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i won t repeat all that has been said already by other viewers of this film in my opinion this is an excellent film not only as a very human tale of the developing relationship between a father and his grown up son but also as a little window onto the world of practising islam for those like me who are not very familiar with that religion an important aspect of this story is that of the young man s relation to his father s beliefs and practices and how his attitude towards the religion seems to alter in subtle ways as we progress on their journey with them this is a very thought provoking enjoyable and well made film that i would recommend to anyone with brain and heart,1
you gotta love the cheesy low budget movies this one comes complete with bad effects props and bad acting really bad plus every time i see mercedes mcnab the sister i keep thinking watch out she s a vamp for those that know buffy angel a perfect example of what happens when someone with bad taste and wants to waste money making a flick the little that was spent of course i don t know if i feel more sorry for the writer of the movie or the producer who didn t make back any money i d say it s good for little kids in it s simplicity but i don t know if i d want to subject a kid to it umm because that s the lowest it will go,0
i read somewhere where this film was supposed to be a remake of the film noir criss cross i found the latter to be disappointing but it was still better than this film this movie is a neo noir since it s modern day and it s in color two things that purists would make it be disqualified for film noir status the biggest negative to it however wasn t the cinematography that was fine but the muddled storyline hey some of s dashiell hammett stories were similar but i didn t care for some of those either the filmmakers here did not help the situation by placing flashbacks into the story what seemed like every three minutes no wonder it was the keep up with this story it was ridiculous what happens is that by the minute mark their is so much confusion nobody cares anymore i know i didn t,0
the second attempt by a new york intellectual in less than years to make a swedish film the first being susan sontag s brother carl which was made in sweden with swedish actors no less the results oscar wilde said it best in reference to dickens the old curiosity shop one would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh out loud at the death of little nell pretty much the same thing here interiors is chock full of solemnly intoned howlers i m afraid of my anger looking into the middle distance i don t like who i m becoming the directorial quotations to use a polite term from bergman are close to parody the incredibly self involved family keep reminding us of how brilliant and talented they are to the point of strangulation i read a poem of yours the other day it was in i don t know the new yorker oh that was an old poem i reworked it far from not caring about these people however i found them quite hilarious much of the dialog is exactly like the funny stuff from allen s earlier films only he s directed his actors to play the lines straight having not cast himself in the movie he has poor mary beth hurt copy all of his thespian tics intonations and neurotic habits turning her into an embarrassing surrogate much like kenneth branagh in celebrity the basic plot dysfunctional family with quietly domineering mother seems to be lifted more or less from bergman s winter light the basic family melodrama tricked up with a lot of existential angst it all comes through in the shopworn visual aural tricks the deafening scratching of a pencil on paper the towering surf that dwarfs the people walking on the beach etc etc allen s later serious films are less embarrassing but also far less entertaining i ll take interiors woody s rarely made a funnier movie,0
i watched this last night after not having seen it for several years it really is a fun little film with a bunch of faces you didn t know were in it arkin shines as always check it out you won t be dissappointed by the way it was just released on dvd and contrary to its packaging it is widescreen the transfer is rather poor but at least the whole movie is visible,1
what more can be said i have not been this fascinated with a young actress since cate blanchett burst upon the scene over ten years ago and although both blanchett and blunt have played queens now seems to be the benchmark for up and coming actresses the roles are complete polar opposites simply put if you are looking for high passion compelling drama and machiavellian intrigue this is not the movie for you this isn t to say that the script or direction was bad its just that the subject of the film did not lead too dramatic a life when compared to other notable royals like elizabeth i anne boylen henry viii henry v henry ii and elainor of acquitane these are people whose lives were the stuff such as good soap operas are made of and whose policies and decisions altered the course of british and in most cases world history victoria in contrast ascended the throne without incident she quasi governed a nation that was fast becoming a global power due to industrialization and the rise of the navy her state had a stable government led by competent and dynamic politicians and she married young had a harmonious family life the facts of her life are not the sturm und drag such as powerful dramas are made of the heart of the film aside from the attempt to dramatize her stultifying upbringing and the machinations surrounding her throne is the story of the one thing that was truly shocking and surprising about her reign a love story marriage made for financial or political reasons is with reason not necessarily the place to look for world shaking passion yet victoria will always be remembered in history as being sort of a patron saint marital fidelity happiness and ideal family life thus central to the film is the budding love of victoria and her prince albert i was very taken with rupert friend s characterization of albert whom he portrayed as a kind patient somewhat earnest and maybe a touch naive young man looking to do good in the world and help in short he is a good man with a good heart not the most dynamic figure to base a drama around but as that is not the point of the story that does not matter the heart of the character shines through thanks to friend s understated yet earnest performance as for the queen well emily blunt is sublime her beauty cannot be denied but she is more than something pretty to look at her face is like quicksilver because of her expressiveness the slightest arch of the eyebrow glance of the eye or slight wry smile delivers so much again this is not a bombastic performance of heavy speeches and impassioned pleas its not that kind of movie but what ms blunt does do with the role is show the simple humanity of the character with potent subtlety for example we see the joie de vivre that has been kept in check by victoria s mother miranda richardson and her scheming adviser lover conroy expressed in the simple things like victoria trying to sketch her dog we see her delight and fascination upon first meeting albert by her eyes being continually drawn to him we see her nervous and overwhelmed when addressing parliament upon her ascension and my favorite scene of all in the film we see her nervous happy and hopeful as she steels herself to do what really most women never have to do in their life ask the man she loves to marry her a proposition so ridiculous for those times and some would say now that victoria bursts out in nervous laughter before she can even say marry me again this is not a movie for over the top larger than life expressions but more a study in the subtleties of a character and making the little things say so much so overall i judge the film by what it is and what it tried to do and as such i give it a i felt that some of the politics could be better explained and that some very fine actors were wasted with little do and little character development namely miranda richardson as the duchess of kent and the characters of conroy and lord peal again the film need not have spent a large amount of time on those characters but a little more exposition would have helped to explain the political environment also i would have loved to have seen more of the adjustment to married life between victoria and albert but that may be just my greed for more scenes between friend and blunt in summary don t view this film in terms of a historical drama but for what it really is a love story between two characters that happen to be historical figures i give this film a solid for wonderful lead performances brilliant costumes and scenery and the magnificent victoria of emily blunt and anyone who has any shred of romance left in them you will be touched by the end of this movie god save the queen,1
this has to be one of the most beautiful moving thought provoking films around it s good family entertainment and at the same time makes you think very hard about the issues involved every time i see the ghost of zac riding the bike through the puddle at the end i can t help but cry my eyes out john thaw s performance is so touching and it is a shame he is no longer with us gone but not forgotten a outstanding film full marks,1
i ve noticed that a lot of people who post on the kerching board seem to hate this show which i actually find very surprising i think it s one of the best british kids shows there is it s a shame it s ending because it s very funny if a bit cheesy sometimes and has great characters the main character is a little like del boy although quite a lot smarter with his best friends he tried to make a million pounds for his mum by starting an online business and adopting a pseudonym of rudeboy his friends are seymour who likes to cook and danny who is simple minded and the comic relief character throughout the show some characters have left and new ones have come in but it s always been entertaining and improving,1
this was a watershed event in my movie watching life i went to see this in the theater when it came out i was completely amazed at just how bad it was movies like this make you wonder who put the money up and who owed whom a favor a very very large favor the special effects are absolutely first grade level as in any first grader could have done them toy rubber bats on strings with no attempt to hide the strings arrows that appear to be drawn on the film and look to be the shape of an arrow you d find on a street sign and a laughable story line ed wood made masterpieces compared to conquest every film student should see this thing just so they ll know the very definition of a bad movie,0
watching smother was perhaps the longest not quite minutes of my life there wasn t a laugh to be had in fact i don t remember ever cracking a smile diane keaton was horridly unfunny as a middle aged chain smoking dog hoarder the textbook overbearing mother character a relentlessly irritating woman who clearly suffers from some kind of personality disorder she is manipulative conniving melodramatic childish narcissistic and worst of all boring i suppose i should briefly mention the other characters but why bother it was just a long string of movie clich s the dippy socially inept distant relative who s just trying to break into the industry the gruff and long suffering but somehow still lovable father the mild mannered wife who just can t take it anymore but eventually moves beyond the discord and resignedly comes home the herd of unhousebroken dogs who like to chew throw pillows while everyone is away etc god what a snore i ve never been a diane keaton fan and smother only reminded me why overacting is overacting no matter how many pictures you did in your prime her attempts at physical comedy were especially humiliating what was the director thinking while i like dax shepard and can even sometimes tolerate liv tyler their performances were so lackluster and dull that it was clear that neither actor gave a damn about this movie that was okay because neither did i keaton s endless self absorbed prattling was intolerable and at times shepard s dislike for her seemed genuine by the end of the movie i wanted to slap her myself awful,0
the premise to this movie was one which focused on the polarization of of ideologies in the united states this was a highly combustible scenario in america whereby two entirely different cultures collided what justified such heinously depraved actions anyway as this film presents the scene while hickock and smith drank these two men were not intoxicated nor were they under any kind of influence of drugs it was a clear cut case of cold and calculated deliberation basically these violent acts were the end result of emotional and social neglect anytime past we as a nation have nurtured an empathy for deviates who have been victimized by their environment however this incident takes place in this dreadful revelation sideswiped us and mired the nation into a tailspin of conflicting ethics with the recent release of the movie capote based on truman capote who was the creator of the documentary in cold blood the american people have cultivated a new found fascination with this film robert blake played the role of perry smith one of the villains in this movie this is seemingly appropriate given the notoriety he has been involved with concerning his personal life in cold blood centers on the element of the unexplained there was no vengeance involved there was no material gain to be acquired there was no potential for social advancement here either this is merely an instance of a latent and insidiously belligerent anger which ends certainly did not justify the means the situational diatribes which hickock and smith lamented about were always ambiguous under the circumstances why then should they take their frustrations out on an anonymously unsuspecting and innocent kansas family will geer grandpa walton plays the prosecuting attorney who is sickened by this act of macabre capriciousness his argument is thoroughly convincing his contention being these two men who demonstrated no mercy are now asking for yours this is a line of logic which would induce me to render a verdict of a conviction if i were to be one of the members of the jury absolute disdain for your precarious plight in life does not serve as vindication for orchestrating a capital crime it was capote s instincts that dictated that such a deranged act of violence should have been brought to the american public s attention as it turn out it was a harbinger of things to come in cold blood did just that this incident was the calm before the storm relating to a pertinent aspect of emergence to the radical s such a lethal charade also served as an insight to the isolated interests which would besiege many typical americans for the future truman capote does a tremendous job on authenticating this savage occurrence with his book which was a best seller and with this documentary as well the acting in this film by robert blake and scott wilson as well as people like john forsythe was incredible the director richard brooks cat on a hot tin roof blackboard jungle elmer gantry and key largo to name but a few was outstanding in his collaborative efforts in this movie i think that in cold blood is one of the best films in the history of movies the film depicts two reprehensible spawns of depravity who delved into demented theatrics and wound up captivating a trite gratification for being acknowledged at a pejorative nationwide level this movie pinpoints a psychological discontentment which spurs on an emerging bevy of counter culture purveyors of violence our nation s ideologies are incredibly different now than they were in this movie introduces the american people to the emotional and vacillating culprits who initiated such a precarious metamorphosis in our overall value system i recommend to everyone that they see this movie in cold blood was the focal point to the film capote think about it making a movie about a movie constitutes a rare and coveted accolade in hollywood in the case of in cold blood it is an extreme example of a movie which is vicariously clairvoyant intellectually elevating and of course it goes without saying in cold blood was utterly spellbinding as well as a totally remarkable movie,1
this is a complex film that explores the effects of fordist and taylorist modes of industrial capitalist production on human relations there are constant references to assembly line production where workers are treated as cogs in a machine overseen by managers wielding clipboards controlling how much hair the workers leave exposed and firing workers stanley who meet all criteria as his supervisor says are always on time are hard workers do good work but who may in some unspecified future make a mistake this system destroys families stanley has to send his father to a nursing home where he quickly dies after stanley loses his job iris daughter is a single teen mother who drops out of high school to take a job in the plant references are made to the fact that now with declining wages both partners need to work the implication being that there s nobody left at home to care for the kids iris husband is dead from an illness and with the multiple references in the film about the costs of medical care the viewer must wonder if he might have lived with better and more costly care iris brother in law gets abusive after yet another unsuccessful day at the unemployment office when his wife yells at him for buying a beer with her savings instead of leaving it for her face lift and or teeth job even the working class with no stake in conventional bourgeois notions of perfection and beauty buy into them the one reference to race in the film is through a black factory line worker whose husband is in jail presumably he s also black and black men suffer disproportionally high incarceration rates she remarks that he like her is doing time her family is composed of a prisoner and a wage slave stanley however still believes in human relations and is therefore for most of the film outside of the system of fordist capitalism he cares for his father in spite of the fact that it was his father s traveling salesman job that resulted in his illiteracy he has not yet reduced human relations to a purely instrumental contract as iris brother in law does suggesting that he married the wrong sister he does not as iris says conform to the work eat sleep routine of everyone else rather he uses technology and the techniques of industrial production in an artisanal and creative way in a sort of bauhaus ideal this was the dream of early modernists and s socialists such as the bauhaus to use technology to provide for all basic needs allowing for more free time for creative human work and fuller human relations he is also outside of traditional gender relations he cooks he cleans he cares for his family and he knows how to iron iris on the other hand lives in a traditionally male role she s a factory worker the mains source of income for her extended family and she brings stanley into the public realm traditionally off limits to women by teaching him to read and write she gives him access to the world of knowledge also traditionally gendered male literacy here is used as a metaphor for the traditionally masculine public realm and the systems of circulation monetary vehicular cultural that enable participation in the public realm without this access stanley is feminized the jobs open to him are cooking and cleaning he is excluded from all regular circulations unable to participate in the monetary can t open a bank account in the vehicular can t get a driver s license can t ride the bus and in the social he asks if he exists if he can t write his name after learning to read he grabs books on auto repair farming and spirituality the bible the word of god is therefore relativized placed on the same value plane as how to books in fact organized religion in general is only very occasionally present the bible also appears on a dresser as the camera pans to find stanley and iris having sex it is however acknowledged as a moral force iris clearly a character devoted to living a good life mentions at the beginning of the film that her rosary was among the objects lost in a purse snatching once able to read he enters the system and lands a managerial position with a health care plan a car and a house taking his place at the head of the family the breadwinner presumably he s an industrial designer dreaming up products that will require others enduring the drudgery of the assembly line to produce this ending probably the only bit of conventional hollywood in the film is so incongruous with all that has come before that i at least wonder if it wasn t forced in by some studio exec suddenly worried about the lack of a feel good ending and its potential effect on the bottom line now that according to the pundits we ve comfortably moved on to post industrial capitalism the film also has a slightly nostalgic feel as though we needed the historical distance to really analyze what happened during that period nevertheless it s highly recommended at least if you want to exercise your brain disregard the ending and it s close to a perfect,1
titanic has to be one of my all time favorite movies it has its problems what movies don t but still it s enjoyable when i stumble across someone who asks me why i like titanic i suppose my first reaction is wait a minute you don t i know so many people who don t like this movie and i m not saying i don t see why the love story is too cheesy well yes but isn t it enjoyable and moving all right the love story between jack and rose is very unrealistic everyone knows that love like this doesn t actually exist but this is a movie doesn t everyone enjoy watching a beautiful story that lets us slip slightly into fantasy for a while the next complaint dicaprio and winslet are terrible actors well ok in this movie i agree that they do not perform to their full potentials however i think it s unfair to say that they are terrible actors i personally think they are both very talented actors who unfortunately are very famous for a movie that they are not amazing in but the roles they are given are simple and the characters seem real enough that you can care about them quite a bit but i agree with many people that they did not do as well as could have been expected and finally if one is going to complain that they don t like this movie because they hate romance or because they hate history or tragic movies then i m sorry but why on earth did they go and see a movie that is so clearly all of these things it s like people who complain the dark knight is a bad movie because they hate action movies simply for being a movie not because you dislike the genre this is a good movie well deserving of its oscars in particular best cinematography which i find to be the best i ve ever seen in a movie save maybe the lord of the rings trilogy i know some of the writing fails such as the constant screaming of each other s names throughout the movie the flashback portion of the story can be quite weak at times but overall it s an amazing achievement in making the titanic look so real and the sinking feel so epic i understand why a lot of people dislike this movie but for the most part it boils down to them disliking the fundamental idea such as it being a love story rather than them thinking the movie in and of itself is poorly constructed i can tell you that i have read more than five books about the titanic including memoirs form the day it happened and this movie is extremely historically accurate save just a few faults the only main ones i can find is that the piping should be threaded copper not steel and the iceberg looks fairly unrealistic as is the scene where they hit it i give this movie not because i like romance movies but simply because it s an outstanding cinematic achievement that leaves one feeling horrified by the realistic adaptation of events,1
this movie is incomprehendably bad it begins with several random explosions and then cuts to a sock puppet of a t rex that talks to the audience it goes back and forth between sock puppetry and animation throughout probably because the film makers couldn t afford live actors i ll spare you the long tiresome relentless plot that drags this pitiful film on for a brutal minutes one of my friends found this very rare video at a hobby shop somewhere that sells out of print b movies and he bought it for the sole purpose of making fun of it but as it turns out our intervention was not neecessary this film makes fun of itself better than we could i thought that ed wood s plan from outer space was the cheesiest movie in existence but leave it to japanamation lego cars sock puppets to outdo him if you see this movie anywhere buy it without hesitation it is very rare and worth many many good laughs,0
really when it comes down to it this movie is just not funny josh kornbluth is the antithesis of funny and yet he thinks he s hilarious the plot about mailing the letters was fine at first until josh s look at me i m wacky approach began infesting each and every scene the judas priest joke may have been the least funny thing i have ever been privy to and that is saying quite a bit since it does have stiff competition from all the other jokes in the movie and as for the incredible overuse of the pixies debaser i have just one thing to say what did the pixies ever do to deserve a fate like this what did anyone do to josh kornbluth to cause him to write direct produce star in such a terrible movie,0
this sure is one comedy i m not likely to forget for a while wouldn t normally bother to comment on this movie it s so minor that no one would watch it anyway but as it happens it s kind of popular in p p sharing networks such as kazaa and so this saaad production needs to be exposed for what it is so what is it then well of course it s not really a comedy instead it s intended as a horror flick intended very much being the key word here the script is a totally incoherent and unbalanced mess the special effects are only special in that they re especially pathetic and as for the acting well let s just say that if this had been my graduating play at primary school my teachers would have burst out crying at our talent of course i realise that this is a very low budget film and that in those cases one should lower one s expectations certainly as far as things like special effects are concerned also even though i m a big fan of the horror genre i m aware that these movies are only rarely the places to look for interesting scripts and top notch acting but still b movies often have some redeeming features to make up for the lack of funding such as humour the only laughs in cradle to fear lie in the ridiculous performances if you can find the humour in that and i could for the first minutes or so gradually dozing off after that then that s going to be the only thing the movie has to offer oh that and two or three pairs of breasts woohoo how exciting as for the story it s not even that it doesn t try to convey anything the victims either use drugs and or are involved in serious crime the lesson watch out naughty boys and girls because one day you ll be made to pay for what you ve done i rest my case so all in all a little bit of sex a fair amount of drugs but absolutely zero rock n roll i rate this one out of but would go to if i could or perhaps i wouldn t it deserves a for spelling the actors names correctly in the titles i mean that s something innit,0
this is a warm funny film in much the same vein as the works of almodovar sure it has a year old boy sucking milk from breasts but the style is so playful that i can t understand at all those readers who found it sick or perverted but would i be willing to let my year old son play the part not so sure spanish cinema is often quite sexual but in a very open and healthy way that leaves the viewer without any sense of voyeurism or kink i think that we if we northern european types had the same attitude we d be much better off as a result this liberal attitude is also seen in the hilarious fartman maurice character as his lover says to him most people are embarrassed about farting you turn it into an art form,1
since most review s of this film are of screening s seen decade s ago i d like to add a more recent one the film open s with stock footage of b s bombing germany the film cut s to oskar werner s hauptmann captain wust character and his aide running for cover while making their way to hitler s fuehrer bunker once inside they are debriefed by bunker staff personnel the film then cut s to one of many conference scene s with albin skoda giving a decent impression of adolf hitler rallying his officer s to ultimate victory while werner s character is shown as slowly coming to realize the bunker denizen s are caught up in a fantasy world some non bunker event s are depicted most notable being the flooding of the subway system to prevent a russian advance through them and a minor subplot involving a young member of the flak unit s and his family s difficulty in surviving this film suffer s from a number of detail inaccuracies that a german film made only year s after ww should not have included the actor portraying goebbels willy krause wear s the same uniform as hitler including arm eagle goebbels wore a brown nazi party uniform with swastika armband the ss soldier s wear german army camouflage the well documented scene of hitler awarding the iron cross to boy s of the hitler youth is shown as having taken place inside the bunker it was done outside in the courtyard and lastly hitler s suicide weapon is clearly shown as a belgian browning model most account s agree it was a walther ppk some bit s of acting also seem wholly inaccurate with the drunken dance scene near the end of the film being notable this bit is shown as a cabaret skit with a intoxicated wounded soldier his arm in a splint maniacally goose stepping to music while a nurse does a combination striptease belly dance all by candlelight this is actually embarrassing to watch the most incredible bit is when werner s captain wust gain s an audience alone with skoda s hitler hitler is shown as slumped on a wall bench drugged and delirious when werner s character begin s to question him hitler start s screaming which bring s in a ss guard who mortally wound s werner s character in the back with a gunshot this fabricated scene is not based on any true historic account werner s character is then hauled off to die in a anteroom while hitler prepare s his own ending hitler s farewell to his staff is shown but the suicide is off screen the final second s of the movie show hitler s funeral pyre smoke slowly forming into a ghostly image of the face of the dead oskar werner hauptmann wust this film is more allegorical than historical and anyone interested in this period would do better to check out more recent film s such as the remake hitler the last day s or the german film downfall der untergang if they wish a more true accounting of this dramatic story these last two film s are based on first person eyewitness account s with hitler the last day s being compiled from gerhard boldt s autobiography as a staff officer in the fuehrer bunker and downfall being done from hitler s secretary s recollection s the screen play for der letzte akte is taken from american nuremberg war crime s trial judge michael musmanno s book ten day s to die which is more a compilation of event s many obviously fanciful than eyewitness history it is surprising that hugh trevor roper s account the last day s of hitler was never made into a film,0
