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this is an extremely dense somber and complicated film that unravels quite slowly revealing excruciating detail like the attention paid in a novel and watching this film is like watching a novel unfold while i didn t care for the narrator as i felt he was out of balance with the rest of the performances this film features some of the best ensemble acting i have ever seen and the lead summer phoenix is fabulous her innocence and naivete some might find implausible sort of a cross between cinderella and alice in wonderland i can buy that critique but she s still fabulous partially because she s unlike anything i ve ever seen before this film is unbelievably beautiful filmed by eric gautier and part of what is so unique about this film is how it doesn t ever show what you d expect it s always surprising and despite it s length the film never reveals more than it needs to at minutes it s extremely concise to a fault i d say which is one of the wonders of this film it s filled with brief moments which are simply stunning some of the best you re likely to see all year and all these moments add up in the end to an extraordinary film experience the family moments are unique ian holm is brilliant and what this film has to say about the theater hasn t been seen in films since cassavetes opening night or perhaps chaplin s limelight but believe it or not this film is much less conventional i never knew where this film was going and now having seen it it still has multiple possibilities this is a powerful incredibly provocative film,1
horrible i see many user comments on how great this show is it truly is a wanna be friends made in taiwan knockoff the jokes are lame as and the plot is ridiculous the actors are obviously struggling to be funny and are probably cringing when they hit those awful punchlines if you can call them that the bulk of the other users who have commented are obviously from another planet or at least another continent there are obviously reasons that tv companies cancel shows and none of then are when shows are doing well make sense anyway steer clear even if it is raining and there is absolutely nothing else on this planet to do go stand in the rain instead more fun,0
i originally saw this movie as a boy at the old rialto theatre as part of a saturday afternoon matin e triple bill which also featured vincent price s last man on earth and mario bava s nightmare castle i had nightmares about blood lusting ghosts for a week afterwards though i didn t know it then all three movies would prove to be classics of the genre no wonder i was so scared though all three films frightened me it was castle of blood that had the most profound impact it was the first on the bill i didn t even get to see it from the beginning as we were late getting to the cinema and missed the first minutes of the movie that s lot to miss since the edited print only ran about minutes the unedited runs minutes but despite this the dark creepy atmosphere complete with ruined castles fog enshrouded cemeteries shadows and cobwebs gothic set design strong acting and suspense especially the last minutes scared the bejeepers out of me and made a lasting impression it took me years to finally get a copy of the film for my collection since it was a french italian import it wasn t a movie that showed up on the late show in winnipeg i couldn t quite remember the title remember i didn t get to seen the beginning of the film and was scared witless and to make matters worse the film had been released under literally a dozen different movie titles aka danze macabre coffin of terror castle of terror long night of terror etc and the usa uk working title castle of blood was very generic similar to dozens of other b horror and suspense films making it illusive but thanks to the internet and perseverance i found it at last what a treat to finally watch the film in its entirety after so many years it may not have had quite the sheer emotional impact that it did when i was a boy but as haunted house movies go it s stands up well and compares favourably to similar iconic films of the period such as the haunting the innocents or black sunday the film is a fine early effort of italian director antonio margheriti it stars s scream queen icon barbara steele and features a well written screenplay by sergio corbucci about a sceptical writer georges riviere who on a bet spends the night in haunted house and unsuspectingly becomes part of an annual ongoing ghostly story the hypnotic steele is well cast as the ghostly love interest as is arturo dominici as dr carmus and margarete robsahm as julia many of the tricks margheriti employs to create the film s eerie atmosphere cobwebs creaking doors fog etc are bound to seem clich to a modern audience but they work far more effectively in black and white than they ever could in modern day colour rather than using body counts and special effects the film creates scares the old fashion way relying on a good story stylish direction fine set production interesting camera work and strong acting performances margheriti does a marvellous job taking these elements and building the film s suspense as the horrifying paranormal secret of the house gradually reveals itself to the unwitting writer the film is not without faults the pace drags at the beginning of the film ironically the minutes i originally missed this is probably worsened by synapse films effort to restore the film to its original length though fans will likely appreciate the chance to see the film restored in terms of the intro it may have been more of hindrance than a help the english voice dubs are merely passable and in the restored scenes the language shifts from english to french english subtitles provided which is sure to be annoying to some viewers however synapse films deserves kudos for the quality of the print clearly some effort was put into its restoration and deservedly so i enjoyed the film immensely and highly recommend it to aficionados of s italian goth films or anyone who enjoys a good ghost story rob rheubottom winnipeg mb canada,1
this pile of sh t is tied in my book as the worst thing ever made i can t believe that someone actually relased this crap let alone acually made it horrible horrible horrible not even worth mentioning the damn story or any details about it that s how bad it actually is avoid it like sars,0
this is a film which had eluded me thus far but now that i ve watched it emerges as one of the major entries in the noir style as usual with the divx format the viewing was far from ideal marred by the occasional video and mostly audio glitches but given that the film is still unavailable on r dvd this will have to do for the moment since the film s reputation is quite high within the genre itself i assume that the reason behind this oversight is because it does not have a well known actor in the lead anyway the belated entrance of the film s nominal star franchot tone packs quite a wallop especially as he is shown to be the villain from the first tone was a underrated actor he was rarely given meaty roles and this may well be his best making his paranoiac both fascinating and believably dangerous the female lead ella raines who would later feature in brute force as well as siodmak s own the suspect and the strange affair of uncle harry is quite lovely and capably takes on the role of the distraught secretary out to prove her convicted boss alan baxter innocent of his wife s brutal murder other key supporting parts are essayed by thomas gomez as the initially bullying but ultimately sympathetic police investigator and elisha cook jr the genre s quintessential fall guy as an ill fated ladies man of a percussionist like brute force s jules dassin siodmak was on a noir roll at this point in his career and this film definitely benefits from his superb direction all tilted angles and terrific set pieces including the justly celebrated jazz sequence in which cook manically beats on his drums in a sexual frenzy brought on by the sluttishly attired raines who is putting on an act to get his attention and eventually drive him to confess that he withheld evidence at the inquest which could spring her resigned lover from jail another great lengthy sequence is the one in which raines follows a bartender another uncooperative witness around the streets of new york which results in his being mowed down by a car notable too is the trial sequence which is entirely depicted through the audience s reaction so that judge jury witnesses and d a are never actually seen although the judge s voice is recognizably that of veteran character actor samuel s hinds the centerpiece of the film is the scene in which gomez and tone discuss the nature of the criminal involved with the inspector s put down of the latter as mentally insane giving the initially smug tone dizzy spells the suspenseful climax finds raines alone with tone in his apartment where she discovers evidence of his guilt and he confesses to having had an affair with baxter s wife but killed her when she wouldn t desert her husband for him by the way i hit upon a little goof in the film while the story is clearly set in i noticed that during the taxi cab ride towards the beginning of the film in which alan curtis escorts the titular lady to the theater the establishing shot of new york comprising clearly of stock footage features a marquee promoting laurel and hardy s musical comedy swiss miss incidentally famed mystery writer cornell woolrich wrote the original novel on which this was based using a pseudonym,1
you think you ve had it tough you should check out this film carl brashear is the epitome of courage and determination what this man had to go through to become a navy diver should be an inspiration to us all and significantly after seeing this film i learned that what is shown is not even the half of it cuba gooding jr does some of his best work to date as brashear de niro as usual is good as the southern redneck who trains him george tillman in only his second major feature after soul food has made a quantum leap as a filmmaker if you want to be moved and inspired you definitely need to check out this one,1
that movie was awesome i can t get over it s songs i think i m a little too old for musicals but that movie deserves some credit here guys my especial favorite was jack wild me being a british actor lover you can t restrain me from all those nice looking fresh faced young men i never knew that when jack was doing that movie he was sixteen he looks like an eleven year old he s short that s what helps try posting up your replies fellow posters so i can relate to your experiences oh and about oliver reed that guy bill sikes i think that drone look is really familiar any idea where he s starred in before if so post it up i d really like to know,1
this show was a landmark in american comedy as it was the first sitcom to star an all afro american cast sadly though it was never broad casted on british tv the evans family are a poor afro american family living in a tower block the dad is called james he tries to run the house but his wife florida always gets the better of him the three children are the artistic jj the moody thelma and the young intellectual child michael always coming into the house is florida s gossipy friend willona i watched two episodes of this show on youtube black jesus and sex and the evans family the only two on the site you may be thinking why has an english viewer watched a series that has never been shown or hardly heard of in his country the answer is this in britains first all black sitcom came out called the fosters only two series were made and it now seems forgotten but i watched an episode and was really impressed then i learnt that the scripts were identical to good times they were exactly the same characters but with different names sam foster was the dad his wife was pearl foster and the three children were sonny a young lenny henry shirley and benjamin pearl s gossipy friend was vilma to read about the fosters i have wrote a review about that whilst watching good times only two things annoyed me first off was the opening theme tune awful and secondly was the audience laughter i like audience laughter but in this somebody would say a slightly funny line and the audience would go mad and start clapping apart from that it was a very funny show let s hope more episodes turn up on youtube and lets hope that someone will release the fosters on dvd in england best episode sex and the evans family series episode the foster s episode of it was called sex in the black community the other episode i saw black jesus was a title of one episode of the fosters,1
this movie needs to be put on dvd it was so funny and i loved it really really cute and funny not realistic but not suppose to be the only thing i did not like about it was the girl relying on the guy too much it represents the time period way of thinking though i have been trying to get this movie for so long and it has been unavailable for us format only in the uk and will not play on us dvd players it is sadly an over looked classic film believe it or not but this film could easily become a cult favorite for all ages too bad we do not legalize certain things that could really save small countries or our own lindy is unsinkable a positive character that makes lemonade out of lemons she is funny and charming she stole the show,1
wow finally jim carrey has returned from the died this movie had me laughing and crying it also sends a message that we should all know and learn from jeniffer aniston was great she will finally have a hit movie under her belt if you liked liar liar you will love this movie i give it,1
this stylistically sophisticated visual game presents a story within a story the protagonist is scriptwriter bart klever who fights persistently with his new text which is at the same time the screenplay of the film we re watching in the movie bart plays a scriptwriter writing the script of the film bart s struggle with the text becomes a narrative theme as does the environment of the flat where he works and takes care of his little girl the intimate environment offers ample opportunity for games of illusion involving space light colours and a couple of cats the outwardly simple world of the room is further complicated by the unstable dimensions of a text continually influenced by the filmmaker s interventions which appears on a computer monitor and serves as a counterpoint to the similarity mutable environment the constantly changing viewing angle complicates answers to questions which arise what is truth and what illusion which of the observed worlds is primary and superior to the rest can anything serve as a basic orientation point in the narrative space,1
series as the uk eagerly awaits the launch of series two of lost series one which just finished showing here did not disappoint a group of over forty passengers struggle to cope after their plane crash landed into a deserted island they pray for rescue however as the days turn into weeks and the survivors explore the rainforest that surrounds them they begin to wonder whether they are alone admittedly the series has a hard time keeping up the pace after the explosive pilot episodes which hurls at the group a polar bear a giant beastie and the possibility of others on the island nevertheless the series manages to pick itself up after a few episodes and is outstanding by the final episode possibly the greatest thing about lost is the fact that we visit each character s life before the crash in a series of flashbacks this gives us more insight and hence more suspense and excitement as the events unfold in the present ultimately this show is a superb combination of drama suspense and the supernatural it is quite simply unmissable spoilers for season follow series after the cliffhanger that was the end of series of lost series begins with our protagonists delving deep into the heart of the phenomenon that is the hatch they discover a mysterious man who has a job to do meanwhile michael and sawyer struggle to cope with the aftermath of what happened on the raft as the series progresses the viewers will be unable to bring themselves to turn off their television set as every episode of the series contains more twists than a curly wurly chocolate bar one of which introduces a whole host of new characters with every mystery solved with lost five brand new ones seem to come out of the woodworks after the th plot twist of the series it finally dawns on the viewer that it doesn t actually matter whether the plane crash survivors make it off the island however the stunning series finale answers just over half of those questions despite its anti climatic ending,1
for whoever play games video games here did anybody notice that the gta vice city mansion inside the game and some other things including weapons from the movie that are connected to this movie and this movie inspired the makers of the game rockstar games to copy some things from this movie and by the way this is one of the best s movies out there i recommend this for anybody who still didn t see it no questions asked,1
i ve seen a great many films but in cold blood stands alone in a class by itself it excels in every department the fact that it contained few big stars helps push it over the top as you pay closer attention to the characters and their story rather than the name on the marquee blake and wilson turn in stellar performances of the killer duo the fact that much of the films is filmed in the actual locations where the crime took place even inside the very house add additional chills the black white photography darkens the mood and the photography is magnificent there are many outstanding cinematic works out there but if i could only vote for one to top the list it would most probably be in cold blood,1
john heder was absolutely horrendous in this movie i felt like i was watching a bad college kid act for the first time in a student film anna farris was par for the course not good but not horrible plus she s cute dianne keaton should have known better jeff daniels was the only saving grace in this movie even though it was poor judgement on his part as well all in all i would avoid this at all costs i m just glad i didn t pay to see it john heder will forever be stuck in the typecast role of the dorky kid unless he does some serious work on his acting chops,0
budget decent actors who knew these things were important don t waste your time on this piece of junk the effects are crap the acting is crap the only thing that could have made this even tolerable was a little cheap t a and that gets squandered in the first minutes the only even remotely redeeming quality about this movie is the very awkward profanity it was like they found the only people on the planet who have never cursed before hats off if you want to see some dude in a bad suit just go back and look at old prom photos the only way for a bigfoot flick to be any good is for it to have a big budget and some actors who didn t come from frogballs community theater,0
i have seen a lot of bad films most of the time i can enjoy a crappy horror film for what it is but this really takes badness to new extremes it is bland the plot for what it is never really goes anywhere and takes its time over it there are no shocks no horror no suspense just a load of guys rubbing themselves for an hour and a half and then a quick finish a blight on the crappy horror genre avoid at all costs,0
it s a great american martial arts movie the fighting scenes were pretty impressive for american movie made in s of course the fighting scenes aren t that good as in honk kong movies actually only few american movies have fighting scenes which are as good as in honk kong movies even nowadays when you watch american martial arts movie you are expecting to see less impressive fighting scenes but still having some nice moves which can be surprisingly good sometimes or at least that s what i m expecting from these movies i was impressed by this film some fighting scenes were really impressive the acting direction and the plot were good enough so it s a really worth watching movie if you like american martial arts films of the s,1
this film which is based on a true story comes from first time director and long time actor denzel washington denzel washington has given us some of the best performances of the last decade as a black soldier in the civil war in glory and a lawyer in the acclaimed philadelphia and of course he made special notoriety last year when he won the academy award for best actor in training day in which denzel washington became the first african american to receive the award for best actor i guess denzel wanted a change of pace so he chose to direct antwone fisher in which he also stars fisher is played by derek luke who is new to the silver screen but has made some guest appearances on such television shows as king of queens and he will be appearing in the upcoming film release of biker boyz this is a truly well done film from denzel washington considering it was his first time directing undoubtedly denzel felt some kind of commitment and believed in the real life story of antwone fisher antwone fisher is about a young african american man in the navy who constantly gets into fights and after one particular brawl he is sent to see a navy psychiatrist named jerome davenport played by denzel washington davenport helps antwone to deal with his troubled past and learn to move on with his life by finding his birth mother who had to give him up at birth because she was in prison what makes this film good is the fact that it s not overly melodramatic i was expecting something a little more like good will hunting with a lot of swearing fighting and vulgarity not that i didn t like good will hunting or the swearing fighting and vulgarity of the film were out of place quite the contrary however antwone fisher is a true story and i don t think that washington wanted to sensationalize the story for dramatic affect in the film don t get me wrong there are moments when we see antwone fighting carrying on and having moments when it seems like the world is closing in on him after all in his first session with his psychiatrist the character played by washington devenport asks fisher where he was born and fisher s response is `from under a rock an obvious jab at the pressures waning on antwone fisher s soul but i had to appreciate the fact that this film wasn t sensationalized for dramatic affect i think it shows real character on the part of denzel washington to deliver a more realistic story and to avoid the typical clich s that are common in hollywood films even those based on true stories one other point that i would like to bring up about antwone fisher is the acting over all performances were good in the film but not great at times i think it was a bit obvious that the main characters were actors but overall to complain about performances in this film would be ludicrous one actress that i would like to point out in this film is viola davis she plays antwone s mother but she says barely two sentences in the movie at all but not so much because she appears at the end of the film but more because she in shock that her long lost son antwone has found her what i would like to point out about her as an actress in the lack of use of her she in basically a character actress and i haven t seen her play any really elaborate roles she made appearances in traffic out of sight kate leopold and two recent films far from heaven and solaris in steven soderberg s remake of solaris she played a scientist on a doomed space craft orbiting a planet in that film she is confronted by george clooney s character and she drawn to tears by what clooney tells her in a particular scene when i first saw solaris i remember seeing her tear up in the scene and thinking wow this woman can act it was as if you could feel the character s grief in that brief shot of her face she gave so much expression and i honestly felt very sorry for her character s sadness and trouble in the film i think she has definite potential as an actress and should be used more often perhaps in leading roles rather than just as a character driven actress nonetheless antwone fisher is a very good movie denzel washington as always pulls off a great performance and he gives us a great directorial debut also derek luke is a very talented actor i think that antwone fisher will bring his immense critical fame for his portrayal of the troubled man but i think that his public popularity will increase with the release of biker boyz which also stars lawrence fishburn antwone fisher is based on the book `finding fish a memoir by antwone quenton fisher,1
somewhere between the food court and zip s the mall in this film has an explosives store this is the only place the title character can purchase the bomb he plants in the mall in the dull finale a fictional town has a new mall built on some land that was condemned cute girl i didn t catch her name gets a job as a waitress there she lost her boyfriend in a fire at the site where the mall stands the villainous mall owner hires the arsonist responsible for the fire as a security guard after his first security guard ends up dead rob estes eons before silk stalkings is a photog reporter trying to find a story he hooks up with cute girl and their mutual funny friend pauly shore and try to find out if eric is still alive he is living in the mall basement and traveling through the air ducts and offing different people who upset his former girlfriend including the arsonist eventually he kidnaps her and the finale involves the bomb and everyone running from the scene before the big kablooey morgan fairchild is along for the ride as the mayor yes she s the mayor of course you probably did not need a plot sketch since the entire story is in the title someone named eric is taking revenge against people as a phantom of a mall this also means there is no suspense we know eric is behind this but we still have to see estes and cute girl go through the motions of a silly investigation watch as fairchild who we know has been in cahoots with the mall owner all along pull a gun on our heroic duo in the middle of a crowded party yet no one says a word as she leads them to her office and her eventual death the fictional town is huge yet nary a policeman is ever called everyone relies on mall security for order eric has been hiding since the mall was built but i am not sure where he seems to live in a basement area but you would think some construction worker would have found him he also has furnished his love pad quite well and found a few outlets since he has electricity it might be nicer than your own apartment pauly shore fans both of you take note he tricks a security guard out of his booth by mooning the camera yes stop scanning celebrity skin and playgirl this is where you get to see a grainy black and white shot of pauly s south shore although no weezil this is just junk and proof positive that i am down to renting just about anything at the video store to stay in the horror section this film is not eric s revenge it is the film maker s revenge for me being dumb enough to watch it here is my revenge i do not recommend it that ll show em this is rated r for physical violence some gun violence gore some profanity some female nudity brief male nudity and some sexual content,0
i love horses and admire hand drawn animation so i expected nothing short of amazement from dreamworks new animated picture spirit stallion of the cimarron i guess you could say i was a little bit disappointed you have wonderful animation and at first what seems like a perfect story a story about absolutely nothing but a horse in nature the animals don t sing cute songs or even talk a major plus sadly the film has an uncalled for narration by matt damon a sappy soundtrack by bryan adams and enough action scenes to compare it to a jerry bruckheimer production if the film makers would have just stayed with simplicity we d have a masterpiece here this is not a great film but it is good entertainment for small children i would recommend this film to families because it has its heart in the right place and its the only thing out there right now that isn t offensive to small children not bad but could have been much better very pretty visuals though,1
i must admit i was one of the skeptics who prematurely judged this show before relatively any information was disseminated about it i determined that it was going to be a cheap spin off guided by ronald d moore wielding the retcon wand i was wrong the pilot leaves an excellent impression upon the viewers the accessibility is marvelous of course seasoned bsg veterans will find themselves immersed in the plot which is focused on the development of the cylons before the first war years before the events of the bsg pilot the pilot also allows for newcomers clearly presenting its plot and ideas in the first part of the episode don t be mistaken caprica is not bsg we are presented with an immersive cerebral drama dotted by provocative daring and controversial ideas the casting maintains bsg s standards stoltz and morales are simply astounding morales portrayal of joseph adama inspired by olmos portrayal of william gives a wonderful glimpse of william s heroic father stoltz s portrayal of dr graystone provokes a lot of thinking and questions if the quality of the pilot is any indication of what s yet to come rdm and the creative team are set to continue bsg s legacy of first rate television programming with another masterfully created television masterpiece,1
the back of the dvd box says ellen page co stars in this movie she does not even appear until two thirds of the movie is over and then its in minor role i don t consider it a supporting role either but rather a bit part also the plot has many unexplained elements some examples are why does the main character reject her oldest son why does her youngest son drive head on into the train he says its for a sucker bet which doesn t explain anything obviously the screenwriter doesn t know the definition of a sucker bet this film is not worthy of the rental price in my opinion save your money and view it for free on tv if you think it needs to be seen,0
in where the sidewalk ends otto preminger reunites dana andrews and gene tierney surely in hopes of recapturing the magic of his laura but they re wildly dissimilar films set in different strata of new york not to mention at opposite poles of the noir universe a fine mist of the gothic hovers over the upscale manhattan of laura with its erotic obsession and faint whiff of necrophilia where the sidewalk ends is pure urban soot and grit befouling a town of basement apartments steam rooms and parking garages but it s every bit as fine a movie as its revered forerunner and dyed in the wool noir laura by contrast one of the clutch of films from which the french first dubbed `noir was still very much a sophisticated murder mystery daylight enters only on very temporary sufferance and director of photography joseph lashelle makes the most of the alleys and brownstones the docks and the el this is quintessential big city specifically big apple noir like several others from the bumper crop of like side street and sleeping city and the tattooed stranger and edge of doom as the movie opens police detective dana andrews is on the carpet for his brutal ways particularly his vendetta towards crime boss gary merrill whom we learn was set up in business by andrews ne er do well father when an out of towner is stabbed to death at a floating crap game operated by merrill the hair trigger andrews roughs up a witness causing him a fatal crack to the skull exacerbated by a steel plate installed in the veteran s head realizing that his job s already on the line andrews dumps the body in the river after making it look like the suspect had taken a powder of course that s far from an end to it the corpse is discovered his estranged wife turns out to be tierney and all the evidence starts to turn toward her father tom tully a hack driver who happened not only to have been cruising the same mean streets the night of the murder but to have ample reason to want his abusive son in law dead but the embittered loner andrews finds in tierney a summons to his better nature he tries to exonerate her father while still keeping his own involvement in the whole sordid business a secret not so epigrammatic as laura the script for where the sidewalk ends by ben hecht shows a pungency of its own in a second dressing down his superior tells andrews `look at you all bunged up like a barrelhouse fag but while laura spread its attention over half a dozen characters here andrews is all but the sole focus even tierney s role is far less central than her half spectral laura and andrews may never have excelled his performance here it s tight lipped and taciturn but never more eloquent than when his face is silently registering the anguish to which his own obstinacy has brought him he s a pent up sufferer who can find release only through the safety valve of violence he even lashes out against his loyal partner bert freed to be sure he finds too swift a road to redemption though the agency of his beautiful co star but that was the style of the times and a sweetened up ending does little to undermine this new york story of violence corruption and urban entanglements,1
was lucky enough to be an extra in this great film and loved every minute of the filming went to the premier in london and had a great chat to phil peter martin and jon as did my wife fantastic after party too then a few weeks later had trip to the cinema with members of our bike club what a brilliant film it deserves to be up there with all the great biker films now we have the dvd sue my wife can t get enough of it neither can the kids get a bit of stick from the club who seem to think i m a film star now oh well one can only dream i think they are just jealous the only downside of the first part of the filming was the weather rain rain and more rain but hey we was in wales hopefully there will be a follow up so keep me posted jon danny beck,1
if your idea of entertainment is watching graphic footage of people being run over by cars you get to see a woman passing under the front wheel being twisted as the car passes over her before she goes under the back wheel and they show it twice in case you missed it the first time then this is the documentary for you admitedly i didn t watch any more of this very disturbing piece of voyeurism but that was enough for me maybe the rest is even better i wonder how long it s going to take for television networks to start showing slush movies perhaps game shows based on self mutilation might be nice i already know that there are disturbed people in the world and that horrible things happen i don t need to see the proof on the tv masquerading as entertainment,0
my expectations were quite high for this film everyone i know who saw this film at the cinema told me that everyone there stayed through the credits because they were so touched my expectations could not have been any higher anything short of wonderful would have disappointed me i was anything but disappointed by this movie i loved how it dealt with difficult subjects without going through the usual steps a hollywood film tends to include in this film characters worked through problems they had had for decades they worked through prejudicm they learned to open up but it did not come easily and not just by singing a song or two it was painful it took arguments it took confrontations it felt like real life one scene that really stuck out to me was the scene in which gabriella sings her song helen sj holm is one of my favorite singers her voice is lovely and you could tell that she was not just lip syncing to a previous recording during filming which i often find in other movies she really sang with her whole body and soul you could feel what gabriella was feeling in that scene had this movie been made in hollywood her song would most likely have been sung toward the end and it would have made her husband open his eyes and see the error of his ways as well as making the other people in the village realise a thing or two instead it came halfway through and it did not bring any solutions her husband did not become overwhelmed and realise what he s putting her through and it didn t seem to make anyone else in the village more open minded it was beautiful it was pure and it was touching but it did not magically solve all her problems that felt real to me that s probably what would have happened in real life the whole movie felt like real life to me nothing neatly wrapped up but everything with a sense of joy and happiness you rarely find a movie which feels so realistic there were a few things that bothered me but hey no movie is perfect if you haven t already you should go see as it is in heaven and be filled with a joy for life a sense of hope and the feeling that you ve been touched on a level movies rarely reach you will be sad pained happy and a dozen other emotions someone once said that if every person in the world sang in a choir there would be no more wars having seen this film i might have to agree,1
after being sent to prison for no less then nor more then years for being busted with drugs and refusing to give up her accomplishes jackie erica gavin of russ meyer s vixen and beyond the valley of the dolls in her last film role has to get accustomed to life in the big doll house or at least try to in this early film by jonathan demme due to it s tawdry nature and sheer watchability i would also rank this as one of his best films right below silence of the lambs and stop making sense but so far above any of his other movies this minor classic is just campy sleazy and fun enough to be an amazingly good guilty pleasure and thankfully never once goes overboard into all out parody of the women in prison genre it almost washed out the rancid bad taste of the ludicrously preachy philidelphia from my mouth however the film is not without it s downfalls the un talent show is a huge chore to sit through and goes on far too long barbera steele is sadly wasted among other small things but don t let those gripes stop you from watching an otherwise enjoyable movie my grade b dvd extras minute roger corman interview cast crew bios original trailer and trailers for candy stripe nurses with nudity big bad mama big doll house with nudity crazy mama eye candy juanita brown cheryl rainbeaux smith erica gavin roberta collins ella reid lynda gold and some others all show skin,1
this is supposed to be well researched and based on fact how come therefore that it s so packed with mcgovernisms did the people of derry live in some kind of bizarre philip k dick world in which reality was uncannily like cracker liam priest or is mcgovern an idle hack who just keeps repeating hims,0
i sat through this movie expecting a thought provoking fact based film but instead was given some of the least thought out arguments against the christian faith imaginable for instance in an effort to prove that christianity is inherently violent the narrator constantly quotes the bible without giving context and thus altering the meaning of the text jesus is quoted as commanding the execution of those who disobey him when in fact the quote is from a parable jesus told involving a king who is then quoted thus the narrator makes it appear as if jesus says one thing when he is actually telling a story where one of his characters says it this is dishonesty in a very obvious form is this really what atheism has to offer the world this film also attempts to use the success of the passion of the christ over jesus christ superstar and the last temptation of the christ as evidence that christians are bloodthirsty he makes no mention of the fact that the passion was the most historically accurate bible film to date he makes no mention of the fact that it was actually the best liked by critics of the bunch he then edits in a series of violent images from the passion as if to hammer home his point ironically he makes no mention of the texas chainsaw massacre which came out a few months later and plays violence for entertainment versus dramatic effect one thing that really bothered me was his mockery of people who actually knew more about the subject matter than he did all the christians he interviewed were average schmoes in the parking lot of billy graham s new york crusade atheists he interviewed for the film were notable authors and scholars he asked the christians how the christian movement started and of course they said it started with the holy spirit coming to the disciples at pentecost which is correct acts he then gives the commentary isn t it funny how so few christians seem to know the origins of their own faith and proceeds to explain that the apostle paul started christianity after being stopped on the road to damascus the poor chap seems convinced that acts happens before acts more deception or is this simply ignorance he also throws around nonsense that paul didn t believe jesus was a real person are you kidding me corinthians describes jesus death and resurrection being witnessed by people whom paul names in the passage for the corinthians to question if they are in doubt there are many many other examples of how full of crap this documentary is but because i don t have time or patience to go into them all i ll skip straight to the end it s obvious throughout the whole movie that the narrator has an emotional vendetta against his upbringing in the church and the climax interview is his childhood principle in a last ditch attempt to disprove the christian faith the narrator tries to make a fool out of someone who gave him a detention as a child is this what passes as an intellectual documentary for the atheist community surely there are intelligent atheist filmmakers out there who can make a documentary that isn t a load of made up crap passed off as facts,0
one the whole this movie isn t perfect it doesn t hang well together as the story line is basically a bunch of hooks to hang jokes some of these jokes are a little too s and tend to date the picture but some of these jokes are classic you know a movie has something special when you and your friends still reference silly quotes from it over decades later plus there are a bunch of familiar faces michael keaton danny devito joe piscapo peter boyle marilu henner maureen stapleton bob eubanks griffin dunne and one of the last roles of alan hale jr the skipper from gilligan s island also there are some great absurdist moments like when johnny is labelling the puppies with a pricing gun or the pope making an appearance in johnny s neighborhood also the scene where the fake priest makes up a lot of words in latin is excellent summa cum laude magna cum laude the radio s too louda post meridian ante meridian uncle meridian other classic scenes include ramone maroney butchering the english language danny devito urging griffin dunne to play ball peter boyle thinking he lost his manhood the fake vd movie this movie is no home run but like porky s it has enough classic comedy bits to make it memorable,1
the italian is an astonishingly accomplished film for its time stunningly shot with lighting effects that are truly sublime this is an early gem that clearly reveals reginald barker to be a pioneer director of equal standing to d w griffith and maurice tourneur how much control thomas ince exerted over the production is hard to know but this film still has extraordinary power the simple story of an italian immigrant struggling to keep his family alive in new york is very moving the themes of social injustice revenge and forgiveness are completely relevant today the use of close ups is outstanding and the powerhouse performance of george beban is electrifying what we need now is a really good print transferred to dvd so we can truly appreciate this early masterpiece of cinema,1
this show is one of the worst shows of all time absolutely no original jokes and they re always a year late like in they will finally say something about michael vick s dogfights all of the cast members are people who wanted to be on s n l but had to go to the lowest of the low mad tv its an hour of mad magazine jokes witch aren t funny to begin with told by terrible john stewart wanna bees so if you have any problem tell me id love to hear the opinion of the people who watch this show family guy put it well osama bin ladin was hiding in the one place no one would look the cast of mad tv there is a reason why no one watches the show,0
bend it like beckham is a film that got very little exposure here in the united states it was probably due to the fact that the movie was strongly british in dialogue and terminology and dealt a lot with football soccer here which some may have trouble relating too in the u s it s unfortunate because this movie is absolutely fantastic and deserved much more coverage over here i think the basis of the storyline following a dream is something many people can relate to and in the end bend it like beckham proves to be a good feeling film with a source of inspiration and really good acting i was not overly excited about seeing this film initially but now i regret not seeing it sooner i highly recommend this movie,1
robert altman is my favorite american director i must admit that i have enjoyed the films that are usually scorned quintet if only for giving me the pleasure of seeing a grown up and beautiful brigitte fossey who was unforgettable as the little girl in forbidden games health for having lauren bacall carol burnett alfre woodard and glenda jackson all in the same cast popeye for that splendid and surreal world shelley duvall s olive oyl and the wonderful malta locations o c stiggs for its proposal of an anti adolescents flick beyond therapy for all its lunacy and for the presence of gen vieve page who for all her effort to look parisian chic is taken for a travestite i have even enjoyed his one act tv movies like the dumb waiter and the laundromat when there is not much plot to develop in his films you have wonderful performances from burnett john travolta kim basinger or jane curtin i perceive and enjoy the different approach and description he makes of the many different cultures of the united states it is a pity that his genius is seldom appreciated and that he is always forgotten when the time comes for giving out american prizes and awards he is not your typical mainstream purveyor of fantasies he is more of a maverick so it is not surprising for me to find so many bad comments posted here about the gingerbread man his most mainstream effort to date and to my knowledge i did not know there were so many people who thought like leonard maltin who does not like altman at all in this case one may dislike the gingerbread man but for me the reason has more to do with grisham than with the director screenwriter some of altman s trademarks are here improvised dialogue great performances a funny lawyers office with typical irreverent receptionist and secretary while some people find it boring i found the first act fascinating thanks also for the great cinematography by changwei gu the man who shot red sorghum ju dou and farewell my concubine he has a way of showing us the same things we see in other american movies but under a different light through his foreigner s gaze almost everything seems new and different in this first act things were so logical and true wait until you get older you may get in trouble if you fall under the spell of someone younger and beautiful as embeth davidtz i know for myself what i have done fascinated by someone who is younger than i am then you have robert duvall s repellent menacing and mysterious character while that geraldo storm is threatening savannah the second act gets a little phony and even funny because altman may have conducted it with a grin i remember laughing aloud in several instances with his ironic remarks i think he was applying a bit of brecht distancing us preparing us for the third act which is plain hollywood pastiche altman does it with expertise being a wise man and an intelligent director luckily he did not fall into the traps of today s action movies he was directing a tale of lust greed and death i was not disappointed a bit with the movie if i give it a nine instead of it is because of grisham the american reader has turned him into a best selling author so why complain maybe we should thank altman for showing us the seams in his stories the dullness the flatness and the silliness of them all however he does it with so much gusto and humor that i cannot but disagree with the negative comments for me these persons saw another movie and vice versa,1
before this the flawed slaughterhouse five was the best but this screen adaptation of mother night is very true to the book and keeps the comedy mystery and tragedy intent thankfully it wasn t hollywood ized or idiotized a la the movie of breakfast of champions another good thing about this movie is that you don t have to be familiar with the book to follow it as i think you do for slaughterhouse five that s probably true of breakfast of champions also but they did such a bad job of that you re better off just reading the book and not seeing the movie nick nolte did an excellent job in this film,1
my roommate had bought this documentary and invited me to watch it with her she s from china and only heard so much about and wanted to know the cold hard truth and she wanted me to tell her more after the documentary i felt awful watching this documentary it was like reliving the nightmare and it still brings tears to my eyes but i m extremely grateful that i watched this documentary because on the day of september th i m sure we all remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard all of us could only think certain questions why how what s going on oh my god almost all the americans were grateful for the brave firemen and policemen that risked their lives to save others but i don t think we thought about what they were really going though this wasn t actually supposed to be a documentary about the cameraman was just filming a typical day on the job and they just happened to be a couple blocks away from the world trade centers and got everything outside and in on tape on sep th i thought to myself it s ok the policemen and firemen will get the people out that survived to be honest i thought it was an accident i was in my junior year of high school and getting changed from gym and getting ready to go to my science class someone came into the locker room shouting some building just got bombed in new york we all got dressed quickly and ran to our classrooms as we watched the first tower burning on tv not only seconds later live on tv does the second plane crash into the other world trade center and we knew this was no accident a few minutes later we heard about the pentagon and that there was a plane headed for chicago but was shot down so many thoughts ran through our heads and i kept on thinking what are the firemen and policemen going to do but it s procedure to them i thought they ll know what to do the first tower collapsed we knew it so many lives are now gone the second tower crashed things would never be the same those firemen in this documentary showed courage confusion and strength the real raw human emotions they didn t know what to do they were just as scarred as those other people who were in the towers they heard the bodies collapsing on the ground from people jumping out the windows and here i was in a classroom just crying seeing all that was going on on tv i was amazed with this film and just wanted to go to new york and tell them how grateful all the americans were for their help i know they feel like they were just doing their job but they did more they were hero s every day after sep th for weeks they kept on digging knowing that there were no survivors but they kept on hoping and praying may god bless their kind and brave hearts as for my roommate she was crying and admitted this was her first time crying at these attacks she got to see the truth of what had happened that tragic day she asked why i didn t know what to say it breaks my heart that people can be that evil it sounds clique but it was a normal day for everyone one of the firemen said in the documentary no one expected this to happen not like that those people in the world trade centers or the pentagon or the planes that were hijacked they were just doing their job happen to be there or even just was there for a second passing by they were not just murdered they were slaughtered and those hijackers did it with a song in their heart then seeing in the middle east all the people celebrating why do people do this they celebrated death and the lose of mothers fathers sisters brothers friends grandparents aunts uncles cousins etc why so thanks to those people for making this documentary you truly think about the firemen policemen and the troops in iraq and it keeps your hope up that there are good people in this world thank you to all those people you are our heroes,1
this film was more effective in persuading me of a zionist conspiracy than a muslim one and i m jewish anbody go to journalism school read an editorial freshman year rhetoric these alarmist assertions presented in a palatable way might prove persuasive but by offering no acknowledgment of possible opposing arguments nor viable or any at all solutions few sources and each of dubious origin makes the argument an ineffectual diatribe and thank goodness for that i wouldn t want anyone to leave the theatre believing any of this racist claptrap a good lesson for me and hopefully a cautionary tale for you to actually read about a film before seeing it,0
i ve always been a big cybill shepperd fan ever since i saw her series a few years ago this film certainly shows her in her best light yet the film was so wonderfully cast and played every now and again she drops little amusing lines just to make this film one of the best i ve ever seen everybody really out does themselves especially robert downey jr and cybill shepperd they really made the film come true also i loved the little bit where mavis loses her wig and she nearly dies when she falls to the floor this is film at its best,1
allen goes to the country somewhere he hates going in real life and has a weekend with his friends which are the usual successful white middle class bellyaching types that feature in many of his films i usually find something to amuse in woody allen comedies but here he really falls totally flat on his face even the one liners seem to have deserted him the really is no plot bar bits and pieces of cod shakespeare but allen seems to use the location to allow a semi mystical air which just makes the thing even more witless and half baked it just doesn t work at any level and is just a giant bore the best thing about this film apart from the end credits coming up is that the bad reviews seem to get him to wake up and realise that simply throwing together a slapdash script and casting your mates in it doesn t make for entertainment,0
in a nutshell this is a cookie cutter romantic comedy that really wants and tries to be something more it wants to be harold and maude annie hall the graduate it wants to be deep and human it has interesting camera shots lighting music editing all of which give it the feel of an important movie the dialog is smart at times there are some laugh out loud moments but here s what keeps it from ultimately being anything more than a formulaic late night cable in flight time killer david schwimmer how many times can joe sad sack puppy dog stare blankly into space with his jaw hanging open before it starts to get annoying maybe some drool would have helped gwenneth paltrow she s really flat here and not just in the chest her role is supposed to be this lively nice caring girl who just keeps getting herself into wrong situations is very confused as a result and that is why a sad sack loser like schwimmer has any chance with her but gwenneth plays her very dull combine this with puppy dog drool face above and you have very little chemistry to care about i kept picturing someone else in this role kate hudson for example the script and the plot the stuff that happens just basically doesn t ring true all the problems get wrapped up in the end with such a neat and tidy bow on top that it seems like a whistle blew and the script writers just said oops time to wrap it up got a train to catch so they pulled out the hollywood formula book checked off all the boxes and went home,0
when i decided to watch the barbarians starring those twin bodybuilders peter and david paul i thought it couldn t be that bad because the film was directed by ruggero deodato who has a reputation for creating sleazy movies but well made sleazy movies well the barbarians is remarkably trashy action adventure movie that wants to be another conan the barbarian and fails at every level the look of the film is all wrong some scenes were well shot but the tone and the schintzy tacky disco look of the clothes and hair people are adorned with just doesn t make any sense whatsoever even for a low budget flick like this one richard lynch looks like an old woman with that ridiculous hairdo and costume he s supposed to be menacing but he comes across as a buffoon and it s funny to see eva larue callahan one of the stars of all my children appear in her first movie walking around in skimpy fur bikini i m sure she wants this dreck to disappear from the face of the earth the so called barbarian twins are okay as the muscle bound heroes but it s almost impossible to construct a proper critique of their acting because their roles are like everything else in this mess really ill conceived the only way the film tries to differentiate one twin from the other is by having one twin wear a loincloth that covers his ass while the other twin s loincloth barely covers his muscular butt i m not kidding don t ask me who s who though deodato must have been really desperate to agree to make this film and his desperation is reflected perfectly in this trashy flick it s just bad,0
the jokes are obvious the gags are corny and the characters are walking characatures but i couldn t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie no matter how many times i see it i still get a kick out of this one and i recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment it contains many quotable moments and some of the best sight gags i ve seen to this day if you ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle rent this one on your way home friday night to give your weekend a good start,1
despite much style flash and glitter this french musical fails to speak the tunes are repetitive predictable and tedious the story is uninteresting as are the many characters people break into song and dance without motivation or reason most of the cast wears phony looking wigs and hairpieces and the sets look hopelessly studio bound to be honest this video of the restored version was stopped before the end so negative an effect it had on me certainly a shame to have such a multi talented cast in so feeble a final effort goes to show i guess where followups in this case to the great classic umbrellas often do go awry one cannot recapture only recreate,0
year old arnald hillerman accidentally kills his older brother eugene his feelings are arrested by the fact that his family can not interact with him or feel it is not the right thing to do his only refuge is his grandfather who is the only one who seems to have compassion on him the realism will captivate true life movie lovers but will not satisfy those that desire action thrills,1
yes marie dresler drinks prune juice that she thinks is poison and she exits running dresler is good never my cup of tea but she is a solid performer who surely holds the screen i watched this for polly moran whom i ve seen elsewhere here moran is ok just ok as dressler s shrewish friend foe too bad she has sunk into nearly total oblivion the plot is good hearted bad guys try to rob the townspeople dressler triumphs and all ends well i do wonder about the central plot mechanism bonds this came out during the depression so maybe everyone was familiar with bonds and what they can do if used well and if used wrongly i however not of that era am vaguely familiar with them they re like stocks only different right it seems odd to build a story about the little man around a somewhat sophisticated monetary entity,0
the film had many fundamental values of family and love it expressed human emotion and was an inspiring story the script was clear it was very easy to understand making it perfect for children and was enjoyable and humorous at times there were a few charged symbols to look for the cinematography was acceptable there was no sense of experimentation that a lot of cinematographers have been doing today which quiet frankly is getting a little warn out it was plainly filmed but had a nice soft quality to it although editing could have been done better i thought it was a nice movie for a family to enjoy and the organization of information was just thrown at you which was something i didn t like either but in all it was a good movie,1
as i sat subjected to this televised mediocrity i wondered why why did dianne keaton agree to this trash the movie uses meaningless contrived plot lines to deliver trash to homes of thousands the movie takes a political agenda to a new level the movie was meaningless and all creditability was lost to the excessive use of stereotype it was obvious that keaton tried to make this movie worthwhile but in the end she needs to remember the age old adage that you cannot polish a turd i hope that you did not waste your new year s day watching another mindless made for tv movie i now know why the networks started airing series on sunday night to rid us of trash,0
hawk heaven for lovers of french cinema and by extension french screen actors actresses at its worst it s an indulgence actors getting to bitch about other actors question the validity of acting as a profession at all etc whilst at its best it s a glorious celebration send up of some of the finest actors currently working from a simple premise jean pierre marielle s request for water being ignored in a restaurant blier spins off in all directions and allows the cream of french cinema to strut their stuff before the camera even throwing in nods to those no longer around jean gabin lino ventura including the director s father bernard one of the great stalwarts of french cinema from whom he fields a celestial phone call at the end of the film discursive and prolix yes guilty as charged but also something of a guilty pleasure,1
i saw a preview of freebird at the isle of man tt as i had heard about it in a couple of motorcycle mags although i was over mainly for the racing the lure of seeing phil daniels in a motorcycle movie yes i love quadrophenia like everyone else proved enough to get me away from the beer and partying at last we ve done it us british have actually made a great motorcycle film and no it s not like torque this is up there with the best of british comedy mark my words this is phil daniels best screen performance and as far as geoff bell is concerned there s a new british legend making his name felt i loved gary stretch in shane meadows fantastic dead mans shoes and here he gives a quietly touching performance that he can proudly add to his growing film reputation this is a film not just for us bikers but i think for everyone even my girlfriend loved it i hope it gets the same brilliant response on the mainland as it got at the isle of man i m not going to go into the details of certain classic scenes that this movie has watch out for the shop as it would spoil the fun but i would say go see enjoy and have one of the best nights in the cinema you ve had in a while i really think this could well be a cult classic as they were saying at the tt c mon freebird,1
an old vaudeville team of willy clark walter matthau and al lewis george burns were one of the best known but they broke up hating each other over years later they agree to get together for a tv special but find out they still hate each other willy s nephew agent richard benjamin tries to get them to work together a big hit in its day and it won george burns an oscar for best supporting actor i somewhat liked it it was written by neil simon so its non stop one liners some of it was funny but making jokes of willy and al s senility was not also i never liked matthau i never thought he was a good actor and something about him just rubbed me the wrong way also his character here is so caustic you get sick of him quickly all that aside this was fun burns is just great tossing off one liners with ease and even matthau was good matching him their verbal battles are the best sequences in the movie also benjamin is very good as willy s nephew trying to get the two of them to work with each other for me it s worth seeing for burns alone this jump started his career in a big way and two years later he had another hit with oh god so this is good just good not great matthau s character really makes this hard to love i give it a,1
during the first seasons fairly odd parents was as tasty as hard candy bright and sweet and addictive now it s as tasty as pepto bismol and unfortunately pepto bismol is what you ll need after viewing the more recent episodes where all the sweetness has been replaced by insults and violence resulting in no laughs cosmo once one of the more endearing nick characters has devolved into an abusive unfunny cretin that the cast of family guy wouldn t even want to know timmy has become a selfish arrogant jerkwad that bart simpson would happily beat the snot out of and given timmy s snottiness that would take a lot of beating and poor wanda a real charmer who s become the victim of her husband and godchild she s now labeled a nag for caring about the well being of others plus cosmo s stupidity causes pain to everyone else but he s never punished for it nor does he learn any lessons which pretty much sums up butch hartman s attitude towards kids they re crude vulgar and not too bright thank god this crummy toon has been cancelled along with butch hartman s darling danny phantom at least butch got what he deserved unlike cosmo,0
william h macy is at his most sympathetic and compelling here as a hit man and loving father who wants to step out of the family business without angering his overbearing parents treads much of the same territory as tv s the sopranos in terms of the mid life crisis of a criminal theme here too he visits a shrink but is still worth watching thanks to some taut direction from brommel i look forward to what this guy directs next an excellent script and all around great performances macy is excellent as always this is probably his best role since fargo donald sutherland is at his creepy best as the domineering father tracy ullman gives a surprisingly riveting dramatic turn as macy s wife young david dorfman is excellent as macy s bright and sensitive son many of his lines sound ad libbed and are wonderful even neve campell who i usually find abhorrent is compelling as the troubled young woman who captures macy s eye all of this is punctuated by a moving score and crisp pace that lead up to a predictable but still powerful climax and meaningful and touching aftermath this film deserved a much wider release as i suspect it would have connected with audiences,1
this movie tries to hard to be something that it s not a good movie it wants you to be fooled from begining to end but fails from when it starts to get interesting it falls apart and you re just hoping the ending gives you some clue of just what is going on but it didn t,0
the day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of azumi s fate as an assassin fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga that s as poetical as i ll get when talking about azumi death or love because when i cringed over the heavy sentimentality of house of flying daggers and complained about the credibility of aya ueto portraying a blood driven assassin after watching azumi i started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience in azumi we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics which is their number one priority as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape but i won t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in azumi s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma by the way chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of go go minus the cool weapon and sense of menace this brings me to the final blow which is the action simply disguised in the title as the death side of the epic in the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons to no one s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily in azumi the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between azumi and bijomaru in comparison to the fights in azumi was at least climaxed and worthwhile some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter i am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched the romance side of azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution as a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation i won t lie and i ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first azumi film but i ll step right up and say that after watching azumi the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece for what it s worth azumi death or love could have gone straight to video with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins doing their best to restore the peace with an unwavering courage to die trying,0
i should never have started this film and stopped watching after s i missed the really botched ending this film was a disappointment because it could have been so much better it had nice atmosphere a top notch cast and director good locations but a baaaaaad story line a bad script i paid attention to kenneth branagh s southern accent it was better than the script the plot was stupid driven by characters acting in unreal and improbable ways no one behaves like this outside of hollywood scripts,0
a complete waste of time halla bol is a complete waste of time the script and dialogues are poorly written the direction is lacklustre and the acting borders on hammy this movie was clearly aiming for the rang de basanti crowd but it falls far short of the mark because it does not have even one of the elements that made rdb connect with its audience_great script terrific acting good direction and a powerful social message that was never preached but shown compared to that near masterpiece halla bol takes a step backwards by resorting to scenes such as the hero taking a leak on the villain s persian rug and the hero s mentor staring down bullets in a truck no less all of this might have been acceptable in the s when there was a downturn in movie quality and bad movies like divyashakti and phool aur kaante became big hits but movie making has become_should have become_more subtle and thoughtful of late rajkumar santoshi is a capable director and i appreciate that he wants to give a social message in every movie he makes but maybe he simply does not know how to do it he resorts to sermonizing without a care as to the audience s intelligence in understanding what he is trying to say maybe he should just concentrate on entertainment and leave the social messages to the rakeysh mehras and aamir khans even if you don t agree with everything i say you will agree that throughout the screening you will be thinking that rang de basanti was much much better and mr santoshi should have left the industry bashing to om shanti om industry bashing that s right santoshi has depicted the industry as a place of back biting bitching and the casting couch which the hero happily indulges in with a starlet curiously named sania there are some people who will think that these portions show the real face of the industry don t believe everything you see all in all raise your voice against movies like this and don t spend your hard earned money on this bomb out of,0
this has long been one of my favourite adaptations of an austen novel although it is definitely not in the same category as the spectacular pride and prejudice emma is a lush and relatively faithful tv version of austen s novel especially considering its short length the biggest change between the novel and the movie is a good one as the unnecessary snobbishness that austen exhibits at the end of the story is removed here and replaced with someone much more akin to emma s character in the rest of the book i thought the characters chosen to portray the roles were well picked kate beckinsale walks the fine line between girlishness and the social snob with a grace completely lost in gwyneth paltrow s version samantha morton s wispy blonde locks suit her attitude and character as the simper that accompanies her role in previous characterisations is replaced with the harriet we know from the book mister knightly s role is carried out extremely well in my opinion both the seriousness and the gentle compassion that the hero is painted with in the novel are present here in this much neglected sumptuous film,1
i thought it was a very funny movie i love dog movies and comedy movies so combined they were twice as good k k and k pi are my favorite movies jim belushi is hysterical and jerry lee is hilarious and adorable they make a great team the only downside is that i really didn t understand how dooley s wife died she died before this movie but how if they said it i must have missed it other than that i give it two thumbs tails up those dogs jerry lee and zeus must have had a lot of training they were so funny and all the noises jerry lee would make when dooley was talking to him was so funny my favorite was when jerry lee sang and when he would bite peoples privates to get information very very funny lol,1
this movie is so bad it can only be compared to the all time worst comedy police academy no laughs throughout the movie do something worthwhile anything really just don t waste your time on this garbage,0
this is quite possibly the most retarded s slasher ever realized but how can you be harsh on a film that features non stop images of dozens of gorgeous ladies with exhilarating bodies doing aerobic exercises taking showers and wandering about in tight gym outfits prior to being a horror film aerobicide is a minutes promo video to encourage the use of steroids silicons and other body stimulating fitness products if you d leave out all the footage of hunky boys lifting weights and yummy girls wiggling their butts and racks to insufferable s tunes there probably only have about minutes of story left plenty of time to improvise a plot about a sadist killer slaughtering young health freaks with a big safety pin yeah the film opens with an unintentionally hilarious scene of a girl getting fried between an electric sun bathing device several years later people turn up dead in the same spa you don t really need to be an experienced horror fanatic or a rocket scientist to figure out there s a link between the murders and the burning incident now do you investigating the case are a seemingly braindead police officer and charles napier look alike and a beefcake private detective who gets lucky with the bustiest s beauty i ve ever seen looking through the credits her name s dianne copeland apparently and she didn t do anything else apart from this turkey and an imbecile troma movie called surf nazis must die what a wasted opportunity she may not have been a great actress but she sure had two other big advantages that would help her move upwards in show business the amount of gore and the quality of the make up effects are nothing special neither we re treated to a couple of bizarre stabbings with a pin and some barbecued human flesh the plot twists near the end are ridiculous and predictable but by that time nobody is taking the film seriously anymore anyway aerobicide a k a killer workout is recommended in case you want to switch of all your brain functions off for one night but nevertheless feel like watching a film it actually would make a terrific double feature with death spa both films have a lot of sexy and scarcely dressed babes and both films are pretty dumb,0
this show is good i like the acting funny bits and the cuteness of it the actors lee pace ann friel etc they all did great in the show the show started off great with its funny illogical basic idea of bringing dead people back in the first series and honestly as what people said the first few episodes of the second series were a bit of a let down but it later came back looking good anyway and now i really hate the fact that it s going to be cancelled why doesn t abc just let it finish until the very end when all the episodes are already done i really wanna know how the story s going to be i think it should be given a chance as there re still so many viewers who love it,1
that s right a movie written directed and produced by fred tepper and family fred should have known better having worked the sets of titantic and dogma so the plot there are some scientists and some forest rangers and a hot chick with huge fake breasts they are all really bad at their jobs including the hot chick who i think is supposed to be a photographer but who cares because she wears a bikini one of the forest rangers comments that the scientists are professional people which is good because it would be horrible if they were professional grubs or jellybeans or ewoks they are hiking through the woods in search of some strange ape like bones and no one even once mentions that the bones just might be those of the infamous bigfoot they just wander around and one of the rangers unabashedly hits on the hottie we all hope he dies real soon along with his sister who s meant to be the cute naive one but is really just annoying then they gasp find a sasqu i mean ape like animal burial ground of course no mentions that it might just be bigfoot bones they re messing with i guess scientists and forest rangers just don t think about those types of things then sasquatch and his tribe get really angry and kill all the people we dislike chases the other losers away and buries his great aunt muriel and cousin josh who died in an unfortunate trout accident all over again insipid boring dialogue i zoned out several times inane plot unlikable characters bad cgi a man in a monkey suit would look better and acting that just wasn t very good all add up to make a movie i won t be watching again you check it out though it s good for some unintentional laughs,0
i saw this film on tv many years ago and i saw this film when i got this on tape i thought that this was reasonably well done it was not the best of all movies but it was good enough the movie has enough talent to inspire many people especially younger kids the acting was good with danny glover leading the cast the plot line was not very believable but the script was well written this movie can also be the interest of avid baseball fans it does not directly apply to a action packed sports movie it directly applies to a nice film that you can watch with your family and learn some messages that are hidden in this film overall the film was good but not great i give this a movie a,1
a young scientist harry harrison is continuing his late father s scientific research into limb regeneration with flying colours but his interferingly dominate mother and her doctor lover want to sell off the serum when he finds out there is an accident involving harry losing an arm so he tries out the serum and what eventuates is a genetically deranged arm that has a mind of its own oh we ve seen this oh so many times before but what lifts this very campy and quite rubbery shonky junk is the performance of movie icons elke sommer and oliver reed actually it s not a bad flick by fangoria films just there are better ones out there which are similar in vein servered ties simply lacks it own distinctive style the oddball nature and unpleasant splatter resembled re animator and even a touch of slapstick stuck out like something from evil dead the comic story is truly whacked out with it s black humour but it can get melodramatic and a bit in dry in the fun factor surprises do crop up especially the flick s final outcome which is well accepted as i thought it could have copped out with something more accessible for a low budget production the fx makeup can look rigid and very goofy but there s some grotesque moments that will make you smile than actually cringe even a brush of sexual tension streamlines the story thanks to elke sommer s sternly juicy performance as the mother oliver reed is quite humorously deadpan in a wicked sense and he pulls it off extremely well they were both immensely diverting as the couple you loved to hate billy morrisette is delightful in a erratic performance as harry director damon santostefano briskly paces the film and orchestrates some stylish scenes of gripping and bamboozling horror yeah it s juvenile and basically silly nonsense but you got to hand it to it for some undemanding entertainment,0
after seeing the previews i felt that this movie was going to be a nice improvement over that fast furious series so i already expected it to have a lacking storyline but at least this time it won t be loaded with a bunch of powerless civics with fart cans unfortunately i was wrong if you could only imagine a fast furious movie with a worse story line than by all means this movie is for you this is the absolute worst movie i had ever seen i m being nice no i would not take baseball bat to my nuts like what others have said not only was the storyline non existent but the action was crap too i guess the director thought that they could just throw bunch of females and exotic cars and then call it a movie for an example there is a point in the movie where the guy pushes the nos button and his lamborghini takes off in the air and flies over a slr mclaren to win and after the bit where eddy griffin got in a fight with one of his girls an imus comment would work in this case the girl asks to pull over and get out of the plane and of course they do in the middle of the desert after this wonderful scene i couldn t take it anymore so i only got to see half of this monstrosity this is the first movie i had ever walked out on afterwards i had to stop for some drinks to kill all of my corrupted brain cells i gave it a because is not an option you re better off going to the local car show and stopping at a strip joint on the way home i will keep all viewers in my prayers,0
there are some redeeming qualities to this show one is that the theme tune does have a decent melody the show does have a nice premise also i am probably in the minority but i like wanda i like the fact she is caring and is more a mother figure to timmy however despite all this i do not like this show it isn t excrement but i do find it very annoying i wouldn t say that it is the best animated show on planet earth when i use that term for an animated tv show i think of peter pan and the pirates i think of darkwing duck i think of scooby doo and i think of talespin and i hope i am not the only one who really likes the wild thornberrys and resent the fact it gets poked fun at nor do i think fairly odd parents is the worst animated show on planet earth i accept it s annoying and in some ways overrated but it isn t the worst show on nickolodean that is chalk zone god that show is unwatchable but the worst animated show i ve ever seen is shaggy and scooby doo get a clue which is crudely animated unfunny and frankly a disgrace one thing i don t like about this show is the animation the characters forgive me if i offend have very weird facial features and a lot of the backgrounds are dull and lack the colour that make spongebob squarepants and wild thornberrys so nice to look at the characters with the exception of wanda i find very annoying i can t believe such a talented voice actress like tara strong aka charendoff voiced timmy timmy i don t find very likable as a lead character at all he is annoying and sometimes patronising and he is a poor decision maker as well and his voice gets on my nerves i actually like strong but not in this show another annoying character is cosmo the supposedly funny character instead his jokes are as unfunny as they could become they are either a contrived or b over familiar timmy s parents are awful characters who don t give a toss about their son and their personalities wear well thin the story lines are very unoriginal on the most part and i keep thinking where have i seen this before the episodes after the arrival of the baby i thought were unwatchable even worse is the scripts very unfunny childish witless and suffer from a complete lack of energy all in all not the worst show ever but pretty poor for an animation fan and fairly uncomfortable to sit through there are redeeming qualities and i completely understand if people like it bethany cox,0
i feel like i m the only kid in town who was annoyed by branagh s performance he is a fine actor by most accounts but he simply could not pull off the southern accent i mean it was deplorable it was as if he was trying too hard to be a yank one of the previous reviewers questioned why u s actors were not cast in this film i second that notion it s wonderful when actors actresses wish to expand their horizons but it s another thing to try too hard so that a performance becomes strained maybe it was altman but he s a such a great director well i really don t want to bash branagh for his absolutely hideous accent too much everybody deserves to screw up here and there but it is hard to watch something so annoying that you d rather choke on a chicken bone or eat a bucket full of crap than sit through the gingerbread man,0
i just finished watching guinea pig devils experiment i have to say that this movie although having very good fx better then i expected was not a good movie i honestly cant say that i enjoyed this movie at all of course it is effective in its way of being a shocking realistic twisted minutes of torture but i found it to be very boring and not as gory as i hoped and also i found that the torturers were very annoying when they talked and loughed trying to sound tough all the time that ruined it even more and im sure there s some people out there who will agree with me on that one i have now seen guinea pig and the best one out of those in my opinion is guinea pig flowers of the flesh and blood i wont say much more about devils experiment other than great fx descent acting from the girl annoying fu ing torturers overall i give it stars on account of the fx cos they are awesome,0
despite an overall pleasing plot and expensive production one wonders how a director can make so many clumsy cultural mistakes where were the japanese wardrobe and cultural consultants not on the payroll apparently a japanese friend of mine actually laughed out loud at some of the cultural absurdities she watched unfold before her eyes in a later conversation she said imagine a finnish director making a movie in fnnish about the american civil war using blond swedish actors as union army and frenchmen as the confederates worse imagine dressing the scarlet o hara female lead in a period hoop skirt missing the hoop and sporting a s hairdo maybe some people in finland might not realize that the hoop skirt was missing the hoop or recognize the bizarre jane mansfield hair but in atlanta they would not believe their eyes or ears and be laughing in the aisles excellent story and photography be damned so watching memoirs of a geisha was painful for anyone familiar with japanese cultural nuances actual geisha or japanese dress and that was the topic of the movie hollywood is amazing in its myopic view of film making they frequently get the big money things right while letting the details that really polish a films refinement embarrassingly wrong i thought the last samurai was the crowning achievement of how bad an otherwise good film on japan could be memoirs of a geisha is embarrassingly better and worse at the same time,0
this movie explores the difficulties that strain hopes dreams love and friendship and incorporates humour beautifully along with a stunning cast and brilliant filming the sound track enhances and amplifies the atmosphere and mood of this work of art all actors and actresses give an extremely good performance surpassing expectation in every way parminder nagra is brought on to the big screen for the first time in this film and she is exceptional capturing the vividness and vitality that this movie is all about keira knightly also works well with her co stars and this is her best work so far all in all this is brilliant film and one that everyone should make the effort to see at least once,1
this is a bit of a puzzle for a lot of the artsy lynch crowd they tend to try to write this off as some kind of meaningless crude side project of lynch s like this is lynch passing gas between his real pieces of film art well it may be a fart but its one of those intriguing farts that you catch of a whiff of and are embarrassed to admit you enjoy dumbland distilled down beyond this is art what can you do with aspects of modern life but laugh at it if you took it seriously you would go nuts you hook into it smell it taste it feel its agonies its unreasoning stupidities and then express it in any medium you choose thats called art and art isn t dumb but it is dumbland,1
the sopranos is probably the most widely acclaimed tv series ever so naturally my expectations were through the roof and yet the show surpassed them i love the mafia and crime genre in film and i enjoy following the compelling stories set in these worlds but this is so much more hours of material gives the story a chance to not only be one of the most thrilling and unpredictable mafia action stories but also to be a great family drama a shocking character study a laugh out loud comedy a brilliant psychological examination dealing with the nature of good and evil and an intellectual arty collaboration of representative dreams and hallucinations all in one david chase s epic series manages to accomplish all of this and more and cements hbo as the closest tv can get to cinematic perfection paving the road for a number of other series to continue blowing audiences away realism is present when it is needed but chase s decisions to depart from it for effect on occasion for dream episodes and the like only adds more layers to the series chase along with a strong writing staff including matthew weiner and terrence winter future creators of mad men and boardwalk empire respectively turns new jersey into an intricate universe full of the greatest cast of characters i ve seen on tv james gandolfini domineers the show as tony one of the most groundbreaking characters on tv ever tony adheres to half of the mobster stereotypes from pop culture but he defies the other half entirely and through his family interactions and his therapy sessions with dr melfi lorraine bracco with whom he has a considerable chemistry that ensures that the therapy scenes always have a completely different feel to the rest of the show we see nearly every side to tony soprano and learn that he is more of an everyman than one would expect edie falco matches the power of gandolfini s performance as tony s wife carmela from her mixed feelings about tony s lifestyle to her suspicions about murders to her torment over tony s cheating to her own thoughts about infidelity carmela runs the gamut of emotions throughout seasons and falco makes her the prime vehicle for the non mafia viewers to have eyes into such a corrupt world scenes between tony and carmela provide some of the most heartwrenching and painfully realistic drama ever seen on television the supporting cast is almost as phenomenal and a wide array of characters populate the cast over all six seasons somehow without any redundancies nancy marchand steals the show as tony s overbearing mother livia an insight into tony s personality problems and panic attacks the familiarity of marchand s incessant complaints is almost gruesome since she takes the character so believably far michael imperioli is christopher tony s prot g whose various poor choices lead him down a road that is painful to watch but brilliantly executed drea de matteo plays christopher s girlfriend adriana and is so well meaning and loving that the dark arc her character takes as she gets too involved with christopher s career tony sirico is paulie introduced as the ultimate mafia stereotype and a source of comic but eventually he becomes one of the most sympathetic and complex characters on the show and nobody plays true anger better than he and that s just the tip of the iceberg familiar faces such as peter bogdanovich jon favreau ben kingsley lauren bacall will arnett nancy sinatra david strathairn robert patrick hal holbrook burt young and eric mangini make appearances over the course of the show while names as notable as joe pantoliano steve buscemi and steven van zandt have regular roles as main characters in the series there are great characters with powerful arcs and the excitement and tension never let up in any of the various subplots throughout the show comedic elements and entire episodes filled with brilliant hilarity dilute the powerhouse dramatic intensity of the series which is so multipurpose that for one reason or enough the credits of nearly any episode left me somewhat bewildered the sopranos is the most powerful and addicting series i have seen overall and its highs are so mindblowing that i would have to call it my favourite show in spite of arguable lows most of which i disagree with whether you love or hate the ending or what you make of it is irrelevant the discussion it has created is an achievement in itself the iconic nature of the entire series makes it an essential part of television history there are multiple elements for anyone to love and marvel at in this show so if you re thinking of watching something else instead do yourself a favour and fuhgeddaboutit,1
this is not bela lagosi s best movie but it s got a good old style approach for some s horror entertainment brides are dropping dead at the altar like flies i think i d postpone the wedding until after the fiend is caught but it s a horror movie so i guess people ignore the danger for some reason anyway lagosi is a mad doctor who needs young female blood to keep his aging sickly wife healthy and happy he always eludes the keystone cops by hiding the bodies in a hearse who would think of looking for a corpse in a hearse and the brides just keep on getting zapped no movie like this would be complete without a lois lane type female reporter who wants to catch the criminal on her own good at solving crime bad at keeping her mouth shut at all the wrong times guess who lagosi picks for his next intended victim i love the haunted house bit where lois lane gets stranded by a thunderstorm as a guest at lagosi s sinister mansion hidden passageways a vampire like wife an evil dwarf igor assistant and so on good stuff fairly well done pacing keeps the film moving and the story resolves itself in a typical but satisfying manner if you like old horror movies this one is worth a watch,1
