,154 | [
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] | 202 | 243 | what a great little film, lots of good roles from some random stars. Basically there are these pot growers that get caught up in a comical adventure. At points the film makes you believe everyone is going to end up dead! Which adds to the comedy. When the character of John Lithgow (3rd Rock) re-appears - its impossible... | 1 |
24,155 | [
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24,156 | [
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] | 71 | 99 | A fun romp...a lot of good twists and turns! (and we were not even baked!)<br /><br />Didn't know this movie even existed until watching the extra trailers on a Monty Python DVD...(oddly it was there along with The City of Lost Children, and The Adventures of Baron Munchauhsen)<br /><br />The plot keeps you wondering t... | 1 |
24,157 | [
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24,158 | [
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24,160 | [
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24,161 | [
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24,162 | [
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24,163 | [
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24,164 | [
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24,165 | [
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24,166 | [
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24,167 | [
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24,168 | [
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24,169 | [
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24,170 | [
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24,171 | [
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24,172 | [
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24,173 | [
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24,174 | [
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24,175 | [
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24,176 | [
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24,177 | [
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24,178 | [
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] | 208 | 246 | This movie is based on the book, "A Many Splendored Thing" by Han Suyin and tackles issues of race relations between Asians and Whites, a topic that comes from Han's personal experiences as an Eurasian growing up in China. That background, and the beautiful Hong Kong settings, gives this love story a unique and rather ... | 1 |
24,179 | [
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24,180 | [
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24,181 | [
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24,182 | [
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] | 785 | 955 | After many, many years I saw again this beautiful love story, thinking about how would I, half a century after, react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time, when I was just an male adolescent trying to understand women's behaviors, in a small city in Brazil.<br /><br />This time, however, what ca... | 1 |
24,184 | [
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] | 152 | 194 | On a second viewing, this is still a wonderful romance that is, in my opinion, much better than the film it came paired with on my 2-DVD set, the Leo McCarey weepie classic "An Affair To Remember". Yet it seems to have fallen out of favour slightly (Only a 6.6 rating here on IMDb, and dismissed by many critics as "gooe... | 1 |
24,185 | [
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] | 201 | 219 | This movie is the best one forever upon the warm feelings of this real love story during the Korean war by the story of Hy sun the Eurasian doctor and Mark Elliot an American corespondent at the shadow of different habits between east and west upon his quotation in the love scene between two lovers when he invited her ... | 1 |
24,186 | [
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] | 108 | 134 | Cliche romance drama movie with very simple plot but very good cinematography and script.The screenplay,directing and acting was also good.The flow of the movie is kind of manipulative in order to bring the audience to tears through the excellent love music and circumstance which works but later on after the movie,make... | 1 |
24,187 | [
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] | 138 | 177 | I always loved that scratchy voiced guy in all those westerns. He was the sidekick (Jingles) in the Wild Bill Hickock show back in the fifties. In this he has the perfect vehicle for his wonderful bragging character. He is harmless and no one believes him, but he is non-flustered and goes on anyway. When you have a guy... | 1 |
24,188 | [
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] | 120 | 149 | One of the few comedic Twilight Zones that's actually really good. We have Floyd The Barber from Andy Griffith Show,The stock in trade Old Geezer dude from Many old westerns,and lovable old Frisby. It also has that cool spacecraft interior that I believe was used in the Sci Fi classic Forbidden Planet.Or else The Day T... | 1 |
24,189 | [
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] | 137 | 168 | The above profile was written by me when I used the nick of OldWereWolf56 which is still my email address. I still believe Andy Devine's character of Frisky is the best Twilight Zone's episodes ever and I watch this episode at least once a year as I consider Frisby to be a fortunate man as he has many friends who love ... | 1 |
24,190 | [
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] | 182 | 260 | The jazz soundtrack makes this seem like a Clint Eastwood movie.<br /><br />In fact the whole thing strikes me as Burt doing Clint. The story is good and the movie is full of one liners that I carry with me to this day. (Reynolds to bad guy: I'm gonna pull the chain on you pal, because you're f'n up my town. And you wa... | 1 |
24,191 | [
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] | 149 | 186 | I haven't seen every single movie that Burt Reynolds has ever made, but this one (which I've just finished watching, for the third time) may very well be his best! It suffers only from some slow stretches; Burt perhaps tried to make it more "arty" than it should have been. On the other hand, he managed to avoid many of... | 1 |
24,192 | [
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] | 222 | 268 | Sharky's Machine finds Burt Reynolds as a narcotics cop who after a failed buy and bust that wasn't his fault, but that got a few people killed in it, he finds himself demoted to the vice squad in Atlanta.<br /><br />The prestige is hardly as good as the narcotics beat, but it does have its fringe benefits. One night a... | 1 |
24,193 | [
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] | 247 | 311 | That's how Burt Reynolds describes this film, which happens to be his best ever. He plays Tom Sharky, a vice detective who's on the trail of an international mobster (Vittorio Gassman) and the man he's financing to be the next governor of Georgia (Earl Holliman). In the novel by William Diehl, the story is more complex... | 1 |
24,194 | [
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] | 219 | 318 | Burt Reynold's Direct's and star's in this great Cop film, Reynold's play's the Sharkey of the title, who is a tough cop whilst working in undercover a drug bust goes wrong, and is demoted to vice, <br /><br />The machine of the title refer's to the motley crew Reynold's's assemble's to bring down a crooked governor wh... | 1 |
24,195 | [
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] | 469 | 635 | ***SPOIERS*** Atlanta crime auctioneer with Burt Reynolds,Sgt. Sharky, and his tough and well oiled "Sharky's Machine" Let. Frisco, Charles Durning, and officers Papa & Arch, Brian Keith & Berney Casey, breaking up the Atlanta crime Syndicate who's on the verge of putting "Their Man" in the Geroria Governor's State Hou... | 1 |
24,196 | [
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] | 528 | 679 | This was one of those films I would always come across (be it on TV or cheap DVD), but never struck me to give it a shot as I thought I wasn't missing out on much. It was on one night and I thought oh well
why not. A good decision too, as I would kick myself for taking so long to get around to it. For me it left me im... | 1 |
24,197 | [
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] | 435 | 573 | Dirty Harry goes to Atlanta is what Burt called this fantastic, first-rate detective thriller that borrows some of its plot from the venerable Dana Andrews movie "Laura." Not only does Burt Reynolds star in this superb saga but he also helmed it and he doesn't make a single mistake either staging the action or with his... | 1 |
24,198 | [
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] | 131 | 160 | I'm a fan of B grade 80s films in which the hero is a bit of a bad guy, a strong male, who finds love - and this film delivers!<br /><br />Towards the finish you do not know how Sharky will not be killed (and doesn't he take a beating! Realistically portrayed I believe). However he does and it's not via some overdone '... | 1 |
24,199 | [
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] | 197 | 241 | Burt Reynolds' riposte to Clint Eastwood encroaching on his redneck comedy turf with his orangutan comedies was to make his own Dirty Harry in Chicago-style thriller, Sharky's Machine. Originally intended for John Boorman but in the end directed by the star himself, it's an out-and-out commercial package with Reynolds ... | 1 |
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