the previous reviewer has said it exactly i saw it once was enchanted saw it a second time when it was re broadcast within a week or two of the first airing i still remember some of the scenes the setting is the opening of the th century the war referred to in the title is world war i one of the scenes was set in a women only section of a public place which was an interesting historical note the moment when one of the women first touches the other is one of my all time great movie moments i don t think of this as a gay movie it s an interesting and tender period love story where the two principals happen to be women i would love to see this movie again i would buy this one if it ever came out on dvd,1
this film has so little class in comparison to strangers on a train or even accidental meeting for that matter that despite plot similarities i wouldn t feel right in actually comparing this to either of them the yancy butler character came across as such a dopey dimwit i was too embarrassed for the writer and director to continue watching i don t enjoy many lifetime movies but feel compelled to watch one every now and then in the interest of promoting harmony at home i often groan silently but this film caused me to protest out loud stand up leave the room and walk around the house mumbling to myself before i returned to my normally favorite chair to subject myself to more torture dean morgan rochester ny,0
i first saw this film around ten years ago and i thought it was very funny indeed it was not as bad as some critics were making it out to be the fact that it was written by the usually dependable john hughes shows that you can at least expect some funny dialogue by the way i also think weird science is quite good which was also penned in lightning speed by hughes the film has a very garish look to it using all the primary colours reds yellows etc which makes it look quite unique the cast are also quite good the prudish bunny packard and the devil possessed delores salk are a stand out the film has certainly dated a little but i personally prefer it to all the other lampoon series,1
i didn t think it was possible for a horror comedy film to fail so abysmally on both fronts really awful the fact that it doesn t take itself seriously usually a good thing works against it primarily because the actors are so wooden you really would swear they are reading cue cards on the upshot though the mst k version as always has a few laughs,0
this a rip roaring western and i have watched it many times and it entertains on every level however if your after the true facts about such legends as hickcock cody and calamity jane then look elsewhere as john ford suggested this is the west when the truth becomes legend print the legend the story moves with a cracking pace and there is some great dialogue between gary cooper and jean arthur two very watchable stars who help to make this movie the sharp eyed amongst you might just spot gabby hayes as an indian scout also there is a very young anthony quinn making his debut as cayenne warrior he actually married one of demilles daughters in real life indeed its quinns character who informs cooper of the massacre of custer told in flash back the finale is well done and when the credits roll it fuses the american west with american history so please take time out to watch this classic western,1
bo derek will not go down in history as a great actress on the other hand starting in the s actual acting talent seemed to be less and less of a required ability in hollywood so bo could very well have gone onto bigger and better things after the big box office take of blake edwards that is if she hadn t allowed her husband john derek to take over her career numerous playboy spreads and bad movies like this one this one in particular directed by john destroyed what momentum she had and made her the butt of many a joke in the s it was assumed that you could put a certain personality in a certain movie and it would be box office gold john figured that putting bo in a movie wherein she was nude for much of the running time would make people flock to the theaters after the hype maybe if the movie had been any good perhaps this version of tarzan has got to be the all time worst of the many iterpretations of burrough s lord of the jungle a slap in the face to character s book and film legacy tarzan is in fact an after thought as the film is primarily a vehicle for bo s breasts and richard harris wonderful over acting remember the pair had worked together in orca his scenery chewing helps you to stay awake during the boredom of it all and yes the film is quite boring nothing really exciting happens and the few action scenes seem to have been shot by someone in a trance bo s body can only get you so far miles o keeffe who played tarzan at least would go onto a long and enjoyable b movie career and richard harris can put this behind him after his recent acting triumphs but bo and john derek never recovered from this fiasco and future collaborations between the two only served to show why his directing career and her acting career died in the first place and how did the orangutan get to africa,0
they did it and boy did they do it fantastically or what the bbc finally brought the doctor back to our screens on a saturday evening where he belongs and they did it with style episode one rose one of the strengths of the new series is russel t davies as a writer and executive producer he s a fan of the show and knows what the other fans want but also is an experienced writer in his own right so knows what other people want another strength as perfectly shown here in this first episode is billie piper and her character of rose tyler finally the doctor s companion gets a credible back story and a strong character also nice to see the return of the autons a nice nod to the classic series there episode two the end of the world in the start of this double bill to show off the tardis strengths we end up in a story where special effects is everything they now have the technology to create real believable environments and monsters no more rubber suits of sorts also the hints at the end of this episode regarding the new doctor s past very intriguing to kill off all the time lords and make him the only one episode three the unquiet dead we ve had the future now lets have the past the first non davies written episode is a little flat in some places but this is made up for by simon callow s charles dickens and the sudden twist in the plot when it is revealed the pitiful gelf are not so pitiful after all episode four aliens of london the consequences of the doctor s actions are fully explored in this series not least with the repercussions of rose running off with him also we have our first cliffhanger not the best of ones admittedly the slitheen are an interesting villain though they can look too cgi for their own good episode five world war three the second part of this story about the slitheen suffers mainly from the same problems of the first also the clips from the next episode coming up at the end of the current episode are annoying and spoil it for people episode six dalek yes we ve had the future the past and the present ish but now we get to the good stuff the return of the doctor s arch nemesis here i think we can complement christopher ecclestone he was brilliant as the doctor and no more so then in this episode where we see the pain on his face as he recollects the time war and the alien nature of him as he almost turns into a dalek himself episode seven the long game really only a story to act as a prologue for the series finale saved by simon pegg as the smarmy editor and tamsin grieg in an amusing cameo the media are controlling us that s never been done before has it episode eight father s day this is a great episode full of human emotion and heartache for rose and the true consequences of what happens when you really muck up history full marks to billie piper here episode nine the empty child i don t find this kid very scary sorry but i don t it s a good episode though but the cliffhanger still could have been better it s those next time bits that spoil them john barrowman is introduced here as captain jack the dashing conman he s a good actor who s been around for a while but only seemingly noticed now episode ten the doctor dances part two of this ww story very well made in historical context terms a nice upbeat ending though a little confusing perhaps for younger viewers when the mummy is revealed episode eleven boom town probably the weakest of the series but that doesn t mean its bad a nice return for the slitheen and also an interesting character study of the doctor and rose episode twelve bad wolf this starts off quite silly with some good hearted humour and cheeky fun making at popular tv shows over her in blighty things turn deadly serious quickly though and the revelation at the end is the best cliffhanger in the series episode thriteen parting of the ways goodbye christopher ecclestone a fantastic doctor in so many ways david tennant is having to really work his socks off to be as good as him the regeneration scene at the end is beautifully played oh and the daleks are back in the extreme god bless cgi because they d never be able to pull this off normally overall brilliant,1
there s a great deal of material from the modesty blaise comics and novels that would be great in a movie unfortunately several attempts have been made and they ve fallen short of the great potential in the character so no this isn t the modesty you know from the comic strip currently reprinted in nice editions from titan books this is modesty some or years prior to the first strip and from what you can piece together from her back story it s accurate miramax had the movie rights to the character with quentin tarantino acting as advocate and technical adviser early drafts of the miramax project attempted to adapt one of the best novels but always managed to leave out some crucial element tarantino wasn t happy with any of them and offered to remove his name from the project so they could proceed to the studio s credit they wanted to keep him in the process since they knew he got the character and her world with the movie rights close to expiration they decided to try a very different approach the result was my name is modesty a small direct to video movie that introduces the character the movie does not introduce willie garvin or sir gerald these characters are important to blaise s adventures throughout most of the published stories what this movie accomplishes is showing the strength of the character by herself she never loses her composure and you never doubt that she s in charge even unarmed in a room full of gangsters with guns most of the movie takes place within a casino which undoubtedly saved money on the production it doesn t matter the film does not come across as cheap instead it gives a fairly comprehensive and believable back story for the character and demonstrates just how far she thinks ahead should miramax adapt any of the comic stories or novels now they ve laid out the character s background nicely and won t have to spend much time on her origin i realize the words direct to video don t inspire confidence but this film is well worth a look,1
the van trotta movie rosenstrasse is the best movie i have seen in years i am actually not really interested in films with historical background but with this she won my interest for that time the only annoying thing about the movie have been the scenes in new york and the impression i had of trying to be as american as possible which i think has absolutely failed the scenes in the back really got to my heart the german actress katja riemann completely deserved her award she is one of the most impressing actress i have ever seen in future i will watch more of her movies great luck for me that i am a native german speaking and only for a year in the us so as soon as i am back i ll buy some riemann dvds so to all out there who have not seen this movie yet watch it i think it would be too long to describe what it is all about yet especially all the flash backs and switches of times are hard to explain but simply watcxh it you will be zesty,1
le grand voyage is a gentle miracle of a film a work made more profound because of its understated script by writer director isma l ferroukhi who allows the natural scenery of this road trip story and the sophisticated acting of the stars nicolas cazal and mohamed majd to carry the emotional impact of the film ferroukhi s vision is very capably enhanced by the cinematography of katell djian a sensitive mixture of travelogue vistas of horizons and tightly photographed duets between characters and the musical score by fowzi guerdjou who manages to maintain some beautiful themes throughout the film while paying homage to the many local musical variations from the numerous countries the film surveys reda nicolas cazal lives with his muslim family in southern france a young student with a western girlfriend who does not seem to be following the religious direction of his heritage his elderly father mohamed majd has decided his time has come to make his hadj to mecca and being unable to drive requests the reluctant reda to forsake his personal needs to drive him to his ultimate religious obligation the two set out in a fragile automobile to travel through france into italy and on through bulgaria croatia slovenia and turkey to saudi arabia along the trip reda pleads with his father to visit some of the interesting sights but his father remains focused on the purpose of the journey and reda is irritably left to struggle with his father s demands on their pilgrimage they encounter an old woman ghina ognianova who attaches herself to the two men and must eventually be deserted by reda a turkish man mustapha jacky nercessian who promises to guide the father son duo but instead brings about a schism by getting reda drunk in a bar and disappearing and countless border patrol guards and custom agents who delay their progress for various reasons tensions between father and son mount reda cannot understand the importance of this pilgrimage so fraught with trials and mishaps and the father cannot comprehend reda s insensitivity to the father s religious beliefs and needs at last they reach mecca where they are surrounded by hoards of pilgrims from all around the world and the sensation of trip s significance is overwhelming to reda the manner in which the story comes to a close is touching and rich with meaning it has taken a religious pilgrimage to restore the gap between youth and old age between son and father and between defiance and acceptance of religious values the visual impact of this film is extraordinary all the more so because it feels as though the camera just happens to catch the beauty of the many stopping points along the way without the need to enhance them with special effects nicolas cazal is a superb actor be sure to see his most recent and currently showing film the grocer s son and it is his carefully nuanced role that brings the magic to this film another fine film from the film movement this is a tender story brilliantly told highly recommended grady harp,1
this is not really a zombie film if we re defining zombies as the dead walking around here the protagonist armand louque played by an unbelievably young dean jagger gains control of a method to create zombies though in fact his method is to mentally project his thoughts and control other living people s minds turning them into hypnotized slaves this is an interesting concept for a movie and was done much more effectively by fritz lang in his series of dr mabuse films including dr mabuse the gambler and the testament of dr mabuse here it is unfortunately subordinated to his quest to regain the love of his former fianc e claire duvall played by the anne heche look alike with a bad hairdo dorothy stone which is really the major theme the movie has an intriguing beginning as louque is sent on a military archaeological expedition to cambodia to end the cult of zombies that came from there at some type of compound where we get great s sets and clothes he announces his engagement to claire and then barely five minutes later she gives him back his ring declaring her love for his pal clifford greyson robert noland it s unintentionally funny the way they talk to each other without making eye contact this would have been a great movie for mystery science theater if they hadn t already roasted it it s never shown how louque actually learns the zombification secret but he then uses it to kill his enemies create a giant army of rifle carrying soldiers and body guards we won t see such sheer force of will until john agar in the brain from planet arous finally claire consents to marry him if he will let greyson live and return to america louque agrees but actually turns him into one of his hypnotized slaves on their wedding night he realizes that claire will only begin to love him if he gives up his powers to gain her love he does so causing the revolt of the title in which all his slaves awaken and attack his compound and kill him greyson embraces claire and we seem to be at the end of a parable whom the gods would destroy they first make mad so really then it s not that bad of a film despite the low imdb rating it currently has on repeated viewings one can see the artistry in the well formed script dean jagger had yet to develop into a good actor and is almost unrecognizable in his youngness is that really his own hair we remember him more for his bald old man roles in white christmas x the unknown and king creole the story borrows a lot of its basic themes from the halperin brothers better earlier film white zombie in which hapless robert frazier as charles beaumont uses zombification to win the love of madge bellamy as madeline parker if you want real zombie movies of which there are hundreds i d start with white zombie king of the zombies i walked with a zombie night of the living dead the last man on earth and its two remakes in the modern era of classy films there are horror express the serpent and the rainbow days later and its sequel as well as many many others too numerous to mention this one is not really a zombie film judging this movie on its own terms it s more of a semi gothic romance as such it ranks a little below some of universal s bottom billed b horror movies of the late s and early s so i ll give it a,0
walt disney s the rookie is based on the story of jim morris a former minor league picher who made one of the most amazing comebacks in sports history ending an almost year retirement and making his major league debut in at the age of the film opens with a brief synopsis of morris childhood which included a series of re locations his father was a military man and even when his family settled for good in football crazed texas morris passion for baseball remained strong the childhood segment then jumps ahead about years to the adult morris played by dennis quaid who is now a baseball coach and chemistry teacher at big lake high school in real life it was reagan county high school in big lake texas it is mentioned that he attempted a career as a baseball player but that it didn t work out morris s team is struggling and he lectures them about giving up on their dreams they turn the table on him telling him that he should try out for a major league team at several times when he pitches to them in practice they express amazement at the speed with which he throws morris seems unconvinced but agrees to a deal with his players in which if they win district he will try out for a major league team big lake does win district and adhering to his end of the deal morris attends a tampa bay devil rays try out phenomenally he throws miles an hour faster than he threw during his minor league career and an outstanding speed even for a major league pitcher after another try out with the team morris is offered a contract with the devil rays this leaves him with a tough decision stay in his comfortable life or once again pursue his major league dream by going through the minor league grind of making little money and spending months at a time away from home and the decision is even more agonizing than during his first minor league stint because he now has a wife and three children morris signs with the devil rays begins at the aa level and moves up quickly to the aaa level one level below major league baseball but as the season winds down the chances of him getting called up grow increasingly slim for the most part i love this movie there are lots of great performances and likable characters and it s easy to find yourself really pulling for morris also the movie does a great job portraying professional baseball at both the major and minor league levels and most of all it teaches the timeless message of holding tight to your dreams even when they seem distant and almost impossible to achieve still the movie has some flaws while generally accurate it exaggerates and even fabricates a few things check out http espn go com page s closer html for some examples also except for one scene in which he prays with his players the movie completely ignores morris christian faith but considering disney s left wing zeal that s not surprising presumably a lot of the exaggerations fabrications were done to make the story more dramatic yet the minute documentary on morris that is included on the dvd features some information that makes his story more dramatic but is excluded from the movie for example from birth until his family settled in texas for good when he was morris re located times and his initial minor league career ended after four surgeries through which he lost half of the muscle in his left pitching shoulder thus making his throwing mph even more inexplicable to fully appreciate and understand the story of jim morris it s good to not only watch the rookie but to watch the dvd s documentary check out the aforementioned link to the movie s inaccuracies and probably also to read morris biography also titled the rookie i haven t read the book but i hope to one of these days but overall the rookie is a very good portrayal of a miraculous story and is a powerful testament to the power of dreams and the triumph of the common man,1
this movie was terrible throughout the whole movie i was puzzled and did not see any point to it i had to go to this site and read the review to finally understand what it was about this movie is not worth watching at all not only is it sick and revolting but totally stupid please don t watch unless you are one of those that likes to watch bad movies if this movie questions japanese society and their values and roles than this is a country that i would not like to visit or bother to know this is a totally sick movie i did not enjoy it because it made no sense my boyfriend and i sat there waiting to see if it was a horror because that is what it was listed under it was total disappointment,0
it s easy to make really general comments about a film like this the fact that it s one of the only remaining japanese films from this era causes people to say that it started japanese cinema and was unlike anything the west ever made the latter of these two comments is particularly false as kinugasa himself admitted to ripping off caligari on more than one occasion but style was meant to be imitated and doesn t take away from this film s importance what we have here is experimental themes and composition built on already established visual styles opening the doors for a truly brilliant layering of narratives and realities for this purpose the madhouse is the ideal setting and the writers knew this this is a landmark film and every effort should be made to track it down out of essential,1
this is a wonderful movie about a brothel in a fishing village that could be best described with scene constellations and direction of old kurosawa s works combined with dostoyevski s topics of human psychology o shin sonia marmeladova shakespeare s drama and hans christian andersen s tragic and cheerfulness the screenplay is wondrous the scenes are colour and beautiful some scenes stay really imprinted in my mind the plot is interesting and unpredictable each of the characters is very well developed and interesting there is also a little action so if you don t like all the sentiments you d also come to your costs it is not about mysterious geishas and proud samurai with their bushido pouring all out of them but about life work and kinds of people found everywhere at any time a lovely and fascinating tribute to kurosawa certainly worth seeing,1
fay grim is on its face a tale of espionage and intrigue told with a nod and a wink as the sequel to his extraordinary henry fool hal hartley creates a surprising blend of film noir and hardboiled spy thriller that starts with a knowing smile and large dose of laughter and turns as poignant and warm as any film i ve seen this year parkey posey is fay grim an unwitting mata hari caught between the love of her exiled husband henry fool and the questionable intentions of a charming cia operative as agent fulbright jeff goldblum is a master of wit and sarcasm in a role that seems tailored to his talents he has never been better james urbaniak is fay s brother simon jailed but renowned for his wildly popular books of poetry his love of his work and his sister brings a jolt of passion to contrast the dour nature of the spies which eventually populate fay s world and liam aiken is fay s oversexed year old son although that may be redundant aiken s understated style is remarkably old soul for someone his age the entire film is shot dutch angle the off kilter style made famous by orson welles and used primarily in horror films and psychological thrillers to impart a sense of foreboding in fay grim using that style from opening credits to closing is intriguing at first deceptively clever the next for just as the viewer begins to fall for the perfectly timed comedic elements and wit of hartley s brilliant script something happens the film takes a dark yet strangely comforting turn as these characters magically become sympathetic before our eyes what began as dark comedy morphs into romantic drama and the transition is masterful slow pacing gives way to breathtaking action and we are sucked right into the vortex in the end hartley s sharp dialog combined with the amazing performances of a perfectly matched ensemble cast makes for a delicious cinematic cocktail told with the luxury of one able to write produce direct edit and even compose the music hal hartley has crafted a smart sexy tale of espionage with tongue just barely planted in cheek fay grim is one part dashiell hammett one part raymond chandler and one part ian fleming shaken and maybe stirred as well,1
i have to say although i despise these kind of shows shock horror i m a girl i feel i have to express my opinion i had seen dirty sanchez before i saw jackass and think it way surpasses jackass in terms of programme making story lines and interviews are inter weaved to create a more interesting show i saw a few minutes of jackass movie the other night and couldn t believe how poorly put together it was everything just put in a line joke after joke with no relation between anything it must have been the quickest easiest show to edit ever shockingly amateur while drinking puke isn t really my thing as far as a substantial entertainment show goes dirty sanchez is way out of jackass s league,1
lage raho munnabhai is really a disappointing movie i have seen the first part of munnabhai and it was really good but this one really make u bore n disappoint u this movie really waste yours time and money i went with my friend to this movie on the first day of its release and v both get bore in cinema hall role of circuit was very small n useless n this movie i think sanjay dutt cut down the role of arshad varshi character of the movie is also not well define like the previous one this movie show u the result of over confidence the ideas of mahatma is also not define and confusing a really very big disappointment,0
really really i know if you make a political war movie you will get noticed but this movie was just garbage horrible in every sense terribly inaccurate in so many ways i have an easier time believing the president of the united states suiting up flying a jet fighter and shooting down aliens it is easier to note the few things that were right my jaw dropped when i saw some one say that this movie was the best in the last years it was overacted seemingly pointless plot diversions and had questionable cinematography at times x box youtube acupat utilities did anyone check that these things did not exist in it s not like you had to do extensive research it was only five years before this movie came out i am an iraq war veteran and if you spent one day with an infantry platoon or an eod squad you would realize how b s this movie is to compare this to platoon or saving private ryan is ludicrous why don t you just throw commando and red dawn in there too i think those might be more accurate if for some reason you can see past the unbelievable plot the historical and factual discrepancies then this movie might just be ok nothing more if you keep on hearing oscar buzz and have to add your own pompous review go right ahead as for me i am writing the director to see if i can get my minutes back,0
this movie was the most out of line and liberally fed movie i have ever seen in my life besides farenheit all of the information was only supported on the opinion of five scientists while of the asssociated press highly criticize the science promoted be gore global warming is a mass media hysteria and nothing more most of the information in the movie was either misquoted or it was wrong all together this movie has been investigated over and over again and has been shown evidence against that prove its lies were nothing but lies liberal blindness an to think that they show this in school proves that the media has brainwashed us into believing this garbage,0
like too many recent british films this one takes a great cast and gives them a flimsy cliched script to work with the performances save it from total disgrace and it has some charm but it certainly didn t make me laugh where are all the great british writers hiding,0
i understand the jokes quite well they just aren t good the show is horrible i understand it and that s another horrible thing about it the only cool character there ever was on the show was that one hobo in that one episode but then i see the other episode including that episode and the show is horrible it s not funny not funny i don t want people to say only smart people get it because if they re so smart why do they judge people they don t even know and say that they re not smart or intellectual enough to understand it it s like saying the sky is red but never looking outside but anyways this is absolutely the worst show i have ever seen in my life the jokes are terrible i mean you can understand them they re just horrible her controversy is very lame her fart jokes and other jokes on bodily fluids are really dumb and usually consist of really bad acting i m not sure what these smart people see in this show but judging others when they don t even know anything about any of us isn t exactly a smart comment,0