within the realm of science fiction two particular themes consistently elicit interest were initially explored in the literature of a pre cinematic era and have since been periodically revisited by filmmakers and writers alike with varying degrees of success the first theme that of time travel has held an unwavering fascination for fans of film as well as the written word most recently on the screen with yet another version of the h g wells classic `the time machine the second theme which also manages to hold audiences in thrall is that of invisibility which sparks the imagination with it s seemingly endless and myriad possibilities and this theme too has again become the basis for a film adapted from another h g wells classic `the invisible man the realization of which here is `hollow man directed by paul verhoeven and starring kevin bacon and elisabeth shue sebastian caine bacon and his colleagues have for some time been conducting experiments for the u s government exploring the possibility and practicality of invisibility which they have at last achieved in a number of the primates upon which they have tested their method they have in fact progressed to the point that effecting the invisibility is assured their only problem now is bringing the subject back to the original `visual state of being it s a problem however that caine after diligent effort and too many hours in the lab has solved or so he thinks and when the application of his theory on a live subject is successful he decides to present the results to the board of directors in an effort to thereby maintain the funding necessary for the continuation of the project at the last minute though caine demurs fearing that control of the project will be wrested from him before they can proceed to the next level the testing of a human subject and he takes it upon himself to become that subject securing the assistance of his research team by telling them that they ve been given approval by the board to do so but something goes wrong and caine becomes trapped in his cloak of invisibility and as he and his team struggle to find the solution to his considerable dilemma before it s too late it all begins to take a toll on caine s mind and suddenly his fear of losing funding and control becomes inconsequential as he finds himself facing the imminent danger of losing much more than that now there s a very real chance that he may lose everything including himself verhoeven has crafted what is initially an exciting even thought provoking film he establishes a good pace and uses the f x at his disposal to great effect though he does tend to allow the striking visuals to overwhelm the character development anyone familiar with `the invisible man or actually anyone who can logically follow the progression of the story will know early on that caine is not destined for happier times still verhoeven has a style of storytelling that is definitely going to capture the attention and engage his audience but he seems bent on rushing toward the climax and along the way he abandons any and all of the nuance that has made his film thus far successful opting to enter into a final sequence that is nothing more than a mindless blood and gore fest that betrays his audience and everything he s worked for earlier in the film rather than seeking an intelligent resolution to caine s suffering and using some inventiveness and imagination to take the film to it s inevitable conclusion verhoeven takes the low road and though it may succeed on a purely visceral level any meaning one could derive from the story dissolves like so many ashes in the wind along with anything that would have made this a memorable film and it s a shame because verhoeven has it at a higher level than much of what is offered in this genre and he allows it to sink unnecessarily to one much lower kevin bacon does a good job of creating a character that is believable if only on the surface which seemingly serves verhoeven s purposes perfectly there s little depth to bacon s portrayal but it has more to do with his director s agenda than his own acting abilities verhoeven simply does not allow bacon the time to develop caine to any extent the character is mainly a vessel around which verhoeven can build his story and toward that end it works the film would have been better served however had verhoeven and bacon collaborated more closely on at least developing a bond between caine and the audience that would have prompted some emotional involvement on the viewers part something that would have drawn them in a bit rather than leaving them at the gate as it were as mere observers of an f x laden extravaganza elisabeth shue comports herself well in the role of linda mckay caine s willing accomplice in the ill fated experiment but it s basically a thankless part that offers little challenge especially to an actor of shue s caliber the same can be said of kim dickens so magnificent in the film `things behind the sun her character sarah kennedy does little more than support the action and f x both actors are capable of so much more and deserve better than what they are given to work with here the supporting cast includes josh brolin matthew greg grunberg carter joey slotnick frank mary randle janice and william devane dr kramer entertaining to a point and even successful on a certain low level `hollow man is one of those films that leaves you contemplating what could have been like an annual fireworks display it will give you some momentary thrills but after awhile it ll begin to blend in with all the others you ve seen without anything special to set it apart and it s too bad because given the talent and abilities of those involved here it could have been so much more i rate this one,0
this is one of the best movies i have ever seen i feel greatly touched by the theme the movie intends to convey one sentence that keeps coming up on my mind is that history repeats itself life is what it is shown in the movie when people are young they seem not to understand their parents their own spouses people have every excuse for not sharing the dearest time with their children until too late people always have to work hard to support the whole family but are just liable to neglect the subtle feeling of their partners people always change their perspectives at different stages of their lives people can always be forgiven if their heart is full of love for their beloved nothing is more important than the blood relation people share in this world and one is never too late to talk with their folks about what they feel at the bottom of their heart so as to achieve a better understanding between themselves so that when life has to end some day people should not feel sorry or regretful since they have kept their words and there is always hope a new life the actors and actresses are fantastic they have understood the director s intention perfectly the movie s charm lies in to me the effect of bringing a skillful and splendid fusion of cheers and tears to the audience,1
heres a fun fact i was the baby in the movie the one in the crib i am years old now my parents took me to try out for the part we lived in texas at the time i think i only made like bucks for it but i wasn t in it very long my parents said i would cry when i was supposed to be happy and would be happy when i was supposed to cry i was all mixed up strange and funny fact i suppose and no i am not a child actress i am livin in san antonio workin at a walgreens i graduated here in texas but i lived in maryland most my life this movie is a great movie though good concept i have seen it several times in my short years,1
citizen x tells the story of the butcher of rostov nickname for a heinous and perverse russian serial killer who claimed lives from the film focuses on the novice detective rea who doggedly pursued the killer against all odds in the face of an uncooperative bureaucracy in self serving and convenient denial an hbo product for t v the film offers a solid cast good performances spares the audience much of the grisly details but plays out like a docudrama sans the stylistics of similar hollywood fare an even and straight forward dramatization of a serious and comparatively little known story more interesting than jack the ripper b,1
i knew about this as a similar programme as jackass and i saw one or two episodes on freeview and it is the same only more extreme basically three welsh guys and one mad british bloke were brought together by love of skateboarding and a complete disregard masochistic pleasure to harm themselves and their health and safety they have had puking eating pubes covered pizza jumping in stinging nettles naked paint balling jokes on the smaller guy while heavily sleeping snoring stunts in a work place e g army cowboys and many more insane stunts that cause bruises bumps blood and vomit maybe not just for themselves starring matthew pritchard who does pretty much anything lee dainton also up for just about anything dan joyce the british one who hardly does much physical stuff and has a ott laugh and pancho mike locke who does a lot but is more popular for being short fat and lazy it was number something on the greatest funny moments very good,1
this bogus journey never comes close to matching the wit and craziness of the excellent adventure these guys took in their first movie this installment tries to veer away from its prequel to capture some new blood out of the joke but it takes a wrong turn and journeys nowhere interesting or funny there s almost a half hour wasted on showing the guys doing a rock concert and lots of people watching on free tv since when does that happen surely the script writer could have done something more creative look at how all the random elements of the first movie were neatly tied up together by a converging them at the science presentation not in this film which pretty much ended the bill ted franchise the joke was over the grim reaper is tossed into the mix for whatever reason this infusion like the whole plot is done poorly and lacks sparks for comedy or audience involvement there s a zz top impression hammered in for no reason there s lights smoke mirrors noise but nothing really creative or funny skip this bogus thing,0
good action show but nothing new this one took place high in the mountains which showed some nice scenery and such one man takes on a group of mercenaries the lead flies and he kicks butt it could have been called rambo goes to the rockies it was that pat it did have one very effective scene right at the first of the film which had me cringing in horror not a bad picture but just same ol same ol,1
this short film trailer is basically about superman and batman working together and forming an uneasy alliance obviously the two characters have vastly differing views on how to deal with crime and what constitutes punishment it s a lot of fun to see these two iconic characters try to get along i won t go int to the storyline here but i will get into the acting which is terrific everyone is well cast the two actors playing superman and batman are well suited to their characters the same filmmakers that made batman dead end and grayson also made this short film of the three i probably liked this one the least but i still thought it was well done for me world s finest is a,1
given the title and outlandish box art i was ready for just about anything perhaps my expectation were forced just a bit to high because i was left a little dry a film crew working on a soft core sex movie end up at a strange house when they get lost in the fog and decide the best way to spend the evening is to have sex where hasn t this set up been used before the difference here is the uber perverse nature of the sex not allowed to show all the goods groin shots were illegal in japan for a long time what is shown is fogged out the movie tries as hard as it can to show the viewer just how unnatural sex can be amidst all the kinky goings on a mud monster whose origin i can t fathom shows up and begins murdering the men and raping the women then murdering them too some of the sights are a bit much most notably a woman having her intestines pulled out through her vagina or another woman spitting out a mouthful of stuff but otherwise the gore is pretty standard fare ultimately the film is pulled down by it s own designs it s too over sexed to be a strait horror picture and too gruesome to work as a sex flick the mediums can work but there need to be a balance,0
i saw this movie when it was released and my distaste for it has stuck with me all these years here s why greenaway s goal seems to be to take every literary image in the tempest and make it literal if a character were to say my heart takes flight we d be shown an actual human heart with pigeon wings attached flapping across the screen this process makes for some lush tableaux but ultimately it s a facile exercise and it becomes deadly boring i don t begrudge the pleasure other viewers found in this movie but it s worth knowing that not everyone in the audience was enraptured,0
college student alex gardner nicholas celozzi is plagued by nightmares of a cellar dwelling ghoul at alcatraz he dreams of cutting off his own hand spitting up a worm a ghoul ripping open his chest and being roasted over an open fire after his friends see him levitating feet over his bed a helpful occult obsessed teacher donna denton suggests that they sneak into alcatraz to face his fears of course they go in the middle of the night when no one is around to help when things get out of hand the group become stranded alex s brother richard tom reilly becomes possessed and starts killing everyone toni basil of mickey fame shows up as the helpful ghost of sammy mitchell lead singer of the group bodybag she teaches alex how to levitate out of his body and does a rock music dance intercut with repeat nightmare footage to pad out the running time all of the victims show up as wisecracking ghosts a la the griffin dunne character in an american werewolf in london the script is full of plot holes cheesy dialogue and lame attempts at comedy good fx work and cool opening credits both by ernest d farino are the only things gaining any merit basil and devo whip it do some songs on the soundtrack score out of,0
this is a very entertaining film which follows the rehearsal process of a ny production of macbeth although it has a lot to say about power jealousy and ambition the themes of macbeth in our modern world the film works best when it is not taking itself too seriously recognizable actors such as john glover gloria reubens and david lansbury do nice jobs in the main roles but the highlight for me was the hilarious scene where the murder of banquo john elsen is rehearsed probably a more entertaining film for those involved in theatre but anyone who enjoys shakespeare should enjoy this film,1
i am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie jack frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by a pix entertainment and without exception everything this company deals with is pure crap first and this is very important never ever watch this movie sober why would you unlike many other entertaingly bad movies this one i feel was made intentionally bad i just can t get over how fake the snowman is which is why its always shown only briefly the way it moves is the best this movie is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the michael keaton piece of crap becuz that was made too be a good movie and that version is as bad as this,0
in this installment of the series edmund blackadder is stuck in the regency period in britain during the later portion of george iii s rule this time blackadder s prospects are much poorer as instead of royalty he s a servant to the very very thick george iv the price regent unlike the historical accounts of george iv this one is about as bright as a tomato and as a result blackadder s able to take advantage of him and scheme to his heart s content the only major difference in style between this one and earlier ones is that the series ends on a very very very different note you just have to see it to believe it other than that all the usual story elements are there and the show is hilarious the only reservation i have as always is that this show is not appropriate for the kids due to its crude language and adult situations,1
my roommates i nearly shorted out our tv from the numerous spit takes we did while watching this hilarious piece of s self important pseudo zen dreck i d read about this campfest for ages and scanned my local late night tv listings for years in search of this elusive turd several years ago our local abc affiliate was known for showing cool flicks for its late night weekend flick ie frogs night of the lepus etc then one day it happened at am on a saturday night over years ago there it was we had over folks over and the flick did not disappoint see andy griffith as the silliest most unthreatening bad guy since jaye davidson in stargate see william shatner sport a variety of things atop his head that only faintly resemble human hair or anything organic for that matter hear jaw droppingly inane s psychobabble that makes chicken soup for the soul sound like bf skinner feel content that any decade was better than the s for those still reading the plot surrounds a bunch of middle class mid level a holes who decide to suck up to their s head boss griffith by joining him on a cross dessert race that spans california mexico they all wear leather jackets looking more christopher street than anything else along the way they stop at a cantina get drunk smoke joints the sight robert mike brady reed smoke a joint is an image you won t soon forget start a fight attempt rape and just act like a bunch of suburban middle class jack offs although i have an excellent copy that i taped off tv i wish this one would be released on video so the whole world could enjoy its half baked goofiness,0
this is one of those film s pilot that if you knew battlestar galactica it helps but isn t necessary what makes this even more believable of a story than bsg is that this isn t something so far away in the future this has such a depth to it that it is quite astonishing it was not released theatrically the leads could not have been chosen better in such experienced quite talented actors eric stoltz is superb as the father who will do anything to be re united w his daughter however real or not she is he ll do it no matter the cost paula malcomson of deadwood fame is terrific as his wife as well you are not sure completely of his motives whether it s love or money or both but that is what makes this pilot even more intriguing i see a star in the making of zoe played by the relative unknown alessandra torresani her performance esai morales is terrific in his desire to see his loved one again just how wrong to be even considering what he wants more than his moral objections i didn t think this would be a good idea when it was announced but from the pilot alone i am thrilled to see how we got to the bsg stage story it s great to see adama as a child already being affected influenced by the different sorts of robots starting to permeate life at this stage i just hope that they can keep up the stories so we can figure out even more how they got the the humanoid typed robots this is an almost perfect pilot i hope they can keep up the fantastic storytelling even the visual effects are better than most of the garbage you see on the big screen if you haven t gotten into bsg least try this i ll bet you become a fan will want to see how the bsg story came to be,1
this is by far my favorite film of all time that s mainly because it s not afraid to delve into some very politically incorrect topics such as spanking and female submissiveness that other mainstream films are just too timid to touch nothing seems to be off limits in this film as the director freely develops the story without any concern given to possibly offending the viewer however i don t think anything was done here purely for shock value or to purposely offend anyone sean young turns in an excellent and courageous performance most established mainstream actresses would not have taken on this role or would have asked for some major script changes before accepting it the other cast members do a fine job as well have you noticed that this movie hasn t appeared on pay cable since an obligatory brief run a year after it hit the theaters have you ever wondered why the obvious reason is that it just doesn t fit today s political atmosphere it seems quite ironic to me that some premium channels now carry softcore porn that s getting closer and closer to hardcore porn but will not carry a mainstream movie like love crimes sadly even though this movie is only years old it could probably not be made today,1
takashi shimizu had a great opportunity with a remake of his original film ju on the grudge while i haven t seen that film i would have to wager that there s more imagination and originality or some rip off originality in other words skill with known tropes of the japanese ghost movie than in his own directed remake maybe the script was written to somehow have some kind of warped appeal or i would guess accessibility for an american audience what starts off with some potential the hint of something very screwed up going on with bill pullman s sudden movement just goes into a total jumble and as a horror movie gimme a break tension could have been built on the situation a nurse going to take care of a disturbed woman in a house that is haunted but he undercuts everything he wants to get his audience to feel scares how s about some music timed just so you know when exactly to expect something a black cat yeah why not just make the ghost boy thing sound like a cat for creepiness which in effect is only creepy if you want cats plot why not just shuffle between past and present without any semblance of an actual flow of how a story could be told meaning while the flashbacks are inserted and are meant to be organic with the story overall they aren t or for that matter have us care about anyone in the cast by the time the characters or those that are there for exposition get around to telling us what is going on or whatever there s little point to care the film making is shoddy i e the degree rule is broken many times over and not in a forgivable or intriguing way and the performances are wooden even when looking frightened or shocked gellar especially is disappointing but pullman who shows up later after his first scene is sorely miscast even when shimizu tries for some average old boo scares like when the woman is in the office building and chased by the grudge ghost it s still silly just watch when she s going on that elevator and the ghost is in the background of shots either you ll go with it and if so more power to you or you ll laugh hysterically at the results count me in the latter i m not totally sure where this project went wrong was it shimizu having to retool it for the studios or him not giving enough leeway with his revamp of his vision or maybe raimi had some say in it and made things more confusing and or dull than they would be with someone else the grudge gives us a lot of information that doesn t make sense or at the least give us some horror fodder to chew on it s cineplex trash of a sad order,0
i saw this film at the rhode island international film festival and was completely blown away the structure and execution of the film was fantastic i know it won t but it really deserves an oscar nod cal and andre were phenomenal as the two disturbed classmates yes the film is very controversial and i can see a lot of people having a lot of problems with it as it deals with school shooting and especially makes you identify with the killers however despite its harsh and blunt subject matter zero day is so worth watching i m looking forward to it coming out on video so i can buy it it s very very good very powerful and intense the end shooting sequence leaves you speechless because it s almost too realistic their uncertainty the recordings the footage and panic of the students totally indescribable i really hope it gets the attention it deserves it s done in the same format as the blair witch project handheld camera made to appear as a true home video documentary kind of film but god is it infinitely better very impressive hats off to everyone involved if you ve got the chance you really should see it,1
ron howard directed this the cartoon is charming teaching a simple lesson to children using a simple plot in this movie howard gives us a whoville filled with greedy manipulative self centered whos jim carrey is terrible but i m sure it s not his fault i imagine the script called for the nastiest person imaginable so carrey channeled tom green and the result is movie magic much like danny devito s penguin in batman returns carrey s grinch is so thoroughly unlikeable that any degree of comedy that might be mined from his character simply evaporates where the cartoon featured a grinch that we could all identify with carrey s grinch is that angry soulless old man that we ve all seen at one time or another sitting in a parked car muttering to himself or tripping toddlers at the supermarket with his cane this grinch is thoroughly bereft of any degree of humanity humor or insight whatsoever and his redemption at the end of the movie rings false the whole movie rings false there is some stupid christmas lighting competition a failed attempt at explaining why the grinch is such a jerk by digging into his childhood and an indecipherable mystery as to why some of the whos have that weird lip extension and some of them don t contrary to the cartoon i would imagine children would find this movie tiresome irritating and filled with contradictory messages did we really need to see slutty smurf aka christine baranski as martha may whovier in addition ron howard filled the cast with his untalented relatives throw in the requisite butt jokes fart jokes sex jokes and other obligatory carreyesque low brow humor and you have a movie that is about as far from the cartoon or book that inspired it as george w bush is from rational lucid thought thumbs down on this big fat turkey,0
pet sematary is a very good horror film and believe it or not somebody can make a good horror film out of a stephen king novel mary lambert does a great job with this film and manages to bring across king s creepy story pretty well most people may avoid this but they should check it out,1
i did watch all of the film through to the disgraceful ending even though i felt so angry at what i saw i felt that the director was screaming for attention and the only way he could achieve this was to be as repulsive as possible since i have lived in the uk i have come to love this country but this film depicts british young people in the worst way imaginable there is nothing to be said but avoid it it will make you angry and sick the people involved should be ashamed,0
i love this movie very much i watched it over and over i don t see why anyone would think this movie wasn t good maybe you have seen better or whatever it is i personally love it it is one of my favorite movies and i am not hindi at all but i do love it it might be a little like pretty woman but i haven t seen that and i don t think it s any better than this i don t know why you are all trashing about it but maybe you have a good reason but i think i have said it enough but i absolutely love this movie and to those who say it s not good at all well then i wonder why you watched it and what movies you consider good as for everyone else that i watched it with they enjoyed it too so it surprises me that this many people don t like it as for rani mukherjee i think thats how you spell her last name she is very beautiful and my favorite actress ever,1
the opening minutes gave me hope then meyers proved he only had one good idea for the rest of the movie absolute lowest common denominator humor painful viewing a complete chore written no doubt in less than a week just like the first one give meyers the hook and lock him in a cell with adam sandler and will farrell and don t let him out until he s developed a decent script for something anything he has it in him these austin powers things are just embarrassing let goldmember sink without trace,0
hak hap or black mask in english was a disappointment i was told that it was a sort of japanese version of the matrix imagine my disappointment the film was either badly dubbed or the soundtrack didn t time well with the film another thing is that the dialogue was pretty much bad there was very little thought put into the english version of this film and it appeals only to the senseless action genre not a film i would want to see again,0
following a sitcom plot is so mindlessly easy that having her character simultaneously operate both within and without the context the rest of the cast inhabit is the kind of experimentalism that sitcoms could really use the supporting characters ground the show in a sitcom reality which provides a contextual counterpoint to sarah s erratic persona which beyond general insensitivity has no specific recurring traits for behavioural expectations to be based on making her less a character than a canvas to be repainted in every episode if not scene sarah s ability to see everything from an outside perspective enables her to parody aspects of social behaviour that are subtle enough to usually go unnoticed every time she speaks it s like a self contained second skit she overemotes a lot demonstrating the countless things a smile or change in vocal pitch can signify but never sticks with one idea long enough for you to get comfortable and form expectations that will be satisfied this may be the most creative original and experimental tv program ever,1
barman directed any way the wind blows as he would sing a deus song anarchy rules over a logical and common strain of thoughts the story behind this movie just goes any which way the wind blows and that can truly be refreshing to watch if you are prepared and willing that is viewers who state that there is nothing to keep the story lines together are right who the hell is that windman anyway still i really enjoyed this movie antwerp is a beautiful bustling happening place and any way captures that feeling it also captures the silliness the racism the bureaucracy the addictions and the violence that survives undetected in a seemingly friendly city the movie is entertaining funny and a little shallow barman s screen debut will not make as heavy an impact as his music debut in that light some might be disappointed but then again worst case scenario would be a subtle subtitle for any way the wind blows,1
another norman lear hit detailing the problems that african americans had to go through in the turbulent s and s with esther rolle and husband along with children living in a chicago high rise project in a predominantly black neighborhood the show depicted what black people were going through with a landlord black agent mr bookman as well as prices and the day to day problems of just existing the children depicted how people seem to face their problems differently from the comical jj to the militant ralph carter to their daughter who also aspired to attain success this show was a perfect description of african american life,1
if i could give it a zero i d change my mind and give it a instead absolutely horrible movie with no movie plot doesn t make sense of what is happening just plain boring please don t waste your money on this one pleaseee this movie could have done so well if it truly depicted the real zodiac killer s story but nopes i didn t feel anything but disgust while watching it do yourself a favor and rent some classic movies instead its better to watch a movie you ve already seen like times than watch this crap i don t understand why people even bother to make such movies when they know its not going to do well zodiac killer should be called boriac killer instead,0
very light spoilers maybe normally a fan of diane keaton i tried to watch this tonight i had to switch it off before the second hour because i found myself with absolutely no sympathy for daughter or mother both came across as self absorbed with little regard for others with the daughter also adding in rude disrespectful and reckless to the mix when the daughter died the only thing i thought was at least we won t have to watch her anymore keaton did a good job of moving into her stunned state and into the grieving but it was too far gone for me by then i simply wasn t enjoying it so i stopped watching if you want me to care for the protagonist you need to get me caring about the characters much sooner if it s nearly an hour in and i don t care it s too late the supporting cast was sincere and well played i felt for them and the gay best friend was wonderful but even combined that wasn t enough to carry the film for me,0
when you are in a gloomy or depressed mood go watch this film it shows a lot of beauty and joy in a very simple everyday setting and it is very encouraging in particular from a feminist and a humanist perspective when you know both the turkish language and either the danish or the german language go watch the film in any case half of the dialog is danish in the original synchronized to german in the translated version the other half turkish subtitled in danish or german respectively when i watched it in mannheim germany the reaction of the turkish speaking audience proved that there must be a lot of humor in the turkish dialog which deplorably mostly escaped me being only imperfectly rendered in the subtitles still the film is interesting even if you lack knowledge of the turkish esthetically the movie is playing a lot on the theme of speed and slowness on first sight there is lots of corporeal movement fast as lightning making it a quick an agitated film in particular even though this is a kung fu movie watch out for the running scenes beautifully expressing a wealth of emotions but there are quite a few very slow emotionally intense scenes too and above all the characters develop at a much slower pace than you would expect in a drama about the coming of age still there is some movement in the characters to closely watch the villain omar whose part and acting i liked very much the contrast of speed and stillness nicely contributes to the depiction of human rage and dignity shown at once in the same characters at the same time,1
infamous pre code film really the one film that caused people to insist on the hayes code being strictly enforced barbara stanwyck stars as a young girl whose liquor selling father has no problem pimping her out to customers when he dies in an accident she s released out into the world with the knowledge that her nubile body can get her whatever she wants she goes to new york and proceeds to climb the corporate ladder one bed at a time although obviously there s no actual sex shown the film is quite sleazy unfortunately after the initial shock value fades around the time stanwyck screws a rail car inspector so she can travel for free the film becomes a tad repetitive and dull stanwyck herself is the only thing that keeps the film worth sitting through as always she s fantastic,1
i saw the movie and really could not stop my tears its tragedy that india has no such leaders after freedom who dare to do justice with their own children when they don t behave properly in current generation politicians bring their children s into politics without measuring their caliber and skills i remember the dialogue from gandhi what kind of society we want to create make with such people about harilal no wonder that it will be a dream that india will hardly have such leader in this or next generation einstein was right when he said about gandhi that after years one would hardly believe that such person with body soul and mind mahatma gandhi had ever lived on this earth i sincerely want to thanks a lot to anil kapoor feroze khan and all film actors actresses for this wonderful movie about great person and relationship with his son all father and son should watch this movie once and take some lessons for both roles,1
this is certainly one of the most bizarre films ever made even for fellini about the only one more bizarre is his satyricon this is a two and a half hour romp through a strange nightmarish world of decadence opulence and sexual challenge sutherland makes a curiously unappealing casanova and the odd goings on in a series of unrelated vignettes taken from the great lover s autobiography fail to engage the viewer the art direction and costume design are however outstanding the academy missed on not even nominating the former but did itself justice by rewarding an oscar for the latter also nominated oddly was the disjointed pointless and almost inacessible screenplay go figure the film on video is only minutes minutes short of the original running time this viewer was grateful,0
the second of the why we fight series concentrates on hitler s grab of the sudetanland and beyond as he makes a chump out of neville chamberlain and embarks on his conquest of europe clearly meant as propaganda in its day this series over the test of time has become an informative documentary as well with most of the allied bias turning out to be historical fact the fuhrer hoists himself on his own petard with smug pronouncements before his people and the world as he says one thing and does another as his army moves east the czechs and austrians quickly capitulate but the poles put up an heroic struggle against overwhelming odds the disparity between hitler s military might and chamberlain waving the munich treaty like a white flag declaring peace in our time to this day has durable propaganda qualities here in its original context it resonates even more powerfully as the darkness of world war ll sets in on europe leaving the american viewer with two options freedom or slavery in there was no evading this simple truth and the nazis strike makes its point effectively,1
i understand wanting to make a movie that is edgy and different i understand the previous reviewer comments that this is a miss understood movie my point is as soon as this movie ended my first comment was this is what happens when a rich princess wants to be a movie star and has no talent she uses daddy s money to make a movie she wrote directs and pays for obviously to close to the movie to realize there was no character development and no directions such as a beginning middle and ending the voyeur part was good and edgy but what was the point i saw a women go to a house find some pictures screw the caretaker come out side on a very cold night not believable to check on noise and runs over her caretaker lover movie ends some one educate my ignorant arss i really want to know what the point is what was the directors vision why no development of the dead lover why no background on the caretaker what is the point of the night vision what is the point of the lipstick on the car why a dead caretaker why tell us about an escaped mental patient peeping tom what s with the urn oh and the lamp is that suppose to signify whose house this is territorial why why would the caretaker feel like it s his house that aspect was never pursued as for william defoe i rented this movie because he was in it and known for edgy characters write back and do tell me what i need to learn i am just a mom in middle america who loves movies chris,0
many of these other viewers complain that the story line has already been attempted that may be so but the addition of the narrator and dr suess like scenery makes this show a must watch with adult innuendo throughout the series and a touch of childhood through the set the show is both reminiscent and invigorating the investigative portion of the show is not what drags viewers in the twisted plot and love lines scattered throughout this seeming paradise are what keep loyal viewers coming back for more this is a success that abc should never let go of bravo abc lost was getting old way to revitalize prime time episodes prior to the writers strike left audiences wanting more,1
this movie pleasantly surprised me it has a touching slightly off center approach that never loses your attention this is a movie i never heard about but if you want a sleeper this is it great writing production and acting i highly recommend it for audiences who want something thoughtful nick nolte sheryl lee and alan arkin are marvelous why wasn t more made of this movie,1
the world of the sci fi drama soylent green is what we could be seeing if we aren t careful it is a world in which new york city s population has topped the million mark in the year overpopulation air pollution year long heat waves and food shortages are the rule the only hope comes from a food product called soylent green but what is this particular food stuff really made of that question is at the heart of this admittedly somewhat dated but still intriguing film based on harry harrison s novel make room make room charlton heston stars as thorne an nypd detective who comes across the murder of a top corporate executive joseph cotten as it turns out cotten was on the board of directors of the soylent corporation the people responsible for all those food stuffs that the people have to consume in lieu of the real thing heston believes that this wasn t just a garden variety murder that cotten was bumped off for a reason he gets a lot of help from his slightly cantankerous but very astute book edward g robinson in his st and final cinematic appearance and a few timely reminders of what the world used to be like what robinson finds out about soylent green shocks him beyond all imagination but before he can tell heston all of what he knows he has himself euthanized and when heston does indeed find out the secret of soylent green well that part has become immortalized into cinematic history under the very professional guiding hand of director richard fleischer the boston strangler fantastic voyage soylent green is a fairly grim but thought provoking look at a dystopian future that humanity might be living if we don t curb our tendency to strip our planet of its natural resources indeed this was a project that heston himself had had in mind for filming as far back as after he had struck gold in the sci fi genre with planet of the apes a fact that probably gets lost whenever his ultra conservative political philosophy comes up in conversation after all soylent green is hardly a tract for unrestrained capitalism robinson as always is the consummate professional in his last role the sequence where he is euthanized as he looks at video of the world from a better era set to the music of tchaikovsky beethoven and grieg is quite simply heartbreaking the film also benefits from solid supporting help from chuck connors as a very convincing heavy brock peters as heston s superior and leigh taylor young as the woman who tries to help heston in his inquiries it must seem easy these days to dismiss soylent green for being dated but those who do it ought to think twice for this film s world may end up becoming ours in actuality if we don t watch what we do with what we have today,1
this show was absolutely great and i always look forward to watching it all the characters were funny and awesome in their own way each and every episode provided non stop laughter and it was completely entertaining and different from a lot of other shows everybody was just absolutely insane and breathtakingly funny that you couldn t help but love this show there were a few dead weight episodes but that s show always managed to create some kind of likable atmosphere to where it just really didn t matter this was one of the best shows to ever be aired and i will watch this show anytime i can for it never gets old never gets unfunny and never gets uninteresting,1
its a shame she didn t get screen credit she by far did the best job in the film has the girl on the cross best part of the movie she had much more impact than avril or just about anyone else in the film she almost made s m look like fun she really was believable has the s m model that gets scared of her situation although they seem to really have messed up that sort of dreamy feeling of looking for the bad guy those sets were very well built but they just sort of skimmed the surface of what was shot this is one film were both cuts should be made available it seems they left out a lot of what was shot and almost all of the really dark stuff that would have made the film much more demented its kind of like they stopped short of the mark they were going for during filming what was shot would not have gotten a r rating probably a nc or x but that is what it would have needed to make the film they way it should have been,1
when i was young i had seen very few movies my parents in all their wisdom rented this one i was very wary of what the movie was about in fact i wasn t even allowed to watch it my brother and sister got to of course and this made me very angry so what did i do late at night i trashed the vcr kicked the screen of the tv in and called the police and reported vandals i was arrested of course i was unable to get my foot out of the tv set before the police arrived i was only given a stern talking to and sent home my parents grounded me of course and made me work to repay the debt for the tv and vcr this tore me apart slave labour really sucks believe me but i had to do it chores all around the house what happened in the end we got a big screen tv dvd player and a surround sound system for my work how did i get the money easy i made movies of my own and sold them to disney do you remember finding neno well i wrote that movie and filmed my goldfish in their fish tanks they rewrote the plot of course and did it in cgi because they couldn t afford to make it a real life action picture like i had done in the end i never saw the film the head that didn t die and the rating i gave it is my life rating it s doing pretty good,1
difficult to call the grudge a horror movie at best it made me slightly jump from surprise at a couple of moments if one forgets the failed frightening dimension and looks at other sides of the movie he is again disappointed the acting is ok but not great the story can be somewhat interesting at the beginning while one is trying to get what s happening but toward the end one understands there is not much to understand scary elements seems sometimes to have been added to the script without reason so yawn see this movie it if you have nothing more interesting to do like cutting the carrots or looking at the clouds,0
this film captured my heart from the very beginning when hearing quincy jones first notes or seeing the wonderful color of purple of the flowers in the meadows this is truly a film to cry and die for the whole cast gives the best performance in a film i ve seen in years and spielberg has really outdone himself whoppi goldberg margaret avery oprah winfrey oh lord danny glover and the others all give us their best and you can feel it almost touch it goldberg is celie she gives her that insecurity and feeling of inferiority that is needed for the character and we grow with her we grow strong together with her throughout the movie and we triumph with her margaret avery is wonderful as shug avery even when she s at her most arrogant and shows us that sinners indeed have souls too the always sympathetic charming danny glover makes a marvellous job at making people hate him and the magnificent music of i d say sir quincy jones adds even more beauty to this splendid film the photography the music the director and the music makes this beautiful soulful movie into an experience of life you don t want to miss it sista remember my name,1
eddie murphy really made me laugh my ass off on this hbo stand up comedy show i love his impressions of mr t ed norton and ralph cramden of the honeymooners elvis presley and michael jackson too the ice cream man goony goo goo is also funny i saw this for the first time when it came out in i laughed so hard i almost fell off my chair i still think this is very funny eddie murphy when he was on saturday night live made me laugh so hard he is one of the best people to come out of saturday night live eddie murphy delirious is his best stand up performance next to eddie murphy raw i give eddie murphy delirious thumbs up and stars,1
not a bad word to say about this film really i wasn t initially impressed by it but it grew on me quickly i like it a lot and i think its a shame that many people can t see past the fact that it was banned in some territories mine being one of them the film delivers in the shock gore and atmosphere department the score is a beautiful piece of suspense delivering apparatus it only seems fair that chris young went on to be one of the best composers in the business the acting in this film is of a somewhat high standard if a little wooden in some spots and the effects are very real and gritty all of this is high praise for a good slasher film in my book i ve noted in some reviews that the film has gotten serious flack having the famous killer s p o v shot and i ask what s wrong with that it is a classic shot that evokes dread into any good fan of the genre and is a great to keep the killer s identity a secret the only thing that stops this film getting top marks in my book is that the surprise twist killer revealed is not handled with more care i mean it just happens kind of quickly though the great performances make it just about credible aside from that pranks is a great movie though i prefer the original title and its a shame that so many people knock it off as just a cheap piece of crap its more than that but only few know that as it seems to have gotten lost in the haze of early s slasher what a shame its a really good movie people believe me,1
after the initial shock of realizing the guts of mr branagh to film this i was literally shaking with the excitement of having this epic just ahead of me i was not disappointed so true to shakespeare and yet so accessible it blew my mind i always enjoy seeing or rather listening to branagh and it made me wonder is this movie dubbed in other countries that would be like painting a moustache on the mona lisa,1
for anyone who has seen and fallen in love with the stage musical a chorus line the movie is a shoddy substitute not only are songs cut but unnecessary plot twists added new dance sequences choreographed and let s face it richard attenborough just doesn t know how to film dancers onstage michael bennett s a chorus line was just that michael bennett his idea his choreography his direction his gift to broadway and the rest of the world it was two hours of hard hitting in your face realism that really made you feel for these boys and girls the movie however lacks empathy and depth the actors look like they are auditioning for a chorus line rather than actually auditioning every move every line of dialogue seems so weighted and planned michael douglas especially as zach is too in control for us to believe that he is this extraordinarily bitchy choreographer even when he throws his temper tantrums you never quite believe him because every gesture every accented word every nuance is so obviously rehearsed and as for him not dancing kevin kline auditioned for the role of zach on broadway michael bennett loved his reading but kline couldn t dance and ultimately lost the part how i wish they had done the same for douglas a chorus line is supposed to be a show about nobodies and aside from a few recognizable faces vicki frederick who played cassie on broadway as sheila and khandi alexander of tv s newsradio as one of the many auditioning dancers you re not supposed to know any of these people because you do know these people having a star in any of the roles is a terrible decision when you focus on michael douglas and his ranting instead of on the girls and boys on the line and their stories you lose something it is truly unfortunate that the best sequence in the show montage hello twelve hello thirteen hello love is cut drastically to make way for a terrible new song entitled surprise surprise that surprisingly received a nomination at the oscars cassie s mirror dance has a new song and tragically boring choreography one wonders why they bothered to shoot a movie version at all if they were going to mess with a working formula this much for fans of musical theatre and those who enjoyed the stage version this movie is a sad mockery of everything they cherished and loved for those who never got to see the original production either on broadway or on tour this movie is the only reference they will have to go by and they ll have to wonder just how it got to be the longest running musical in broadway history until a little show called cats overtook it in the late s but that is a different story and don t even get me started there,0
this guy has no idea of cinema okay it seems he made a few interestig theater shows in his youth and about two acceptable movies that had success more of political reasons cause they tricked the communist censorship this all is very good but look carefully he does not know his job the scenes are unbalanced without proper start and and with a disordered content and full of emptiness he has nothing to say about the subject so he over licitates with violence nakedness and gutter language how is it possible to keep alive such a rotten corpse who never understood anything of cinematographic profession and art why don t they let him succumb in piece,0
i was really looking forward to seeing this film but after watching it i was really disappointed the best bit was when stephen king was in it rober john berk cannot act to save his life and neither can any of the others a few of the performances even made me laugh out loud the film was was not as i imagined it after reading the book which was awesome i imagined it darker and a lot scarier if i was stephen i would be really mad i don t know why they changed the ending i thought the ending of the book was very good if you just found out the pie killed your daughter you wouldn t feed it to anyone else would you book was so much better,0
enjoyable in spite of leslie howard s performance mr howard plays philip as a flat uninteresting character one is supposed to feel sorry for this man however i find myself cheering bette davis mildred ms davis gives one her finest performances she received an academy award nomination thanks to her performance she brings this rather dull movie to life be sure not to miss when mildred tells philip exactly how she feels about him,1
this movie wants to elaborate that criminals are a product of modern society therefore can thieves rapists and murderers the killer of this movie carl panzram james woods is all three and worse be held fully accountable for their deeds an interesting notion but very difficult to bring to the screen in an intellectually and emotionally satisfying way and this is where killer a journal of murder falls very short although the film tries to put panzram s behaviour into perspective with flashbacks to his violent youth and dysfunctional upbringing the viewer never gets the idea that panzram is a victim rather than a culprit sure the system is corrupt with one mobster occupying the whole sick bay of leavenworth prison where most of the movie takes place most prison guards are sadistic bullies and the prison director something like a megalomaniacal despot but why on earth does new prison guard henry lesser robert sean leonard take such pity on panzram even after having read his gruesome diaries the movie offers some explanation lesser witnesses panzram being beaten to a pulp by the most sadistic and stereotypical guard and is impressed by panzram s intelligence though it isn t clear why exactly lesser thinks this man is so smart surely this isn t enough to sympathize with a hostile man like panzram even though this movie tends to downplay his crimes and highlight his personality towards lesser panzram is quite loyal and the viewer is given the impression that for lesser this outweighs all of the atrocities he has read about in panzram s diaries does this man lesser have so little friends that he takes at face value everyone who seems only remotely friendly to him perhaps it is lesser who is a product of modern society judging on appearance rather than substance i can advise monster starring charlize theron and christina ricci as a movie which handles roughly the same themes with far more integrity and scope btw killer looks as though shot for tv not so good,0
carlito way the original is a brilliant story about an ex drug dealer who hopes to leave his criminal past and so he invests in a club and the deals with the trouble that comes with it this film was i saw the trailer and knew instantly it was going to be bad but after dismissing films in the past and finding out they were great lucky number slevin tokyo drift i gave this a shot and it failed within the first five minutes the script is something a teenager would come up with if given five minutes to prepare it was weak with weaker dialogue it seems there is an instant need for romance in a gangster movie so brigante decides to beat a guy up for the girl and she say s yes and if you need to act bad just throw racism around as we learn from the italian mobsters the acting was terrible to say the least i found hollywood nicky hilarious i absolutely hate all these musicians turning to movies lets face it the only reason p diddy did this movie was so he could play a gangsters the actress who plays leticia was weak but beautiful the sex scene was weak but we got to see her which was okay but overall i expected it shed light on how carito ended up in prison and the love of his life and the assassin towards the end completely added to the horrendous movie that is carlito s way rise to power,0
this movie isn t very good it s boring and not much blood for a horror film the plot just trods along with not much happening and i think the female vampire was so stupid she had many chances to kill the vampire hunters since it shows her having lighting like reflexes but whenever she has one of them pinned she just takes her time and something always happens where she doesn t bite them no wonder this went straight to cable final verdict not anywhere near as good as the first vampire movie you re a sucker if you waste your time on this,0
i watched this movie because i like nicolas cage and well i found it strange and completely pointless so i decided to poke around a little bit and got my hands on the s copy of it wow what a difference the original one was way better i d like you all to know it did originally actually make a statement it s existence did have a purpose it was really the christian public expressing their fear of paganism if you dig deeper into it it also makes comments on life but i don t want to go into details just simply put if you were disappointed and you d like to know what it should look like feel free to watch the s version a little dated but a lot better,0
i was extremely suspicious of the ideas presented in this movie but being relatively ignorant of quantum physics aside from what i recalled from the excellent short history of nearly everything and what i was able to choke down in a brief history of time it sounded interesting at times however the obvious nonsense of the story of the indians being unable to see the ships of the explorers was ridiculous i really started questioning what was being shoveler at that point but then the clincher was the revelation that one of the speakers was actually channelling some loony named ramtha completely upset the applecart for me what a waste of two hours,0
this for lack of a better term movie is lousy where do i start cinemaphotography this was perhaps the worst i ve seen this year it looked like the camera was being tossed from camera man to camera man maybe they only had one camera it gives you the sensation of being a volleyball there are a bunch of scenes haphazardly thrown in with no continuity at all when they did the split screen it was absurd everything was squished flat it looked ridiculous the color tones were way off these people need to learn how to balance a camera this movie is poorly made and poorly done the plot you got to be kidding if i was an ss agent i d sue the producers looked like the marks brothers with radios and guns sutherland was in his mode i can see this for free eva longoria would have been better with a little less on and a lot more showing as an action bimbo she wasn t much i couldn t see a real plot other than douglas boinking the presidents wife never did say why the mercenaries were trying to kill the pres i just don t see the president of the united states running for his life in the utility tunnels of a building like a rat in a maze p l e a s e hollywood is dead this movie is the proof i like the big screen have since i was a kid many more movies like this and i ll quit going whats the matter hollywood made so many chick flicks forget how to make a real movie if i owned a theater i d start running the old movies the one with real actors good story lines and good cinemaphotography this movie is a dog don t waste your time or money on it i rate this movie a zero douglas isn t suited for this role i can over look his age but his just is to much of a wimp to carry this off,0
what a disgrace i was checking this out hoping it would be an undiscovered james garner gem and what a stinker it turned out to be the production quality was fine but the plot was undeniably lame and i can honestly say that i am only a couple hours older and a lot dumber now the movie really had no redeeming qualities and if this kind of stuff keeps coming out it will give hallmark a bad name for those of you who insist on knowing what it was about it s about nothing and in this case it s not a good thing we are subjected to watching one old ornery woman who is one of the dumbest creatures ever to roam the earth who happens to be married to a real sweetheart who is probably the only person alive that could put up with her she drags him through one mess after another gets him into one embarrassing situation after another and is proud of herself the whole time then the movie ends what a relief that was not worth the time it would take to watch it so do yourself a favor and skip this one you ll be glad you did if you knew how bad this one really is,0
this production of oliver is masterful in showing layers of evil in the human soul what makes the story remarkable is a brilliantly bright unseen character who pierces this darkness as he leads an innocent boy through the gravest dangers safely into the hands of his own relative yea though oliver walks through the valley of the shadow of death he fears no evil a rod and staff are there to comfort him in the end he is saved from the dregs of humanity at the bottom is fagin the most wicked of the lot fagin contemplates repenting of his ways not once but twice yet declines because he is unwilling to pay the price fagin is worse than bill sikes because he raises little pickpockets who become murderers in the middle is oliver his innocence is unsullied but untried as well the best is nancy lacking in judgment she ignores bill sikes violent nature out of her deep need for love yet unlike fagin at the probable cost of her own life she does repent of her sins by saving oliver from bill things are not as they seem in my opinion this quality is what makes art worthwhile unpredictability i would give this film a but its s made for tv soundtrack and ambiance were distracting overall a fine parable and a thoroughly appropriate story for all audiences,1
first off i d like to say that if i had to honestly rate this movie from a to a then i d give it a it s not that i m a tough critic it s just that this movie is that bad everything from the story to the directing to the editing is awful the story is not even halfway decent to begin with you can t expect much since it is based on a video game something i was not aware of going into the movie but the directing and editing made it even worse the movie cuts at awkward points and goes to scenes that are completely unrelated to the previous ones some like a quick sex scene in the middle don t even make sense being put into the story seeing as how the characters don t show any feelings toward each other you could go into this movie expecting to see a pile of crap on the screen for an hour and a half and you d still be disappointed honestly if you pay to watch this movie then you are wasting your money and if you don t pay anything then you are still wasting an hour and a half of your life so do yourself a favor and don t watch it,0
i began watching a replay of this tv movie on a sunday afternoon thinking it was just another dumb airplane disaster flick i was wrong pandora s clock is an intelligent political thriller that is far beyond the quality of most tv movies it could just as easily have made its debut on the big screen the cast is excellent including veteran actors richard dean anderson edward herrmann robert guillaume and robert loggia daphne zuniga turns in one of her best performances as a medical specialist working for the cia and frasier s jane leeves is also very good the dialogue is well written and the story is compelling throughout in fact the final hour is so filled with plot twists and suspense that you can t leave your seat for a second if you get a chance to see this movie invest the time nearly four hours you will be richly rewarded,1
huge exhaustive and passionate summary of american cinema as seen through the eyes of martin scorcese needless to say there is never a dull moment in all of its hour running time many genres periods and directors are all examined discussed more from the perspective of cinephile rather than contemporary director for anyone even remotely interested in american films or cinema in general a masterpiece and the best of the bfi s century of cinema series,1
i think that can sum up this show about as well as anything batman tas may be the worst thing to ever happen to cartoons based on comic books because everything that comes after will be compared to it and nothing has measured up yet it s just too damn good was batman beyond good yeah but it was no tas is justice league good it s not too bad but it s no tas the batman is certainly no tas either but i won t hold that against it it would be unfair and besides it has plenty of other problems with it the concept of a younger less experienced batman fighting crime is a fine one and at times the art is very nice but all of the rest of the time the art is worthless americanime and this betrays a lot of the flaws of the show itself it is paced written and designed like an americanime if i wanted to watch jackie chan adventures i d watch jackie chan adventures or i could just bang my head into a wall any time and get the same effect the joker is a homicidal mentally unstable clown in a suit who uses his wits unpredictability and clever gadgets to fight batman when he is forced to fight hand to hand he will either resort to something cheap or be totally outmatched he is not meant to be a monkey with dreadlocks who knows kung fu and can leap into twenty feet into the air accompanied by speed lines if they had wanted to do that with a villain there were other less important characters they could have used or gasp they could have created a new one entirely and it s not that re imaginings are a bad thing don t get me wrong tas there i go again took mr freeze from your standard icegun wielding b villain and made him into a memorable and morally complex character of course freeze wasn t exactly a classic villain at the time and they performed an upgrade but the point stands what the batman does is it takes everything you liked about batman comics and lore and takes a large smelly dump on them guess what they were eating corn it s obvious this show can t stand against tas but stand it on its own legs and it still doesn t work for me the plots aren t good and they don t develop any better they ve been written for the demographic of children under twelve should children be able to enjoy a show of course they should this shouldn t be an adult show with swearing nudity and gratuitous violence but the mark of a truly good show is that it can be enjoyed on different levels by all ages this show misses that mark is this show a tas no of course not the problem is it s not even a jlu,0
i voted for this movie because it looks great as does all of greenaways output however it was his usual mix of art sex and pretentious crap i know lots of people like this film but i grew tired of it very quickly it is definitely not for everyone the ubiquitous mcgregor obviously took the part for crediblity s sake i guess but he really should not have wasted his time i hate to consign anyone to pseud s corner but please on the plus side it is visually very attractive and i enjoyed the music but could not see it through to the end and i cannot say that for many movies i usually watch the whole thing but this is unbearable,0
the film looks super on paper a romantic comedy in which a frantic lover gets dragged into a smuggling thriller should be generic cross breeding gold especially with this excellent romcomic cast i m afraid lawrence kasdan simply gives his two stars too much rope though and they duly go and hang themselves adam brooks script may well be to blame but you d expect better from the kevin kline of a fish called wanda instead the two ping pong off one another and the unlikely burgeoning romance is never reconciled satisfactorily with the reason either of them are in and dashing around france jean reno co stars amiably as the cop with a heart and i guess wishes he was a star with a part mind you he went on to do those pink panther remake s so perhaps he was ok with this,0
this is going to be the most useless comment i have ever put down but yet i must do it to warn you about the atrocity to cinema that freddy s dead is it is not only the very worst chapter of the nightmare series but is right up there with the worst horror sequel of all time it was boring pointless and nearly death free the horrible d ending and over the top corny kills are enough to drive this film into the ground however it doesn t stop there just add bad acting a terrible script and a number of cheesy cameos and you ve got yourself this heaping pile of guano it s no wonder why freddy as always played by robert englund has made two postmortem appearances i would too if i went out like that this is a strictly fans only movie don t stare at our shame,0
as a long time fan of all the star trek series i found this a disappointing episode and i wonder if the liberal use of flashbacks featuring will riker s exploits both positive and largely romantic and negative lots of pain and a crewmate s death was a money saving device as were many of their bottle shows episodes in which all scenes take place on the enterprise diana muldaur who also appeared at least twice on the original series deserved a better final appearance than this for her character dr kate pulaski loyal viewers in the star trek world is there any other kind also were shortchanged this was the last episode of second season thus the season ended not with a bang but with a whimper,0
while some performances were good victoria rowell adrienne barbeau and the two italian girlfriends come to mind the story was lame and derivative the emphasis on the girlfriend s racial background was handled clumsily at best and the relatives were mostly portrayed as stereotypes not as real people i found myself wincing uncomfortably at many moments that were supposed to be funny i can hardly comprehend why the local paper here in sf said this was a good movie and wonder who posted the glowing review here on imdb very disappointed in this movie and mad i actually went to a theatre to see it based on the faulty connection to garden state which is a far funnier more inventive and touching movie than this one i must especially mention the emotional climax in the church which was so wooden and by the numbers that i nearly left and some in the audience actually did that was followed by a silly climax at the graveyard which i saw coming minutes before it happened i really don t like being misled to spend my money so uselessly,0
i searched for this movie for years apparently it ain t available here in the states so bought me a copy off ebay four young hunters and three of their girlfriends venture into the woods searching for a bear that apparently has killed several campers what they find is an ex vietnam vet gone crazy he kills some of his victims using a glove with long metal finger nails a la freddy krueger as soon as the night falls one of the girls goes for a walk after a brief argument with her boyfriend she gets killed after one of the group finds her body they all hide in their tents waiting for daylight once the sun comes up all of them try and make it out but fall victim one by one seven bodies not a lot of gore but a couple of good murders especially the girls deaths the guys get killed in somewhat bloodless ways blown up in car shot to death knife through head overall infernal trap is a nice slasher film from the late s nothing new just well acted fast paced and some pretty ladies out of,1
warner bros made many potboilers in the s and most of them are fast paced economical and very entertaining i really love how the studio exploited the less glamorous elements of our daily life this is one of warner s few hard edged melodramas that simply doesn t work edward g robinson plays a ruthless editor of newspaper who resurrects the year old story of a murderess with tragic consequences robinson gives a lively performance but he is surrounded by actors that don t cut the mustard h b warner aline macmahon and boris karloff are good but the bad acting of frances starr and anthony bushell in the second leads really hurts the movie starr is particularly bad during her big dramatic scene near the end of the movie in addition the moralistic tone of the film seems ridiculous in the context of pre code hollywood leroy s direction is full of innovative visual touches but he cannot overcome the bad acting and the unintentionally funny situations sol polito s camera work is strong somehow this piece of dreck got an oscar nomination for best picture in a year that gave us m dracula and frankenstein,0
these reviews that claim this movie is so bad its good are going way overboard with that one this movie does not have the guilty pleasure badness that leonard part battlefield earth and gigli had those movies were entertaining in their awfulness but this pile of dinosaur dung is so bad its painful i haven t been in this much pain watching a bad movie since i watched baby geniuses and superbabies before i start the review let me tell you the story theodore rex is a million dollar bust the new line cinema refused to put in theaters they cut the losses sending it straight to video making it the most expensive straight to video movie in decades whoopi caved in to be in this disaster after a huge paycheck plot a millionaire clones dinosaurs so he can launch missiles at the sun which would kill mankind and start another ice age a female cop named katie coltrane and an idiotic dinosaur named theodore rex reluctantly team up to stop him after the death of a buddy dinosaur the plot is given to you in the beginning of the movie which robs the movie of all its mystery then you have to deal with the fact that this movie is actually quite awful whoopi looks agitated and is trying to wing it with her performance but to no avail theodore rex is flat out annoying and his bumbling behavior wears thin after five minutes on screen most of the jokes revolve around him threatening to bite people and hitting people with his tail on accident and on purpose i thought burglar was bad but it takes a backseat to theodore rex the worst movie of whoopi s career don t let anybody tell you this monstrosity is bad enough to be enjoyable i didn t see that when i watched this movie all i saw was a train wreck that was written by people that must have had some sick admiration for movie howard the duck the humor is on that level and theodore rex looks like the inbred cousin of barney utterly painful from start to finish,0
as the maker of this darkness i admit we neglected very important acknowledgments in our end credits the omissions were over sights that could not be corrected once committed nor did the parties involved who saw the movie mention it at the time on behalf of the excellent cast and crew of the film i extend them an apology obviously some criticisms posted here are harsh in light of their credit being accidentally our production values were negligible and our special effects were quite special indeed but the plot is very strong and the cinematography by john mcleod is superb we hope you the reader enjoy this darkness and the efforts of those who worked their butts off for free thank you dylan o leary director,1
nightmare weekend is proof positive that some people are so desperate to be in the movies they are prepared to do almost anything i m not referring to the countless women who seem quite happy to appear completely starkers in this dreadful piece of trash after all the naked female form is a beautiful thing and nothing to be ashamed of no i m talking about those who are more than willing to co star with a badly made hand puppet called george now that is embarrassing a bio electronic being created by brilliant scientist edward brake wellington meffert george who looks like a demented felt clown with green wool for hair is the artificially intelligent interface for an advanced computer system that operates a revolutionary device a silver sphere about the size of a golf ball that when ingested can reverse character disorders edward s personality altering experiments have been successful on lab animals but the cautious scientist is reluctant to carry out tests on human subjects fearing that there may still be side effects his evil assistant julie debbie laster however has no such qualms and proceeds to use three beautiful young women as guinea pigs inevitably they all turn into hideous killer mutants with bargain basement special effects a cast totally devoid of talent and a plot that is almost impossible to follow i took notes as i watched the film and even then i am not entirely convinced that my synopsis is accurate nightmare weekend is a complete and utter disaster that not even several soft core sex scenes and a touch of gore can rescue this film also features one of the most irritating characters i have ever seen in a horror movie tony bruce morton a walkman wearing idiot who bops away to crap s music in a manner that makes me look like justin timberlake in comparison,0
i always felt that a good film should have a plot this particular film was missing one and i feel that it would have been more effective with a plot this was made even worse by the fact that it seemed to go on forever i was anxious for it to finally end however i just noticed that it was only minutes long it felt like four hours not only was there no plot but the film also lacked a notable conflict it s not the worst movie i ve seen but i used to say that it was until i saw the fast and the furious so don t think this review of mine is from someone who needs nothing but action i actually hate most action films out today it s just that this film is all the way on the other side of the spectrum not much really happens in this movie however the scenery and costumes were nice,0
as an native of bolton this film has obvious appeal for me the location shots are fascinating and show a bolton very much in transition there are a number of scenes of apparent dereliction but this serves to show the town being rebuilt and the idea that the old must make way for the new is right at the heart of this film a slightly miscast james mason leads an enjoyable ensemble in a story about a fuss over a herring that spirals into a full blown generational conflict then a pleasingly schmaltzy resolution though i m a bit too young to remember it fully the minutiae of lancashire life in the s is all here cashing up on a friday songs round the piano the sunday constitutional good neighbourliness the trepidations of courtship the massive importance of self respect and i was pleased to see naughton s funniest lines from the play left intact there is no doubt that this film ought to be made available on dvd it is well crafted and most performances are well realised,1
my wife and i both thought this film a watered down made for tv bbc version of manhattan murder mystery which is itself good but not great the story has little inter character tension or chemistry and not much of a plot woody allen s character just sort of wanders around running off at the mouth and hugh jackman and scarlett johannsson don t have a lot more to do it s pretty disappointing i must say ian mcshane s role is just an expanded cameo appearance the first thing that occurred to me was i wonder how much the bbc had to pay woody allen to dislodge him from manhatttan he must ve needed the money and they must have needed his appeal to expand their audience beyond the youth market drawn to the two stars i m giving this movie stars instead of because it is unbothersome background noise if you ever want something to have on while you re knitting or sorting your stamp collection this ll do the job i wouldn t pay to rent it again,0
this has just been broadcast on bbc and i am absolutely delighted to have seen it as the credits rolled the cast alone made certain that i would give it a go after just five minutes i was completely immersed in this beautiful film yes it was formulaic and predictable but that somehow added to it s charm the flashbacks to the forties were wonderfully placed and captured a feeling equalled in few productions a real feel good film punctuated throughout with outstanding music when it s released i ll buy it,1
this movie let me down decidedly hard it was a great concept that was ruined with a horrible script the story just didn t flow and was disjointed at best there were so many elements to this story that were not explained or were forced into place with out any real thought elements like the love story could have been expanded on a bit more and the cannons need to be written in better the whole main character growing up thing needed more about the training he was receiving and less standing around everyone likes a good little guy overcomes story and this showed promise but with the scripting failures wasn t to be while it did have some pyrotechnics in the final battle sequence it was lackluster due to a lack of choreography this made for a maddeningly boring watch it could have been so good,0
words can t simply describe how awful this film is i watched it on video last night and i simply could not believe what i was seeing basically snakeeater is about an ex military man lorenzo lamas and his search for his kidnapped sister who has been held captive by deliverance style rednecks the film s acting writing direction photography and editing are deplorable along with a song called soldier that has to be one of the worst theme songs of all time however there is one treat horshack ron pallio from welcome back carter is in the film playing a laughable bad guy otherwise please avoid this mess at all costs,0
i am currently on vacation in israel for summer and so was able to see this incredible film a bit of a warning before i begin writing i speak fluent hebrew and so the hebrew parts were no problem however about a quarter a bit less of the film is in arabic and i was unable to understand a bit of this subtitled bit this did not detract from my understanding of the film but did cause me to miss a few jokes which evoked some strong laughs in the theater after a year of american cinema which many hailed as one of the greatest years for homosexual cinema and relationships it takes something truly special to stand head and shoulders above the rest yet the bubble surpasses all others with its blend of excellent acting witty dialogue and relevant political climate the film opens on a checkpoint on the israeli palestinian border for the first few moments we are unsure about the type of movie we have walked in on yet this is an important element of this film s strength the political situation and the extreme tension in the air is constantly in the background most importantly tel aviv serves as a character of its own in this film it is constantly referenced street names and restaurant names are constantly exchanged the skyline and city development is critiqued quite harshly and ultimately the city evolves along with the film the film focuses on the love between noam ohad knoller and a palestinian immigrant ashraf yousef joe sweid with the societies of tel aviv and palestine serving as a constant foil we always know that their relationship is forbidden and this creates a sense of urgency rarely present in cinema the love is incredibly strong and stands as the centerpiece of the film the secondary relationships and friendships are equally strong flamboyant restaurant owner yelli s yousef joe sweid relationship with the ultra butch and grating golani solider golan zohar liba is particularly a source of amusement the love scenes which abound in this film are all exquisite fine crafted works of art and the cinematography is astounding in the first love scene of the film the camera pans down as a male character gives oral sex to lulu daniela virtzer and dissolves into a shot of noam and ashraf this shot any many others lead the viewer to realize that all of these relationships are expressions of the very same form of love to give away more of the storyline would be a tragedy but know that there is a lot of political tension and tragedy which touches onto the current world political climate so i will instead focus on the witty dialogue even when watching this movie in my second language i could not stop laughing throughout lines of particular amusement include the question of whether gay suicide bombers receive virgin women or men in heaven and an analogy of sampson from the bible as the worlds first suicide bomber this dialogue shows a particular sense of purity and reality which is rarely seen in cinema the music used in the film is also particularly powerful music is only used in times when characters legitimately could or should be listening to it and in one scene the music weakens when a character removes one earphone and stops when he removes the other little elements like this truly elevate the film i could not give greater recommendation to a film this is a superb work of cinema which is catharthic as well as extremely well crafted,1
i completely agree with jamrom this was the single most horrible movie i have ever seen holy crap it was terrible i was warned not to see it and foolishly i watched it anyway about minutes into the painful experience i completely gave up on watching the atrocity but sat through until the end just to see if i could well i did and now i wish i had not it was disgusting nothing happened and the ending was all preachy no movie that bad has the right to survive i implore all of you to spare yourself the terror of fatty drives the bus if only i had heeded the same warning please save yourself from this movie i have a feeling those who rated it highly were involved in the making of the movie and should all be wiped off the face of the planet,0
yet another colourful excuse for men in rubber suits to wrestle with each other this time around time travellers from the future arrive in and recruit a few people to go back with them to and prevent the creation of godzilla thus saving a future japan from destruction but having accomplished this task the time travellers are revealed to be a bunch of double crossers whose own creature goes on the rampage and with no godzilla to stop it eek it all sounds very silly and it probably is but the plot is surprisingly decent and the final battle looks pretty good too unfortunately the rest of the visual effects are just rubbish rather than enjoyably rubbish and the movie turns out to be just as dull as its predecessors look out for the shaky spielberg in joke,0
cute idea salesgirl linda smith yolande donlan inherits a teeny tiny little county of lampidorra that country which wasn t even in north america was made the th state of course there were only states at the time since this was made in linda travels to the country she has inherited and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people at one point she sings a song that she claims is from her people the navajo and it gets ever more sillier from there although yolande donlan s heavy lipstick and omni present smile never get ruffled or shmeared there are other songs scattered through out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess filmed in a glorious british version of technicolor or some such equivalent about the only big name here is dirk bogarde as british subject tony craig cheese vendor bogarde made a big splash in the uk film industry after serving in the war and was even knighted by qe ii craig and the new princess keep bumping into each other and their adventures become more intertwined as lampidorra s financial problems worsen fun little farce along the lines of marx brothers film also note that donlan later married val guest the writer and director of our little project and stayed married for years guest was better known for writing and directing his sci fi flicks in both the uk the us,1
if you would like to see a film of different kind if you feel the love in your heart even if you miss the lord this film makes you think although georges is mentally handicapped you can see the ultimate intelligence at the end when love gives you directions not the brain i am not emotional but this film makes you feel the human being the film is as good as forrest gump in my belief the foreign movies are sometimes more interesting yet there is not enough advertisement to make them popular rang e khoda the color of the god by majid majidi is another example of such foreign movies almost with similar taste,1
somewhere on this site someone wrote that to get the best version of the works of jane austen one should simply read them i agree with that however we love adaptations of great literature and the current writers strike brings to mind that without good writers it s hard for actors to bring their roles to life the current version of jane austen s persuasion shows us what happens when you don t have a good foundation in a well written adaptation this version does not compare to the version with amanda root and ciaran hinds which was well acted and kept the essence of the era and the constraints on the characters with the exception of the bizarre parade kissing in the street scene in bath the version shows a twitty anne who seems angst ridden the other characters were not very developed which is a crime considering how austen could paint such wonderful characters with some carefully chosen understatements the sequence of events that made sense in the novel were completely tossed about and mrs smith anne s bedridden and impoverished schoolmate is walking around in bath twittering away as many of the characters seemed to do the strength of character and the intelligence of captain wentworth which caused anne to love him in the first place didn t seem to be written into the rupert penry jones wentworth ciaran hinds had more substance and was able to convey so much more with a look than p j was able to do with his poses all in all the version was a disappointment it seemed to reduce the novel into a hand wringing costumed melodrama of debatable worth if they wanted to bring our modern emotional extravagances into austen s work they should have done what they do with adaptations of shakespeare adapt it to the present at least bride prejudice was taken out of the historical locational settings and was fun to watch as was clueless this wasn t persuasion but they didn t know what else to call it,0
not a film to be taken seriously but a great little film nonetheless it s definitely not just a piece of fluff the acting imo is excellent one of those films you wouldn t go out of your way to see but it brings a smile every time it comes around on cable like an old friend definitely worth seeing if you get the chance,1
in the wake of lock stock and two smoking barrels the british film industry rapidly became swamped with bad gangster films in the late s early s that seem even more desperate today than they did then in one of the all time great cases of pearls from swine the producers of rancid aluminium brazenly plastered the quote the best film of the century from one review all over the ads while omitting the rest of the sentence pointing out that that was only because at the time of writing it was the only film that had been released in looking at it today it s hard to imagine how it ever got made uniting a cast that was briefly considered the cream of cool britannia s lads mags brigade rhys ifans sadie frost nick moran and joseph fiennes but now merely a guarantee of a turkey every time in a confused adaptation of a confused james hawes novel that the plot is never explained could be down to the possibility that no one really knows what it is or perhaps simply don t think it matters something to do with ifans businessman being set up with steven berkoff s homicidal russian crime lord in a money laundering or investment scheme it s never clear which because no one ever asks by fiennes crooked irish accountant who expects the russians to kill off ifans so he can take over his failing company things get increasingly confused and underexplained from there on ifans alternates between shouting about how terrible his life is while juggling visits to the fertility clinic and sleeping with his secretary and tara fitzgerald s ludicrously accented russian temptress berkoff keeps on saying bizniss and francis drake and fiennes does a decent irish accent while proving that just because he played a great writer in shakespeare in love doesn t mean he s any judge of good writing when it comes to film scripts when the most convincing performances come from keith allen and dani behr you know a film is in deep trouble with poland standing in for a russia filled with people with polish accents and a strange score that veers from john barry pastiche to lounge music to ennio morricone spaghetti western on a stylophone budget it fails completely in the cool stakes it s aiming for and ends up in a curious overplotted but almost plot less limbo all its own sitting there like a joke shop dog turd,0
warning contains a spoiler corny plot and in many cases terrible acting fontaine is great but some others particularly richard ney ivy s husband are exceedingly wooden ney lies in bed dying of arsenical poisoning with every hair in place yet the movie is so juicy and so suspenseful more faithful to the book than most movies of its era casting joan fontaine as a poisoner and an adulteress which was just as shocking then i m not kidding kids was a masterful stroke she s just her usual joan fontainey self as murderers were supposed to she dies by falling feet foremost through the floor into an empty space,1
mann photographs the alberta rocky mountains in a superb fashion and jimmy stewart and walter brennan give enjoyable performances as they always seem to do but come on hollywood a mountie telling the people of dawson city yukon to elect themselves a marshal yes a marshal and to enforce the law themselves then gunfighters battling it out on the streets for control of the town nothing even remotely resembling that happened on the canadian side of the border during the klondike gold rush mr mann and company appear to have mistaken dawson city for deadwood the canadian north for the american wild west canadian viewers be prepared for a reefer madness type of enjoyable howl with this ludicrous plot or to shake your head in disgust,0
i have just started watching the tv series what i like about you and i must say that is a joy to watch i always like to see new shows do well considering a lot of shows go off before you really get a feel for them i have watched amanda bynes since all that she is truly a funny girl what is the best about her comedy is that its so natural and what i mean about that is its something that a person could here there best friend saying its not rehearsed i just recently started watching the show and have fell in love i am just watching re runs as of now but am looking forward to the next season all the characters in the show give something to the whole story line its nice to see some old face from other shows i enjoyed watching in the past such as jennie garth from leslie grossman from popular and wesley jonathan from city guys the new character are very talented as well nick zano has that charm the makes you love him even when he is doing something wrong to holly bynes overall this show has the right ingredients to be successful i look forward to watching it grow,1