possible spoilers although there was some good acting particularly chloe sevigny and radha mitchell in the comedy half this simply was not an engaging film the segues between the comedy part and the tragedy part were awkward or sometimes not obvious this viewer was initially confused by the fact that the supporting cast differs in the two halves i thought with the way things were laid out in the opening scene that the people surrounding melinda would be the same people just reacting differently more of a he said she said premise however what we have is two totally different stories and two totally different women both of whom happen to be played by radha mitchell the two playwrights in the opening scene the comedian and the tragedian supposedly take the same premise and go from there but the two stories are only tenuously related they do little to support the topic of discussion which is that almost anything can be looked at as either comedy or tragedy nice cast but a disappointing film,0
when i was a kid i totally loved both bill ted movies the other night bogus journey was on and since it was at least years since i last saw it i decided to tune in and i loved it all over again this film is still funny after all those years excellent adventure is better but this one rocks just the same sure some of the perfomances are a bit cheesy but hey this entire film is cheesy in a cool way plus it features the coolest personation of death ever in a movie concluding totally like non bogus movie dude way excellent station,1
this movie deals with one of the most feared geriatric diseases among the aging today as one who has encountered a number of families who are facing the potential of alzheimer s or who are in the formative stages i would suggest that every health care giver recommend this movie to any family facing the trauma of this disease the movie is designed primarily to speak to the family of the patient and reaches into the very heart of the struggle casting is excellent and the dramatic portrayal is outstanding with a very commanding plot line,1
okay i had heard little about this film so when it came on the movie channels on tv i wanted to watch it being a horror aficionado i think i can do a collective huh for everyone who watched it i decided to move on with my life but at a party with my closest friends we saw it was coming on and some of us having seen it already decided we could laugh our way through it both of us proclaiming this is the dumbest thing i ve ever seen it wasn t scary ill give it to roth who i think is a young hack characters do change throughout the film ala cube however despite your typical rats in a cage scenario who will turn on who etc it was pretty average horror a few points what was with that kid i m not even talking about him being weird and biting people i m talking about the whole slow motion karate kicking what was that okay i know rider s character liked jordan ladd s but as a young woman i was appalled that he just went ahead and molested her in her sleep uh thats illegal roth was in the movie just so roth could be in the movie talk about pointlessly writing yourself in what was with the deputy so she was just instantly pulled apart by the dog and there was little to no blood left just a scrap of her jeans anyway we were laughing our asses off and i love laughing during horror movies return of the living dead evil dead but i don t know if we were supposed to be laughing here,0
even though many people here praises this movie i have to warn you it has no logic whatsoever i think that basinger does a decent job at acting but you can t make a thriller if there is a great lack of realism this scene paints a good picture for you of the movie while basinger is pursued by murderous thugs she decides to sit down and gaze upon a picture she finds from her pocket the picture is from her daughter and it reads we love you mommy who does something like that what the eff and believe me when i say that it is not nearly as stupid as some other scenes of the movie someone stated that this is a hidden gem well i have to strongly disagree this movie has stayed hidden for a reason and it s not a gem oh and please i don t even want to start commenting about the red toolbox it hurts my brain d usually the lack of logic does not bother me if it is in small amounts but this movie basically is made possible only because of the lack of logic but i still give it a because even though it is embarrassingly flawed in logic it has certain mood that kept me watching till the end so if you choose to watch this you know you have been warned,0
the lady from shanghai is weird even by the standards of its eminent director orson welles whose last hollywood film this was for many a moon it s a kind of post modern film noir made during the period when more conventional films of this type were quite popular and it concerns a happy go lucky irish sailor played by welles who falls in with a mysterious lady rita hayworth who was married to welles at the time and her crippled and probably impotent husband played with a brainy malevolent gusto by everett sloan a long sea voyage follows with welles in tow as bodyguard and the plot thickens when sloan s law partner glenn anders turns up and starts making trouble by giving odd speeches about suicide and other morbid topics that suggest that the man is on the verge of mental breakdown a murder plot ensues and all sorts of calamities follow for welles and his employers and at this point the story fuzzy and told at a leisurely pace thus far goes off the deep end and the last part of the film consists of brilliant directorial set pieces that seem to have been thrown in to give the movie some of the drive and urgency its story does not by itself possess and the result is a very watchable and often pleasing at all times incomprehensible mess it s hard to know what welles was trying to do with this film aside from maybe resurrect his career in hollywood by making a vehicle for his wife but self destruction intervenes as it often does with welles and miss hayworth has never looked less fetching that she is also cast as a femme fatale seems peculiar as aside from her beauty her most appealing trait as a screen personality was lovableness a quality she does not possess in this picture the director himself is strangely unappealing and hammy at o hara the presumably easygoing sailor since welles for all his many gifts was not known as an easy man to work with this is a role that twenty or thirty years later sean connery or robert shaw might have been able to breath life into welles does not the most interesting performance in the movie is glenn anders as grisby sloan s loony treacherous law partner anders works wonders with the part and is photographed to look bizarre while his scenes end on odd sour notes and are often choppily edited but for all this he manages to make grisby s derangement palpable and disturbing and anticipates in a genteel way the more flamboyant method actors of the fifties such as timothy carey there is a question that nags me about this film what was welles trying to say he was a highly talented and intelligent man and tended to make statements in his movies which whether one agrees with his world view or not were brilliantly put forth i think i have an answer or a partial one welles was summing up his movie career he had reached the end of his rope in the hollywood studio system he despised and he knew it the lady from shanghai isn t exactly a nose thumbing at the studio moguls of the day but i suspect that it is in its portrait of amoral rival big shot lawyers read producers expressing welles opinion of the power brokers of hollywood that he presented himself as a rootless sailor is telling welles himself was certainly an inveterate traveler and he rarely lived in one place for long he was hired by a studio to provide it with a big prestigious film citizen kane which caused a firestorm of controversy from which he never fully recovered this may be the issue that dares not speak its name in this film which is to say welles personal failure in not getting over the shock of his newness in the movie colony and his inability to deliver the goods as promised the mere fact of him turning up in hollywood like his mere presence in the film could not forestall disasters well beyond his control that he presented himself in the movie as an amiable naive outsider shows a lack of self knowledge on welles part he was much more of an inside player than he let on and i imagine that he despised his knowledge of the worldlier aspects of life and himself for knowing so much,1
i ve watched a few episodes of this show and have found certain elements of it to be rather interesting considering medical facts that can be learned but this is totally upstaged and wrecked by the neverending immoral relationships of the show s characters everybody seems to have slept with just about everyone even during office hours which is ridiculously unrealistic there doesn t seem to be one solid lasting marriage or relationship in the entire show everyone is broken up and on the prowl hardly a true reflection of all americans indeed there is a total lack of respect for marriage or monogamy and it s truly fulsome then we are presented with endless little moral dilemmas and they re generally solved in such a way that belittles anyone who doesn t agree with the all knowing degenerate management and staff of the private practice for instance in one of the latest episodes we re presented with an exceedingly rare situation of a baby who is born with an uncertain gender and addison absolutely refuses to perform the surgery because we re supposed to let the baby decide his gender later on anyone who disagrees with this is portrayed as immature and stupid and i think that anyone opposed to abortion would be offended by the way the show treats pro lifers addison made the comment that no man was allowed to have an opinion on the issue and only one black character was given dignity for opposing abortion on moral grounds the general feeling was that if you opposed abortion you re a freak hardly the popular sentiment in the us two of the main characters in the show nonchalantly mention that they had abortions when they were younger and had no apologies or regrets in spite of the fact that research has shown women can undergo intense depression what s more a young girl comes to the clinic for an abortion and then thanks the staff on the way out and someone talks about it as how they were helping this young person and it was like something to exult in the script could have been written by planned parenthood all in all this is a cheap show that lacks much of a future unless it decides to present more real relationships rather than just totally unbelievable soap opera relationships and far fetched medical situations throughout the whole show,0
i m surprised how many people give this move less than stars but they just don t understand the movie the story is about growing up in a difficult situation there is a crazy grandmother who really wants the best for your grandchildren and there s good reason why so many critics like this movie and the reason is because they understand the movie i feel sorry for the low scores given by some people i wish i could just write a brief summary of a movie but imdb requires you to write lines i frankly don t have anything else to say,1
this film as low budget as it may be is one of the best psychological thrillers i ve ever seen if you accept that it s low budget from the start you can appreciate just how good of a story it is how very well written the script is and how great the filmmaker was to produce something so wonderful with so little money all the elements of a great film are here the visuals though shot on digital were gorgeous in places the bizarre dreamy feel of the film is captured particularly well in the scene with the talking dog that scene was just amazing it s such a trippy piece of work but not done in a pretentious way and because of that i have a whole lot of respect for this film it comes highly recommended to anyone looking for something unique and captivating and different from much of the repetitive films that are out there,1
director f w murnau wisely stuck with the silent film medium he knew so well to cover this story of native islander life in the south seas the documentary style works very well for the first half of the movie the landscapes are beautiful and the daily life activities of the islanders are interesting to watch the film loses momentum though when it begins to concentrate more on the narrative story of two doomed lovers the storyline just never gets that interesting despite being handled well by murnau won an academy award for best cinematography although the award probably should have been for best scenery you can t really credit the dp for getting to shoot in such a beautiful location,0
when an actor has to play the role of an actor fictional or factual the task becomes much more difficult than playing a role in a double life ronald coleman surpassed himself as anthony john the tortured double personality he put into that character all his talent and sincerity the facial expressions mannerisms gait and stance spoke eloquently of what anthony john was going through while playing othello on stage coleman also did extremely well as a shakespearean actor in those short scenes as othello that were part of this gem of a movie closups of coleman s face as othello tortured by doubts about the fidelity of desdemona were in themselves scenes worth watching add to that his character s off stage desperation and only someone with coleman s depth of acting perception can achieve it was like watching spenser tracy as dr jekyll and mr hyde except this double role was much more profound and poignant shelly winters looked so sweet vulnerable and gorgeous at the same time and added her talent to the movie it is believed that ronald coleman liked his role in this film above all others he played and went on to win the oscar for best actor in i would see this movie repeatedly and never feel bored,1
manoj agrawal after the failure of pardesi babu returned with this film the film has govinda in roles as his father mother grandfather sister and later on he also has disguises he in short is a useless detective send on a case by his friend to get proofs against his wife whose photos he looses at the airport while flirting with rani he disguises as a sardarji in the plane and again as a girl the funny part is how easily and in short time he does that then he disguises as a french singer and enters a tv to get proofs lol and then as a maharashtrian yes inside the tv itself the rest of the film has the same mistaken identities and ends on a predictable note there are some funny scenes like govinda being bashed by an african and also many other portions direction by manoj agrawal is okay music is okay amongst actors govinda again proves he is one of the most watchable actors he as usual is fantastic though he has done such roles before he fits in all the get ups and roles too well here again though the much hyped roles don t actually fit in the film rani looks fat teams up well with govinda thatz it she is nothing great and kept doing such type of roles amongst rest nirmal pandey is as usual johny lever is too loud at times and funny in places in role and irritates as the older tinnu anand is okay satish kaushik is hilarious paresh is okay tanaaz is okay,0
this is a great movie for the true romantics and sports lovers alike drew barrymore is at her best in this movie as a drew fan it was quite nice to see her shine after having several flops i had my doubts about jimmy fallon but he totally delivered as ben the comical sports crazed sweetheart the comedy in this movie is great there were several laugh out loud moments their first date started rocky when he showed up at her apartment with flowers and she was sick to her stomach from eating a new place earlier in the day instead of leaving he helps take care of her helping her change into pajama s then cleaning up the puke on her toilet and bathroom later telling her that she was very lady like no chunks everything goes great between ben and lindsay the whole winter but then baseball season starts lindsay starts to realize just how obsessed ben is with the red sox and why this seemingly great guy is still single she tries to shrug it off and think of it as a good thing as she has a busy work schedule and she wont feel guilty for working extra hours while he is at games she even buys all the books on the red sox she can find including one on the curse of bambino everything is going pretty well until lindsay has a false alarm having missed her period it both makes them both realize how serious they are getting and she begins to question if this is the person she wants to be with a very touching part in the movie is after she tells him she got her period it shows him sadly putting away a baby sized red sox jersey he had bought just in case she was pregnant eventually ben tries to show her how important she is and decides to go to her friends birthday party after she said i had to check my calender and when i saw the there was a red sox yankee game i knew i would be going stag after the party ben tells her it was the best night of his life shortly after he gets a call from his pal who went to the game he gave up for the party and told him it was the best game ever ben freaks out about missing it and ends up really hurting lindsay when she says a few minutes ago you were saying this was the best night of your life he says well that was a few minutes ago so they separate for a while he realizes how immature his obsession is and decides to sell his season tickets which he inherited from his uncle because if he didn t it would remind him too much of what he gave up for them lindsay finds out through a friend and decides to stop him realizing he is doing it for her it ends very sweetly showing how his childhood love for baseball has been over shadowed for a whole new deeper love lindsay they still go to the games and even attend the final world series game and st louis and it is a happy ending all around thumbs up,1
live feed is set in some unnamed chinese japanese asian district somewhere as five american friends sarah ashley schappert emily taayla markell linda caroline chojnacki mike lee tichon darren rob scattergood are enjoying a night on the town taking in the sights after a scuffle in a bar with a japanese triad boss stephen chang they decide to check out a porno theatre as you would inside they are separated quickly find out that the place belongs to the triad boss who uses it to torture kill people for reasons which aren t made clear can local boy miles kevan ohtsji save them this canadian production was co written produced directed by ryan nicholson who also gets a prosthetic effects designer credit as well one has to say that live feed is another pretty poor low budget shot on a camcorder type horror film that seems to exist only to cash in on the notoriety success of hostel the mini craze for torture porn as it s become known according the imdb s trivia section for live feed writer director nicholson wrote it after hearing about certain activities taking place in live sex theatres for my money i reckon he wrote it after watching hostel the script is pretty poor there is no basic reason given as to why this porno theatre has a big fat ugly freak dressed in bondage gear lurking around torturing killing people none was it for the triads was it for his pleasure was it to make snuff films to sell some sort of explanation would have been nice also why did he turn on the triad boss at the end if your looking for a film with a coherent story then forget about live feed it seemed to me to be some sort of uneasy misjudged mix of sex s m horror torture gore action films which doesn t come off i mean just setting a horror film in a porn theatre isn t automatically going to make your film any good there still needs to be a decent script story right the character s were fairly poor clich s some of their actions motivations were more than a little bit questionable it moves along at a reasonable pace it s fairly sleazy mixing gore sex nudity but it does look cheap which lessens the effect director nicholson doesn t do anything special here the editing is choppy annoying he seems to think lighting almost every scene with neon lights is a good idea the film has a cheap look about it available in both r unrated versions i saw the shorter cut r version which really isn t that gory but i am prepared to give the benefit of the doubt to the unrated version say that it might be much much gorier but i can t say for sure there s a fair amount of nudity too if that s your thing i wouldn t say there s much of an atmosphere or many scares here because there isn t aren t respectively although it does have a sleazy tone in general which is something it has going for it i suppose technically live feed isn t terribly impressive the blood looks a little too watery for my liking entire scenes bathed in annoying neon lights sometimes makes it hard to tell whats happening it to often looks like it was shot on a hand held camcorder the choppy editing at least on the r rated version is at times an annoying mess shot on location in an actual porn theatre somewhere in vancouver in canada the acting is poor sometimes i couldn t tell if the actresses in this were supposed to be crying or laughing live feed is not a film i would recommend anyone to rush out buy or rent i didn t think much of it with it s very weak predictable storyline lacking exposition which goes nowhere poor acting less than impressive gore at least in the r rated cut anyway watch either hostel films again or instead as they are superior,0
i just saw the movie in theater the movie has very few good points to talk about kareena s beauty and a couple of songs may be thats it the movie is a complete disappointment in all areas anyone associated with the movie will be disappointed even mumbai indians too just now chennai has made it to semi final but the worst i feel about the movie is the action scenes now days bollywood is trying to copy action scenes from hollywood but they forget that hollywood directors takes a lot effect to make it look like real but unfortunately bollywood directors do not have that much of time they spend their time on songs and publicity of the movie now such too stupid action scenes may work in south as the audience just pay to watch their favorite actor killing bunch of people but in bollywood this is certainly not going to work all the action scenes i wish i could have forwarded at the end even some chinese people appear from nowhere to beat akshay kumar this is height of stupidity audience is not paying to watch such stupidity i think bollywood now should forget about the action movies they cant make it the last good action i have seen was from ghatak and khiladiyon ka khialdi the current scene in bollywood is really sad for action movie fans like me does these people see their movie after completion can t they figure out that the slow motion action which is done using ropes is too unrealistic and childish better not to have action scenes if you cant handle it i just want to go back to amitabh s era where movie like zanjeer and deewar were having thrilling action scenes the sound effect was not very effective in those days but visually it is much better than current era scenes this movie now should open the eyes of the bollywood movie directors please don t make any more action movies until you acquire the art of making it realistic,0
if ashanti had been a serious attempt at a film about the institution of slavery still prevalent in third world countries the film might have been better received instead it turns into a star studded disaster of a movie where the stars came in said their lines and picked up their paychecks without much conviction michael caine and his wife beverly johnson work for the united nations world health organization and are busy doing their humanitarian thing in east africa along comes peter ustinov who can barely summon enough ham in him to make a go of the part as a moslem slave dealer as johnson is black he grabs her anyway along with a lot of children and a few adults as well of course caine doesn t take kindly to the kidnapping and the rest of the film is spent in a rescue attempt the rest of the cast has such folks as william holden rex harrison omar sharif and indian film star kebir bedi in parts and looking so incredibly bored with the whole thing usually in something like this talented people like those mentioned above will just overact outrageously and feast on a diet of scenery but ashanti doesn t even have that going for it what an incredible waste of time the aroma of tax write off is permeating the air,0
my favorite movie what a great story this really was i d just like to be able to buy a copy of it but this does not seem possible,1
i had never heard of this adam sandler movie until i saw it on the wall at blockbuster being an adam sandler fan at the time i rented it honestly i could only watch about mins of it it was terrible do whatever it takes to keep this out of the hands of the public i honestly hope this movie goes oop soon and i hope it stays that way,0
despite its interesting premise sniper is quite tedious with a tighter script and sharper directing it could have been electrifying instead it plods along with little tension,0
this movie has a very simple yet clever premise an unemployed man trying to steal from a convenience store and the store clerk catches him in the act the thief runs away with the store clerk right after him all the while the store clerk is in trouble with a low rank yakuza chinpira gangster along the chase for the thief they catch the eye of the yakuza who s been looking for the convenience store clerk the story then moves into high gear in the form of a tom jerry cat mouse but is added with the dog chasing after the cat the entire nd act of d a n g a n runner can be translate to english as pinball runners is about the chase and the chase goes on on to the point that by the end of the nd act the bum forgets why he is running away and the yakuza don t remember which of the guys he is chasing nor does he remember why they re running away from him similar to sabu s later film postman blues the bulk of the film is simply all chase and action with plenty of physical comedy and dark humor injected to keep the audience engaged what falls short is the ending to which the chase stops when the three men run out of steam and into one of the most chaotic mexican stand offs you ll see on film that looks almost as if sabu was paying homage to tony scott s true romance written by quentin tarantino,1
director writer michael winner s feature is a better than expected offbeat supernatural horror film although still schlock efficiently catered for which really does by go unnoticed sure it might borrow ideas from other similar themed horror movies of this period but still manages to bring its own psychological imprint to the smokescreen material of good vs evil and a unique vision that has a fair share of impressively expansive if somewhat exploitative set pieces as a whole it s sketchy however remains intriguing by instilling an ominous charge without going gang busters with the scares actually there s always something going on amongst its busy framework but it s rather down played with its shocks steering to soapy patterns and atmospheric tailoring up until its vividly repellent and grisly climax with a downbeat revelation winner s dressed up craftsmanship might feel pedestrian however it s the ensemble cast that really holds it together as you try to spot the faces there s plenty too some having more to do with the scheme of things than others but there s no doubts every one of them are committed despite the ludicrously crude nature of it all it s interesting to see names like sylvia miles who s significantly creepy beverly d angelo likewise deborah raffin eli wallach christopher walken william hickey a neat cameo jeff goldblum jerry orbach and tom berenger in bit parts then you got a mild mannered chris sarandon and movingly gorgeous cristina raines in the leads offering able support jos ferrer martin balsam ava gardner john carradine burgess meredith and arthur kennedy the script does throw around many characters as well as notions but gets disjointedly sidetrack by trying to squeeze all of it in however it s disorienting air works in its favour in establishing the suspicion and deception of what s really going on here is there a reason for all of this and why is it surrounding raines character the emphasis is mainly built upon that moody angle as it begins to slowly shed light of her inner goings and that of the strange worrying experiences she encounters when she s moves into her new apartment this is where winner tries to pull out the eerie shades which projects some icy moments gil melle was the man responsible for the grand overpowering orchestral score that never misses a cue and richard c kratina instruments the sweeping scope like photography,1
a young solicitor from london arthur kidd is sent to a small coastal town of crythin gifford to oversee the estate of a recently passed away widow mrs drablow while attending her funeral a mysterious lady dressed in black catches his attention supposedly drablow lived a reclusive life and locals kept pretty quiet about her after this he heads to mrs drablow mansion that can only be reached on a causeway through the swamp during low tide there he encounters the woman in black again in cemetery out back of the house and things begin to get creepy as terrifying noises start coming from the marshes now can mrs drablow s belongings and listening to her recorded dairy entries help kidd figure out this gloomy mystery that the locals fear to talk about often highly regarded amongst horror fans as being one of the most chilling ghost stories ever and i can see their point but only in doses does it draw upon tag yes from what you can gather i was left a little under whelmed despite really liking it i was expecting goose bumps throughout the whole feature but that s probably it expecting mainly i had a similar reaction with the haunted house thriller the changeling when you hear so many good things it s sometimes hard not get caught up with it anyhow what the british tv presentation of the woman in black effectively does is bring out a truly old fashion slow burn spine tingling premise driven by its moody locations disquieting atmosphere and first rate performances subtly blankets the psychologically gripping story adapted off susan hill s novel of the same name as the simple mystery authentically opens up with a depressingly tragic tone and successfully characterises its protagonist little seems to happen and can feel drawn out but the fragile randomness of it catch you off guard whenever the camera focuses on the lady in black who mostly appears as a background figure it s ultimately creepy she might not appear all that much but when she does talk about unnerving that also goes for that downbeat conclusion pauline moran who plays the woman in black competently gets us nervous by just her gaunt appearance and sudden positioning a pale look and those minor mannerisms just seem to haunt you she s a spirit you don t want to cross paths with yet alone let her see you an accomplished performance by a marvelously moody adrian rawlins as the solicitor arthur kidd does hold it all together in support are solid turns by bernard hepton david daker clare holman and david ryall drawing heavy on its lushly sombre rural town and foggy coastal locations adds more to the realistically eerie plight and the centre piece were everything unfolds in the forlorn time worn victorian house that comprehensively suffocates the air with constant fear director herbert wise carefully fabricates alarming imagery that slowly covers one secretive piece at a time in a smoothly paved out rhythm of well judged contriving instead of going out to shock us some scenes contain a distressing intensity that won t let go the sound effects are masterfully used by surrounding and disorienting the air rachel portman s harrowing musical score knows how to get under your skin during those eerie moments and then stay with you this rarity made for television feat is a stimulating rich and unsettling supernatural spook fest it might not share much new to the sub genre but it competently sticks to it strengths to deliver what counts in this curse,1
an excellent film with great performances from zack lochley much to their displeasure mine garibaldi arrived on station all due respect to jerry doyle but in seasons i lost sympathy for the character it doesn t take him long to start criticizing zack who i love best of all on the show and taking charge i m sure zack could have coped the soulhunter plot is fascinating especially if you believe in heaven as zack does the humour supplements it nicely,1
although there s flying guillotines as part of the title of this movie it has no connections to the original flying guillotines and its sequel flying guillotines ii the two originals are masterpieces of kung fu movie and still stands out as a classic this is a much inferior copy of the original and even as a regular kung fu movie it s below average first of all this movie doesn t have much acting it s one senseless fight scene after another and flying guillotine doesn t even play a major part in them story is about some shaolin monks who are tracking down some villains who ve took off with a sacred book and an evil prince who owns part of this book is part of the plot the same evil prince has plans to lure the monks in and use the flying guillotines on them there are four movies with flying guillotine as part of its title this in my opinion is of least quality the design of the flying guillotine in this movie is different from the other three indicating that this movie was produced by a different entity from the other three the movie has no chemistry asides from being unintentionally funny due to poor production best skip this and watch the two originals,0
where the hell are all these uncharted islands where prehistoric monsters lurk evil doctors perform their experiments madmen hold the ultimate karate championship and the uber rich hunt humans for sport i had no idea there were still so many uncharted islands out there but if you take into account the number of movies that utilize one of these mysterious islands as a location you d have to assume that there are at least of these suckers out there it always winds up feeling so damned convenient and i immediately deduct points from any movie that uses this hackneyed device hammerhead is the story of a mad scientist who is conducting experiments on one of these uncharted islands so the movie already had a lot to make up for before it even began the island in this movie used to belong to dr moreau but has recently been purchased by the re animator himself jeffrey combs old jeffrey is doing some kind of cutting edge stem cell research which has led him to start working with sharks while searching for a cure for cancer if that sounds familiar that s because this is roughly the same basic set up as the smart shark facility in deep blue sea not to mention a host of other nu image movies so apparently jeffrey s son was dying of cancer which prompted our mad doctor to start experimenting on his progeny he did some kind of super fancy gene splicing and so forth turning his son into a shark man william forsythe leads a crew of unknown actors to the island to look into the doctor s experiments if someone would have given him a sailor s hat william would have been a dead ringer for the skipper from gilligan s island in typical bond villain fashion the doctor decides that all of these intruders would make nice chum for his son not chums like buddies chum like shark food so enter shark boy who starts stalking the skipper and his cohorts all over the island they of course make half hearted attempts to escape and are thwarted over and over again while being chased by a guy in a rubber shark man suit the movie didn t make up any of the points that it lost for taking place on one of those dastardly deserted islands it s funny that this movie is called hammerhead it made me think of an old joke why do you hit yourself in the head with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop that s pretty much how this movie is the only reason to watch it is because it feels so good when it s over,0
this movie was terrible i thought with all the some what decent actors it would be better don t waste your time eva longoria parker was awful she should stick to desperate housewives paul rudd is becoming a b actor the mess he made in the movie i could never be your woman was the epitome of what i m saying and lake bell she was cute but definitely in need of some more acting lessons watch just like heaven with reese witherspoon it was a tad better or any other ghost movie you will be grateful to not have wasted your precious time ps i love you is also a good from beyond the grave romance time to start watching movies rated over out of and listen to the people who have already seen it,0
this long episode packs amount of astounding of surprises thriller mystery and concerns about a battle of wits of sherlock against charles augustus milverton a master blackmailer this is an excellent overlong runtime of jeremy brett holmes series in the film appear usual holmes s cannon as inspector lestrade and mrs hudson though no moriarty however is a greatest villain charles augustus it s a genuine ripping yarn with intrigue thrills and suspense including an exciting final twist this is a particular sherlock movie but we find to holmes falling in love with a servant kissing crying and even robbing this time along with the episode scandal in boheme with irene adler result to be the only one which holmes is enamored top notch brett performance he alongside peter cushing are the best sherlock tv while in the cinema is forever basil rathbone brett performs as a resolutive headstrong impetuous sleuth here doctor watson isn t a comic botcher and clumsy pal personified by nigel bruce but is an astute and cunning partner well incarnated by edward hardwicke a perfect counterpoint of brett casting is frankly magnificent special mention to robert hardy as astute nasty hardy today famous by role as cornelius fudge in harry potter is a veteran actor with forty years of career and with several success such as the th kingdom and winston churchill furthermore appear secondaries actors with terrific performances nickolas grace sophie gordon serena gordon among others the movie gets a colorful atmosphere the london streets and baker street s house are well designed the motion picture is well directed by peter hammond director of various episodes it s a must see for the arthur conan doyle fans,1
when i heard about hammerhead being released on dvd and finally found it at my local dvd store i thought well just another cheap monster movie from nu image those guys around boaz davidson and avi lerner produced cheap but very entertaining b pictures in the past few months but also some very disappointing movies so i didn t expect much especially after having watched the rather disappointing shark zone just a few days before but hammerhead turned out to be an excellent revival of the s monster movies we have a mad scientist a group of people in a dangerous situation screaming women and damsels in distress man eating plants and of course we have the creature a huge mutant mix between a man and a hammerhead shark everything you need for an entertaining monster movie the only thing missing are graphic sex scenes and nudity which you expect in movies of this kind but since the movie was made for tv it s understandable why these scenes are missing and it doesn t matter anyway cause hammerhead is action and horror entertainment at it s best there are two reasons why i gave it seven out of ten points though first of all the monster isn t seen very often and the showdown with the destruction of the creature is too fast and poorly done and secondly william forsythe just isn t the right guy for the hero part and for falling in love with gorgeous hunter tylo other than that i can highly recommend this movie for any monster movie fan out there grab yourselves a cool drink and some popcorn watch this movie and have fun jasper p morgan,1
it s interesting to see what the director tried to do with this film but the problem is that it s not very good there was nothing really original in the film and while the plot was well presented the main characters were all a bit to shallow and you didn t bother for any of them rather bland and sometimes downright bad photo leaves a bit to be desired but i guess you can t expect to much from people who are just doing a low budget film for the heck of it it s unfair to review the film and compare it to other high budget films but alas that is what one must do on its own it s not very good and compared to others it s still not very good but it is not without its good points i liked the plot it was built up rather nicely and tied together well at the end sometimes in the really dark scenes it managed to build up a creepy feeling as well however in the end the film fails to impress the characters are pretty much non existent and we don t care for any of them any of them might die but it s possible to pinpoint the final survivor from very early on,0
from a poorly contrived plot line that makes almost no sense to bad dialogue and disjointed scenes to the ultimate downer bad acting even peter falk can t find his way finding john christmas is better left lost ms bertinelli s performance is without depth or emotion as are her co stars william russ as brother hank and david cubitt as love interest noah jennifer pisana as soccoro the daughter of single dad noah is almost unbearable to watch let alone listen to singing but who can blame them with material like this michael j murray s script is juvenile at best each year at this time i search the tv guides and wait anxiously for some of the really classic christmas and inspirational holiday films to appear on the small screen films like miracle on th street ernst lubitsch s delightful the shop around the corner and of course the version of scrooge there s frank capra s classics it s a wonderful life and meet john doe hey forget the classics what about home alone or home for the holidays with holly hunter and a great performance by robert downey jr my present to you is by way of advice your time would be better spent searching out these films than finding finding john christmas merry christmas,0
god this film was just so boring apart from the music which i really loved i mean what was the point in actually making this movie please anyone who reads this review do not watch this film it is a waste of time emraan can act but was really pathetic in this film i am actually ashamed to be one of his fans especially in this movie it was just really bad celina is just another pretty face with no lack of talent what so ever she can t act at all and there was no point of her being in this film as for the other girl radha she was okay i guess but could have done better what a waste of time please buy the great music and don t watch this movie,0
andie mcdowell is beautiful as the ish woman whose late start at a serious relationship leads her to a considerably younger man and a subsequenet falling out with long time best girldfriends seeing a gigolo gold digger in the sincere young man the girl friends dead set on terminating this silly relationship go over and beyond the call of duty in helping out their friend who obviously is blinded by this gigolo s tricky game a short succession of situations is absolutely ridiculous far fetched no longer covers it without these unbelievable scenes there may have been hope for a sweet love story instead all the viewer is left with is an involuntary shaking of head these things just don t happen without giving away cliff hanger details i warn the viewer of having high expectations for this film most like me will be very disappointed on a scale of to this one ranks a weak with me there is much better material out there this one isn t worth your time,0
there are few films that leave me with the feeling that gregor jordan s ned kelly film did initially i had heard only half hearted recommendations and decided to see it for myself since then i have acquired both the video and soundtrack and have to say that after several viewings i am still very impressed with the underlying character of this film it is also wonderful to see something australian i appreciate its down to earth quality that if you ask me is a rarity as well as the absence of tackiness that takes away from so many films this film proves that you don t necessarily require fancy costumes and a glamorous set that absorbs how many millions of dollars to make a point the cast was a bonus including a variety of well known and might i add good looking people who did well to slip into the role of such unique characters it is interesting to note that much of the criticism regarding this film has been about who played what and how they only said so many lines however if any criticism is due it should constructively focus on the fact that a number of basic elements of the original events were excluded in reality these functioned to made it the hallmark that it is in australian history for example on a closer examination it can be discovered that there was much much more to the relationship between joe byrne and aaron sheritt and that this was in fact responsible for many more of the final outcomes for the gang than were explored in the film also overlooked was the fact that it was not only aaron sheritt s efforts alone that provided the victorian police with their insights into the unfolding mystery yes this is their interpretation of the story and it is understandable that true stories require sensationalism and at times the modification of the original plot to grab the viewers attention i feel that in this case this is the only limitation however i can accept that perhaps historical accuracy is only of significance to those who have a particular interest in the realistic events behind a situation it certainly inspired me to look more closely so watch it and decide for yourself you might not like it at all thats your opinion and thats fine maybe it is a film that appeals largely to an australian audience for me i d call it a breath of fresh air,1
quick and simple i love this movie as some others have mentioned i also am not from the south don t really care for country music and have never worn a cowboy hat i ve never drove around in a car with a dead body in my trunk either but i love goodfellas this is just great film making shot in a aspect ratio and beautifully transfered to dvd the vhs was full screen and yes a solid mix for your viewing pleasure what can you say about this movie it s just a great love hate story set in texas with great performances travolta is fantastic next to pulp fiction it s the best thing he s done it s been in my top for years check this one out it s a,1
this is a very entertaining flick considering the budget and its length the storyline is hardly ever touched on in the movie world so it also brought a sense of novelty the acting was great p z to dom and the cinematography was also very well done i recommend this movie for anyone who s into thrillers it will not disappoint you,1
well i ll be honest it is not exactly a sholay but you cant get a sholay every week in fact you could see distinct signatures of not without my daughter sally field in this movie however as most inspired movies go this one was a well inspired one well handled and well done nana patekar as usual tends to overdo his hysterics but all others are commendable specially so about dipti naval saw her after a long time but she hasn t lost any of her grace in fact she has performed much better that when i last saw her another one of the bollywood stars that seem to grow more beautiful as they age all in all a nice watch,1
in what seemed like the longest hour i ve had to endure in a long time al pacino delivers an accurate performace to be sure not his usual typecasting which was nice but his character was just truely pathetic someone to pitty as he stumbles around forgetting appointments as we realise that the hollywood social life has drained him of his life energy but in this movie we needed someone to like and for some reason every character in the picture said i don t know why i like you eli to al pacino s chracter and i couldn t even come close to liking him all the other actors played their usual styles tea leoni richard schiff and bill nunn did nothing to change their established personas developed on tv or in earlier films and kim basinger wasn t even in the film long enough to deliver a performance of any kind the movie s story had no momentum most scenes never driving the story forward but rather just collecting factoids about characters which later came into play in an anti climactic ending it had potential except for their unwillingness to build upon the story whats the point of the film daniel algrant and jon robin baitz would have you believe once hollywood has you you can t get out yeah right and that s why so many people get fired in hollywood,0
i am not sure why i like dolph lundgren i guess seeing him on screen makes me feel that anyone who works hard can succeed regardless of talent that is a good feeling for all of us who lack talent some of the other reviews point out how dumb detention is but many neglect to point out the positives any movie where at least one annoying teenager gets killed can t be all bad why do so many movies that have a cast of teens always need to include the stereotypical teens aren t there any other kind of teens does every group of teens have one angry black guy one genius nerd that nobody likes one slutty girl who is very friendly and in this movie pregnant one disturbed anti social white kid from a broken home who everyone agrees is talented but what is the talent and one laid back black kid who is in tune with the universe and so cool that all the other neurotic kids trust him then add a couple of generic expendable teens of any color they don t say much but get shot at some point detention would have been better if the bad guys had gotten to blow up the school preferably with the writers inside the dialogue is bad and the plot is worse when the bad guys and girl finally hijack a van full of drugs then they sit inside the van making out they drive the van to the school because they want to re paint the van at the school s paint shop but they never get around to re painting the van by the way it would have been easier to just put all the drugs in another car or two cars or another van or a truck and drive away without repainting the police van they also never move the drugs or sell them or do anything else with the big score for some reason they decide they have to kill the kids and the teacher dolph lundgren even though when the villains take over the school nobody is remotely aware of it because it is after school hours the handful of people still in the school have nothing to do with painting vehicles so why go after them anyhow the best part of this movie is that the villains are all armed with numerous machine guns and they keep finding the teens including a guy in a wheel chair and they keep shooting hundreds of bullets at the teens and usually miss towards the end of the movie there is some bloodshed for every time someone gets shot there must be at least three hundred bullets fired that miss the stunts are pretty bad i read one of the reviews that says that this movie had a budget of million and i am amazed when i saw the movie i figured maybe lundgren had done it as some kind of charity work for some film school where he is the teacher like maybe this movie was their end of the year exam it was a test to watch it but i passed,0
action adventure billie clark is twenty years old very pretty and without a care in the world until a brutal street gang violates her life and she turns into an alley cat bent on revenge when the gang attacks her grandparents house and her car billie uses her black belt prowess to fight them off but at the same time she earns their hatred and she and her grandparents are marked for vengence when her grandparents lose their lives to the brutal thugs billie becomes like a cat stalking her prey and no prison police force boyfriend or crooked judge can get in the way of her avenging claws she s a one woman vigilante squad a martial arts queen a crack shot with no mercy she s the alley cat watch for the dramatic ending versus the gang leader rated r for nudity violence other films with karin mani actress filmography avenging angel janie soon lee from here to eternity mini tv series tawny filmography as actress stunts filmography avenging angel stunts p s she should have been catwoman in the batman movie,1
i wonder how much this movie actually has got to do with the movie bachelor party starring tom hanks is this movie even an official sequel this movie is lacking in every department and you re obviously better off not watching it for a comedy this movie simply isn t good or funny enough it relies mostly on the character s their stereotypical assessments rather then the movie actually features some good original and funny moments of course there also is very little story present and the movie nude breast than script pages you just keep waiting for things to finally start off there is a main plot line in it somewhere but that one is so terribly unoriginal and gets executed so poorly in the movie that it feels more as if it s something non existent i guess there even is a message and moral story in it somewhere but this again is so terribly unoriginal and poorly done in the movie that it simply does not work out it s basically a typical teenage comedy with lots of sex jokes and nudity only without the teenage main characters which makes the story all the more sad and tasteless the movie makes some really wrong jokes that are misplaced for any type of movie i regret ever watching this,0
i m a cartoon you re an illustration what does that suppose to mean this plot could not be worse as a boy who s afraid of everything becomes very brave at the very end of the film because he went into a library the only purpose of this waste of celluloid was to encourage american kids to read when a cheaper and more effective way of doing this could have been a series of adverts even the talents of macaulay culkin as the kid christopher lloyd as the so predictable that he s a the page master librarian could save this pointless film from the dull plot even the voices of whoopi goldberg patrick stewart even leonard nimoy or the hollywood god of voices frank welker as the cartoon characters don t save it ever i can only describe it as a s equivalent to the even ghastly adaption of the water babies because the bland animation makes the film worse not improving the dull plot,0
yes the cameras were in the right place at the right time it s so interesting to see how a world leader like chavez who supports the poor people in his country can be held in such low esteem in the us his worst sin in my opinion is caring about those who are at the bottom of the barrel what can be so bad about that i have always been fascinated by the us government media reaction to fidel castro at first castro was a good guy around when he supplanted batista soon however castro started turning the corporations in cuba toward the needs of the poor instead of the fat cats we re a decent country but why does our media and government have such a problem with sharing with the poor if these guys are dictators then we could use more dictatorships especially where the poorest of the poor live in the world,1
ok i saw this in the theaters when it came out and i don t know why i haven t seen it since but i ended up on this page because i found myself thinking about this film again i don t know why but the fact that i remember it speaks volumes comedy is hard much harder than any drama doing it right makes it seem easy but doing it wrong is there anything worse than a bad comedy steve martin pay attention you are falling in this category again for some reason elvira mistress of the dark must have done it right for me to remember this movie fondly done at a quick pace with tongue in cheek and knowing it isn t the philedelphia story it entertains from start to finish brain donors is another that fits right in this category sans most of the gratuitous boob jokes one point of contention the ending it seems the writers director had no idea how to finish a comedy the ending tries to be a love story somewhat undermining the quirky fast paced dialogue up to that point then there is the tassle scene whereas this has to be seen male opinion it is so over the top and out of place it s like a shock one more rewrite for the ending was needed this is not comedy genius like spinal tap or the producers or the holy grail but if you don t try to dissect it and just let the puns and sappy fun come to you you ll laugh i guarantee it,1
i really enjoyed this episode which was a great surprise given the bad reputation it seems to have acquired from a pure writing perspective the mm shrine is an absolute treat with fantastic dialogue and character analysis typical of sterling in particular i really enjoyed the philosophical indulgences of the episode tackling themes of existence and reality whilst balancing it with more psychological topics such as denial pride and desire the sixteen millimeter shrine is an episode about how these ideas based around an unwillingness to accept change can seemingly alienate a person from the rest of the ever changing world it is also a fantastic example of cerebral twilight zone one that explores the mind rather than the world outside it these elements all come together very nicely to create a thought provoking and incredibly interesting minutes the episode is not without its faults however which mainly lay in lupino and leisen shoes ironically i felt lupino was unconvincing throughout with only a few scenes that could count as memorable this of course being an absolute shame considering how well sterling had written her character furthermore leisen didn t seem to know what to do with most of his characters sometimes having them stand around on set doing next to nothing which probably explains why accepted the poor performances from lupino half the time thankfully balsam does a good job of covering up a lot of weak spots helping redeem the show from an acting perspective at least as i said previously however if you re a fan of classic film and cerebral science fiction this shouldn t be as bad as it s sometimes made out to be in addition to the writing that i mentioned above the episode also features some fantastic photography it still amazes me that the show looks this good nearly fifty years later and decent enough set design overall the sixteen millimeter shrine is a great episode and above all is certainly one to make you think,1
this tragicomedy written by famous serbian theatre film writer dusan kovacevic is probably one of the best movies ever made in the comedy category and yet its appearance of a theatre play transformed into a feature film takes nothing of its value a masterpiece one should not miss to see preferably with subtitles and not dubbed in an aged bus en route to capital belgrade a looming war decides the passengers behaviour two gypsy musicians sing of their miserable life but also foresee a tragedy to come their singing both divides and connects stages in this extraordinary road movie real life kostic brothers are amateur actors but together with stanojlo milinkovic as farmer who s plowed the road give a real life performance the spectrum of characters gives a brilliant image of a society facing a war an insight into nation s collective person everyone is aware that war is just about to begin but they try to live their own lives the best they can hoping that ignorance might avert the tragedy using a simple movie language director slobodan sijan paints a picture of society torn by previous war world war i but also highlights personal portraits with success provincialism of a singer inexperience of the newlyweds seriousness of the great war veteran who is on way to visit his recently conscripted son and gloomy predictions from a man who seems to be a german spy brilliant in its narration with memorable soundtrack especialy the gispsy songs and adjusted atmosphere well photographed and edited this feature sijan s feature debut was only an introduction into a series of the directors bitter sweet comedies that will define serbian cinematography of the s maratonci trce pocasni krug kako sam sistematski unisten od idiota and my other director s favourite davitelj protiv davitelja,1
my wife is a fanatic as regards this show that being the case i bought her seasons one through three and season four is on order i personally think the show is one big farce the cast is equally bad alyssa milano should have stuck to the other trash movies she made such as poison ivy embrace of the vampire to name a few the other female supporting cast members are equally inept in their portrayals i ve seen better special effects in the old republic pictures serials i saw as a child i can understand why the male leads remained on the show for such short periods of time even though i don t know if it was their own choosing or not please please don t renew for another season as enough is enough bob,0
granted i m not the connoisseur d horror my partner is but a well put together clever flick is worth the time my quibbles in brief dialog often weak and at times unbelievable coming from the given character unconvincing acting storyline never really caught fire the writers plucked choice bits from half a dozen mainstream films tossed into a kettle simmered not nearly enough and tried feeding us poor saps the resulting mess al dente long and short while not absolutely terrible it was definitely not worthy of absorbing one of my netflix rentals,0
well what s to say the golden child falls in the category so bad it s good eddie murphy is having some funny and sometimes quite annoying lines but you are still entertained chales dance has never been worse than his role as the villain sardo numspa what a f ed up name is this who should watch the golden child hm difficult to say but my best guess would be people who likes embarrassing movies and can be entertained by bad acting bad plot and an even more embarrassing dialog out of,0
alien love as this movie is known in britain is a very strange movie i don`t mean that it`s an esoteric art house movie in the style of peter greenaway or derek jarman i mean it`s a tvm with swearing sex some really good t a a bad script and a very retro feel you can just imagine someone like john hughes directing this ten years earlier though of course he would have cut out the t a going back to the bad script one of the problems is that few of the characters have any type of motivation especially amanda why does she pick up connie at the bar just so she could meet an alien do you see what i mean about retro et short circuit and a whole lot of other movies from the mid s had this type of plot with most of them being more defined and convincing than the one seen here the storyline continues to follow an ill defined unconvincing and illogical path that said i did find alien love watchable and not only down to the t a on display as a a sci fi sex comedy it`s much better than flesh gordon and earth girls are easy,0