this insipid mini operetta featuring a eddy mcdonald prototype in a valentino scenario is so bad it becomes an endurance exercise after five minutes it s silly from the get go as this brevity opens two military men discussing the lack of manliness in the son of one of the officers in under a minute he is packed off to morrocco where he lives a double life as the red shadow the leader of an arab tribe that would rather sing than fight alexander gray and bernice clare possess fine light opera voices with little acting ability and there s a decent bass in there as well but the acting is so haphazard scenes so ill prepared you get the feeling they are making things up as they go along this two reeler was part of a larger stage production that lists six writers with more room to spoof and warble the show may have had some entertainment values but this rushed quickie is little more than an insult to an audience waiting for the feature presentation,0
time for hollywood to sit up and take notice if the actors are acting snooty all you need to do is get the animators who worked on this little marvel renaissance is probably the first animation flick which makes you forget that you are not seeing human beings although the voice overs by the cast craig mccormack pryce etc are some of the best i have ever heard but even then the emotions portrayed by the cartoons are unnerving this style of animation is not very new but the use of light and shadows makes the movie a living painting ironically such technical wizardry makes you forget that this is actually a very very nice movie the pacing and plot development are marvelous and the dialogs crisp plot disappearance of a mega corporation s top employee unravels a tale of deceit and corruption with a cold hearted hero at the helm can t say much without giving it all away except that while the movie keeps you at the edge of your seat the climax leaves you speechless a must watch even for the grown ups who smirk at cartoons,1
there was a reasonably good looking girl starring the film zoe mclellan but even her looks couldn t stop me from voting it the lowest possible one the plot is bad and irrational what more can i say the movie sucks,0
first of all f is not high tech any more and it is not a fighter aircraft secondly the f s and f s cannot change their appearances they are not transformers thirdly the f has only one m cannon not two last but not the least at the end of the film seagle selected sidewinder missile but somehow when he pulled the trigger the actual missile fired turned out to be a maverick as i have the experience of seeing f s and f s being mysteriously transformed into f s this small transformation of missiles is not a big surprise to me however there is still one question i have to ask how did they manage to use an air to ground missile to shoot down a flying f when students hand in really bad work teachers assign s now i think for the sake of properly marking this film imdb should seriously consider adding a option otherwise it is not fair for those who receive out of,0
the film is bad there is no other way to say it the story is weak and outdated especially for this country i don t think most people know what a walker is or will really care i felt as if i was watching a movie from the s the subject was just not believable for the year even being set in dc i think this rang true for everyone else who watched it too as the applause were low and quick at the end most didn t stay for the q a either i don t think schrader really thought the film out ahead of time many of the scenes seemed to be cut short as if they were never finished or he just didn t know how to finish them he jumped from one scene to the next and you had to try and figure out or guess what was going on i really didn t get woody s carter private life or boyfriend either what were all the artistic male bondage and torture pictures from iraq prisons about what was he thinking i think it was his very poor attempt at trying to create this dark private subculture life for woody s character car it didn t work it didn t even seem to make sense really the only good thing about this film was woody harrelson he played his character car flawlessly you really did get a great sense of what a walker may have been like say twenty years ago he was great and most likely will never get recognized for it as for lauren lily and kristin boring don t see it it is painful unless you are a true harrelson fan,0
i enjoyed longstreet which followed in the steps of raymond burr s successful ironside tv series and was intended to give it competition but this show was canceled after one season because it was decided i believe wrongly that longstreet was not able to compete with mr burr s ironside i may add that the pilot for this show was especially well done and very memorable i hope that a box set of longstreet will appear writers should note that this story idea was only briefly explored here and that much more could and should be done to show the play and interplay of disabilities on tv,1
the music of albeniz pervades this film once and a while it is played with original instrumentation e g piano but never full orchestra but often it is re worked with various contemporary ensembles e g guitar and treatments e g jazz piano only occasionally is the music the sole focus of the film the vast majority of the time the music is set to various dances often flamenco but not always i would guess that there are scenes which are not united by a plot not all scenes will reach the heights for an individual viewer in my case about half reached the pinnacle though all the rest were in their own way very fine those that worked for me moved me to goose flesh aesthetic delight indeed the final scene left me weepy with joy and in some very magical way it brings you deep into spanish culture if you don t like subtitles don t worry the film is virtually wordless though each scene carries a title of an albeniz piece seeing this very beautiful film sharpens my complaint that virtually none of the films of saura are available on dvd in the usa i am thinking here particularly of his flamenco version of carmen a spectacular work of art that is available in europe but not here european dvd s won t play on american dvd players this is a scandal,1
this movie is likely the worst movie i ve ever seen in my life surpassing the previous most god awful movie spawn of slithis which i saw when i was about bad acting stilted and ridiculous dialog incomprehensible plot mishmashed cut scenes even the music was annoying did i leave anything out well the special effects weren t bad but cgi does not a decent movie make i can t believe i actually spent money to see this movie if anyone has the contact info for hyung rae shim the director please forward it to my user name at gmail and i ll contact him to personally demand a refund,0
a very bad attempt at a young spinal tap at least the music in spinal tap was good this is really a very sad case of hollywood nepotism at it s worst a bunch of hollywood execs bad musicians and producers create some poopie show so their kids can be in the spotlight oh please the potty humor was even bad i hate this stuff when there is really incredibly talented kids musicians actors and artists out there busting their butts to have success and this crap comes along help u all why wasn t gene simmons in it ameriac s taste in entertainment is going down the toilet,0
years after the fall of the last of the great corporations the world has fallen into a new dark age where cyborgs are harvested for their parts cash a female cyborg travels to a wasteland doctor to receive news that she is pregnant on the run from recyclers bounty hunters who hunt cyborgs cash tries to find her way to cytown the mythical refuge for cyborgs cyborg the recycler is the third last so far entry in the cyborg trilogy the first film was originally planned to be a sequel to masters of the universe but was quickly rewritten into a standard post apocalyptic martial arts fest that became something of a cult classic due to its cheesy action scenes cyborg glass shadow was a sequel that actually improved upon its predecessor but was not widely seen was dismissed by those few who saw it as cheap fodder this film for one thing tries to be a meld of the first two films the first was a cheesy action film while the second was a smart cyberpunk story but unfortunately falls short on both counts the budget was obviously lower than cyborg with the film being set in the desert wastelands like so many post apocalyptic action films of the s were shot around old industrial buildings to conserve costs the film s story centres on a plot device that of a pregnant cyborg that is as interesting as it is absurd this film is not the first to try that idea the anime ova series armitage iii uses it to a greater extent but the film falls into the same trap that so many low budget sci fi action films fall victim to in the fact that the snags synthetic organisms featured are nothing more than androids the visual effects amount to nothing more than prosthetic arms makeup effects the acting is pretty standard for this kind of film with the lead actress khrystyne haje being the single worst performer on display instead of being joyed at the news she is pregnant she acts all whiny sullen her co stars are much better malcolm mcdowell being the usual gangster type who enlivens the scenes he appears in richard lynch has a lot of fun as the chief villain of particular note is andrew byniarski playing lynch s right hand man who would later appear in the texas chainsaw massacre remake its prequel,0
this is by far the worst movie i have ever seen i was going in expecting a cheesy movie but at least with some cool car scenes races what i got was nothing the racing scene are so low budget they sped them up to make it look like the cars are going fast in one scene a mercedes slr goes from over to in like seconds by just spinning around in circles its just ridiculous if you wanna see a real movie about cars see the fast and the furious series they may be a little cheesy but x better than this movie could ever hope to be better yet just watch mischief the best car movie ever made i think,0
slim slam slum is a sad and disappointing picture there is absolutely no reason to this sorry excuse for a picture don`t go there what ever you do don`t watch tv shop for hours straight instead that way you will be slightly amused,0
les visiteurs the first movie about the medieval time travelers was actually funny i like jean reno as an actor but there was more there were unexpected twists funny situations and of course plain absurdness that would remind you a little bit of louis de funes now this sequel has the same characters the same actors in great part and the same time traveling the plot changes a little since the characters now are supposed to be experienced time travelers so they jump up and down in history without paying any attention to the fact that it keeps getting absurder as you advance in the movie the duke jean reno tries to keep the whole thing together with his playing but his character has been emptied so there s not a lot he can do to save the film now the duke s slave helper he has really all the attention the movie is merely about him and his being clumsy annoying stupid or whatever he was supposed to be fact is this character tries to produce the laughter from the audience but he does not succeed it is as if someone was telling you a really very very bad joke you already know but he insists on telling that joke till the end adding details to make your suffering a little longer if you liked les visiteurs do not spoil the taste in your mouth with the sequel if you didn t like les visiteurs you would never consider seeing the sequel if you liked this sequel well i suppose you still need to see a lot of movies,0
to be a buster keaton fan is to have your heart broken on a regular basis most of us first encounter keaton in one of the brilliant feature films from his great period of independent production the general the navigator sherlock jnr we recognise him as the greatest figure in the entire history of film comedy and we want to see more of his movies here the heartbreak begins after steamboat bill jnr keaton s brother in law joseph schenck pressured him into signing a contract that put keaton under the control of mgm keaton became just one more actor for hire performing someone else s scripts then his alcoholism got worse after steamboat bill jnr keaton never again made a truly first rate film a couple of sources describe a would be masterpiece comedy that keaton claimed he almost got to make at mgm a parody of grand hotel biographer tom dardis has offered convincing evidence that keaton made up this story the heartbreak increases because among the many years of keaton s long steady decline he just occasionally came up with a good film such as his short comedy grand slam opera i continue to search for the lost footage of keaton s dramatic scene with spencer tracy in it s a mad mad world a sequence in which embittered cop tracy telephones an old retired crook keaton and tries to recruit his assistance in stealing smiler grogan s cash that footage is almost certainly gone forever but i keep looking speak easily alas is one of keaton s films from the beginning of his decline mgm were trying to build up jimmy durante who coincidentally played smiler grogan three decades later as a new comedy star unfortunately mgm tried to build up durante by teaming him with keaton whose style of comedy was simply incompatible with durante s i m a fan of both throughout his career durante was a merciless scene stealer commendably he knew that he was being built up at keaton s expense and keaton was the only co star whom durante never attempted to upstage keaton was often cast as the victim of extremely cruel machinations in speak easily he plays a didactic and humourless midwestern college professor named post because he s as wooden as one who receives a letter informing him that he s inherited which he must travel to new york city to claim does he make a phone call to verify this does he even check the postmark no he takes his life s savings out of the bank and rushes to new york as soon as he s gone post s manservant confesses that he wrote the fake letter to jostle professor post out of his rut post who thinks he s a millionaire crosses paths with jimmy dodge durante who s trying to produce a musical revue but hasn t any money the characters which these two brilliant comedians are playing onscreen simply fail to intermesh keaton is playing one of those eggheads like mister logic in viz who intellectualises everything durante plays one of those annoying hepcats who is incapable of making any straightforward statement because the script requires him always to speak in slang there s a painfully unfunny dialogue scene in which durante is trying to talk to keaton about money but instead of coming straight out with it durante has to use increasingly contrived slang terms like kale cartwheels and so forth while keaton of course has no idea what durante s on about i ll give keaton credit his own dry and dusty prairie voice his flat kansas accent is absolutely perfect for the character he s playing here sidney toler looking much leaner and more handsome here than he would be just a year later is impressive as the excitable director of the revue bankrolled on tick by professor post henry armetta whom i ve never found funny is even less funny than usual here offering a running gag with a stupid payoff thelma todd impressed me here in a more villainous version of the role she played in horse feathers a much funnier movie edward brophy one of my favourite character actors is wasted part of the problem with speak easily is that supporting characters behave in completely inappropriate ways keaton s lawyer shows up at durante s theatre with an urgent message for keaton but he isn t there so the lawyer proceeds to divulge keaton s personal business to the first total stranger he meets fire that lawyer buster in another scene professor post the guy who s perceived as bankrolling this musical blunders into the chorus girls changing room and all the chorus girls immediately squeal and cover themselves i know for a fact that modern chorus girls would never react this way and i seriously doubt that chorus girls in behaved that way either certainly not in response to the angel controlling their show s pursestrings spoilers coming about half an hour into the unfunny speak easily the great jimmy durante seats himself at the piano grins into the camera and does that distinctive little shake of his head as he starts to play a tune this is the moment when i thought that at long last this movie was finally going to settle down to its purpose of entertaining us alas no most annoying of all is the ending of this film which uses the single most hackneyed and implausible cliche in all of comedy the one in which an utterly incompetent dimwit becomes a star comedian through his own ineptitude keaton would be forced to replay this cliche in a episode of screen directors playhouse chaplin had already used it in the circus i very nearly wept in anger and sorrow at the wasted opportunities in speak easily mostly out of respect for the work that keaton durante toler brophy and miss todd have done elsewhere i ll rate this movie points out of,0
i was born in most of my childhood memories are in the extreme late s and s i watched the groove tube for the first time in when i was and i found it hilarious so for anybody who thinks that something dated can t be quite funny years later think again it s funny even if you have no idea what the s were like and the thought of bell bottom pants make you cringe who can argue with a bozo the clown type who reads adult literature there is plenty to laugh at the scrotal puppet show at the end is the best,1
an very good storyline good thrill to it but the last seconds destroyed the whole movie what happened extremely well made and an good story destroyed in the last seconds sorry to say but a in vote thats what it it deserve i would think that chris shadley could come up with a better end but maybe next time all this meaningless blood gore for nothing the end would lift the story to close to a but it didn t the end destroyed the whole story i think most people aren t lame and when they goes a movie thy want a good end even if it is intricate but the only lame here is the end sorry,0
it s hard to know what was going through per kristensen and morten lindberg s heads when they wrote gayniggers from outer space the movie is billed as a comedy yet there are no real jokes beside the crude character names capt b dick sgt shaved balls the rest of the movie is a presumably unintentionally funny affair with ridiculously unsynchronised voice overs with the actors basically reading their lines with no hint of feeling futuristic computer displays filled with spelling mistakes and a plot that makes almost no sense even though of viewers have given this movie a perfect out of this is the complete opposite of what a good film is it may be entertaining to watch with some friends but this film only deserves about a out of ten slightly higher than the lower possible rating only because of the sheer fact that the writers somehow managed to get some black guys to star in this movie,0
this is the most cliche ridden and worst romantic comedy i have ever seen every scene is cringe worthy and the two lead actors corey and danny are soo annoying corey is very dumb and naive and should have never listened to danny s false promises neve campbell and the killer from urban legend are the only redeeming qualities in this poor attempt of a film danny dean paras looks in his late thirties and the girl he s trying to bed corey looks as if she s still in college here in australia this film is called too smooth there is nothing smooth about this film at all avoid,0
this movie is very much like flashdance you know that dance flick with jennifer beals that film is probably the most boring film i have ever seen since it s not even bad enough to be funny g i jane is much better than that film but that doesn t say much here demi moore sweats a lot and there s high music and we get to see her fight and everything but it is certainly not very engaging i really think the idea behind the film is kind of interesting but the script is too clich d and ridley scott can t do anything about that well like i said it s better than flashdance,0
what is with all of the european especially england comments here all i gotta say is that when i saw this movie for the first time when i was like i thought it was great of course it s stupid that s the point you have to see the movie dr strangelove and men in black to get the whole joke behind this movie but come on people what did you expect to see i can think of many movies that are far worse than this and they were expensive hollwood films with real actors in them for what it s worth men in white is a very stupid funny mock of a movie and with all the stupid funny stuff that england has been making for the last half century i am shocked at all the negative comments us stupid americans like our stupid humor p s see team america world police for some true laughs that europeans will especially like ha,1
soon after watching this film you will realize why it didn t even make it to the theaters this movie does not deserve the prequel tag instead this is a common theme in hollywood rip off previously good movies with disastrous prequels sequels etc this film s plot was bouncing all over the place like a ping pong ball and the character development was non existent i seriously felt like i was watching a comedy at some points in the movie because the acting was so bad p diddy needs to stop tainting movies with his horrible acting he actually made me laugh every time the only good thing that comes out of this movie is jaclyn desantis who looks excellent in this movie and actually brought some enjoyment from watching this film if you are a big carlito s way fan i recommend you not watch this if you decide to watch it anyway then treat this movie as if it ripped off the original because that is exactly what it did,0
i have just watched the movie for the first time i wanted to watch it as i like drew barrymore and wanted to see one of her early movies the movie is about a girl played by young and beautiful drew barrymore who moves from nyc to la in order to get over her recently troubled loss short after moving to a guy who falls in love with her it becomes obvious that she has an evil twin doppelganger who haunts her the movie is quite poor and lousy both the dialogs and the acting make the film not really worth seeing it summing up it is just something for the fans of drew barrymore,0
i really cant think of anything good to say about this film not a single thing the script is a nightmare the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference you d think they would at least get a technical advisor the performances were bad by most of the cast although i dont really blame them the material really stinks the editing was equally bad i ll just stop now its all bad,0
this film has good characters with excellent performances from the cast david strathairn is diabolically sincere as the child molesting salesman and danny vinson plays a perfect pussy whipped southern husband the slick soundtrack betrays the murder ballad tone of the film,1
old movie buffs will know why i d call this one the man in the grey flannel robe most bible based movies are basically schlock what might call forth smiles and giggles here is how peck tries to raise consciousness on a variety of psychological and social issues with the spear carrying neanderthals all about him as a great romance it falls flat as unleavened bread but there is something gripping about this movie of all the big hollywood bible pictures it most strikingly conveys the ambivalent attitude of the average american towards belief in the biblical god billy sunday s thesis is duking it out with h l mencken s antithesis all through the script who gets the better of it in the heavenly chorus backed synthesis depends on your point of view other than that d b boasts a good performances by peck especially in the closing repentance scene and by jayne meadows as his bitter first wife michol vivid moody atmosphere good idea to set most action at dawn or night and the rousing rendition of the twenty third psalm at the end,1
i saw it at the legacy theater in the joseph smith memorial building in salt lake city this morning i m going to assume that one s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one s level of acceptance of joseph s story however that aside it was very well made well acted and had a nice score if you get to salt lake city it is a must to see it in the legacy theater i have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality sound quality and ambiance in my entire life i wonder if the church would let me watch batman begins there being that i m lds and regard joseph as a prophet i was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times which i presume is expected since they handed out tissues before the movie started anyway i m told that this film is available in several lds visitor centers around the globe if you have minutes check it out because whether you believe joseph smith or not he tells a fascinating story,1
when girlfight came out the reviews praised it but i didn t get around to seeing it i finally saw it when it got released on video and understand the glowing reviews the movie opens in a high school in the middle of a ghetto we quickly get introduced to student diana guzman michelle rodriguez she has a bad ass expression on her face and any idea about diana that we might derive from this expression soon gets corroborated when she gets in a fight as diana gets in trouble for this we then meet her father an aggressive type in his own right clearly we can t totally blame diana for her attitude but then the movie really picks up as a new thought germinates in diana s mind boxing as a way to escape this grim existence her older brother has already gotten into boxing but her father most likely won t approve only diana herself can decide what to do just the first few minutes alone identified that i was in for a very gritty non hollywood movie but the brief appearance of john sayles in a supporting role truly affirmed that even before they get to any boxing scenes you feel like you re getting pounded in the face at seeing the ugly life that diana lives and when they finally arrive at the film s main story there s no turning back all in all i definitely recommend this movie i will admit that using boxing as a means to show someone trying to make something of himself herself has been sort of a clich in cinema for many years rocky million dollar baby but i still think that they did a great job with it here in fact this may have brought the genre to its apex really good too bad that michelle rodriguez wasted herself in hollywood movies after this one,1
i live in ottawa where this film was made and i really wish it hadn t been this is one god awful flick i really try and support independent films but there is this stigma attached to anything indie and that stigma is indie films blow well this film does nothing to shed this curse the actor writer director brett kelly does little to contribute to the genre rather he re hashes tired clich s from movies past i am really tired of menacing evil looking characters that lurk in the shadows and prey on the unsuspecting it s way too overdone i can remember one scene in particular right near the end of the flick where the whole scene is lit with car headlights now some may say that this was an effect used to create mood and tension but sadly it was to showcase the shoestring budget of this movie as well for a movie that dares to call itself horror a viewer will find themselves hard pressed to find any actual gore other than a few scenes with corn syrup and red food colouring the biggest thing that drags this film down is the pacing and the lack of character development the basic plot is that children are being kidnapped and the parents must track down this bonesetter fellow before a certain time in order to get their kids back not that this concept bugs me but i didn t really find it believable that when the two main characters both who have lost children can find time to make out with each other this is done in such a short time span that it s inconceivable my first priority would be to get my daughter back and at least get to know the lady before making out with her the last point that i have is and i won t hold this against kelly but the movie is shot entirely on boring emotionless video and that really takes away from any tense moments that would have just oozed style on film although if this movie were given a million dollar makeover and redone the story and boring acting and lame everything could not keep this movie afloat my only hope is that something happens to prevent brett kelly from making a sequel which has been reported on his website a sequel that was half written in one sitting lord help us all,0
i was always a big fan of this movie first of all have you seen the cast the acting is superb and help make this movie move along very well cybill shepherd was given great reviews for her role and they were well deserved the beginning of this movie starts in the past when corinne jeffries cybill whose picture perfect marriage comes to a shattering halt when her husband louie dies unexpectedly fortunately louse gets a second shot at life when he agrees to be recycled back to earth as the newborn alex finch robert downey jr alex goes on to live his new life forgetting his past life while corinne tries to get on with hers but fate crosses alexs path years later when he meets corinne s daughter miranda mary stuart masterson and is suddenly flooded with a wealth of unwanted memories this is where the fun begins and embarrassing situations occur the music is great and the scenes are heart felt and very cute you wont be disappointed if you give it a chance chances are you ll like it very funny and sweet,1
early film directed by d w griffith it features a gloriously happy king arthur v johnson and his queen marion leonard but wait when the king leaves the scene his queen makes music with the palace s minstrel henry b walthall when the king discovers the lovers he decides to enact a horrific edgar allen poe type revenge it s difficult to believe the lovers can t hear those plotting against them although the actors are trying to look alternately noisy the lovers and quiet the cement mixers the sets make the sealed room look very staged the performances are okay and the story is easy to follow the sealed room d w griffith arthur v johnson henry b walthall marion leonard,0
where was his critique of democratic administrations as well as republican ones after all he did serve for years in a body of government where his influence was unwaivering oh i forgot about the years he was the nd in command of the most powerful nation on earth the film is happy to show shots of a young senator gore asking why a nasa scientist was forced to change a conclusion in his scientific paper but fails to ask about the complicity of clinton gore in global warming probably too close to an election year or maybe it would hurt the chances for hillary in either way he s a political coward and party man to the bitter end he offers no criticism of consumerism no criticism of capitalism no way to is the history of the industrial development which has led us to this point in time in the end this film was much more about mr gore himself than about any real problems our environment faces mr gore if you really wanted to make a campaign film shorten it call it what it really is,0
i had the privilege to see this movie at the intenational film festival of rotterdam xizhao or shower is a lowbudget movie about a father and his sons the father has a traditional bathhouse somewhere in a traditional chinese village where local mostly aged men come to relax and to go bathing the father has to sons a retarded son who lives with him and a son who lives in a big modern city and who comes to visit him to this son the traditional village the bathhouse and his retarded brother seem strange and annoying but this changes along the movie though the story may sound cheesy or cliche it s not with really great performances especially of the father and the retarded son sorry i don t know their names and a great story the movie was touching and funny at the same time if you got a chance to see this movie do it it s a great alternative to mainstream hollywood cinema,1
i have seen a lot of ppv s in the past but this is the most entertaining intense ppv and the most complete dvd i have ever seen the dvd extras are worth it because they it gives a different view of how the wrestlers act after the show such as the chris benoit interview edge interview some glimpse into the monday night wars era the first match of hogan winning tag title gold and some promotional talk additionally there is a good music video tag team table match bubby ray and spike dudley vs eddie guerro and chris benoit this was a pretty good intense match to start off the show not too many holds and just pure raw physicallity spike can hold his own in tables matches and guerro and benoit gave good pure wrestling skills on the mat wwe crusierweight championship jamie noble w nidia v billy kidman the crowd really didn t care about either wrestler and didn t get interested until kidman did a shooting star press usually people expect a lot of high flying in a cruiser weight championship but this had very little in fact it was so bad that when noble hit his finisher no one even cared or knew you can tell by the lack of camera s flashing the ending was quick though wwe european championship jeff hardy v william regal i ve never really liked regal as a wrestler he lacks intensity and style hardy was impressive but really didn t get a chance to show off his high flying act although he still performed some good counters and added that needed fast pace to the match it ended off quickly which was perfect for this match john cena v chris jericho it s funny looking back at cena s very first ppv how he used to act how he used to dress and how he used to look watch his interview it s pretty funny this was a good intense match with cena showing a nice variety of holds suplexes counters and some aerial jericho was sub par but definitely helped cena launch his career cena wins wwe intercontenital championship rvd v brock lesnar this was a very intense and good match both wrestlers styles really matched up well on the screen with brocks pure power and raw energy vs rvds skill full moves and quickness rvd looked great in this match better than his later matches with edge and cena and the entire match was fast pace the ending worked perfectly because it still preserved brock s undefeated streak while giving rvd his just desserts in his home state no disqualification match booker t v big show another solid match that lacked a certain intensity as the rvd match but still a good follow up although it started off kinda slow which it always is with big show booker t was impressive and did a sick move on the announcers table the finisher was awesome the ending was a great upset and big move up for booker t wwe tag team championship hogan and edge v christian and lance storm this was a mediocre match hogan comes out like usual to a huge pop but his variety of moves lacks that intensity and energy then again christian doesn t exactly have the greatest athletic abilities himself this ended up being a mediocre match at best but was still ok for ppv triple threat match for the undisputed championship rock v undertaker v kurt angle easily the match of the year this is by far the best triple threat match i have ever seen it had close falls plenty of finishers stolen finishers raw energy intensity and fast pace no one could predict who would come out of this one if your going to buy this dvd i would buy it strictly for this match ending watch for yourself overall this was a solid ppv with plenty of extra goodies to keep you watching again and again although this is hard to find i had to pay a little more than usual for this dvd it is definitely worth your money,1
wonderland spoilers july st five people ron launius josh lucas susan launius christina applegate billy deverell tim blake nelson barbara richardson natasha gregson wagner and joy miller janeane garofalo are attacked while they re asleep and brutally hit on the head with steel pipes in their home at wonderland avenue laurel canyon la only susan survives main suspect john holmes val kilmer former king of porn owner of a cm long dick and now a hopeless addict two investigators luis frankie g and sam nico ted levine are investigating on the case and try to crack it with the help of a witness that claims to know that john at the very least took part in the murders david lind dylan mcdermott barbara s boyfriend and trying to get a witness report out of dawn schiller kate bosworth holmes year old girlfriend and from susan who sadly doesn t remember anything more than shadows about the night her husband s head was bashed in and hers almost suffered the same fate and the name of eddie nash eric bogosian a major drug kingpin who is always around ladies such as barbie paris hilton comes into light as a suspect planner of the wonderland massacre but what did happen that night and could sharon lisa kudrow john s wife know something about it wonderland is a taught intense thriller a desperate love story and a story of a man s sad decline all in one there is a clever use of the rashomon technique we see the events of that fateful day and night from the eyes of david john dawn susan albeit very briefly and sharon a nice direction and a great script but is mostly compelling for the performances especially kilmer s who takes central stage with his hopeless tormented sometimes childish holmes lucas whose launius is strangely alluring kudrow s strong sharon and bosworth s innocent dawn wonderland,1
corridors of time the movie you can watch if you re looking for a sophisticated way of suicide some use guns ropes or gas but you want to ruin your brains do not wait any longer corridors of time is probably one of the biggest possible mistakes thinking christian clavier is able to act and to bring you fun i do not miss the francs this poor thing cost me sometimes one has to reset its evaluation system looking at the absolute zero this film deserves a but that s only because i like jean reno too bad for him he also stars in ronin i think i m gonna dislike him,0
kate beckinsale is as good if not better than gwyneth paltrow as emma in this movie although i really liked gwyneth paltrow in the other emma version they re both good in different ways kate beckinsale as emma seems more interesting almost though and i liked the woman who played harriet smith in this movie better too she was more believably sweet and sentimental there are certain things i like better about the gwyneth paltrow version though like how the humorous side is more apparent,1
that s not the sound of bees that s the effect induced by watching this extremely long extremely boring badly acted movie how i ever made it through all hours without falling asleep i ll never know the plot is simple thoroughly unlikable morons talk about sex for hours and you thought rohmer was deadly this is even worse if that s possible i must really be a masochist if i could watch this entire movie without turning it off or killing someone,0
the best of the seven sam fuller movies that i ve seen including park row run of the arrow verboten shock corridor the naked kiss the big red one and this film pickup on south street counts as one of the best film noirs it represents fuller at his most controlled i like him when he s out of control of course but nearly everything in pickup is perfect the film is absolutely beautiful richard widmark stars as a pickpocket who steals some microfilm that was meant to go to communist spies jean peters plays the woman who was carrying the film for her boyfriend played by richard kiley peters is forced to find widmark and get it back she finds him through a stool pigeon played by thelma ritter widmark and peters are attracted to each other which changes peters loyalties that and the fact that she learns she s working for communists the cold war stuff is really interesting the love story is done a little quickly and not entirely believable but it s not so bad that it harms the film unlike fuller s previous film park row richard widmark is great this must be one of his best roles but i m not so familiar with his career that i can say that for sure thelma ritter gives the most memorable performance her role gives the film an unexpected emotional resonance and her final scene in this film is as touching as any you will find in the cinema i will never forget that,1
i honestly don t understand how tripe like this gets made the worst junior high talent show skit you ve ever seen is more entertaining than this film will ferrell s wrestling fetish provides the only briefly humorous moments utterly horrible,0
shown in australia as hydrosphere this incredibly bad movie is so bad that you become hypnotised and have to watch it to the end just to see if it could get any worse and it does the storyline is so predictable it seems written by a high school dramatics class the sets are pathetic but marginally better than the miniatures and the acting is wooden the infant muppet seems to have been stolen from the props cupboard of total recall there didn t seem to be a single original idea in the whole movie i found this movie to be so bad that i laughed most of the way through malcolm mcdowell should hang his head in shame he obviously needed the money,0
what happened to peter bogdanovich once a brilliant director a trail blazer is now scraping the very bottom is this the same man who directed the last picture show here he takes a somewhat interesting albeit farfetched premise and turns it into bubble gum that loses flavor the moment you take the first bite dunst is not bad but izzard is miscast as chaplin and all the other actors seem to have been cast for their looks and not because they were right for the part too bad i ll go rent paper moon again,0
black and white film good photography believable characters just awful i have wasted another perfect evening watching a film that other rated as worthy and very good there is some good acting here and the back ground setting for the plot is good more should have been done with this but it is very slow to grow and never develops it is totally bases on sex without much romance with much un needed nudity more could have been done with the main characters if you are looking for something to watch with you family this in not the movie and if not you will have trouble sitting through it though this film is long its only about inch deep,0
silent night deadly night is the very last of the series and like part it s unrelated to the first three except by title and the fact that it s a christmas themed horror flick except to the oblivious there s some obvious things going on here mickey rooney plays a toymaker named joe petto and his creepy son s name is pino ring a bell anyone now a little boy named derek heard a knock at the door one evening and opened it to find a present on the doorstep for him even though it said don t open till christmas he begins to open it anyway but is stopped by his dad who scolds him and sends him to bed and opens the gift himself inside is a little red ball that sprouts santa arms and a head and proceeds to kill dad oops maybe he should have left well enough alone of course derek is then traumatized by the incident since he watched it from the stairs but he doesn t grow up to be some killer santa he just stops talking there s a mysterious stranger lurking around who seems very interested in the toys that joe petto makes we even see him buying a bunch when derek s mom takes him to the store to find a gift for him to bring him out of his trauma and what exactly is this guy doing well we re not sure but he does seem to be taking these toys apart to see what makes them tick he does keep his landlord from evicting him by promising him to pay him in cash the next day and presents him with a larry the larvae toy for his kid but of course larry is not a good toy and gets out of the box in the car and of course well things aren t pretty anyway eventually what s going on with joe petto and pino is of course revealed and as with the old story pino is not a real boy pino is probably even more agitated and naughty because he suffers from kenitalia a smooth plastic crotch so that could account for his evil ways and the identity of the lurking stranger is revealed too and there s even kind of a happy ending of sorts whee a step up from part but not much of one again brian yuzna is involved and screaming mad george so some decent special effects but not enough to make this great a few leftovers from part are hanging around too like clint howard and neith hunter but that doesn t really make any difference anyway i now have seeing the whole series out of my system now if i could get some of it out of my brain out of,0
wow i loved this movie and love judy marte this girl isn t just an awesome pretty face she s funny and really really talented she made me laugh many times just by being very naturally rough with victor who was desperately hitting on her we ll be seeing her a lot in the next coming years and probably also from director peter sollett and co star victor rasuk raising victor vargas is one of the best film i saw in a long time very refreshing it s true nice funny well filmed it got it all good story good actors good film direction if you like simple slow paced real life urban movies like maybe jersey girl from kevin smith you ll love victor vargas it s better,1
i am stunned to discover the amount of fans this show has haven t said that friends was at best an average sitcom and not as great as others have made out let s face it if it wasn t for the casting of courtney cox arquette david schwimmer matthew perry lisa kudrow jennifer aniston and matt le blanc then who knows whether this show would ve lasted as long as it has done i very much doubt that although as the series progressed friends got more progressively predictable lame and boring that i couldn t care less about the characters of whom are the most overrated in tv history or of their plight nor of who was sleeping with whom and it went from being funny in the first four seasons to occasionally funny and even when it had all these a list hollywood actors from the movie world i still didn t bother to tune in the writing in friends became stale that i lost interest in this show from the sixth season onwards and as for the ending well it was predictable to say the least what was annoying though was that this lasted for ten seasons whilst some of my favourite shows lasted for only three four seasons for instance and were eventually cancelled and taken off the air for good the show should ve came to an immediate halt by the time the cast wanted bigger salaries in truth as much as the series waned it was the show that was bigger than the actors themselves not the other way round when it ended in i was so relieved to see the back of this sitcom now there is talk of a friends reunion show coming to our tv screens very soon and yet i for one will not be looking forward to it whatsoever,0
john huston s wise blood was a more horrifying misrepresentation of flannery o connor s book than i could have imagined from the utterly terrible acting performances and don t you oh that was done on purpose you just don t get it me to the musical score that was more suited to an episode of rockford files this film was revolting i viewed it with no ill will at the outset and in fact expected a pleasant experience but the misrepresentation of the southern characters from the ridiculously fraudulent southern drawl to the lilting comedic way their faith was portrayed was inexcusable right down to it s end which was completely devoid of any character sentiment it failed in every place that o connor s book shined and resonated the actors portraying the southern policemen may as well have been eating smothered hot dogs from nyc street stands and quoting godfather the one redeeming acting performance was ned beatty s lively and dead on representation of hoover shoates a religious con artist who hears moates preaching the church of christ without christ and sees dollar signs and business opportunities o connor s powerful book is most well known for it s creepy religious undercurrent that jibes the seemingly lifeless cadaver of faith mr huston s film is a shameful mockery of the author s intentions as they are understood by me and most of her fans if i may be so bold as to say so while i acknowledge that i can t know exactly what the author wished to convey i have enough affection for her and her works to desire to remain a fan if i viewed wise blood the way mr huston apparently did i would have thrown it in the trash for flannery s sake and mine i forgive you john huston the forgetting that will take some time,0
crude some times crass to me that s the summation of madhur bhandarkar s latest work page he has no point of view just shallow funny digs at stereotypes what is the movie about is it about reporting a clan of people so called page types who are so busy socializing and progressing their profiles in life that they have no time for anything else and you are either in it or out of it is it that there is no press at all to report everyday incidents madhur bhandarkar forgets that there is a main newspaper and page is just a supplement perhaps an entertainer for checking out who s who and what s what don t mix the two and then there is power play that would happen in every walk of life so what have you told at the end of it all nothing just a few crude jokes strung together in an otherwise direction less movie,0
i guess that everyone has to make a comeback at some point and that s exactly what embarrassed taft resident jack dundee robin williams intends to do in the best of times yep the man who went all crazy with the radio in good morning vietnam is playing football in this case he seeks to replay a game that cost his high school a prestigious title but ex teammate reno hightower kurt russell isn t just going to go along with it so easily granted it s not the best movie for either man but williams and russell are actually a pretty good comedy team and some of the names in this movie are likely to give you the giggles to say the least check it out,1
i only today picked this up at the cents only store today and i still think i got ripped off dream to believe is a pretty boring and unrealistic gymnastics drama and is just too freakin expensive for this this film is probably only notable for things it has a young keanu reeves and it s directed by paul lynch the man who also did promo night now onto the movie it s about a girl named robin played by olivia d abo who is badly injured from a car accident that also cost her father s life so the accident prevents her from competing in gymnastic tournaments she is often picked on during her classes and eventually she meets some wild kid named tommy played by keanu robin when not in training works part time along with her mother and stepsister at a laundromat owned by her abusive stepfather eventually she is chosen to compete overall keanu alone and some catchy s tunes are what prevent me from giving this star and it s also not one of the worst movies ever but still far from good the dvd itself is not getting any medals either as it appears to be sourced from an old vhs and towards the end the sound goes out of sync and when the end credits are almost over it fades to black even though sound can still be heard so this can probably be passed as a bootleg the dvd artwork makes no sense either as it has what appears to be recent photos of keanu and olivia and the background has nothing to do with the movie as it s also not in the movie itself so the cover s obviously photoshopped in any case avoid at all costs unless you re a keanu fanatic i probably won t be hanging to it any longer i m probably gonna give it to the cinema snob who s a great yt critic btw hey if any of you have any crappy movies that they no longer want in their sight feel free to donate to him to keep his show running,0
melissa joan hart shines this show is amazing there is no match except for maybe melissa in clarissa explains it all she was marvelous in that too this is so much better than buffy the vampire slayer this show is wonderful,1
a friend of mine gave me this movie a friend of mine is now in a hospital were a team of doctors are trying to surgically remove a dvd casing from his i got quit excited by the prospects of an other michael chabon movie after all his novels have brought me much entertainment and previous screenplay adaptations were great but boy was i wrong first off the people that did the casting must have been asleep whilst doing so i imagine the castings went something like this tell me do you like fish yes i enjoy fish very much wonder full you re hired have some money than there is the script i have read chabon who i hope went blind before he could see this piece of dong and it has absolutely nothing to do with his novel i m not quit sure why it annoyed me like it did but it might have something to do with the fact that listening to a speech impaired year old drunk duck hunter with a right cranial lobe dysfunction would have been a treat in comparison to the one liners these nd degree model massacre kids spat out this is an actual line from the movie if you tell me something that you ve never said out loud to anyone before than this moment becomes unique unique does it does it really off course not you plank please pass me the imodium i ll have a whole ing strip the directing is well i ve got nothing maybe rawson marshall thurber just got word his grandmother exploded or something stick to directing comedies no stick to directing commercials this movie is so horrible it left me banging my head against a wall so hard it brought me back to the stone age i give it stars because i don t wanna be the guy that watched a star movie,0
i finally saw this film tonight after renting it at blockbuster vhs i have to agree that it is wildly original yes maybe the characters were not fully realized but it isn t one of those movies rather we are treated to the director s eye his vision of what the story is about and it does not stop and to be honest i didn t want it to i do believe that sabu had to have influenced the director s of lock stock two smoking barrels and run lola run but i absolutely loved the way the three leads see the beautiful woman on the street to distract them momentarily i really need to see this director s other work because this film really intrigued me if you want insight culture sturm und drang go somewhere else if you want a laugh camera movement and criminal hilarity look here,1
bromwell high is nothing short of brilliant expertly scripted and perfectly delivered this searing parody of a students and teachers at a south london public school leaves you literally rolling with laughter it s vulgar provocative witty and sharp the characters are a superbly caricatured cross section of british society or to be more accurate of any society following the escapades of keisha latrina and natella our three protagonists for want of a better term the show doesn t shy away from parodying every imaginable subject political correctness flies out the window in every episode if you enjoy shows that aren t afraid to poke fun of every taboo subject imaginable then bromwell high will not disappoint,1
this movie is so bad that i cannot even begin to describe it what in the blazing pit is wrong with the writers producers and director how on earth did they get funding for this abomination the plot is laughable the acting is poor at best the story what story the first fight in this movie is ok but then it keeps repeating itself until you want to turn it off i guess i m the biggest looser for not turning this stupid movie off after the first minute spoler alert i only saw this movie because scott adkins was in it and he is in it for seconds i give it out of because it s the lowest grade imdb has to offer do yourself a favour see an uwe boll movie instead twice it s more worthy of your time,0
paul was totally ripped off by someone at paramount who made dave it s the same story not as funny though paul related to me this morning about the scene were sammy davis sings the new national anthem of parador he arrived in brazil after a long flight from vegas three planes car ride to the set etc he was beat he could hardly stand had to use a cane he was staying in a trailer about the size of my bathroom he didn t know he could do it then he saw the crowd of extras paid bucks he came to life and they shot that scene for two hours he was magnificent then nearly collapsed paul is a great guy though very liberal a real talent,1
i went to see the omega code with a group of other christians totaling about people we all expected a good piece of christian film making what we got was an excruciatingly painful drawn out and pretty boring attempt at a film it has good looking production values but also has poor acting a weak script with lousy dialogue and no real sense of direction from the first minutes we all knew it would be a long night we all hated it and some people in our group placed this movie as reeking of more cheese than anaconda none of us could believe that the movie lasted less than hours flashy effects and crisp looking cinematography can t save this bad bad movie i d give it a out of and the rating is only that high because i rented the abominable movie werewolf the night before i saw this movie,0
in this sequel bruce is still called billy lo get it bruce billy lo lee no but apart from that that s all it has in common with the other movie billy doesn t seem to be an actor anymore he seems to be in another country he s more like a spy he s the only cast member to return and sadly they kill him off to make way for a new character his brother bobby sadly when bruce dies the movie pretty much dies with him this was extremely poorly made it seemed like they were writing the script as they were filming the footage works for a while it s not too obvious at first but soon bruce is always shown in the dark all the time he kicks out a light at one stage for no other apparent reason to hide the fact that it s not bruce playing the part sadly when he dies the movie changes i can t help but wonder if they were filming as they were writing and may well have planned to keep bruce alive but later decided to kill him off because it would not have been plausible as bobby does not appear until billy is dead it s hard to change the lead character halfway in the movie and bruce is a hard act to follow so it s hard to now accept bobby as the star bruce is never seen again in this movie i think they should have made this sequel without bruce he has a lame role in this movie people hoping to see a new bruce lee movie will be disappointed to see that although he s given the top billing he only has a featuring role even the worst movies have at least one memorable bit if there was one bit about this movie people seem to talk about it s the scene where billy fights in a plant nursery ironically it doesn t even use bruce lee footage mind you they did it more convincingly in no retreat no surrender not one of the other actors here ever made anything else memorable bruce s girlfriend colleen camp is never mentioned my advice is to turn it off as soon as bruce is finished writing his letter to his brother nothing else in the movie is worth watching i found it really sad to see bruce die i don t see how a small budgeted movie like this could get enough money to use footage from enter the dragon this was a cheap way of trying to cash in on bruce s name oddly this and the original are credited in bruce s filmography thankfully so far no one has tried anything like this again was the year of bruce s last movie appearance it was a sad way to end it but thankfully this is proof that bruce s movie career should be left alone,0
i have two good things to say about this film the scenery is beautiful and peter falk gives a good performance considering what he had to work with in terms of dialog and direction however that said i found this film extremely tiresome watching paint dry would have been more entertaining it seemed much longer than minutes beginning with opening sequence where everyone is talking over each other and paul reiser is repeating everything that s said to him on the phone the movie is annoying the film is filled with clich s and shtick not to mention endless incidents of audible flatulence by falk also the director seems to have had difficulty deciding whether to aim for laughs or tears there are some sequences that are touching but they re all played for laughs if schmaltzy sentimental and cute appeal to you you ll love it but if you were hoping for something with more substance see a different movie,0
when i heard this film was directed by ang lee i made sure to see it this taiwanese director burst into fame with the wedding banquet and eat drink man woman a few years ago and then moved on to sense and sensibility and the ice storm now he turns his attention to another american icon the civil war this story takes place in missouri a union state with southern sympathies these never officially joined the confederate army instead they formed outlaw bands called bushwhackers grew they hair long and sometimes would confiscated union uniforms which they wore over their regular clothing the movie depicts their moral dilemma the high drama of the times and their supposedly heroic missions of killing storekeepers and farmers who aided the union there are no stars in this movie unless you consider jewel the singer well cast as a young confederate widow as a star tobey macquire is cast as a young german farm boy who is derided for his heritage because the germans were supposed union sympathizers this young man is an excellent actor full of fresh faced youth whose performance encompasses his wonder and subtle realizations as he s exposed to the horror of war jeffrey wright is a freed slave who travels with the bushwhackers because of his loyalty to the young man who bought him his freedom he gives a fine and understated performance some of the acting however is wooden especially in the long conversations they have about morality and their costumes are too new and the southern gentleman theme of manners and hat tipping and politeness to women comes across as a bit much especially since they make it a point to murder all the men who they pull from their women s arms then burn down the stores and houses while i don t think that this will go down as one of lee ang s great movies i did find myself fascinated by it in spite of the slow parts and its excessive length of minutes i was interested in what was happening next and felt empathy for each of the characters who all came across as real and imperfect human beings caught up in the forces of history not as much action as the usual war movie but yet still recommended especially for civil war buffs,1
the tragedy is that this piece of rubbish was part of my curriculum while i was studying cinema so imagine how i was forced to watch it in complete believe me going through hell is much much easier our professor told us that this is some film but he never thought that we d disagree or assume the apposite i don t think that there is any gods on earth we re only humans so all the filmmakers therefore they can make mistakes bad movies or very bad too the main problem wasn t that art by all means is susceptible to endless points of view but that a lot of people just don t get it that every single human got his own genuine taste his own opinion hence what i suppose it the greatest movie ever made can also be your worst one ever and how that is right both ways but how many people can understand this correctly so my professor believes in this movie and simply i don t however the only way to evaluate this thing is by measuring it by its original intent to show us different kinds of old folk stories or whatever to catch on this society s mentality imagination and nature to tell you the damn truth mr pier paolo pasolini as the scriptwriter and the director made it too unbearable to watch in the first place the movie is so ugly i can t stand this so how about analyzing it then discovering the potential beauty in it it s beyond your mind hideousness and strangely not for the sake of the movie s case or anything it s for the sake of the unstable vision of pasolini his work is so primitive to underdeveloped extent the deadly cinematic technique the effective sense of silliness and the incredible horribleness made everything obnoxious look at the atrocious acting the unfruitful cinematography the awfully poor sets oh my god i ve got the nausea already it can terminate your objectivity violently as watching this movie is one true pain like taking the wisdom tooth off by a blind doctor there are dreadful nightmares which could be more merciful than this so originally how to continue that just to review it fairly actually you don t as this very movie doesn t treat you fair at all there is really memorable scene in here where some boys are peeing into the eye of the camera i m trying to connect some things like that with pasolini s end as murdered,0
king kong vs godzilla which i recall having rated bomb had been my introduction to cult director honda s work this one isn t necessarily better it s just that i ve learned to be more tolerant towards such intrinsically lowbrow fare here we actually get two kongs for the price of one an ugly and dopey looking giant ape and a robot variation of it which looks even worse the simian creature lives on the island of mondo where it s shown fighting a couple of other monsters and befriends a trio of humans naturally it falls for the blonde and bland heroine in fact more intriguing is a femme fatale in cahoots with the film s villainous mad genius called dr who and sporting the anemic look and cape usually associated with a vampire he kidnaps king kong and hypnotizes it in order to retrieve the element x which is embedded in the icy wastes of the north pole apparently the giant ape is more impervious to radiation than its mechanical counterpart and to ensure its full co operation who even captures its three companions the female agent then has a change of heart helps the heroes one of whom typically is a nondescript american and is killed by who kong eventually escapes and makes it to tokyo where it has a final showdown with the robot the doctor flees the ensuing mayhem in his sub which on a request by kong s dreamgirl is summarily trashed by the giant ape,0
when i read the summary of the movie something like what happens when a man gets powers of a god and how he later learns that having supernatural powers requires giant responsibility and strength i though that was clever and original concept casting was promising too carrey freeman aniston how can movie with a good idea and good actors not to mention costs of filming can be bad it can idea is good but script and story itself is terrible bruce nolan is let s be honest a pretty mediocre journalist with not exactly great stories like a story of a giant cookie what a faux pas and the niagara report is complete fiasco he s a man with a job he completely deserves he s not a good journalist he s a comedian considering his potentials with a nice home sugar sweet girlfriend and oh horror dog who is not house trained yes as soon as bruce at the beginning of the movie starts addressing god in a god why do you hate me manner average viewer must think why what s wrong with your life bruce bruce is not and definitely not the man with real problems in life most the troubles that happen to him are minor and not really worth of all that fuss he makes and some of them are really only the result of his stupidity most people have really big problems worth of attention most people are more worth of attention that bruce who doesn t seem too human after all doesn t look even realistic too goofy and neurotic but god still addresses to him why though morgan freeman looks nice as a god i can t help but to ask what is he doing in this particularly bad movie and what does bruce do when god gives him his powers god in this movie could as easily give his powers to a year old kid and there hardly would be any difference no wait a smart kid would probably use his god powers better than bruce what does bruce do pulls the moon closer to earth to create romantic atmosphere parts the red soup lifts up a pretty woman s dress on the street answers prayers via e mail and make all of them come true no more bruce please what bruce did could actually end the world but in the movie that doesn t happen because this is nice family little movie and doesn t make any sense at all not a hint of sarcasm of real humor of wittiness of some dirty humor at least nothing just carrey playing silly which is starting to look pathetic on middle aged actor aniston here is understated she plays pale undeveloped character of bruce s girlfriend grace and stays completely forgettable in this movie nobody in the right mind would believe that this two have any chemistry at all between them when grace says prayer for bruce it sounds not only lame and pathetic but completely false these two are not meant to be together i would give three stars but i doubt movie deserves a one bad script lame dialogs lack of real humor wittiness and any sophistication as well as undeveloped characters and understated freeman s and aniston s roles total lack of boldness and sarcasm it all makes movie hardly worth but ok there were few funny moments and freeman is always nice to see in any movie so lets leave three stars,0
stuck in a hotel in kuwait i happily switched to the channel showing this at the very beginning first pachelbel s canon brought a lump to my throat then the sight of a tiger moth which my grandfather my father and i have all flown produced a slight dampness around the eyes and then crowe s name hooked me completely i was entranced by this film crowe s performance again the subject matter and yes what a debt we owe how various matters were addressed and dealt with the flying sequences my father flew avro ansons too the story and as another contributor pointed out crowe s recitation of high flight i won t spoil the film for anyone but separated from my wife by odd miles as an ex army officer who was deployed in a couple of wars and as private pilot i admit to crying heartily a couple of times buy it rent it download it beg borrow or steal it but watch it ps did i spy a bristol blenheim in yellow training colours on the ground looked like a twin engine aircraft with a twin brownings in a dorsal turret,1
peter bogdonavich has made a handful of truly great films and they all laughed is one of his best the cast couldn t be better equipped to play this light but slightly bittersweet screwball comedy interestingly enough the witty light touch bogdonavich so effortlessly employs gives the film a rather disarming emotional core fresh and immediate the film starts with absolutely no explanation there s no soundtrack music to cue us we meet the characters in action and as bogdonavich glides down the streets of new york the film unfolds effortlessly robby muller s camera captures it all with an understated simplicity that seems accidental but surely isn t the cast is terrific in every way a classic,1
who doesn t know largo winch in the france belgium luxemburg trio the three countries where the french bd or bandes dessin es are massively published years after the publication of the first comic book which is itself an adaptation of a series of novels it had to be adapted on screens after a first and failed attempt with a tv show the real thing begins first of all and that s what most of the fans didn t get the goal of this movie is not strictly to adapt the comic book series some essential parts characters and actions of the original are missing the movie itself offers an alternative and more modern version of the series as a st class fan of the comic book i must confess i was nicely surprised the actors are good so is the scenario though it might seem too fast i thus recommend this movie to all those interested by financial political thrillers but it is clearly not an alternative to james bond or jason bourne series as i could read over the internet,1
i just saw this film at the toronto international film festival the working title there was dog days the audience reaction was mixed some people found the graphic sex and realistic violence to be too much for them others seemed to genuinely appreciate how good this film was this film isn t for the faint of heart it s like happiness with explicit sex and a less optimistic view of humanity there s animal poisoning a strip tease from a senior citizen an orgy esque bathouse in a shopping centre anal candle penetration and the molestation of the mentally incompetent if any of this sounds like too much to handle then this film isn t for you this film shows humanity at its most desperate and pathetic the banality of our existence is shoved in our face with utmost glee seidl has no interest in redeeming humanity here and why should he this film features excellent performances from all involved is always interesting and is probably the most intelligent social statement to be made on film in awhile,1
as usual on imdb going by the majority vote instead of the weighted average is far more indicative of the movie s entertainment value in this case the majority gives it a one how right they are to start my review i ll first admit that i am completely clueless as to why this movie is titled alien intruder it does involve space and even an alien i suppose but there s no rhyme or reason at all for anything in the long run at least no actual plot basis or resolution that i can make out anywhere there are quite a few scenes that are so atrocious with regard to both the lines the timing and how they are spoken that it far exceeds the weird feeling you get when watching similar really bad movies i have no idea about that part near the beginning where an electronic bugs bunny seems to be ranting about something the plot solely involves an area of space known as the g spot sorry make that g sector and a virtual reality program infected with some sort of alien virus i think it is alien since the image of the otherwise normal ariel appears as a photographic negative for most of the movie we see people getting shot with space weapons falling out of lofts and seemingly endless pointless close shots of where s ariel can t find ariel pointless because most of the other shots include interaction with ariel anyway whatever on a computer monitor commander skyler billy dee sits and watches each fantasy of the convict s vr programs hoping to find this alien virus and become one with it or maybe i missed something billy dee williams took a few courses on how to act in despair prior to the filming of this we know this because he spends a lot of time moving his fingers down over his face and looking mournful the docking scene with the nose of one ship going into the rear of the other was semi hilarious at least and provided for a laugh in addition to the early scenes where we see several shots of the ship as it is just spinning in a circle looking much like a lego experiment gone awry it seems everyone dies in this movie so why bother even the vr females get killed as if that is supposed to mean anything especially since everyone else dies anyway outrageous because of the money i save on groceries i won t rant about wanting my money back that i paid for the dvd of this the dollar that i saved on that bag of vanilla wafers paid for this reviewer s time i ll just add that the story itself at least as a novel and with far more detail added could probably be quite interesting with the right author,0
a badly acted two character comedy drama abruptly transmogrifies into a weren t we awful to the indians polemic with lousy special effects exploitative use of nudity and ugly violence it s as sincere as a politician s handshake as obvious as a car salesman s pitch one of the worst movies in the history of the universe absolute and utter dreck,0
a craven cowardly film director boorman shows cahill burglarizing rich houses but the male occupant is shown being unfaithful with the nanny thats all right then the forensic scientist investigating cahill is blown up in his car but he is rat faced sourpuss and doesn t look like a nice man so thats all right too the beits owner of russborrough house made their money by exploiting darkies digging up diamonds so it s okay to rob priceless art from them and hide it in a bunker in the wicklow mountains the garda kill his ferrets and are implicated in his murder the moral equivalencing is sickening boorman looks for a hit film but doesn t have the guts to stand against the criminality of the generals gang who terrorized the neighbourhood and unleashed another wave of scumbags upon dublin he even liaised with the generals son while making it disgusting shame on him for his cowardice,0
despite the gravity of the subject and probably the good intentions of the filmmakers to make a film addressing white supremacy the inconsistencies of its main character bronson green aspiring new york actor easily turned l a phony makes it hard to take the story seriously green who is constantly rejected by los angeles casting agents for being obsolete i e too new york when the s is looking for big blonde and dumb he finds success comes easily when he s willing to succumb to falsifying his image unfortunately the new hair dye and pacified surfer attitude lands him an acting opportunity with the jericho church which subscribes white supremacist teaching of the aryan nation green is willing to easily forget his past and particularly turning his back on his young black friend of ten years in order to be the church s new spokesman this makes no sense seeing as how principled our character initially is it is this sudden and loose change in character coupled with an abrupt reversion back to the hardened deniro obsessed as his taxi driver character form who is able to battle the villains a noble attempt on the filmmakers but one that ultimately reveals itself as anything but serious the other characters too are quite annoying and what we are forced to recognize in them comes too easily the psychotic paranoia of the church leader the self interested actress girlfriend the first girlfriend bronson has when he s in l a and the new blonde girlfriend who s character lacks so much development she is for the most part just a walking talking void we are just supposed to see them in fleeting moments in which something random forces us to draw assumptions about the characters but there is really little development of any of them the other problem with this film is the ungodly amount of time the characters are involved in very little important action much of the beginning concerns introducing the characters obviously and later we see bronson s difficulties with breaking into the l a acting scene and the frustrations which stem from constant rejection but after he does willingly change his looks and personality in order to become accepted there is at least a good twenty minutes to thirty minutes of wasted film in which very little of anything happens for films that seek to draw attention to the irrational fears behind racism this was not one done with enough credibility,0
there are bad movies then there are the movies that are so bad that they become almost art this is one of those films my partner and i are still both kind of shell shocked you know staring off into space and drooling you can tell that the people involved i hope they changed their names to protect themselves were having a blast and they definitely weren t shy i give this one a three out of ten just because of the gratuitous smut and really bad gore effects i laughed out loud during most of the movie so i guess you could say that it showed me a good time beware viewer the above words in no way construe that this is a good film because it is not all i can say in my defense is that it was impossible to pass up a movie with such a great title,0
this remarkable film can be summed up very easily first of all while the comparisons to princess bride are inevitable it s almost futile to do so while both films combine adult wit and humor with a fairy tale backdrop stardust is so much different than any other fantasy sci fi film i ve ever seen it s such a hybrid of those genres but its plot and script are so unique that along with the performances special effects cinematography and score the finished product is simply not all that comparable to anything that has ever appeared on the silver screen secondly the score is very effective at simultaneously pulling us into the story and the fantasy world in which it takes place and pushing the story along while creating just the right amount of awe and excitement necessary to make the magic believable within the realm where the characters exist thirdly i did not find the film to be even remotely difficult to follow or confusing in any way in fact the interesting interplay between the three main subplots actually made it even that much more compelling to watch wonderfully casted and superbly acted across the board this fantasy adventure with sci fi elements was the best one i ve seen since return of the king not that i am comparing the two at all ok so its not that easy to sum up but don t let any crude and or heartless and cynical review nor the film s pathetic pr prevent you from partaking in the best time you could have at the movies this summer or even possibly in a long time,1
i won t try to speculate as to what brando was attempting at his best he turns in such oddball performances insinuating so many things at once that it doesn t seem he does anything so much as play by unfailing instinct often it seems he is calling attention to some favored aspect of his character over all others a concentration which if followed turns out something of a red herring as he turns out subtler craftier than at first appeared this is a mastery of artifice not naturalism as might be associated with the method the role of sky masterson as mankiewicz so wonderfully realized seems tailored for him which is to begin with odd and odd still at the end because whatever it is brando has done he has managed a grace maybe all his own but a consummate grace nonetheless again odd coming from an actor with limited musical ability not ever before or after associated with the musical comedy jean simmons also oddly cast is not quite as impressive but certainly above just adequate really delightful in the havana sequence and never less than enjoyable throughout and yet perhaps because actors are both so concentrated on what it is they are doing and characters on what it is they intend of each other there doesn t seem to be the lovers chemistry brought up so insistently more than once brando sky masterson and simmons sister sarah respectively feed off one another well enough but i for one don t see more beyond that in a movie this outrightly dazzling and entertaining and most everything about it craft wise is just that dazzling that lack would seem something tactfully and easily overlooked but so much would depend upon true chemistry an at least partial transformation of the characters through such chemistry would lend something positively moving to the final scene as it is one leaves this film certainly delighted but not really moved except in a way as to negate the trueness of the union note sister sarah marries in her missionary s uniform sky masterson in his same natty man about town duds rather than wedding tux and they have changed back to those from their previous scene funnily enough that is insightfully the most touching and most serious scene is i think between brando and vivian blaine as sinatra nathan detroit s doll adelaide the only scene where these two are exclusively together not least because there is just no hint of flirtation between them even though it takes place in adelaide s dressing room while adelaide is about to change though one may submit there is no place for that sky really is the type to check out adelaide in this sort of circumstance he is even there to tell adelaide nathan will not be meeting her to elope adelaide and sky are both true in their respective ways to nathan even piteous of him as is demonstrated through a tone in their exchange adelaide is of course also frustrated and disappointed but her anger is mitigated by her deeper feeling for nathan as sky is admonishing her that she can t love a man and then wish him to be someone else guys and dolls is another turn at the battle of the sexes around the themes of gambling and salvation since both the compulsive gambler and the salvation seeker are more or less unconsciously courting despair there just may be a dark secret deliberately behind brando s and simmons lack of chemistry after all that lack may well denote an excess of narcissistic preoccupation echoed by the sinatra blaine pairing though with considerably less self deception involved which might explain brando s and simmons odd rather provoking interpretations of sky masterson and sister sarah i realize simmons may be mostly depicting coldness and skepticism but brando though playing to confront her isn t exactly heated and eager and is more than keeping his distance he s also assimilating it keeping his balance through it his boldness consists in merely playing against her the trip to cuba a kiss whatever it takes but he is not actually set on winning through seducing her so much as beating her then in her own turf this may be shrewd as playing to zeal may be the only way to get to the missionary and through but it makes sky s transition from merely trying to win a bet to actually wanting sarah brown a little less than persuasive yet why does he want her what does falling in love mean to sky i find the only way to get around this is by indeed accepting his humanity has kicked in and that he does not want to end up a mere cad toward sister sarah so he does as he s promised her need to deliver the sinners to her prayer meeting make good by his marker as he puts it as a way of winning her back when it seems he had already won only to lose her but this still denotes self concern more than anything however it also allows for sarah brown s own self concern as sky will placate the missionary in her in order to get back the lover neither at least it seems will change much by their union except perhaps in the acceptance of the other yet that would seem an all but fatally uneasy proposition acceptance of is still quite a cry away from achieving happiness in the other let alone the transcendence they each seem to imply by chemistry and behind all this i suspect is mankiewicz s full knowing for all those who might say in defense of guys and dolls yet that not much can be expected from musicals by way of depth i need only remind them cabaret the three penny opera carousel a star is born even the sound of music which i don t care for as much and one can keep adding to this list without even reaching forward toward post cabaret musicals all wrap gorgeous music and dance around dire anxieties,1
it was life changing it really was the man in the moon is a breathtaking experience to watch the acting was fabulous the story line was great and this was a perfect start for reese witherspoon s career i don t see how anyone couldn t love this film sure it s not the best movie ever even though it was close to it but it was highly amusing to watch and i even had a big laugh at one of the jokes and a lot of other little laughs of course there was some cry your heart out moments too but this movie was enlightening and it brightens up your day although you have to get a little depressed from the story every now and then i can t believe this movie didn t win at least one award and i also can t believe that it s been seen by so little people on this site see this movie if you haven t for it is definitely touching,1
i thought it was an extremely clever film i was very pleased with it and truly couldn t ask for more i actually own the film because i didn t return it to someone which i should do but i really want to keep it due to how much i enjoyed it also the fact i don t own too many foreign films and this is a first now i personally love finnish stuff so that definitely added to how much i enjoyed it but overall its worth watching however if you re not into the whole trying to understand finnish or read subtitles bit then this film is not for you for sure,1
superb comic farce from paul mazursky richard dreyfuss plays jack noah a fairly successful actor who is on location shooting a film in a fictitious latin american banana republic parador ruled by the fascist alfonse sims who unfortunately has succumbed of a heart attack after indulging in too many local cocktails raul julia plays the oily chief of police who forces the reluctant noah to impersonate the just deceased dictator who noah bears a remarkable resemblance sonia braga plays the dictator s glamorously lusty mistress who gives noah a few lessons in how to act like a dictator jonathan winter s literally rounds off the cast as a cia man in parador posing as a hammock salesman can noah win over the people of parador and hold off the rebels and give the performance of a lifetime without losing his in the process sammy davis jnr has a cameo as himself who amusingly croons the national anthem of parador as well as begin the beguine frog number one fernando rey pops up as a kindly servant charo is also on hand as a busty maid the score by maurice jarre is excellent,1
this mini series is actually more entertaining than some others with much bigger budgets and grander aspirations sotd falls somewhere between kung fu and h r pufnstuff on the entertainment spectrum if it weren t so long nearly hours i think that kids would like it quite a bit it s got adventure action cliffhanger scenes and not too much romance or other icky stuff when you re young you re not too critical of flexing rubber swords campy acting and scenes that are repeated at least two scenes are repeated identically in the movie just as was done in old time serials in order to bring the audience up to speed finally kids are usually more accepting of american english dialogue coming out of the mouths of asian actors not to mention the fact that several of the leading roles are played by non asian actors i was going to give this movie three stars but i felt like the director producers and cast deserved some extra credit for at least carrying through on the project this movie is not art but like painting your house it actually took some time effort and discipline to get it made overall not a recommended use for your time but it might keep the kids entertained while traveling in the mini van oh yeah hey imdb dialogue is the preferred and traditional spelling your spell checking seems to think that dialog is the proper spelling while dialog is acceptable both webster s and the oed consider it an alternative form,0
first off i d like to say that the user comments alone left me with tears in my eyes from laughing one comment that bad sf movies become good comedies is right on the mark mst made it s living off that if you look at the angry red planet as the fever dream of a year old comic book reader from you ll have the handle on this sucker all the elements are there the pseudoscience occasionally logical more often hilariously infantile the adolescent boy attitude toward sex with the gigolo captain good call on that one guys making eyes at the buxom scientist with hair so red it s a wonder it doesn t set off the fire alarms the ridiculous conception of mars as a planet so alien that everything glows red yet one alien monster has a mouse face and the blob alien has an eye that rotates like a kid s toy the comic relief an overweight astronaut who sounds like he never finished the th grade in brooklyn and has a psychotic fixation on his ray gun and of course the mere fact that alien dangerously evil if these people had met e t they would have roasted him in two seconds flat ow indeed don t get me wrong i rated this movie low still it s never boring except when the scientist tries to explain everything only to make it all sound more and more ridiculous and you have to admit in your little kid core it makes you jump a few times okay then don t admit it i guess you were never,0
i had the mis fortune to see this film at a showing in the us having reluctantly sat through the entire abysmal thing i am shocked to have seen so many good reviews here on imdb the original film was a turkey but an interesting one it fitted into that early seventies post revolution thing this film just stinks of well nothing really it s that bad imagine a badly done perfume commercial see what i mean madonna never could act and has been an embarrassment on the big screen for years she looks worse and worse with every one of those years increasingly coming to resemble a skinned meerkat guy ritchie who has built his reputation on lock stock could never direct either his movies are shallow badly cut fashion shows he doesn t disappoint here either he wisely cast his wife as the star of this debacle please people take little heed of the good reviews this movie has received from other posters below they are quite obviously business plants don t encourage ritchie to humiliate himself further by giving him money,0
i can t figure out who greenlighted this thing it has no redeeming qualities none nada zip zilch the acting was bad the directing was bad the writing was bad the plot was bad the music was bad the editing was bad well at least the filmmakers were consistent,0
this is a beautiful rich and very well executed film with a rich and meaningful story basically it tells how an old master story teller needs to find a male heir to carry on his craft but ends up not getting what he expected in his very male dominated world the characters must then deal with their situation and the old master must grapple with the conflict between his desire for a companion and heir and his and society s traditional notions the story is fun emotional and complex the exploration of the characters their lives and emotions is rich and compelling the character development is strong while the characters are complex and not one dimensional at all the film expertly conveys the old man s emotions and his desire to find an heir and compellingly shows how he and the kid handle the situation there is also humour sometimes quite subtle at appropriate points the film also examines the good and bad of traditional chinese culture creating further interest and depth to the film the directing acting and scenery are all outstanding added to the other strengths this creates rich and convincing visual images and compelling real characters as a result the film evokes strong empathy for and feelings about the characters some have claimed that the ending weakens the film but i do not necessarily agree perhaps it could have been stronger with a different ending but any improvement in the overall film would have been rather small,1
this is a very intriguing short movie by david lynch and saying the name david lynch is probably enough for a lot of people this is your typical lynch short a blonde and a brunette are in a dark room the blonde has been crying the brunette is talking in a threatening way to the blonde and that s about it with a lot of silent moments but with the haunting music from angelo badalamenti there is a strange form of suspense this short feels a little like mulholland dr a movie i loved and therefore i liked this one as well it is probably especially for lynch fans but there is a chance you like this,1