mr mike was probably the most misanthropic comedian of all time so i was interested to see what he d do with total creative control over a movie sadly it is unwatchable though not because the jokes aren t funny some i won t say most of them are and in fact mr mike did a good job translating his mentally unbalanced screeds into visual gags the trouble is that the technical quality sets lighting sound editing you name it is so god awful the movie is intolerable some outfit called pko productions gets the producing credit but it doesn t look produced at all it looks more like mike stole one of the cameras from the snl set and made the whole thing in an afternoon i realize mike s goal was to torture the audience but even that deserves some basic standards such as the ability to actually see hear or comprehend whatever it is that s supposed to be shocking still the dvd isn t a total waste it includes a eulogy for o donoghue by bill murray and three mr mike s least loved bedtime stories from snl plus the cat swimming section of the movie is a great scene to be caught watching if you want to freak someone out,0
in nyc seaman michael o hara orson welles rescues elsa bannister rita hayworth from a mugging rape as she takes a horse carriage through central park and lives to regret it titian haired hayworth s a platinum blonde in this one as dazzling as fresh fallen snow but nowhere near as pure to reveal any more of the convoluted plot in this seminal noir would be criminal it s as deceptive as the mirrors used to cataclysmic effect in the final scenes but the film holds far darker secrets from the ny times childhood shadows the hidden story of the black dahlia murder by mary pacios mary pacios who was years old when she was befriended by year old bette short retraces short s steps interviewing friends and associates she also offered a detailed if speculative analysis of orson welles particularly in regard to his movie the lady from shanghai according to ms pacios the movie along with related archival materials has many of the same ritualistic elements associated with short s murder she raises the question could welles have been the killer interesting theories and with the spate of books now out on the black dahlia much more may come to light fritz lang s brutal film noir the big heat was a roman a clef telling of the dahlia killing in the city of nets that was l a but it s the orson opus that the dahlia had a hands on connection to in reality it was bugsy siegel and the hollywood mob wars of the s that did the dahlia in but that doesn t negate much of what pacios wrote almost all of hollywood intersected with elizabeth the black dahlia short and her tale aura legacy curse is encoded in a number of golden age films the black dahlia was always on the peripheral edges of shanghai even before it started filming barbara payton on franchot tone it was when he was thinking about making the lady from shanghai before he lost the option to orson welles franchot said he d been in a bad state over that deal when he ran into the dahlia in the formosa cafe across from the goldwyn studios the floor above the formosa cafe was bugsy siegel s office and the dahlia one of his on again off again working girls it gets deeper and darker after the brawl over barbara payton between tom neal and franchot tone that sent franchot to the hospital with a concussion and never talking the same way again barbara said she married tone just to spite neal tom detour neal also knew the dahlia who didn t and became obsessed from l a despair by john gilmore the january slaying of the young beautiful would be actress elizabeth short known as the black dahlia was one of the most grisly murders in the annals of modern crime a project called who killed the black dahlia was being kicked off by actor tom neal a hell raiser from ww ii movies potential producer gene harris someone will have to come up with a more imaginative business proposition than what has been presented by tom neal and his cohorts not long after it would be very clear one beautiful day to come when tom would sneak up on his pretty new palm springs wife as she lay on their sofa and shoot a bullet through her head barbara payton and norma jean dougherty later marilyn monroe knew the dahlia and their stories are well known it seems all who crossed the path of the dahlia like the proverbial black cat entered a twilight zone darkness and or had an incredible string of bad luck afterward tone neal welles are only a few and this includes a butchered film called the lady from shanghai lady from shanghai took two years to be released thanks to extensive re editing and all because columbia president harry cohn couldn t understand the story it s dark noir to be sure one of the darkest in fact it s also a wicked satire on life in the new atomic age nicolas christopher shanghai pushes forth an insistent subtext of nuclear apocalypse and contains the definitive noir statement concerning the atomic bomb and the american city the film s principal murder victim and there are many a psychotic and double dealing lawyer manically foresees armageddon at every turn claiming he can feel it he announces that he plans to escape to a remote pacific island a particularly acid joke on welles part since this was the very year the u s began testing atomic bombs at just such a place the bikini atoll relocating all the inhabitants and destroying the ecosystem by the time of bikini the erotic identification of hayworth with the bomb appears to have been institutionalized with the blessing of the military brass the first bomb dropped in the pacific testing ground in named gilda and has hayworth s image in provocative dress painted directly on its casing its ironic that orson welles broad interpretation of an irishman is considered a detriment to the film by many welles is giving a clue to viewers that michael o hara is only the storyteller not part of the story even though it revolves around him o hara contradicts the shark motif throughout the film sharks on a feeding frenzy won t stop until there s nothing left michael o hara lives to tell the tale elsa bannister causes a feeding frenzy during o hara s trial and her netted chapeau suggests she s caged in so as not to devour the human spectators to a roman coleseum the spectators are on a feeding frenzy of their own gossiping and carrying on about elsa a human aquarium correlating to the san francisco marine museum sequence that s the human condition except for michael o hara and yet he ll be spending his life trying to forget his past elsa or die trying elsa is part of michael and the tale eats its own tail in the end and the viewer is cautioned to stay out of trouble,1
this was stupid funny movie cheech and chong are the dopiest wasted guys ever i rate this film a but if you like this one then go see jay and silentbob there funnier and crazier now cheech is a sellout working on kids movies wheres chong,1
i chanced upon this movie because i had a free non new release from blockbuster and needed to grab something quickly as the store was getting ready to close for the evening the plain white cover and title intrigued me i m a relatively speaking old lady and my son is a young man of i adore movies that are sheer entertainment such as the sixth sense interview with a vampire harry potter and beetlejuice my son on the other hand is a film graduate and enjoys very specialized foreign films such as those directed by bergman or hertzog we generally hate each other s movie choices however we both watched and loved the movie nothing it was unlike any movie we d ever seen before we re both cynical critical personality types and we usually crack on movies while we watch them but in this case we just laughed and enjoyed the film from start to finish it is our opinion that if this movie had been promoted and shown in the main stream theaters in the u s it would have done very well indeed,1
alright friends a serious movie buff is expected to watch all kinds of movie the bad as well as the good and this movie put me to the test i won t mince words this movie was bad the story was bad the acting was bad the always wonderful sissy spacek did nothing to make this movie better indeed i asked myself why did i even bother to see this rotten trashy movie why did i waste my time and money on something that i suspected would be bad the answer is of course that i am a movie buff and therefore cannot avoid what otherwise should be avoided i will not waste your time explaining what exactly was wrong with this amateurish movie except to say that the quality of the acting was to put it politely subpaar a serious movie buff may want to take on the responsibility of watching this movie otherwise stay home don t waste your time read a book take take of chores or have yourself a good sandwich,0
i have never panned a film on line but i felt moved to do so after seeing this one one doesn t show up at someone s funeral and say to the bereaved my relatives died so why should i care about yours minus the propaganda there was little if anything that could be called art as the daughter of deaf parents i was particularly annoyed by the use of deafness as a gimmick any deaf person feeling a vibration of that immensity would likely have investigated not ignored it the word chutzpah comes to mind as a writer there are few subjects i would stay away from the holocaust is one this is another i wish these movie makers had not been so arrogant and inept,0
this is one of those movies that you happen across when you re channel surfing on a saturday afternoon and you get drawn into it and end up watching the whole thing i thought that it was well acted and it really made me feel for the characters though it s a bit slow moving focusing more on the relationships between bonnie and clyde and their family members it never got boring we don t really see too much of all the robberies that they were so legendary for and instead most of the shootouts take place when they re ambushed by the police i thought tracey needham who played bonnie really did a good job with her character going from a nice country girl to a cold blooded killer is a challenging thing to portray and i enjoyed the subtlety she brought to the role overall an above average effort especially considering it was a made for tv movie,1
verry classic plot but a verry fun horror movie for home movie party really gore in the second part this movie proves that you can make something fun with a small budget i hope that the director will make another one,1
i first saw the live musical at the denver center for the performing arts and it was absolutely mind blowing stunning and had such fantastic continuity of plot and dialogue that i liked it much more than most musicals that i have seen on the stage the interesting thing is that you never got to see zach s face he was always in the dark but his presence was powerful and guided the direction of entire production whe i heard they were making a movie from it i waited with bated breath but when i watched the movie version i was so bummed out disappointed that i felt i was cheated the movie lacks the captivating mood set in the live production and it never allows you to be completely in close touch with every character personally i would like to see the live version again and if that should ever be revived i would wholeheartedly recommend that you go out of your way to see it it will be one of the most memorable experiences you will enjoy,0
if it s action and adventure you want in a movie then you d be best advised to look elsewhere on the other hand if it s a lazy day and you want a good movie to go along with that mood check out the straight story richard farnsworth puts on a compelling performance as the gentle and gentlemanly alvin straight in this true story of alvin s journey on a riding mower across three states to see his estranged brother who has had a stroke farnsworth is perfect in this role as he travels his long and winding road making friends of strangers and doling out lots of grandfatherly type advice about family along the way the story moves along as slowly as the riding mower but somehow manages to keep the viewer watching waiting for the next life lesson alvin s going to offer stretch out on the couch relax and enjoy it s the only way to watch this very good movie which rates a in my book,1
dracula ii ascension is the story of a group of medical students who come across the body of dracula when a mysterious stranger appears and offers the students million to harvest the body and steal its blood for auction it s an offer they can hardly refuse soon the students also find themselves relentlessly pursued by a vampire killer from the vatican dracula ii ascension is a slightly entertaining horror film that has many flaws the characters are one dimensional and the acting is pretty average there are some good gore effects like really cool double decapitation scene but there is not enough violence for my liking the film becomes quickly boring and forgettable and there is absolutely no suspense so if you like modern vampire flicks give it a look i prefer atmospheric vampire chillers from s and early s like lips of blood the brides of dracula or lemora a child s tale of supernatural to name only a few out of,0
i thought this movie was lol funny it s a fun not to be taken seriously movie about one man s twisted views on life love and well ladies from the lowly bus station skank to the high class d butante bus station skank tim meadows plays a guy leon phelps who was raised by in a playboy style mansion by a hugh hefner esquire father figure surrounded constantly by beautiful porn models and actresses when his father kicks him out on the street he must learn to fend for himself with nothing but the chauvinistic outlook on life that his youth has taught him that and an unfathomable nearly mystical level of charm and dumb luck and so the hijinx begin if you haven t seen this movie and you enjoy a light hearted semi mindless comedy love story then i highly recommend renting the ladies man,1
david lean s worst film even in which we serve was nt as bad as this usually a film with a really good reputation like this one has at least some redeeming qualities which makes one understand why it might be considered a classic but after watching this i just could not get why this piece of crap was liked so much even back in i disliked the acting stiff upper lip british mannerisms story script which may be quite witty at times but totally unfunny and soundtrack the elvira character is meant to be alluring and attractive but was in actual fact ugly and had a weird and annoying voice just another film that has convinced me not to trust a films reputation another very overrated british classic,0
this is just a terrible comedy it really is a bad film there are no funny elements no jokes that are funny i don t know how some people can claim this dismal short film could be smartest or quality perhaps if its the only film that a person has seen you can make that claim of the brothers but i have seen thousands of better films namely leonard part six now that s funny i don t know how the brothers is even considered eligible to be listed on the internet movie database its more like a home video than an actual film jokes aside just skip this film a root canal is more enjoyable that this cliche ridden unfunny material,0
first this is a review of the two disc set that came together with the wonderland dvd rental the two movies included with the rental wonderland and the johnny wadd documentary totally obliterate the myth created by boogie nights that myth being that the characters involved in the adult movie trade were considerably more than slimy lowlifes that would do anything for money basically denying that they were anything other than detestable self centered whores this is amazingly similar to what the book wiseguy and the movie goodfellas did to the godfather fable and most of the rest of the gangster romanticism lore now what irritated me most while watching these movies and will probably irk anyone who saw and liked boogie nights is how foolish and gullible supposedly educated and sophisticated people can be dirk diggler in boogie nights is without a doubt john holmes who unlike dirk diggler had no redeeming quality holmes was a criminal sociopath who abused anyone close to him was totally consumed by his quest for self gratification and was without a doubt a key participant in the brutal murders on wonderland avenue in los angeles in the movie lays bare the big lie that boogie nights was and reinforces the linda lovelace description of the cruel and pathetic business that is known as the adult film entertainment industry this should be required viewing both features on the wonderland dvd for anyone who had any positive opinions on the story in the movie boogie nights,1
indian summer is a good film it made me feel good and i thought the cast was exceptional how about sam raimi playing the camp buffoon i thought his scenes were very funny in a buster keaton like performance solid directing and nice cinematography,1
kristine watts molie weeks is broken apart missing her lover she is not able to overcome her love for him that is lost in the past she hires a stranger douglas davis and gives a list of her mistakes to him with things to fix but time is irreversible and sometimes the cure for the pain is a tragic end the first point that impresses in the cure is the stylish cinematography that alternates black and white with color the concise and sharp screenplay is capable to develop a tragic and bleak tale of love with an unexpected plot point in the very end in less than eight minutes the soundtrack is beautiful but the volume is a little loud and associated to the fact that english is not my native language in some moments i needed to repeat some words whispered by the narrator the unknown lead actress has magnificent performance and is extremely gorgeous i hope to have a chance to see her again on the screen last but not the least the debut of the director and writer ryan jafri could not be better my vote is nine title brazil not available,1
a woman sylvia kristel seduces a year old boy eric brown they have sex but it s all tied into some stupid plot or something easily one of the most disturbing sex comedies ever does anyone realize this movie is making light of child molestation i suppose it s ok cause it s a teenage boy if we had one with a man seducing a teenage girl there would rightfully be outrage sorry but having it done to a boy doesn t excuse it it s still sick i realize brown was of age he was actually when this was made but he looks i just find it disturbing that some people find this ok plot aside the acting sucks kristel is beautiful but can t act brown is easily one of the worst child actors i ve ever seen and the constant nudity gets boring and isn t even remotely erotic i saw this drivel at a theatre back in i was and with my year old cousin who could easily pass for he wanted to see it i didn t but i decided what the heck we got in and i actually bought tickets for three teenage boys who were obviously underage my cousin thought is was boring and the three other kids left halfway through let me make this clear three teenage boys left a movie with tons of female nudity that should give you an idea of how bad this is i m surprised this was ever released a all the way,0
when people ask me why do i like movies so much i usually respond have you seen the art gallery sequence in de palma s dressed to kill that scene alone pretty much represents everything i want to see in a film if i was a film director that would be the kind of thing i d like to do pure cinema is one way of describing that sequence and it is truly amazing to see how director de palma s entire movie works at the same high artistic frequency of that scene it is a dream like movie clever as hell and with more zest and intelligence than a dozen films put together i think the movie raises an important point that will always be a topic of heated discussion could a movie rely solely on technique and still be considered an artistic success the film has no message to speak of acting is great but it is at the service of the style and the script is short on logic de palma s movie makes a really good case that style when handled properly can sustain a feature length film sure michael caine angie dickinson nancy allen and keith gordon give superlative performances but this is a director s movie all the way to the fadeout it is a sensational demonstration of the possibilities of the film medium i won t tell you what hitchcock movie the film pays homage to i don t want to spoil any surprises but i think de palma transcends the story s arc and he manages to create a film that pretty much summarizes his entire career not for the faint of heart,1
lady in cement pi spoof with ole blue eyes frank sinatra is a shamus on a houseboat in miami in this rarely funny comedy burdened by an annoying and repetitious hugo montenegro score and bunch of misfiring punchlines this flick just never rises above slightly too bawdy to be on tv made for television movie status dan blocker is effective in the mike mazurski ted de corsia big galoot role and raquel welch should thank her personal trainer the only thing that makes the dvd worth keeping or seeing is the collection of cheesy trailers for welch flicks like bandolero fantastic voyage mother jugs speed and myra breckinridge even if you get the dvd skip the predictable movie and go for the trailer library in the special features besides tons of mysoginistic asides sinatra lisps the homosexual owners of the local go go bar a relic that needs to be put back in the time capsule d,0
dan katzir has produced a wonderful film that takes us on a roller coaster ride through a real romance set in the troubles surrounding modern israel for anyone who s ever been in love the film brings back the uncertainties the insecurities and heartache that make love so bitter sweet the atmosphere of fear and isolation that came with the difficult times in israel at that time just serve to intensify the feeling instantly you are drawn in to dan s plight and you can t fail to be deeply moved you can t write drama and passion like this the contrast between the realities of dan s desperate snatched relationship with iris and the realities of a state in turmoil make this eminently watchable if you have an ounce of passion and have ever been in love see this film,1
the thing that makes this movie so scary is the way that it portrays andre and calvin as relatively normal guys these are definitely not people who want to become professional filmmakers since they goof around in front of the camera forget scripted lines etc they are only making the video as a diary to show the survivors how normal their lives were their parents just think the guys are filming for a family home video by researching other kids attacks on their schools andre and calvin learn what not to do and they inform usually in a silly this old house kind of way any potential andres and calvins who might be watching this video how to make bombs get weapons and not get caught before zero day the day of the attack,1
what an inspiring movie i laughed cried and felt love for a true story it does give you hope and that miracles do happen it has a great cast ellen burstyn samantha mathis jodelle ferland she s or yrs old what a actress its on showtime a must see movie,1
i figured that any horror film with orson welles in it would be weird necromancy sure was but it was a little too weird for it s own good the film does indeed have a creepy feel as it deals with a coven of satanists witches in a small town and a young woman s attempt to escape them the director though seems to be deliberately trying to confuse the audience by using flashbacks and dream sequences by the finale there are too many unanswered questions what s worse as the story is so confusing it s pretty hard to root for any of the characters it seems odd that welles would agree to headline this film especially since he doesn t have that much to do maybe someday they will put out a tape of the outtakes and bloopers from this movie now that would really be fun,0
this is a really funny and sexy movie that is not just silly but has great acting it s the kind of movie where the characters are so entertaining that you feel like you are connected to everyone in the theater i saw it at the boston film festival and i found myself frequently laughing out loud with everyone else and also moved by some of the movie s more serious parts it s a unique movie about two doctors and i don t want to give anything away but there are some powerful scenes as well really funny ones plus the dialogue is great wood harris character has a unique relationship with his girlfriend zoe saldana and brian white and mya are also funny and sexy in their roles if you get a chance to see it go you won t be disappointed it s worth seeing again wood harris deserves an award,1
holy freaking god all freaking mighty this movie was so bad i thought i was on drugs in a bad way the character acting is the poorest thing i ve seen in quite some time this movie was more akin to lord of the g strings imho it s a real movie most of the movie appeared to be done on a horrible green screen my favorite part was when they are in the carriage and you can tell there s no horse they re fleeing from alien monsters and going about the same speed as a swift jog then it switches to a far shot with a ridiculous cg horse and the cg in general seems to be sub par to s beyond the mind s eye i mean come on really it felt like a horrible episode of hercules only without kevin sorbo there to save the day worst movie ever,0
i m here again in your local shopping mall of course cause that s where the high school kids hang out to demonstrate how awful bendy poo prom courier really is to prove how bad this joke of a dcom this is we re going to take these four sumo wrestlers and stuff them into this photo booth how cozy hai huuuuuuuarrrrghhhhhh uh how awful is it it s so bad disney channel flushes away its money yet again with those exciting yet determining second promos keeping the viewers wondering when is this going to be on and then suddenly when it does come on for one this not only got a higher tv rating than usual but this was only seen once oh no one time everyone plus this movie is about high school and stuff and believe me i will not go any further with what else is in there say ch smile snap avoid this one at all costs,0
hitchcock displays his already developed understanding for visuals in this early silent film the plot of the film involving two boxers fighting over a girl is straight forward drama without much to recommend it hitchcock s talent though is found in his stunning use of images nearly every shot is filled with visual symbols especially memorable is the jewelry that one boxer gives the girl just before she marries the other boxer he slides it up her arm in a clearly sexual way and with one simple movement hitch has shown us all we need to know the boxing scenes are handled well with some interesting point of view shots that again prove how far ahead of his time hitchcock was the film also gives insight into his later treatment of women the object of the boxers desires is driven by money and lust not reason or love the only other women in the film are either beautiful party girls who make open offers of sex or old crones who help to destroy happy relationships all in all the ring is a must for anyone interested in hitchcock s early work and his development as a visual storyteller,1
though i can t claim to be a comic book fanatic i have read my share so i guess i m part of the audience of this film and i wasn t disappointed it does run out of steam near the end it s almost overflowing with ideas and it seems like lena olin one of my favorite actresses was left on the cutting room floor also a little of hank azaria s blue raja can go a long way still it s easy to forgive all of these faults when you have a film which is this much fun all the actors seem to be having a blast with their roles especially william h macy as the straight arrow shoveler and janeane garofalo as the bowler and unlike some i found the design of the city to make the joke even funnier i also liked how disco was the music of choice of the bad guys somehow it seemed appropriate,1
for me this is a story that starts with some funny jokes regarding franks fanatasies when he is travelling with a staircase and when he is sitting in business meetings the problem is that when you have been watching this movie for an hour you will see the same fantasies funny situations again and again and again it is to predictable it is more done as a tv story where you can go away and come back without missing anything i like felix herngren as frank but that is not enough even when it is a comedy it has to have more variations and some kind of message to it s audience,0
i was expecting to love this movie film noir serial killer dark irony i was baffled by many choices the characters made hey i know they re creepy looking but let s hook up for a cross country road trip anyway found the pacing to be glacial and the emphasis on moody lighting to take the place of original thought by the director and cinematographer thinking about it now this would have been a much better movie if someone had just run the script through the common sense o meter model before starting to film,0
two sisters their perverted brother and their cousin have car trouble they then happen about the home of dr hackenstein whom conveniently needs the body parts of three nubile young women to use in an experiment to bring his deceased lover back to life he tells them that he ll help them get home in the morning so they spend the night then the good doctor gets down to work in this low budget horror comedy i found this to be mildly amusing nothing at all to actually go out of your way for i stumbled across it on netflix instant view streamed it to the xbox but better then i expected it to be for a troma acquired film most of the humor doesn t work but their are still some parts that caused me to smile plus the late great anne ramsey has a small part and she was always a treat to watch eye candy bambi darro sylvia lee baker got topless my grade d,0
second part actually episode of the hit danish tv series is slightly inferior to the first one but has plenty of laughs and scares as well this time udo kier plays two parts as the monster baby and his demon like father other standout parts this time are s ren pilmark s doctor krogshoj who must face the horrible revenge of dr helmer and once again patient mrs drusse tries to solve the mysteries miss marple style ends on a cliffhanger and following the deaths of lead actors ernst hugo j reg rd dr helmer and kirsten rolffes mrs drusse you wonder how they re ever going to be able making part iii but i hope von trier will give it a shot sadly morten rotne leffers the down s syndrome dishwasher died shortly after as well look for stellan skarsg rd in a cameo,1
spoiler the young lover jed is kicked out by the spinster kate andie mcdowell because she wrongly believes that jed is having an affair with one of her two catty girlfriends kate thought she caught them en flagrante delicto kate throws jed s shoes out the door jed reluctantly leaves and then sits in the middle of the road to put his shoes on then he gets run over crushed one of the meaning of the title by a truck and dies and then he gets run over by a truck can you imagine a screenwriter actually submitting a script with this plot element up to then its a comedy that intends to be frothy but lacks any real fizz everybody but jed is just annoying and then they kill jed and everybody s sad until the end where the gals learn to love one another and be supportive instead of destructive i give it ugh s,0
this adaptation of pearl s buck s film is certainly a classic a true hollywood epic it has all the things a great hollywood film has birth death happiness sadness exhilaration despair and so on there is only one thing that irks me i know it was a sign of the times but neither of the two main characters are played by asian actors paul muni was a great actor and he does an admirable job as wang lung the owner of a farm in china luise rainier plays olan she does not even look chinese i think she tried to get the role but they should have put anna may wong in the role i know why they didn t and ms rainier is very good in the film but they hardly tried to make her look authentic stillm its a great film especially if you read the book i did in high school decades ago its a must see just look beyond the casting i think you can,1
i do admit that my review is from a point of view nearly years after the making of this movie and at the time of its conception it may have been a brilliant horror thriller movie beginning on halloween night year old michael commits the brutal murder of his year old sister michael is committed to a mental institution and years later escapes and returns to his home town to murder again from this point it is clear that the movie will follow a basic and rudimentary path that is highly predictable the beginning of every scene is easily predictable in the way it will end whilst the music for each scene containing michael the murderer is exactly the same throughout the movie thus alerting the viewer to the likely events to follow for the horror thriller enthusiast there is a severe lack of blood gore compared to modern day films although i am not akin to the amount that is displayed in this day and age a happier medium could have been found from a half hour into the movie not one scene is unexpected the acting for a horror thriller film is fairly typical of the era and thus lacks any punch for the modern day enthusiast a positive for the film is its lingering camera shots and dark lighting which creates a frightening atmosphere a second positive would be the character of michael s doctor who provides clues to the probability of where the story may lead however it is clear that the star in jamie lee curtis is in the infancy stages of her acting career and thus fails to provide a truly frightened central victim it is hard for me to rate this film as it was in its day but from other horror thriller films of indeed the s and to a lesser extent the s it falls far short of a truly great horror thriller film i suggest you move on and find a classic from the s cheers,0
this movie really deserves the mst k treatment a pseudo ancient fantasy hack n slash tale featuring twin barbarian brothers with a collective iq of hot water character names that seem to have been derived from a mad libs book and such classic lines as hold her down and uncover her belly the barbarians crosses over into the so bad it s good territory,0
letting the class watch this in english was a bad idea films that are serious and more educational can have an effect but it appears this one didn t have any effect whatsoever on the class whenever the teacher left conversations quickly started and i didn t hear the words shakespeare or tempest being used at all and when you look at this it is easy to see why the acting is nothing special everyone seems bored to bits just reading from the page without a care in the world shakespeare always did prefer expository dialogue to action and death but i just couldn t understand a word anyone was saying the costumes aren t too bad and neither are the special effects the class may not have loved the film but they weren t exactly taking the p ss either but it is hard to joke at a film that is devoid of any sort of inspiration or joy the scenes on the ship at the start of the film weren t too badly done though the rain looked a bit unrealistic everything else was done well and good but where were the severed heads and exploding masts where was the death where was the inspiration the character of ariel would have been taken a lot more seriously had he been wearing clothes but as all was on show he was just another excuse for a joke this film is not in any way appealing to either sex the women and girls won t have any romance or comedy to enjoy and there is an abundance of naked men and lack of action or death that will put most men and boys off the tempest wasn t badly done but this felt like something the producers had to make not something they wanted to make and the general boredom and lack of inspiration show,0
i can t believe that so much talent can be wasted in one movie the gingerbread man starts of on the right foot and manages to build up some great expectations for the ending but at some point the movie turns into one of the worst stories i ve ever wasted my time on it s just so unbelievably how the bewitched mallory doss manages to pull kenneth branagh s character around by his nose the movies climax is as uninteresting and flat as a beer which has been left out in the sun too long the gingerbread man is probably the worst grisham movie ever and this isn t changed by the fact that talented stars crowd the movie don t waste your time here,0
in the beginning and throughout the movie it was great it was suspenseful and thrilling yet in the end it gave no answer to what had happened they mysteriously turned into zombies by a raven or crow it did not answer the questions that we all had and therefore was not as good a movie as i thought that it was going to be,0
another horror flick in which a goof ball teenager battles a madman and his supernatural sidekick who want to take over yes but the fact that this one was from canada gives it a slightly different feel the brain has troublesome teenager jim majelewski getting put into a treatment whose leader turns out to be a cult leader aided by a big ugly brain can jim stop him i guess that since our northern neighbor has accomplished all that they have accomplished they re entitled to make at least one ridiculous horror movie but still they ll probably want to be known for having national health care and all the bad guy had a brain why didn t the people who made this movie,0
i found tremors the legend begins to be dull and boring all the action scenes were stupid the so called graboids are reduced to the size of a modern day house cat if not smaller the acting was horrendous and this film was just an unnecessary movie in the tremor saga because even though it tells the story of how the graboids were formed the story is so dumb and useless also if you want to tell a story way back in time make sure you use the same actor michael gross to be someone in the past when he s someone in the present in the other tremor movies geez if you haven t seen this film don t waste your time stick to tremors and for a good time this film however make sure you re remote is sitting right next to you with the stop button working for a quick retreat away from this nonsense,0
although time has revealed how some of the effects were done this story of love and adventure still is special if you ve never seen this film before you ll be shocked at how much has been stolen by later film makers i was watching this with a friend who was amazed at how much disney s aladdin cribbed from the film they loved the movie and enjoyed that it was such a touchstone for so many other films and film makers i ve given the film an out of instead of a out of ten which is where a good portion of this film dwells because in the final minutes the film falls apart in the pacing everything is rushed as if they has to suddenly get to the end from the point from the departure of the djinn to the end it appears to be more sketch then finished painting it doesn t kill the film but it does weaken it still its required viewing for anyone who loves a good fairy tale or even a great movie,1
this movie deserved a working over on mystery science theater even though it has nothing whatever to do with king solomon it s worth a watch because it is an unintentional laugh riot really it s worse than destroy all monsters be sure to check out the following the cheesy medallion looks like the shriners have been here the obviously polyester norfolk jacket on allan quatermain david macallum s badly done stutter which does draw attention away from his even worse acting the incredibly bad process work on all the monsters the monsters themselves the hand puppet which menaces the little girl the giant snake that menaces macallum while he sinks in oatmeal the red lighted eyes on the motorized crabs the amazingly hilarious boat oh brother which appears to be made of plywood mounted on an old sand dredge and looks like a leftover from a jr sr prom voyage into the future with the class of the phoenician city where they wear roman imperial armor but which inexplicably has egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions the phoenicians invented the alphabet come on and worst of all macallum and ekland with her fright wig playing smoochy face oh the horror the best parts are that the intrepid explorers manage to lose the comic frenchman and the african guy snuffleupagus or whatever evidently chose to die heroically rather than be in any more scenes,0
thanks to a dull dimensionless screenplay by neil simon and lackluster direction from robert moore chapter two becomes a shrill showcase for marsha mason who received her third of four oscar nods for chapter two giving the same performance here that she gave in cinnderella liberty the goodbye girl audrey rose and only when i laugh only this time she doesn t have a child to drag around chapter two is the third and last feature film for moore having previously directed neil simon s the cheap detective and murder by death caan is miscast the characters are mono dimensional the dialog is overly analytical and there s virtually no establishing detail the first half is a less than captivating meet cute coy romance between a blinkered caan and a chipper mason and the dreary second half makes you long for the first half the nyc locations as well as joe bologna and a painfully thin valerie harper are irrelevant but at least they provide some welcome distraction and last and least there s an awful song played during the credits,0
i have been an environmentalist for years and was really looking forward to this show i had it set to record all episodes because i thought i could really learn some great new things i probably could if i could get past rachelle i m sure a lot of this is staged to seem like a reality show and appeal to that class of viewer it doesn t work for someone who s really interested in improving the planet this show should be called nagging with rachelle since ed is such a great font of information maybe a second show that s really serious about the environment would be a good idea dumbing things down is not necessary for some of us i no longer record episodes or watch the show but do let me know if a real green show may be in the works,0
i usually check out the mtv movie awards to watch a witty entertaining show that delivers a unique award show chewbacca winning a life time achievement award as example so this year was no different while i m not a fan of justin timberlake seann william scott has always been funny albiet stupid to me i ve laughed at stiffler in both american pie movies and even enjoyed him in dude where s my car but the mtv movie awards were simply horrible nothing was coherrent humorous or entertaining justin timberlake should stick to singing and dancing he sure as hell can t act i m curious as to who the writers were for this show last year s performance by jack black and sarah michelle gellar was extremly funny the lord of the rings parody alone was worth watching the entire show but this year was completly different did anyone understand timberlake s comments regarding luke wilson and kate hudson they re staring in a movie together but have never met here they are where was the joke kate and luke just went into their lame dialogue never making a reference to the joke by timberlake and seann was completly wasted as a talent not even causing me to smile yet alone laugh and what was the point of harrison ford s one liners did they make any sense to anyone perhaps the mtv writers figured the young viewers would only know the aging ford as han solo indiania jones or the president from air force one i m baffled and would someone tell me the deal with adrian brody how old is this guy and how old does he think he is the guy looks trying to act again give it up show some class like in your best actor academy award speech and act your age i give this show star out of simply because of the speech by gollam for best visual performance this was very creative extremely well done and caused the only genuine laugh of the entire evening,0
this is surely one of the worst films ever made and released by a major hollywood studio the plot is simply stupid the dialog is written in clich s you can complete a great many sentences in the script because of this the acting is ridiculously bad especially that of rod cameron the choreography is silly and wholly unerotic one can only pity the reviewer who saw year old yvonne s dance as sexual it s merely very bad choreography the ballet scene in the film s beginning is especially ludicrous if you are into bad movies and enjoy laughing at some of hollywood s turkeys this is for you i bought the colorized version on vhs making the movie even worse yvonne s heavy makeup when colored has her looking like a clown all the time and she s the best part of this film what a way to launch a career,0
the invisible man is a fantastic movie from a cutting edge film for it s time where objects appeared to rest on top of a man who was truly invisible go ahead take a look at the film you will be shocked that it was made in it was the first true special effects movie come computer aided special effects seem like child s play audiences are not blown away by special effects instead they are disappointed if they are not done right the special effects in hollow man the update of the hg wells story are ok but not the biggest problem with this film directed by paul verhoeven who you might remember from showgirls and total recall kevin bacon plays sebastian caine a scientist dabbling in the world of bio invisibilation yeah i know that s not a word but of course is battling higher ups who are threatening to take away the team s funding so as movie characters who are about to have their funding cutoff are prone to do he makes the ultimate sacrifice and becomes a guinea pig for the invisibilation yeah i know i used that non word again process the process has dire consequences no caine does not die but instead becomes a horny violent creature aka a guy now that he s invisible caine stalks a sexy neighbor a co worker former girlfriend linda elisabeth shue and the man who took away his funding then a funny thing happens caine becomes a new supernatural being the thing that won t die laughing in the face of all things natural caine faces down death and spits in it s face as it take what feels like hours for this creature to die dragging the ending of the movie out the movie is silly stupid and finally laughable with the way realism is sometimes used sometimes not there are neat possibilities in hollow man but of course not one of them is explored for a more interesting look at an invisible being get ready for some good old fashioned black and white cinema and check out the invisible man kevin bacon will still be invisible when you come back probably still alive at the bottom of a volcano,0
national lampoon s class reunion was a flop when it was released it didn t stay long in theaters in my big city why because it s bad not bad in a good way but bad in a really painfully unfunny way the entire cast of actors were mostly unknowns then and have remained unknowns after this turkey the idea is actually great a parody of slasher flicks but the execution is sorely lacking in every aspect just avoid this comedy your time is more precious than spending a nanosecond watching this embarrassing misfire,0
probably encouraged by admirers of her much better orlando potter here delivers a vehicle for herself in the worst way she writes directs stars and actually co writes the music including a mawkish love song the film strongly resembles a high school or college project by a teenager convinced that her own intimate loves and melodramatic obsessions are as fascinating to us as to her but potter s character is as unsympathetic as the object of her romantic obsession is unlikable and the whole film is an embarrassing display of narcissism masquerading as a celebration of the tango perhaps if she hadn t cast herself it might have worked she just can t act whether playing herself or not pretentious over ambitious dull and silly,0
it isn t the worst film ever made the actors aren t apalling and the script and director are not completely inept it isn t the best film ever made the actors aren t excellent and the script and director are not completely brilliant it falls somewhere in the middle a fun somewhere an enjoyable well constructed somewhere no need to say don t take it seriously or so bad its good or it wasn t scary none of these comments are relevant cut has atmosphere it s that atmosphere which is actually very unique and the one really original aspect of the movie which personally is what makes the film for me,1
if you were born around the time this movie was finished and had a liberal open minded household that i had i m sure during the early s you d be first introduced to walking in on your parents watching dirty movies or extreme dirty movies you know not pornographic but rather an alchemical mixture of actual drama and pornography or that you d sneak into their collection and pop in the plastic rectangle representation of such a film in a big dookie machine called a vhs you had to be very quiet and ninja like but still having minor heart failure when huge pop noises were made when pressing the tablet like buttons out of fear of being discovered whatever the case such films were sent into the back of your mind waiting and waiting to be reunited with such visual art needless to say this movie fits into the aforementioned description to a t many people will comment on the extreme sexual nature of the film but perhaps due to me being desensitized i am more disturbed by the subtleties was the creator speaking to us on deeper levels of human carnality and or what could be considered a true abomination interracial relations bed frame masturbation voyeurism or could it be desperation for social status to the point of murder pedophilia homosexuality or the repressed sexual nature of social elitist females in th century france who can say but despite mr borowcyzk s taste for vivid raw sexuality being the norm for his works i d say that indeed this movie does speak to the viewer on a deeper level concerning bestial carnality once i have learned this the story became much more interesting beyond the giddiness of shock value and there fore it is well worth checking out,1
this movie joshua is extremely disturbing and downright pointless it actually makes me shudder to think there are people who would enjoy watching it without giving away the story it is about a young boy s reaction to his newborn sister and that is just the tip of the iceberg during the entirety of this movie the viewer is subjected to some of the most unsettling child behavior imaginable adding insult to injury by the end of this movie there is absolutely no real outcome except the fruition of pure evil at the hands of a child no less who outsmarted a whole group of dumb adults there is no redemption no justice served and a whole group of adults who are not smart enough to see what is going on around them frankly i did not enjoy watching this movie it was extremely unsettling even for those who might enjoy horror movies this movie could be too much despite the fact this movie was well acted the story itself is so disturbing that watching it was equivalent to a minute wait in a dentist s waiting room in anticipation of some painful dental procedure,0
a pointless movie with nothing but gratuitous violence the only fun i had was playing spot the location as much of it was filmed in my home town of regina saskatchewan i like to support locally produced films but this one was a major disappointment,0
the best film on the battle of san antonio texas in march was john wayne s epic the alamo in a one shot job as director producer that temporarily financially strapped him wayne demonstrated that he was talented in movie making outside of his icon like acting ability personifying the west i have commented on that film in a review the other night and i pointed out that wayne and james edward grant the screenwriter tackled some points that were barely mentioned in earlier films about the battle they did bring in the issue of slavery they also finally discussed the contribution of local mexican land owner juan seguin as an important leader in the war for independence on par with crockett bowie travis austin and houston but there was one weakness though well hidden in the film wayne worked hard to cast it properly thinking of many people for lead roles in it but he did not properly handle the leader of the enemy forces general antonio de santa anna the role was played by an obscure actor ruben padilla on this board his thread shows only three credits listed padilla did not have any spoken dialog even in spanish and while he does have one of the last shots in the film he just is shown as a silent tyrant observing the burning of the bodies of the americans and their allies despite several poor choices in the casting of this television movie the alamo thirteen days to clory it is the best film in showing the man who was from to a leading bogeyman to american policy makers raul julia was a wonderful stage actor i was fortunate to see him in a production in the late s of arms and the man in manhattan as sergius he was never boring and usually first rate in his acting here we see the egotistical monster at his worst nothing is acceptable that does not fit santa anna s wishes or activities it can be the failure of an orderly in the army to bring some item he requested fast enough or it can be the temerity of these foreign brigands as he saw the americans in not knuckling down to himself the napoleon of the west santa anna was president of mexico five or six times between and he claimed that he first got involved in overthrowing a president because that president did not live up to the country s constitution but it was the power that kept him going year after year it is a sad commentary that he was the leading mexican historical figure in those two decades no political figure or military figure would rise to override him until benito juarez did in the late s initially he claimed great liberal ideals but he once admitted that the people of mexico were children who needed guidance for one hundred years before they could rule themselves and thus he sounds like gilbert roland in crisis talking about the people he has helped lead against jose ferrer the amazing thing about him was he managed to keep coming back his policies were disasters while we know about his attack on texas to put down a revolt there he also tried to expand into guatamala and probably saw himself controlling much of central america he did win at the alamo but at great cost of lives his massacre of col fannin s men at goliad was inexcusable one might make a case for the destruction of the defenders of the alamo who were fighting to the last but fannin had surrendered then came the disaster of san jacinto where his army was wiped out he failed to take adequate precautions to watch for the american troops he was captured and humiliated and forced to sign a surrender of texas houston was kind to him the troops wanted to string him up except for losing a leg in a battle against the french in he managed not to get wounded in most of his wars he repudiated the forced surrender of texas but could not militarily undue it instead he would lead mexico into defeat in the war of against the americans leading to the mexican session the u s was decent enough to pay mexico for the southwest but mexico lost half of it s territory he would be president for the last time in in time to give franklin pierce s horrendously bad administration it s one moment of glory santa anna sold the border of arizona and new mexico the gadsden purchase to the u s no other mexican president not even porfirio diaz ever cost his country so much diaz did sell out to foreign business interests but he built up mexico s economic muscles doing so he was exiled in and settled in staten island there he managed to do his most creative work he introduced chicle to the u s and it became chewing gum some achievement julia s santa anna is younger than the practiced cynic and schemer who became america s best land purchase agent he is not going to stand for opposition and he jumps into furious tantrums at a moment s notice most of the time his chief aide col black david ogden stiers here a british born officer holds his tongue he does not wish to be in front of a firing squad as he could be but stiers is secretly less than enchanted by his boss at the end when alone with the newly widowed wives of the dead alamo defenders stiers suggests that they tell the world what santa anna is really like and they did,1
i grew up baptist and i know the story this movie is trying to tell although i no longer believe the story i ll give the movie kudos for being as good as the average lifetime movie of the week mildly interesting mediocre acting a bit slow the script is predictable the music is sappy and it is a bit melodramatic and all the people left behind have got to be the squeakiest clean non christians ever not a single curse word from any of them but i laughed out loud when the actor playing the man who runs the united nations pronounced nuclear as nu cu ler just like bush is there some christian code of honor that mandates that since bush claims he too is called by god that all christians must cover up his ignorance by mispronouncing that word the same way he does lol i really had a difficult time taking the movie seriously at all after that after the nu cu ler incident the movie began to feel like packaged manipulative propaganda i was looking for something bold actually i was looking for something that might make me think but i didn t find it here if you re looking for mindless entertainment stop here it s good for killing a rainy afternoon but if you re looking for intelligence look elsewhere,0
i saw this movie by accident yesterday at a cinema i had some hopes for the movie because i really like spoorloos the vanishing and the book it s based on the movie starts out okay as it at first seems to be a nice thriller quickly though the movie becomes a mess with uninteresting plotlines characters that are never fleshed out and nobody in the audience cared for like marjoke and terrible editing the movie has fade to black bits that are just way too long a messed up chronology that jumps back and forth and lots of scenes that just don t add anything to the story and could easily have been dropped after suffering through the story you ll get treated to one of the worst endings i ve seen in a very long it should also be mentioned that the movie has lots of explicit sex scenes which you re probably used to if you watch a lot of dutch movies it s hard to mention any good things about this movie about a third of the audience had already walked out of the theater halfway into the movie and i didn t hear a kind word after the movie was over avoid this movie at all costs it really destroyed any faith i had left in the dutch movie industry,0
even in the st century child bearing is dangerous women have miscarriages and give birth prematurely seventy five years ago it was not uncommon for women to die during childbirth that is the theme of life begins a look at the difficult cases ward of a maternity hospital loretta young plays the lead a woman brought here from prison what crime she committed is not germane to the plot to give birth she s conflicted about the fact she s going to have to give her baby up after birth she s in a ward with several other women who share their joys and pain with each other although loretta young is the lead the outstanding performance as usual is put in by glenda farrell farrell was one of warner s b women in the s showing up quite a bit in supporting roles and sometimes getting the lead in b movies farrell played torchy blane in several installments of the torchy b movie series here farrell plays an expectant mother who doesn t want her children since they ll only get in the way she does everything she can to get in the way of the nurses including smuggling liquor into the ward this of course during the prohibition days and drinking like a fish apparently they d never heard of fetal alcohol syndrome back in the s interestingly unlike most movie of the early s it s not the women being bumbling idiots getting in the way of the heroic men that situation is reversed with the expectant fathers being quivering mounds of jelly watch for veteran character actor frank mchugh as one of the expectant fathers life begins being an early talkie treats the subject with a fair dollop of melodrama to be sure but it s quite a charming little movie turner classic show it albeit infrequently i ve only seen it show up on a few days honoring loretta young but it s highly recommended viewing when it does show up,1
i grew up watching this series i was about seven eight years old when it was on i still remember the st episode which was called the new house it scared the h ll out of me i can almost still hear that statue laughing madly and the ending oh my god the hooror spirit comes in the room for the child yikes this was classic tv and it was a one of a kind series i have found a dvd collection for sale on the internet actually my question to any readers has anyone purchased this set its a bootleg both sellers claim to have very good copy i have a sketchy and poor dvd of the new house episode and a couple of other episodes that are a bit better however if anyone knows if these are much clearer it would be worth it to me to buy and share with my kids a great series clever scary and daringly supernatural thanks in advance to any fans who have the low down on any of this in fact i d love to discuss it chris walker,1
burt kennedy used to be a very good director but you d never know it by this lumbering mess not only does this film look cheap it is cheap most of the battle scenes are lifted from the far superior the last command from and that footage shot years previously looks more contemporary than anything in this picture the few action scenes that were actually shot for this movie are disorganized confused and incompetent looking just as shoddy as the rest of the picture this has the look and feel of a bad student film and the budget didn t seem to be a whole lot more it moves like molasses the acting for the most part is either over the top ham or under the top comatose although raul julia comes off better than most of the rest of the cast and it s chock full of annoying historical inaccuracies on top of that it s way too long if you re going to make a boring film do it in an hour or so and get it over with don t stretch it out over three hours like this one does if you want to see a good movie about the alamo check out john wayne s version or even the film from which this movie stole its action scenes hard to believe it took six producers to make a movie this lousy skip it,0
this only gets bashed because it stars david hasselhoff well then let me bash it to compared to the garbage they call horror coming out nowadays this film isn t too bad it has the beautiful leslie cumming she is super hot but can t talk very well there is a great scene with her when she is supernaturally raped she shows off her nice body linda blair does nothing here as well as hasselhoff,0