when it comes to movies i am generally easily entertained and not very critical but must say that this movie was one big flop from the start i gave it minutes and then rewound it what a waste of some great talent i was very disappointed with this movie as it was not what i expected,0
guy ritchie s noble effort is beat up knocked down raped kicked around shot stabbed spit upon punched sodomized and abused and left for dead by madonna s dreadful performance her acting was very reminiscent of a graduate from the al gore school of dramatics and public speaking guy ritchie did do a somewhat noble attempt to remake this and if you exclude all of the scenes that his wife was in it s a fair movie at best i think that the best acting job ever had to be guy comforting his wife that her performance was good enough not to re shoot if you have an opportunity of watching swept away or clipping your toenails for minutes go for the extended pedicure,0
i have lately got into the habit of purchasing any interesting dvd that the criterion company releases i figure that even if i dislike the movie criterion usually supplies enough extra material to compensate for any shortcomings in the actual film i read up on them and i buy the ones which are the most interesting to me le million is my latest purchase and i must say that i was not disappointed in the film it is cheery funny and romantic everything about it is quite excellent the songs are wonderful if i understood french i would probably hum them and sing them all day long the acting is very good for this kind of movie american musicals of the classic hollywood era relied more on song and dance than the actual characters and story but in le million the characters are rather well developed and the story while not being anything extremely impressive is not at all lacking i loved the developments of the relationships especially the relationship between the once best friends michel and prosper the romantic moments are also very well developed the direction is nearly perfect with several very memorable moments probably the single most perfect scene of the film occurs right after the lead couple has an argument they hide on the stage of an opera performance and the opera singers sing lines which the couple michel and beatrice interpret to their own situation this is definitely one of the high points in cinema history the scene managed to make me laugh to win me over with a very sweet romance and make me smirk at just how clever the director was i give this film a p s some information for anyone who has the same faith in criterion that i do and is planning to buy it amongst the criterion discs i now own le million contains the fewest features all it has is a photo gallery not all that useful one might flip through it once and a rare television interview with rene clair the director this piece is of some interest he was one of the many directors who had started out in silent film and when talkies were first appearing he said that they represented the death of film i think most film savvy people understand what these directors meant when they said that but it is interesting to hear him explain it also if you have read the description of this movie on amazon com please note that they were wrong in one important respect not every line in the film is sung in fact it contains no more songs than a regular musical it is actually a lot more like a chaplin or buster keaton or marx brothers film my criticisms of the disc are not that important heck criterion has the right to smack me around for making those complaints the fact is their people probably spent hundreds of hours fixing up a film which only now people have voted for on imdb and only about a hundred people if that will ever see the film heck if you look at the criterion web site le million is nowhere to be found i have no clue why not it s something they should really be proud of of course their web site is surprisingly horrible they did a fine job on this film bravo they deserve all the money i can stand to give them,1
im gonna make this short and sweet because i don t think there is much you can really tell someone about this show who has never seen it other than its hilariously funny and unique for me its possibly the funniest show ever you have to really watch it to understand its humour and it took me a few episodes to really get into it but once your in there is no getting back out for example the way hydes character always wants to see his friends get in some sort of trouble the more it happens the funnier it becomes its all round classic i mean the cast the writers the director its just a recipe for success one actor i think who always gets a hard time is ashton kutcher but i mean he s great in this show i don t think its possible for the the character kelso to have been played by anyone else it takes someone very smart to play someone that stupid all the main characters are great and it wouldn t be a worth while review if i didn t mention the stone cold fox mila kunis now thats a spicy meet a ball ha ha all joking aside amazing show,1
anyone giving this movie a good review obviously must have had something to do with its creation this movie is a painful suckfest the acting is stiff the stock generic soundtrack is laughable the direction is bland and strangest of all the teacher really isn t all that attractive making the student s blatant advances all the more awkward the creative minds behind this trash should disband and spread out to prevent further displays of such concentrated craptitude i m certain that some starving kids in africa could have used the money squandered on this project hell the funds would have also seen a more enlightened purpose fueling a crack addict at least someone would be getting some entertainment out of it for the sole reason that it didn t give me a terminal illness i ll give this film a two,0
the decoy is one of those independent productions made by obvious newcomers but it doesn t have all the usual flaws that sink most such films it has a definite story it has adequate acting the photography is very good the hero and the bad guy are both formidable men and the background music isn t overdone this is a dvd new release so people will be looking here to see if it s worthwhile i don t know where all the s come from as there s no way this film is that good even if you re the filmmaker s mother the last film we saw at a theater was warner s trashing of j k rawlings much loved and excellent book order of the phoenix in comparing the decoy with phoenix consider that phoenix as made by warners had no story certainly no acting was allowed by the director the photography was dreadful and the wall of sound overbearing musical score was just a mess i rated phoenix a because the scale doesn t go any lower the decoy is times better in all regards if you have the opportunity give the decoy a chance remember this isn t decoy the shootout or any such nonsense it s original if your expectations aren t overblown by the foolish scores here you might just enjoy the film on its own terms,0
this movie was recently released on dvd in the us and i finally got the chance to see this hard to find gem it even came with original theatrical previews of other italian horror classics like spasmo and beyond the darkness unfortunately the previews were the best thing about this movie zombi in a bizarre way is actually linked to the infamous lucio fulci zombie franchise which began in similarly compared to zombie zombi consists of a threadbare plot and a handful of extremely bad actors that keeps this horror trash barely afloat the gore is nearly non existent unless one is frightened of people running around with green moss on their faces and the english dubbing is a notch below embarrassing the plot this time around involves some sort of covert military operation with a bunch of inept scientists ie an idiotic male and his stupid female side kick who are developing some sort of chemical called death one that is supposed to re animate the dead unless my ears need to be checked i don t even recall a reason for the research of death one it seems to exist only to wreak havoc upon the poor souls who made the mistake of choosing to star in this cinematic laugh fest anyway death one is experimented on a corpse whom i swear looked like yul brynner and after it is injected into his system he sits upright and his head explodes the sound effects are also quite hilarious as the corpse s face bubbles with green slime the sound of paper crumpling can be heard the death one toxin is transported outside and is hi jacked by a group of thieves where one makes off with it but infects himself after cutting himself on an exposed vial needless to say the guy turns into a zombie but not before he makes his timely escape to a cheap motel infects a lowly porter and murders a maid by pushing her face into a bathroom mirror the military catch wind of this and immediately take action before eliminating everyone who is unlucky enough to be within the contamination zone and turn the motel upside down they find the infected thief and burn his body only to have the smoke infect a flock of birds that are flying over the chimney stack we cut to the introduction of a group of men who are on leave from the army listening to groovy music that is coming out of a little dinky boom box while trailing a trailer load of slutty girls who are leaning out of the windows and showing off their chests can someone say zombie food we also have a sub plot involving a girl and her boyfriend driving a car who stop to inspect a group of birds lying on the road the same birds that were infected by the zombie smoke the birds attack the boyfriend and the girl drives off to a deserted gas station to seek water this is one of the most incredibly hilarious moments of the movie she walks around this old dirty rusty and obviously abandoned building where she continues to ask aloud hello is there anyone here please i just need some water she encounters a group of zombies one of which is chained to a wall and the other is swinging a machete after a bit of rumbling and tumbling around on the ground she escapes but not before blowing up the gas station with her lighter meanwhile the birds attack the trailer load of whores and one girl gets pecked and infected they all pull up to the same motel where the original infection took place and this is where the second most hilarious moment of the film takes place after a matter of hours a day at the most the same motel is now caked in dust has vines growing throughout it and looks like it has been sitting derelict for years anyway what better place to take refuge than this particular building needless to say the group begins to break down as several people walk off together to get themselves stuck in an incredibly stupid situation involving a zombie attack the third most hilarious moment concerns a man and a woman who explore a deserted village of which the woman comments this place is a dump she then proceeds to get pushed off a balcony by a zombie into pirahna infested water where she has her legs bitten off and turns into a zombie within seconds meanwhile her friend back at the motel who got pecked and infected hours earlier is still turning into a zombie unfortunately there are just too many inconsistencies in this movie that makes this movie just too stupid for words for example the time rate concerning infected people being zombified differs greatly sometimes it takes seconds other times it takes hours some zombies run others drag their feet and walk really slow some even do kung fu moves while others hide under stacks of hay to surprise people some of the zombies even talk the funniest moment of course is the infamous zombie head in the fridge gag which elevates itself in mid air and attacks a stupid man who goes looking for food funnily enough his girlfriend gets her throat torn out by it s headless counter part lmao the biggest disappointment for me though was the lack of story lines involving the people who are in fact killed by zombies we never get to see them come back as zombies in fact the only ones we do see zombified are the ones pecked by the birds and the one girl who gets her legs bitten off other than that i was at least expecting the couple who were killed in the kitchen and or the guy who was killed on the bridge to come back as zombies it is also amazing that these zombies only take a few bites and then move on to their next victim the most laughable moment was of course the zombie fetus a pregnant woman who has been infected lies on a bed in a hospital a woman who seems to have a lot of medical knowledge tries to deliver the baby and has her face pulled off by a zombie before having her head pushed into the woman s stomach where a hand bursts out and proceeds to rip the rest of her face off timeless as usual all the characters are perfect stereotypes of this genre the megalomaniacal military officer the pathetic useless squealing women who scream to get killed the obvious characters who are about to get killed ie watch for the man chasing a chicken i guess this movie really is a comedy there were many laughable scenes such as the shed that gets blown up with a hand grenade obviously the scene where the entire budget was spent and a climatic scene where a man screams i m thirsty thirsty for your blood the costumes are really bad the same zombies reappear throughout the course of the film wearing the same asian like clothing that may be found in a bruce lee film and watch out for the blue s skirt the girl at the motel is wearing when she and her boyfriend bump into the infected man the end of the film leaves open the door as usual for the apocalyptic story line a radio dj who narrates throughout the whole movie turns out to be a zombie himself and warns his listeners about the beginning of the end while the two survivors take off in a helicopter hardly dawn of the dead material if you ask me regardless this movie does deliver many laughs the gore is minimal and what gore there is it is very unconvincing let alone unimaginative the usual mix of black blood thick green goo oozing out of weeping sores and zombie make up consisting of green moss zombi makes for a good rental for a sleep over party or a night of beer and popcorn other than that horror fans should stay away out of,0
why because for one reason there has never been a more adorable scene in any film than ann margret singing bye bye birdie at the opening she reprises it again at the ending too in a different mood both wonderful rent it and see even if that s all of it that you watch you ll agree i m sure everything about the original was so excellent it just didn t need a remake sorry jason and vanessa gave commendable performances as well as tyne and chynna in fact all the actors and singers in this new version were giving their all but it s like trying to improve on casablanca it just can t be done it s even annoying finding yourself comparing the two mentally as you try to appreciate the remake and it just falls short through no fault of the actors,0
the supernatural vengeful police officer is back for a third installment this time acting as guardian angel for a wrongfully accused female cop standard stalk and slash picture yet well acted and directed thus making it oddly interesting and watchable though the violence isn t for the squeamish especially the director s cut which was originally given an nc rating out of,0
the most succinct way to describe ride with the devil is with but one word authenticity i will not rehash what has already been said about this wonderous film but i would like to say how much the historical research and painstaking attention to detail the crew no doubt went through was appreciated by this filmgoer as a student of history familiar with the period and setting of this film i must say that this production is one of the most accurate fictional films regarding bleeding kansas yes there were liberties taken on the actual events as all fiction is apt to do but the overall feel of the film is genuine authentic costumes authentic attitudes no pc hindsight here even the actors look authentic even jewel kilcher who has a small part in the film looked like she stepped form a mid th century photograph a few viewers i talked with have expressed their incredulity at the stylized dialog they cannot believe that th century farmers would talk like poets what they don t realize is that in this age of verbal slobbishness the american public public of the th century was a surprisingly literate and eloquent bunch these people were raised on shakespeare and the king james version of the bible the screenwriters reconstructed the most likely verbal styles of these people judging from documentation of the time the stylized dialog just adds to the magical atmosphere of the film but in addition to a historical document this film works on a visceral level as well beautifully photographed and performed it harkens back to the days of the great western epics the raid on lawrence kansas done so many times before in so many other lesser films is portrayed with a sense of urgency that puts the viewer right in the midst of the action romance adventure moral and ethical conflict this film has everything a discerning moviegoer could want in a year that was dominated by overhyped garbage like american beauty this great artwork was buried by an indifferent studio system but i am certain that ride with the devil will be given it s due in the coming years please rent this film you will not be disappointed,1
strangely enough this movie never made it to the big screen in denmark so i had to wait for the video release my expectations where high but they where in no way disappointed as always with ang lee there is fantastic acting an intelligent and thrilling plot that has you guessing right till the end and superb filming along with unforgiven this is easily one of the two best westerns of the `s people who expect something along the line of mel gibson in the patriot corny or braveheart acceptable will be sourly disappointed all others who appreciate the above mentioned qualities will have a fantastic time watching it out of,1
hi everyone if you saw singing in the rain you remember the scene of gene kelly dancing in the rain you also remember the dance number of donald o connor make em laugh if you saw royal wedding you will remember fred astaire dancing on the ceiling if you saw jailhouse rock you will even remember the title dance number choreographed by the king himself that is what is missing here there could have been some blockbuster dance numbers in this presentation the closest was chuck mcgowan s i can do that the mere fact that you have some talented people on stage moving together does not make a great dance film richard attenborough was to blame for this failure he pointed the camera at the stage and thought that would be a good thing yelling at people auditioning for a part in a broadway production is not entertainment michael douglas would be just as badly cast if he were in a western or a comedy he is ok when he is in a michael douglas movie where we see him yelling at someone we would like to yell at it does not work here the cast was good except for michael of course a good movie could have been made even using the songs that were in the stage production but someone should have thought about how to film it next time they do one of these i hope they call me first tom willett,0
tony arzenta a sicilian hit man or professional killer decides to leave the business and his former employers do not agree in terms of content this highly enjoyable action movie doesn t have one in terms of sheer amusement it is fun it is very melodramatic violent quite brutal the car chases are notable arzenta is an unpretentious yet very likable film much better than the current hollywoodian trash that gets the same label it comes from delon s rather short flirting with the italian b cinema of the s it carefully uses delon s tough guy persona belonging to the gallery of bad ass thugs that he made in his youth i enjoyed very much the fact that delon made this film that he had a role in a good eurocrime flick the score is very fine with a good introductory song making felt that gusto that the italians had for the film considered as a synthetic work where the musical art has an important part in tony arzenta big guns no way out the very appealing erika blanc years in appears as an unnamed hooker meanwhile arzenta s girlfriend sandra is played by carla gravina a starlet that practically left the movies after arzenta is interestingly filmed an ambitious visual conception some expressionistic peculiar angles the movie was directed by the prolific duccio tessari the one who made also zorro the delon comedy needless to mention that these two films tony arzenta and zorro are very unlike the first one is a bloody melodramatic violent action movie the second is a lighthearted comedy more kindred to a spoof though remarkably coherent and skilfully made duccio tessari directed films like kiss kiss bang bang sons of satan the bloodstained butterfly viva la muerte tua tough guys safari express etc,1
this film stands head and shoulders above the vast majority of cinematic romantic comedies it is virtually flawless the writing acting production design humor and pathos are all wonderful even the music from dean martin to la boheme is captivating and delightful every character is peculiarly delightful and memorable from the leads played by cher and nicolas cage to the many supporting roles olympia dukakis vincent gardenia john mahoney danny aiello even grandpa with his dog pack each of these performers plus norman jewison as director performs above their normal quality in this ensemble work for several of the actors this was an early major exposure in film so the casting is also exceptional and we have many current acting powerhouses whose careers were altered by their effectiveness in this film i ve seen this film several times all the way through which can sometimes deflate the impact of a film substantially more tellingly i realized some years ago that whenever i channel surfed my way into a scene from this film any scene the scene was compelling and beautifully crafted there are so many stunning and memorable scenes the original meeting between the cher and nicolas cage characters where cage tells his tale of woe vincent gardenia discovered with his paramour at the opera amidst the splendor generated by his gold mine plumbing business olympia dukakis scolding john mahoney for philandering with his student in the classic line about liaisons with co workers don t sh t where you eat danny aiello at his dying mother s bedside nicolas cage taking cher as the rapture of an aria soars in the background there are of course many great romantic comedies among them sabrina both versions but especially the audrey hepburn humphrey bogart william holden original when harry met sally the apartment none quite equals moonstruck,1
but the rest of us who love a good sentimental and emotional story that is a lock to get you crying enjoy tom hulce is magnificent as dominick a mentally slow trashman who loves professional wrestling and his brother eugene played by ray liotta who is a doctor and who works very long hours due to eugene s work schedule dominick is alone a lot of the time and tends to make questionable judgment calls he really just wants to be a good boy to do the right thing and to make his brother proud of him he stops in church to pray at one point and expresses his emotions so openly and so well that the character has you crying before the damn movie even gets really started not about to give anything away here but the movie is extremely involving and sad and heartbreaking those unafraid of these things will have a field day with this beautiful story its loving characters and a great song i cannot quote here that has nothing to do with the movie at all but is strangely appropriate but you hear it in a bar i thought tom hulce would be nominated for this movie since he was for amadeus i figured that might give him the inside track to actually winning no such luck liotta is just as good but has less of an emotional impact but then he does later on all i can say about jamie lee curtis is that she doesn t have much of a part here but it was nice of her to lend her name to a small drama set in pittsburgh about two brothers who you will never forget,1
who could possibly have wished for a sequel to bert i gordon s legendary bad trash film food of the gods nobody of course but director damien lee thought it was a good idea anyway and he put together a belated sequel that stands as one of the most redundant movies in horror history gnaw is a sequel in name only as the setting moved to a typical late s location a university campus and also the cheap cheesy gore effects perfectly illustrates the s this script hangs together by clich s awfully written dialogs and plot situations that are not so subtly stolen from other and more successful horror classics neil hamilton is a goody two shoes scientist who performs growing experiments on ordinary rodents in order to do a fellow scientist a favor due to some incredibly stupid animal rights activists the huge and ravenous rats escape and devour pretty much everyone on campus following the good old tradition that spielberg s jaws started there s an obnoxious dean who refuses to admit the problem even though severely mutilated corpses are turning up everywhere during a hysterically grotesque climax the rats invade the opening ceremony of the campus new sport complex gnaw food of the gods is terribly bad and therefore a lot of fun to watch the characters do and say unimaginably stupid stuff like descending into the sewers unarmed while they know it s infested with rats the acting is atrocious and there s a genuinely bizarre sequence involving the hero having sex under the influence of growth serum i wonder what freud s theory would be on that there s a satisfying amount of gore and sleaze and it has to be said the music is surprisingly atmospheric in case you just can t get enough of this junk there are quite a lot of creature features revolving on mutated rats like the italian schlock film rats night of terror the modest s cult film willard and its lame sequel ben the willard remake starring crispin glover and the surprisingly good recent rat movies by once famous directors tibor ticaks rats and john lafia the rats go nuts,0
a scanner darkly minority report blade runner sin city and sky captain and the world of tomorrow if you are a fan of any of these then this will be well worth checking out french animation project renaissance took seven years to make on a shoestring budget and tonight i finally got to see it at a private screening for the international film festival in stockholm my spontaneous reaction is awe my further reflection is huh neat and closer analysis regrettably gets a resounding meh it is a gorgeous science fiction triumph on the surface but scratch it or even poke it a little and its unnecessarily complex plot becomes glaringly apparent as do the flat characters nevertheless it is clear that the people at onyx films have done something spectacular with the aforementioned surface the visuals are staggering they have used live action motion capture fitted into key frame animation with stark jet black and bright white contrasts and a heavily shadowed rotoscoped background for those of you who are not down with the technical lingo the film looks like a fully animated sin city its fluid transparent dark and stylized template is complemented by great lurid lightning it s a vision yet much credit is also due to the crisp sound effects that take the form of humming futuristic weapons suspenseful music heavy raindrops and glass shards breaking it s every tech nerd s wet dream the film zooms in on an eerily lit bleak futurescape paris in which a major corporation called avalon has begun to interweave in the lives of the citizens with surveillance think the fluid transparent screens from minority report and genetic engineering the latter leads to a mysterious kidnapping of young researcher ilona voiced by the lovely romola garai cut to our hard boiled cop on suspension and protagonist karas daniel craig a man who takes the law into his own hands who is assigned the case of finding and retrieving ilona during this case he is being aided by illona s sister with whom he also begins a love affair a very half assed love affair if i may say so the world of renaissance is remarkable director christian volckman takes a fair jab at melting the noir themes and the result is an urban jungle filled with cads rats femme fatales and lonely detectives that hide in the shadows of the seedy slum the problem is that the creators undoubtedly felt the need to have extremely clear and spelled out archetypes in the story or the film would have been too surreal for mainstream audiences owing to its lurid animation format it follows then that we have a multitude of clich d characters such as evil laughing villains sleazy crime bosses and butch tough chicks who blow smoke every chance they get it shoves noir in our faces and it isn t necessary what is worse is that the dialogue is a little contrived it seems as though every line exists for the sole reason of propelling the plot this is nothing fatal because the plot is so complex once it gets going that it needs some clear direction daniel craig helps here too by bringing a no nonsense attitude to his hard edged cop character at one point in renaissance he is seen in a vivid car chase that surely is one of the most adrenaline pumping and top notch sequences of the film unfortunately the novelty of the sci fi visuals have worn off post this car chase and renassaince could benefit from being slightly shorter in summary a very interesting but flawed futuristic comic book experience out of,1
stan laurel and oliver hardy had extensive separate film careers before they were eventually teamed for many of ollie s pre stan films he was billed on screen as babe hardy and throughout his adult life hardy was known to his friends as babe while touring postwar britain with laurel in a music hall act for bernard delfont hardy gave an interview to journalist john mccabe in which he explained the origin of this nickname early in his acting career hardy got a shave from a gay hairdresser who squeezed hardy s plump cheeks the ones on his face and said nice baby hardy s workmates started crying him babe and the nickname stuck although much of hardy s pre laurel work is very interesting notably his comedy roles in support of larry semon and the chaplin imitator billy west his teamwork with billy ruge who in a series of low budget shorts for the vim comedy film company is very dire indeed hardy and ruge were given the screen names plump and runt names which are unpleasant in their own right but made worse because ruge although shorter than hardy isn t especially a runt seen here hardy looks much as he does in his early hal roach films with laurel but without the spit curls and the fastidious little moustache one too many an absolutely typical plunt and runt epic is direly unfunny and its dreichness is made even more conspicuous by the fact that this film has exactly the same premise as that s my wife one of laurel and hardy s most hilarious films plump hardy is the star boarder in a rooming house run by a tall gawky landlady runt ruge is the porter plump receives a letter from his wealthy uncle john whose dosh he expects to inherit his uncle is coming to see him and to meet plump s wife and baby there s only one problem plump hasn t got a wife and baby he s been lying to his uncle in order to seem a family man now of course plump expects runt to find him a wife and baby on short notice of course the results are disastrous it would be nice if those disastrous results were funny but they aren t most of the unfunny humour here is just empty slapstick with characters settling their arguments by shoving each other into bathtubs spoilers coming vim director will louis who shows no instinct for camera framing the actress who plays the landlady is significantly taller than hardy and louis consistently sets up his shots so that her head is out of frame this could be funny if done on purpose but it s merely inept at one point in this bad comedy an extremely tasteless gag is looming on the horizon as runt approaches a black laundress surely they wouldn t stoop that low for a laugh i thought but they do runt steals the woman s black infant and tries to fob this off as plump s progeny somehow plump acquires an infant s cot but he still hasn t got a baby with uncle john coming up the stairs plump conscripts runt for babyhood this gag might just possibly have worked with a midget or even with a truly runt sized actor such as chester conklin but billy ruge is only slightly below average height ruge s impersonation of a baby is neither believable nor funny and uncle john would have to be a complete moron to fall for it amazingly he does the most notable aspect of one too many is a brief appearance apparently her only ever film appearance by madelyn saloshin oliver hardy s first wife the marriage was not a happy one although hardy s marital troubles never attained the epic proportions of stan laurel s only one thing in this movie impressed me there is a very brief flashback sequence with hardy reminiscing about his seaside romance with a bathing beauty in there was still not yet a standard film grammar for conveying flashbacks the one shown here is done gracefully and simply too bad this movie has no other merits one too many is definitely one film too many on oliver hardy s cv and i ll rate this movie just one point out of laurel and hardy together are definitely much funnier than either of them separately,0
marlene gorris has established herself as one of the world s great directors this sensitive visually beautiful film is based on a story by vladimir nabokov and captures well that writer s dark irony john turturro gives what i consider to be his finest performance i am usually not a fan of his and emily watson is brilliant as well well worth seeing,1
although cameron grant was clearly hired to replace andrew blake over at ultimate pictures when the latter started his own company studio a he practically outdid the master right out of the gate when it came to setting up steamy sex scenes so while all the window dressing blake had pioneered starlets in fetish lingerie and sun glasses coiffed and made up as if they re about to hit the catwalk remained very much present and accounted for grant added his own personal spin to the carnal content in doing so he raised the heat to a level that had eluded big a ever since his first and imho best film night trips cam s maiden effort elements of desire might still have been handicapped by an overly slavish adherence to the blake aesthetic with a surfeit of girl on girl gropes but his subsequent dinner party already shows him at the top of his form in what must surely rank as his masterpiece the title spells out the premise as a group of well to do friends and acquaintances gather over dinner to swap sexy stories with an extended orgy at the conclusion scrumptious juli ashton and tammy parks smear food stuff all over each other s flawless physiques in their kitchen sequence that is sure to delight those with a taste towards combining pleasures of the palette with those of the flesh busty crystal gold here catalina was rarely more than a reliable second stringer adding spice to several ona zee bargain basement noirs yet looks absolutely stunning here in a romantic four poster frolic with fabio lookalike vince voyeur beautiful blondes kylie ireland and yvonne making out with marc davis for the record the latter two were an item at the time under a waterfall complete the eye candy section of the movie time to get cooking early jenna jameson daisy back then foreshadows the greatness to come as she drains frank towers mark slade on his subsequent shift to the gay side of the industry of all vital juices albeit with a little help from brunette diva for effective contrast the scene s stylish industrial setting providing an atmospheric backdrop to the full tilt sex taking place impossibly hunky construction worker gerry pike seeks to cool off on a sweltering summer day by hosing down a prospect too tantalizing for prim n proper business woman asia carrera at her all time most achingly pretty to pass up best of show must be the imaginative sequence that has nasty norma jeane and handsome sean michaels teasing the pants off each other for starters while separated by a glass partition right until the predictably splashy conclusion with sex that proves either artsy or hot and more often than not both grant has concocted a veritable sm rg sbord of fleshy wares to continue the film s gastronomic analogy the title implies couples may be the prime intended audience but an alternation between naughty n nice should rightfully include that something for everything recipe so many adult features are aiming for acting as his own dop the director shows great eye for detail like the shot of asia carrera s pristine white shoes being spattered with mud enriching his vision this marks him out as a great filmmaker rather than a merely serviceable one as was the case with nick steele who stepped up to take his place at ultimate effectively making him a replacement s replacement when he packed up for greener pastures,1
halloween is not only the godfather of all slasher movies but the greatest horror movie ever john carpenter and debra hill created the most suspenseful creepy and terrifying movie of all time with this classic chiller michael myers is such a phenomenal monster in this movie that he inspired scores of imitators such as jason vorhees friday the th the miner my bloody valentine and charlie puckett the night brings charlie okay so i got a little obscure there but it just goes to show you the impact that this movie had on the entire horror genre no longer did a monster have to come from king tut s tomb or from dr frankenstein s lab he could be created in the cozy little neighborhoods of suburbia and on the night he came home haddonfield illinois and the viewers would never be the same there are many aspects of this movie that make it the crowning jewel of horror movies first is the setting it takes place in what appears to be a normal suburban neighborhood many of us who grew up in an area such as this can easily identify with the characters this is the type of neighborhood where you feel safe but if trouble starts to brew nobody wants to lift a finger to get involved especially when a heavy breathing madman is trying to skewer our young heroine along with the setting the movie takes place on halloween the scariest night of the year while most people are carving jack o lanterns michael myers is looking to carve up some teenie boppers besides the setting there is some great acting jamie lee curtis does a serviceable job as our heroine laurie strode a goody two shoes high schooler who can never seem to find a date however it is donald pleasance as dr sam loomis who really steals the show his portrayal of the good doctor who knows just what type of evil hides behind the black eyes of michael myers and feels compelled to send him to hell once and for all is the stuff of horror legend however it is the synthesizer score that really drives this picture as it seems to almost put the viewer into the film once you hear it you will never forget it i also enjoy the grainy feel to this picture nowadays they seem to sharpen up the image of every movie giving us every possible detail of the monster we are supposed to be afraid of in halloween john carpenter never really lets us get a complete look at michael myers he always seems like he is a part of the shadows and i think that is what makes him so terrifying there are many scenes where michael is partly visible as he spies on the young teens unbeknownst to them which adds to his creepiness if you think about some wacko could be watching you right now and you wouldn t even know it unfortunately for our teenagers and fortunately for us horror fans when they find michael he s not looking for candy on this halloween night he s looking for blood finally michael myers himself is a key element to this movie s effectiveness his relentless pursuit of laurie strode makes him seem like the killer who will never stop he is the bogeyman that will haunt you for the rest of your life so if you have not seen this movie if there are still some of you out there who haven t or even if you have grab some popcorn turn off every light pop this into the old dvd and watch in fright trick or treat,1
a reasonable effort is summary for this film a good sixties film but lacking any sense of achievement maggie smith gave a decent performance which was believable enough but not as good as she could have given other actors were just dreadful a terrible portrayal it wasn t very funny and so it didn t really achieve its genres as it wasn t particularly funny and it wasn t dramatic the only genre achieved to a satisfactory level was romance target audiences were not hit and the movie sent out confusing messages a very basic plot and a very basic storyline were not pulled off or performed at all well and people were left confused as to why the film wasn t as good and who the target audiences were etc however maggie was quite good and the storyline was alright with moments of capability,0
this movie is maybe the most touching and uplifting one that i have ever seen i am not a religious person but sometimes a great piece of art like this movie can give me an almost religious experience one suddenly realizes that there is really meaning to life i must admit that when i first heard about this movie i was sceptical i thought the plot sounded contrived and i was afraid that the story would be banal but being a david lynch fan i decided to give it a go it took me about minutes to be fully captured by the movie but then i was completely lost in it there is so much wisdom and warmth in this movie i left the cinema feeling that i had truly learned something valuable about life this is not a typical david lynch movie and in some ways it was very surprising that he should make such a film after exploring the dark sides of human nature for so many years on the other hand i am not surprised that he manages to convey deep emotions and profound human insight because i also thought he managed that very well in the elephant man lynch is one of the most gifted directors around and i think the straight story is his best yet,1
what a mess why was this movie made this and other movies of its caliber should be teaching tools on how not to make a movie children may like it but anyone over may or will disapprove to make matters worse was the fact that such great talent like whoopi goldberg and armin mueller stahl were entirely wasted in a film unworthy of any notice,0
so i m looking to rent a dvd and i come across this movie called end game it stars james woods and cuba gooding jr and has the synopsis of a taught political thriller well worth a look then or so i thought boy was i wrong end game has just about the most ridiculous plot i have ever had the displeasure of enduring now being something of a whodunnit i can t really tear into it as i would like without ruining it for those who have yet to experience this monstrosity but questions such as why has he she they done this and where on earth did they get the resources to pull this off are all too abundant following the film s unintentionally hilarious conclusion as for the acting you know those films where you can almost feel that an actor s realised that they ve made a terrible mistake in signing on for a movie and this then shows in their performance this is one of those accompany this with a laughable script and seriously flawed irritating direction and you have the recipe for cinematic poison of course this didn t make it to the cinema and for the same reason you should not allow it into your living room it is appalling,0
i watched this film a long time ago aprox years or so and liked it then i remembered it the other day and decided to watch it again the second time around was not pleasant the acting is so so the plot is illogical unreasonable and predictable the acting i m sure it wasn t a stretch for those actresses to play those characters the plot there s no way in hell those women would have gotten away with the first robbery much less the nd side note why did tt not realise that even if she came up with a load of money for her court date they would ask where she got it and she would have no logical answer ding ding we have a crook it horribly stereotyped black women in saying basically that the only way black women can beat the system or obtain a large amount of money was to steal it and not use their intelligence or other resources it plays too much on sympathy b c all of them die in the end bar jada but it s not sad you re thinking they were so stupid they deserve to die you just don t really care about the characters unless you re a shallow person i can t believe this film rates over a,0
this is a hard boiled warner brothers film starring a very young barbara stanwyck a consummate master at portraying machiavellian cool a technique she perfected eleven years later in billy wilder s double indemnity stanwyck plays lily powers the well worn daughter of a violent speakeasy owner in a suffocating steel town she has been rendered cynical and numb by years of being offered up as a sexual favor to her father s customers once her father dies in a distillery explosion she hops a freight train to new york and literally sleeps her way up the corporate ladder of a bank this would come across as preposterous were it not for stanwyck s blazing work here with her dead eyed stare and amoral seduction methods it is easy to see why men become addicted to her aggressive carnality one of the young men she seduces along the way is a fresh faced john wayne as of all things an accountant named jimmy mccoy the melodrama gets heavy handed toward the last third of the film with a murder suicide a hush hush job in paris to keep lily quiet and the new bank president who is so addicted to lily that he embezzles company funds to keep her in luxury a tacked on ending is somewhat disappointing but not before stanwyck sears the screen the film has curious touches like lily s bonding friendship with an african american woman named chico and the german immigrant who teaches lily about nietzsche philosophy regarding the importance of avoiding sentimentality,1
rating by the film snob see our blog what to see next for details on our rating system here s a movie that will have you clawing at your own face in an attempt to earn release from the on screen tedium you ll not be wringing your hands nor rolling your eyes nor sighing into your popcorn no indeed for a movie of this averagousity only clawing at your own face will do when you begin to claw your own face as begin you must start in at the lower portion you ll need your upper portion with its handy tear ducts intact for the truly tear jerking third act which may bring you to your knees if you haven t clawed your way clear of the entire theatre by then in a season celebrating joe six pack and hockey moms as the new gold standard for leadership and foreign diplomacy permaybe a movie this tedium will be welcomed as a thing that anyone could create watching it however is a much more dangerous undertaking here s our story sidney young the london publisher of a fourth tier celebrity entertainment magazine is just about to see his magazine go under he needs a miracle and what he gets is a phone call from new york city in the usa the publisher of sharp s magazine clayton harding played by jeff bridges says come work for me with his own employees carrying out the fax machine out of his apartment office in the background saying yes is a no brainer soon sidney is at work in new york city doing allllllll the wrong things his interviews consist of asking broadway musical directors if they are jewish and gay he kills the pet dog of sohpie maes the industry s hottest movie star when she leaves it in the magazine s offices during a business luncheon this is a spot of bad luck for everyone for among other things sidney imagines that he is in love with maes before he wakes up to the dunst character worst of all he totally alienates alison olsen played by winsome scripting confusion by kristen dunst a colleague assigned to show him the ropes of the magazine and the big apple we have of course been to a movie before and so we know how this relationship is going to end up this is therefore why we ll need intact tear ducts for the movie s third act the problem with the thing is the script just never jells excepting for the one tear duct set piece in which true love prevails publisher harding is supposed to be a son of a bitch who also wants to just throw the whole job over the script never comes down firmly on one or the other sides of this dichotomy however and bridges is left to twist and waffle in the breeze alison olsen is supposed to despise sidney young but whenever he comes up to her as he does constantly she makes a point of engaging him in conversation instead of attempting to discourage his existence the comedy of early scenes is built around a piglet destroying an expensive hotel room and then taking the elevator downstairs to urinate on the expensive high heels of a celebrity at a cocktail reception the hot starlet maes confesses that she is attracted to young because he is wounded the character never shows us why he is wounded however this is yet another resultant of the movie s mortally wounded script at one hours and fifty minutes this thing feels longer and more deadly than napoleon s retreat from moscow it is uninspiring unfunny unredeemable and not even rentable run away,0
i caught this a few months ago on family channel and having some memories of the tv show from my youth decided to watch it along with my year old daughter i should have got some psychedelic mushrooms to go along with it cause this is just bizarre not only is it a musical with annoyingly forgettable tunes the requisite cheesy effects and cameos by stars long past their collective primes it seems to have been produced as somebody s good acid trip talking flutes british children far too old for this kind of crap in the words of krusty the klown uuuuuugggghhhhh what was i on if you re a huge fan of the whole sid and marty krofft oeuvre go for it otherwise unless you re willing to get looped before watching stay far far far away,0
this is what i wrote to some friends earlier holy crap the grudge is honest to god one of the scariest films i ve ever seen i am either getting very soft in my old age or sam raimi and ghost pictures did a kick a job can t wait for boogeyman i was very scared sitting in the dark theater and wished i had someone anyone sitting next to me except the protagonist in grudge i saw the movie by myself i swear there were many many jump scenes that were not expected i felt foolish but my nerves did not care i was on edge the entire movie from the opening credits and the music was fantastically scary i keep thinking of that sound though and i do not like it i actually gasped aloud a few times and cried oh at one scene oh yeah i even half covered my eyes a few times word to the wise though i thought some of the scenes were a little psychotic my dh hated event horizon and thought whoever wrote it was sick and psycho but i don t remember the movie so can t compare i can t say i enjoyed this movie b c i was terrified but it was very very good and scary the ending scene too whoa for being a year old mommy i think i may have nightmares from this movie especially because of that sound please get out of my head in summary this is not a slasher flick like i grew up with jason freddy this is a most of the time spooky movie perfect for halloween two great trailers for this movie were boogeyman and the ring,1
jacknife is a war movie that is just about as far removed from the war as war movies get it can hardly be classified as a war film because the only way that any war has an effect on the story or the characters is in their memories of it and even these we are hardly ever shown it poses very interesting questions about life especially in the way that the movie s tagline says that only one of them is really alive and by the way even though the tagline refers only to dave ed harris and megs robert deniro it is talking about all three of the characters in the film dave and megs were friends in the vietnam war and megs has returned to take dave out on a fishing trip that they have been planning for a lot longer than you might have guessed deniro provides a perfect performance of the character of megs who we are not really sure if we should like or if he really is as nuts as martha thinks he is dave reminds martha several times that megs is not his friend just someone he knows there is a great scene early in the film where megs has gone out to grab a six pack of beer from his car for breakfast and he is just around the corner of the room when dave says this megs pauses for a moment and then proceeds into the room with a smile and a huge greeting it isn t until later that you realize how megs must have felt when he heard that having been the one to remember what they had planned to do on this day it reminds me of the fakeness of the old `sure let s do that thing that people so often say to each other never having any plans to do any such thing ed harris delivers a wonderful performance as dave who never got over the effects that the war had on him even so many years later he has not managed to get over the death of a friend during the war blaming himself to this day for it and thus drowning his life in alcohol cigarettes and loneliness all he wants he says is for people to leave him alone this is not a man who is living his life the way he wants whether people actually leave him alone or not he is a man trying to forget that he s alive to detach himself from the world of the living as much as possible his sister martha reminds me of myself at least in terms of my roommates i have two roommates who are and years old and both act like they still live with their mothers expecting their messes to just go away when they leave the room for a while one on particular the older one sadly enough has absolutely no clue how to care for himself i m surprised i don t have to wipe his chin while he eats martha has to do much the same for her brother who she waits on hand and foot while he staggers through life from one hangover to the next martha and dave are stuck in a stagnant life and neither of them can get out of it until something major changes and dave is the one that needs to do the changing i tend to complain about romance in movies where it just doesn t belong about as much as roger ebert complains about those pathetic little tension devices the red digital readout but in this case i don t think that the romance that develops between megs and martha had any adverse affect on the rest of the movie on the contrary it made it that much more interesting because it was not predictable the problem with the romantic subplots in bruckheimer movies and whatnot is that they are so predictable that you just wait for the obvious end to come and hope that something interesting happens along the way in this case however it s not as obvious that something is going to happen between megs and martha because we don t know enough about megs martha could be right about him that he s one of dave s crazy war buddies and that he s not the kind of man that she should be dating dave certainly encourages this idea spoilers a couple years after this movie deniro did cape fear where he plays a deranged criminal out for revenge against the lawyer that landed him in prison a character that in retrospect makes it pretty easy to think that maybe at the end of jacknife martha realizes her mistake gets rid of megs and she and dave make up because he saved her from a horrible relationship and then he decides to clean up his act because he has done something good for her i was half expecting this to happen so i was pleasantly surprised when martha and megs wound up together and even more pleasantly surprised when megs asks dave all the questions about what they had planned to do after the war was over at times this is a slow moving drama but jacknife is entertaining along the way and has a huge payoff at the end which amazingly manages to be sappy without being cheesy there is an almost excess of emotion at the end of the film that scarcely fits with the rest of the movie but it is so good that it doesn t dumb down anything that the movie has accomplished up to that point everyone involved gives a wonderful performance and it is one of those rare films that just about makes you want to stand up and shake your fists victoriously in the air,1
i have to say that sometimes looks are all that matters just like jeremy clarkson from bbc has pointed out not about our earth though but he is right anyway and when it comes to looks this movie is such an unbelievably stunning beauty you will absolutely love what your eyes are about to see and then there s the personality of the movie as well interesting with a captivating narrator voice and narrator stories that will touch your soul as you watch those superbly filmed images the movie probably won t affect your lifestyle ruining these beauties but it will certainly remember you how precious our earth we live on truly is this movie deserves it s stars as it is one of the few stylistic earth documentaries i truly enjoyed,1
consider for a moment what it must be like to be uwe boll somewhere perhaps in those places that jack nicholson said you don t talk about at parties boll knows that david lean had head lice as a child that had more talent for film making than him gore whores metal heads and the socially dysfunctional may bump into him on the circuit and tell him otherwise but general audiences find the teutonic helmsman s output so bereft of originality wit or imagination that he s become the internet s bogeyman an online discursive synonym for photochemical excrement boll does his best to ride over these naysayers exploiting tax credits available in germany and canada to keep working and raising money from a network of dentists as zero mostel did with old ladies in the producers the difference being that mostel s character knew he was making bowel fill maybe uwe knows it too such is the level of hostility toward each new bollbuster that imdb patrons sabotage their ratings by voting before they ve seen it boll s attempts at silencing his critics by challenging them to a boxing match and knocking them out just made them more determined indeed he s probably the only filmmaker that s boosted thesaurus sales as critics search for inventive ways of describing garbage this onslaught has made uwe a very thick skinned man so much so that he must feel like he s wrapped in a carpet but one who feels as if he s bullied by the entire world like most people in that situation he lashes out determined to upset as many people as possible with the memory of a tearful evening holding variety s review of house of the dead never too far from the surface this i know you are but what am i strategy for reclaiming the initiative produced the blunt satire of postal which attempted to napalm the dissenters with jokes about christian fundamentalism jihad nazism and paedophilia such a litany of invective requires a satirist with the mind of peter cook and the visual imagination of chris morris but the closest boll gets to either man is the o in their surname in seed shot back to back with the aforementioned game adaptation boll is back with a story about a sadistic serial murderer is there any other kind who gets the chair only for two attempts to fail in permanently curtailing all signs of life mindful of the fictional law that says anyone still alive after attempts must go free though if you d been fried with that much electricity why would you want to they pronounce him legally dead and bury him only for the disgruntled killer to resurface and begin a whirlwind tour of his gaolers boll begins his exploration of nihilistic rage with seed watching footage of animals being tortured for experimental purposes from there we re treated to the killer s stock in trade kidnapping dogs babies and grown women and allowing them to starve to death on camera only to become maggot food we re invited to reflect on what a depraved race of amoral meat sacks we all are our inhumanity to each other and our fellow creatures acting as a lighting rod that acts as a catalyst for the most disgusting vestiges of the human condition yes we re worthless gormless sadists and worse than that we won t give uwe a good rating on the imdb in short humanity is bunk of course you might think that uwe relies on our worst excesses for his livelihood and with that in mind it s a bit of a bipolar piece on one hand hating its audience and positively basting itself in the sour milk of human kindness the milk that poor old boll has had to drink for so long while simultaneously whipping out its member and inviting those with a pornographic lust for on screen depravity to marvel at its sheer arse splitting girth the result says nothing about society and its discontents more the corrosive effect bad press is having on its director poor uwe is obviously a very angry man one scene in which a poor woman gets her brains hammered to a pulp while tied to a chair no doubt a surrogate for his own fantasy s about dispatching various web critics that it s there but takes an avant garde approach by failing to be attached to any kind of narrative thread shows that boll is a pornographer whose happy to engage with the blood lust of his audience and knows that plot is surplus to requirements he s made a film which is competently shot but utterly desolate i wanted to make a horror movie that was no fun boll told the audience at the film s world premiere and he has on that flimsy manifesto succeeded but if this was supposed to convince the director s detractors that he was a serious genre filmmaker he ll need something genuine to say as well as a better more original way of saying it,0
didn t mystic pizza win the oscar for that year this movie never had a chance due to the casting but perhaps by now people can see why i felt that way upon leaving the theater only wargames left me feeling similarly disturbed after leaving the theater with the feeling i was getting a glimpse of our future history has shown that this is exactly what happened the casting is a pop culture cuisinart of the s you get arnold as ben richards the framed fugitive offered a chance to run for his freedom on the game show with the same title as the movie richard dawson as damon killian treating his role as if he were the host of family feud with the contestants using real guns jesse ventura as captain freedom and co wrestler professor tanaka as subzero both stalkers who kill the running men even mick fleetwood mic and dweezil zappa stevie show up while the dancers of the future are none other than the laker girls this movie screams s the plot is a good excuse for the action ben richards is determined to prove his innocence but agrees to be the running man when he is told that his buddies would be set free instead they join him as contestants maria conchita alonzo as amber mendez is the standard by which one can properly judge salma hayek in the s the production value on the film was a bit poor the lines were cheesy and at the time the plot seemed a bit far fetched i remember thinking when i was leaving the theater that we were definitely heading in the direction of the film but who could have seen how far we d go there and how fast if the running man were listed in tv guide most people would assume it were just another reality show pushing the envelope today the government influences on the media have only gotten worse and the dumbed down american public of the future that surrenders all of its freedoms for national security is downright chilling ben richards is played brilliantly by arnold as one of the few remaining holdouts against a government tyranny that the rest of america is all too willing to accept in return for good television and some parting gifts for the audience the movie was way over the top maybe even off the cliff for its time but as with back to the future iii the ravine it appeared to be sinking itself into in was replaced by completed tracks in and beyond and this movie will sail into the future as one of the more prophetic films of our time it is tragic that as with wargames the academy did not give this brilliant screenplay the recognition it deserved serious actors acting seriously while being so pretentious that you want to throw up may win more oscars but that doesn t make them better films than their common man counterparts such as this one an absolute must see,1
if there was a god he would have made sure this movie stayed in the toilet were it was crapped up this is by far the worst vampire movie i have ever seen i may never watch a vampire film again because of this movie it makes zombie lake look like the sound of music,0
the days is a typical family drama with a little catch you must relate to the character s emotions in every way possible in order for you to truly appreciate the show [possible spoilers for those who are unfamiliar with the show] the story obviously for all the people who has watched the show is the world of cooper day the middle child of the family he records his days with his family and hopes to become a rich and famous writer one day because of his observations his family includes a mother a father a perfect sister and a genius little brother the first episode which is going to sound a bit stupid since john scott shepard has created this situation both the sister and mother gets pregnant that s the first situation the writer hits then the father quits his job at the law firm the youngest son gets a panic attack the middle child gets in a fight with the sister s boyfriend this is all in a day s work [ spoilers] i admire this show i don t know it s a bit crappy but i like it first i thought the camera work was a ripoff but then i got used it and started to like it i liked the quiet conversations under a dark light i liked the intimate feeling of the show i liked the low budget style i liked the acting i admire the story then i find myself wanting a second season of the days i slowly became a fan of it as the episode airing on abc came to an end it s a really good show and it s nothing like the oc the two have nothing in common so i hope fans will stop comparing them and if you can relate to either abby jack natalie cooper or even nate you ll like this show a lot,1
i am really surprised that this movie get a ranking like this i haven t seen such a bad movie for years omg this was a really bad movie splatter is not enough to describe the unnecessary nearly funny blood scenes if you didn t like hostel or wolf creek or halloween well this is time worse the story remind me rl stine goosebumps i can t tell about the acting since the script was so terrible clich all the time why i must write lines i never understood this here comes spoilers the story is about a butcher killing people all the time in metro we are talking about thousands of killings and no one gets notice actually those people are just missing and there is the good guy that tries to solve the mystery well there is no mystery for us because we know from the beginning the bad guy and as usual no one believes him what a surprise in the end he puts butcher clothes and fights to death with the killer butcher,0
the s were not very kind to one time major star charles bronson starting with s death wish ii and ending with this truly gruesome film from bronson s screenwriters seemed to be trying to top each other in progressive grossness d w ii left little to the imagination in its depiction of the rape and suicide of bronson s character s daughter a rape and murder of his housekeeper was also shown in disgusting detail to midnight was the sort of loathsome film that made you want to take a bath afterwards nothing redeeming about it other films like the evil that men do and the remaining death wish films from this period straddled the line between high camp and high barf with their earnest depictions of brutality and revenge i m not sure if the producers usually pancho kohner got a kick out of showing a weary looking senior citizen aged bronson destroying punks young enough to be his grandchildren or what but the shoddy craftsmanship and terrible scripts of these films usually destroyed what little energy they may have generated kinjite the last of these films is fairly well made but truly takes the cake in cinematic wretchedness in this film bronson sodomizes a perverse john forces a pimp to eat his rolex watch allows a male prisoner to get raped by another prisoner makes incredibly xenophobic remarks among other things i ve thankfully forgotten also depicted is the gang rape of a young japanese girl fortunately this was off screen though well implied what were people thinking when they made this film what was bronson thinking when he decided to ruin his career with these horrible films for anyone interested in his best movies check out most of the films he made in the s and s like the mechanic death wish from noon til once upon a time in the west red sun the great escape the magnificent seven rider on the rain etc etc,0
admittedly i didn t have high expectations of corky romano but then again who did however i felt it deserved the benefit of the doubt i had no high hopes of joe dirt either another recent comedy starring an snl cast member and i ended up being pleasantly surprised but this film is just as bad as it looks in the previews chris kattan is actually a talented comic actor contrary to what you might think after watching this movie with great energy he s been in many hilarious snl skits and i think he s one of the most talented cast members on snl as of now in this case he s given a lame pointless script and he tries to remedy each scene with his incessant mugging throughout each scene he attempts a lame jerry lewis act and fails miserably jerry lewis knew how to pull off this type of physical comedy not to mention he worked with much better writing kattan simply looks like some ignorant fool with adhd who had one too many cafe lattes he doesn t even wait for the punchline he assumes we ll all laugh once he starts jumping around like an ape on crack in one scene he ends up in a tugging match with a dog who has a package of cocaine in his mouth the package explodes and the cocaine splashes all over him he comes back to the job strung out on coke now how are we supposed to laugh at the fact that he s acting hyper and on edge when he s doing the same thing throughout the whole film as for the rest of the cast members vanessa shaw is really hot peter berg is wasted in a thankless role and so is chris penn peter falk is also wasted though he has a few funny lines that i m pretty sure he improvised i hope falk gets a decent movie someday soon that s too much talent too waste on a clunker like corky romano i didn t like falk s last movie made all that much either but at least he had a decent role i chuckled a few times but i could not get a single laugh each gag is performed with no sense of timing or delivery and it s made worse by kattan s hammy acting and there are certain gags that are streneously dragged out for example when kattan is about to fart in his two brothers faces he stands there for or minutes trying to get out a fart and when he finally he does it s a little tiny one it s bad enough when you have a gag that s funny and drag it out but when you have a lame gag and you drag it out it s a hell of a lot worse and another example of this is when he tries to translate what those two asian men are saying during a drug bust i can go on and on about what s wrong with this so called comedy but i m not gonna waste my time like i said earlier if you predicted bad things from the trailers you predicted right my score out of,0
two thirds of nearly imdb users who have voted on this film have rated it at or and one user reports wearing out six videotapes was this a record or merely a faulty vcr although the film is primarily intended as a period piece it clearly has a quite unusual fascination but for some reason i imagined it as largely whimsy and until recently never felt the urge to watch it my mind was changed by elizbeth von arnim s original book my wife loves reading but her sight no longer allows her to read much so she borrowed it in talking book form such books are usually irritating to a companion who is busy with other things but i gradually came to appreciate that this one was seductively soothing although in no way syrupy and was also very well written i realised my wife would enjoy watching the film and so decided to buy her the videotape i am now very glad that i did and would certainly recommend its purchase to anyone else who appreciates a quiet reflective work with no fireworks but with well constructed character development and a very successful pre mussolini italian atmosphere the story is set in the immediate post ww period and starts with two married london ladies who decide to pool their savings and enjoy a holiday together away from their families in a rented villa in italy force of circumstances lead to this couple being joined by two others with very different characters and backgrounds its theme is essentially no more than the interactions that take place as their holiday progresses not only between these four very disparate mature ladies but also with the occasional male visitor if you want action thrills dramatic sex scenes natural or man made disasters or harlequin style romances this would not be the film for you but imdb users have collectively and very emphatically demonstrated that none of these are necessary for a film to prove highly rewarding to watch and if you care to give it a try you may as i did come to rank it among your much loved films it is fairly rare for me to watch a film of a book with which i am already familiar in many cases i find this takes some of the pleasure away from watching the film but here there is such a strong visual appeal in the setting that i actually found my pleasure augmented by the anticipation of seeing the next segment of the book effectively unrolled before my eyes perhaps italy itself has some part in this the last time i had this experience was when i was watching tales from boccaccio s decameron on tv generally films of books tend to increase the dramatic level of the original work to ensure that the filmed version has an even wider appeal but here if anything it is reduced in order to keep the viewers attention on the gradual character development rather than on any background events this works very well although changes from the book are few and basically the film remains true to the original story great credit is due to the director mike newell and all members of the cast particularly those well known british actresses who play the four principal ladies,1
this movie is about a side of ireland that americans don t normally see the narrow minded religiously prejudiced side of the friendliest race in the world the movie by the admission of the inhabitants of fethard who are old enough to remember the events is fairly accurate though they insist that the film makers invented some of the more violent scenes just to spice up the action the movie was very unpopular in ireland as it portrayed the catholic church in a bad light but the simple fact is that representatives of the catholic church did organise vetoes of minorities before protestants it was the jews the film is a fascinating insight into the whole issue of religion in ireland,1
this is is a thoroughly unpleasant if slickly made movie i tried it because it stars richard dreyfus and jeff goldblum two good actors and because the plot line a mob boss is about to be released from a mental institution sounded promising the movie is billed as a comedy sorta what we have is an endless series of shots you should pardon the pun of people in dimly lit and elegant if somewhat surreal interiors shooting each other in the head stomach kneecap foot heart no part of the anatomy is avoided it seems while uttering vague and cryptic dialogue some of which is supposed evidently to be humorous in a sort of post modern way goldblum s dialogue for the whole movie could fit on a x card and he wears a single facial expression a sardonic grin throughout ellen barkin and gregory hines do the best they can burt reynolds does a cameo the credits list rob reiner and joey bishop but i somehow missed them good move on their part the whole thing is cold sterile mechanical and unsavory an heir i suspect to the style of pulp fiction fargo and natural born killers if you liked those you ll probably like this,0
in the year my birth year steven spielberg directed an emotionally strong and unforgettable story of a young african american girl celie debut role for whoopi goldberg whose life is followed through rough times the story begins from the year when celie is only years old she has given birth two children for her father celie has a younger sister nettie with whom she is inseparable a widower lays his eyes on nettie but their father gives celie to him it is the beginning of an era of horrible abuse and constant controlling women are inferior of men and especially being an african american woman their rights are less than a zero celie s story is a true survival story the color purple is a master piece and underestimated film of spielberg he should make more drama which the color purple and schindler s list are good notion the cast is amazing whoopi goldberg is known better as a ravingly funny comedienne but the introducing role as celie is a remarkable word that she really can pull of heavy drama danny glover was surprisingly nasty mister i have never seen him in a such an evil role the talk show icon oprah winfrey is brilliant as a strong willed sofia warning prepare to have a number of tissues with you when watching this film you can really connect to the story of the strong sisterhood especially if you have as close relationship with your siblings like i have with my sister big applauds to mr spielberg,1
warning possible spoilers below the film is more boring then anything else there seems to be some attempt to build tension through badly lit shots of empty rooms and empty lawns but none of it works mst k did a fairly good job with it but on its own the movie is mostly tedious funny moments when the fake skull rolls out of a pile of ashes the wife becomes hysterical and woozy while the husband who is trying to drive the wife crazy says in a deadpan voice there is no skull there there s no skull when the real ghost skulls have the husband caught in a pickle as if trapped between first and second base,0
sometimes laughter in the middle of a horror film is a signal of its greatness i remember the nervous laughter from the audience in the re release of the excorcist really nervous laughter it punctuated just how freaked out we all were watching the voice of satan coming out of a year old girl in the case of the remake of the cult classic the wicker man however it made me think that this new wickerman is about as scary as the south park character scuzzlebut the friendly forest monster with tv s patrick duffy for a leg and a celery stalk for an arm who s favorite hobby is weaving wicker baskets years ago a friend of mine in hollywood told me that he heard that nicolas cage was going to do a remake of the film i started laughing and my friend keith got mad at me touting nicolas cage as a great actor i just didn t think that he could pull it off and unfortunately for moviegoers i was right gone is the realness the outstanding original music the originality the creepiness and the wonderfully powerful dialogue instead we have horror movie clich s affected acting and changes to the storyline that make any believability fall apart like many of the countless hollywood remakes we have been inundated with lately this feels like we are watching th graders on a playground playing wickerman the original film takes place on a remote scottish isle where a scottish police officer is lured there to find a missing young girl named rowan morrison in the new spin a california cop cage is lured to an island of the coast of washington state by his ex girlfriend to find her missing daughter she sends a photo and the missing daughter looks exactly like a young girl he tried to save in a fiery crash not long ago the crash still haunts him in part because the girl s body was never found yet even after he gets a letter with her picture in it that connection is completely cast aside as he heads north alone to help his ex girlfriend find her daughter he arrives to find an island full of actors pretending to be the descendants of wiccans many of whom seem like they didn t get call backs for roles in the village and like the village it isn t long before you realize there is nothing to be afraid of here not even the cloudy eyed blind sisters who speak in unison i think that the opportunity in hollywood to make great amounts of money on a film often comes at great expense to the artistry i think someone like nicolas cage who is in so many films these days loses touch with the magic that film can be when it gets to the point where he has a personal chef on the set preparing his snacks we needed a bad re make of the wickerman like we needed yet another movie i m starting to wonder if nicolas changed his surname from coppola because he wanted to or because he was pleaded with to do so,0
if you have seen friends the writing will feel very familiar especially the last or seasons of friends often share the same comedy setups the show is about a group of people whose connection is that they shared the same class when they were still rather young about years old i think now they re in their mid twenties and they meet again on a class reunion this is where the series starts a typical episode deals with multiple story lines at once they re usually not connected in any way each story line is cut up into multiple sections which are then shown in a mixed order the sketches is where my problems lie with this series as in the later seasons of friends it s often a rather silly setting with hard to believe situations one of the main characters does something really stupid that s hard to believe the situation is then heavily exaggerated as if it wasn t silly enough if you re into this kind of in your face humor then maybe you ll like this series for me it is a great turn off the reason i started watching friends is because of the first few seasons there are interesting and especially credible story lines with some romance in it that makes you root for the characters the class has none of this the characters are simply too forced and stereotypes are pushed too far it s therefore not possible to relate to them and like them at least with friends it took several seasons before it ran out of steam and the character traits were all milked out but in the class it seems it has run out of steam before it even started,0
i have seen it it s not good but interesting in an understated way the boys in it are quite naturalistic but the graphic gratuitous final gang rape scene is repugnant and oh yes the arbitrary insertion of second world war footage is offensive in the way it attempts to compare real horror with this misogynistic contrivance real atrocity is real this film is just atrocious however the film has a look which can draw you in but it seems to me that is the emperor s new clothes but in fact in reverse the film looks good but the direction story content and final feeling you take away from this film is vacuous if a feeling can be vacuous this is it,0
i ve just finished listening to the director s commentary for this film and i think the one big thing i got from it that i agree with is that this film like mann s the insider is completely subjective it s from howard s pov so any review or attempt at contemplating a set of comments about it as ebert did is really about nolte s character actually if you feel as he did that the film does not work then you re saying i think that howard does not work and to be frank you might be right howard s reasoning and personality really wouldn t stand up to professional mental treatments and analysis but hey that s the nature of people andrew,1
one out of ten stars because if it was it gets an f holy mother mary of god was this bad i mean i gave it every reasonable accommodation considering it was a straight to video film but it let me down at every turn like so many other b movies the basic storyline was decent and the filmmakers seemed to have a reasonable level of resources but the execution was ridiculous it s a shame they attached the good name of halloween to this fiasco the basic premise surrounds some frat douche bags hosting their annual halloween haunted house fund raiser when a satanic spell book shows up out of nowhere and hurls the frat boys into a living hell well that s the idea anyway but instead most of the film is devoted to displaying these frat boy s relationship escapades abound with an outrageous lesbian subplot very little of the actual story is devoted to halloween or the mysterious spell book it actually makes me mad that the film makers thought they could get away with making such dribble the film is essentially about frat boy relationships this is not what the movie is billed as i m tempted to track down the producers and at the very least threaten them with bodily harm the acting is about as bad as it gets it s atrocious the script is unintentionally funny the cinematography is just plain lazy the whole film is amateur night this movie actually makes the syfy channel movie productions look like masterpieces the last half hour of the film felt like the film makers realized they weren t producing a soap opera and had to throw in some sort of horror sequences the evil spell book finally comes into play and turns everyone in the haunted house into the character their dressed up as i almost feel like crying as i write this review wow i mean wow this thing was an undecipherable chopped up disaster,0
fully deserving its prestigious hollywood award nomination this is an entertaining little gem with lots of pizazz and some delightful surprises outstandingly funny scenes include an hilarious shoot and re shoot of a ww trench scene with australian comedian clyde cook as an optimistic non com and the hapless mcdoakes as a boyer colman messenger all under the beady eye of ralph sanford s delightfully irascible anguish a lost mcdoakes guided and re guided by equally perplexed jack carson assistant director chandler rejoicing in a mcdoakes sent opportunity i m going to be a director ace comic o hanlon has a dual role playing both mcdoakes and himself playing mcdoakes oddly richard l bare who does play himself in one or more other entries in the series has turned down that opportunity here in real life bare s a youngish six foot rock hudson lookalike but here he s impersonated by veteran actor over movies jack mower,1
made by french brothers jules and giddeon naudet and narrated by robert de niro and firefighter james hanlon this is a compelling and heartbreaking tale of how new york s finest shone on it s darkest day i first saw this when i was a young naive year old and at that age it still touched me knowing how serious really was seeing this expanded the whole effect of we were finding out who the heroes were how there everyday lives were composed and how they put their lives on the line in a situation where most people would just run and save their selves these brave men put their lives on the line and watching this just increases my admiration for them watch if you can this is the best documentary i have personally ever seen,1
to say this film stinks would be insulting to skunks as the other commenter says this movie is insulting to anyone over the mental age of it is especially incredibly insulting to gays it is awful and not in a so bad it s funny sort of way either it s just plain awful no i have to say it it stinks sorry skunks from the opening credits to the end titles there is hardly more than seconds of this movie worth opening your eyes for the plot is incoherent the characterization non existent the acting is of the over the top mugging look at me i m being funny school and so it goes on the set pieces are clumsily set up if at all and are badly executed it s just awful on every front apart from the music maybe i don t remember thinking the music stinks apart from the songs to be fair to the makers they lay their cards on the table pretty quickly the opening credits include the title also starring ertha kitt as the voice of betty the meteor since as the meteor in question turns out never never say anything but make an occasional purring noise they may well have lifted ms kitt s contribution from one of her records and the second line of the movie runs something like and scientists have discovered new facts about the rings around uranus uranus your anus geddit geddit huh huh your anus the humour really is that cheap it says strange things about the comedies of that period in that it was perfectly permissable for the hero to deliberately shoot people dead in the street but not say sh t out loud i paid fifty pence about for this movie in a sale i feel ripped off,0
skippy from family ties goes from clean cut to metal kid in this fairly cheesy movie the film seems like it was made in response to all those upset parents who claimed metal music was turning their kids evil or making them kill themselves except in this one a dead satanic metal star is trying to come back from the grave using skippy to help out and while the plot is corny and cliche the corniness for example an evil green fog taking off a girl s clothes and the soundtrack are what make the movie so hilarious and great and of course there s nothing like ozzy osbourne playing a preacher who s asking what happened to the love song definitely a movie for having a few friends over for a good laugh and while you re at it make it a double feature with slumber party massacre there s an evil rocker as stated on the video box driller killer in black leather w fringe a must see for cheesy movie fans,1
on his birthday a small boys tells his mother he is not her son and that he wants to go home to his real mother in some ways comedy de l innocence feels like it comes from a different time of movie making perhaps the s or s certainly it reminded me of losey s secret ceremony and richard loncraine s full circle both of which deal with loss grief and relationships between parents and lost children curiously both films star mia farrow all three films are populated with unsympathetic characters who behave in strange and unexplained ways all three films have a chilly feel both emotionally and literally all three films focus on mother child relationships and ultimately all three films pose the question what is real what is imagined beautiful but flawed it offers no easy answers and leaves much hanging unexplained and strange,0
the first of the tarzan movies staring johnny weissmuller the plot has already been summarized so i wont go into it again just know that the actors who play jane and tarzan were born for the role if you have not seen this film and you only have the modern day tarzan films as a reference you are missing a real treat doesn t matter how far we ve come in movie making makeup set designs no one will ever play tarzan as well as johnny weissmuller did he was and is tarzan,1
for a first film in a proposed series it achieves the right balance it is done with style and class showing modesty s early days as a refugee and the start of her rise to power in the criminal world i think it is a very honest true portrayal of her character exactly as the writer peter o donnell intended alexandra staden as modesty is stunningly beautiful and an excellent choice she acts very convincingly as the tough survivor with an exterior of cool intelligent innocence and full marks to tarantino for choosing an unknown actress for the role much more believeable to have a new face creating the part i m looking forward to the next film,1
i don t think most people give this movie as much credit as it deserves i love low budget horror movies and this takes the cake especially for originality yes the scarecrow is a kung fu fighting frightner but why not no one else is willing to go that far i really haven t had this much fun watching a movie since candyman so the town picks on this one kid calling him scarecrow even his mom doesn t care about him then he gets killed and the spirit is infused with in the scarecrow who then goes on a killing spree his demise is relatively easy to assume once the movie gets going the dedications at the end go straight to a bunch of horror directors but with most dedication towards dario argento really struck me as cool these folks who wanna make movies of a newer genre over the movie has a lot of arnold rip offs with one liners you ll definitely laugh at like stick around and he kills the sheriff with a stick i would say grab a pizza some friends an laugh your a off with this movie i love it for its originality most fun,1
i liked this tv show because it was it s own thing a girl who is on her sixteenth birthday finds out that she is a witch and her she lives with her aunties in the house and they are both witches as well well this took her about a few weeks of getting used to when she used her powers for the first time it was so funny because she turned her enemy into a pineapple she had to turn back time and repeat a day this series is really cool and it is a typical teenage series but it wore thin when she moved out of her house and to an apartment with her fellow college friends and then it got boring and i stopped watching i loved her aunties they were so funny and the other one was really ditzy i loved valerie and i hated sabrina s enemy libby she was ugly,1
baseketball is an extremely funny movie that delivers acting that generally makes the movie alot funnier comedy material that is more than crap in your pants funny and a pretty good plot despite the fact that its the classic slackers v s the evil rich guy the one and only thing i didnt like about baseketball was that that kid wasnt really needed in the movie but if the kid wasnt in the movie some of the funny scenes wouldnt have existed if you have read any pro reviews about this movie exclude them all because basically all the reviewers didnt like this film baseketball is a great comedy that gives everyone what they want out of,1
it s unfortunate that you can t go any lower than one star prior to watching the wicker man i had considered aliens to be the only movie that would actually merit negative stars in all fairness the wicker man doesn t detract from the enjoyment of an earlier film but the fact remains that my cumulative movie enjoyment has been reduced by seeing it there is a cheap trick all too often used in hollywood when the producers are too stingy to hire good writers or in too much of a hurry to allow them to bring a plot to a satisfactory conclusion slap in a shocker ending and hope that the public will mistake it for something artistic or meaningful it is a gambit that rarely succeeds and in this case manages only to splatter embarrassment on a fine actor and ridicule upon the producers even more so in that the carefully crafted or however they put it conclusion didn t seem to follow logically from the plot which naturally i can t elaborate on without introducing spoilers and instead negates what merit the plot had up to that point it is a film that might logically appeal to psychopaths pedophiles and possibly die hard nicholas cage fans but only to a few of the mainstream audience if you really want something along these lines i heartily recommend m night shyamalan s the village instead lacking some kind of memory erasing pill i suppose i need to watch something better to force it from my mind say attack of the killer tomatoes or pee wee s big adventure,0