bela lugosi as creepy insane scientist who uses orchids to woo brides in order to steal life essence for aged wife the midget in this film is hilarious a lot of freaks plus a lot of padding and no plot makes watching this film a nightmare i loved how all the pieces fell together in the end in typical hollywood fashion the story never gets interesting and you feel helpless as you watch usually i d score bore flicks like this one low but the midget added just enough creepiness and entertainent to gain a couple more points,0
there were times when this movie seemed to get a whole lot more complicated than it needed to be but i guess that s part of it s charm detective philo vance s powers of observation seem greater than all the oriental sleuths of the era combined when it comes down to that final evaluation of how the murders were committed the dropping of the dagger into the chinese vase was the kicker for me i mean couldn t somebody have just dropped it vance william powell had a line early in the film about archer coe s psychological impossibility to kill himself i had to think about that for a while i was left wondering if there s some scientific basis in fact for that concept to be true not having studied psychology myself seems logical but then there s always the case that doesn t fit the rules you know i got a kick out of the agitated coroner etienne girardot who reminded me of star trek s dr mccoy the couple of times he stated i m a doctor not a magician and i m a doctor not a detective i can picture deforrest kelley watching the film and saying to himself i ll have to use that sometime once the killer s identity is revealed it doesn t seem like such a big surprise but up till then it s really anybody s guess but archer and brisbane coe aside the film didn t answer the central question posed by the title and the murder i was really interested in who killed sir thomas macdonald s dog ghillie,1
titanic is a classic i was really surprised that this movie didn t have a solid ten overall in the imdb user rankings maybe it s just cool to not give titanic credit nowadays but when it was first made it was really something when the movie came out people flocked to the theaters when it came out on video my sister and i would watch it twice a day for a month it was safe to say we were obsessed and for good reason some of the disaster scenes were hard to forgot like the frozen baby or the guy who committed suicide after killing someone in the unruly crowd many people died on that ship and to convey that on film with the immediacy and emotion it needed is a hard challenge that james cameron stepped up to and let s not forget the amazing romance between jack and rose whether or not their relationship was a figment of someone s imagination it was lovely they barely knew each other but they would die for each other they trusted each other they sure as hell are giving romeo and juliet a run for their money i ll never let go jack titanic is a great film down to it s very core it is a powerful story told through brilliant acting excellent cinematography beautiful music and a crew full of hard and dedicated workers it really blows my mind when someone says they hate this movie,1
this movie is simply wonderful it s got it all laughter sorrow beauty poetry truth all in a simple yet intense story like life you won t get distracted for a second p s somebody tell hollywood you need a good story to make a good movie and there are so many good stories out there,1
these were over minutes of semi unexpected boredom first i was wondering how it is possible to produce something like that then reaching th minute i was convincing myself that it s only a few more minutes and i lasted to the very end which i m kinda proud of as i consider watching this movie as a great test for human s patience and crap tolerance was it worth watching at all well as i wrote above if you want to test yourself give it a try and if you re strong willed enough you may even last to the end the movie lacks coherence and characters seem to have no common sense at all all happenings in the movie you can be sure you saw somewhere before and they seem to be put in this movie just to fill the film reel,0
after the usual chase scene jerry accidentally winds up inside a bottle of invisible ink which was part of a chemistry set he quickly discovers he s invisible so the predictable results occur meaning he uses his new hidden condition to torment tom jerry often is just defending himself but often he has sadistic streak in him that torments the cat whenever possible even when unprovoked here he makes tom think his eyes are deceiving him when cheese from a mousetrap disappears before his eyes or milk from a dish tom can t take anymore so he tries to sleep this nightmare off but jerry sets fire to his paw man i hope little kids didn t ideas watching these cartoons back in the s and s i always found jerry the little mouse more evil than cute thankfully in cartoons generally whatever damage a character suffers is gone within seconds and he s back to normal the best part of this cartoon is about two thirds of the way through when tom figures out what the story is with jerry and tries different methods to detect where the mouse is located such as putting flour on the floor to see his footprints,1
i thought that for a first episode of a first series it did really well it was really fun and i thought the actors was brilliant i think it is a crime for anyone to say that is was bad because it looked the right time i find it really annoying when people say that it wasn t historically correct because it is supposed to be a saturday night entertainment show not a boring history documentary so i think the costumes and settings were just right a brilliant start and i am going to love what will come next i have spoken to many people at my school and they love the show we all think that it is brilliant entertainment and it has great stories to go with it,1
well what can i say what the bleep do we know has achieved the nearly impossible leaving behind such masterpieces of the genre as the postman the dungeon master merlin and so fourth it will go down in history as the single worst movie i have ever seen in its entirety and that ladies and gentlemen is impressive indeed for i have seen many a bad movie this masterpiece of modern cinema consists of two interwoven parts alternating between a silly and contrived plot about an extremely annoying photographer abandoned by her husband and forced to take anti depressants to survive and a bunch of talking heads going on about how quantum physics supposedly justifies their new agy pseudo philosophy basically if you start your day off meditating to the likes of enya and kenny g this movie is for you if you have a sense of humor a crowd of people who know how to have fun and a sizable portion of good weed then this movie is for you as well otherwise stay away take my word for it the first thing that struck me about what the bleep do you know is that is seemed to be edited and put together by the same kinds of people that shoot cheap weddings on camera complete with pink heart effects computer generated sparkles across the screen and other assorted silliness who let these people anywhere near a theatrical release is a mystery to me i guess this is what too much kenny g does to you the movie was permeated with cheesy gci the likes that you or i can produce on our own computer via over the counter video editing software but never would because it s just way too ridiculous the script was _obviously_ written by someone with no writing experience whatsoever not only were all the characters and conversations cumbersome and contrived beyond belief but the writers felt like they had to shove every relevant piece of information or rather disinformation which is what most of this movie was all about all the way down your throat well given the target audience that may not have been too bad of an idea the main character for example spends half the movie popping pills apparently though it was deemed not convincing enough so there are at least a couple of dialogs in throughout which refer to her anti anxiety pills specifically just in case the viewers should not be able to connect her overacted pain and suffering with little white pills she takes whenever she feels down the acting well i ve seen better acting in ed wood movies and no this is not an exaggeration heck the little play i was in when i was featured much more inspiring acting than this it really did the story is interrupted here and there with a bunch or random talking heads a strange mix of kooky scientists kooky doctors and self proclaimed mystics go on and on about how quantum physics supposedly provides an explanation for how ever man or woman created their own reality just by participating in the experience of life reality you see is a probability field of a bunch of different possibilities and is only set in stone once you the observer chose to notice it what happens when more than one observer observes they didn t say but then again who cares listen to enya meditate observe and you shall be god and nobody gives a damn about such silly and archaic things as critical thinking logic etc all reason is immediately dismissed as people being stuck in their ways and unable to achieve a paradigm shift and go down the rabbit hole furthermore the heidelberg uncertainty principle supposedly is proof positive of alternate realities parallel universes and such speaking of rabbit holes the analogy permeates the movie all of these people keep talking about going down rabbit holes i m not sure what that had to do with anything else they were saying or showing but one thing i m certain of is that it somehow involves anal sex actually the movie is _extremely_ anti sex throughout sex is presented as dirty ugly and anti enlightening in any case the talking heads talk the main character achieves harmony and enlightenment by painting hearts all over her body with a magic marker and proceeds to walk around with an even stupider look in her glazed over eyes than she started with i want hours of my life back here s a couple of random quotes which i happened to remember what i think of as unreal has become a lot more real to me and that which i used to consider real is oftentimes a lot less real than the unreal some talking head on the spirituality of quantum physics what does it take for one man to have an erection it takes just one thought nothing changes on the outside all the changes are within an yet he has an erection some self proclaimed mystic head of her own school of enlightenment [while looking at herself in the mirror] i hate you i hate you you re fat you re ugly i have you main character the fat and ugly photographer,0
there seems to be an overwhelming response to this movie yet no one with the insight to critique its methodology which is extremely flawed it simply continues to propogate journalistic style analysis which is that it plays off of the audiences lack of knowledge and prejudice in order to evoke an emotional decry and outburst of negative diatribe journalism tell the viewer some fact only in order to predispose them into drawing conclusions which are predictable for instance the idea of civil war chaos looting etc were all supposedly unexpected responses to the collapse of governmental infrastructure following hussein s demise were these not all symptomatic of an already destitute culture doctrinal infighting as symptomatic of these veins of islam itself rather than a failure in police force to restrain and secure would they rather the us have declared marshall law i m sure the papers here would ve exploded with accusations of a police state and fascist force aside from the analytical idiocy of the film it takes a few sideliners and leaves the rest out claiming so and so refused to be interviewed yet the questions they would ve asked are no doubt already answered by the hundred inquisitions those individuals have already received would you as vice president deign to be interviewed by a first time writer producer which was most certainly already amped to twist your words they couldn t roll tape of condi to actually show her opinion and answer some of the logistics of the questions perhaps they never watched her hearing this is far from a neutral glimpse of the situation on the ground there this is another biased asinine approach by journalists which are by and large unthinking herds anyone wanting to comment on war ought at least have based their ideas on things a little more reliable than nbc coverage and cnn commentary these interpretations smack of the same vitriol which simply creates a further bipartisanism of those who want to think and those who want to be told by the media what to think,0
the line of course is from the lord s prayer thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven sweden especially its far north is not my idea of heaven degree c winter temperatures are a little on the low side for me but the good folk who live there no doubt think they are in god s own country the storyline here is a familiar one acclaimed international musician daniel suffers health breakdown in mid career goes back to the little village in northern sweden where he was born persuaded by the local pastor to help out with the church choir he turns some unlikely talent into a class act and they enter a contest held in innsbruck austria there are echoes sorry of the band players of brassed off the models of calendar girls and the dancers of the full monty but of course he causes plenty of emotional upheaval as some of the more downtrodden villagers realise their worth and revolt against their oppressors he faces hostile husbands and an increasingly dubious pastor but nothing except death is going to stop him despite the somewhat corny story we get to know and like many of the characters who come across as people rather than caricatures despite many of them being recognisable types i did wonder about the wife beater being unpunished for so long sweden is one country in the world where such violence is pretty strongly discouraged he was also a bit young to be one of the bullies of daniel s youth and the puritanical pastor with a secret passion for girlie magazines was a bit of a stereotype but marvellously realised by niklas falk michael nyqvist is simply wonderful as daniel the frail but driven musician and there s some nice music as well i was rapt for the whole two hours the ending is what you make of it i guess but it s not spoiling it to say daniel achieves what he set out to do,1
holes is my all time favorite movie so far i have seen this movie three times in theaters and am looking forward to purchasing it on dvd this upcoming september i read the book after seeing the movie and was amazed at how alike the book and movie were the director of this film did an excellent job of re creating the book into movie form also all of the actors selected to play the roles did wonderful playing their characters especially max kasch as zigzag props to all those involved in making this movie it was a real success out of stars i definitely recommend it for everyone to see,1
i was absolutely mesmerised by this series from the moment tom long walked into shot the whole bad boy thing it was just addictive the story has you hooked what will happen next will joey get the girl in the end after doing years in prison and all that time thinking about his lost love crossing paths with her again finding he has a son although he is a violent bad guy you still want him to find happiness a truly captivating two parter please bring it out on video,1
i am uncertain what to make of this misshapen dramedy attempting to be a new millennium cross hybrid between on golden pond and the prince of tides this film ends up being an erratic mess shifting so mercurially between comedy and melodrama that the emotional pitch always seems off the main problem seems to be the irreconcilable difference between garry marshall s sentimental direction and mark andrus dark rather confusing screenplay the story focuses on the unraveling relationship between mother lilly and daughter rachel who have driven all the way from san francisco to small town hull idaho where grandmother georgia lives the idea is for lilly to leave rachel for the summer under georgia s taskmaster jurisdiction replete with her draconian rules since the young year old has become an incorrigible hellion the set up is clear enough but the characters are made to shift quickly and often inexplicably between sympathetic and shrill to fit the contrived contours of the storyline it veers haphazardly through issues of alcoholism child molestation and dysfunctional families until it settles into its pat resolution the three actresses at the center redeem some of the dramatic convolutions but to varying degrees probably due to her off screen reputation and her scratchy smoker s voice lindsay lohan makes rachel s promiscuity and manipulative tactics palpable although she becomes less credible as her character reveals the psychological wounds that give a reason for her hedonistic behavior felicity huffman is forced to play lilly on two strident notes as a petulant resentful daughter to a mother who never got close to her and as an angry alcoholic mother who starts to recognize her own accountability in her daughter s state of mind she does what she can with the role on both fronts but her efforts never add up to a flesh and blood human being at close to seventy jane fonda looks great even as weather beaten as she is here and has the star presence to get away with the cartoon like dimensions of the flinty georgia the problem i have with fonda s casting is that the legendary actress deserves far more than a series of one liners and maternal stares between this and s execrable monster in law it does make one wonder if her best work is behind her it should come as no surprise that the actresses male counterparts are completely overshadowed garrett hedlund looks a little too surfer dude as the na ve harlan a devout mormon whose sudden love for rachel could delay his two year missionary stint cary elwes plays on a familiar suspicious note as lilly s husband an unfortunate case where predictable casting appears to telegraph the movie s ending there is also the omnipresent dermot mulroney in the morose triple play role of the wounded widower lilly s former flame and rachel s new boss as town veterinarian dr simon ward laurie metcalf has a barely there role as simon s sister paula while marshall regular hector elizondo and songsmith paul williams show up in cameos some of andrus dialogue is plain awful and the wavering seriocomic tone never settles on anything that feels right there are several small extras with the dvd none all too exciting marshall provides a commentary track that has plenty of his trademark laconic humor there are several deleted scenes including three variations on the ending and a gag reel a seven minute making of featurette is included as well as the original theatrical trailer a six minute short spotlighting the three actresses and a five minute tribute to marshall,0
i think this still is the best routine there are some others like rock s bring the pain and allen s men are pigs that are hilarious damon waynes last stand is also funny in a tearful way but this routine has no errors all the jokes are funny and the time limit of minutes is perfect just long enough to last years i just love how he allows the audience to be totally themselves and unrestricted i m a fan of the classics and for a guy who watched a lot of of jim carrey growing up watching a more laid back comic is pretty cool not putting in a category with ellen and newhart but something you can watch if you re bloated thanks eddie god bless,1
i found the memorable quotes searching for video clips they forgot one of my favorites old person you know i remember the first time they played that thing old person you remember pterodactyls old person and i can remember you fell for that hook line and sinker old person oh i did not old lady you did so you put a big bucket on your head and took off with them army boys to fight martians old person ain t you dead yet,1
seldom do we see such short comments written by imdb filmgoers perhaps it s because this lightweight dark comedy entertains and pleases without depth or are we missing something i d watch it again if i had some incentive so what s a happenstance to the french it is le battement d ailes du papillon serendipity fate perhaps it s an event that is the culmination of a series of random happenings we ve all had these it s called life but when looked at in this way you begin to get the feeling that random might be more like fated a happenstance in this film might be an occurrence as minor as knocking a few leaves of lettuce off the back of a truck or as major as basing a major life decision on the accuracy of a stranger tossing of a pebble all these incidents cause other events that well you get the picture dominoes multiply those by characters and an average of each and you have to really stretch your imagination to accept the remote chance that this scenario could happen and i think that there s a diagnosis for those who believe that life is like this but then this is the magic world of cinema we admit that it is fun to watch the way the writer director weaves together these unrelated events into a story which enmeshes the lives of these french citizens if you have a couple of hours and are looking for a whimsical escape here s the place to do it or if you re recovering from surgery and aren t going anywhere anyway this will engage you while your stitches are healing happenstance will not go down as an award winner but it should develop a cult following stranger things have happened soren kierkegaard is attributed with the following life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward if you looked at the detail in many of your own life experiences meeting your first love finding the perfect gift your last auto accident you would find a series of seemingly random events leading up to it that s the answer i forgot to bring along an existentialist to explain happenstance to me,1
gave us the very decent gore porn flick hostel and gave us live feed a not so decent rip off of hostel live feed follows pretty much the same formula as eli roth s earlier film except this time the dumb kids are in asia rather than central europe the plot focuses on these dumb kids and one of them has annoyed one of the locals so they find themselves in trouble the locals decide to lock them all in a theatre and kill them despite the fact that i d heard some less than favourable things about this film before seeing it i still hoped that it might be at least half decent because director ryan nicholson previously made the very decent minute rape and revenge film torched but this film falls down simply because most of it is either ridiculous or boring the film is obviously trying to hark back to the good old days of grindhouse cinema which hostel did successfully but it really doesn t come off surprisingly considering nicholson s previous work in special effects not even the gore is impressive although it is a lot better than the acting there s not much else i can say about this film it s bad and not in a good way avoid it,0
first of all i just want to say that i love this show but this episode this episode makes a mockery of the entire show i don t know what they tried to achieve with this episode but they successfully created the worst episode in the entire series there is no story line everything is chaotic and the jokes are crap the way they tried to answer some of the remaining questions in the game for example how do the furlings look like by creating that stupid previously on is simply embarrassing its clear that the writers are running out of ideas and that is really too bad,0
well it was funny in spots this film is a or maybe a its a film that sits on the video shelf and gathers dust rent this one after you seen everything else beats boredom but not by that much my wife like like this film better then i do maybe its not that bad,0
this stuffy melodrama is quite easily the worst film starring ingrid bergman that i ve seen even her luminous screen presence can t save this insufferably slow and meandering movie that s nearly impossible to sit through without fast forwarding a lot of it only for die hard bergman fans others are very likely to fall asleep i suggest you to watch for whom the bell tolls instead,0
st watched out of dir steve purcell typical mary kate ashley fare with a few more kisses it looks to me like the girls are getting pretty tired of this stuff and it will be interesting what happens to them if they ever decide to split up and go there own ways in this episode of their adventures they are interns in rome for a `fashion designer who puts them right into the mailroom to learn what working hard is all about i guess besides the typical flirtations with boys there is nothing much else except the rome scenario until about way into the movie when it s finally revealed why they are getting fired then re hired then fired again then re hired again this is definetly made by people who don t understand the corporate world and it shows in their interpretation of it maybe the real world will be their next adventure if there is one even my kids didn t seem to care for this boring `adventure in the make believe let s see they probably only have a couple of years till their legal adults we ll see what happens then,0
fantastic movie one to excite all senses is not a true historical report and not all information is to be taken as factual information true hollywood conventions used like playing a list and very attractive actors as the heroes such as naomi watts julia cook ned kelly s lover heath ledger ned and orlando bloom joe byrne ned s right hand man and unattractive sorry geoffrey rush actors play the drunken and corrupt victorian police force this also instills a very unreliable love story into the mix between ned ledger and julia cook watts to entice all the romantics females being especially susceptible even from the first scene when ned saves the fat youth from drowning and his dad calls him sunshine and had a glint in his eye as he looked down at me his hand on me shoulder it is very romanticized and persuades viewers to side with ned kelly the underdog besides don t all aussies love an underdog,1
what a bad bad film i can t believe all the hype that has been lavished on this pretentious amateurish excuse for a real movie i left the theater before the end stunned by how bad the direction and camera work of that movie were and to read adoring paeans that claim there is truth and reality in this film when all it is in reality is a brazen attempt at pulling the wool over the eyes of reviewers and festivals by being cheap and tawdry at least this film showed me once and for all that the sundance festival has become a complete joke and that being shown here is more a label of bad film making than anything else avoid at all costs you ll want your time back i know i did,0
this movie tells an amazing story with history and compassion from the careful descriptions of the crime scenes to the mental health of the lead investigator you ll be entranced it s an absolute must see for anyone interested in criminology interpol relations and how the agencies work together are also great not overly done either i recommend it for anyone interested in russian history too how the police work with the political party being what it was it is truly fascinating and frustrating the settings are beautiful it s been a while since i saw this movie the first time it doesn t diminish it s impact not overly dramatic or graphic it leaves enough to the imagination well you ll see,1
all dogs go to heaven is in my opinion the best animated film ever made i m not really a big fan of animated films but there s something about this one that makes it better than any other animated film i ve seen the music is wonderful as is the performances of burt reynolds dom deluise and especially ken page as the king gator let s make music together is perhaps one of my favorite songs from any movie musical i ve seen this is definitely a must see for people of all ages,1
zombie nation r hey i was bored i looked in my comcastic little box to find a movie to watch zombie nation hey i love zombie movies says the filmmaker has some sort of cult following in the description funny how it doesn t warn me not to watch this film i could ve used that advice zombie nation is just like troll in that it s completely misnamed it has little if anything depending on your point of view to do with zombies and takes place all within one city this film revolves around a crooked cop who acts as badly as possible he has to be trying to suck this much while he arrests women for trivial bullshit and then kills them yup he s a serial killer cop not only is this film flawed in thinking that it s a zombie flick it also gets its serial killer facts completely wrong serial killers enjoy killing they live for it and they get down and personal with it this guy knocks out the women and injects them with some poison he doesn t even have sex with the corpse or dismember it talk about boring eventually one of the whopping five women he kills has voodoo protection done to her and for no apparent reason all five come back to life and head off to kill this guy they were all buried or tossed into the ocean but you wouldn t know it buy the sharp clean clothes they re all wearing the women then act very poorly and take their revenge oh yay this film was crap in every category crap acting crap writing crappier sets and crappier make up effects the women don t look zombie like unless you count really dark make up around the eyes to be the de facto definition of what makes a zombie they can all talk behave think and act perfectly human the gore is weak compared to even many pg films and the nudity is beyond brief you see glimpse of breasts in the opening sequence then the exact same breasts later go figure guess only one actress was willing to go topless for this trite the police station is so badly constructed that you can see where they stopped painting the walls of the warehouse they re obviously filming in you can see the pipes and the bad lighting and the overly sparse set up and even unless you are blind you can see the director failing steer clear it s a waste of time,0
i am terribly sorry i know that fa binder still is called one of the greatest directors in post war germany and that most of his films are considered master pieces but when i see lili marleen today in i wonder what everyone is up and away about this movie the acting is simply terrible hanna schygulla is all the smiling like an idiot the changings between nazi glamour and battlefields are ridiculous the whole film looks as if it was made within two days in an attic probably it was exactly that way and many people seem to take this for real art but for me this movie is simply bad cheap compare this to viscontis la caduta degli dei and tell me again that lili marleen is a good movie,0
it looks to me as if the creators of the class of nuke em high wanted it to become a cult film but it ends up as any old high school b movie only tackier the satire feels totally overshadowed by the extremely steretyped characters it s very un funny even for a turkey,0
this movie grabbed me with the incredible opening sequence which tricked me into a complete reversal of perspective so i was hooked by the time the title came on the theme of this movie is that everyone is acting trying to re invent themselves but not in a tricky way like identity or the usual suspects but in the way we all try to make whatever banal life we find ourselves in a little more interesting the scenes in the chicken warehouses are spectacular at one point jorgen who owns the chicken farm attends a seminar in laughing where he s the worst student his discomfort at this lets you see the depth of his yearning to change himself the movie made me wonder about the hidden mysteries that lie behind the surface of the most commonplace people i see every day there s not a lot of plot here guessing the old man s secret is pretty easy but the fascination lies in trying to guess what all the other characters will do when they figure it out this movie appealed to me in the same way that sideways did although the characters couldn t be more dissimilar,1
it s a difficult movie to classify items or less generally i don t care about defining genres but there s something about this movie that makes you want to put it in a specific category in order to transmit even with only one word your feelings about it i completely recommend this film to anyone and if you truly enjoy cinema and if you enjoy life you ll want to do the same as soon as you ve finished watching it i recommend this movie and call it beautiful and delightful admitting it s not perfect but it doesn t do anything wrong i don t want to sound like i contradict myself but i believe writer director brad silberling knew exactly what he was getting into when he finished writing this inspiring script i m sure he wanted to achieve a product that had nothing to do with perfection a product that would be as simple appealing and uncompromising as its title well he s done it silberling director of long complex dramatic movies like city of angels and moonlight mile proves with items or less which closes in at just minutes the passion he has for his work and also the faith he has in it to put an actor morgan freeman in front of a woman paz vega in a grocery store and take them exactly to the places ordinary life would take them is what silberling proposes here i can t tell you no more because within the apparent simplicity lies a thought provoking background that shouldn t be underestimated because here everyone s exposed the camera focuses directly on the two main characters who share endless conversation in a car ride with stops that s not endless only because life is life and let me express how praise how well silberling handles the situation by saying that he reaches in less time not only in movie duration time but in the single day that the movie develops its events and in a smaller place the kind of connection between two characters that sofia coppola generated in lost in translation that movie set in tokyo also encountered an actor and a woman and they also had conversations about the moments they were living in their lives it s in the conversations where we sense the though provoking quality of items or less and just as in coppola s movie the naturalness of every situation is never lost and the images with all music and no words don t seem forced or included in the picture to buy time in this aspect the collaboration of silberling and his director of photography phedon papamichael the man who shot the beautiful sceneries in sideways and focused on every emotion in patch adams delights us here with visual passages of true natural beauty but the ultimate beauty of items or less can be found in its cast by avy kaufman in its two protagonists they are the ones who transmit this feeling i mentioned at the beginning and i can t specify we feel their connection and we can tell they re having fun and that they may even be improvising stuff academy award winner morgan freeman also an executive producer of the film simply stands there and confirms the status he has today in the movie industry and one that s well deserved a quiet man filled with wisdom that can easily make you cry as he can make you laugh and the beautiful paz vega well i said she was great in spanglish here she proves she s the real deal and hollywood s not small for her,1
jack black is an annoying character this is an annoying indie movie for year olds do i have to write eight more lines ana de la reguera is dang fine to look at as a mexican nun who puts up with the rather forward and rude advances of jack black this movie is a pg version of an indie film i really like a movie that has the courage to explore mexican culture this movie explores mexican culture deeply i just choke on its cultural rudeness jack black is just so rude a white person like jack black is not my most valuable emissary into mexican culture as it were mexican wrestling culture is not the most diaphanous venue a white guy such as myself could seek i suspect mexico is more culturally opaque than jack black has presented here i think imdb changed my review has anyone else had his review changed as well just a question,0
for anyone who may not know what a one actor movie was like this is the best example this plot is ridiculous and really makes no sense it s full of cliched situations hackneyed lines melodrama comedy you name it but amitabh bachchan can make anything convincing and this movie is by no means an exception everyone turns in a decent performance shashi kapoor waheeda rehman ranjit om prakash smita patil but it is the megastar who overshadows everyone with his towering presence without him this movie would have been a non starter the story is about separation mistaken identities misunderstandings love hate loyalty good vs evil everything really amitabh s is a brilliant performance on all counts in an otherwise silly film and did i mention that it is ridiculously funny,1
this film has it all the deft camera work reminiscent of martin scorcese or oliver stone the tight acting of heat the explosive action of a jerry bruckheimer movie the witty dialogue of a tarantino script and the epic feel of say the godfather the judge reinhold character displays a fiery temperememt yet also shows real emotional depth and intensity his performance reminds me of robert de niro s portrayal of jake la motta in raging bull the action scenes are truly breathtaking not since bullit has a movie depicted such high octane yet stylish car scenes the special effects push the boundries of technology and filmmaking to their limits independance day set the standard that this movie clearly has matched and greatly surpassed overall great acting from its a list cast like an oscars night party invitation list classy locations gripping action and a tight script,0
i had no problem with the film which i thought was pretty good it s the actual lapd crime scene video that disturbed me i wonder if lion s gate really thought that the general viewing audience would want to see people that were brutally beaten to death and blood all over the place sorry lion s gate this was an incredibly bad idea getting back to the film the cast was excellent especially val kilmer as the late john holmes john holmes was a sleaze mistreats the women in his life lisa kudrow as his wife kate bosworth as his girlfriend and he is hopelessly deep into drugs his connection to eddie nash eric bogosian creates a spiral that resulted in the infamous wonderland murders exactly how much was holmes involved in the murders we may never know the entire truth to the story nash is still alive and a free man but the film does a pretty good job nonetheless,1
i loved this movie i am biased seeing as i am a huge disney fan but i really enjoyed myself the action takes off running in the beginning of the film and just keeps going this is a bit of a departure for disney they don t spend quite as much time on character development my husband pointed this out and there are no musical numbers it is strictly action adventure i thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone who loves disney be they young or old,1
moonstruck is a love story there is not one romance there are at least three but they all have to do with the same family loretta s family loretta cher is about to marry johnny cammareri danny aiello she doesn t love him but he is sweet and good man when he leaves to visit his dying mother in italy loretta meets johnny s brother ronny nicolas cage he and johnny haven t spoken each other in five years and loretta wants to invite him to the wedding of course they fall instantly for each other how this story and love stories of loretta s parents and uncle and aunt develop is something you simply have to see for yourself every seen is a delight to watch with cher as the bright star in the middle of everything she won and really deserved the oscar that year cage is pretty good and goofy as well and olympia dukakis as loretta s mother and vincent gardenia as her father are terrific this movie is funny charming and therefore highly enjoyable,1
a sweet little movie which would not even offend your grandmother saving grace seems cut from the same cloth as a half dozen other british comedies over the past two years underdog is faced with adversity finds the strength to challenge and learns something about him herself in the process widowed and thus broke grace is a master gardener and is enlisted to help her friend employee matthew grow his pot plant he s been doing it all wrong so grace helps him out they realize that she is the perfect person to harvest pot which they can both benefit from he enjoys smoking she needs to raise funds to pay her mortgage highlight is grace travelling to london to deal some of her merchandise dressed in what looks like the white suit john travolta wore in saturday night fever and therefore sticking out like a sore thumb blethyn is always watchable and you can t say that about a lot of people well i can t anyway ferguson is very good and tcheky karyo who i liked in la femme nikita is memorable not profoundly moving or insightful but immensely entertaining and at a brisk minutes feels like a walk with friends,1
i thought the movie was extremely funny and actually very interesting it was raw and honest and felt as if i was really watching the real people not actors it s great entertainment it also painted the people as human on our level not below us it is a very good film,1
wow i loved the whole series and am shocked at comments by people who thought it ended badly perhaps it waffled a bit in seasons while remaining better than anything else on television but and particularly b were beautiful permutations on the themes developed in the more muscular first three seasons b started with such a sombre mood and janice s always keen insight into the family angst that doom filled line about knowing tony s penchant for sitting and staring anyone who missed the implications of that for the rest of the series does not know tony melfi s discomfort over the psychiatric study and its references to the sociopath s self deluding sentimentality for pets and animals goes back to the first episodes of the series say with tony s panic attack over the ducks leaving his pool and resonates with phil s wave bye bye line to his grandchildren before the coup de grace of the final episode not to get into chase s dark humour i could go on and on but i ll just add that i thought the final show starting with the opening strains of vanilla fudge to supply the ironic foreshadow you keep me hangin on to the terminal moments where tony fades back into complacency with his family in tow or blasts apart like aj s suv or phil s head were utterly utterly perfect the best tv ever pretty good in a dying medium pathologically supplying the jack off fantasies aj derides and then into which he promptly subsides a tip of the pork pie to mr chase,1
for years madonna has tried to prove not only herself but the public eye that she can act unfortunately trying too hard while failing to shed her own persona doesn t mix well she seems to fare better when she s not the star of any movie if you watch her in supporting performances in desperately seeking susan or a league of their own she actually comes off looking good since the story revolves on other actors the weight of the expectation is taken off her shoulders by default the trouble starts when she is asked to be the star of a movie regardless the genre being the focus of a plot that needs to be told in a visual way whether it be good mediocre or plain awful she has to emote in ways that are akin to an actual movie performance as opposed to a video performance this is the crucial difference between madonna and let s say bette davis or meryl streep the latter two even if the movie were to fail because the visual storytelling lacked some effectiveness in having us relate to it or because the script fell short or because the actress per se was just not at her moment there would be an extra something in their performances that would elevate the movie from being a complete bomb both davis and streep have had their share bette having a longer career than streep in such fare as bunny o hare and wicked stepmother streep in she devil but at least there s been that naturalism in the way both attacked their roles that made us forget the banality of the movie and watch the performance madonna on the other hand not being an especially gifted actress capable of really letting us in on her ability to convey a persona other than herself fares much worse and even in the hands of someone as woody allen in shadows and fog an inferior classic she in her pat screen time seems stilted and a little stiff maybe even nervous as if she were aware of the cameras and crew and just couldn t let go so here she tries yet once again to prove she can act in what is essentially a two character movie guy ritchie more known for action movies filled in masculine energy seems as adrift telling a story closer to someone of the likes of michaelangelo antonioni or ingmar bergman who could tell a tale of two people with incredible ease and at minutes the events which take place happen in such an unconvincing way that when the final half hour comes along and the story takes a dramatic turn it doesn t feel sincere from being an absolute witch with no redeeming values to suddenly being in love this has to be the most unconvincing degree turn since fay dunaway s laura suddenly discovered her passion for tommy lee jones in the eyes of laura mars equally unconvincing is adriano giannini s nasty turn around the middle of the movie it lacks any humor and feels genuinely psychopathic and when he gives in to madonna s love it s too quick to be believed filming this in slow music and a visual montage of lovemaking and beautiful scenery doesn t enhance or add upon this transformation from what would have been a story of survival between to unlikeable characters to a love story where both discover each other trying to have an unsatisfying ending works against the movie as well it only makes it drag bog it down and when madonna has to be filmed going from hope to devastation in a tight close up it feels she s trying too hard many an actress have done better in conveying so much doing so little hers is a performance more suited to acting styles of the late s early s where posturing compensated as acting a part or an emotion could the movie have been better of course there are a myriad of ways to have filmed it in a way that would leave the viewer feeling that these people could at least hope to see each other again it s been done before in overboard for example it could have had an existential undertone in which two very different people have to rely on each other but not necessarily change to ensure a moral tone much dialog and unnecessary erotic scenes could have been spared for a more silent film look as in persona it could have even been something of a thriller providing that the giannini character have a mean streak as billy zane had in dead calm even if it would have been done as a sex farce it would have worked better for madonna as the over the top uber control freak getting her comeuppance but with its mean streaked humor without at least a glimpse of her character having a softer side that hides behind a mask of bitchdom and without really defining giannini s own character this becomes another misfire trying to look like a battle of the sexes,0
the idea of making a film about the beatles sounds doomed idea as no production can catch the idea of the actual historic beatles then it is perhaps best not to try to recreate the past but to produce an illustration that works best with the other available beatles material this is exactly what birth of the beatles offers to us the simple story known to us without any extravaganza spoilers here on be warned that not everything is that accurate as some beatles graduates might expect the beatles are seen performing songs that hardly were even composed by that time the beatles perform ask me why p s i love you and even don t bother me the beatles graduates should see that if the beatles on the film only performed songs that they actually did at hamburg the younger viewers might not anymore recognize the beatles they have learned to know them of that original hamburg repertoire only johnny b goode and stu sutcliffe s love me tender are retained the guys who play the beatles in this production scarcely look like the originals but the rest of the film still make good viewing as the film is for the rest fairly accurate the guy who plays lennon does it good and the rest of the band are not bad either brian epstein is great and the moment when he sacks pete best from the group is probably the most memorable scene in the whole film also as a bonus you get to see the original cavern club in the film,1
when i found this film in my local videostore i expected it to be another cheesy american vampire film in the same vein of the lost boys to my surprise to die for is a really good movie it s a little bit corny at times but still there are enough stylish set pieces and surprises to satisfy vampire enthusiasts this is a perfect mix of romance and horror and it s surprisingly gory at times highly recommended,1
sure he became rapidly uneven after this film but from knife in the water up till the tenant roman polanski could always be counted on to deliver something fascinating and unique despite many running themes alienation paranoia no two of his films are really alike the story of this is somewhat similar to his own repulsion from ten years earlier but the tone is completely different the tenant manages to balance darker than dark absurdity i m a bit hesitant on calling it humor even though the protagonists bizarre behavior and dialog was occasionally funny with some truly suspenseful paranoia polanski was always a master at building unease and moments in this film are almost unbearably creepy the overall weirdness of the film is also a plus in addition to polanski s exquisite as usual direction the rest of the cast and crew offer great contributions polanski the actor is often overshadowed by polanski the director but his performance here truly captures his characters awkwardness and sense of being an outcast the themes of social discrimination make this film more than just strangeness for the sake of being strange the rest of the cast offers strong performances also especially isabelle adjani s sympathetic turn and melyvn douglas and shelley winters appropriately annoying ones the tenant is often underrated because of how ready people are to heap praise on both repulsion and rosemary s baby but its just as brilliant as either of those classics,1
i had the privilege of watching scarface on the big screen with its beautifully restored mm print in honor of the th anniversary of the films release it was great to see this on the big screen as so much of it is lost on television sets and the overall largesse of this project cannot be emphasized enough scarface is the remake of a classic rags to riches to the depths of hell story featuring al pacino as cuban drug lord tony montana in this version tony comes to america during the cuban boat people immigration wave in the late s early s tony and his cohorts quickly get green cards by offing a political figure in tent city and after a brief stay at a cuban restaurant tony is launched on his horrific path to towards total destruction many of the characters in this movie a played in such skilled manner that is so enjoyable to watch i have forgot little of this film over the last twenty years robert loggia as tony s patron frank lopez is wonderful his character is flawed by being too trusting and as tony quickly figures out soft lopez s right hand omar suarez is portrayed by one of our greatest actors f murray abraham amadeus suarez is the ultimate toady and will do anything for frank it is like he does not have a mind of his own tony quickly sees this and he constantly battles with suarez but really only sees him as a minor problem to get through on his way to the top the character that always comes back to me as being played so perfectly is mel bernstein the audaciously corrupt miami narcotics detective played by harris yulin training day mel without guilt extorts great sums of money form all sides of the drug industry he plays tony off of frank until it catches up with him in a scene that marks the exit from the film of both frank and mel it is priceless to hear frank asking for mel to intercede as tony is about to kill him only to hear mel reply `it s your tree frank you re sitting in it this is from the man who frank had been paying for protection tony s rise is meteoric and is only matched in speed and intensity by his quick crash and burn after offing frank and taking his wife and business tony s greed takes over and he never can seem to get enough as tony plunges deeper into the world of drugs greed and the inability to trust he eventually kills his best friend and his sister who had fallen in love and married this all sets up the ending in which tony s compound is stormed by an army from his supplier who feels betrayed because tony would not go through with a political assassination that was ordered this all stems form a compassionate moment when tony refused to be an accomplice in a murder that would have involved the victim s wife and children all in all this is a great depiction of s excess and cocaine culture depalma does a nice job of holding it all together in one of the fastest moving three hour movies around the violence is extremely graphic and contains a few scenes that will be forever etched on any viewers mind particularly the gruesome chainsaw seen the two point blank shots to the head and the entire bloody melee that ends the movie this is a highly recommended stylistically done film that is not for the squeamish or for those who need upbeat endings and potential sequels depalma let it all fly right here,1
mother night is one of my favorite novels and going to see this i was expecting a huge disappointment instead i got a film that perfectly portrays the irony humor elequence and above all else the crushing sadness of vonnegut s novel this is certainly nolte s best preformance to date he captures the defeat and selfloathing of howard cambell jr consistently from the subtle intonations of his speech to the held back tears behind his eyes alan arkin is absolutly hilarious as george kraft sherryl lee is haunting in her detachment from reality as cambell s young lover john goodman is understated and more than effective as cambell s blue fairy godmother this pinnocioesque story of cambell trying to be his own ideal hero and unwittingly becoming his ideal tragic villian is a mature and vivid look into what we are as people and aside from that it is one of the most deeply romantic films i have ever come across cambell is the incarnation of both foolish and wise love and at the films sastifyingly painful conclusion he finally learns what it means to be a real boy as his blue fairy godmother grants him his wish and he realizes that well watch the movie and you ll see mother night is without a doubt in my mind one of the best films ever made it is a beautiful poetic story that digs deep within our emotions and is completely faithful to its original author,1
it is rare that one comes across a movie as flawless as this it s truly one of the best acted most tightly structured films i ve ever seen every line of dialogue can be interpreted in several ways relating to each of the three main characters differently the film weaves an intrinsic web of motivations and double crosses that snare you and refuse to let go add to this that the slow burning romance between kevin and faye is as moving as anything that s ever been committed to celluloid and you have the ingredients for a perfect film it exposes the romance of movies such as titanic as the trite cliches they are if you re looking for a movie to watch while you fold laundry this isn t it you have to commit yourself to this film you can t have a conversation while running in and out of the room this movie demands your attention treat it with the respect you deserve and you ll get a lot out of it unless you think titanic is the greatest film ever,1
even though this was a made for tv production there s absolutely no excuse for the rock bottom results of the finished product this movie did have a budget and it had a casting department so if you re going to make a movie about a true life story and actually put the true story in the title shouldn t some effort be put forward to try and capture some realism first of all this movie is absurdly cast these actors belong in daytime television soaps or in those ridiculous lifetime channel movies and not in a real life gangster criminal tale everything about them from their looks to their mannerisms just screams of the s shopping mall alt rock listening generation what about the script two words describes it stupid and insulting and again it s way too ish sounding i don t think the real clyde barrow ever uttered the words i m outta here it s as if a bunch of new kids on the block fans got together and decided to make a really kewl flick about bonnie and clyde you know one that would be totally rad and rockin well this sticker doesn t even rank on the rad and rockin scale everything that can be wrong with any kind of film is wrong here from the casting and acting to the editing and music every single thing is grossly wrong and it s infuriating that the parties responsible for this atrocious turkey had the nerve to put the true story in the title it s certainly not the true story but even worse it s not even remotely entertaining as a mindless popcorn flick that s accepted on its own terms like i stated in my heading it s simply horrible beyond words on every level imaginable trust me on this or watch at your own risk,0
full of spoilers this is a pretty fast and enjoyable crime thriller based on ira levin s play about two gay playwrights caine and reeve that plot the murder of one s rich wife cannon to get the property and the insurance the plot succeeds but christopher reeve as the younger and less established of the two writers decides to make a play out of the actual murder with only slight changes in the details reeve allows that easthampton long island can become southampton long island in the script for instance the rest of the play s plot is a dead giveaway and to tell the truth reeve doesn t mind a little gossip or even an inquiry into cannon s apparently accidental death it will boost the revenues and his own warhol quotient michael caine is sidney bruhl the megabucks making playwright whose last four productions bombed and who would like nothing more than to quietly get back to working on a new play perhaps with reeve s input that would redeem his reputation he cannot permit reeve s scandalous play a clef to be produced so what else he tries to murder him in the end they wind up killing one another the manuscript is appropriated by their neighbor the psychic helga tensdoorp and she makes a million bucks selling it to broadway it s a lot of fun for a number of reasons one is the production design that multi roomed multi storied house with the big windmill atop situated on nine of what must be the most valuable acres on earth easthampton would be a splendid set of digs anywhere you wouldn t be able to afford a pup tent in easthamptom the house is not overly large or baroque in its decor it s just magnificently modest although it s a little tidy for my tastes the kind of house that s so clean you re afraid to step on the thick carpet for fear of leaving the imprint of a foot next the acting could hardly be improved upon caine cannon and fred jones are superb dyan cannon gives a pitch perfect performance as the anxious wife whose slacks are so tight they look as if they d been sprayed on which is okay given her assets even reeve whose talent was limited seems to find a comfortable niche in his role of affable but psychopathic murderer irene worth as the psychic neighbor helga was in some way hard to define a mistake granted she or someone like her was necessary to the plot but my god what an offensive snoop her character is going around and claiming i feel pain in zis woom i suppose in order to make her a little more interesting she s got up in sweats and a goofy looking cap with bicycle reflectors on it still she s a nuisance from beginning to end you have to love ira levin s bitchy dialog the distraught caine begs reeve to tell him why he wrote the tell all play because it s there sidney says reeve and caine shouts that s mountains not plays plays aren t there until some hole writes them great too is caine s call to the police after his wife drops dead of fright as planned he works himself up into a torrent of sobs barely able to speak as he reports the incident and implores that an ambulance be sent immediately when he hangs up his face assumes its usual placid expression he blows his nose into his handkerchief and walks away all business again the climax though suitably ironic is confusing and noisy and full of artifice lacking in the wicked charm that levin and lumet brought to the earlier scenes the score is mostly made up of light hearted riffs on the harpsichord neatly fitting into the film you ll probably enjoy it,1
this is how i felt while watching this film i loved it it was hilarious but i did feel a like i was getting sneaky view into somebody s psyche and then laughing as it got twisted around to make an interesting point a friend put it this way i feel like we broke into somebody s house and are now watching their awful home videos without their knowledge another one of those fact is stranger than fiction pieces of film groovin gary the original beaver kid is a small town guy who turns up at a nearby tv station in the hope of getting on film and he certainly does though not perhaps as he initially expected with high hopes of fame and significance he invites harris to come and film a truly awful talent quest that he has organised in his home town headlined by his own drag act olivia newton don director trent harris does a brilliant job with this slowly evolving story some footage of an awkward kid who wants to be someone morphs over two subsequent reinterpretations into the story of freedom from repressed sexual identity in small town america harris simultaneously critiques the attitudes of small town america the cult of celebrity and the exploitative practices of the film and television industry both sean penn and grispin glover pull out stunner performances a young sean penn is the most evocative so closely does he follow the actual gary footage but with strong nuances given to push the sense of the interaction the way harris wants it to go in the end the wide eyed naivety the original gary is what moved me when contrasted against these possible interpretations of his situation a film not to miss i have not seen anything else like it jacob,1