la teta i la luna the breast and the moon describes the life of a year old boy named tete who is obsessed with breasts growing up in catalunya i love this movie because the characters are very honest and very human like all the characters in bigas luna s movies also director of jamon jamon tete reminded me of how intriguing and exciting life can be at that age also being from catalunya north east of spain it brought lots of memories to my mind this movie shows how beautiful catalunya is nice people nice life and specially lots of non uptight people,1
now admittedly i m no ardent student of the genre as a matter of fact i ve tended always to shy away from westerns because in spite of all their critical cachet as america s primal stories or whatever they seem to me to forever devolve into tiresome retreads of either shoot up the injuns the big gunfight or hey let s form a posse in other words it always seemed to me a genre so rooted in and tied to convention that it left precious little room for surprise or originality and yes i have seen at least some of the so called greats and unapologetically lump them into this negative assessment including stagecoach rio bravo my darling clementine and of course the infamous [but profoundly dull] clint eastwood sergio leone teamups in the s but when i saw this movie on tv as part of a commemorative jimmy stewart weekend upon his death i finally got it i understood at least in theory what the western mythos has to offer as a serious thematic preoccupation aside from just action and thrills it is the push pull between lawlessness and order the american west represented freedom but also the prospect of the wild the untamed respectable folk could get hurt out there which of course meant that perhaps just perhaps it wasn t meant for respectable folk and that the only residents should be the amoral and the shifty those who dispensed justice strictly from the barrel of their revolvers and where kill or be killed would ever be the law of the land in such an environment of course the true heroes are the ones who are ornery and free spirited enough to be out there in the first place and so reject society at least as it manifested itself on the eastern seaboard and yet have enough sense of justice to believe that a society based on chaos and fear just is not right catching and examining that disparity between law and disorder in the main character himself is i believe after seeing this movie the highest and truest goal of any western sadly it is so often not the case as the white hats are completely white the black ones completely black and let s not even get started talking about the indians ok and there is precious little shades of gray in between not in this one jimmy stewart plays a blatant fortune hunter who follows the trail of miners before him into the alaskan wilderness to prospect for gold he is joined in this by his lifelong buddy played by walter brennan perhaps the western clich character to end them all but nevertheless enjoyable here as always and no one else pointedly they are out for themselves and while stewart displays his patented charm come on we could never really dislike the guy now could we we are left with little doubt that his is basically a self centered self interested character none of his gosh or oh golly gee humanism is allowed to come through or rather it has to be earned by the end of the picture in the way i described above he must confront the lawlessness in himself and weigh it against the need for order and justice which are so blatantly lacking in the border town which serves as the miners starting point on their gold dust trail this town is ruled tightly by its wicked sheriff mr gannon played by john mcintire in one of the best bad guy performances i ve ever seen he comes on with so much charm and humor and has such a relaxed and interesting rapport with stewart that it actually takes awhile to recognize that he is the bad guy so that when it finally sinks in it does so with double force further by establishing a type of breezy if necessarily guarded camaraderie between mcintire and stewart the film plays up the notion of how close in temperament they really are and so how far a moral distance stewart must walk by the end of the film i won t go through all the twists and turns the plot takes see those for yourself as well as the rugged and gorgeous alaskan scenery filmed on location mind you not cheap painted stills that the studio made up what s key here is how much this story focuses upon character with great dialogue and character interaction substituting for gunplay much of the time although the film has just enough action and adventure to prevent it from ever being static read talky definitely one of the greatest performances i ve seen from stewart showing he could play the renegade the man s man just as convincingly as the decent and upright guy next door if anything in fact his everyman qualities lend greater strength to his characterization making him seem less mythic or overblown like say eastwood or john wayne and more a three dimensional personage his relationship with brennan is well played understated but nevertheless touching with a faint suggestion of george and lenny from of mice and men an altogether different type of western i certainly have more westerns to see but this is for now my favorite and the yardstick by which i will necessarily judge all the others it deserves to be much better known and appreciated than it is,1
this is the worst movie i ve ever seen in my life this is saying quite a bit considering some of the choices i ve made in film rentals i got this on netflix based entirely on the fact that someone i went to high school with is topless in it the topless scene lasted all of about seconds and the rest of the movie was about as much fun as having pungee sticks driven underneath my toenails whilst being forced to listen to roseanne sing big spender the skits are stupid and consist of the worst kind of juvenile bathroom humor and locker room gags and it s such a blatant and poor rip off of the kentucky fried movie that you ll be begging for big jim slade to crash through the wall and save us from the stupidity of vince offer whoever that is unless you are a masochist avoid this pile of rubbish,0
universal soldier the return is not the worst movie ever made no that honor would have to go to a film that attempted to make some sort of statement or accomplish some artistic feat but failed in a pathetic or offensive manner however perhaps no movie i have ever seen has tried for so little and succeeded so completely as did universal soldier the return this film is a sci fi action travesty that has virtually nothing to recommend it the acting is as bad as any movie i ve ever seen the plot is terrible and predictable the special effects are pathetic in short anyone even remotely connected to this film should be ashamed of themselves us the return makes previous van damme fare seem like groundbreaking cinematic masterpieces some movies are so bad they re good believe me when i tell you that this is not one of them i m really not sure what else to say here i doubt many people were considering seeing this movie if they hadn t already but just in case don t,0
a detective dana andrews with a reputation for violence accidentally kills a suspect in a murder craig stevens and then tries to cover it up the otto preminger directed film has plenty of atmosphere but the story gets watered down when the dead man s wife gene tierney falls for andrews he was doing fairly well digging himself into and out of a big hole but she was just too much light at the end of the tunnel for a noir film gary merrill is great as scalese a crime boss that andrews is obsessed with bringing down and the tension between them gives the film its energy and drive especially a scene in a bath house with merrill andrews and neville brand and the night time rendezvous outside of bellevue hospital that sets up what ought to have been the film s conclusion high marks for atmosphere andrews merrill etc and the general portrayal of the underworld though the love angle and the simplistic good cop bad cop elements don t help its cause,1
i have been a fervent hal hartley supporter since i saw his short surviving desire in high school and even then was still completely unmoored by his searingly brilliant henry fool but this year later sequel is not only unnecessary it s disgraceful after a choppy and expeditious start fay grim devolves into pseudo intellectualism flat out boredom and finally unwarranted and unwanted nihilism and that s just the plot the majority of the new faces are as frivolous and poorly developed as the movie one particularly flat character ends up hogging half the time we spend with the infamous henry fool himself and it s his only spoken scene in the film jeff goldblum s agent fulbright it seems is the only bright character a pun surely intended by hartley as well how then is he left spoiler dead via a car bombing easily making this the gentle natured hartley s most violent film to date and tonally all wrong in a film that s already all wrong from the word go as for the other new characters angus james ned fool or is it grim not to mention fay herself well i won t spoil their fates as the movie does a good enough job of that all on its own when it isn t busying itself with yet another godawful canted angle which gives the disconcerting impression that hartley is moving backwards from auteur to crappy film student this piece is a complete disaster a dreadful mess that isn t even good humored enough to revel in its messiness instead it self indulgently crams the typically fun hipster pretenses of its director into the real world one uglier and meaner than it need be but not nearly ugly or mean enough to come close to having anything to say in doing so hartley tracks sh t all over my memories of these people and the marvelous world he originally created for them i have rarely been so depressed at the movies and i m counting leaving las vegas which at least developed fresh new characters we grew to love before destroying them instead of immediately disregarding characters already beloved grim indeed,0
this is so to say a sequel to batman the animated and it is pretty much as good as it to and for all the same reasons it has lots of action in it the storyline to it is good the voice over actors are really good such as kevin conroy as batman mark hamil as the joker etc the villains are really good such as the joker two face catwoman clayface etc so i am sure you will not be disappointed with the new adventures of batman because it is really good so make sure that you watch it on tv or rent or buy the collectors edition because it is really good overall score out of out of,1
one of the best records of israel s response to the murder of rabin extremely true and natural it captured the spirit of the nation especially important was the response of young people to the trauma of israel s loss and the feeling that we shall overcome,1
i was lucky to see oliver in on a big cinema screen in boston when i was a young teenager later during the summer of i was pleased to see this film was still playing at a prominent cinema in leicester square london after it had won the academy award for best picture of the previous year th success of oliver on both the stage and screen reminded me that not all talent begins on broadway and ends in hollywood this legendary story by charles dickens which is part of the literary heritage of all english speaking people was admirably brought to the london stage by lionel bart of great britain his charming musical then became a hit in new york and throughout the world the film adaptation was made in england during the summer of and then released in the sets and musical numbers are mind boggling the song who will buy required hundreds of actors and the british film director truly deserved his oscar for putting it all together in a seamless manner some canadian and american talent is also part of this wonderful production but mostly it is a tribute to the fine craftsmanship of the british film studios such as shepperton good show other film studios at elstree boreham wood bray denham and ealing have also given the world many films to treasure over the years,1
obviously has some talent attached maria bello is always great but this is just a dreary wast of time portraying every character as someone to be loathed and exploited so someone could make a movie out of an interesting story well i hope they got it out of their systems unfortunately for the audience there is no insight no sensitivity no context and really no humanity which would all be fine except it has no humor no horror no context and nothing constructive to say about the story it s trying to tell bad things happen you sit and watch it you don t care so what of the time the words based on a true story constitute an unintentional warning to the audience it means the director and screenwriter are lazy and fascinated by some events they heard about somewhere so they just throw them up on the screen and expect the true nature of the story to make the audience feel something without the filmmakers having to do any of the work i hope they had a great time making this movie it stinks on ice,0
simply put this is a simplistic and one dimensional film the title the rise to evil should tell you that this isn t going to attempt to be anything deep or do much with hitler s character rather from the first minutes of the movie where we see baby hitler looking evil with evil music playing the background we are given a view of hitler that presents his as a cartoony supervillian seemingly ripped right out of a saturday morning tv show the film really wants to make its case that hitler was evil but does anyone need a movie to convince them that hitler was evil ultimately making him such a one dimensionally evil character is both boring and confusing one must ask how the inept phsycotic character in the film cold ever persuade a nation to follow him or be named time s man of the year this film had a great opportunity to take a figure who has committed some of the most horrible acts in the th century and try to delve into his mind instead it basically just says hey hitler was evil just thought you might like to know over and over again the great irony is that the film still was attacked for presenting too sympathetic a view of the character give me a break,0
la maman et la putain has to be watched as a movie that is both related to the time it was released post and eternal in many respects true the actors don t act true they talk a lot but what they talk about is just what makes life worth living or dying the very long monologue spoken by fran oise lebrun is perhaps the most accurate and moving text that was ever written about womanhood manhood and love not easy to translate accurately though this movie is a statement about the difficulty of being a man and a woman or two women in this case and imho jean pierre l aud is one of the greatest french actors,1
heather graham couldn t play a convincing lesbian if her life depended on it who do the producers of the movie think they are the absolute worst most unrealistic movie i ve seen in as long as i can remember this movie is so bad that i felt compelled to sign up on imdb and make sure the rating of this film drops omg i m heather graham i just kissed a drunk chick so while she s passed out i m really going to pace around my room for hours asking myself frantically what have i done jesus heather get over it and grow up and i d like to forward that same sentiment to the idiot producers and while i m at it instead of this movie being all about an pathetic excuse for a coming out story perhaps it would have been more suitable to focus the plot onto a character who s mentally unstable like your so called lesbian character after all i know the first time i had gay sex when i left the next morning i jumped to the sky in excitement in the middle of the street honestly b tch get a grip what a joke and please note there are many many many more flaws and appallingly stupid aspects to this lame flick but i m so sick of even thinking about it anymore bottom line if you re a smart person you ll hate this movie and if you re not a smart person then you ll love it it s as simple as that,0
a true hero of modern times chuck norris has left tv walker rexas ranger and is looking new steps for his artistic career the president s man is the second movie of a future tv series with norris in the title role and with young actors like jennifer tung or judson mills one of the young rangers of walker the old master teachs to young aspirant it s one of the most powerful themes of the president s man in this tima a line in the sand has reached world surprise for his tratment of terrorism in usa months before the tragic september eric norris son of chuck is the director the movie is amusing a good action work plenty of fights and heroism chuck norris have many plans for the future bells of innocence his next picture will be the following,1
this movie is a must for all people that enjoy soccer as an art what strikes first about this movie about a soccer world cup is the way it is filmed besides following the play like a tv broadcast there is generous footage dedicated to follow individual players in the games this brings forward the emotions and situations these men go through as they attempt to reach glory today s tv broadcasting style so different than that of is still inferior in quality compared to this movie the players are not the only stars the audience the referees the journalists covering the matches and the environment itself all play a central role in the development of what today is history in this movie you can see how all these factors play together in a very explicit way in that regard today s tv broadcasting style has not yet reached this level of quality although it is now much closer than before there are several highlighted players maradona argentina elkjaer and laudrup denmark francescoli uruguay platini france lineker england rummenigge germany butrague o spain socrates brazil and sanchez mexico this movie is not a collection of the best soccer moves of mexico although most of them are well covered across all the movie there is a stress for presenting several aspects of the game and the competition itself based on the progress of these players and teams even at the cost of skipping relevant plays of the games themselves this is what makes this movie so interesting and unique because of what happened because of referees during mexico much of the comments about this movie and world cup are extremely maradona biased much of these comments do not take into account that there is a referee and two linesmen that they are as human as the players and that all of the abovementioned make mistakes one way or the other soccer rules do not allow referees to use tv based replays to make decisions so for the most part referees have to decide on what they perceive as a consequence referees play an active part in the development of a game their influence can be seen in several parts of this movie the sequel movie for the world cup compared to this one is just a source of bitter disappointment much of it comes from the fact that it became too involved in the game whereas this movie tells things from a more distant unbiased point of view,1
this oddity from roman polanski clearly shows where his preoccupations lay at the time he made it polanski himself plays a timid man who rents a parisian apartment where the previous tenant committed suicide he becomes obsessed with discovering what led her to it to the point that he s dressing in drag and reenacting events the way they might have unfolded the movie s unsettling to a point and it has that atmosphere of creepy dread that polanski excels at but it comes off too much as a rehash of rosemary s baby and repulsion two other better polanski films that deal with the eerie goings on in moody apartments but as for the preoccupation unless i m reading too much into the film i have to believe that this was polanksi s reaction to the feelings of persecution he felt at being labeled a sexual pervert and exiled from america not making a judgement about him one way or the other myself but it s hard to deny the evidence of that in the movie itself grade b,1
riff randell is a wildly obsessed fan of the rock group the ramones and so are most of the students in the school but a new tyrant of a principal ms togar thinks rock n roll is a bad influence on the students especially the music from the ramones so when riff finds out they re performing in town she skips class for a couple of days to get tickets for herself and her friends but when ms togar discovers why she really took those days off she confiscates the tickets while this is happening tom roberts is totally love struck over riff but riff s friend kate rambeau feels the same way about tom but riff has her eyes set only on the lead singer joe ramone and hopefully in getting to that concert to get them to play her song fun fun fun yep that s right rock n roll high school doesn t drift away from it main focus a boisterously daggy romp it wasn t what i was expecting that s for sure everyone participating in this dandy project looks like they re having a great time and the relaxing nature of it shows on screen with the energy providing such a glowing spirit which makes it a priceless experience that s not to say i think its art and the plot is as pointless as can be but watching this passionately crazy ride that escalates into some good harmless high jinks i just couldn t wipe the grin off my face it s tacky very cheesy densely chaotic but damn it s funky dory this low budget b grade feature from producer roger corman and john dante who was co writer and plus he co directed some scenes when director allan arkush was hospitalised on the last day shoot is basically a glorious homage on the rocking s flicks by sticking with the fruitful clich s and throwing into the stew the teenage rebellion tag because of the generation gap between them and the adults who always know best these features might not be particularly fresh but they do rack up some appeal because of the dynamically gusto treatment the film has just one thing on mind to go out on a bang and they manage to do that courtesy of the ramones who play themselves really you could say its one big trendy video clip since it s all about the ramones well most of it anyway i see a lot flack towards the ramones acting ability these are musicians not actors which means it s not about their acting here it s the music we re suppose to dig they re here to perform which they deliver in that front with some kick ass tracks that peppered the film to create a totally upbeat vibe especially their flamboyant concert performances the buzzing soundtrack also had some killer tunes from some other artists such as devo the velvet underground mc fleetwood mack eddie and the hot rods and alice cooper but these jumping tracks fitted in well with the carefree feel and even the score was worked in rather well especially in the scenes involving ms togar with the score grasping the right mood that surrounds her mind set the playful mood of the film is pretty much like a roller coaster ride with such a racy pace between the electrifying tunes and comical segments ranging from scattered slapstick routines to it s sometimes clever tongue in cheek dialogue thrown in for good measure is a variety of light and heavy gags which i found very pleasurable and it gave it such a wider range to express itself what else gave the film an added boost had to be the divine pj soles better known for her performance in halloween who gave such a bang up performance as the peachy riff randell other exemplary performances were dey young as the extremely cute kate rambeau vincent van patten as the gawky tom roberts and the go to man eaglebauer who s stupendously played by clint howard also some top drawer corman regulars pop up with great send up performances by mary woronov who s excellent as the demanding ms togar who s pushing her unfair reign on the students paul bartel as mr mcgree and a small support role from dick millar towards the end the enthusiastic acting is pretty campy but that goes down well with the material and there s a certain likability stemming from these characters but we totally despise ms togar and her hall monitor goons there s no beating around the bush here when i say rock n roll high school is an intoxicating hoot of a rad time,1
i got this in the dvd pack curse of the dead you gotta love those bargain packs for even if they don t feature true remastering restoration and all that hoo ha and the films are generally in full frame pan and scan format there s no denying that there are always a few gems included and by gems i mean there s always some good crap to be seen especially if the films are from the s as the mansion of madness is my copy is called mansion of madness but when the title screens roll it s poe s dr tarr s torture dungeon doesn t matter really as crap is crap is crap no yes but saying this film is completely worthless is not true at all there are some funky elements here and there and obviously the flick did have a decent budget the opening title sequence is cool with its colored negative run through a cheap tv look the dialogue is always hilarious near the beginning of the film the horse and buggy driver gets out to move a dead tree stump in the middle of the road what strength says our hero funny then that this dude should later not be able to fight off the wacky woodsmen when they come to make freaky fun you ll completely forget that this guy was even in the movie until he crops up again later near the end that s how memorable these characters are the best part about mansion of madness however has to be the wacky music and screwball hijinks that the good guys have to endure it s like bad cartoon music that a three year old would find enjoyable and why all the weirdo slapstick anyway i d say my fave moment had to be when the horse and buggy is ambushed by the forest freaks when they pull a stupid looking homemade ghost up by a stick in the middle of the road and make the buggy stop what the hell oh yeah there s plenty of boobies to be seen too for those of you that dig such things boobies bad dialogue and wacky music that best sums of mansion of madness for me it s well worth at least one viewing and may be a lot better if you ve had a few to drink or whatnot i can t say i was ever bored watching it but i can t deny that it s also a barrel of poop kinda like magical mystery tour but with a plot but not hmm and mr chicken pwnz,0
it s a lovely movie it deeply reflects the chinese underground bands current lives if you chinese culture traditionaled rock n roll music there you go i will highly recommend this one but one thing i am wondering is whether this movie has been showed in mainland i sorta doubt it d,1
this is an action western james steart leads an all star cast in the scenic northwest which is filmed in great splendor the scenery and costumes are great there is action and adventure stewart plays a wealthy cattleman who runs afoul of a crooked government in the old nothwest the main drawback is the stereotypical cynic that hollywood has always made into a hero even when this movie was made the cynic was the stereotypical hero and the one stewart portrays really has few saving graces he is kind to his two partners and that does give him an extra dimension of credibility and likability however he is so piggish to everyone else it is hard to really care for him or to accept him he is much like the one dimensional spaghetti western characters cut not that bad still the minor characters are quite enjoyable walter brennan royal dano harry morgan and others make this worth watching,0
the word classic is thrown around too loosely nowadays but this movie well deserves the appelation the combination of neil simon walter matthau possibly the world s best living comic actor and the late lamented george burns make for a comic masterpiece it is interesting to contemplate what the movie would have been like had not death prevented jack benny from playing george burns part as had been planned as it is the reunion scene in matthau s apartment is not likely to be surpassed as a sidesplitter definitely one of my desert island films enter,1
i got all excited when i saw the ads for this movie because i recently read the book and really enjoyed it the movie however did not meet my expectations having read the book recently prepared me for big let down as often happens when stories are translated into movies the characters didn t seem to fit very well with the book the direction was weak i had a hard time getting into the characters there wasn t a real connection with the viewer about what was going on the dialog didn t explain adequately what was happening it just seemed slapped together and rushed through all in all i was very disappointed with the movie i suppose if you haven t read the book it might be ok by itself at the very least it might entice you to read the book which you ll probably enjoy more,0
this tiresome plodding las vegas casino heist movie in almost impossible to watch and get involved in it s something you look at if you have absolutely nothing else better to do the only two decent things in this movie are both attached to gorgeous stella stevens and one spends the entire program hoping she ll fall out of one of those skimpy tops she wears many great shots of mid s las vegas when it was still a cool place to visit and the fashions of the day are good for a giggle as well otherwise one big yawn the rhino dvd has a very good widescreen transfer but even at under bucks it still ain t worth it in my humble opinion,0
now i had the best intentions when watching this one i like some of tony scott s work also a friend of mine told me it was a great movie even though i heard otherwise from other people but this was simply hopeless in my humble opinion tony scott was trying too hard it was all just too much allow me to elaborate miss knightley was overacting and not in a good way the people who did perform well were mickey rourke edgar ramirez and christopher walken but their screen time just wasn t able to save the movie there were a few scenes that jumped out in their originality yet somehow it felt like they were written by someone other than the main writer a certain tune was used around times which really started to bug after the second time i m a firm believer of not using the same tune more than once also the editing really went out on this one as the cutting rate is rather high oh and the repetitive echoing of some of keira s lines simply sounded cheesy after hearing it for the second third fourth time and so on basically my opinion is that if you want to see an action flick that is high paced and somewhat funny and you don t care about everything i mentioned above you might like it on a side note i m not a keira knightley fan,0
what s with all the negative comments after having seen this film for the first time tonight i can only say that this is a good holiday comedy that is sure to brighten up any lonely person s day when i saw that drew ben affleck might end up spending the holidays alone i wanted to cry you ll have to see the movie if you want to know why also even though i liked tom james gandolfini and alicia christina applegate after awhile if you ask me they were real snobs however this film did make me smile and feel good inside before i wrap this up i d like to say that mike mitchell has scored a pure holiday hit now in conclusion i highly recommend this good holiday comedy that is sure to brighten up any lonely person s day to any ben affleck or christina applegate fan who hasn t seen it,1
what s happening to rgv he seems to repeat himself in every movie has he run out of creative ideas if he has time to take a back seat went to see the movie with great anticipation of course not once did i imagine it would be anywhere near the original i knew it wouldn t the promos said it all but even then i thought it would be a great rgv treat after all isn t he the same guy who directed sathya and company or is he i have my doubts after watching aag i am not going to talk about the plot or the story as most of it is taken from the original if you are really dying to go and see this one you could play a fun game with friends identify the scenes from the original one and give ratings of your own so veeru becomes heero how corny is that guess heeru wouldn t sound that great ajay devgan is quite a disaster as heero the comedy is strained and the slurred talk that really was effective in company sounds fake the chemistry between heero and gunghroo nisha kothari doesn t exists at all in fact the more charming nisha tries to be the more irritating she becomes this reaches a peak by the end raj is in fact not bad as compared to the others he is a guy to watch in the future i was really disappointed with amitabh bachchan as babban he looks like a caricature of gabbar singh there is a scene where he is drinking something from a bowl all covered in a shawl instead of inspiring fear he looks like a beggar with his bowl the only performance that really stood out was mohan lal as inspector narasimha i am afraid i don t have the patience to write more,0
i have seen the short movie a few years ago after that i watch all sequels the first one is really not the best but it s the most popular one i ve already watch the making of guinea pig it s really great what these guys did also the sequels are excellent in the special effects take your chance to watch it,1
after tracking it down for half a year i finally found a copy and it was not disappointing not disappointing because i m one of those die hard smap fans who need to see all their works and i finally got to see the so called hot film of goro but i couldn t believe goro was forced to make a movie as such in his respectable self now i m sure he cringes that he made this movie nevertheless they found the perfect person for looking embarrassed ill at ease and half depressed most of the time man i still can t believe he made this movie i had to cover my eyes at many parts not believing he really made such a movie hahahaha but i m glad to have watched it thank goodness he has grown up,1
five deadly venoms is not as bloody and violent as story of ricky or super ninjas but it features some of the best hand to hand fight sequences in hong kong film history director chang cheh creates what is considered by many to be his masterpiece this movie launched the careers of the five men who play the venoms meng lo plays yet another bad ass he would go on to be in super ninjas kuo chui who is philip kwok would go on to story of ricky and hard boiled any chop socky fan can apperciate this but i still think it ain t as good as super ninjas also made by chang cheh but all chop socky is good and this is one of the very best,1
i think everyone was quite disappointed with this sci fi flick for one thing it was directed by tim burton another thing it s a remake of what is supposed to be a classic i found it boring gross and ridiculous if you ve seen it you know what i mean just about everyone at imdb say it s crap and boy are they right if you haven t avoid it it s a snorer out of,0
spoilers sex huh it s one of the most basic parts of human life yet do we ever take it too seriously people always want more even those who get it on a daily basis and if you are unlucky there are potential life changing creating consequences ironically people claim we are all starting to have sex at a younger and younger age despite victorians getting married and having children in their early teens so it must be increasingly difficult for those who get to a point as virgins in steve carell s first big screen lead he plays a man who has gotten to without managing it treating us to countless lude and extreme sex related incidents not to mention more profanity than an episode of eurotrash the general plot of the film and it s principle doesn t sound funny it s a pleasant surprise therefore that for all the inappropriate failed jokes there are an incredibly large number of ones which hit the mark and leave the audience in hysterics andy stitzer carell is a nice guy with a good job and a pleasant temperament at the same time though he blatantly takes life too seriously and after being invited to a poker game as a necessary fifth member andy s friends discover his secret at the age of andy is still a virgin now for multiple reasons but mostly pity the three men paul rudd seth rogen and romany malco all offer andy advice with one goal in mind to put him out of his misery and get him laid one of the few good things about anchorman it was only going to be a matter of time before steve carell got himself a lead of his own impressively in the year old virgin he doesn t disappoint showing the hopeless shy virgin to perfection carell is a revelation as he gradually grows increasingly confident as the advice begins to help carell is not alone however in his performance rudd rogen malco and catherine keener as the love interest are all superb rudd is a personal favourite as the love sick david who falls apart at multiple times and shares the finest scene with rogen as the two argue over homosexuality the biggest surprise about this film is not the way that so many of the jokes hit the mark but actually the clever way that it flips the message on it s head obviously designed for conservative america the film s entire tone evolves from a simple story of sexual conquest into one of safe sex and abstinence the virgin doesn t need sex to make his life complete he just needs confidence and true love a worthy message to preach and a considerable improvement on the one you expect to see at the beginning of the film it s weird to see a crude comedy which is consistently funny and well acted but low and behold year old virgin is just that throw in a well meaning message too and you re well on the way to a top class comedy a surprising joy,1
i enjoyed this movie quite a lot i have always been a fan of whoopi goldberg and this movie only emphasizes it she portrays a housewife in an african american family which is moving up the social chain due to the husband s danny glover success as an attorney she moves to an all white neighborhood where the people are friendly yet a little awkward toward her the various events that arise during the course of the movie make for some laughs but mostly appeal to the other emotions this movie is not so much a comedy as a drama i give it a strong i highly recommend you catch it on tv or rent it soon,1
this show is quick witted colorful dark yet fun hip and still somehow clean the cast including an awesome rotation of special guests i e molly shannon paul rubens the stapler guy from office space is electric it s got murder romance family and zombies without ever coming off as cartoony somehow you really connect with these characters the whole production is an unlikely magic act that left me something of a skeptic if i do say so myself totally engrossed and coming back for more every wednesday night i just re read this and it sounds a little like somebody paid me to write it it really is that good i just heard a rumor that it was being canceled so i thought i d send off a flare of good will this is one of those shows that goes under the radar because the network suits can t figure out how to make it sexy and sell cars with it do yourself a huge favor if you haven t already and enjoy this gem while it lasts ok so one more thing this show is clever what that means is that every armchair critic writer in hollywood is gonna insert a stick up their youknowwhat before they sit down to watch it defending themselves with an i could ve written that type speech to absolutely nobody in their lonely renovated hollywood hotel room in other words the internet this is a general interest anonymous website before you give your wednesday tv hour to dirty sexy money or next hot model reruns or whatever other out and out tripe these internet critics aren t commenting on give my fave show a spin it s fun good unpretentious fun,1
this is simply the most astonishing movie you will ever see i thought it was just another documentary but it really is something else it doesn t try to teach you anything it shows you how life works in nature i won t talk about the quality of the pictures because you obviously know from other comments it is unmatched earth is funny tense and sad it can make you laugh it can make you cry sometimes both at the same time this is the first movie that made me cry not because you feel sorry for the animals but because you come to realise how fragile our planet is and what treasure we were blessed with yet we don t appreciate it one bit this movie should be shown obligatory in schools it is the most wonderful film you will ever see so go and see it who knows maybe it is the last time we might see our planet like this but i would easily rate it more if it were possible,1
this is not a love song my one word summary of this film would be `excellent it probably won t appeal to the mass movie watching public it s a film that forces you to participate you observe think and question comparisons could be made with deliverance topic theme and perhaps with the blair witch project for overall filming style however this film stands unique against both the cinematography effects solarisation freeze frame blur etc have been seen before but they are used most effectively in this film to underpin the natural tension of the story acting is raw menacing and utterly believable the real theme of the film is about friendship the title really gives the game away it s probably not the kind of friendship that most of us have experienced or indeed would want to it is a love song,1
deceptive advertising i saw a commercial for carlitos way rise to power that states from the producer of scarface and carlito s way lets get it straight michael bergman did not produce scarface in fact he was editing room assistant for scarface not to take away from bergman s talent but in my opinion he should of had a little more class i think i can speak for the masses when i say we hate being blatantly lied to as far as the movie goes it was poor at best i did think puff daddy did a good job although luis guzman should be ashamed for working on this film overall this film did not do a good job filling in the blanks for carlito s way it s obvious this project was an attempt to make a quick buck rather a good film,0
this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen robin williams fit into the part like a rhino would fit into a tutu even so his performance was still pitiful kurt russell was more believable but still was awful the plot left much to be desired and the rest of the acting was also terrible the only thing this movie had going for it was the trailer which suckered me in to wasting minutes of my life which could have been better spent trying to lick the back of my head do yourself a favor and burn this movie if you have it if not just be happy you don t,0
when i first saw this movie i was with my dad he encouraged me to watch this movie because it was one of his favorites after watching the movie it instantly became one of my favorites a river runs through it is about two brothers who each take a different path in life norman maclean craig sheffer is the older of the two brothers and he is set on the path of education paul maclean brad pitt is the rebellious younger brother who travels on a path full of obstacles the movie follows these characters as the each follow their own path there is no downside to this movie you will be entertained the whole way through the acting directing and script is all perfect the two things that are exceptional are the cinematography and the score both of which entrap you in the world robert redford creates for you this is an all around great movie that is destined to be a classic it sure is in my book if you haven t seen this movie definitely watch it as soon as you can because it will stay with you forever,1
tigerland is one of the finest films that i have seen and in my opinion it outdoes even full metal jacket a film of similar nature bozz is played exceptionally well by farrell and is a character who stays in your mind long after the film ends the ending is brilliantly cut by schumacher with the melodic harmony singing and the slow mo of the troops preparing to leave what a film,1
having seen charley boorman in long way round with ewan mcgregor i was very interested to see how charley would be in his own show i thought charley came across as a lovely guy who is very grounded and down to earth its nice to see that celebrities struggle with their weight and fitness it just show s their human too i don t know a lot about bikes but this show gripped me right from the start the preparation and organising for this event seems immense the event itself seems very dangerous and i m fascinated to see why charley and everyone else is doing it and how far he gets i love the pace of the show and the fast upbeat music i can t believe he broke his collar bone i really hope its not the end i cant wait to see the next episode,1
i couldn t believe how lame pointless this was basically there is nothing to laugh at in the movie hardly any scenes to get you interested in the rest of the movie this movie pulled in some huge stars but they were all wasted in my opinion i think keanu reeves must ve taken some acting lessons a fews years after this movie before he stared in the matrix uma thurman looked very simple humble luckily i got this movie for a very low price because its certainly not a movie to remember for any good reasons i won t write anything about the story of the movie but as you should know that she is meant to be the most famous hitchhiker across america because of her huge thumb i would give this movie a before i watched this movie i was wondering why this movie has only got a now i know why a very disappointing movie don t buy it even if you see it for under,0
yes i admit i cried during this movie it was so incredibly disappointing that i couldn t help myself but cry tbn trinity broadcasting network has done it again first with having the million dollar man ex professional wrestler on their program and now this the omega code follows a stream of sketchy religiously oriented movies it was quite amusing yet at the same time it was disturbing to find it so biblically inaccurate the movie follows what is known as the bible code rather than following actual biblical scripture this film is extremely poorly made from its writing to its directing to its hilariously horrible acting its depressing that people actually put effort into this movie it appeared more like a late night movie someone would watch on the usa channel or a straight to home video rather than a theatrical released movie i highly recommend you do not watch this movie even if your life depended on it,0
i thought this was an awesome movie the theme song is sweet anyway the only thing that somewhat bothered me was in the beginning when everything should have been normal it was very weird and unrealistic the big cable company is mainly what i m talking about apart from that the movie was very creative i think that all the acting was well done the actors acted out their characters personalities perfectly everything fit together well it really is a shame that their isn t a soundtrack that would have been great because this is a canadian film and because it is one of my favorites i give this movie a out of,1
i could not agree more with the quote this is one of the best films ever made if you think vanilla sky is simply a re make you could not be more wrong there is tremendous depth in this film visually musically and emotionally visually because the film is soft and delicate at times early scenes with sofia and at other times powerful and intense times square post climactic scenes the music and sounds tie into this movie so perfectly without the music the story is only half told nancy wilson created an emotional yet eclectic score for the film which could not be more suitable for such a dream like theme although never released i was able to get my hands on the original score for about if you look hard you may be able to find a copy yourself crowe s other musical selections such as the beach boys josh rouse spiritualized sigur ros the monkees etcetera etcetera are also perfect fits for the film crowe has an ear for great music more importantly the emotional themes in this film i e love sadness regret are very powerful and are amplified tenfold by the visual and musical experience as well as the ingenious dialogue i admit the elevator scene brings tears to my eyes time and time again the best part of this film however as if it could get any better is that it is so intelligently crafted such that each time you see the film you will catch something new so watch closely and be prepared to think sure a theme becomes obvious after the first or second watch but there is always more to the story than you think this is easily cameron crowe s best work and altogether a work of brilliance much of my film making and musical inspiration comes from this work alone it has honestly touched my life as true art has a tendency of doing it continually surprises me that there are many people that cannot appreciate this film for what it is i guess to understand true art is an art itself bottom line vanilla sky is in a league of its own,1
i had the privilege of seeing this film at a preview screening years ago and outside the theater i was confronted by a camera crew from a local tv station looking for comments on the film at the time the only words that escaped my mouth were awesome just awesome i like to think i can articulate myself a little better than that but at the time i was somewhat incapable of doing so the story is intriguing and thought provoking and the acting is first rate from all the principals this film was the first one that terry gilliam directed that he didn t have a hand in the writing credit for back with universal after his long arduous battle with them over brazil terry had achieved what he wanted most the final cut terry is a master craftsman and each shot is like a beautifully conceived painting that has been constructed carefully with determination and conviction it is only justice that such an individual should be unfettered in his attempts to convey a concept unfortunately limitations still exist in such arrangements the universal collector s edition dvd of this film is simply amazing although most of the bonus features aren t listed on the box it contains among other things a director producer audio commentary and an informative and extremely interesting minute documentary on the making of the film called the hamster factor and other tales of monkeys it tells of some of the creative pitfalls in filmmaking including a test of mettle when preview screenings tested poorly striking the team with feelings of self doubt and despair fortunately for all of us they decided to change very little about the film and released it to an enormous success,1
the movie itself is not too bad many comments have pointed out the obvious flaws of the script but it is watchable what really gives me the creeps though is that people like justin timberlake even get cast for movies and on top of that for movies like this one i have to admit i had never heard the man s name before watching this but the very instant he appeared i was just plain annoyed the voice is crap the face is a bad rip off of legolas the posture is horrible and he cannot even properly coordinate all three of them said to say i was delighted when he got jumped after leaving the disco because i was hoping from then on it would be morgan freeman and kevin spacey only too bad i was wrong these two and also ll cool j give a very decent performance and they are the main reason i give this a i see many upcoming movies with the little timberlake cast and cannot believe it,0
you ve been fouled and beaten up in submission by my harsh statements about femme fatale guns n gals movies now comes another breed in disappointing rediscoveries ninja movies many of these i ve seen before and let me tell you they aren t all that s cracked up to be they usually don t stick to the point this among all others suffers from no originality what s a ninja got to do with preventing a nuclear holocaust in russia and isn t this supposed to be a martial arts movie too does plenty of gunfire sound like an incredible action movie to you is blood the number one reason to love this to death will you waste some of your hard earned cash over a lady singing in her see through tank top the answers to these important questions are found in the ninja mission which should be in the martial arts section of your video store for even more nonsense ninja fun try checking out those godfrey ho movies put out by trans world you get what you deserve and that s a promise recommended only for hardcore ninja addicts,0
this is one of those movies that appears on cable at like two in the afternoon to entertain bored housewives while they iron the acting is second rate poor mathew modine seems to sleepwalk through the whole film and god help gina gershon her accent is too over the top it sounds nothing like an true english woman it sounds forced and phony much like her acting she should stick to what she does best lesbian showgirl con artist who plays in a rock roll band and has a drug problem the other characters are no better they are two dimensional empty vapid and silly how are we to supposed to care about these people at one point christy scott cashman get s lost in central park really it s not that hard to navigate central park just follow any path out not only did i not care about any of the characters i downright hated them the only reason i even stayed with this train wreck of a film was fisher stevens even his brilliant humor couldn t save this dying fish each scene is typical romantic comedy fare and nothing is left to surprise us the script was awful as was the acting if you catch this fish throw it back,0
starts really well nice intro and build up for the main characters but after about minutes the charm is lost the character is in the same mould as the main protagonist from american pie and loser without the supporting cast or innovative storyline that made the pie movies more of a commercial success let s be honest heder s acting was pretty poor keaton daniels and faris did their best but had no substantial plot or script to get their teeth into the movie just plods on without any pace or clear logical storyline justifying its length the ending is about as predictable as they come so predictable i ve ticked the spoilers box for this one line my advice avoid at all costs unless you really really have nothing else to do listen to or watch and even then you ll feel the producers just cheated you out of an hour and a half of your life,0
the synopsis for this movie does a great job at explaining what to expect it s a very good thriller well shot tough to believe it was bill paxton s directorial debut though some shots do look exactly like a storyboard version still there are a few shots that really look good and show some real imagination on the part of paxton it s a solid story with some great twists at the end several of them all believable all fun and best of all obscured well enough to make them true twists the child actors in the movie do a great too i m usually wary of movies with kids in starring roles because all too often they come off as nickelodeon rejects but both these kids do a good job this movie is not gory it s not very scary but it is very very creepy,1
the problem with family dramas is that outside of tv movies on channels like lifetime most people don t want to watch them and the ones that do get watched tend to be sensationalized and about current or topical problems or issues in the news or recent news movies that explain or explore the human condition aren t popular particularly with the young crowd that would be miss lohan s fan base or the younger crowd that tends to make movies not simply popular but financially successful for studios the specific problems i had with this movie is the cartoonishness of some of the characterizations it was a bit much to blame all of the lohan s character s acting out wrecking the car drug use etc on what her step father did to her while not improbable it s just a bit much to expect the audience to swallow additionally other aspects such as her giving the young morman boy oral sex or that she would actually make a good assistant to the vet who coincidentally happens to have a thing for her mother etc all these elements just did not really help this movie along it placed it more in the element of a situation comedy trying one of their special dramatic episodes then it did for a fully realized well written feature film when you watch the dvd and listen to the commentary particularly for the various alternate endings you can really see all of this is sharp focus,0
this is a review of freddy mercury the untold story theatrical release chicago int film festival one of the phoniest uninspired and most tedious biographical documentaries i have seen if the film i saw in a movie theater was originally released on tv i would plead with its producers and distributors to not fool a paying audience with the false promise of a cinematically worthy documentary feature even as a made for tv documentary the sentimental piano solos accompanying interviewees sitting in front of flower arrangements in hotel rooms and the pompous pseudo literary narration rang more true of a sleepapedic bed infomercial the only redeeming aspects of this the untold story of freddy mercury or uhm was it the untold story of princess diana are the original concert video and tv footage unabridged freddy mercury and queen testimonial interviews with irrelevant eye witnesses with insights such as he was a free spirit really i thought freddy mercury was a company man belittle those freddy testimonials by brian may or montserrat caballe that shed new and affectionate light into mercury s complex life and character and what up with the harry potter like boarding school segments how did the interview with the first girl crush who now works in a travel agency and members of freddy s first school band contribute to what i really want to know about mercury vital milestones of his personal life his sexuality his artistic style and growth queen the band remain unexplored these filmmakers don t ask a single provocative question nor do they engage in independent or visionary research of their subject instead delivering a tedious montage of politely clean and vastly empty comments about an enigmatic and brilliant rock legend who doesn t deserve to be remembered by this history channel biography your grandparents can doze off to on a sunday night,0
to anyone who hasn t seen this film yet i have a friendly warning don t watch la casa dell orco expecting any demons at all because you won t find them here this film is not a third installment to the demons series and it has nothing to do with it whatsoever except the fact that lamberto bava directed them as a matter of fact michele soavi s the church is also known an unofficial demons and it s a deceptive title in that case as well so go figure it is obvious that due to the demons films success they tried to deceive the audience with misleading titles even though it is obvious that this is a disconnected story having said that i think it s unfair on the other hand to say that la casa dell orco is not worth the look honestly the movie is quite atmospheric and even though there are a few unintentionally hilarious situations i thought it was genuinely creepy on the whole nevertheless i think it s fair to say that the story somehow tries to emulate lucio fulci s the house by the cemetery of course that s just a speculation i have but i think i have my valid evidences for instance in both films paolo marco is the man of the family in both films there s an irritating little son named bobby in both films the woman of the house is a beautiful thirty something who seems to be the only one to see that there s something really wrong in the new house and in both films there s something really really wrong going on in the basement i m sorry but i can relate both films very easily and i m not saying that as an accusation for the contrary my point is that those who enjoyed the house by the cemetery are probably going to enjoy this movie as well keeping in mind of course that la casa dell orco is far less pretentious less scary not nearly as atmospheric but the formula is still there in la casa dell orco charel her husband tom and their little son bobby go on a vacation trip to an old deserted castle situated in the heart of an italian villa called trifiri leaving aside the beauty of the place shortly after their arrival charel starts to have the feeling that she has been there before which is impossible considering that she had never been to trifiri before sadly charel can t get over her d j vu and the worst part is that her visions come along with the image of a horrendous creature going after her tom who is not a very patient guy to begin with advices her to leave the nonsensical hallucinations aside and enjoy the vacation however the woman s visions become more and more real and the peace and quiet that they were supposed to enjoy suddenly turn into a living nightmare the old nightmare from charel s childhood becomes real and this time she won t be able to escape without confronting that menacing ogre first as it is expected the plot somehow turns out to be a little bit simplistic and as a consequence it is hard to fill an hour and a half this means that la casa dell orco offers more than a couple of sequences with nothing but total silence and the image of the main character walking around the castle for several minutes reviving the images of her childhood and nothing else it gets rather tedious from time to time but overall it s nothing serious like many italian horror films that came out throughout the late eighties this movie is pretty stylish and effective but it also offers a nice variety of unintentionally funny moments that make the movie unforgettable in a way for instance the part in which charel is brutally slapped by her husband and instead of going to her bedroom crying like i would have expected she strikes back against him by punching him on the face really hard and running away to the woods like a maniac the funniest thing however is the fact that two minutes later they re a happy couple again as if punching each other like that was the most natural thing in the world i know it s silly but i myself found it absolutely hilarious the ogre which is obviously the villain of the story looks creepy and funny at the same time too and let s face it a villain who can freak us out and make us laugh a little bit it s twice as welcomed it reminded me of michael jackson in thriller but much more natural and human of course but if focusing on the genuinely good aspects that i mentioned before the music composed by simon boswell is one of the high points and even if it pretty much always the same it fits perfectly and it helps to create a rather dark atmosphere during the moments of tension so if i have to give my final statement regarding this movie i m going to have to say that i can t help loving it including the small flaws and most people who enjoy these typical italian horror movies from the late eighties won t be disappointed by this one it has all the typical and always well received clich s like the crazy old man who actually speaks the truth the foxy local woman who is said to be a witch a creepy castle a huge dark basement with a terrible secret and the local folks who try to prevent the tourist with their hostility to stay away from the infamous lands i would say that la casa dell orco deserves two thumbs up and a punch at your spouse s face as a way to pay tribute to the heroine of the story take this movie for what it is and enjoy it,1
its like if you took the general themes of the usual suspects and fightclub take away all their style and class and mixed them together with a lot of pretentious new wave i m intellectual so my movie must be hard to make sense of film maker rubbish mashed in a few extra styles for good measure chopped off the ending there you have revolver yes i did think about it for a little bit after watching and yes it did kind of make sense however that doesn t stop it being garbage waste of money waste of time up there as the worst movie i have ever seen with not even a bad movie novelty value to redeem it a little,0
according to john ford s lyrically shot fictional biopic of abraham lincoln s life his greatest faults may have been an obtuseness with woman and an ability to dance in the worst way ford s camera has only praising views to reveal of mr lincoln s early life but for what the film lacks in character complexities it makes up for in beauty and depth of vision uncharacteristically beautiful compositions of early film what could have been a series of gorgeous still frames ford has a unique eye for telling a story the film sings of the life of a hopeful young man henry fonda plays the contemplative and spontaneously clever lincoln to a tee one of his best roles the film concerns two young men brothers on trial for a murder that both claim to have committed in classic angry mob style the town decides to take justice into their own hands and lynch the pair of them until honest abe steps into the fray he charms them with his humor telling them not to rob him of his first big case and that they are as good as lynched with him as the boys lawyer what follows seems to become the outline for all courtroom murder dramas thereafter as abe cunningly interrogates witnesses to the delight and humor of the judge jury and town before he stumbles upon the missing links the film plays out like many john ford movies do a tablespoon of americana a dash of moderate predictability a hint of sarcasm that you aren t sure if you put in the recipe or if ford did it himself despite the overtly hollywood feel of the film and overly patriotic banter alluding to lincoln s future presidency the film is entirely enjoyable and enjoyably well constructed if you can take your drama with a grain of salt,1
in april the university of chicago agreed to operate argonne national laboratory with an association of midwestern universities offering to sponsor the research argonne thereby became the first national laboratory it did not however remain at its original location in the argonne forest in it moved farther west from the windy city to a new site on illinois farmland when alvin weinberg visited argonne s director walter zinn in he asked him what kind of reactor was to be built at the new site when zinn described a heavy water reactor operating at one tenth the power of the materials testing reactor under design at oak ridge weinberg joked it would be simpler if zinn took the oak ridge design and operated the materials testing reactor at one tenth capacity the joke proved unintentionally prophetic the s plant used convection to separate the isotopes in thousands of tall columns it was built next to the k power plant which provided the necessary steam much less efficient than k the s plant was torn down after the war concerned that the atomic energy commission research program might become too academic lilienthal established a committee of industrial advisers and during a november visit to oak ridge he discussed with clark center manager of carbide carbon a subsidiary of union carbide corporation at oak ridge the possibility of the company assuming management of the laboratory prince henry of prussia arriving in washington and visiting the german embassy evidently with prince henry of prussia according to the principles of science and its dangers their were already concerns with the applications of new science with military applications the hohenzollern ii kaiser wilhelm s splendid yacht at the th st pier new york taken at the exact moment of prince henry s arrival and the raising of the royal standard if royalty knew of these necessary precautions to citizen welfare then what was the necessity of the warfare wwi and wwii the quality of management control i presume thus did the commandos of operation swallow volunteer for a military mission or a business plan based on the security principles of laboratory management because supposedly their were no survivors and the ones who were caught in europe ordered to be executed of the man commando team the survivors who were captured were executed under orders of the german army against subversion and espionage acts of the state of germany the f hrer no g kdos okw wfst f hrer hq oct signed adolph hitler translation of document no ps office of u s chief of counsel certified true copy kipp major declassified dod march reproduced at the u s national archives the oss society whittier ave mclean va,1
i ve now seen this one about times so there must be something about it i like s us sci fi movies were pretty much a mixed bunch they were either intelligently made and or thought provoking or cheap and laughable cheese forbidden planet is a bit of both but in that rarity for the genre colour it also had a head start with the script although shakespeare might not have recognised it it was based on his timeless play and thus guaranteed a certain amount of longevity itself if made well it s the story of one mans murderous id artificially magnified infinitely by machines a dead race left switched on years before along the way the plot bristles with s stereotypes and corn so pure you wonder sometimes why you re watching it but always do that love triangle thing yuk disney s cartoonery still holds up well and the cartoon backgrounds straight off the covers of galaxy magazine etc look good even after years robbie driving the car over the desert in the far distance is a hoot though all in all with all faults the best of its kind and we should be grateful that such a pristine print survives,1
alex d linz replaces macaulay culkin as the central figure in the third movie in the home alone empire four industrial spies acquire a missile guidance system computer chip and smuggle it through an airport inside a remote controlled toy car because of baggage confusion grouchy mrs hess marian seldes gets the car she gives it to her neighbor alex linz just before the spies turn up the spies rent a house in order to burglarize each house in the neighborhood until they locate the car home alone with the chicken pox alex calls each time he spots a theft in progress but the spies always manage to elude the police while alex is accused of making prank calls the spies finally turn their attentions toward alex unaware that he has rigged devices to cleverly booby trap his entire house home alone wasn t horrible but probably shouldn t have been made you can t just replace macauley culkin joe pesci or daniel stern home alone had some funny parts but i don t like when characters are changed in a movie series view at own risk,0
just kidding seeking greener pastures in the form of hustling in new york city jon voight is young optimist cowboy almost forest gump like joe buck from texas it does not take long for the big apple to mercilessly swallow him and his ambitions whole and very soon joe is the target of both the coldness of new yorkers and cons from its street thugs given his pure heart he takes pity on one of these thugs ratso rizzo dustin hoffman and later moves in with him in his wreck of apartment and the two literally struggle to survive while midnight comedy is labeled as a drama it is best described as either a tragic comedy or a comedic tragedy in my opinion it is above all a beautiful film that is stylish in capturing the contemporary hippie vibe of the late s with its mandatory dizzying warhol party cinematography and juxtaposing it with ultra urban new york city the film crams cowboy joe buck somewhere in between thereby emphasizing his out of place position we feel for his struggle to fit in but also to merely get enough money to feed ratso rizzo midnight cowboy brought tears to my eyes as it is also rich in substance and projects a lot of heart i imagine this film must have inspired both forest gump with its pure hearted and out of place lead character and to an extent the crocodile dundee films as it deals with almost the exact same kind of humour a contrast between country cowboys and slick new york cosmopolitans very compelling and sensationally creative film that i highly recommend,1
when i read other comment i decided to watch this movie first cast specially michael madsen and tamer karadagli good enough film very intelligence and interesting because cast have a lot of international specially european actor and actress like from turkey and russsia second story is basic and you can guess but if you interesting action good play you ll like in my opinion third final chapter is not special or interesting it s regular like other action movies finally i recommend to watch this movie and i hope you ll love it enjoy d,1
i ve seen plenty of sci fi channel original movies ever since i started watching them back in my first one was sabretooth which actually is one of the more entertaining sci fi channel features in my opinion their quality varies some of them are average but decent sabretooth dragon fighter never cry werewolf swamp devil some are laughably bad and then there are some that are truly terrible raptor planet lies in the latter raptor planet a loose sequel to the sci fi channel original raptor island is a barely watchable mess of a film with truly horrid acting and lazy scriptwriting the effects that bring the dinosaurs to life a combination of puppetry and animatronics as well as cgi and stock footage from raptor planet are some of the worst looking effects i ve seen in a low budget film the gore effects are even unconvincing the plot involves a bunch of commandos who for some reason i forget why travel to a planet of alien dinosaurs that s right folks the dinosaurs are aliens dinosaurs in outer space what s next sharks in space the rest of the plot is simple the human cast are picked off and eaten by now we ve come to expect this in the numerous dinosaurs movies and novels that are released but this is the first killer dinosaur movie i ve seen where i actually became bored with all the dinosaur attacks there are a few chuckles in it though there s one scene that stands out in which a man is being munched by a carnotaur brought to life by stock footage from the original film that seconds later becomes a giant raptor also a bit of trivia this is the scene where steven baur is shooting at his own death scene from the first movie while raptor island wasn t a good film to begin with its a masterpiece compared to its sequel believe me when i say this is quite possibly the worst movie syfy has ever aired it s darn near unwatchable,0
if you want a serious laugh pain watch this movie and the things bruce inflicts on his fellow newscaster the deleted scenes are priceless i don t know why they didn t include them in the original movie it can t be because of time since the movie is only minutes long morgan freeman is a brilliant actor who has been overlooked for too long jim carrey needs meds,1
some might scoff but there is actually a real art with making particularly bad films this misses out on all fronts a bunch of young people women with heaving breasts and continuously wet t shirts naturally go to film blood surfing and end up running into a foot crocodile not only was the croc obviously fake but some of the props [notice the boat hitting the reef in particular] look like they ve come out of thunderbirds no good from start to finish don t see it,0
i read reviews on this movie and decided to give it a shot i m an open minded guy after all and i ve given good reviews to some pretty bad flicks as the end credits rolled on this one i searched for meaning and something nice to say here goes this film was mercifully short that s all i got okay okay the sets and visuals were well done and the music helped lend to the mood of asylum life but the film was painful to watch and the endless dialogue took away from the good bits i did find myself laughing at this film but the way you laugh at your best friend who just embarrassed himself in front of a large crowd by the time of the chicken dance at the finale i had just decided to tuck and roll with the film and let the bodies fall where they fall i don t know what could have salvaged this film the acting was not bad and it looked like it had a budget but there just wasn t any way to make it watchable not even the presence of beautiful bare breasts maybe i should have sparked a doobie or drank a lot of beer to get the full experience of the film either way i m not watching this film again unless i m really depressed then i can tell myself at least i wasn t in dr tarr s torture dungeon i m better than those guys,0
it s hard to say what was the worst thing about this show the bad acting poor acoustics of different portions bad cgi improper sets for the period the poor script it would have been nice if the script followed the original tale a bit closer there s enough tension and good material in beowulf to provide a great deal of good material and a better story line than the scriptwriters could come up with and why introduce a strange new weapon like a crossbow that fires explosive bolts i see that this movie was made in only days it shows in the lack of quality i m beginning to think this is general poor attitude taken by sci fi channel and others when it comes to making movies out of classic tales in the past few years what a waste,0
lars von triers europa is an extremely good film how s that von trier has a very stylized way to tell a story at least he did have with europa to me the whole film was like an experience even if i did see it on a small television screen even with all the tricks in my opinion this film is the most complete real and moving piece of cinema then most of the films on the top list i also think it is perhaps the scariest the most gothic and complete film around all right there are other good ones too but this one is my favorite the final scene is one of the most harrowing scenes ever,1
this movie is one of my favorites because it makes me think of all the choices i have made and how my life would change if my choices had been different it plays right into the multiple universe theory the only thing that doesn t ring true is how larry burrows james belushi has such a hard time understanding what is going on that everything has changed,1
this review is mostly all spoilers if you plan on enjoying this film don t read this review that s the problem with kids tv nowadays it s all so patronizing and condescending `wow that was fun wasn t it no it wasn t and unfortunately it seems to have permeated into children films as well and that is what flight of the reindeer is all about admittedly i haven t seen flight of the reindeer in a few years so i might be hazy on some points but i remember being thoroughly unimpressed with it at the time essentially the story follows a lecturer who is given a book for christmas now the lecturer is an esteemed scientist on the flying habits of some animal i think it was bullfrogs anyway through this book mr lecturer family man learns that reindeer can fly in exactly the same way as bullfrogs apparently this book was written by a scientist many hundreds of years ago who disappeared in the north pole now if it were me i would have thrown the book out the nearest window flying bullfrogs are a naturally occurring phenomenon but flying reindeer is a fantastic and wholly unrealistic concept but mr lecturer isn t me so i guess that explains why he decides to fly to the north pole leaving his wife and kid at home with no idea where he s gone of course things go awry and before he knows it a flying reindeer has crashed into his private plane and he s stranded at the north pole are you still following this good his family of course are devastated i would be too i mean what a suck tacular christmas elsewhere mr lecturer finds himself in a hidden town at the north pole inhabited by midgets and one tyrannical figure who dresses only in red and white rather than try to escape immediately as i would have done he greets everyone there with open arms this hidden civilization of midget monsters and he greets them with open arms oooo kayyyy they feed him this story that they are the elves of santa claus and they spend all year round making toys for kids they have no idea exist and mr lecturer accepts all this he even accepts that santa claus is in fact the scientist who disappeared two hundred years ago or whatever there s just one problem they don t want him to leave the world can t know of their secret existence after all before they d know it there d be a mcdonalds and a starbucks on every street corner still with me now mr nice guy s family find the book and assume he s gone to the north pole boy wouldn t they be embarrassed if they found out he d just gone for a brisk walk before the audience knows it they re jetting off to spend a christmas in the most authentic winter wonderland on the planet meanwhile mr lecturer gets sick of all the uppity midgets and decides to leave i can t remember exactly but i do recall him holding santa claus to gunpoint a fire fight ensues when the midgets attack and he manages to escape via santa s sleigh with santa hot on his heels and with bloodlust in his eyes mr whatever through some marvellous co incidence finds himself flying alongside his family s plane that is looking for him so he jumps on to their plane the planes flies back and everyone lives happily ever after the fact is there have been some shocking films made in the name of christmas over the years but because they feature that festive charm they get away with it and it s that charm that is utterly devoid from flight of the reindeer there isn t much wrong with it nothing which insults the intelligence well obviously there is but it s a kids film and thus can get away with such things or anything particularly offensive but the problem is there is nothing much right about it either it just doesn t feel christmassy and for a film that is all about christmas that it a pretty major flaw but hey i don t think flight of the reindeer s target audience mind about that why should they they re all so doped up on sedatives they probably couldn t spell `christmas i give it three out of ten if it was a tv movie then i d add another two stars onto it we all know how bad they can get,0
this is the french and belgians doing what they do best it s quirky visually inventive exhilarating and emotionally challenging storytelling director jaco van dormael takes us into the world of georges a down s syndrome sufferer and his quest for a meaningful relationship with someone just anyone this is not done in a patronising way but with a great sense of fun and also honesty georges interplay with corporate management guru harry is dazzlingly handled shifting from comedy to tragedy back to comedy again with breathtaking ease the eighth day puts similar hollywood fare like barry levinson s oscar winning rain man or robert zemeckis s forrest gump well and truly in the shade at times it evokes the humour of milos forman s one flew over the cuckoo s nest with shades of dennis potter thrown in for good measure as the emotionally blunted and desperately lonely yuppie harry daniel auteuil turns in yet another sublime performance but it is matched by the brilliant pascal duquenne as georges it s a movie with uniformly strong performances and so many memorable set pieces the shoe shop scene car showroom scene george s dance to genesis s jesus he knows me the conference scene the fireworks scene if you haven t seen it there s only one thing to do just rent it or attend a screening at a retro cinema near you and see what you ve been missing better still buy this movie sheer genius,1
shot in the heart is wonderful it brilliantly illustrates the plight of gary gimore a convicted murder who requested death shot in the heart shows the ordeal that gilmore s family torn up by hatred went through this movie is an incredible psychological study and is wonderfully depressing and uplifting,1
i admit creating great expectations before watching because some friends mentioned it and they are not pervs as a must see and it is a must see just don t expect to see something outbreaking the freudian psychoanalyzes are interesting in many parts of the film but there s just too much perversion and it doesn t stick in the end some of the good things are the analyzes of kieslowski s blue most of david lynch s some of hitchcock s and perhaps a couple more i missed i just remembered dogville and i usually don t miss things unless they are too obvious or loose in the air other than being repetitive which makes it too long the documentary is enjoyable in the sense of noticing some perversions fed by our unconscious hence the commercial success of most thrillers studied and used as basis for this theory i really enjoyed the energetic tone of the narration and the effort of mr zizek to revive freud s theory which has been numb for too long specially in north america again it s way over the top and i believe not to be a completely waste of time for i do believe most humans have a dark appreciation for death and blood,1
this movie leaves the intellectual mind thinking and trying to analyze the story i too cannot understand why people would trash this movie if you are a jerry bruckheimer fan this movie may not suitable for u this movie presents high degree of realism the actors and actresses performance is examplary not fake just natural no special sound effects so special side effects the camera work is excellent the music is oh so good i can t wait to get the soundtrack it leaves your body numb like constant garderner the directly has raw talent certainly not a follower,1
many of the classic films of the late s haven t retained their ability to disturb and confront the audience in cold blood hasn t lost an ounce of its power its exceptionally well made yet forces the viewer to think some have complained not only about the film but about truman capote s source non fiction novel that the central message is unsubtle that may be true but this is definitely a case where the lack of ambiguity doesn t detract from the film at all its refreshing especially considering today s simplistic and manipulative moral dramas to see a film with a convinced political voice unafraid to force the audience to consider its viewpoint to be honest i m not sure if i agree with the film s central message but i admire its audacity nonetheless even if you disagree with the anti capital punishment message there s plenty to admire about the film the acting from the two leads is terrific scott wilson still one of the most underrated actors ever is chilling as the nihilistic leader one who uses his charisma to hide his weaknesses robert blake is also chilling as the more submissive of the two and the one with a conscience his character obviously has a voice of reason but is terrified to go against wilson theres a good amount of homoerotic subtext on his character s part the cinematography is terrific sleek yet gritty and really giving the impression the viewer is watching a documentary add another classic score from quincey jones and you have a masterpiece,1
the garden of allah is a prime example of popular women s literature turn of the xxth century style combining all the power of unbridled erotic and exotic reveries with the stimulating glamour of fake mysticism and the sado masochistic bite of catholic guilt just as jane eyre couldn t really be happy until her castle burned down around her and her lover was permanently maimed for his sins or the heroine of rebecca couldn t find true fulfillment in her marriage until her lordly husband was put on trial for the murder of his first wife and her castle burned down around her or poor psyche couldn t leave well enough alone and had to extract cupid s secret at all costs domini the devout catholic heroine of this piece of tripe can only find true sexual realization by inadvertently marrying a man who has renounced his sacred religious vows like all such narratives aiming to stimulate the female reader and induce the vapours this one relies on the oldest tricks in the book basic misunderstandings and the inability to express one s true feelings at the right place and at the right time until it is too late the logic is that any ultimate sexual ecstasy can be indulged in as long as one is willing to eventually pay a high enough price for it in atonement in the last act it is paul claudel reduced to beauty salon magazine standards oh well it could have been much worse and it often was without the religious overtones the film s plot is that of your basic porn flick oversexed monk driven mad by abstinence escapes to the desert where he has a few rolls in the dunes with a romantic shapely but naive catholic heiress before reintegrating his monastery all passion spent leaving her to clean up his mess and i really resent another commentator s comparison with anatole france s thais a sophisticated novel whose intention was to make fun of the whole concept of catholic sexual repression some of which transpired in massenet s opera of the same name thankfully but what makes this picture unique in the annals of commercial female eroticism of course is the enormous constellation of talents gathered under one banner to make this cinematic wet dream come to shimmering vibrant life imperishable technicolor photography that will outlive us all a truckload of worthy character actors including one cute dog a music score by max steiner that seems determined to accomplish the composed film that michael powell who ironically had a bit part in the silent version always dreamed about tittering at times on the brink of dissonance but always coming through in splendid symphonic operatic exoticism a dream like atmosphere where material considerations are no object characters travel as if by magic from one spot to the next dialog is sparse vague and suggestive the art direction is close to celestial flower arrangements appear in the humblest hut or tent the heroine s wardrobe is inexhaustible and all the male characters are either aristocrats saints doomed but horny sinners mystics or poets ahh hollywood the mgm dvd presentation of this film is bare bones but impeccable the bit rate is very high throughout the colour registration is almost always perfect and the mono sound truly does justice to max steiner s score and to boyer s penultimate confession a historical note on this sort of women s subject the following year julien duvivier visibly inspired by the garden of allah directed carnet de bal where a very similar clothes horse butter won t melt in her mouth heroine widowed after taking care of an ailing husband in the exotic remoteness of some impossibly romantic alpine lakeside villa wants to discover what she has missed by looking up the male dancers in her first dance book she finds them all in time only to realize that whatever feeling there was at one point between her beaus and herself were either misunderstood overestimated or else had lifelong tragic consequences it was duvivier s cynical way of telling us to beware of impossibly idealistic notions and that we all need to grow up sooner or later,1
but it s certainly not without merit already writer director preston sturges is experimenting with unusual cinematic effects in telling his stories creating broadly drawn yet distinctive characters and situations and writing clever and sometimes unexpectedly wise and compassionate dialogue no wonder the coen brothers next movie is going to be an homage to sturges the major problem is that the plot s not all the way there yet it lacks surprise the unexpected plot twists and sudden changes of fortune that keep viewers guessing the coffee slogan is a lousy thing to hang the plot upon and the ending is thoroughly predictable frank capra does this sort of thing much better if you re new to preston sturges check out the lady eve or sullivan s travels or the miracle of morgan s creek first if you ve seen these already then go ahead and watch this one,0
when i first read hamlet i couldn t help but think of the ending of outrageous fortune where bette midler puts down the play because of how indecisive he is and says give me romeo any day five acts of a man trying to decide whether or not to kill his uncle or not seemed like overkill to me but upon further reading i grew to really appreciate the play i ve seen the olivier and gibson movie versions and part of the nicol williamson version and all of them take their model from olivier the melancholy dane olivier at least did it without being self indulgent about it but gibson and from what i saw williamson looked like they went to the look ma i m acting i m acting school now here comes kenneth branagh s version which is breathtaking from start to finish it finished on my top ten of behind the english patient and ahead of lone star jerry maguire fargo secrets lies everyone says i love you flirting with disaster big night and looking for richard and it s the best hamlet and maybe the best shakespeare put to film obviously branagh s talents as a filmmaker for making the full length version in mm print and not losing our interest for four hours is great but what seems to get overlooked in discussions about this film is his performance in the title role this was my favorite performance of the year by far branagh avoids the melodrama which actors seem to get trapped in by playing hamlet as a normal regular human being and makes us understand his actions and feelings each step of the way and unlike olivier who depended mostly on his voice branagh uses his entire body to demonstrate the range of emotions that hamlet goes through but since he plays him as normal none of it seems like scenery chewing the rest of the cast is top notch as well i didn t even mind jack lemmon though i agree he was the weakest member of the cast the most surprising turn came from charlton heston i ve always found him stiff as a board but he s quite commanding as the player king the other big surprise was billy crystal i thought i d find him all wrong as the st gravedigger but he was his usual funny self while being in character all in all a glorious film,1
warning review contains slight spoilers there s a parallel universe out there where gone in seconds is a dark edgy controversial independent movie unfortunately in this dimension gone is a flashy vacuous testosterone fuelled moronfest starring nicolas cage for reasons not really worth getting into he and his large number of cronies have four days to steal fifty expensive cars only one of which has an alarm this crew consists of the guy with the funny shaped ears who s rumoured to be the new superman a guy who conducted electricity in the x files an ex professional footballer and two token black men their enemies are cops rival car thieves and bilborough from cracker his manchester accent suitably flattened and broadened for american audiences who are now used to that sort of thing since daphne in frasier there s also angelina jolie who gets no character save to be a receptacle to men s sexual desires she and cage are supposed to be old flames which is odd as they never have anything approaching a normal conversation in all of the film s overlong m running time in fact characterisation is so poor that whenever anyone has a moment a violin plays in the background to accentuate the emotion it s no spoiler to reveal that vinnie jones who recreates his famous paul gasgoine hand ball manoeuvre and is quite menacing when silent only gets one line not because his inability to speak is integral to the plot but because his eloquent summing up of the film s dubious morality after appearing mute the whole way through is funny allegedly after he struggles through it in his not quite acting but it ll do london drawl cage quips i always thought you were from long island my ribs as you might imagine were well and truly tickled in fact humour is the most undeveloped aspect from the tactless comedy policeman to the two token black characters this sees the biggest aspect of hollywood take hold why is it that a black man cannot appear in a major motion picture without being constantly aware of his skin tone and endlessly refer to it the younger man who like the elder jive talks for the whole duration proclaims us black people don t like the cold we re tropical people he then goes on to express an urge to smoke a joint and watch roots he is of course parodying the image of black people but how funny is that his older counterpart cannot speak without referring to himself and thereby his colour in third person my black ass this my black ass that does anyone know any black people who actually speak like that thought not the film s soundtrack is played almost non stop and with increasing volume some of the tracks especially apollo s don t stop the rock so loud they re actually more audible than the sound effects and dialogue the surroundsound system even separates the two to such a degree that it makes them sound like two different films running together no background music concept here it s the aural equivalent of trying to watch a film while someone at the back of the cinema has their stereo turned up full blast keep that music down young man this isn t the worst film in the world and in many ways i enjoyed it it s just that it s predictable lazy and witless with minimal effort in its construction apparently box office expectations are considerably down for this movie after being force fed junk for several years it appears the general public are starting to wake up to the fact,0
anyone with a young boy in the house who won t watch black white movies should put this on their television set when the child walks by wondering what all the on screen shouting and shooting s about tell him this is a picture for adults and that he isn t big enough to watch it yet that ll hold him there for a few minutes director george stevens and his team will keep him to the end i think my father did that to me anyway and i m the better man for it this classic adventure yarn set in india during the british occupation features a trio of army sergeants who find their tight union facing dissolution as one prepares to marry his sweetheart help arrives in the form of a vicious thuggie revolt that the soldiers find themselves united against gunga din was one of the great movies to come out of hollywood s finest year even more than most great movies from that golden year it is entertaining in a very immediate and accessible way the theme music is instant hummable nirvana while shot in california the camera work the only thing in gunga din that got so much as an oscar nomination has a windblown grandeur that feels very much like the raj of a hundred years before the battle scenes are shot in a very realistic manner not too violent but very messy as people fall and shoot and run in all corners of each frame in a way that feels real not staged like some cecil b demille biblical slaughter fest the script doesn t just set up action scenes it also develops the relationship of the three sergeants with great dollops of humor the main focus is on sgt cutter chasing after tall tales of golden treasures it s a rare actioner for cary grant and his lightness is just right for a film that never takes itself seriously even as it develops taut suspense anchoring the trio is sgt macchesney victor mclaglen who dotes over his elephant annie and tries to protect cutter from his own hare brained schemes he s just as funny in his own way leaving sgt ballantine douglas fairbanks jr displaying some nice errol flynnish dash as the one with the love interest and grounding enough to know he needs to chuck his boyish pals and grow up if gunga din was a lifetime movie it would be about joan fontaine s efforts to save her man from his two loser friends and their skull crushing hijinks but since it s a guys film the accent here is on how the threesome must stay together and save ballantine from a fate worse than death not only marriage but as cutter indignantly exclaims several times the tea business too the political correctness police are hard on this film not so much for the gender issue but the idea of british soldiers saving poor indians from the vicious thuggies it reeks of colonial apologia thankfully this film was made back when and the producers thus felt no need to spell out the obvious liberalism at the heart of the film that these three sergeants so full of derring do and false racial pride have to be saved along with the rest of their army by a humble bhisti that only one of the three had any time for when he sought their approval after all for all their swashbuckling glory the film s true sacrifice involves the title character played so heart wrenchingly by sam jaffe back when this film was made movie mogul jack warner had a saying you want to send a message use western union still it seems like the messages were flying fast and furious in gunga din i watch the film now and wonder if audiences back then were meant to wonder what gunga din was really up to when he led cutter to the golden temple was he really plotting revenge against his british overlords would he have been justified in doing so especially given macchesney s cold treatment of him when col weed delivers that eulogy the poem by rudyard kipling on which the film is loosely based was it with a nod in the direction of imperialism s folly of lording it over someone who proved a better man than i am in the end what did they make of the guru s great speech delivered in perfect clipped english you have sworn an oath as soldiers to maybe die for a faith which is your country england well i can die for my country and my faith as readily as you india farewell of course the same character also instructs his brutal followers kill for the love of killing kill for the love of kali kill kill kill which means we are allowed to hate him and root for the british and save the questions about what it all means for later what gunga din means to me most of all is the quickest surest minute thrill ride on video cutter never found his golden temple but there s one for all of us watching gunga din,1
whenever a columbo story deviates from the familiar plot colorful killer commits crime columbo smokes out killer columbo becomes a pest in the process the writers somehow are never able to match the quality and interest of most traditional episodes this episode deviates in the extreme and the result is a major flop would you believe columbo never faces the villain till the very end frankly i was tempted to turn it off about two thirds through oh the sacrifices we self appointed reviewers make,0
my take a goofy yet imaginative mess keanu reeves yes that keanu reeves and alex winter return as the two punk rock idiots in this sequel to the time trotting adventure comedy bill and ted s excellent adventure now a cult classic in this sequel bill and ted are given much more to do than travel through time they might as well travel heaven and hell too during the beginning of this sequel bill and ted are preparing for a battle of the bands competition which may make them more famous than ever meanwhile many years in a futuristic civilization the time wizard from the first film the always watchable george carlin is running a university praising bill and ted s names there an evil tyrant joss ackland from the hunt for red october plots to get rid of the two idiot rock stars once and for all so he sends two identical android replicas in the words of bill and ted robot us s to do the dirty job there after bill and ted experience death and must find their way through hell with inhabitants that happens to include the duo s worst memories and then through heaven in an attempt to get back to earth to save their girlfriends and their show along this whacked out voyage they play board games with none other than death william sadler from die hard reminiscent to a similar moment in the foreign film classic the seventh seal aid help from a couple of intelligent alien beings and more bogus journey s array of exuberant special effects gimmicks aren t up to to date standards and even some of the humor and the for the time look and feel are somewhat dated to be honest the film also feels like it was released on the wrong year even for the s but with it s no little lack of imagination and a lively turn by both the performances and direction bill and ted s bogus journey is fun imaginative and yes bogus rating out of,1
one thing i m sure everyone who has seen this film will agree on is that it is very creepy the other films in polanski s unofficial trilogy are creepy too but they are all different in what makes them creepy but they all roughly deal with the same thing they all deal with the mind definitely the staring people are very creepy each of them sent shivers down my spine that made me incapable of sitting still again if you have seen the other two films mentioned i m sure you ll find this quite creepy because you begin to expect typical polanski traits that you think you have caught onto he is aware of this and will keep teasing you with simple things personally every time trelkovsky would slowly turn around i would be bracing myself for a jump maybe that s just me but it felt intended to do that though it was quite subtle there is no build up of the music in those moments the acting in this was pretty good mostly that from polanski of course the other characters in the film don t have all that much time to outshine the lead polanski really proves himself as an all round great filmmaker he not only can direct and write great films but he can actually act too i don t think there is any other better person who could have pulled off the trelkovsky character polanski settled right on in perfectly i like seeing films where the director is also apart of the main cast to me it really highlights their fantastic versatility and talent which i respect greatly one thing i didn t like about this film is how it was done in english for those who don t know this is a french film american financed and as well to make it more commercially successful it was mostly done in english there are parts which it is very obvious there has been dubbing and i don t know why it is but of the time when there is a dub they get the complete wrong person to do the dub there is a women in the film who when she speaks it s obvious it s a dub but they got the most annoying person to do the voice over it was seriously pain to my ears to hear her speak she had the loudest high pitch voice i ve heard in a while it almost seemed fake but i don t see what the point was she was a rather small character i honestly would of preferred if they just left it as it was filmed parts of it in french and parts of it in english because the dubbing in this film was a pain and was not near two completely different films i know the high standard of another film that did a similar thing which was the good the bad and the ugly i realise it s not a big problem just when you do realise it it gets annoying but i m sure you won t sit there the long trying to lip read what they are actually saying regardless if you know french whats so great about polanski is that he will let you think you know him that you know his style which in some aspects you do but really you can t see whats behind that corner this film is a lot more open to interpretation than the other two films mentioned which i think really strengthens this one in particular i personally feel this is the best of the three i m unsure which comes next but they are all relatively close in their level of greatness the ending is fantastic it is so easy to dwindle on it for a long time to come and get nowhere i choose not to think to much on it just to have my personal opinion and leave it at that i ve rambled on and i haven t really given any insight on what makes this film so great i don t think so i ll quickly do it here if you liked repulsion and or rosemary s baby i guarantee you will enjoy this film to say the least for those who are too unfortunate to have seen either then i recommend you check this film out if your looking for something that is quite a creepy film that is quite intelligent particularly the end as well if your looking for something that deals with the mind paranoia even though that is better fitted under repulsion,1
the fine cast cannot uplift this routine tale of a secretary murdered by her married paramour in fact there are more questions than answers in this one sided tale of romance and murder and since we are only provided with the prosecution s side none of these questions will be answered this is the type of fare that appeals to the he woman man hater clubs of america as presented it is the tale of an innocent woman who just happens to be caught up in a romance with a married high profile attorney is it possible that if she had not been two timing her boy friend and having an affair with a married man the whole nasty murderous sordid incident could have been avoided when you watch this don t worry about going to the fridge you won t miss anything,0
sergio martino has impressed me recently with his giallo classics the strange vice of mrs wardh and the unforgettably titled your vice is a locked room and only i have the key but even so i wasn t expecting too much from this film the case of the scorpion s tail doesn t get mentioned as much as the aforementioned titles when it comes to classic giallo discussion but i don t know why because this is at least as good as those two dario argento may be the king of giallo but with the five films that he made sergio martino surely isn t too far behind in some ways he even surpasses the master all of martino s films were released prior to the jewel in argento s crown the magnificent profondo rosso so back in the early seventies martino was the king the plot here follows the idea of murder for profit and follows the insurance payout of a wealthy man his wife inherits million and it isn t long before there s people out for her blood when she turns up dead shortly thereafter an insurance investigator and a plucky attractive young journalist follow up the case the case of the scorpion s tail may not benefit from the beautiful edwige fenech but it does have two of martino s collaborators on board most famous is george hilton who worked with marino on the strange vice of mrs wardh and all the colors of the dark along with a number of other giallos hilton has a great screen presence and every time i see him in an italian thriller it becomes obvious why he is repeatedly cast the beautiful anita strindberg who will be remembered from your vice is a locked room stars alongside hilton and excellently provides the classic giallo female lead sergio martino does a good job in the director s chair once again with several beautiful scenes the best of which taking place in a room bathed with green lighting the score by bruno nicolai wardh excellently sets the mood but it is the script that once again is the driving force behind martino s success ernesto gastaldi the writer for martino s other four giallo has put together a script that is thrilling while staying away from the common giallo pitfall of not making sense thus liberating this film from the rest of the illogical genre the case of the scorpion s tail is a quality giallo film and yet another success for the great sergio martino if you like giallo you ll love this,1
first lesson that some film makers particularly those inspired by hollywood need to know just style does not sell i guess tashan when translated will mean style second if you are hell bent on selling style that does not spare you from having a decent story tashan has some story which could have sufficed with some better director but it is not slick for example all three saif kareena and akshay are narrators at different points in the story but this setup is not utilized to properly there could have been a better mix and match of their narrations actions sequences are from the seventies cheoreography of the film is awful i think vaibhavi merchant just sleep walked through this film vishal shekhar have put up a good score but it does not belong to this film why is there a sufi song dil haara in tashan why is the cool hinglish song dil dance maare not on anil kapoor when he is the one who is english crazy akshay kumar is the saving grace of the film but he is in his stereotyped self you won t mind missing this film,0
the jist see something else this film was highly rated by gene siskel but after watching it i can t figure out why the film is definitely original and different it even has interesting dialogue at times some cool moments and a creepy noir feel but it just isn t entertaining it also doesn t make a whole lot of sense in plot but especially in character motivations i don t know anyone that behaves like these characters do this is a difficult movie to take on i suggest you don t accept the challenge,1
the devil s plaything is my second attempt at a joseph sarno production and although i will say it is far more enjoyable than the painfully dull and unerotic swedish wildcats it is still a little slow and un explicit for my taste this one centers around a group of vampire girls who live in a castle that want to resurrect their previously murdered leader in order to do so the girls have to dance around naked and kiss each other and chant weird stuff and of course drink some blood too when a doctor and her brother s car breaks down and they have to stop at the castle for lodging they provide the ideal bloodbank for the horny vampires but they may not be as helpless as they seem the devil s plaything is a pretty good example of early s exploit sleaze lots of nudity including some full frontal some sleazy undertones including incest and of course lesbo bloodsucking but these scenes are still pretty tame by today s standards some pretty hot women in this one would have benefited from some more explicit sex but i guess ya can t have it all also would have benefited from some heavier violence gore being that it is a vampire film but i think the purpose of the devil s plaything was more to showcase skin not blood still a little slow and the acting for the most part is absolutely wooden but that s to be expected from something from this era and of this budget worth a look to exploit fans others may find it a little too dull for their liking,1
first of all i am a huge fan of madeleine l engle and was so excited to see that a movie was made for one of my favorite books a wrinkle in time this movie however ruined that excitement for me i am sorry but meg was described in the book as having fizzy curls and glasses and as being considered very uncool in the movie she has straight hair and no glasses and is the sporty type with a deep voice this is not how madeleine l engle pictured meg to be at all in fact meg was based on madeleine s character and depicted the way she felt when she was young this is just one major example how the book and movie are different so i would say if you want to watch it for entertainment purposes watch it but if you are a devoted fan of madeleine l engle and her wrinkle in time series i would suggest skipping this movie,0
this has to be one of the worst movies of all time the graphics were horrendous the acting was b movie and the effects were just plain nintendo qualified you would think that they would put a little more effort into it of course it is a scifi channel movie so you have to expect it to be low rate but this one takes the cake hell i m still laughing so as a shake your head in disbelief movie this one does well although it appears to have some known actors and actresses in this it is difficult for me to believe that they did not realize that the quality of this movie was worth their time and effort the graphics might have been good in the s or even early s but come on this is i wont give spoilers out let s just say that if you have played jurassic park on the nintendo you will be very familiar with what you see in this film it is definitely not worth the hours it took to sit through the thing,0
i m sorry but this is just awful i have told people about this film and some of the bad acting that is in it and they almost don t believe me there is nothing wrong with the idea modern day japanese troops get pulled back in time to the days of busido warriors and with their modern weapons are a match for almost everything when the troops first realise something strange is happening does every single person in the back of the transport need to say hey my watch has stopped imagine lines like that being repeated times before they say anything else and you have the movie s lack of greatness in a nutshell,0
bravo morgan freeman is an actor who researches a character he is selected to play before he makes a commitment freeman is a good fit for this film like he was for driving miss daisy and he is not only believable but he gets a chance to change his image of playing a character with reserved dignity and propriety although there are no guarantees in life for anyone this gives an actor a great opportunity to play different or unique characters that stand out in order to avoid getting stereotyping and it must be said that stereotyping has hampered or completely ruined a significant number of acting careers this is a low budget film that amazingly was made in a time span of only two weeks it is a film that is well directed and written by brad silberling the location manager chose carson ca for the film s setting and the location helps set the tone and timing for the film the editing is fair to good but a little rough silberling was the subcontractor in getting freeman to do this film while the actor was in between film projects there is a good chemistry between freeman and paz vega a spanish actress and this opens an effective dialog between each of the cast members who are diverse and come from different cultures the film also encourages an understanding between people who not only speak two languages english and spanish but come from two different worlds of ethnicity race gender norms mores beliefs folkways principles and values the film strives for some honesty and arrives at some truth to maintain the film s integrity part of the comedy is that freeman plays an unemployed actor that has been out of work for four years in truth freeman is so in demand as an actor that he is constantly working the film offers an adventure of bonding caring sharing changing and exchanging and the film s outtakes give the viewer a preview of some of things an actor must go through in preparing for a role if necessary tell your boss that you re taking a mental health day and go see this film if you re able take your significant other or your family with you i rank the film a out of it s enjoyable interesting informative poignant and worthwhile,1
yes be my love was mario lanza s skyrocket to fame and still is popular today his voice was strong and steady so powerful in fact that mgm decided to use him in the great caruso lanza himself thought he was the reincarnation of caruso having read the book by kostelanitz who wrote a biography of lanza he explains that the constant practise and vocal lessons became the visionary caruso to lanza there is no doubt that lanza did a superb job in the story but the story is not entirely true blame it on hollywood i used to practise singing his songs years ago and became pretty good myself until i lost my voice because of emphysema asthma ten years ago reaching the high note of be my love is not easy but beautiful,1
moonwalker is a fantasy music film staring michael jackson with different segments i will rate each segment individually segment opens the film with a music video the music video is a concert of michael jackson performing the song man in the mirror the music video also show s montages of historical figures such as gandhi martin luther king jr john lennon and more the first segment was a good choice to open the film i liked the song and also loved the montage of the historical figures i even loved the message in the song i give the first segment a segment shows a montage of michael jackson s start from the jackson five to his solo career the montage i thought was well made i liked the animation they put into it and i also loved their choices of songs such as i i want you back beat it thriller can you feel it and the way you make me feel the only thing i wish they could have done a little a better in one of the songs in the montage is we are the world the reason why is all you see is rain drops and in those drops are images of michael jackson and the chorus of the celebrities but it s a little hard to see the chorus other than that the segment is still good i give it a segment is the song bad you re probably thinking it s michael jackson s music video of bad well yes and no this segment is the music video but it s redone by kids the segment was cute but it wasn t as good as the other segments i give it a segment is a short claymation music film that takes place after the kid s version of bad called speed demon the short is about michael jackson being chased by his beloved fans and the press and he disguises himself as a rabbit and rides a motorcycle to try to get away from them the claymation in the chase sequence was great but some parts in the film the claymation characters looked a little fake when they interact with real people also at the end of the clip out of nowhere michael jackson rabbit costume comes to life and he s dancing with it i liked the dancing but that was like out of nowhere i give it a segment is michael jackson s grammy winning music video leave me alone the music video is about the media poking their nose at michael jackson s personal life and michael jackson feels they won t leave him alone no matter how much he s proved innocent the music video really speaks out but keep in mind this happened before the child molestation this just all about the rumors of him in the s but i didn t feel this video should be in this movie because it s a kids movie and i don t think kid s will understand what he s singing about i give this music video segment leads us to the main story of the whole movie called smooth criminal michael jackson plays a gangster who uses his powers of a wishing star as a crime figure to protect children including john lennon s son sean lennon from an evil mobster named mr bigg played by joe pesci the segment i thought really brought out the film especially when he danced and sang the song smooth criminal with a bunch of criminals i also thought the special effects were good the weird thing about the segment is why are kids hanging out with a grown man it never explained why also joe pesci character talks about drugs and what he plans to do with them i mean why would you talk about drugs in a kids film other wise it was good my rating for this segment is a segment is the final segment of the whole movie the film end s with michael jackson singing a cover version of the beatle s song come together and then during the credit s we see michael jackson singing with ladysmith black mambazo michael did a good cover of come together and i think it was good idea putting including a group of good singer s with a talented musican like him my rating is this movie is a good michael jackson film i think it really brings out children s imagination the film is almost as imaginative as the beatles animated movie yellow submarine if you like michael jackson and you re up to a film with a lot of creativity this is the film my overall rating for this movie is,1
i almost made a fool of myself when i was going to start this review by saying this movie reminded me of billy elliot but then i looked up the resume of screenwriter lee hall only to find out that he was the guy who wrote billy elliot so it s mr hall who s making a fool of himself not me am i being a bit cruel on him no because lee has something most other aspiring screenwriters from britain don t have he has his foot in the door he has previously written a successful british movie that won awards and made money at the box office and what does he do next he gives the audience more of the same young jimmy spud lives on some kitchen sink estate he is bullied at school and no one loves him the only thing keeping him going is that he has aspirations to be a ballet dancer no actually he has aspirations to be an angel but considering his household he may as well be a ballet dancer he has a macho waster of a father who thinks ballet dancers are a bunch of poofs while his granddad says ballet dancers are as tough as any man you could meet i remember seeing the bolshoi ballet yup ballet is a main talking point on a run down british council estate those days not come to think of it neither is left wing politics which seems to be the sole preserve of middle class do gooders who live in nice big houses so right away everything about this set up feels ridiculously false another major criticism is that this is a film that has no clue who it s trying to appeal to i have often criticised channel for broadcasting movies at totally inappropriate times the land that time forgot at am for example but they showed this at am and for once they ve got it spot on considering the story involves politics ballet dancing gawd i hate it lung cancer and poverty there s no way this can be deemed suitable for a family audience but since the main protagonist is an year old child and features angels and ballet dancers don t blame me if i seem obsessed with the subject there was no need to refer to them there s not much here for an intelligent adult audience either of course if lee hall had been told at the script development stage by the producers that he should write a story featuring a schoolboy and an angel and had flatly refused saying that he wanted to write about other themes and stories then i will apologise but throughout the movie you do get the feeling that once the film was completed it was going to be marketed to the exact same audience who enjoyed billy elliot,0
the film begins with promise but lingers too long in a sepia world of distance and alienation we are left hanging but with nothing much else save languid shots of grave and pensive male faces to savour certainly no rope up the wall to help us climb over it s a shame because the concept is not without merit we are left wondering why a loving couple a father and son no less should be so estranged from the real world that their own world is preferable when claustrophobic beyond all imagining this loss of presence in the real world is rather too obviously and unnecessarily contrasted with the son having enlisted in the armed forces why not the circus so we can at least appreciate some colour we are left with a gnawing sense of loss but sadly no enlightenment which is bewildering given the film is apparently about some form of attainment not available to us all,0
whoever wrote the nice post about this must have been a friend of these guys this is bad even for backyard wrestling in fact this isn t even backyard wrestling really it s a few guys hitting each other on a trampoline each guys is about lbs wet and there is not one ounce of entertainment value in this it is just a few bored kids that even give yard tards a bad name if that is possible if you want to see some entertaining backyard wrestling pick up backyard wrestling a pleasure for pain it stars the biggest names in byw mdogg and josh prohibition these guys are good they have actually went since yarding it and gotten professionally trained as real pro wrestlers they went legit and have gotten better i recommend checking out those guys mdogg is insane and off the hook so don t waste your time or your cash on this crappy dvd there are better back yard videos out there,0
don t waste your time on this dreck as portrayed the characters have no redeeming values and watching them interact is sheer torture gothic was entertainment at least this is crap if you like watching pretentious and spoiled poets straining to outwit each other this may be right up your alley lord byron is portrayed as a complete jerk and why the others would choose to spend more than five minutes with him is truly bewildering mary shelly appears to be the only character with any spine whatsoever but even she comes out of the whole ordeal without an ounce of respect what a waste of time see gothic instead i also remember seeing another superior movie based on the same subject matter but didn t catch the title i was hoping this was it but no such luck not recommended,0
in order to hold the public s attention for three hours we were treated not so much to a family s romp through four generations and years of hungarian history as to sexual liaisons with a sister a sister in law and other adulteries oh yes there was also a totally gratuitous rape having said all this the first story of the relationship among the children of the patriarch was fresh and sensual thanks to jennifer ehle,0
this is minute show about one joke the joke cavemen are not treated fairly hahaha he can t dial a phone because he is a caveman cavemen are not as smart as human beings oh jeez those cavemen are so unsophisticated there is no humor in this show they can only run off this one joke for so long and they already have with the geico commercials this show does not deserve a time slot on national t v this show tries to hard to be funny but it just isn t watching this show i was thinking that it was trying to be like a bachelor s gone wild show meaning they go to the bar and try to sleep with many women the crying caveman is annoying the caveman with the glasses is too smart to be a caveman hahaha all three of them have personalities but i can t figure out why i don t care about them,0
utterly brilliant powerful and evocative the most compelling documentary series ever made concerning war it s tone offers a stark contrast to the often gung ho attitude towards world war that the media exhibits rather than opting for screaming about the horror of war it allows sir laurence olivier s quiet voice to take a back seat to the true images of war corpses everywhere explosions terrified citizens and soldiers broken men indifferent politicians mistakes that cost thousands of lives the suffering of the innocents most of all it truly brings home that mankind is capable of when all normal rules of civility are removed there is something distinctly hobbesian about man in a true state of nature he will return to a more beastly form capable of crimes that will still shock and fascinate years on perhaps there could be a follow up series called the century at war for the twentieth century was truly the century of horrors i feel it is an irony of immense magnitude that it took an event which caused the death of million people to produce such a compelling and excellent series such as this,1
absolutely horrific film ameteurish and it isn t funny at all lead character played by mehmet ali erbil is very annoying edits by e t and star wars is just plain stupid actor yilmaz goksal is the only good think about this movie he should master his english and move to hollywood hollywood can not find an actor with his qualities other than goksal this movie is a garbage director gani mujde is a comic writer and this movie is his worst written work to this date music of cem karaca is another plus of this waste of money actor sumer tilmac also have some presence actor who plays the three sons has no talent what so ever,0
she is such an extraordinary singer who cares about anything else that final scene is one of the best moments in all of show biz bar none i m glad she kept the camera on herself for ten minutes she deserves that iconic status such is the power of the voice i first saw this film when i was five and it had a huge impact on me i see it today and yes i can see some of the flaws like esther wanting to leave the grammy s right as her award is being announced but some of the other user comments are just plain false i mean where is the gratuitous nudity maybe we saw different films streisand s singing ability is monumental and if she has a big ego fine she s earned it,1
yikes did this movie blow the characters were weak the plot weaker i figured this couldn t be too bad because it has christoper walken oops he must have done this because he was bored and needed the money the characters were supposed to be irish but noone had an irish accent i am desperately trying to find something nice about this i can t except walken did a fine job with a wooden character find something to read or watch discovery don t ever see this movie,0
wow a truly fantastic trip movie that has tons of super surreal imagery dark intent and a black pretty strange sense of how cartoon animals must see the world it s populated with a very cute off world bunch of characters that bend and flow with warped backgrounds as with all cool fantasy the wandering plot is secondary to the eye popping visuals and we follow a little cat and his zombie sister as they encounter death deluge water elephants samurai swordsmen and pigs that fish i d never heard of it but now i love it probably because it reminded me of the surreal pencil work of american cartoonist bill plympton it s a demented delight for fans of odd pretty things and it had me glued to the screen for fear i d miss something amazing simply put it s hello kitty without the o,1
one of my favourite films first saw it when i was about which probably tells you a lot about the type of humour although dated the humour definitely has a charm about it expect to see the usual askey murdoch banter so popular in its day with lots of interesting quirky co characters the lady with the parrot the couple due to get married and are in trouble from her and my favourite the stationmaster nobody knows where it comes from nobody knows where it goes interestingly the ghost train was written by arnold ridley of dads army fame private godfrey the medic watch it on a rainy sunday afternoon after your lunch and smile,1
very sweet pilot the show reeks of tim burton s better films edward sissorhands big fish charlie the chocolate factory the cinematography the narration the music the external sets all scream tim burton there has to be a connection or a strong influence i just haven t researched enough to know where it is as i ve seen in the forums yes anna friel is playing a poor man s zooey deschanel every time i see her on the screen i see zooey don t get me wrong anna friel does a great job her character is very sweet and lovable and you easily get attached to her it s more of a distraction that i keep thinking why didn t they get zooey deschanel lee pace does a great job too i kept trying to remember where i knew him from and just looked it up wonderfalls great short lived series from if you enjoy pushing daisies you must go rent wonderfalls which is another brian fuller creation hmmmm loved seeing swoosie kurtz world according to garp and ellen greene little shop of horrors again two underrated character actresses that never fail to bring it with their performances,1
well i d heard from somewhere that ossessione is a precursor to the italian film genre and particular favourite of mine the giallo but actually aside from the fact that this is a thriller that was made in italy the two have pretty much no relation in the sixties and seventies italian film makers would get themselves a reputation for ripping off just about every successful american film released they ve not done that here but ossessione does follow almost the exact same story as the later american film the postman always rings twice without giving the book s author james m cain so much as a credit anyway the plot focuses on gino costa a handsome drifter who by chance stumbles upon a caf where a woman named giovanna bragana works he soon learns that she s married to giuseppe a big fat annoying man whom giovanna can t stand to have even touching her he wants the pair of them to run away together but she s not so keen on the idea however fate ends up intervening and her plan to have her husband murdered is successful despite the fact that the film loses some credibility for not crediting the author whose story it s based on it has to be said that director luchino visconti implements the film noir style well and in a way i even prefer the atmosphere of this film to some of the bigger american noir classics the story is as you would expect extremely strong and the visconti manages to pull good performances out of his cast visconti drags the film out a little bit too much however and with a running time of almost minutes i felt that the story was too thin to warrant this kind of length i almost feel guilty for levelling all this criticism at ossessione as it is a good film but it s not a great film the relationship between the two central characters is never really explored properly and it seems like the film is keener to distract us from it rather than let us into the characters heads there s not much mystery to the plot as we pretty much always know what s going on and by not always focusing on the characters themselves the film is not as interesting as it could have been still it makes for an interesting viewing and comes recommended for that reason although it s not as good as the version of the same james m cain classic,1
paul jason lee is an underachiever who just happens to be engaged to a type a princess named karen selma blair she chooses his clothes and his daily schedule at his bachelor party paul gets a little too drunk and somehow ends up taking a pretty dancer named becky julia stiles back to his digs nothing happened as they say but the duo do wake up in the same bed suddenly karen telephones she s on her way to paul s apartment understandably paul hustles becky out of the place although her underpants are left behind but there is even more fun ahead at a family dinner at karen s parents home paul runs smack into becky again learning that she is karen s cousin talk about some explaining to do but instead paul chooses to feign a stomach problem and hides out in the bathroom will karen ever find out that becky spent the night at paul s place and what will be the consequences i m sorry for critics who pan movies like this they should definitely lighten up for this film is fresh and fun of course it doesn t hurt matters that lee is a consummate funny man stiles is a charming beauty or that blair is a natural as a pretty but anal fianc e the rest of the cast including james brolin and julie haggerty is also quite nice the look of the film is wonderful as are the costumes and california settings best of all the script is imaginative and inspired creating big laughs for the audience in short if you want to tickle the proverbial funnybones get this movie tonight it may not be academy award material but it is absolutely guaranteed to turn a bad day into a darn good one,1
okay i rented this movie because of the director he has made some interesting flicks in the past if you haven t seen waxork you are missing a fun ride anyway i had my doubts about this movie from the beginning but i decided to suck it up and give it a look it s bad very bad if you haven t seen the movie and don t mind spoilers read ahead first of all the old saying you can t judge a book by it s cover applies here the box for this flick seems to indicate that jill is the stone fox with long hair with highlights the back of the box has a cool shot of the red leather jill and some other shots the description makes you want to rent the movie because it sounds good you start watching it and suddenly you find out that the movie takes place inexplicably in jill is a total dog who is not the girl on the cover the movie is not quite as predictable as you would think and that s not a good thing characters do so many stupid things without any modicum of motivation it s embarrassing to watch minutes before the end of the movie dolph and another lady have sex for no good reason also what was the point of having dolph kill this other lady in cold blood who had been helping him anthony hickox the director should have seen a stinker when he read the script had it been set in the underworld of the new milennium and made the characters halfway intelligent it might have been decent to set it in the s makes no sense and has no bearing on the story whatsoever avoid it,0
to be completely honest i haven t seen that many western films but i ve seen enough to know what a good one is this by far the worst western on the planet today first off there black people in the wild west come on who ever thought that this could be a cool off the wall movie that everyone would love were slightly no no completely retarded secondly in that day and age women especially black women were not prone to be carrying and or using guns thirdly whats with the asian chick speaking perfect english if the setting is western asia isn t where your going finally the evil gay chick was too much the movie was just crap from the beginning now don t get me wrong i m not racist or white either so don t get ticked after reading this but this movie this movie is the worst presentation of black people i have ever seen,0
my husband and i went to see this movie being the horror movie buffs that we are two hours later i found myself wanting both my money and time back i was so disappointed the teasers for this film basically contained the best points of the film there was nothing very scary about the film other than good timing on surprise entrances etc i found most of the scary parts to be more comical than anything after viewing other movies based on the works of japanese writers i have to conclude that what is deemed frightening in japan is not what is frightening here in the us my advice if you are a fan of true horror movies save yourself the pain of sitting through this one i can t really say that i would recommend renting it either unless you have a free rental coming to you,0
what a gem of a movie so good that they made a sequel the film starts off really good with a nasty monster who eats a few people and a party where the main characters first set eyes on each other bendan hughes plays the eccentric vlad a bit of an inkling there to who this character is who has moved into town and uses the services of a particular real estate agent to find him a house hell we ve all seen vampire movies we know the format the movie is watchable but the actors performances are very wooden and they seem as they don t want to be in this film but may be that s just all part of the decadent ambiance didn t like the ending but there is a sequel must track it down when i watched the film i thought brendan hughes didn t really fit the part later on i couldn t stop thinking about him he sort of exudes an eerie sensuality so maybe he was right for the part brendan hughes last seen in hitler the rise of evil as lt guffman where is he now,1
emilio miraglio s the red queen kills seven times is just about the most perfect example of a giallo that i have ever seen mixing all the requisite elements into one sinister stew indeed first of all and of paramount importance for me it has a complex twisty plot that ultimately makes perfect sense and the killer here does not come completely out of left field at the end the story concerning a series of gruesome murders you already know how many from the film s title right that takes place in seeming fulfillment of an ancient prophecy concerning two sisters is an involving one and the murderer a red cloaked figure with the insane laugh of a madwoman is both frightening and memorable every great giallo requires some lovely lead actresses and here we have quite an assortment headed by the ridiculously beautiful barbara bouchet as one of the two sisters and in one of her earlier roles sybil danning as a lustful tramp at barbara s fashion house another necessary ingredient of a superior giallo is a catchy hummable score and bruno nicolai provides one for this film that should stay with you for days gorgeous scenery check again filmed largely in wurzburg germany the picture is a treat for the eye indeed ok ok but what about those murders after all isn t that what gialli are all about well i m pleased to report that most viewers should be well satisfied with the various knifings shootings impalements and other carnage that this film tastefully dishes out not to mention the crypts freaky dream sequence rats and bats and lots of em too the drug references a rape scene the obligatory red herrings and in the person of ugo pagliai a hunky leading man for the female viewers as i said a perfect giallo and even better this dvd is from the fine folks at no shame and you know what that means a gorgeous print and loads of extras to boot thanks guys,1
for the viewer who comes upon it long after its making winchester has something in common with casablanca while you watch it you get this feeling that you re looking at a string of clich s encountered so often in the genre then you realise that the clich s became clich s only after being copied from this particular film and that they were so widely copied because this film was so great in other words it s a seminal work winchester is a joy to watch the broad lines of the plot are somewhat predictable but mostly because you ve seen them copied so many times in later movies and nevertheless it still contains a number of twists which surprise you the dialogue the pacing and mann s direction are excellent stewart shines in particular and if you re a fan this is a must see but he is not alone in delivering a good performance remarkably many of the most thoughtful and or witty lines go to minor characters because this makes these characters much more than cardboard cutouts it lent additional realism to the film this is a remarkably underrated film and well worth keeping an eye out for the dvd also contains an interview with stewart which provides some background on the film,1
this film is about a japanese woman who has an obsession with calligraphy on skin the plot is absolutely bizarre i fail to see any sensual or erotic undertones the plot turns an ancient art form into a fetishistic pornography in addition the scenes that are filmed in hong kong are certainly portraying bad parts of hong kong such as the airport in the middle of the city poor living conditions and noise pollution throughout the whole film i keep thinking that the pillow book is insulting the japanese culture and the hong kong environment the pillow book is a perverted yet boring film seriously stay away from it,0
the sweet is never as sweet without the sour this quote was essentially the theme for the movie in my opinion tom cruise plays a young man who was handed everything in his life he takes things for granted and it comes around full swing in this great movie with a superb twist this film will keep you engaged in the plot and unable to pause it to take a bathroom break its a movie that really makes you step back and look at your life and how you live it you cannot really appreciate the better things in life the sweet like love until you have experienced the bad the sour the theme will really get you to open your eyes only complaint is that the movie gets very twisted at points and is hard to really understand i think the end is perfect though i recommend you watch it and see for yourself,1
pick up never got the respect it should have it works on many levels and has a complicated but followable plot the actors involved give some of their finest performances ann margret roy scheider and john glover are perfectly cast and provide deep character portrayals notable too are vanity who should have parlayed this into a serious acting career given the unexpected ability she shows and kelly preston who s character will haunt you for a few days anyone who likes action combined with a gritty complicated story will enjoy this,1
i ve seen a lot of seagal movies and while most aren t great or even good this steamy pile lowered the bar for bad movies the plot not sure really something about a drug that makes you all crazy and strong or something who are the good guys and bad guys hard to tell most of the movie is cut scenes going back and forth between people in darkly lit rooms complaining about how good seagals character mashall is acting blows voice dubbing what was with the horrible voice overdubbing could they of found anyone who sounded any less like seagal may as well had cheech or chong doing the voice overs might of at least been entertaining then this movie is boring and completely stupid avoid it at all costs,0
i tried to finish this film three times but it s god awful case in point mom and daughter drive up to the bed and breakfast mom stops for gas crazy gas station weirdos mad at her hubby whose running the b b try to rape her she escapes heads to b b and instead of hubby going ballistic and she wanting to call the cops story just continues with lukewarm behavior on both their parts wow other action logic deficits abound acting is also lukewarm and the next door neighbor s warning is delivered in a really corny badly acted moment moments of intense gore death unevenly interwoven with lukewarm scenes of time filler interplay between characters less focus on gore more focus on mood and story would have been appreciated,0
although she is little known today deanna durbin was one of the most popular stars of the s a pretty teenager with a perky personality and a much admired operatic singing voice this was her first major film and it proved a box office bonanza for beleaguered universal studios three smart girls concerns three daughters of a divorced couple who rush to their long unseen father when their still faithful mother reveals he may soon remarry with the firm intention of undermining his gold digger girlfriend and returning him to their mother although the story is slight the script is witty and the expert cast plays it with a neat screwball touch durbin has a pleasing voice and appealing personality and such enjoyable character actors as charles winninger alice brady lucile watson and mischa auer round out the cast a an ultra light amusement for fans of s film gary f taylor aka gft amazon reviewer,1
i was adopted at birth and certainly did not have the problems antwone fisher had in the movie but i still share some of the emotions and this movie really helped to bring them out and force me to deal with them it even caused me to realize that i do have a missing piece and i am going to seek out my birthparents now i cried for almost a day after i saw this the first time antwone s confrontation with his birthmother juxtaposed with his father s family s reaction to his sudden appearance are powerful for those of us who don t know what will happen if we find our birth parents and his self confidence and self affirmations to his mother and against the abusers of his past were so powerful i could really identify with this and my need to tell people yeah i was put aside by my parents when i was born but another set of parents picked me up and loved me and now i am a success it also helped my wife understand me and our adopted children who did go through tragic experiences before they came to our home and it helped me to realize just how messed up our social system is if you remember reading the story last year about the foster kid in florida who was lost and then the miranda ashley story in oregon city where scf ignored multiple sexual abuse complaints about the man who ultimately killed them and the week this movie was released yet another story in new jersey of three kids who were ignored by the system one died the state apparently thought the home they were in was ok because the guardian was employed as a stripper and only occasionally used heroin there are just so many issues that are brought out in this movie and they are dealt with so well by the script and by the acting that antwone fisher should be a best picture nominee for sure no matter if you are adopted or not it is a heart tugger that can t be ignored by anyone concerned about children in our society,1
my short comment for this flick is go pick it up chances are you are going to be positively surprised by a diversity of elements superbly explored in this criminal thriller there is no way the character of miklos claiming and pushing for room in every way possible wont push your nerves to the edge thumbs up,1
that s right the movie is better than the book don t get me wrong i love the book but the movie is just so much better this film has jack nicholson and shelly duvall at their best i haven t seen scatman crothers and obviously danny lloyd in anything else some of the ideas used in this movie are better than the ones used in the book but i already talked about those in my comment on the mini series but i missed a few the film is shot at a better location than where the mini series was shot and the redrum scenes are creepier than those in the book so if you re looking for a great movie get stanley kubrick s the shining but count on having nightmares every night for weeks,1
i really looked forward to see planet of the apes but it was a huge dissapointment the settings and masks are great but that is the only good aspect of the film all other things are really annoying mark wahlberg is not acting he is just in the movie looking stupid the other actors are also not very good but the worst point of all is the story it is absolutely ridiculous for example the apes are lying unconsiousness on the ground but the humans don`t attack them no they wait until they are up again this is just one example for the stupid story but it would take too long to tell them all,0
lame cliched superhero action movie drivel i had high hopes for this movie and the genre of hk buddy cop actioneers is one that i don t despise but very rarely do i see a storyline as trite and ludicrous as this one was this would have been forgivable as it always is in these kinds of movies when the action compensates unfortunately it did not the action does carry the trademark surreality and over the top nature of hk action but it s not very involving obscenely gory and in fact often completely incoherent perhaps this is due to re editing for american release it does show signs in many places of patchwork i was very disappointed,0
a major moneymaker for rko radio bombardier stars pat o brien and randolph scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots o brien and scott argue over teaching methods while their students vie for the affections of anne shirley o brien s methods prove sound during a bombing raid over tokyo scott and his crew are captured and tortured by the japanese but the mortally wounded scott manages to set fire to a gas truck providing a perfect target for his fellow bombardiers stylistically bombardier is one of the most schizophrenic of war films with moments of subtle poignancy the death of trainee eddie albert alternating with scenes of ludicrous yellow peril melodrama the japanese literally hiss through their teeth as they torture the helpless americans though it can t help but seem dated today bombardier remains an entertaining propaganda effort the film is sometimes erroneously listed as the debut of robert ryan who d actually been appearing before the cameras since anyone interested in obtaining a copy of this film please contact me at iamaseal yahoo com,1
ever wonder why pacific islanders seem to automatically assume the sense of humour of black americans regardless of their ethnic origins well this film will not provide any answers to this often pondered question but it will provide an excellent case study from its onset this film acts as a sort of old school for pacific island new zealanders which immediately raises the question what exactly is the point of such a task is it meant to perpetuate ingrained stereotypes of pacific island new zealanders or is it intended to exploit this potential market the story is weak jokes humorless and the ending is expected this film has done nothing for new zealand cinema as it is merely an appropriated romantic comedy that is devoid of any merit,0
i ve just returned from a showing of my left foot at our public library what an emotional experience i feel drained and uplifted it s the story of christy brown irish writer and painter and based on the author s autobiographical my left foot christy was born with a form of cerebral palsy such that the only limb he had good control of was his left foot doctors advised his parents he was hopelessly mentally retarded but his mother didn t give up on him and somewhat as annie sullivan had done with helen keller helped him achieve a breakthrough in which he learned the alphabet and then to read write and paint this film won academy awards for daniel day lewis best actor as well as best supporting actress for the actress playing his mother it also received oscar nominations for best picture best director and best adapted screenplay as a retired clinical psychologist and family therapist while many films may entertain me many also often leave me having to overlook gross fictions or improbabilities in realistic psychological reactions not this film it was absolutely spot on in portraying typical irish parental roles behaviors see e g see typical irish families in mcgoldrick s ethnicity family therapy as well christy brown s uneven emotional maturation some immature personality reactions that were even further amplified by his picking up traits of his father the film presents the greater truth while changing certain sequences in his development painting writing and condensing several important people into one person for the sake of telling a coherent believable story not burdened by small distracting less important actualities see christy brown in wikipedia for more accuracy the dvd version we were shown had some english subtitles that were a great help in understanding christy s speech some of the irish speech the initial release of the film may have lacked this if you see this on dvd enable that option the performance by daniel day lewis is one of the greatest believable acting jobs i ve ever seen truly magnificent outstanding superlative my left foot bears more than some similarity to a more recent film the diving bell the butterfly in that each portrays the life of a real person successfully surmounting the imprisonment and isolation of an extremely severe physical handicap and in doing so it resonates with william ernest henley s invictus which begins out of the night that covers me black as the pit from pole to pole i thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul,1
holy crap this is so hysterical why aren t american comedies written like this for anybody who thinks comedy has to be dumb there is more wit and intelligence in the six episodes of this series than in a shelf of novels hugh laurie is a complete hoot i couldn t believe it was the same guy as house there are so many great lines and gags in this series you could watch each show dozens of times and still pick up on new things each time rowan atkinson is hilarious as the verbose and put upon butler edmund this is my favorite of all the blackadder series and tony robinson is wonderful as ever as the somewhat obtuse heart of the series the oppressed mass baldrick some of my favorite lines when someone messes with a wellington he really puts his foot in it and baldrick explaining how he got his name and cousin macadder the top kipper salesman and homicidal swordsman from scotland,1
roman polanski is considered as one of the most important directors of our time as the mind behind classics such as rosemary s baby and chinatown probably what makes polanski s cinema a very interesting one is the fact that while he is capable of creating commercially attractive films such as the afore mentioned masterpieces he is also fond of making low key movies that are of a more personal nature le locataire or the tenant is one of those movies a horror suspense story about paranoia and obsession that is among his best works and probably among the best horror movies ever done polanski himself plays telkovsky a young man looking for an apartment in france when he finally finds one he discovers that it is empty because the previous tenant simone choule attempted to kill herself by jumping out of the window after simone dies of the injuries trelkovsky begins to become obsessed with her to the point of believing that her death was caused by the rest of the tenants in the building while sharing the same claustrophobic feeling of his other apartment themed films repulsion rosemary s baby this film focuses on the bizarre conspiracy that may or may not be entirely in trelkovsky s head the catastrophic effects the paranoia has on his mind and the bizarre obsession he has with the previous tenant trelkovsky s descend into darkness is portrayed perfectly by polanski while at first his performance seems odd and wooden slowly one finds out that polanski acts that way because trelkovsky is meant to be acted that way as a simpleton with almost no life who traps himself in this maddening sub world that happens to be inhabited by a collection of bizarre people the supporting actors really gave life to the people in the building creating memorable characters that are very important for the success of the film also the beautiful cinematography polanski employs in the film helps to increase the feeling of isolation and gives life to the beautiful building that serves as cage for trelkovsky the haunting images polanski uses to convey the feeling of confusion and madness are of a supernatural beauty that makes them both frightening and attractive if a flaw is to be found in the film is that it is definitely a bit slow at first this may sound like a turn off but in fact the slow pace of the beginning works perfectly as it mimics trelkovsky s own boring life and how gradually he enters a different realm also the convoluted storyline is definitely not an easy one to understand due to the many complex layers it has however more than a flaw it is a joy to face a thought provoking plot like this one while the tenant may not be for everyone those interested in psychological horror and surreal story lines will be pleased by the experience le locataire is really one of roman polanksi s masterpieces,1
pedantic overlong fabrication which attempts to chronicle the birth of the federal bureau of investigations begins quite promisingly with a still relevant probe into an airplane explosion however the melodrama involving james stewart and wife vera miles just gets in the way miles had a habit of playing tepid wives under duress and her frayed nerves arrive here right on schedule esteemed director mervyn leroy helmed this adaptation of don whitehead s book but despite the talent involved the picture fails to make much of an impression best performance is turned in by murray hamilton as stewart s partner however most of the dialogue is ludicrous and the dogged pacing causes the movie to seem twice as long as it is from,0
at the end of this episode holmes asks watson not to record the case for posterity for a good reason the super sleuth left his little grey cells sorry agatha at home for this tale there is no deductive reasoning no acute analysis of signs at crime scenes holmes bumbles along fifty yards behind the plot the dastardly cam is finally dealt to by an old frail in a manner that would have made charles bronson s heart swell with pride six bullets in the breadbasket in an ensuing chase a pursuer gets hold of one of watson s shoes mercifully the writer didn t decide to tack on the story of cinderella to lengthen the film the murderess holmes and watson escape scot free oh well it is a bit of a change of pace in late victorian london a bit of sixgun law,0
hidden frontier is a fan made show in the world of star trek the story takes place after voyager has returned from the delta quadrant it has some characters from the official star trek shows but most of them are original to the show the show takes place on the star base deep space and on several space ships which gives it opportunities the official shows don t have the characters have the opportunity of a rising in the hierarchy which characters in shows with only one ship doesn t have the show has good computer animation of spaceships but the acting takes place in front of at green screen and it gives a green glow around the actors not all the actors are equally good but most do fine the episodes are character driven and the characters develop over many episodes that is a bit more like in babylon than in most official star trek shows hidden frontier takes taboos that even the official series has shrunk from using all in all i enjoyed watching it,1
passing stones definitely one of the best comedy independent films ever you must have a sense of humor to fully enjoy this one this film for some reason hasn t received its credit due first lets start with the story line everyone loves a good treasure hunt when a dead father leaves letters behind advising of a hidden treasure it not only brings two families together but starts a whirlwind adventure mix in a polish translator a comatose mother a crack head with turrets syndrome a twisted homosexual hypnotist and one drag queen money not only makes the world go round but can turn family into enemies my favorite character in this film would have to be the sister crack addict with turret s syndrome her sudden out burst will have you crying and mimicking for weeks,1
henry fonda brilliantly captures what we have long believed abraham lincoln was like it is a fooler through fonda s performance we are led to believe on the surface that abraham lincoln was a country bumpkin but through his confrontation with the lynch mob and especially during the court proceedings you can see that beneath the exterior posturings is a brilliant man who has a very good command of what is going on around him and how to influence the people around him in this movie henry fonda shows that he has a very good grasp of how to present humor it is an aspect of him that has been lost over the years when he is telling stories and jokes he has the timing down perfect there is a sequence in the trial that had me laughing quite hard he shows this gift again in the lady eve in the ending by john ford is absolutely brilliant with henry fonda going to the top of a hill and in the distance a tremendous storm symbolic of the civil war he goes forward into history the movie is fiction but the insight into lincoln is tremendous definitely worth seeing again,1
very outdated film with awful clich ridden and mawkish dialog and a very poor construction in addition cassavetes and falk overact constantly a pseudo good movie it takes no time to discover how catastrophic this intellectual turkey is the first scene is a total bore filled with histrionics and hysteric exchanges the sound is horrible camera movements are without imagination as is the building of characters no poetry no subtle psychology no interesting shots the actors smoke constantly and we see ads for beer beverages very cheap indeed one exception ned beattie s nice and simple way of playing the hit man,0
i am very unpolitically correct guy so when i say sexist i really mean it reduced the female guest lead dr miranda jones played by diana muldar in spite of all her supposed brilliance and self control to nothing more inside but a big jealous unreasonable baby you prolly got the plot by now after her technical sidekick marvik also a spurned lover flips out when he tried to kill the medusan ambassador kollos out of a jealous rage but glimpsed first it instead you think he could have just walked in to the room with his eyes shut and phasered the box too easy he takes the enterprise into un navigable space outside the galaxy before the boys could subdue him well the ship is stuck in limbo at that point they could have gone to the good lady doctor liaison and discussed it spock has to make a mind meld with the medusan so we can get home i mean like beetch do you want to stay adrift until we run out of supplies and die but the lady in true star trek fashion is a jealous monsters who whines and wails when the idea is broached even when her medusan idol told her to shut up go along with them so the beetch out of spite messes with the melded spock causing him to forget to put on his visor which makes spock go insane kirk naturally figured out what a total twit she was and shamed her into fixing spock up with her superior telepathic powers of course at the end the lady and medusan leave and all is forgiven you almost wish the president from battle star galactica showed up to jettison the witch out of an airlock for her destructive stunt but in star trek land ladies are permitted to be totally unreasonable and cruel yet at the same time supposedly there is sexual equality this is what i mean by sexist,0
fearful symmetry is a pleasant episode with a few faults the first thing about the episode is that it takes place near mountain home air force base in southwest idaho season one s deep throat takes place near ellens air base also in southwest idaho i m wondering if the air force bases are one and the same but they decided to use the real name in fearful symmetry mulder and scully have some good dialog always a plus ed meecham the zoo keeper reminds me of cranky old school teachers they must have liked children at one time you just can t imagine how just like he must have cared more for animals at one point i liked the concept of the episode but i felt it had some inconsistencies if aliens are so adept at abducting humans and returning them safely why can t they put the animal back in the right place and the aliens are just now having problems returning the animals i don t buy mulder s theory of a problem with the space time continuum as if he s an expert on that i also thought jayne atkinson s performance as willa ambrose was not well done besides those nitpicks i still enjoyed this episode because of the intriguing concept of aliens harvesting animal dna as well as human dna,1
do not bother to waste your money on this movie do not even go into your car and think that you might see this movie if any others do not appeal to you if you must see a movie this weekend go see batman again the script was horrible perfectly written from the random horror movie format given a place in confined spaces a madman with various weapons a curious man who manages to uncover all of the clues that honest police officers cannot put together and an innocent and overly curious yet beautiful and strong woman with whom many in the audience would love to be able to call their girlfriend mix together add much poorly executed gore and what the hell let s put some freaks in there for a little spin to the plot the acting was horrible and the characters unbelievable borat was more believable than this spoiler and can someone please tell me how a butcher s vest can make a bullet ricochet from the person after being shot without even making the person who was shot flinch i m in the army we need that kind of stuff for ourselves out of and i would place it in the decimals of that rounded up to give it the lowest possible score i can,0
spielberg s first dramatic film is no let down it s a beautifully made film without any flaws about the life of an african american woman it also proves that not all movies that have the african american ethnicity as the center of the story have to be helmed by an african american director what i love about this movie is spielberg s ability to make it very realistic despite the fact that it was based on a book furthermore danny glover was excellent as mr and usually he s just himself throughout most of his movies but in this he completely branches out and is someone else for once but the performance de resistance of the whole film comes from whoopi goldberg she is excellent as celie you will never forget these characters once you ve seen this movie now i heard that the musical version of it is going to be a film as well and all i can say is i hope it s about as good as this one is because this one is a film that shouldn t be missed,1
this is just usual indian garbage that gets turned out as cinema as indians we can proudly boast that we have the biggest cinema industry however it also the worst how can other poor countries have films with real characters that challenge the views of their respective societies and we just keep on pumping out garbage take a look at russia iran china and latin america look at the brilliant films they have and we get crap like kisna get real people no wonder the international community in general laughs at indian cinema,0
critics need to review what they class as a quality movie i think the critics have seen too many actions films and have succumbed to the matrix style of films europa is a breath of fresh air a film with so many layers that one viewing is not enough to understand or appreciate this outstanding film lars von trier shows that old styles of filming can produce marvellous cinema and build drama and tension the back projection effect he uses during the film arouses and enhances the characters and the focus of the conversation they are having other effects he uses such as the colour and black and white in one scene much like hitchcock and the girl with the red coat grabs attention and enhances the drama and meaning of the scene the commentary is superb and has a hypnotic effect again maintaining the focus on the central characters in the scene and there actions i could talk about the effects more but i think you all would agree they push this film into a category of its own and really heighten the drama of the film a film to buy if you don t own already and one to see if you have not don t miss this artistic noir film from one of the great film directors,1
i m far from a sylvester stallone fan and i guess the only time i really appreciated his appearance was in the french movie taxi which is an almost inexistent small role and yet i must admit that this movie was actually not that bad even though i feared the worst when gabe stallone fails to rescue the girlfriend of one of his friends and she plunges to her death from a feet high mountain top he can t possibly force himself to keep working as a mountain ranger for almost a year he doesn t set a food in the reserve but than he returns soon after he s back they get an emergency call from a group of hikers who got trapped in a snow storm at least that s what the rangers believe in reality it is a group of robbers who crashed with their airplane in the mountains after their daring plan to steal cases full of money from a flying government plane failed the cases are spread all over the reserve and they need the help of professional climbers to retrieve them this is of course not one of the most intelligent movies ever but in its genre it s an enjoyable one i especially enjoyed john lithgow as the evil master mind and leader of the gang of robbers i know him best from the tv series rd rock from the sun but i enjoyed his performance in this movie as well overall the acting is ok it had a lot of action to offer and of course also some one liners but it also offered a very nice decor this movie was filmed in a magnificent natural environment i loved the snowy mountains and valleys the mountain rivers and the forests perhaps that s why i give this movie a score higher than what i normally give to an action adventure movie of this kind i give it a if you don t expect too much this is an enjoyable movie,1
i love the munna bhai mbbs but lagge raho sux really sux i have never seen such a boring movie in my whole life and these high ratings really astonished me that wat happened to the taste of indian cinema viewers may be spoiler an educated girl needs an advice from a bhai people discussing their personal prob on phones come on man from which part of the world u r i agree that films should be fictitious but these things are really indigestible out of stars is for mins good starting,0
this movie is easily the worst of the series though new line might just be looking at sales they all know the only reason this one made more money than the one prior was due to its d ending it wasn t that the d was good either because it was s d with the red and blue lenses anaglyph it was just the fact that people wanted to see what it would look like beyond that this movie was so poorly done bad script bad characters bad acting worse directing this movie is trying to push the camp factor almost to the point of being like a looney tunes episode seriously not for horror audience because it is corny and not scary and not funny or amusing for comedy crowds just a total mess with some really bad cameos that are still trying to play this whole thing as camp and having it fall way short of what they probably wanted i remember most of us who had been fans of this series were just praying that it would end at this point because of how bad it had gotten this is one of the movies that helped take horror out of popularity and ride a fad of belief that audiences really wanted to laugh with some stupid comedy than see a good and scary horror film,0
the film begins with a bunch of kids in reform school and focuses on a kid named gabe who has apparently worked hard to earn his parole gabe and his sister move to a new neighborhood to make a fresh start and soon gabe meets up with the dead end kids the kids in this film are little punks but they are much less antisocial than they d been in other previous films and down deep they are well meaning punks however in this neighborhood there are also some criminals who are perpetrating insurance fraud through arson and see gabe as a convenient scapegoat after all he d been to reform school and no one would believe he was innocent once he was framed so when gabe is about ready to be sent back to the big house it s up to the rest of the gang to save him and expose the real crooks the dead end kids appeared in several warner brothers films in the late s and the films were generally very good particularly angels with dirty faces however after the boys contracts expired they went on to monogram studios and the films to put it charitably were very weak and formulaic with huntz hall and leo gorcey being pretty much the whole show and the group being renamed the bowery boys because angels wash their faces had the excellent writing and production values and hall and gorcey were not constantly mugging for the camera it s a pretty good film and almost earns a score of it s real close in fact while this isn t a great film aesthetically it s sure a lot of fun to watch so i will give it a sure it was a tad hokey particularly towards the end when the kids take the law into their own hands and reagan ignores the bill of rights but it was also quite entertaining the dead end kids are doing their best performances and ronald reagan and ann sheridan provided excellent support sure this part of the film was illogical and impossible but somehow it was still funny and rather charming so if you can suspend disbelief it works well,1
ha without a doubt tommy s the evil one here i don t know why but for some reason little kids in horror movies tend to come across as little butt munches and since they re kids they won t die because they re annoying well except for asylum of terror but those are few and far between anyway onto the movie can t find this movie on dvd sure you can all you have to do is buy the chilling classics dvd pack not only do you get metamorphosis on dvd for but you also get other movies what a bargain pff ok i m done advertising for these cheesy movies let s just say this movie ain t worth the bucks on its own so we have a chemist scientist yeah cause all chemist scientists look as handsome as this guy playing peter he s trying to come up with a serum to stop deterioration of the body the college he works at wants to pull the plug on his project so he tries it on himself but because this is a horror movie he sucks it up and starts and incredibly long transformation sequence that takes nearly of the movie to pad out the movie he gets into a relationship with some woman who has a son and she was never married scandalous but of course tommy is one of the most irritating characters no i take it back he is the most irritating character far worse than the old crippled guy who wants to take over peter s work and gloats over him while he s in the hospital that s right even as an old cripple you can still be the villain so we see peter start to randomly kill some people in visions he has until he realizes he s the one doing it and just decides to kill everyone in his path to get back to normal however at the end he ends up de evolving into a lizard yeah i know don t ask the ending really doesn t make any sense and if you re hoping for any really good payoff you re not going to get it this isn t a horrible movie it s just frustrating because of the lack of a good payoff if you already own the movie pack and this is next on your list you re not in for a snoozer but you re also not in for a great movie just sit back relax and eat a lot of snack food because this movie isn t going to be making you jump out of your skin anytime soon metamorphosis gets plastic lizard heads out of,0
best movie ever this movie broke my ribs just by the force of laughter but it was well worth it i don t intend to do a summary of this excellent movie just go see it if you have the chance i think you will either love it or hate it that s the qualities of a real cult movie,1
in one of her first movies romy schneider shines as young queen victoria of britain as she is suddenly put into the throne at the age of learns to govern despite the machinations of the politicians and eventually romances and marries prince albert of saxony kitschy and campy though surprisingly faithful to the real events this romantic piece is irresistible seeing this movie about british royals spoken in german adds to its quaint charm on that front one wonders why an austrian movie was made about an english queen but then one remembers that in austria was still under occupation by allied troops including british ones maybe this was one of the reasons for the existence of this film,1
after looking at monkeys oops apes for more than one hour i was feeling like one too i was an ape spending money on this movie please people hold you money in your pocket and go see some funny movie like bridget jones s diary,0
you know what kind of movie you re getting into when the serial killer main character is being transported to the electric chair in what seems to be a bakery truck only to have the prison vehicle collide with and i m not making this up a genetic engineering tanker truck the goo which spurts forth melts him and fuses his dna with the snow creating our protagonist the killer snowman my favorite portion of the movie however is an over the shoulder shot of the snowman thrashing some poor schmuck in which his hands look suspiciously like a couple of white oven potholder gloves mmmmm schlock,0
i managed to sneak away one night and go to the movie theater to see this one thinking i was in for a treat boy was i wrong considering the talent involved this has to be one of the worst movies i ve ever seen everyone in it was miscast and i find it incredible to read on this site that there are people out there who actually liked it,0
the luzhin defence is a movie worthy of anyone s time it is a brooding intense film and kept my attention the entire time john turturro is absolutely stunning in his portrayal of a tender eccentric chess grandmaster and emily watson is spell binding as the gentle but rebellious daughter of a highly respected russian family the chemistry between watson and turturro on screen is obvious from the moment their characters meet in the story all in all this movie is one of the best in depth looks at the life of a chess grandmaster and turturro and watson add a whole non mainstream non cliche feel to the film most people will come out of the theater thinking and feeling somewhat touched by this brilliant look at the most unlikely of love stories,1
robert deniro plays the most unbelievably intelligent illiterate of all time this movie is so wasteful of talent it is truly disgusting the script is unbelievable the dialog is unbelievable jane fonda s character is a caricature of herself and not a funny one the movie moves at a snail s pace is photographed in an ill advised manner and is insufferably preachy it also plugs in every cliche in the book swoozie kurtz is excellent in a supporting role but so what equally annoying is this new imdb rule of requiring ten lines for every review when a movie is this worthless it doesn t require ten lines of text to let other readers know that it is a waste of time and tape avoid this movie,0
everyone knows about this zero day event what i think this movie did that elephant did not is that they made us see how these guys were they showed their life for about a year throughout the movie we get to like them to laugh with them even though we totally know what they re gonna do and that gives me the chills cause i felt guilty to be cheered by their comments and i just thought cal was a sweet guy even though i knew what was gonna happen you know even at the end of the movie when they were about to commit suicide and just deciding if they did it on the count of or i thought this was funny but still i was horrified to see their heads blown off of course i was i got to like them they were wicked maybe but i felt like they were really normal guys that they didn t really realize it but i knew they were that s imo the main force of this movie it makes us realize that our friends or relatives or anyone can be planning something crazy and that we won t even notice it this movie as good as it was made me feel bad and that s why i can t go to sleep right now there s still this little feeling in my stomach butterflies,1
the deadly wake is the perfect movie for film students to learn how not to make a film let s see what did the crew mess up in this flick worst music mix worst editing worst script worst all time directing worst acting worst choreography worst cinematography worst props worst sets worst lighting etc let s face it if this film had been in ultra high contrast black and white and silent it still would have been awful all scenes are dark lighting people call it black often the music score drowned out the meandering dialogs which was ok because nobody ever spoke two whole sentences without long pauses for effect the evil robot was hilarious what was that jazz dancing oh i guess it was supposed to be walking tactically or something i m sure it struck fear into the hearts of the poor editors and how do you edit so much footage of garbage not possible garbage is garbage no matter how you splice it how did anyone ever get this thru the dailys bottom line is i couldn t stand to watch more than minute segments it was so bad but i did see the whole thing with lotsa breaks just to see if it had any good parts in it at all nope none a perfect example of how not to make a flick a must see for every serious film student,0
no i haven t read the stephen king novel thinner but i choked down the film version horror movies are an acquired taste regular movies give an audience a hero to applaud as he strives to achieve a goal in horror movies audiences are invited to savor the demise of characters in director tom holland s low fat but tasteless revenge chiller thinner nobody wins and everybody deserves the bite that is put on them gluttonous new england attorney billy halleck robert john burke of robocop has a weight problem although he rocks the bathroom scales at pounds he appears happily married to a trim delectable wife heidi lucinda jenney of g i jane with a yeasty teenage daughter fat doesn t mean stupid here halleck displays his sagacity in court when he wins an acquittal verdict for sleazy mafia chieftain richie ginelli joe mantegna of house of games driving home from a victory feast billy hits an old gypsy woman crossing the street and kills her a cover up occurs and halleck s friends get him out of the soup the disgruntled gypsy father taduz lemke michael constantine of skidoo retaliates with a curse on the corpulent lawyer and the two town officials that exonerated him suddenly halleck finds himself shedding pounds no matter how much chow he chomps when he begs the vengeful gypsy to lift the curse the old man refuses desperately halleck resorts to richie while halleck struggles with the gypsies to remove the hex he learns that his loyal wife has turned his attentions to the town s hotshot doctor thinner qualifies as not only laughably inept horror flick but the filmmakers also rely on stereotypes of men and women tom holland who directed child s play and scenarist michael mcdowell have served up such a slipshod script that you cannot relish watching billy get his just dessert and shrivel up thinner boasts few shocks and fewer surprises the filmmakers may have regurgitated king s novel but they have filleted whatever sense of horror and humor it contained holland and mcdowell introduce characters such as the mafioso then inexplicably let them off the hook one minor character shows up long enough to die and have a chicken s head stuffed in his mouth the stereotypical behavior of the characters may offend audiences too thinner depicts women as oversexed vixens and men as swine when halleck sneaks home from a clinic he finds his doctor s sports car parked at his house his suspicions ripen into jealousy and he cooks up a scheme to get the curse transferred to this wife even the premature ending lacks any satirical flavor oscar winning special effects wizard greg cannom of van helsing and make up artist bob laden do a fabulous job beefing up actor robert john burke to look obese they succeed too in making him shrivel only die hard stephen king fans will be able to stomach this misogynistic gooledyspook,0
so so special effects get in the way of recapturing the interesting relationship between uncle martin and tim o hara that we remember from the tv series and what was with the suit annoying,0
there are two reasons why i did not give a to this movie one reason are some of the actors like malcolm mcdowell and gwynyth walsh work who tried to play at their usually good level of acting however at many scenes they were somehow blocked by the bad scripting the other reason is the cool idea and looking of the cyborg which is quite different to most other such roles i ve seen so far everything else in this movie is as bad as it can be boring scenes useless and boring dialogs bad script work and it seemed as it was the first movie ever for many actors it could have been an interesting story though but they failed completely,0
greetings again from the darkness mary heron is amassing quite the list of films which provide a glimpse into their specific era her previous i shot andy warhol and american psycho were at their best when commenting on the quirkiness of society during that period although the notorious bettie page is obviously about ms page it is every bit as much a peak behind the curtain at the world of kinky photo shoots in the s the film is fun to watch both from the perspective of the story and the technical aspect of the way it was filmed and put together the grainy b w film and photos capture the time and the introduction of color in miami beach through the photos of bunny yeager is very well done the supporting cast is strong with david strathairn fresh off his edward r murrow role chris bauer as irving klaw and lili taylor the star of the film is the wonderfully talented and underrated and underworked gretchen mol ms mol always brings an edge and spirit to her roles she was absolutely mesmerizing in the little seen jason alexander directed just looking in here she is the notorious bettie page her smile is captivating and her body is flawless she really seems to enjoy this role and helps us understand how the girl next door from tennessee could become the underworld pin up queen as one would expect the soundtrack from the era is terrific patsy cline and peggy lee are just two of the featured performers although the film hints at providing a history into this industry the final third kinda falls flat preventing pure movie magic but the magic of gretchen mol and bettie page make this a fun movie to watch and one that will yield endless showings on hbo in the near future now will someone please turn ms mol into the star she should be,1
i haven t laughed that much in a long time although the movie has some sad moments too especially when it changes from hyper funny to honest and serious the characters are very realistic most of the times sappy sometimes but quite believable i am not a fan of the jerry springer show i feel sorry for the participating people this film instead is a satire and it is doing great too bad that all expletives were beeped out while this movie aired on public tv that takes a lot of fun out of it i will go rent this movie to fully enjoy it,1
what made the idea of seeing this movie so attractive was the hope that it would live up to charlotte bronte s brilliance of the original classic story i was deeply disappointed to find that this movie which seemed to be either written or filmed in great haste had not the qualities that made the original novel so powerful much of the witty back and forth between the main characters jane eyre and mr rochester seemed to be either missing from the screenplay or left on the cutting room floor also missing was jane eyre s charismatic sense of self which enabled her to suffer through her turmoil and triumph over all the original jane eyre was a hero the woman in this movie did not seem to have much to triumph over including one of the greatest parts of the story when jane runs away from thornfield and mr rochester her struggle to find food and shelter her shame at having to beg for bread the threat of freezing to death in the cold all to get away from a man she loved were in my opinion poignant parts of the story that were simply left out of this movie the title character seemed dry and uninspired the story was unappealing and for those who did not read the book i cannot imagine that this story would be the least bit interesting the screenplay and direction did little if any credit to the classic story,0
the screaming skull outta stars this movie boasts some pretty cool opening credits an offscreen narrator warning that movie patrons will be offered a free burial if they die of fright watching this movie a scary shot of a skull emerging from a placid pool and the ubiquitous scary music but sadly the movie is all downhill from there a widowed man takes his new bride to his secluded mansion admonishing his servants and friends that the new mrs has a very fragile disposition due to a tragedy in her past well in no time at all she begins to see and hear mysterious things that no one else can her husband assures her that it s all merely in her mind and well you can probably see where this all is going you will have figured out what s going on long before our hapless heroine because you have probably seen the exact same plot in hundreds of other movies and tv shows and done better too to add to the movie s myriad transgressions most cuts of this movie on numerous cheap dvd compilations seem to be missing a few key scenes you see the heroine slowly walking towards the window she goes to open it you know she is going to see something scary and then suddenly the scene cuts to her sobbing in her husband s arms so what did she see i guess we ll never know,0
why can t more directors these days create horror movies like the shining there s an easy answer to that modern day directors are not stanley kubrick kubrick proved once and for all with this movie that he is truly one of the greatest directors and auteurs of all time so the plot is fairly simple a man named jack torrance played brilliantly by jack nicholson and his family move into a large secluded hotel to watch over it for the off season the kicker is that the previous caretaker of the hotel savagely murdered his wife and two girls what follows can most readily be summed by the title of the movie but you have to watch it to see what i mean this is the first movie in a very long time to strike me as scary it s some seriously messed up stuff but in a good way one of the things that adds to the scare factor is the amazing music music has been a major part of kubrick s movies a space oddysey and a clockwork orange just to name a couple and he definitely doesn t disappoint with this one the score completely sets the tone and this film would not be the same without it finally i must comment on nicholson s legendary performance jack is terrifyingly convincing as a crazy killer in fact just his stare steals a few scenes of this movie this is top notch acting that must be seen to believe there will never be a horror movie that quite matches this one r i p stanley,1
i first saw this film when i was about seven years old and was completely enchanted by it then but for years was unable to find out what the film was called now i am twenty one and stumbled upon the film by accident about two weeks ago and bought a copy although my memory of the film was a little hazy i was in no way disappointed by what i saw the animation in this film is superb conjuring up an entire world that is so believable and so well animated that you are drawn in to the film by that alone but this film also has a plot that will enchant and entertain adults and children alike with a floating island a mad general a friendly pirate granny and a well constructed love story this film will not let you down i would recommend this film to any one,1
i saw this movie about a week ago and still keep thinking about it i was very moved by this movie i found the characters very believable and likable almost to a fault as in real life though sometimes people disappoint as was the case with leo who even though i liked his character i could not have been more disappointed when he was willing to have unprotected sex even though fully aware of his hiv status i was also disappointed with leo for rejecting the medicine available to him and the awful way he treated marcel when he decided to ship him back home on the train i think this movie showed in a very real way why hiv numbers are up in young gay men this is in no way meant to bash gays i am gay and movie very well could have been made about a young straight person who makes bad choices and seems unaware of the consequences to himself and others the only part of the movie i couldn t understand was why the gay friendly family was unwilling to include marcel in leo s illness to the point of not allowing him to go to the funeral i think the biggest message from this movie is that whether gay or straight is do not have unprotected sex,1
i like the time period i like the attempt but watching a movie that looks like i m looking at it through a coke bottle gives me a headache if i played computer games that were this blurry and out of focus i would upgrade my computer could be that this was the look the director was after but not so it hurts the eyes and you want to leave after minutes if i hadn t taken someone with me to this film i was out of there even though it was a series and not a movie per say band of brothers accomplished this they made it look like wwii footage with just a touch of graininess but it was still a pleasure to watch movies need real people with real sets and real locations use cgi when it is appropriate not for an entire film,0
henry fool surprised me i didn t expect it to entertain and amuse as well or as strongly as it did fay grim continues to surprise in that it provides solid continuation to a story that seems not to need it once the viewer watches the first minutes of the movie however it becomes blindingly aware that this is one of the best sequels to brilliant indie film at least as good as ginger snaps back if not better i am a little disappointed that jeff goldblum s part is so small but i m happy he is a part of this short run he is convincing and delightful as agent fulbright also a delight is liam aiken who quite aptly portrays ned grim the son of fay and henry this movie is a pleasure for so many reasons i am pleased for example to discover that henry isn t really the loser he seems by the end of fool and to further discover that he is in fact a genius well that really is a lovely stroke of the pen i am hoping they do a third like the end of the trilogy it seems to be missing they should entitle it ned fool grim and it should be liam looking for his father to validate the awesome change in his mother and the sense of near genius he himself feels welling inside him assuming of course that fay continues withholding many of the most important facts from her son concerning his father it feels like it needs to be done i d buy it even with more action this is still not an action flick it is more drama and intrigue a mystery of sorts i ll watch it often it rates an from the fiend,1
here on imdb com i read an opinion that grey owl is best character of pierce brosnan ever performed i do not know if he had better nor worse roles i m not his fan but this one was really exceptional the other thing impressive hand of the movie director i give my respect the serenity the beauty and spirit of wilderness was illustrated really exlusively i never met such proximity it in any movie before another thing left in my mind after the film this is the movie closest to the original books and atmosphere in it and little bit more i pay my respect to the original grey owl,1
i ve seen most of ryuhei kitamura s work and i ve come to the conclusion that he has a knack for action scenes are kinetic and fast often combining elements of martial arts gun fights and samurai fights with camera work that effectively captures the on screen carnage with versus and aragami kitamura demonstrated that creativity and showed that he his more than capable of working with a low budget so what happened in alive to be more blunt the answer would be nothing nothing happened in alive it was a two hours plus movie with little to no action and little to no characters and plot adapted from a comic book by tsutomu takahashi alive is an examination of the life of one tenshu yashiro played by hideo sasaki a death row convict who survives his execution he is then given a choice of either to repeat the execution or to subject himself in a bizarre series of experiments he chooses the latter and soon after that is placed in a room along with a rapist and later with a girl infected with a strange parasite that in exchange for it s host s humanity grants supernatural powers naturaly at some point that parasite moves into yashiro the bad thing is that doesn t happen very soon similar to aragami alive sets it s first half in establishing the basic exposition characters are introduced their motivations are set and their relations between each other are uncovered the whole thing even takes place in just one set the first major problem of that comparison is that while aragami was just a minute movie alive drags on for more than two hours thus making the first part over one hour long that length could have been justified had the characters been made a bit more interesting but alas that is not the case dialogue is dry monotonous delivered without any sense of emotion or depth characters themselves aren t much interesting there were some small attempts at making alive a bit more moral ambiguous but in the end it all came down to the classic evil government people against super powered protagonist whom yes you guessed it saves the girl in the end like i previously said the entire film practically takes place at just one set and after two hours that does get boring even worse the set design itself wasn t even interesting to begin with and doesn t do much to improve on other aspects of the film now after that first part is over one might think that kitamura would at least make some entertaining action scenes to make up for the boring beginning sadly that is not the case the two only fights are actually rehashes of similar fights from hollywood movies complete with bullet time effects and psychic powers they re just not interesting or fun kitamura s creativity from versus is gone the small set even limits his often very impressive camera work and it all boils down into generic and expectable fights a shame really evidently aragami was better on all accounts and kitamura had learned something from alive so it wasn t at least a total loss watching this movie if only to understand the errors made how to fix them and create a better more entertaining movie,0
i actually thought this is a comedy and sat watching it expecting to laugh my ass off pretty soon in became clear this is no comedy or at least not a jim carrey type one what kept we watching was the characters the movie starts with some pretty grim troubled people gathered together to try and fight one of their basic fears fear of water fear of swimming we start to get bit by bit into their lives witness their troubles guess of their thoughts actually i made it look much darker than it actually is and besides the chain of events soon brings some light and hope to their lives i probably wouldn t have watched the movie had i known its not a comedy but rather a drama but i had good time enjoyed the story and don t mind i spent about minutes with it many films treat the alienation between people in the western world this movie shows how people can get together and help each other and if in the light of dying day you meet her don t let her pass you by and leave don t loose her she is your gift from the sun peace and love,1
the movie is about two stories one is a political murder of a call girl the other an upper class political party the crossing point is the public relation character played by al paccino as he is the witness of the crime and the instigator of the evening if the script is terrible without any decent dialogs and the directing void of any sense of drama the performance of al is memorable how many fellows can be as much convincing as a powerful and feared man as the godfather as here as a little servant see also donnie brasco actually the big young lion has become a tired old one this passing of ages is very moving because it makes the audience ponders about getting old too but his slowness is only a make up because he can get back his energy in church scene maybe it is a good thing that the movie is so awful because it put the starlight on al s talent,0
i found this movie to be very good in all areas the acting was brilliant from all characters especially ms stone and morissey tramell s character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute the plot is interesting even though this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels the setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious thriller like masterpiece go see this film now it deserves better than what it got from the audience which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie before it even started you won t regret it if you go see it,1
spencer tracy and katherine hepburn would roll over in their graves if they knew this guess who s coming to dinner rip off was actually in theaters along with sidney poitier and katherine houghton these four brilliant actors made a great cultural statement with director stanley kramer s master piece this present day rip off is a joke so a white guy from an overly stereotyped italian family in rhode island brings his african american girlfriend home insert gasp here to his grand father s funeral his family members reactions were of course predictable this movie was so painfully telegraphed from start to finish my girlfriend actually started fake snoring to signal to me that she wanted to leave do yourself a favor and rent the original take a pass on wake,0
the one and only was a great film i had just finished viewing it on encorew on directv i am an independent professional wrestler and i thought this was a good portray of what life is like as a professional wrestler now this film was made years before i was born but i don t think the rigors of professional wrestling traveling has changed all that much sad funny and all around great,1
this movie is amazing while being funny and entertaining it is also profoundly deep and eye opening i will watch it again and again bruce is a guy who is unhappy with his life he has a job and a life but it isn t what he thinks it will take to bring him happiness bruce is bitter unsatisfied and resentful that his life isn t the way he envisions it should be as a result of this state of mind bruce ends up losing his job and blaming god for everything that he thinks is wrong with his life god comes to bruce and grants him godly powers bruce uses these powers to get everything he has always wanted his life is finally exactly what he envisioned it would take to make him happy with one exception in the process of gaining everything he loses the one person who truly loved him as the movie unfolds bruce learns that the real change that needed to occur in his life was not the circumstances but his perception of what was truly there this movie was inspirational and deep if you really pay attention it forces you to look at your life with a deeply humbling respect for the fact that a lot of the time we are so much more blessed than we recognize as my wife says since when does anybody know what it takes to make them happy and my humble addition may we not lose ourselves and those who matter while we try to find out,1
blonde and blonder was unfunny basically it was a rip off girl version of dumb and dumber but less funny and they used too much background noises and music way too much background noises and music if you ask me it starts out immensely boring and totally inane it doesn t pick up pace anywhere soon and i was feeling more frustrated as this nonsense carried on maybe the only thing that saved me from giving this movie a was the last minutes i found it somewhat entertaining and interesting as it neared the end but that was the only part also i couldn t help but like pamela anderson and denise richard s characters a little even though this movie didn t get any laughs from me it kept my attention i wouldn t say to completely avoid this movie but there are thousands of better films for you to spend your time and money on than blonde and blonder,0
i have always been a huge james bond fanatic i have seen almost all of the films except for die another day and the world is not enough the graphic s for everything or nothing are breathtaking the voice talents wow i love pierce brosnan he is finally bond in a video game he is bond i enjoyed the past bond games goldeneye the world is not enough agent under fire and nightfire this one is definitely the best finally mr brosnan may i call him mr brosnan as a sign of respect yes i can he was phenomenally exciting to hear in a video game at long last duh i ve seen him perform with robin williams and let me tell you they make a great team pierce brosnan is funny wickedly handsome i mean to say wickedly in a good way and just one of those actor s who you would want to walk up to and wrap your arms around and hug saying pierce brosnan thank you for being james bond if it wasn t for you i wouldn t know who james bond is he s a great actor i am a huge fan of willem dafoe even though i ve seen him in a couple of movies his role as nikolai diavalo was brilliant did i spell the character s name right lol he does a great job with an accent sometimes i can t even hear an accent i have seen willem i mean mr dafoe perform in two movies finding nemo and spider man with my favorite actress kirsten dunst she rocks anyway he never ceases to amaze and richard kiel wow he s definitely got the part of jaw s nailed i ve seen him in the movie s and he s awesome as a matter of fact my grandparent s have met mr kiel and i was jealous when they told me but kirsten dunst is at the top of my list of celebritie s that i want to meet john cleese was breathtaking i have never seen a better person play as the wisecracking and gadget creating q mr cleese was hilarious i ve seen him work with pierce brosnan in goldeneye and tommorow never dies he s awesome john cleese s most recent project is shrek starring mike myer s cameron diaz julie andrew s and eddie murphy shrek is now in theatre s good luck oh yeah and as q alway s says grow up,1
i am right now in front of the tv watching casomai it is changing it id evolving or better devolving it begin with a courius wedding of the two protagonists where their love story is reported after that everything change a child was born and all the rest usually happen in a couple it is a not a special movie because it talks about a normal couple and normality is the center of this movie it doesn t want to show us something particular there is nothing new it is just a normal love story the story of a couple and being normal it become different from the rest it is also a flashing movie everything is short every scene is long just some seconds it is a reported story many things are known because friends and parents talk about that and their opinion is central the opinions create the story and destroy it it is a simple story of a couple as i said but it is not boring it just show a couple should be everything known it is but i am sure that every one of you will want to know what happen so don t forget to watch the end,1
i haven t read a single imdb comment for this movie that mentions how the jewish character in this movie jumped up and down like a little baby as a gun is pointed in his face by a racist skinhead while the movie s lead black character looked in sternness down the barrel of a gun i don t know how anyone could perceive this as a balanced account of university life i agree universities are not bastions of tolerance like they are supposed to be and the title would be fitting if singleton didn t make his characters such broad caricatures on the surface he tries to portray ice cube s character as a bad guy provoking remy to become a racist skinhead but who graduates at the end in the movie s redeeming epilogue it seems singleton points at white as either unable to empathize i didn t say sympathize with his fellow black student or only able to take the path of a racist skinhead many people who have been bullied by people of another race do not turn to extreme bigotry nor do women who have been raped immediately turn to lesbianism which is portrayed more as a cult than a lifestyle quite honestly what was the point,0
after reading only two of the comments herein as a lifelong bronte fan beginning with olivier s heathcliff and enduring with the many versions of charlotte s rochester it is more than eye opening to see that it is the unsung bronte sister who gave the lie to the male chauvinist period the trio inhabited of course the miracle in all three versions of th century british domesticity is that the girls were all spinsters and their only realistic brushes with men were their vicar father and their wastrel brother that said finally it is anne bronte who has in her single assay proved the feminist point way way ahead of contemporary types and including the voting franchise ranks however history evinces more than a few who preceded including the greek heterai and sappho and the likes of an ancient emperor s yang kuei fei and how about eve and her apple,1
i love monte carlo and thoroughly enjoyed this movie i thought everyone was very good i was not familiar with richard lewis i thought he made his character julian peters very personable funny and attractive sean young was very good as the befuddled rejected girl with a heart of gold george hamilton was charming and the perfect italian gigolo john candy has a field day as the bon vivant james belushi is hysterical as a total jerk cybill shepard gave a very sweet performance as a nice vulnerable ignored housewife delightful ensemble cast lots of talent clever script lots going on and beautiful locations just a nice pick me up for a dreary day especially in the winter when a trip to europe is not anywhere on your horizon,1
watching the tenants has been a interesting experience for me it is the first film i have ever seen where i have shuttled at speed through parts of the non action and i can normally watch anything from turgid action movies to serbo croat indie and find them fascinating the tenants is frustratingly sluggish and over orchestrated one of the main problems of the script is there is little realistic character dialogue apart from the set pieces where characters collide in a very structured setting to make this work the film needed to feel more conceptual which it didn t this leads to a lack of realistic character development everyone seems two dimensional the worse for this is the character of bill spear aka snoop dogg i found his characterization very uncomfortable and very unsympathetic at one point i even stopped the film because i got so annoyed by the character s aggressive violent and monotonal delivery the lack of any other personality layer apart from that of the reactionary on switch which gets really predictable after a while and i so desperately wanted him to have some redeeming qualities however one reason for this jar might be the nebulous time scape of the film supposedly s it feels and looks more early noughties if it had been more securely fixed in the s his character might have seemed more understandable the lighting of the film was also awkward all the way through the soundtrack attempts to provide a certain gritty jazz infused atmosphere that just did not come off largely because the set was too well lit the tenants to me is an unbelievable film it doesn t depict real people or propose any interesting ways of thinking about race identity or the life of a writer be they white or black strangely i came away with the feeling that this project needed david lynch his eerie clastrophobic and obsessive look and feel would have lifted both the actors and the script into something quite remarkable,0
as far as parody films go there are few that are worth time and energy but with a recent resurgence of horrid parodies such as date movie and the comebacks it is a breath of fresh air to come back and rediscover a truly funny farce like johnny dangerously after his mother has no end of medical problems little johnny goes to work for the mob what fallows is a series of gags most of which work there are however the occasional flops but a foreign gangster who can t master the american language profanity wise at least a rival gangster with a penchant for shooting his mouth off once a younger brother with the d a who is out to get johhny dangerously and a hot young starlet hot for his affections have johnny busy and the viewer will be busy laughing for the most part as every gangster movie clich is skewered by a talented cast and decent writing not perfect by a long shot but definitely good for a smile on a bad day,1
think stage play this is worth seeing once for the performances of lionel atwill and dwight frye compare the melvyn douglas in ghost story with the melvyn douglas of this film are there vampires at loose in this bavarian village or is there a more natural albeit equally sinister explanation dwight frye is herman a red herring who is cast as an especially moronic character it s fun to look at his different facial expressions in what is really a stock character not much happens for a long time but then we discover that atwill s pipe smoking doctor is the real murderer there is too much comic relief but that is par for the course for this era fay wray looks really good,0
i don t understand how of us receive such a high rating i thought that the first half dragged on and the second half didnt make sense followed by an unresolved climax which was not worth the trouble however i did like jared harris performance of john lennon which was worth the wasted hours,0
thre isn t a single scorsese movie i d place on a list of my favorite movies but this is the best thing i ve run through my dvd player in about five years scorsese s patient elucidation of favorite film moments and how hollywood works is incredibly gracious calm and intelligent it s dvd sides worth of material it would have to be a british production since everything about american corporate culture would have trampled the quiet methodical no frills put the focus on the content approach that is taken here and an american production would have demanded he say he liked only movies that were popular favorites i wish everyone took a page from his love of movies you should love the movies you do for personal idiosyncratic and specific reasons not just more me too votes for the godfather etc people have no clue what ideas are being explored in their favorite movies if they did movies would be more interesting than they are scorsese does know what ideas are being explored and that makes him a compelling involved speaker on the topic i really appreciate his articulate generous interviews over the last decade on a negative note scorsese is best when he s excited to show you some obscure movie rather than when he s didactically teaching you something well established about film history and i do wish he pluck those three hairs out of the bridge of his nose it s very distracting,1
of the ten actors who portrayed philo vance in the series edmund lowe seemed the most personable but in this script the audience is way ahead of the famed detective after all when the jockey douglas walton stares blankly in space obviously hypnotized and says something like i must ride and be killed i felt it was dumb that no one picked up on it after he does get killed the police thought it was a suicide because he said he would do it after hated horse owner gene lockhart gets shot and killed frieda inescort does the same thing saying she s going out to be killed and then fatally jumps off a bus i laughed when lowe finally yells i got it as though it were a revelation the guilty party however was cleverly concealed and there was considerable suspense generated when that party starts to hypnotize lowe to get him to jump off a roof,0
a bunch of american students and their tutor decide to visit the ugliest part of ireland in order to study ancient religious practices despite being repeatedly warned about the dangers of straying off the beaten path by the local creepy irish guy natch they do just that and wind up with their insides on the outside courtesy of a family of inbred cannibals the descendants of the infamous sawney bean clan who according to the film s silly plot upped sticks from scotland and settled on the emerald isle if you think that porn stars plus low budget horror automatically equals tons of nudity and terrible acting then think again evil breed is bristling with adult stars but in fact there s not nearly as much nudity as one might expect given the talent involved and the acting although far from oscar worthy ain t all that bad with the exception of ginger lynn allen who we know can do marvellous french but whose irish is lousy evil breed opens in superb style with the brutal slaughter of a couple of amorous campers after some brief under canvas sex the silicone enhanced hottie is dragged from the tent and torn in half the guy has his arms and legs cut off and is roasted on a spit it s a very gory start and bodes well for the rest of the film unfortunately after this promising beginning things start to go seriously downhill we are introduced to the main characters an annoying bunch of twenty somethings just begging to become cannibal chow and are subjected to a fair amount of time wasting in the form of some terrible false scares a lot of blarney about murderous druids from local irish weirdo gary simon peacock and worst of all some sub scream post modernistic conversation about the conventions of horror films how clever then just as it looks as though the film is never going to get any better director christian viel decides to get serious a guy gets a knife rammed through his head and there s a gratuitous sex in the shower scene featuring lovely blonde gillian leigh not a porn star but i m sure there s a career there waiting if she wants it after that things improve rapidly as the cannibals kick into top flesh eating gear and the film is transformed into a veritable bloodbath gary has a machete rammed up his ass about time and is strangled with his intestines ginger lynn kick boxes a mutant jenna jameson is torn open eviscerated and has her silicone breast implant gnawed on by confused cannibal a guy gets decapitated by cheese wire and taylor hayes is seen bloody bruised and naked with a dead foetus between her legs apparantly she s been captured and used as breeding stock all of this is so outrageously gory that it makes sitting through the less interesting stuff worthwhile and earns evil breed a final rating of nb a very troubled production and studio meddling resulted in christian viel eventually abandoning the project re shoots were done and the gore was heavily trimmed for a us release the good news is that although the film doesn t flow as well as it might have and is cursed with a terrible ending the uk dvd the version i watched seems to have been left relatively intact as far as the splatter is concerned only s were cut from the film in total,1
this is a very strange hk film in many ways first many of the action sequences really aren t that much fun the very first gun battle the occurs in the film was just silly not cool silly or even funny silly but just silly that s not to say there aren t some great action scenes but most simply don t come up to the level of some of the other films i have seen the opposite side is that this film actually has characters not just people all of the main characters are interesting except for the head bad guy who is flat as a billiard table and most are fairly well acted all the protagonists in this film are just fun to watch the dialogue is quite witty and doesn t seem to lose much in translation this film is worth seeing but i hope that uninitiated american audiences don t think this is the best hk has to offer,1
this film was really bad whether you take it as a sci fi movie as a horror one or even as a comedy the whole thing is ridiculous the film looks and is definitely cheap the actors have no idea of what acting is and the script shows clearly that it was being made along with the shooting it is obvious that the monster in the closet was added because the living head was not scary at all she was even pretty and they thought they needed something more impressive they failed here too the make up is awful even for the late s rather funny the film shows clearly why director joseph green s career as such and also as a writer never materialized he was really bad at both same goes to the actors leading and supporting the brain that wouldn t die s best achievement is its short running time,0
mating game is a charming wonderful movie from an era gone by hollywood needs to consider a charming remake of this movie my wife and i would go see it it is an excellent romantic comedy that my wife and i watched on amc this movie has tony randall at his best debbie reynolds is great as always loved it we plan on ordering on dvd to add to our growing collection of movies too bad hollywood does not make movies like this anymore hey hollywood time to dig some of these type of scripts out of the old safe update them a bit without spoiling the original movie and script as you have done with other remakes and hold a casting call a remake would be a big hit on the silver screen dvd and on cable sattv sn austin tx,1
maybe you shouldn t compare but wild style and style wars are original hip hop beat street does have a lot of the original artists of early hip hop but they ve been obviously made clear that this could be their big break of course for some it was and that s nice but if you view this as original hip hop culture you re wrong it s overproduced and has a hollywood sauce rather look for the first two movies i mentioned they have convey the grittiness that comes with life in the ghetto yes the rating for this movie is low but the reviews are mostly positive or even raving this is probably because although the story the acting the dialogues and the direction all are dreadful the music and dancing is what the people love about it me i do love the dancing but at the time thought that electro was the death of hip hop i was so glad when round a new generation of now classic hip hop artists appeared like krs one public enemy ultramagnetic mc s jungle brothers bizmarkie to name a few and i still don t like most of the beats in this movie and that is why it doesn t work for me i mean wild style has not much of a story but the music there is great and authentic of course tastes differ and that s alright but as far as i m concerned this movie is trash except for the break dancing and some of the music and so i can t rate it higher than a out of ten,0
after seeing midnight offerings i am still convinced that the first decent movie about teenage witches yet has to be made i didn t think much of the craft and i m not into charmed either the only film i more or less enjoyed about teenage witches was little witches and even that one wasn t very good but changes are that if you liked all the aforementioned movies you will also enjoy midnight offerings i was expecting a silly and cheesy early s movie about teenage witches in high school but i was rather surprised that this whole movie plays it rather serious the acting is decent and serious all the time no jokes are being played by teenagers or something and the musical score at first i thought was pretty good it added some scariness and also something classy with the use of threatening violins and all but as the movie progressed i came to the conclusion that the score was just too ambitious they didn t have to add those threatening violins when you simply see someone back up a car and then drive away at normal speed then there s melissa sue anderson who was the main reason for me to see this movie a few weeks ago i saw her in happy birthday to me a rather enjoyable thick plotted and goofy on some occasions slasher movie which she had done in the same year as midnight offerings and i must say she was very good as the icy cold bad witch vivian but the main problem with the movie is almost nothing happens vivian causes a death and an accident yes but that s it then there s robin the good witch who is just learning about her powers and we expect the two of them using their powers more than once but at only one occasion they use their powers to make some pieces of wood and other stuff fly through the air as projectiles that was supposed to be a fight between two powerful witches and what s worse i was hoping to see a spectacular show down between the witches at the end of the movie with at least some special effects flaming eyes or whatever but nothing happens there is sort of a confrontation in the end but it s a big disappointment so the acting of the two witches was good the musical score was decent even though overly ambitious and the cinematography was rather dark and moody at times but that doesn t make a good movie yet does it,0
this is why i still have nightmares this terrifying film a musical was considered appropriate for children in the s a boy leaves on a magical journey to an island the mayor of the island pufnstuf allegedly a dragon looking more like a newt with conjunctivitis to me and a magic talking flute are targeted by a witch billie halliday who was considered a bit of alright at the time the flute is recovered at an interesting witches convention with the witches having a gay old time the boy dresses in drag then as a fairy to recover the flute not suitable for children,1
joe don s opening line says everything about this movie it takes place on the island of malta the island of pathetic men and involves joe don baker tracking down an italian mobster joe don s character is named geronimo pronounced heronimo and all he does in this movie is shoot people and get arrested over and over agin everyone in the movie hates him just like everyone hates greydon clark i liked an earlier greydon picture angel s revenge because it was a shirne for thriteen year old boys avoid this movie at all costs,0
i bought this a year or more ago for yep left it on the shelf for ages now watching dvds while holed up with a cold this is a haunting movie brilliant performances by all involved especially the yo boy about the only smiles you get in this movie plot reminds me of perhaps my favourite movie ever grosse pointe blank but obviously that s lighthearted this is heavy hearted as a psychologist a clinical and forensic psychologist a shiver went up my spine when the identity of the new contract was revealed scary stuff brilliant work all round pete,1
nacho libre directed by jared hess starring jack black ana de la reguera h ctor jim nez darius rose mpaa rating pg for some rough action and crude humor including dialog say what you will about it i know some people who despise it to no end but i have always thought that napoleon dynamite was a funny movie not the brightest brick on the wall but a funny movie nonetheless jack black is also a very funny man irritating at times yes and massively overrated by adolescent audiences who practically worship him but funny there has rarely been a jack black comedy that i did not enjoy to some degree so i was very happy to hear that jared hess the writer and director of napoleon dynamite and jack black would be teaming up for a movie about a spanish friar who becomes a wrestler to save an orphanage my only reservation was that the plot seemed a little too thin unfortunately my one reservation turned out to be downfall of the entire movie this plot had it been done as a skit on some such show as saturday night live or possibly even mad tv would have worked flawlessly unfortunately the plot runs far too thin over the approximate one and a half hour runtime and this one joke comedy falls flat nacho was raised in a mexican monastery and became a devout man of the lord feeling shunned by the entire monastery nacho black now the monastery s cook decides to follow his dreams to become a professional wrestler as the monastery s finances hit an all time low nacho decides to join a wresting tournament so that he can win the prize money and provide good food for the monastery s orphanage this plot sounds so sweet and caring it seems like the perfect movie for jack black look what he did with school of rock after all well to my displeasure this plot is almost completely ruined by offensive and gross humor that just takes away from the heart of the movie it is again hollywood s way of showing that they feel that teen audiences will only understand fart jokes and stupid humor of course for all i know maybe that is the general thought of teenagers as many seemed to enjoy this movie watching an obese woman scurry like a mouse across the floor will certainly make people laugh but don t expect to get an award for putting it in your movie a seven year old could make up the same joke the performances in nacho libre are actually good jack black proves once again that he is absolutely hilarious and that he can make even the most idiotic worthless lines in ever put on paper comical unfortunately this movie just wasn t enough for him it didn t give him anything to go on and the only reason any of his jokes worked was because of him i had never seen or heard of ana de la reguera before but now i can say that not only is she quite talented but she is also one of the most beautiful women to have ever graced my eyesight she just clicked in the role and it worked wonderfully well h ctor jim nez who plays nacho s bumbling partner esqueleto kept me laughing continuously he did a very nice job and it was very effective when partnered with that of jack black s darius rose who plays an orphan named chancho didn t have many lines but what can i say i just enjoyed him he was adorable the rest of the cast did their job it is unfortunate that they were wasted on such a sub par movie nacho libre just does not work its plot is stretched far too thin the heart of it all is soiled by moronic humor and sickening jokes that just don t work i very rarely laughed and if i did it was because of jack black or another member of the cast and that leads me to the bright side of nacho libre yes the cast this cast was just well for lack of a better word they were on they all clicked had excellent chemistry together and pumped as much life as possible into the flat script after jared hess s napoleon dynamite kept me thoroughly entertained for the entirety of the movie i was surprised to find myself so often bored with nacho libre something was lost here and i have yet to understand what it was all i know is that nacho libre is not a good movie and yet because of its cast it is completely worthless there is a small reason to watch if only to watch jack black work but if you are not a fan of jack black then avoid this movie like the plague i like black but i am done with this movie and with this review final thought yikes this is jared hess s surprisingly disappointing follow up to his hysterical napoleon dynamite overall rating c,0
the dudes at mst k should see this dog of a film it s basically about a dopey hack actor in hollywood who can t land any acting gigs and he has this strange obsession with the movie taxi driver so what does this dumb actor do he dyes his hair blonde and starts acting like a l a surfer dude in the naive hope this will get him acting roles you ll laugh yer head off at so many of this movie s inadvertently funny scenes like when the actor dude s girlfriend is heart broken and sobbing and saying lines like how could you do this to me and why is she crying cos he dyed his hair blonde and became a surfer dude to get acting gigs this movie makes no sense at all the actor who played the governor on benson is in this too and he plays a stereotypical right wing politician with lotsa dumb funny dialog this movie will crack you up trust me you talking to me,0
my wife is a teacher and she is very familiar with the story having read it to several of her classes it never sounded all that interesting to me though and i bought the dvd figuring this would be a movie that wouldn t really be up my alley the first half of the movie has a lot of set up and i found myself thinking that i was right it starts off a bit slow and i have to admit that i was a little bit bored but curious enough to stay with it boy am i glad i did because this ended up being a very satisfying and rewarding movie i would most certainly watch this again the casting was very good since i haven t read the book i can t vouch for accuracy but i have to say that jon voight was truly delightful you liked the characters you were supposed to like hated the ones you were supposed to hate and laughed at the ones that were supposed to be funny i can see how some folks might not like this movie it is tedious at times especially in the beginning all the flashbacks can be distracting though they are essential to the story once the story starts to come together at the end though i think you re paid back in spades for your patience when all is said and done i think this is a very good movie,1
found this one in the video store and rented it it s one of those quirky quasi comedies that s more interesting and weird than funny it s a good one at that it reminds me a lot of being john malkovich if you enjoyed that movie you will most likely enjoy this one,1
me and my friend rented this movie for and we both agree on one thing this is the worst movie ever made also me and my friend counted face shots which makes up of the movie so in other words do see this movie unless you like wasting money and i do,0
in the standard view this is a purely awful movie however it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale i can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as i did watching this movie andy griffith s ghost dressed in native american garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime i wouldn t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it but if you happen to be laying on the couch at in the morning and it comes on tv check it out,0
let me first state that while i have viewed every episode of startrek at least twice i do not consider myself a trekker or trekkie those are people who live in their parents basement and attend conventions wearing costumes with pointed rubber ears i gave this movie a seven casting aside the fiction historical errors the acting was better than average but the plot held no surprises they tried very hard to reverse engineer the technology but still the special effects were just to great a temptation now as to the historical errors if you call them that the first capitan to pilot the enterprise was commander april then capt pike jim kirk etc according to a statement made by both riker and kirk we dicovered the klingons and educated them and gave them the technology that s the reason a prime directive was created but like i said these are no reason to discredit this fine series i hope the plots will get deeper and then special effects can take a backseat,1
i cant describe how terrible this movie is am i the only one here who finds the way its animated totaly disgusting the men of rohan look fake with their poorly colored hair that doesnt even come close to matching what the actors look like the orcs looked terrible why does gandalf walk with a bad limp why cant they pronounce things correctly saruman isnt aruman there were other what sounded like terrible pronounciation sp of tolkiens characters all and all im glad the studio who made this pulled the plug out from the sequal it was just a terrible terrible adaptaion go watch the hobbit cartoon for a better cartoon of tolkiens work hell even the cartoon version of rotk is better then this dribble,0
film makeovers of old tv shows seems to be the norm in hollywood these days but this disrespectful toilet humor do you kiss your mother with that mouth foul language rip off is a blatant middle finger to all dukes of hazzard fans both north and south of the mason dixon line from the opening sequence of bo and luke duke making a moonshine run for uncle jesse no shine running in the show because it would put the boys back in jail as a parole violation to the closing sequence of uncle jesse smoking weed with the governor of georgia uncle jesse was the moral compass despite his previous moonshining ways this disappointing waste of film is an open faced insult i can t tell you how many parents i saw get up and remove their children from the theater within the first minutes of the movie when they realized that they had been horribly deceived the original dukes of hazzard was a family show with basic moral values the original dukes of hazzard was a kid safe hemi powered show of fun that parents didn t have to worry about teaching their kids george carlin s seven words i have read reviews stating that the show and the movie are nothing but racist those commits might be correct about the movie those commits are absolutely incorrect about the show the show if anything was about how to get along and be friends with anyone hollywood has finally come out in the open about their disdain for those of us yankee rebel or otherwise who still believe in honor loyalty trust family and doing the right thing even if it is not the popular thing hollywood has finally brought to light its belief that those of us in the heartland are stupid uneducated beer swilling foul mouthed trash that will buy any piece of garbage they are willing to sell prove the hollywood elitist that they are wrong do not go see this movie boycott the sponsors fill warner bros email and snail mail boxes with complaints that we don t appreciate them destroying one of the greatest t v shows of all time save your money and buy the dvd s of the original show but whatever you do do not go see this movie,0
this film had so much promise i was very excited about this film in the end it was laughable at best painful at worst the acting styles ran the gamut from really really flat the angels the wife and daughter to over animated casper s character i felt that the dialogue was just an attempt to transfer information to the audience instead of real people trying to talk to each other pay special attention to the scene regarding the bug it s pretty much an insult to the audience s ability to figure things out in defense of that scene though it got the biggest laugh of the whole movie i had read that they spent alot of money traveling to various overseas locations too bad they didn t make use of it i didn t feel like i was transported to exotic locations anybody could insert stock footage of the coliseum in rome however to end on a positive note i thought the sets were pretty good i really liked the graphics that were displayed on the decoding computers it is my opinion and that s all it is that if the schmaltz factor would have been much much lower and the action factor would have been greatly increased this film would have been good,0
me and my sister have right now watch that movie we have laugh to the deaf can u imagine on covers there is nomination for oscar first musician have mix about different style of music and the music is not synchronized with the scenes and the character moves main character silvester do not fit in there he look like mexican tarzan russian soldiers are everything but not russian faces ok the main points airplane called charter painted in black what is an idea when rambo go to jump from the airplane but he stuck rope mix a girl the best scene is when she dies she means a lot to him he knows her for ages he cries for her o my god samurai how many arrows is he got his arrow bag is always full of the arrows i didn t notice a scene where he collect them but i have seen the scene where arrow stay in the vietnam solder head that is very important how many rockets helicopter can hold real one i have seen but rambos have hit about of them the main part what the russian special army helicopters do in vietnam after the war first scene when he enter into vietnam s camp his first idea was to liberate the refuge who is standing on the tree on the open space wow what an idea than again with the knife u can cut the iron wire maybe only made in vietnam mortar using for hit one running man o my god u americans really need to learn about the weapons do u know how much it takes to calibrate the mortar i think writer have been watching to much movies from ii world war,0
possible spoilers the spy who shagged me is a muchly overrated and over hyped sequel international man of mystery came straight out of the blue it was a lone star that few people had heard of but it was stunningly original had sophisticated humour and ample humour always kept in good taste and had a brilliant cast the spy who shagged me was a lot more commercially advertised and hyped about ok i ll admit the first time i saw this film i thought it was very funny but it s only after watching it two or three times that you see all the flaws the acting was ok but heather graham cannot act her performance didn t seem very convincing and she wasn t near as good as liz hurley was in the first one those characters who bloomed in the first one scott evil number etc are thrown into the background hear and don t get many stand alone scenes the film is simply overrun with cameos in particular i hated the way they totally disregarded some of the scenes in imom when they killed off vanessa at the start and had basil sat that he knew she was a fembot all along what was the point of that they killed off number in the first one and now they bring him back with no explanation whatsoever this is supposed to be a spy spoof i don t think any of the characters even hold a gun in the film it just goes on a trail further and further away from the point the new characters are very unwelcome the whole mini me `make fun of my size joke gets old very quickly fat bastard is just a lame excuse for gross out humour in total there s about two or three good jokes the rest are either tasteless or rehashed from imom if this were the first movie of the series then i d probably be easier on it but the series started on a note of dry wit and then plummeted down to a level of gross out humour so i say only watch this film if you haven t seen its predecessor because the spy who shagged me is one ultimate disappointment,0
how do comments like the one that was the headline by high school girls even make it on this site this was the stupidest movie i have ever seen it was ridiculous how can any moron sit there and say that just because a movie makes you jump it is a good movie that might be the most idiotic thing i have ever heard i could sneak up behind you and go boo and it would make you jump but that does not mean i am qualified to write or direct a movie not to mention they tied everything together at the end is not a good reason for a movie to be well received what kind of movie would it be if they didn t tie everything together i guess that would make it half a movie not a whole movie so basically this idiot girl is complimenting them for finishing the movie well i love how the youth of today hold the media and production companies to such a high standard no wonder the political system of this country can get away with whatever they want we have idiots like that coming up in our country what would happen if this girl actually ends up leading something someday that is a scary thought get a life and go watch a real movie sometime try shawshank redemption or on the waterfront or something like that and don t comment that it was boring after you see it just use what little brain god gave you to analyze it a little,0
let s be honest as a film school project made without budget and real actors this is a passably interesting film as something to be released on dvd for an innocent viewer it s a very poorly produced product if i would be idly changing channels and happened to catch this film accidentally it would probably arrest my eye and attention for a while as a person who bought this dvd under the impression that i would be getting a proper cinematic product i e a film i feel deeply disappointed it s a videotaped tv play something along the line of old sixties serials but without that certain charm aside from the leading man mr redfield who also is the director the other actors seem to be either chaps from the campus a bit too old for that actually or members of the director s household who appear before the camera without any help from not only the acting couches but also the make up artist or hairdresser a bonnet over outgrown permanent bangs or a top hat over mullet is a very long way from creating s it s all shot using a motionless mounted camera in a small bare studio sometimes using blue screen for outdoors backgrounds synthesizer generated uninspired score of lame period inspired romantic karaoke insults the viewers ears on more than one occasion the film attempts to be dreamlike whereas in fact it s merely conceptionless collage of those shots that made it to the editing and believe me the standards weren t too high to start with there are interesting dialogs every now and then but overall it s pretty lame and two dimensional production in more than one way with no flashes of genius from either the director or any members of the crew that s how artsy films attempted to look in the s mr redfield does a much better job as an actor than the director,0
it s unlikely that anyone except those who adore silent films will appreciate any of the lyrical camera work and busy but scratchy background score that accompanies this release although sound came into general use in there are no more than fifty words spoken to tell the story of a woman unhappily married who deserts her husband for a younger man after a romantic interlude in the woods the most vividly photographed scene has the jealous husband giving a lift to the young man for a ride into town proceeding to drive normally until he realizes the man is his wife s lover in a frenzy of jealousy he drives at top speed toward a railroad crossing but changes his mind at the last moment losing his nerve it s probably the most tension filled scene in the otherwise decidedly slow moving and obviously contrived story hedy lamarr is given the sort of close up treatment lavished on marlene dietrich by her discoverer but her beauty had not yet been refined by the cosmeticians as they were when she was transported to hollywood her performance consists mostly of looking sad and morose while mourning the loss of her marriage with only brief glimpses of a smile when she finds her true love aribert mog the handsome young stud who retrieves her clothes after a nude swim the swimming scene is very brief discreetly photographed and not worth all the heat it apparently generated the love making scene later on is also artfully photographed with the sort of lyrical photography evident throughout most of the film artfully so more is left to the imagination with the use of symbolism and this is the sort of thing that has others proclaiming the film is some kind of lyrical masterpiece not so it s disappointing primitively crude in its sound portions including the laborious symphonic music in the background and certainly miss lamarr is fortunate that louis b mayer saw the film and on the basis of it gave her a career in hollywood he must have seen something in her work that i didn t it s apparent that this was conceived as a silent film with the camera doing all the work the jarring workers scene at the conclusion goes on for too long and is a jarring intrusion where none is needed it fails to end the film on the proper note,0
while i totally disagree with one reviewer who described charley chase as unfunny in this film he certainly is it s a shame as i suspect the other reviewer must have only seen a few charley chase duds and assumed the guy wasn t funny films like mighty like a moose and what price goofy are very good chase films so he could be really funny given good material unfortunately in this film he s given absolutely nothing even the inclusion of the usually good oliver hardy as a foil isn t any help because the basic premise boy wants to marry girl but girl s father thinks the boy is a wuss and the gags are so poor it s a shame as i really wanted to love this film but couldn t by the way for those used to the look for charley from the mid s on you ll be pretty surprised as chase sports no glasses or mustache and looks very little like you d expect,0
naturally i didn t watch gi jane out of choice i was more or less forced to watch this film round my ex girlfriends house gi jane loses its credibility straight away by trying to convince the viewer that it is potentially a real scenario which of course it isn t the result of this is that the story becomes automatically bound by constraints restricting the amount of humour of which there is none or entertaining action scenes and soon becomes too serious the film therefore becomes extremely boring and predictable gi jane fails where other action films succeed mainly because films such as james bond dirty harry and various others are larger than life yet never proclaim to be otherwise they are escapism and therefore entertaining gi jane tries to be real and fails this is a very disappointing film from ridley scott with a very non credible storyline unremarkable acting and the only reason i give it instead of is for some of the technical work,0
i don t know where to begin so i ll begin with a snippet from the back of the cover of this movie alive combines the tension of vincenzo natali s cube with kitamura s own versus i have not seen versus so i can t comment on that but i think cube was an excellent movie which i recommend to everyone however in this case someone has clearly confused tension with boredom i ll just go ahead and spoil the entire plot because besides being one holy swiss cheese of a plot it s also moldy cheese and the movie is not worth spending any time on even if you don t know the plot beforehand so it doesn t matter if i have misunderstood the plot don t hit me it s probably because i had to struggle to keep my eyelids open so the american military in nevada once lost a ufo i the nambi desert this apparently makes sense because they re both deserts so surely they re practically the same place different continents or not a monkey broke into the ufo and acquired an alien something which was passed on to a japanese researcher who had to eat the monkey to survive in the desert what ever the alien thing is now passed on to anyone who s bloodthirsty enough to kill the current host the japanese military wants to use it for military stuff so they decide to make it pass from the current host the researcher s daughter to some other dude but instead of just picking someone out of the military which is full of people who are bloodthirsty and already on the military s side they decide that it s probably a good idea to pick some criminal out of death row instead oh and the reason they pick this particular criminal from death row is because he was the first person in history to not die from the non lethal electric shock which is the standard execution method because everyone dies from the placebo effect when they get electrocuted i don t know if they do this so they can giggle in the staff room at how everyone dies even though it s not deadly or if they just want to cut down the electricity bill then the movie turns into what the matrix would have been if it had been really lame and superfluous fighting bores us to tears for what feels like an hour and oh wait now they remember that they already had a dude who was infected with the alien thing so the entire movie up to this point was actually a totally waste of time and also human lives then everyone dies the end the only one moment in the movie where i didn t want to go away and sleep or eat a sandwich instead was when a dude was pinned to a wall by a pipe through his chest and he s hanging around up there and another dude walks by the dude hanging on the wall says i m in pain shoot me and the living dude looks at him and it s not like he s a mean dude or anything so he really looks sorrowful and doesn t want the guy on the wall to suffer so he shoots him rhetorical pause in the stomach gee thanks a freakin heap,0
whoa boy ever wanted to watch a documentary about a megalomaniacal jerk ruining his own life and alienating everyone around him well they exist in many forms but have you ever wanted to watch said documentary about one who didn t ultimately succeed in doing anything despite everyone s praises about how much of an artistic genius he is well you could probably just grab a camera and find someone like that in any local scene i know they re everywhere and i don t even follow the local scene or you could save yourself the trouble by spending money watching this tripe the premise is good and honestly it s not as if the filmmakers knew precisely where it was going considering that s one of the difficulties of doing a documentary we are made to follow two bands the brian jamestown massacre lead by anton and the dandy warhols lead by courtney i ve heard of the dandy warhols before watching this movie not so the brian jamestown massacre why well from this documentary s perspective because the brian jamestown massacre s intergroup dysfunction refused them the ability to really make it in the music industry however instead of this becoming an analysis of the two separate bands and how one was able to succeed the focus becomes much more on anton and his insanity because see anton is a genius because he plays rock music he really understands the evolution of music because he plays rock music with a lot of different instruments his music is considered post modern retro but the future because it s rock music he wants to bring out a revolution through rock music okay so let s face it twenty minutes in and this is one of the stupidest kids i d care to watch a documentary about the documentary itself doesn t really lend itself to showcasing any of anton s talent because in the nature of editing down hours of material into a quarter short of two hours we don t really have the time to focus on that so instead we watch anton the genius the socio maniacal loser be a jerk for the two hours and are just told to understand that he made really great music whether he did or not i won t know because its not like the documentary had enough time to prove it what i do know is that then we re left with a story about some self centered obnoxious twerp running around the country calling himself a god of music and doing nothing to back it up why even bother watching that people like anton don t deserve the attention they seek the hope and admiration of all those different people and especially a post failure paean to lost potential this movie plays like a two hour rough cut vh special for a reason he goes on and on about the music but it s all about the image and the attention look at the guy look at how he dresses look at how he acts look at how he tries to create controversy because he can t afford marketing honestly the only interesting character in this film is joel and that s because of anyone in this documentary joel is the only person who seems to have any fun maybe it s because he s the tambourine man the rest of them are all rock stars they deserve our attention and admiration and interest and engagements they are out there to save rock and roll do you remember when the white stripes were supposed to save rock and roll yeah that was because of anton and it s selfish of them not to mention me anton as an inspiration what a load people like anton are best left forgotten this documentary explains why mainstream music is so dull because music execs have to deal with people like anton for a living and ultimately can only really throw their support behind someone safe and passionless thanks a lot anton your antics ruined music for everyone you touched whatever the opinion to the contrary is and if people in the know about anton disagree and he really was a genius it still shows how bad this documentary is that it cuts it down that way polarisdib,0
linda lovelace was the victim of a sadistic woman hater chuck traynor i don t understand how having sex with a dog which is animal abuse as well can be found to be entertaining or funny linda lovelace was a virtual prisoner who was coerced into making these films i know some people will criticize this comment but i feel strongly that these types of films fuel the fire of hatred and further misogynistic feelings towards women this society continues to portray women as sexual objects as opposed to human beings we call ourselves civilized however i feel we have a long way to go before we can ever scratch the surface of being civilized,0
this movie is an insult to all submariners it was stupid it appeared to have been written by monkeys the acting was absurd if this is the view most people have of the navy then i weep for our defense this movie was awful i put it below voyage to the bottom of the sea as far as submarine movies go gene hackman must have really needed rent money to do this crap denzel washington must have been high little in the plot makes any sense and the ending for a mutineer to be rewarded for his crime only hollywood would think of this garbage if you haven t figured it out yet i didn t like it and if it wasn t for all the pro comments i would not have bothered to post,0
cinderella is a beautiful young woman who is treated cruelly by her wicked stepmother and stepsisters one day a ball is to be held in honor of the prince but cinderella has no chance of going because her stepmother and stepsisters won t let her with the help of her fairy godmother and her animal friends she is off to the ball with the warning to return home by midnight at the ball she meets the handsome prince charming when the clock strikes midnight she runs home leaving behind one of her glass slippers with the help of her animal friends her true identity is revealed she and the prince later get married and they live happily ever after cinderella released years ago was a huge box office success and it continues to charm audiences to this day it has a well written script the characters are memorable the songs including a dream is a wish your heart makes so this is love and the great bibbidi bobbidi boo help tell the story this was my favorite movie growing up and it hasn t lost any of its charm a true disney masterpiece recommended p s the recent dvd release is the best way to appreciate this film including featurettes deleted scenes music video vintage radio programs and a restored print of the movie,1
the first time i saw this i didn t laugh too much at the time i was only about fifteen years old and thought that maybe some of the deeper humor was too mature for me to understand at the time i had the same reaction when i viewed it a second time a few months ago and this time it was because felix s aborted suicide attempt at the beginning of the movie kind of darkened the movie a bit this scene made some of the things oscar said and did to felix later in the movie seem needlessly cruel and their personality clashes weren t as amusing as they could have been had i not already known the story i would have been worried that some of oscar s antics to felix might push him over the edge as it was it didn t make me laugh or smile like the television show with jack klugman and tony randall did still all in all a pretty good movie and it spawned one of the greatest sitcoms on television out of,1
this isn t a bad movie but it s the type your girlfriend makes you watch the story isn t bad it just makes the hour and a half seem so long it s hard for me to trash this movie because i really do like the idea of it but it was just to long and thin on story too bad the main character never really seems to change all that much from beginning to end i mean goes through something life changing and he can barely break a smile i really thought mac was really good his weird quirkiness kept the movie from being a complete disaster maybe i just don t get this film if anyone can explain it to me i d love to be informed,0
those of you who like me were disappointed with the original horror yarn the fear will find more to be disappointed with in this silly little sequel it sort of follows a similar plot but it is impossible to connect to the original with the exception of the presence of morty the mannequin monster made of wood here is a brief overview twenty years after mike hawthorne gordon currie in a decent performance witnesses his father brutally murder his mother and then take his own life mike is still suffering from the fear of that day in hopes of ridding his fear mike takes his girlfriend and a bunch of friends up to his grandparents home his plan is for everyone to dress up in costumes that represent their fears and then present the fears to the mannequin morty according to an indian friend this process is supposed to magically take away one s fear what mike doesn t know is that morty is possessed with his father s spirit and begins killing off the friends or is it really mike himself doing the killings who cares a have a few troubles with this film the first lies with morty i thought the original made morty look rather convincing this time it is painfully obvious morty is a man actor jon fedele in a fake looking suit this can especially be seen in early scenes where morty is still supposed to be inanimate but if you watch closely you can see him blinking another trouble is that most of the characters don t try hard enough some of them do namely betsy palmer of friday the th fame who was excellent in this film but most of them don t make the effort or weren t given the chance finally there are the killings the opening scenes involving ax murders were very convincing actually when i saw them i thought i was in for a good movie when the second half of the movie arrives and the killings really start everything falls to pieces deaths are either uncreative unseen or foreseen glimpses of the next scene as currie has a blackout one character dies in the end and no one including the viewer even notices while more characterization was needed in the beginning half it wasn t too bad the second half was i think new director chris angel got to this point and really didn t know how to shoot the violent scenes so they turned out real sloppy and pedestrian a silly ending doesn t help either thus unless you really loved the original and enjoy plucking splinters out from under your skin you should probably skip the fear halloween night zanatos score out of,0
my life is about saving animals i do volunteer work with a cat rescue organization i am a vegetarian because i couldn t kill an animal even to sustain my life i can t even kill a spider i put it outdoors the scene where the children throw rocks at the bird until it dies with sooner participating in an attempt to be accepted by the other children made me sick and has haunted me ever since it simply convinces me that human beings are pathetic in their need for acceptance the ending the foster parents adopt sooner does not redeem the depiction of animal cruelty why would anyone want their child to see this film,0
a famous conductor decides after a heart attack to go back to the village where he was born to live a quiet life there he comes in dutch with the local church choir that will change his life i had no expectations when i saw this movie for the first time yesterday i like watching foreign movies that are not english and i ve already seen a couple of swedish movies in my life but this one was the best so far where to start in my opinion this film is a jewel thanks to many things of which one is the outstanding acting michael nyqvist is perfect as the thoughtful almost shy and devoted conductor daniel dar us beautiful frida hallgren is enchanting with her pretty smile and her subtle acting the choir members are all well developed interesting characters with their own story each this movie tells a story a beautiful story about music love pain memories death about a man who devoted his life to music and who tries to create a calm existence in the village where he was born while trying to make peace with the past and with the way his life has been till then kay pollack shows us that the swedish are outstanding movie creators go see s som i himmelen it s a movie that makes you think about life and love and that s also comforting in some way,1
i haven t yet read kurt vonnegut s mother night though i ve read other books of his all outstanding pieces of satire and game changing novel pieces after seeing keith gordon s film adaptation of his book it will be an immediate must read in the near future it s the kind of material that i m sure if it wasn t made in as a film it would be picked up right away today in the time period when many period post present holocaust ww movies are quite popular except that this is much darker though even more resonant about the nature of playing roles and the real underlying horror of living with life after war than say the reader it s about the very real danger of pretending in wartime which is what being a spy in ww is really all about it would be one thing if mother night had a script with a lot of emotional depth and complexity about the moral choice and constant role even after the war ends for howard w cambpell nick nolte which is does but it s also just a really strong feat of cinematic technique keith gordon is not someone i usually think of as a director of really strong material more so i think back to him as an actor oddly enough featured briefly with vonnegut himself in back to school but this is a revelation he takes the story of campbell as a story of a fractured life a german propaganda master the only american left in berlin who is actually a spy for the americans but can never have his identity revealed and was before a playwright who really belonged to a nation of two himself and his wife sheryl lee it follows him from his prison cell awaiting trial in israel in as he writes his memoir and tells of his disillusionment about being a pretend nazi and then in in semi hiding in a new york apartment which is where the bulk of the film takes place mother night can be quite heavy like on a level one might associate with the pianist but on another more emotional cerebral level than the stark poetry of that film gordon by way of vonnegut is trying to give us a strong look at a man who has nothing except the memory and then later a weird transposition of his long lost love in a sister who has come back to him in nyc so he s left to his own devices when he befriends a painter alan arkin very very good here and then is found out as a nazi in hiding by a white supremacist newsletter leading wackos to his apartment on the surface this should be just a straightforward spy story but not a thing is straightforward the something of this man s life is staggering but it s ultimately of his own choosing campbell is one of those characters that could be analyzed for hours on end but the same conclusions might be reached and in a way mirrors the line goebbels said the bigger the lie the more people believe it that is except for the select few who started the lie and know its secret and power but oh it would be one thing if it were just a wonderful and tragic comic tale or another if it were featuring some really fantastic performances which is does nolte is at his very best here and sheryl lee who we might remember from twin peaks as laura palmer stuns in multiple roles especially in the scene when she reveals she s not really helga it s also a gorgeously shot film with brilliant lighting and shots that reflect the state of mind of the character or just the starkness or sickening colors of the time watch the scene where an old campbell watches a film of his younger self spouting out a rant the juxtaposition of faces is great and the music selections rise the level of tragedy it could be argued some of the music is too much but at other times it elevates the material past its own usual dramatic dimensions and makes it operatic solemn about human nature it s not always an easy film to take emotionally and some of the twists do have that tinge of whoa as in any spy story but it s the subversion from vonnegut that sticks through the way of taking appearance and performance of life imitating art imitating life imitating death and making it into something worth remembering i have no idea just yet if the book is better than the film or the other way around but at the moment it s hard for me not to recommend this to anyone looking for a masterpiece of post ww holocaust storytelling,1
david mackenzie s follow up to the brilliant young adam wants to be a feel good underdog story of a lonely voyeur who is trying to confront some psycho sexual issues with his dead mother it wants to be gritty realistic and mysterious at the same time it wants to be funny and nonjudgmental of its disturbed lead as he establishes himself as an adult to meet this end the film tries hard to be youthful its poster has hand drawn letters looking like that of juno its original soundtrack is comprised of fast paced indie rock which tries to convince the audience that hallam is ok just a little misguided but strangely the film is anything but youthful like young adam this film s central mystery concerns a drowned woman in this case hallam s mother young adam keeps its mystery quiet contemplative and paced well enough to hit you with the truths as they come hallam foe does the opposite it foregrounds its character s psychosis so clearly and so early that he never really does anything outside his expected parameters the opening scene is hallam in his treehouse watching his sister fooling around with her boyfriend hallam swiftly interrupts asserting his presence in the household here we see everything that hallam will do for the rest of the movie the mystery surrounding his mother s drowning is whether it was suicide or murder by his father s girlfriend the audience can never really trust hallam because besides being creepy we think his obsession has led him close to insanity this hindered the mystery element for me because hallam is too sporadic to be relatable right when he s found some clues that would support his claim he runs away from home at first it appearing to be looking for the police then he gets extremely sidetracked by a girl who resembles his mother which frustratingly leads the story away from the mystery element while jamie bell does bring out some very endearing traits in his lost character he was limited by the obviousness of his psychological needs this movie is in no way mysterious yet it is not blunt either it tries to be realistic in dealing with such issues but it adds a very self conscious spunk which registers itself as quite the opposite it goes for a soundtrack heavy trainspotting attitude to help the audience root for a protagonist who scales buildings picks locks and camps out for the sake of voyeurism these urban peeping tom adventures hallam engages in are way too difficult for an inward drawn country boy to engage in and they are not sexy giddy or pleasant they are more neutral than anything not propelling the character or story mackenzie makes you understand hallam yet he fails to build common ground he expects you to enjoy hallam s trials and tribulations without much ideological justification the film hinges on its audience s perspective on voyeurism the kind of person who engages in it obviously most people would be disgusted by it and hallam foe realizes that but it does not let us see hallam weigh the morality of his decisions he goes from person to person trying to fill his deep void there is a particularly disturbing line from hallam s love interest kate where she drunkenly says i love creepy boys perhaps asking the audience to do the same the line tries to foreshadow her understanding of him her motivation remains vague throughout and tries to further us from judging him it s not hard to like hallam but it is very hard to participate in his adventure if it is even an adventure at all all the while the film tries to use its flamboyant soundtrack to mask its indecisive mood great performances are weighed down by a film with a weak third act muddy development and needlessly ambiguous direction from mackenzie recently this film was re named for a us release and for what reason not only is it more unappealing but the hard truth is that the hallam character never earns the title mister,0
this is a movie i had never even thought of seeing until my year old spotted it at the video store and grabbed it after liking the cover picture of the animals on nabooboo island we got it and have watched it repeatedly since in fact we ve rented it several times since there are very few non animated movies that my son will watch and pay attention to what a nice change from dumbo and the little mermaid the acting is outstanding the songs are compelling they get deep into your head and you can t help but singing along the storyline while specifically about ww is timeless in it s own way and there is something new to see every time you watch i ve heard it compared to mary poppins but i think they are two very different movies both excellent but somehow my son has no interest at all in mary poppins this is one of those movies that kids will want to watch over and over again and one that parents won t mind complying with there are days we watch it before nap time and bed time and i don t feel that groan coming that comes when he wants to repeat any other movie,1
this is one of my all time favorite films and while it may move too slowly for some it s well worth seeing a corporate lawyer richard chamberlain is dragged into a case involving city aborigines and this is no ordinary case ok a man has died but it wasn t exactly a normal killing there has also been a greater than average amount of rain lately and the atmosphere of most of the film is somewhat claustrophobic oppressive the aborigines are harboring a secret and refuse to spill the beans this has a lot to do with white men making assumptions about city vs tribal aborigines and of course no abo in the big city would practice tribal ways uh huh chamberlain is having strange dreams and he is somehow the key to what s happening although no matter how many times i ve seen this i can t quite grasp the exact connection this is a very eerie and creepy film and is a fine example of peter weir s ability to create tension out of nothing the ending is a little ambiguous but i take it literally it s the easiest way out and the scariest out of and highly recommended,1
although this show has been off the air since after viewing a dvd set i borrowed at our library i felt compelled to say a bit about it i can remember when it was the only color show on television in the s and sometimes there would be a little sunday night party with friends to watch this on nbc on one of the few color televisions i really enjoy history not so much for the names and dates but how it influences us today and how so much can be so profound based on the most inconsequential actions of the time case in point virginia city nevada which became one of the richest cities in the world because of the silver got its name from a character named old virginny who in the town s early days stumbled out of a saloon fell and broke his whiskey bottle old virginny didn t want to waste the occasion so as the precious liquid was seeping into the dirt he decided to christen the town virginia town the area became known as the comstock lode because another character henry comstock had the reputation of trying to jump everyone s claim and the area became known as the comstock lode i just watched an early episode that dealt with these subjects other episodes dealt with mark twain s literary rise while a reporter for the territorial enterprise it was wholesome and frequently educational family entertainment as someone else remarked each episode would really be considered a movie in its own right rich scripts and characters one thing it twisted the truth on was the proximity to virginia city and the ponderosa in truth to ride from the ponderosa all of northern lake tahoe one would have to ride his horse about feet meters down the spooner summit to the high desert feet of the carson valley then another miles to virginia city needless to say the cartwrights would have some sore rear ends doing this on a regular basis but every writer should have some leeway with the truth how i miss that show even today,1
spoilers in first paragraph this movie s anti german sentiment seems painfully dated now but it s a brilliant example of great war time propaganda it was made back when cecil b demille was still a great director ignore all his later best picture academy awards he never made a very good sound film this movie lacks the comedy of most of pickford s other films and really it was demille s movie not pickford s the vilification of the germans can be compared to the way the patriot of did the same to the british the only good german in the film was a reluctant villain who had the ironic name of austreheim they even had pickford take an ill fated trip on a luxury ship that gets torpedoed by a german submarine so what ll get the americans more stirred up to war the sinking of the lusitania or watching america s favorite canadian import sinking in it all throughout the film demille runs his protagonist from one kind of horrible calamity to another barely escaping death hypothermia depravity rape execution and explosions that go off in just the right place to keep her unharmed the way she is saved from a firing squad is no more believable than the way the humans in jurassic park were ultimately rescued from the velociraptors if i was any more gullible to such propaganda i would punish myself for having a part german ancestry was it a good film aside from a humorous running gag about americans abroad thinking they re untouchable that was apparently a joke even back then you might not be entertained you ll find it more than a little melodramatic and obviously one sided but the first thing that came to my mind after watching it is that it was years before potemkin s false portrayal of a massacre revolutionized the language of cinema as well as a movie s potential for propaganda it made me wonder what became of cecil b demille somewhere between the advent of sound and the greatest show on earth he seemed to lose his ambition ben hur looked expensive but not ambitious in a sentence this movie is for film historians silent film buffs mary pickford fans or demille fans if such a person exists,1
masters of horror the screwfly solution starts as america is being infected by an airborne virus that affects the male population when aroused men indiscriminately kill any woman in sight apparently in the name of god scientist alan jasn priestley is brought in by the government knows more than most senses the situation may have gone too far already so he tells his wife anne kerry norton to take their teenage daughter amy brenna o brien try to survive as the future of the human race may depend on them this canadian american co production was episode from season of the masters of horrror tv series directed by joe dante i thought the screwfly solution was pretty bad i personally think the script by sam hamm sucks it takes itself far too seriously i don t really understand why it s part of the masters of horror series the horror that the filmmakers are going for in the screwfly solution is in the actual story itself themes ideas it brings up rather than on screen visual horror particularly the tenuous ecological message it sees intent on ramming down our throats whenever it s gets the chance during it s short odd minute running time which i felt itself was a problem as the thing just finishes out of what could easily be interpreted as necessity rather than any meaningful attempt to wrap things up i wasn t happy with the inconsistencies with the story either if men only kill when sexually aroused why does the flight attendant casually break that woman s neck on the plane was he sexually aroused i think not why does every bloke then think he s killing in the name of god i just can t see every single bloke on earth suddenly knowing the bible starting to believe in god i just found the notion ridiculous the show also states clearly that there s nothing religious about what s going on so what s the deal with everyone thinking they have a divine to murder any woman they see then there s the fact people get turned on by different things what about gays for instance will they kill guys instead of women i know there s a brief scene which makes a joke out of the gay issue but it s conveniently brushed to one side then there s the thing which annoyed me the most the fact that presumably every bloke on earth has turned psycho killed all the women they go about their everyday business like nothing ever happened it just felt so stupid the plotting is rubbish to round things off there s a ending which looks like it was taken from a rejected episode of the x files with a bright neon alien director dante on this showing definitely doesn t qualify as a master of horror as far a i m concerned the story is badly paced it s just so stupid considering it s played deadly straight instead of trying to make a proper horror show he turns in more of a thriller with it s deadly virus on the loose situation the subsequent mother daughter on the run because of it there s very little here in the way of what i would call effective horror even less gore there s a scene when a woman is stabbed with a broken bottle a brief scene after when a guy stabs his own groin with said bottle another woman is stabbed in the stomach but nothing else to write home about technically like the other episodes it s really good it doesn t have the look of a cheap tv series the special effects are great as usual it s well made the acting is alright but no one really stood out the screwfly solution is easily the worst masters of horror episode i ve seen but bear in mind i haven t seen all of them yet as a stand alone piece of entertainment it did nothing for me as a show made by a so called master of horror it disappoints me even more,0
this docu drama is what you would expect from richard attenborough the man who gave us gandhi beautifully photographed compellingly casted well written in the measured literate manner that hollywood discarded in the s and scrupulously accurate it stands out as a genre film excelling in its portrayal of native american or more appropriately for its canadian setting first nations culture and standing with black robe as a wonderfully photographed piece of canoe country and its culture here circa this idyllic portrait derives drama from its subject archie grey owl belaney a scot raised in hastings england by maiden aunts who became so obsessed with the red indian tales of his childhood that he went to canada disappeared into the woods and became a trapper and adopted son of an ojibway band he was a vain man with a habit of marrying and abandoning indian brides none of whom seem to have thought less of him for it for he was also an extraordinarily charming and picaresque character one of his wives one smarter than he by most accounts propelled him into fame as a writer and early advocate for protecting the wild country of the north and this forms the focus of attenborough s tale the chemistry between brosnan and annie galipeau as grey owl s wife pony is engaging and if not firey is nonetheless quite touching a good film when you need some time from the madding crowd,1
this film seems to be a rip off of many movies that have dealt with the same subject in the past let the future viewer be forewarned that art heist doesn t add anything to the genre director bryan goeres has no clue what to do with the film william baldwin keeps reappearing in films and frankly one wonders if he has a great agent or is it that directors and producers love his unusual goofy looks complimented by that strange hairdo he sports in most of his movies the only good movie in which he has appeared is the squid and the whale in which he only speaks two or three lines ellen pompeo his leading lady doesn t fare much better there is no chemistry between ms pompeo and mr baldwin a movie to be seen at the viewer s own risk,0
this film has to be the worst i have ever seen the title of the film deceives the audience into thinking there maybe hope the story line of the film is laughable at best with the acting so poor you just have to cringe the title zombie nation implies a hoard of zombies when in fact there are six in total this cannot be categorised as a horror film due to the introduction of cheesy s music when the zombies attack the zombies actually talk and act like human beings in the film with the only difference being the make up which looks like something out a la roux video if you ever get the chance to buy this film then do so then burn the copy,0
first off let me say that i am a great believer in fanpro stuff i see it as a way to continue a good show long after it has been cancelled star trek voyages and star wars revelations are examples of decent efforts so i have a soft spot for fanpro stuff that means i ll overlook things that i would ordinarily slate badly so on to st hf well first off the good things enthusiasm is a major part of making any show believable and for the most part the crew of the various ships all seem to be having a good time with their roles next the effects aren t bad for a home brew effort with nothing to make you really wince the stories aren t too bad either nothing particularly innovative but solid enough stuff and at least there are ongoing story arcs but it has a lot of faults first off although they quite obviously have to rip off star trek footage set backdrops music and effects i see no reason why they proceeded to rip off virtually every other sci fi musical score ever made everything from aliens to starship troopers rears it orchestral head at one point or another likewise much of the footage is from other movies dutifully cgi d over to make it look different the grey warships for instance though disguised are quite obviously star destroyers from star wars and the station is also rather obviously fleet battle station ticonderoga from starship troopers likewise sound effects from various star wars movies appear in space battles between fighters as does animated over footage in one scene in either first or second season i think you even see two tie fighters fly past during a battle which hardly does your suspension of disbelief any favours acting varies from the reasonable to the hideously painful to watch everyone does improve as the seasons progress though but expect to grimace at the screen a lot especially in the early seasons they ve also made some interesting acting choices let s just say that the food replicators on this show seem permanently set to cake and leave it at that make up effects are generally quite effective on the whole but they really ought to mercilessly club to death the person who decided to use cheap ferengi and cardassian masks for anything other than background use or passing shots they are just beyond unrealistic every time i saw one of these apart from trying not to laugh too much i kept expecting the unfortunate soul wearing it to pull out a gun and announce that this is a stick up in one scene a cardassian actually talks whilst wearing one of these not only do the lips not move but the mask doesn t even have an opening where the mouth should be someone needs to be slapped hard for that couldn t they have taken a craft knife to it for goodness sake there are also some well done but unintentionally funny make up jobs such as the herman munster look alike the writing though coherent is nothing new instead the script runs like a continuation of ds with the ships heading out from ds on various missions the new enemy the grey aren t very menacing and the plot line involving them is effectively a reworking of the borg threads i e starfleet meet the grey the grey are hugely powerful starfleet barely escape with their lives then through technology they begin to find ways to combat the enemy etc etc all done before with the borg another bone of contention is the dialogue star trek writers have long had the ability to write insert technobabble here into a script it usually means an exposition of the latest plan to combat the enemy using quantum phase discriminators or isolytic charges etc in other words nonsense that tells you that they are on the case and a resolution is at hand the words are just gibberish really i ve no problem with this but where st hf makes a mess of it is where they include real world comments into this concept tactical advice such as we need to regroup sounds good but not when uttered by trio of characters already standing in a group likewise when asked what the situation is a tactical officer is heard to reply we count three battleships he actually needed to count them c mon i expected the questioner to ask him are you sure or can you double check but my all time favourite comment is this captain can we establish two way communication comms officer no we can only send and receive well duh having said all the above the show does improve as it goes along seasons and are pretty bad shows an improvement but are where it starts to get noticeably better season so far looks quite reasonable i do have a problem with their choice of media for the shows though quicktime sucks quite frankly and the sooner they move to divx avi format the better some of us like to actually take our downloaded shows and watch them on decent size screen and not peer at a tiny qt window on a computer monitor not only does quicktime make this difficult but the x resolution the shows are in does not scale at all well in fact it makes the shows pretty unwatchable like they were a tenth generation vhs tape copy the least they could do was to include a hi res downloadable option anyway the show has promise and i m even beginning to like some of the characters but that s episodes on so i m not sure this says that much about character development at all but what can you say it s free ps out of votes people rated this show as a or hmmmm were we watching the same show or are you all three year olds,0
a movie that makes you want to throw yourself on a sword i ve seen schlock in my time but after viewing the wretched mess i don t think i can ever watch a another movie again may god pity the souls who made this premise ex army quiet stud underwear model type character well acted actually goes looking for the girl who sent him a xmas card while serving in the military lands in with her cabin living granola type family who are right wing loggers family takes to him and it takes hours of our time for the chick to see he s a better catch than her liberal looking french wine drinking porsche driving loud cell phone talking lazy city slicking jewish looking fianc the bad d characters d themes being beat over the head with the pro military theme ed asner the good commercial breaks were long peter jason it ended,0
every once in a long while a movie will come along that will be so awful that i feel compelled to warn people if i labor all my days and i can save but one soul from watching this movie how great will be my joy where to begin my discussion of pain for starters there was a musical montage every five minutes there was no character development every character was a stereotype we had swearing guy fat guy who eats donuts goofy foreign guy etc the script felt as if it were being written as the movie was being shot the production value was so incredibly low that it felt like i was watching a junior high video presentation have the directors producers etc ever even seen a movie before halestorm is getting worse and worse with every new entry the concept for this movie sounded so funny how could you go wrong with gary coleman and a handful of somewhat legitimate actors but trust me when i say this things went wrong very wrong,0
not to be confused with the above average supernatural thriller the sentinel the sentinel was a big bore of a movie for me not delivering the consistent action a couple of critics promised on the back to me it seemed like everyone was halfassing it and only there to make some quick cash because this felt very much like a made for tv film the sentinel is a rehash of several better films like in the line of fire this does not have any originality in it and watching michael douglas run around felt kinda silly in my opinion the main problem besides it s unoriginality had to be the poor pace i often got distracted while trying to view this movie while looking how much run time was left more then once not only the miscasting with eva longoria who couldn t convince worth a lick performances michael douglas is usually a dependable actor here is obviously going through the motions he does not convince as a man on a run or a secret agent his chemistry with bassinger was also off i m a big fan of kiefer sutherland but here he is only ok nothing more then that he tries to come across as a gruff but managed to be more bland then anything else and to be honest he didn t seem that interested eva longoria parker is pretty mediocre she does not convince in her role and was pure eye candy kim basinger is pretty terrible as the st lady she looks bored to tears and her role is a throw away more then anything else martin donovan has a big part in the end but not enough to matter for me bottom line the sentinel is yet another political thriller that bored me to tears it s too old too tired and most importantly the lack of effort sucked not recommended,0
it s amazing that from a good though not wonderful film made back in the early nineties a whole franchise can grow stargate sg is without a doubt a worthy addition to the science fiction genre and has the right to stand shoulder to shoulder with star trek as the kings of sci fi following on from the feature film stargate this series sees stargate command a military science organisation figuring out that the stargate system can be used to travel to various planets across the galaxy and beyond and the military sets up a number of teams to explore sg is one such team headed by military veteran colonel jack o neill and includes archaeologist doctor daniel jackson military scientist captain samantha carter and alien teal c who has betrayed his overlord leaders in the hopes of one day freeing his people earth quickly makes an enemy of the goa uld a parasitic race who use humans as hosts and think themselves equal to gods the top notch cast have much to be congratulated for in bringing this show to life richard dean anderson is perfect as the cynical and sarcastic o neill who can shift from boyish to deadly in the blink of an eye michael shanks as daniel brings heart and an will of steel to the character who has grown from wide eyed innocence to darker and more hard bitten as the show has progressed amanda tapping as carter has perfected the balance between depicting her character s femininity without comprising the fact she is a strong intelligent military scientist christopher judge is excellent as the aloof teal c who is able to depict the character s emotions with subtlety and don s davis is perfect as the esteemed general hammond who leads with a good balance of fairness and firmness almost all the episodes are are involving and portrayed with intelligence reflecting on moral dilemmas as well as the friction between military interests and civilian beliefs often shown through arguments between o neill and jackson guest characters are solidly depicted and story arcs are handled in a manner that doesn t bore viewers sg also excels in humour from o neill s wisecracks to episodes that are just wacky and odd sg has everything from action to drama to romance to suspense to the heartbreaking scenes of death it isn t just an excellent sci fi show but is an excellent show overall,1
kenneth branagh shows off his excellent skill in both acting and writing in this deep and thought provoking interpretation of shakespeare s most classic and well written tragedy kenneth plays the role of hamlet with such a distinct emotion that provokes tears kate winslet s performance is also of great note,1
fabulous costumes by edith head who painted them on liz taylor at her finest the sfx are very good for a movie of its age and the stunt doubles actually looked like the actors even down to body type a rarity in movies of this vintage a cozy movie with splendid panoramas even when chopped down to pan and scan,1
put quite simply this film is terrifying it starts off simply looking like a study of a rebellious young girl and goes on to become a beautifully crafted horror film don t expect gore or zombies this is psychological and just as he would also do in candyman bernard rose manages to convey the horror that is not being believed each time you watch this film you realise more about what s happening and about how the two worlds in this film interconnect drawings have never been scarier,1
often laugh out loud sometimes sad story of working divorced guys lemmon a neurotic clean house husband and matthau a slob sportswriter who decide to live together to cut down on expenses nicely photographed and directed the script is very barbed that is there s always more than one side to almost every line particularly funny scene involves british sisters evans and shelley who seem amused by everything anyone says but when lemmon busts out his photos of kids and yes ex wife to be he has the girls sobbing along with him before matthau can show up with the promised drinks very entertaining,1
probably one of the prime examples of following a suspenseful dramatic episode in this case the superb balance of terror with a lighter affair shore leave is the first true attempt on behalf of the star trek writers to produce a more entertaining piece of sci fi and while the formula isn t quite right yet in this entry the true triumph is trouble with tribbles in season the laughs come pretty fast as long as the viewer is willing to allow for all the silliness diverting from the show s tradition the enterprise isn t on any proper mission in this episode instead kirk has found a perfect planet for his crew to spend some time off duty a well deserved break after three months of incessant work the earth like planet a budget related fact is very appealing but it only takes a few minutes before something weird happens dr mccoy starts having visions of a white rabbit that seems to come straight out of lewis carroll s work soon other people begin experiencing similar things a woman meets a don juan like character sulu has a run in with a samurai and kirk faces a double encounter with the past in the shape of almost love and the guy who used to pick on him at the academy throw in a freakishly real looking tiger and it s easy to see why kirk and spock are determined to figure out what s going on before anybody gets hurt the idea is a classic one idyllic place turns out to be far from heavenly the episode s humorous take on the topic is rather successful weren t it for a dark turn of events that doesn t sit well with the rest of course everything works out fine again come the end and the cast s general unwillingness to show a funnier side of themselves most notably and ironically the otherwise hilarious william shatner and yet shore leave deserves recognition for being another good example of the writers trying new previously unseen things the definition of star trek s success,1
hearing about how hilarious this movie is i finally rent it at the video store and for minutes maybe i laughed times this movie a collection of skits that make fun of television is an incoherrent mess the jokes fall flat the humor deals with issues from the s that just aren t relevant anymore and the jokes go on way too long almost like the new snl skits the past few years yeah chevy chase is in this but maybe of all about or minutes i liked the fact that this was very raunchy and had nudity galore but couldn t it be funny do yourself a favor and rent kentucky fried movie which is a far superior film made in the,0
it is pretty surreal what these flies can do eh well this is a cartoon so anything can happen in it at first i must tell you that i love animated movies unfortunately this year s repertoire is very weak this cartoon is nothing but a list of flaws i quoted the tag line it suggests that this movie has great d effects well i did not see any at least not something special i never saw before the flies in this movie look nothing like real flies at least they could ve make them black but cyan flies seriously with giant heads and slim torsos the story i guess it was written for year old kids i could tell it in two sentences it is so over simplified excessive patriotism for example they are american files after all oh give me a break,0
this despite not being the original it began life as a play in central europe has weathered the several incarnations that followed mgm s own remake with period songs in the good old summertime the broadway show she loves me even the excellent theatre revival in paris a couple of years ago and remains the definitive version and the one they all have to beat several previous commenters have identified the contributing factors that make it so successful and memorable not least being the prevailing fashion in s and s hollywood for lavishing attention and detail on ensemble playing rather than just two leads as so often happens today try for example removing ugarte ferrari renault etc from casablanca and yes you d still have rick and ilsa and viktor lazslo but they d just be frosting without the rich cake mixture below jimmy stewart and maggie sullavan were both ideal and irreplaceable leads but how much brighter they shine when their performances are reflected in those of frank morgan felix bressart joseph schildkraut and andy hardy s sara haden and this is before we factor in that lubitsch touch okay maybe they were a tad more naive innocent even in that jurassic age but how many genuine film lovers sated with scatology screwing and in your face sex turn back to those days of stories style slickness and skill and wallow in great movies like this one by far the best thing about this technological age is not csi but dvd that can at one and the same time make these classics available to nostalgics and show the matrix freaks how the big boys used to do it,1
the real shame of the gathering is not in the bad acting nor is it in the despicably shallow plot the real shame is that it was far worse than the series it begun even though it did have one main attraction takashima i would love to see laurel takashima in a room with susan ivanova even for just five minutes she has that sarcasm that wit that double edged personality that is at once volatile and lovable sadly though the babylon pilot movie has an incredibly dull story involving assassination patricia tallman who never seriously returned to the series until much later fortunately got much better with age as lyta alexander who here is little more than a whiny tiresome telepath i shall leave you with one final thought why is it that delenn looks like some sort of outer space frog man even though she is a woman thank heavens for the way the minbari looked later in the show,0
the worst kind of film basically the us declaration of independence was replaced with a plasma screen and this fooled the museum s security for several days eh the plasma screen that would theoretically run for less than seconds off that watch battery assuming it had a low enough internal resistance to deliver the required current which it wouldn t it would be possible with a dozen large car batteries and an inverter but that system wouldn t fit into the case sorry to be anal but this isn t even close to being plausible the rest of the film wasn t a great deal better and i m left wondering why the budget couldn t have been donated to charity or me,0
diagnosis murder has been shown on most weekday afternoons on bbc since i used to watch it while ill from school a good years ago i know i shouldn t really enjoy it in the same way i shouldn t enjoy murder she wrote but i m totally addicted to both and even have the dvd box sets ok i know that s sad dick van dyke carries the show as he stars as dr mark sloan a doctor at community general hospital in l a who is also a police consultant for the l a p d his son steve barry van dyke dick s real life son is a police officer who needs his father s help on very many suspicious deaths along for the ride is dr amanda bentley victoria bentley the resident pathologist at community general and for the first couple of seasons you had scott baio playing dr jack stewart who upped and left the series in hoping to go on to bigger and better things he should have stayed where he was he hasn t done anything of note since and his only theatrical appearance for many years was in baby geniuses superbabies oh dear anyhow dr jack stewart was replaced by the younger dr jesse travis played by charlie schlatter who stepped into baio s shoes pretty comfortably the series is highly implausible but what whodunit series isn t murder she wrote everywhere jessica goes someone ends up dead or the underrated father dowling mysteries about a murder solving priest with nun sidekick the series was much lighter up until this is because it had a supporting cast that included the bumbling hospital manager norman briggs played by michael tucci along with nurse mark s secretary dolores played by delores hall after both these characters were no longer included and the series became a grittier affair with a bigger looking budget some episodes included far more action one episode the entire hospital is blown up this was a family show for the van dyke s because as well as dick s son barry you also had dick s daughter and all his grandchildren making an appearance in various episodes as the series went on it got a bit silly one episode i remember dick van dike plays his entire family which was a bit out of the ordinary but on the whole diagnosis murder was a really good tv show which had numerous good guest stars since this show finished in dick barry have appeared together again in the murder series of tv movies made by the hallmark channel pretty much following the same path and still enjoyable dick who s now in his mid s doesn t seem to change a great deal and looks as if he ll be working till the bitter end tv show out of,1
rob roy is and underrated epic of passion and action some mild spoilers within liam neeson gives a towering performance as rob roy macgregor one of the best in his career jessica lange is letter perfect as his wife mary they have the most passion and chemistry i ve seen in a screen couple john hurt gives his best snotty aristocrat performance tim roth portrays one of the great screen villains his rape of mary is repugnant and harrowing he really is a magnificent bastard in this movie the final duel between rob and cunningham is one of the best swordfights ever well scripted ans scored and michael caton jones direction is flawless out of,1
roman polanski plays trelkovsky who rents an apartment in france the previous tenant is in a hospital after a suicide attempt he goes to see her there where he also meets stella isabelle adjani the friend of simone he and stella become pretty close later simone dies trelkovsky begins to think the landlord and the neighbors are trying to change him into simone so that eventually he would also jump out of the window le locataire the tenant from is the last film of polanski s apartment trilogy the previous ones were repulsion and rosemary s baby roman polanski does not do good job only as the director but his acting is also superb isabelle adjani with her big glasses is wonderful the landlord monsieur zy is played by the great melvyn douglas jo van fleet plays madame dioz the fantastic shelley winters is the concierge the tenant is something very scary from time to time it gives a lot of that psychological scare this film is not the easiest one to understand or explain but that makes it all so fascinating,1
a clever undeniably entertaining romp starring peter ustinov as a career embezzler with his sights set on a us conglomerate in london he s abetted by foxy and deceptively sharp maggie smith and threatened with exposure by jealous company man bob newhart this is a heist film with a lot of brains ustinov is exceptional as is smith and newhart is quite funny the real surprise is karl malden as the pill popping executive vice president malden has seldom been so loose cesar romero and robert morley pop up in some funny cameos the excellent music score is by laurie johnson eric till s direction is brisk and the script by ustinov and ira wallach is first rate very smart a swinging good time,1
this may have been made for the hell of it but it was most probably the worst film i ve seen in years the best thing about the entire dvd would be the case i m surprised that people took the time to make something so rubbish and yet spend money on it too i m glad i only rented i suppose the real fans of this film would probably have to be sadistic and gothic to care about it without taking in any cgi or any other effects for that matter i hope alex chandon learnt a lesson about lighting and sfx to make a better film in the future that is if he is still in work notes to buyers this is extremely disappointing don t buy it,0
roman polanski has made many many movies that are unexceptional his fame bewilders me nothing stands out as a high point except chinatown i haven t seen knife in the water or tess any contribution he s made to film concluded more than twenty years ago his work is just embarrassing safe and or dull the pianist frantic oliver twist the ninth gate pirates r s baby must have signified the end of the establishment at the time it came out it s lux produced and fairly high concept for a horror movie never show the baby but this is just misconceived horror sap everything is arty to the point that the plot line becomes hopelessly clear very early um thanks for that finale destroying title and on a clear day you can see the twist ending coming for days it did not sustain my interest i find that whatever this movie might have been it is utterly derailed by the s version of what femininity was farrow is such a chronic distracted helpless waif housewife her frailty is oversold she s irritating in the extreme there s no real ideas in it nothing to consider except being the mother of the devil the dakota is barely exploited for it eerie potential,0
some gorehound friends recommended live feed to me and basically i can t really complain as the film certainly does deliver copious amounts of gross smut and buckets full of sleaze but it is of course not a very good film more than obviously cashing in on the latest trend in horror cinema the so called torture porn ryan nicholson tries to surpass every other film in this sub genre and that includes the role models hostel and saw with its sick twisted make up effects and thoroughly depraved shots of naked co eds tried up suffering and begging for their lives there s no actual plot to describe five utterly brainless twenty something friends take a trip to asia one of them has asian roots but other than that i don t really know why they opted to travel there instead of to cancun they re clearly not interested in the continents culture and even cause a hectic scene when they witness a local butchering a cute puppy dog on the market the quintet subsequently dives into the lurid night life and one of them accidentally insults the leader of a criminal clan a simply apology clearly doesn t suffice as the gangster follow them into an adult theater and gradually subject all of them to vicious torture one girl has her breast impaled and another poor wench even has a poisonous snake shoved down her throat yikes live feed is surprisingly boring despite of all the bloodshed and the amateurish production values are quite difficult to overlook even if you re used to watching independent fan boy trash cinema like this the fat bloke depicted on the cover an oriental s m executioner is admittedly quite cool and he s also the most talented of the whole bunch because he at least keeps his mouth shut the entire time i wouldn t exactly recommend this pile of filth but hey if you like loud hideous metal music nauseating torture footage and dim witted losers go right ahead and watch,0
this was a well written tale of the making of the batman sitcom and actually reunites our heroes on a great quest as well as offers their tv shows history unlike the brady s and partridge family documentary movies we not only get a look into the past and present lives of adam and burt but also get to see them back in action filled with kapow s and catwomen and the riddler s batman is back ina well told tale that not only gives us a satisfactory closing to the batman series but fills the modern fan in on all the hollywood tales that about them that haven t been heard in years kudos,1
i found myself at sixes and sevens while watching this one altman s touch with zooms in and out were there and i expected those devices to comment on characters and situations unfortunately as far as i could see they sometimes were gratuitous sometimes witty often barren for failing to point out some ironic or other connection in particular two zoom outs from the gilt dome in savannah merely perplexed to be fair though a few zooms outs and ins to branagh heightened his character s increasing bewilderment a la pudgy mccabe s or philip marlow s on the whole the zooms were well inconsistent and sometimes even trite other almanesque devices such as multiple panes of glass between camera and subject succeeded in suggesting characters sollipsism or narcissism or opaque states of knowledge car windshields house windows and other screens were used effectively and fairly consistently i felt harking back to the player and even the long goodbye a few catchy jump cuts especially to a suggestive tv commercial reminded me of such usage in short cuts to sardonic effect but finally the mismatch between altman s very personal style and the sheer weight of the grisham genre momentum failed to excite me this director s s masterpieces revised and deconstructed various classic genres including the chandler detective film which this resembled in some ways this time around the director seemed to have too few arrows in his analytic quiver to strike any meaningful blow to the soft underbelly of this beastly genre was he muzzled in by mammonist producers perhaps or am i missing something due to my feeble knowledge of the genre he takes on here nonetheless the casting was excellent all around tom berenger for his terrifying ferality branagh for his deflated hubris robert downey jr s pheromonal haze robert duvall s method of trash and davidtz s lurking femme fatality were near perfect choices all and except for a few slips out of georgia into chicago on the part of brunette daryl hannah accents were convincingly southern suspense and mood were engrossing even if the story didn t quite rivet viewers the moodiness of a coastal pre hurricane barometric plunge was exquisitely painstakingly rendered i felt like yelling at the usher to turn on the swamp cooler pronto torn in the end i judged it a,1
office work especially in this era of computers multi functional copy machines e mail voice mail snail mail and `temps is territory ripe with satirical possibilities a vein previously tapped in such films as `clockwatchers and `office space and very successfully this latest addition to the temp humor pool however `haiku tunnel directed by josh kornbluth and jacob kornbluth fails to live up to it s predecessors and leaves the laughs somewhere outside the door waiting for a chance to sneak in unfortunately for the audience that chance never comes so what you get is a nice try but as the man once said no cigar as the narrator star of the film josh kornbluth playing josh kornbluth points out in the opening frames in a monologue delivered directly into the camera this story is pure fiction and takes place in the fictional city of `san franc l isco it s an innovative if not very imaginatively presented disclaimer and not all that funny it is however a harbinger of what is to follow all of which like the disclaimer just isn t all that funny kornbluth plays kornbluth an aspiring novelist who supports himself working as a `temp it s a job that suits him and it gives him time to slip in some work on his novel from time to time but when he goes to work for a lawyer bob shelby warren keith he does too good a job on the first day and shelby dispatches head secretary marlina d amore helen shumaker to kornbluth to persuade him to go `perm the thought of working full time for the same company though initially strikes fear in the heart of kornbluth but he caves in and signs on for the position he s nervous about it but at least now the other secretaries acknowledge his presence which of course they would never do with a temp and if things get too rough he has seventeen important letters he s typed up that now just have to be mailed out to fall back on he s been holding them back because the mailing is the easy part and he needs that `something easy to do in reserve in case it all gets to be too much for him these are `important letters however and by the end of the week kornbluth still has them in reserve on his desk and it doesn t take a genius to figure out that when shelby finds out about it kornbluth s days as the fair haired boy are going to be over and quick the brothers kornbluth who not only directed but along with john bellucci also wrote the screenplay for this film should have taken a page out of the ben stiller book of comedy where it says `if you play it straight they will laugh but they didn t and the audience won t because in comedy even looking at it as objectively as possible when the main character as well as most of the supporting characters in this case `plays funny as in he `knows he s being funny he never is and that s exactly what kornbluth does here so rather than being `funny he comes across as insincere and pretentious a grievous error in judgment on the part of the kornbluths because by allowing it they sabotaged their own movie in trying to discern exactly why this movie doesn t work it comes down to two basic reasons the directing which if not necessarily `bad is at least careless and secondly the performances beginning with that of josh kornbluth quite simply kornbluth just seems too impressed with himself to be effective here unlike stiller or even steve martin both of whom use self deprecating humor very effectively kornbluth apparently has an ego that simply will not allow putting himself in that light he seems to have a need to let his audience know that he the real kornbluth is in reality much more clever than kornbluth the character and being unable to get past that does him in as well as the film rather than give the millions of office workers who may see this film someone to whom they can relate or with whom they can identify kornbluth affects a condescending manner that only serves to alienate the very people he is attempting to reach so what it all comes down to is a case of poor directing and unconvincing acting and when you take into consideration that the screenplay itself was weak to begin with with an inexplicably narrow focus given the potential of the rich subject matter it s easy to understand why this one just doesn t fly the one saving grace of the film is the performance by warren keith as shelby whose subtle delivery is convincing and which in and of itself is fairly humorous the effectiveness of it is diminished however inasmuch as keith has to share his scenes with kornbluth which somewhat automatically cancels out his positive contributions to the project shumaker and sarah overman julie faustino also manage to keep their heads above water with their respective performances which are commendable if not entirely memorable they at least make their scenes watchable and overman even manages to elevate kornbluth s performance if only momentarily but it s still not enough to save the day or the film the supporting cast includes amy resnick mindy brian thorstenson clifford june lomena davonne joe bellan jimmy the mail clerk with a cameo appearance by a disheveled looking harry shearer as the orientation leader a role that begs for an answer to the question `what was he thinking when he agreed to this in any work environment there will forever be situations arising that one way or another will unavoidably become fodder for someone s comedic cannon and the films depicting said situations will always be with us the good ones see paragraph one may even become classics in their own right `haiku tunnel however will doubtfully remain very long amongst them for it s destiny lies elsewhere in a realm known only as `obscurity i rate this one,0
someone or something thing is leaving puncture marks on the jugular and draining victims of their blood till dead police detective karl brettschneider melvyn douglas before slipping out of the b movie horror genre for greater heights is stumped at who or what is behind these notorious crimes the village is overcome by hysteria and karl depends on his trusted medical genius dr otto von niemann lionel atwill in yet another effective mad scientist role to provide some feedback as to what might be causing the deaths of innocents he also fears for the safety of his beloved ruth the lovely fay wray who stars for the third time with atwill after doctor x the mystery of the wax museum who is niemann s assistant dwight frye steals the film as a rather loony village idiot who collects bats and carries a demented demeanor wherever he goes it s easy to see why he becomes a suspect as local paranoia is at a fever pitch maude eburne provides the film s humor as a very naive and easily influenced patient of von niemann s who believes she has ailments she reads about in books near the laboratory where he works she s impressionable and often von niemann just humors her and constant fictional illnesses she feels plagued with lionel belmore returns as yet another frightened superstitious b rgermeister creaky static but rather entertaining nonetheless thanks to the cast the film is obviously as low budget as they come but this doesn t hurt the film too much since it s put together rather well by director frank r strayer and his crew i m certain the film s print has seen better days though this is the kind of b horror item you d find packaged in with other random cheesefests and poverty row programmers the film s villain and his motives for feeding a synthetically made biological creature certainly provides a different take on the frankenstein formula many might be disappointed with the end results as the film strays away from being an actual supernatural tale about a real vampire killer causing the murders,1
zombie chronicles isn t something to shout about it s obvious not a award winning movie but it is a entertaining b movie directed by brad sykes who directed camp blood which was another entertaining low budget flick the acting is bad like most cheaply made movies but that s what makes it more entertaining the zombie make up is cool and effective especially with the budget the gore is also great and gross the film is sort of like a zombie version of tales from the crypt since we get two tales about zombie encounters in the woods the stories are fun and do leave you guessing especially the first tale zombie chronicles is a lot better than some low budget zombie movies out there if you love low budget b movies or cheaply made zombie flicks then check out zombie chronicles,1
i can enjoy a guilty pleasure vigilante flick but this is just bad and not bad in a way you might enjoy seeing mst k make fun of it it s just nauseatingly bad like you can t find anything to enjoy about this no matter how hard you try i truly regret wasting hours of precious life on this crap you can tell by watching it that no one was asked to act and everyone in it knew this film would only bury their careers apparently walking tall has garnered enough income that someone decided they could make a buck off their investment if it s not the worst film i ve seen it s so bad that it s blotted the worse films from my memory,0
this is my kind of film i am fascinated by strange psychotic nightmares and this movie is just that but it is also a dark comedy while i see it mostly as a horror thriller there will be others who might see it as a black dramatic comedy but either way it is a fascinating descent into madness the ending caught me off guard but what an ending it leaves the viewer a lot to think about powerful performances a complex and detailed plot a great script filled with dread and dashes of humor and an eerie atmosphere make this a film worth watching personally i think that i will need to watch this several more times to pick up and understand all the subtleties that are within but it is such a film that it will be a pleasure and not a chore so to do,1
before tuscan sky i saw diane lane s tender performance in this otherwise lark of a movie campers are invited to the camp of their youth and experience it as adults each of those that return seem to be looking for something they lost which makes it so realistic maybe you had to be a camper to really get it but in the words of one character noticing all her clothes were wet this is so camp from the practical jokes and fighting over boyfriends to the scary lunch lady and the early morning bell it s amp once exciting activities now seem mundane a terrific ensemble cast makes the best of one two dimensional roles and makes them believable bill paxton diane elizabeth mrs brad paisley probably when he first fell for her the beautiful scenery bright colors comical music including variations of hello muddah and a comic acting turn by noted director sam raimi makes this a movie you can pull out again and again like looking up an old friend,1
from it s uninspiring title to the flat acting performances curdled is very much an unremarkable film throughout the film has gained some fans by way of the fact that quentin tarantino s name is attached to it and the silly and out of place nod to the rodriguez tarantino flick from dusk till dawn these things do not make a great movie however and this is more than evident all the way through curdled the film suffers from an all too obvious lack of ideas and it tries to mask this with murders that are meant to be stylish and events that are supposed to be disturbing the mexican music score that accompanies many of the sequences in the film is obviously meant to be cool but it s becomes annoying very quickly especially as aside from the fact that the lead character is mexican it doesn t fit with the tone of the movie the film s plot is typically offbeat and it follows a gorehound who because of her obsession with grisly murders takes a job with a firm that cleans up murder scenes it sounds boring and it is william baldwin is the only name on the cast list and even he doesn t make an impression he hasn t been given anything to do in the movie and aside from talking to his victims and standing around trying to look menacing he s pretty much wasted angela jones or rather the taxi driver from pulp fiction takes the lead role as the murder obsessed young woman and it is always clear that it s her involvement with pulp fiction that won her this role not her acting ability she may have been good enough in her small role in tarantino s masterpiece but she doesn t have the talent to lead a film by herself she looks lost and out of place for the majority of the film and if it weren t for her latino accent she wouldn t convince the audience that she s a weirdo on any level curdled is a one hundred percent proof piece of forgettable trash films like this often win themselves praise for invention or black comedic antics but this one fails on all levels whether you re a tarantino fan william baldwin fan horror fan or just a movie buff this is one to miss,0
a dreary hopelessly predictable film set in a most unpleasant setting lower coachella valley acting is as amateurish as any i ve seen looks like a screenwriting script however it does function as a great sedative,0
c mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode it s just an old s tv show this episode of star trek is notable because of the most serious babe yeoman barrow s ever used on star trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location unlike the tng and voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages this use of an outdoor location and babe gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show except a few notable exceptions i e the city on the edge of forever assignment earth and tomorrow is yesterday the old series of star trek needs to be seriously moth balled and put out of it s boring misery half a dozen good episodes from is quite a poor batting average this is typical of the boring stuff gene roddenberry produced back then actually contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on he actually made a lot of rubbish he doesn t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as irwin allen for example just look at the set of the bridge of the enterprise from a modern point of view they used wobbly plywood for the floor cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels you can clearly see the folds in the paper every expense spared or what,0
oh my from the box description i thought it would be la crazy like days in the valley or hugo pool ulrich seidl must be a very strong man most after directing this would have driven off a cliff or at least committed a mass murder i confess to only watching the first half hour for now reading all the comments here i have a lot to look forward to professional reviews often mention the swedish film songs from the second floor as a parallel but that s graced with humor and fantasy and this is unrelenting in its dour realism what hath the marshall plan and the eu wrought seeing this in a theater with anyone i know would have only resulted in an enforced departure after many fewer minutes than i got through on dvd there s a more annoying creature in the universe than jar jar binks the hitchhiker from hell whatever happens to her it isn t enough soulless suburbia that i thought only existed in arizona and florida thrives in lower austria oh no i thought sex clubs had ceased to exist even in new york and san francisco and here they are in suburban shopping malls was it mahatma gandhi or jawaharlal nehru who said when asked about western civilization why that might be a nice idea if the world were truly like this film bring on that black hole we re ready,1
dear god i kept waiting for this movie to get started then i waited for it to redeem itself and when it did neither i just sat there dumbfounded that it could possibly be this bad and that i had just wasted a couple of hours on just sheer stupidity i had faith that drew couldn t possibly have made this bad of a movie and boy did i ever lose my faith don t bother with this one drew tried but the movie was poorly written poorly acted and just poorly conceived i can t believe a script this bad ever got funded it had a million chances to actually do something with the idea the word concept is too big for this movie to even qualify for and it still didn t go anyplace its just pitiful where the other reviewer got the idea that it wasn t the worst baffles me because believe me if it got any worse i d have slit my wrists before finishing it,0
camera work why is the camera work in this movie so jumpy this is annoying and distracting editing the flashes of the still pictures were way too short many of the other scenes were too short also just flashes sound the background music was way too loud and covered up the voices one should not have to rewind and replay to catch what was said doesn t anybody check these things and make them do it over again please reduce the volume of the background music in future is adjustment of the relative sound levels the job of the editor julia wong the plot had way too many loose ends the basic story line had potential i think the film needed more work was it rushed perhaps they ran out of money like a lot of movies it started out great but just petered out toward the end i really don t understand this you know you have the story board before it goes into production so why doesn t all the loose ends get taken care of in the storyboard sorry to be so critical,0
a not bad but also not so great heist film kirk douglas is a recently released from prison safe cracker who after turning down an offer from the mob decides to pull the job himself he recruits circus gymnast giuliano gemma mayhem ensues douglas and gemma soon find themselves pursued by mafia goon romano puppo as well as entangled in a really goofy love triangle with douglas s infinitely patient girlfriend florinda bolkan director michele lupo keeps the pace moving quickly and there s at least one excellent and creative car chase sequence involving puppo gemma though an italian production most of the filming appears to have been done in germany douglas is fine not just slumming it in an giallo quickie the striking bolkan gives a terrific performance the music is by ennio morricone and the cinematography is by the great tonino delli colli who managed to work with everyone in italy from wertmuller and fellini to pasolini and leone,0
i saw this not too long ago and i must say this movie is terrible i watch crappy movies for fun scarecreow is not fun scarecrow is stupid you have an incredibly corny villain that enjoys screaming awful puns as he kills his victims actually worse than the one contained in this sentence he has his hard luck story that he uses to justify his killings everyone picks on me the only girl that thinks i m not trailer trash likes one of the guys that pick on me i want to kill everybody wah ok i m exaggerating but the premise to this movie alone is enough to put it near the bottom of the list of crappy movies adding to what i just said the kid s mom is promiscuous he walks in on his mother and her current boyfriend getting it on mom s boyfriend tells him to leave kid refuses insisting that he isn t going to leave his own house boyfriend chases kid into corn field he kills kid right in front of mom mom screams in terror boyfriend is like omg i didn t mean to then he tells mom not to say anything to the police about it kid was killed under a scarecrow though so like any kid who gets murdered under a scarecrow he comes back as a killer scarecrow with a vengeance his victims haven t been stalked like this before scarecrow s official tag line to make matters worse this movie was filmed in a whopping days that s right days i was going to give this movie a because in spite of itself it has one or two redeeming moments they re spoilers so i won t spoil it for you if you actually want to see this crap i could have somewhat forgiven the bad acting the horrible special effects the abysmal script and the bad camera work but i simply have no respect for lack of effort on that level this movie isn t nearly as good as i m making it out to be if you want to see an example of how not to make a movie or if you enjoy watching bad movies like i do then watch this at your own risk everyone else should stay a safe distance away from this movie at all times,0
a fine effort for an australian show which is probably not surprising seeing as there seems to be somewhat of a resurgence in quality aussie drama dare i compare this show to the brilliance of love my way no but it is reminiscent of early secret life of us the cast is great gibney works her magic in the first two episodes i have seen the british cast is strong also especially the callum and lizzie characters but abe forsythe may be the saving light not that it needs saving if this show is to get another season i wasn t a fan of his performance in the awesomely awesome marking time mini series a few years back but he was great as hal in always greener its also good to see brooke satchwell again lets hope the show keeps improving with each episode,1
the invisible ray is part science fiction and part horror it was also the third of seven karloff lugosi features in this entry the dominant role goes to boris karloff through specially designed astronomical equipment dr janos rukh karloff demonstrates to colleagues dr felix benet bela lugosi sir frances stevens walter kingsford his wife lady stevens beulah bondi and their nephew ronald drake frank lawton that a meteorite containing a powerful element landed on the african continent many millions of years in the past rukh impresses his guests who invite him to accompany them on an expedition to africa to find the mysterious element rukh goes off on his own and discovers the place where the meteorite landed and the element which he names radium x due to rukh s long absences his comely young wife diana frances drake becomes attracted to drake and the two fall in love meanwhile rukh becomes contaminated by radium x to the point that anyone he touches will die instantly the contamination causes his skin to emit a bright glow in the dark rukh goes to benet for help benet devises an antidote which if taken on a daily basis will provide temporary immunity to the element unfortuneatly the deadly element also affects rukh s brain slowly turning him into a vindictive murderer while rukh is continuing his work sir frances takes news of the discovery back to france diana and ronald accompany him when benet informs him of this action rukh accuses the party of betraying him and his discovery and secretly plans his revenge when he returns to france he learns of the healing power of radium x as he cures his mother s violet kemble cooper blindness and of benet s work in curing the maladies of his patients but rukh s madness intensifies first he murders an innocent man whom is identified as rukh upon hearing of rukh s apparent demise diana and ronald marry this angers rukh and he begins to exact his revenge on the five other members of the expedition one night he is lured into a trap set by benet and karloff is excellent in the lead role moving from a happily married ambitious scientist to a raving maniac lugosi has a straight role for once and does what he can with the limited part at minutes this film was the second longest of the six karloff lugosi collaborations karloff s film all the way,1
taped this late night movie when i was in grade watched it on fast forward i sugest you do the same i though it would be and action film but went to a cort tv type movie in the end it fits in with the early s social activest type films glad i missed that era,0
using tons of stock footage not only from trader horn but also the first two films in the series for example the alligator fight was used last time out this is one of the weakest films in the mgm series its a huge let down after the classic tarzan and his mate which is possibly the best film in the series the plot has jane s cousins coming into the jungle to tell her that she has inherited a fortune if she ll come back to claim it they are kind of in the bind since the relative that left her the money cut them out of the will hiring a great white hunter who secretly wishes to capture tarzan and sell him the pair heads into the jungle where they run into the usual jungle troubles more so because of the stock footage after lots of talk jane decides to go back to civilization and we get long sequences of tarzan and jame making kissy face finally into the last half hour the plot to capture tarzan is put in motion and things at last become interesting as plans go awry and things look very grim for all concerned painfully dull film is clear evidence of a troubled production the film seems to have been assembled from several different films with the first half hour playing as an almost exact repeats of the previous film the middle third shows signs of having to stretch things out and having plot lines that ultimately went nowhere the last third where tarzan is captured and the party is put into peril is the point that the film finally comes to life it also shows signs of the graphic violence that caused much of the need to re shoot the film to me its a great wonder how the series managed to continue on from here since this film isn t very good except at the end i would be hard pressed to explain it except i would have to say that it was the relationship between weissmuller and o sullivan as tarzan and jane which kept people coming back its a beautifully acted pairing and really is one of the screens great couples i should probably also mention that this is the point that the film became less real and more fantastical with the appearance of the tarzan tree house i really dislike the first hour or so of this film a great deal and find it a great waste of time and energy if you can come in towards the end i would recommend giving the film a try otherwise i would just skip the whole film and move on to the next film in the series,0
amazing movie that in theory should be boring but is delivered with subtlety and incredible acting that i have long despaired of ever finding instead of relying on clich s and overly dramatized moments the plot unfolds through a series of incredibly realistic moments the lead characters are not perfect and so relating to them as people you could know is easy the movie is not trying to pull laughs or push an ideal onto the audience but simply showing us the possibility of true love in any circumstance i am now restless waiting for the weekend so i can see the sequel a moving thought provoking funny look at love that i think should be an absolute romantic classic up there with casablanca and breakfast at tiffany s will soften even the hardiest heart,1
don t get me wrong i love david suchet as poirot i love the series as well as the movies but enough already re death on the nile everyone has done this one we know who dies we know why they die we know who the killer is we know how it was done so i say enough already mr suchet could have used that awesome talent in another one of agatha christie s novels i will say that the acting by all the actors was superb the sets were terrific and very realistic i especially liked david soul but i was surprised at how awful he looked i hope he doesn t look that way in real life i honestly can t remember from other movies whether the very end was the same somehow i don t think so i thought that was a rather brilliant touch whether or not ms christie wrote it that way i would much rather have that ending then wasting away in prison,0
that seem to be fooling people into seeing qualities in this film that are just not there near dark covered the same territory but with much more class and action why the script kept their big secret so long was a total mystery to me i guessed it at the breakfast scene at the start of the film by the time it was revealed to the viewer it was just a case of big deal tell me something i don t know i found this to be pointless movie that may have challenged the genre conventions unfortunately those conventions are that horror films are tense and packed with genuine sense of horror this was woeful,0
this is the best series of its type i ve seen all year i can t help thinking it s just my luck a series i love gets episodes and more next year and the constant stream of cookie cutter cop shows get never ending episodes i think the reasons new tricks succeeds are many the scripts are good and the mix of characters superb the acting is top flight and the blend of comedy and drama works a treat the stories aren t all that memorable but that s not the reason i watch shows like this one the theme song is a favourite and we were disappointed to find it isn t available in any published edition great stuff bbc a triumph of sense over sex appeal aside from the young constable nobody s there as eye lolly and even if he is he can still act,1
what s up with robert pretentious altman was he saving on lighting everything was so dark in this boring movie that it was laughable i mean have you ever seen a lawyer s office where everyone works by candlelight don t waste your time in fact don t waste your time with anything altman makes it s all a pretentious waste of film,0
tim gary daniels wants desperately to break into serious television reporting when a job he begged for goes awry he is fired his beautiful but empty girlfriend elizabeth hurley says sayonara too coming home tim is startled to discover his house has an uninvited visitor christopher lloyd from the planet mars calling him uncle martin tim soon tries to help his new friend navigate life on earth but martin gets in trouble wherever he goes from the bathroom to the laundry room and more lovely lizzie daryl hannah finally sees an opportunity to make time with tim but the course of true love does not run smooth in this case either soon everyone in television is stalking tim hoping for a story about a true alien what s a man to do for those who loved the old television show of the same name with bill bixby and ray walston this film is not worthy to tie the proverbial boots its truly undeniably awful with no plot and a reliance on supposed special effects which fall flat too daniels is okay as the earthling but lloyd is simply terrible as the alien overacting up a storm the rest of the cast is adequate as are the costumes set and production details even if your children see the cover and beg for this film convince them to pick out another flick at the video store be assured kids and adults will find this movie a colossal bore so opt for a night at the museum or around the world in days instead,0
this documentary was nominated for an oscar and it s easy to see why even years later it is quite an impressive piece of work why it isn t in print is a mystery that only disney can explain good use of live footage and animation in tandem this used to run as part of vault disney every few months or so but i haven t seen it listed in quite a while sigh most recommended,1
hundstage is seidl s first fiction film before this he directed great documentaries as animal love or models seidl worked on this project for more than years but it only cost around million dollars the actors are very good especially the non professional actors who nearly played themselves the cinematography is good too the whole film is shocking disturbing and some scenes may be too much for ordinary viewers the film shows a lot of sex and violence but also that people are lonely and not able to communicate with each other finally i ve to say that this is one of the best and most rewarding austrian films in the past years please excuse my bad english,1
i loved the first two movies but this movie was just a waste of time and money for me and the studio i m still wondering why they made this horrible movie the thing with the plastic gun and with the toy car that can go into another house are ridiculous joe pesci and daniel stern in the first two movies were so funny but the terrorists in this one are so stupid and not funny believe me this movie is just a waste of time,0
night of the living homeless is a funny spoof of the film and the remake of dawn of the dead only this time with the homeless the episode has homeless people all coming to south park and the people cannot figure out why they treat the homeless like zombies who want change and a few of the parents end up on the roof of a supermarket like in the movie so now it s up to the boys to find out where they came from and how to get rid of them this is a fairly funny episode with some good moments like the boys singing their own version of the pac dr dre song california love overall a good episode,1
i am probably one of the few who actually read stephen king s book the one this movie was based on after reading this excellent work i could not wait to see the movie version of it after viewing the movie i was totally disappointed the only thing that this movie has in common with the book is the title and the names of the characters in the book schwarzenegger s character is put on a game show the main object is to survive but he s not in an arena he s set loose in the city and has to escape the game show s i guess you d call them villians who bear absolutely no resemblence to the movie characters this premise built much tension and suspension and ended greatly with the climax the movie was absolute garbage there was no cinematic quality to it i totally respect arnold schwarzenegger as an actor but he messed up with this one,0
without doubt the best of the novels of john le carre exquisitely transformed into a classic film performances by peter egan magnus pym the perfect spy rudiger weigang axel real name alexander hampel magnus czech intelligence controller ray mcanally magnus con man father and alan howard jack brotherhood magnus mentor believer and british controller together with the rest of the characters are so perfect and natural the person responsible for casting them should have been given an award even the small parts such as major membury are performed to perfection it says a lot for the power of the performances and the strength of the characters in the novel that despite the duplicity of magnus one cannot help but feel closer to magnus and axel than to jack brotherhood and the slimy grant lederer of u s intelligence i have read the book at least a dozen times and watched the movie almost as many times and continue to be mesmerized by both if i had one book to take on a desert island a perfect spy would be the choice above all others,1
this is almost typical lynch however what makes this film slightly unusual for lynch is the fact that it looks very raw almost amateurish but i believe lynch does this on purpose to give a greater sense of realism which serves to increase the intensity of surreal moments however a lot of typical lynch motifs are present such as floating camera work haunting music long excruciating pauses hanging curtains dim lights growing darker at a slow almost indiscernible pace extreme close ups themes of women in trouble over bearing incompassionate all knowing characters facing off with characters who are distraught temporarily oblivious in the dark and so on the performances are great and the short is thought provoking as usual lynch leaves almost everything up to interpretation many questions are left unanswered and this ignites the imagination another brilliant effort from lynch i only hope he makes some shorts more along the lines of his sony playstation commercials they were inspired,1
some movies are repellent but still fascinating pulp fiction others are simply boring this movie has an almost unique feature of being both utterly repellent and totally boring by the end i didn t care about any of the characters i just wanted all of them dead so i could get out of the theatre,0
artimisia was on late last night at first i didn t think i would like it but seeing i didn t feel like sleeping yet and nothing else being on i continued watching and felt myself intrigued by the young artimisia a virgin pure and passionate her romance with the older tassi envoked recognisable feelings even though the film is based on a very romantisised level and not reality i loved it a lot more than the usual biographys or costume drama s great play great camerashots great music and texts i loved it and i want more of it,1
fiction film it lists as based on a story though it does have a documented by credit about a group of scientists going into the wilds of canada to try and find a bigfoot they want to capture one and then attach a tracking device its lots of scientific mumbo jumbo mixed in what is really a dull film of a bunch of people wandering around in the wilderness there are some attempts at creating tension and scares but to be perfectly honest there is nothing here worth seeing outside of some great looking shots of the wilds this is a perfect definition of an exploitation film it promises you so much a look at bigfoot but in reality it delivers very little recommended for insomniacs only,0
i think the film is educational however it fails to treat the issue which sparked so much controversy plural marriage also the film fails to reveal what the lds church espouses big opportunity was missed to tell the world what they actually believe i could not get a clear idea of what it is lds views are on central topics of religion i have many lds friends and they are nice people would have been nice to get a clearer picture of how they view their prophet s more controversial statements maybe these statements are just too controversial to be treated in a film format but it would have been great to hear the whole story of joseph smith s truly interesting life after all it gives insight into american thought on religion in the th century hope they do some documentaries on this fascinating subject allowing historians to comment on smith s life we may have a mormon president some day after all smith ran for president,1
basically there s a family where a little boy jake thinks there s a zombie in his closet his parents are fighting all the time this movie is slower than a soap opera and suddenly jake decides to become rambo and kill the zombie ok first of all when you re going to make a film you must decide if its a thriller or a drama as a drama the movie is watchable parents are divorcing arguing like in real life and then we have jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film i expected to see a boogeyman similar movie and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots out of just for the well playing parents descent dialogs as for the shots with jake just ignore them,0
i really loved this version of emma the best kate beckinsale was awesome as emma and mark strong was very good as knightly the only complaint that i had was on mr woodhouse i can t believe that a man could whine so much or be so selfish with his daughter s life she was a smart girl in the end though as always i love the places in which these jane austin movies were shot the settings are so spectular it makes me want to visit england so much as well as ireland and scotland i think the actors chosen for this movie were a good choice as well and all the other story lines interwhined with emma s most excellently i am glad that i got to see this one as well,1
i two came home from school fast as i could to catch hrpuff and stuff on t v that was the most fun time in my life is to watch hrpuff and stuff on t v growing up still love it today i am years old this year,1
what starts out as an interesting story quickly disintegrates into nothing don t bother watching to the end hoping for an explanation of what is stalking the visitors there is no ending no explanation no resolution zip this could have been a good movie it they had purchased an entire script,0
uh oh another gay film this time it s showing the black side bet your last dollar it s gonna have an unhappy ending but why with only less than a half dozen exceptions all gay films have to end in death or an addio finale it s like all the european film noir releases in the s s s and s the lead male or female must die or ride off alone into oblivion why in god s name must writers directors and producers have the audience leave the theatre feeling depressed after all it s supposed to be gay not glum maybe the category should be changed to a glum film a large percentage of gay relationships do last and the couples do ride off together into the sunset no matter who writes or produces he only shows the down side of gay life and gives the incorrect impression of gay lifestyle this movie just proves my point if you rent the dvd take an antidepressant for here comes another gay film this is wrong,0
well i ll start with the good points the movie was only minutes long and some of it was so bad it was funny now for the low points my first warning sign came with an actual warning on the film when it started the following warning was displayed the film you are about to see contains graphic and disturbing images because contrary to popular belief being killed is neither fun pretty or romantic i should have saved myself the minutes and turned it off then the first words of the film were i m at the glue factory it was some guy talking on his phone and he was referring to a nursing home as a glue factory i don t know why so the basis of the movie is some kid is obsessed with the zodiac killer and starts imitating him the budget for this film was at least bucks and they must have used the cheapest cameras they could find the acting was worse than me reading straight from a script that s what is looked like they were doing the script was horrible and the big twist was that this guy who wrote a biography on the zodiac killer was actually the zodiac killer of course they tried to show this subtly but made it totally obvious within the first minutes without any more painful details of the plot here were some horrible highlights of the movie they try to make the zodiac killer compare himself to an army of one because soldiers are really just murderers then they tried to make an attempt at satanic worship by showing some guys in black hoods in a meeting the great computer hacker was able to get this kid s address when someone gave him the kid s name and phone number for some reason he had to hack into the fbi to get someone address i m not sure why he didn t just look it up in the phone book or use whitepages com there was also a random allusion to for no reason i also learned that no matter where you get shot blood will come out of your mouth within seconds so if you like really bad acting sub par scripts bad camera work and an obvious plot you ll love zodiac killer,0
a friend of mine lent this video to me and i was fairly excited to watch it but after ten minutes of james hetfield s slow pitched vocals and lars banging on his drum set in what appeared to be slow motion i began to think `why am i watching this that question will be coursing through your minds in minutes after you hit play i gave the tape back the same day as you would suspect not worth buying or watching just my opinion,0
i have made it my personal mission to go after those responsible for this film i even got the rental company to give me my money back because i argued that they perpetrated false advertising it s not enough that the movie itself is a p o s but the cover art is what sold me i ve done better make up effects on my children at halloween than what the movie actually depicts versus the cover art can you say raccoon eyes i m not going to waste more of my time by going into the full details but come on the movie s main character is an l a cop who was born and raised in alabama but has a german accent it s beyond insulting,0
greta garbo s american film debut is an analogy of how our lives can be swept off course by fate and our actions as in a torrent causing us to lose a part of ourselves along the way greta plays leonora a poor peasant girl in love with ricardo cortez s character don rafael a landowner ricardo is in love with her too but is too easily influenced by his domineering mother leonora ends up homeless and travels to paris where she becomes a famous opera singer and develops the reputation for being a loose woman in reality part of her attitude is bitterness over rafael s abandonment she returns to her home to visit her family and eventually confronts rafael surprisingly no one knows that she s the famous la brunna and garbo acts up her role as the diva she truly was and re prised with such cool haughtiness in her later portrayals ricardo cortez reminds one a lot of valentino in looks in this part and he was groomed to be a valentino clone by mgm though he never thought he could be in reality and he was right he is believable in an unsympathetic part as a weak willed mama s boy and allows himself to age realistically but comically at the end of the movie he fails to win leonora when she returns home and later when he follows her his courage is undermined this movie is beautifully shot with brilliant storm sequences and the sets depicting spain at the time are authentic looking there are also some fine secondary performances by old timers lucien littlefield tully marshall and mack swain although this is a story of lost love and missed chances i don t think leonora and rafael would have been happy together as he needed a more traditional wife and she was very much a career woman and i don t think would have been happy in a small village the ending is true to life and pulls no punches see this one as garbo s american film debut and a precursor of things to come,1
i m sorry to report that i have seen this film several times when it bombed at the box office it was repeated nightly for about a month on hbo and i watched it over and over because television in general is so bad or was at that time i no longer watch so it might be wonderful now like samuel l jackson says about swine it might taste like sweet potato pie but i ll never know because i wouldn t eat the filthy mfer let s see dudley plays arthur wandering in the desert always a few steps behind moses it came out right after life of bryan so you can guess where the inspiration for this came from the few mildly funny bits go on way too long until you just close your eyes and grit your teeth there s one scene where arthur and dom deluise meet in the desert both of them dragged out and dessicated dying of thirst then they meet like old acquaintances who didn t really know each other very well promise to do lunch it could have been funny but the scene that i remember most clearly is a meeting with pharaoh in which pharaoh is a black street kid done up in full king tut regalia he must have read the lines straight because at some point before the release they overdubbed his scene with the hollywood equivalent of black street lingo voiced by a jimmy walker wannabe kid dyno wannabe or it might have been jimmy walker who knows who cares they managed to turn an essentially boring scene into a very racist very unfunny very long piece of excrement one of those legendary things that just won t flush no matter how many times you try so you leave it there for someone else to deal with well that s my review if you rent this movie don t buy it whatever you do prepare yourself with a bottle of tequila and a six pack of corona now that they ve remade the poseiden adventure this one is probably high on the list for remakes maybe they ll hire a comedy writer this time,0
so i thought i d throw in a few words about william mcnamara not a bad way to spend a couple of hours if you want to see him in his tighty whities it s obvious he pumped up for this role and he looks pretty darn good in them or less there s an extended sequence in a cave where he has to strip down to his undies there s a nice bit where he has to chase after miss eleniak in the buff with only his hands cupped over his groin william mcnamara is naturally a little on the skinny side but he has a nice generous handful of a booty also there s a moment when he s getting out of bed that if you pause the action at just the right moment you can see the whole enchilada if you re inclined to do so and come on half of the people who choose to watch a movie about navy men on a road trip are i d just like thank dennis hopper for his equal opportunity gratuitous nudity can william mcnamara act heck if i know,0
after we counted the use of the f word oh about times in the first minutes or so of the film listened to some really bad actors going on about a woman and a horse and pretty much acting like year old boys being naughty together well we turned it off relying on gratuitous profanity and potty humor is a sure sign of a loser hollywood movie the product of unimaginative and no talent writers we did give it a second chance thinking surely it would get better no dice later my boyfriend skipped through the rest of the movie in case it improved still no dice the main character did have a cool bike i wouldn t recommend this to anyone except maybe really immature adolescents or frat boys,0
the film is almost laughable with debbie reynolds and shelley winters teaming up as the mothers of convicted murderers with the horrible notoriety after the trial the two women team up and leave n y for california in order to open and song and dance studio for shirley temple like girls from the beginning it becomes apparent that reynolds has made a mistake in taking winters with her to california winters plays a deeply religious woman who increasingly seems to be going off her rocker to make matters worse the women who live together are receiving menacing phone calls reynolds who puts on a blond wig is soon romanced by the wealthy father of one of her students nicely played by dennis weaver agnes moorehead in one of her last films briefly is seen as sister alma who winters is a faithful listener of the film really belongs to shelley winters she is heavy here and heaviness seemed to make her acting even better winters always did well in roles testing her nerves the ending is of the macabre and who can forget winters at the piano banging away with that totally insane look,0
i rented this film out having heard of the fuss about it not being put up for an academy award but after watching it it s easy to see why it didn t despite the beautiful photography the film is incredibly slow moving despite having hardly any plot the plot is about a young boy trying to come to terms with his parents death in what may or may not have been an accident the film is never clear on this and how his grandfather used to tell him fairy stories the fairy stories contain the only bits of interest in the plot but they re very short and don t really seem to have any point the first fairy story in particular concerns a boy trying to get a magical flower to his dying girlfriend to save her life but the boy delays by tasting the flower first to make sure it is not poisonous which results in him being a few seconds too late to save his girlfriend the grandfather then pronounces that the moral is that the boy was too impatient but that doesn t make any sense because it was overcaution and slowness which resulted in his failure perfect metaphor for this film really the photography of skye is beautiful though but then stardust which was released this year is another film about fairy stories filmed in skye and beautifully photographed and it s infinitely better than this one,0
highly enjoyable very imaginative and filmic fairytale all rolled into one stardust tells the story of a young man living outside a fantasy world going inside it to retrieve a bit of a fallen star only to find the star is alive young and beautiful a kingdom whose king is about to die has said king unleash a competition on his several sons to see who can retrieve a ruby first to be king whilst a trio of witches want the star to carve up and use to keep them young these three plot threads weave intricately together throughout the entire picture blended with good acting dazzling special effects and some solid sentiment and humour as well stardust is a fun film and has some fun performances from the likes of claire danes as the star i could gaze at her for quite some time to michelle pfeiffer i could gaze at her at full magical powers even longer playing the horrible witch to robert deniro playing a nancy boy air pirate to perfection charlie cox as the lead tristan is affable and credible and we get some very good work from a group of guys playing the sons out to be king who are constantly and consistently trying to kill off each other mark strong jason flemyng and ruppert everett plays their roles well in both life and death loved this whole thread as well peter o toole plays the dying killer daddy and watch for funny man ricky gervais who made me laugh more than anything in the entire film in his brief five minutes nice feet but the real power in the film is the novel by neil gaiman and the script made from his creative and fertile mind stardust creates its own mythology and its own world and it works,1
first of all jenna jameson is the best actress in this movie and she s just awful this movie has every horror move clich in imagination and all badly played the over sexed teen couple the comical not horny jock the snotty cool chick the creepy local color guy the parental type couple the virginal chick who amazingly never dies in these films the dialogue is so painfully awful and delivered with the depth of a wading pool it s almost like you re wishing that they d all die sooner i saw the rough cut of this film a while ago but somehow this just got worse sure the funniest thing in here is the ghoul trying to eat jameson s implants but that hardly rates even a rental of this dog avoid at all costs,0
i agree with those reviews i have read here and i have no words to define such a turkey like this but despite everything i still can find a reason for movies like this to exist do you remenber those happy days in which video was a prosperous business and a lot of movies were made with the only reason of filling the shelves of the video stores this movie comes from that period and i can imagine that was the only reason for which it was produced and the same happened with many many many other stinkers do you remember rambo imitations and so many slashers of z grade i still feel nostalgia for that period about this movie i can say i didn t waste my time watching it because i pressed the fast forward button after the first fifteen minutes just to find a very funny scene in which a guy was pushing an axe against heads which exploded because as you perfectly notice they were made of plastic and about the end well it was so badly filmed i could not understand what happened that s the same i had not followed the non existing plot at all but boy video age was a great age despite movies like this,0
i first heard about this film about years ago when i was a kid in grade school it just so happened that i was thumbing through the encyclopedias in the classroom one day and under the entry for movies or cinema i don t remember were several stills for different movies from mainstream to experimental and one of them shown on the page was a still for offon it really intrigued me since it stood out the most on the page it was a still from the film of the scene with the eye with other elements superimposed over it about or so years later the public library here where i live had available for checkout the whole dvd set of treasures of american film archives released by the national film preservation foundation so when i was reading the notes on the dvd cases for the set i was quite pleasantly surprised to see that offon was on one of the discs after all these years i could finally see the film after viewing it it slightly wasn t was i was expecting it to be it tended to be a more organic looking film not that that s a bad thing but i was expecting it to have a more electronic aesthetic but it was still an impressive film imho considering the techniques scott bartlett used to make the film including hand tinting the film itself and using video equipment for some of the film s scenes filmed off of a video monitor giving it a more distressed lo res look don t get me wrong the techniques used in this film were quite ground breaking for that s why it s still one of my favorite short experimental films and a creative inspiration for me as well,1
so i m at home flipping channels one night and i come across this man wearing heels and makeup standing in front of a colored background on hbo naturally i did a double take and decided i d watch for a little while i didn t change the channel until he was finished it was so incredibly hilarious the next time it was on i made sure to tape it so i could watch it over and over again and it has remained one of my favorite things to watch during the first couple of minutes you can tell that the audience isn t quite sure what to think but he quickly wins them over with his incredible humor and wit while many stand up comedians mesh together in my brain eddie izzard stands out as one of the best his style is incredibly refreshing and it is nice to hear jokes about things like history and puberty when most comedians stick to current events his show stayed with me afterwards i went to italy over the summer and all i could think about while i was there was how italians are always on scooters going ciao out of see it you won t regret it,1
when i was six yo i learned about a series called los campeones and even if i was just a kid i did everything i need to convince my parents to let me watch the champions and the avengers once every week i think that was the golden age of english series i already own the complete cycle of the prisoner but lasted also a few years later with the tomorrow people the worst witch i just me or this is harry potter in girl of course before as much as i want the campions to be in zone or zone i m also waiting for dr who pack the whole series in a set of uhm maybe dvd s please i couldn t expend more for it people of tomorrow and several other low budget but great stories to be available within my reached zones i speak and understand english but not all my relatives do including my parents whom introduced me into these great stories i hope someday someone could feel the attraction of these series and then could sell them as i originally view them dubbed or subtitled but in the same format i saw them remember zone or are ok with my tv set,1
where to begin there s so much wrong and horrible about this movie i am not sure where to start okay the two stooges who wrote this crapper joseph green and rex carlton first they couldn t make up their so called minds for a name my guess they split the difference that s why the main title is brain that wouldn t die but the end screen says head that wouldn t die neither one knows anything about the medical profession after all doctors take oaths to do no harm killing a woman for a head transplant would be considered harm plus a little thing called blood and tissue matching rejection would spell death for jan in the pan plus who keeps a patch work monster what medical school did bill graduate from frankenstien university old fu or mad scientist tech the monster had no name that bugs the hell out of me plus the brilliant surgeon doctor bill cortner doesn t know how to keep a patient sedated all and all a disaster of a movie it s incredibly stupid and unwatchable except on mst k i give it the thanksgiving turkey,0
pretty good film from preminger labyrinthine at times as it explores sets and locales from various angles and perspectives as if it were a nature film on the denizens of the modern city and how they live in this sense it is visually and spatially satisfying as its hero a good cop with a bad temper gets into very hot water when he accidentally kills a guy with a plate in his head dana andrews plays the lead as if it were hamlet and has never been better the story may be pure melodrama but andrews gives it weight and almost raises it to the level of tragedy as his girl gene tierney is attractive but unremarkable gary merrill makes for a very interesting villain with his natural warmth providing a nice contrast to andrews coolness his smiling amiable seeming bad guy seems to be continually challenging his nemesis by the mere fact of his being emotionally open as opposed to the tightly wound and moralistic cop who is pursuing him there are no major surprises in this film which seems transitional for all concerned for director preminger it is a reunion of sorts with his laura stars andrews and tierney who were passing their career peaks at around the time the movie was made the supporting cast merrill karl malden neville brand are understandably more optimistic as they were all on their way up preminger as serene an observer as ever lets the events unfold without expressing a strong point of view as the morally ambiguous ending is somewhat disappointing for the cat and mouse game between the two antagonists seems larger and more archetypal than any mere movie could contain much less resolve,1
super speedway makes a great demo of your new dvd bigscreen channel sound system the imax camera puts you right in the race car where you cruise around various tracks at high speed reminiscent of the driving sequences in grand prix if only that would appear on dvd i enjoy watching it again and again the only minus and why i didn t give it a is some of the driving sequences look suspiciously like the film was speeded up the soundtrack also requires a little suspension of disbelief all you can hear in a real car is the engine you won t hear swooshes as you go under bridges,1
in the trivia section for pet sematary it mentions that george romero director of two stephen king stories creepshow and the dark half was set to direct and then pulled out one wonders what he would ve brought to the film as the director mary lambert while not really a bad director doesn t really bring that much imagination to this adaptation of king s novel of which he wrote the screenplay there are of course some very effective grotesquely surreal scenes mainly involving the sister zelda likely more of a creep out for kids if they see the film and the casting in some of the roles is dead perfect but something feels missing at times some sort of style that could correspond with the unmistakably king like atmosphere which is in this case about as morbid as you re going to get without incestuous cannibals rising from the graves being thrown in who knows if he ll save that for his final novel as mentioned though some of the casting is terrific notably miko hughes as gage creed the little boy who goes from being one of the cutest little kids this side of an s horror movie to being a little monster i say that as a compliment of course especially in scenes brandishing a certain scalpel and there is also a juicy supporting role for fred gwynne of the munsters who plays this old secretive man with the right notes of under playing and doom in tone and applause goes to whomever did the make up on andrew hubatsek but there are some other flaws though in the other casting dale midkiff is good not great as the conflicted disturbed father figure creed and his daughter ellie is played by an actress that just didn t work for me at all in terms of setting up some chilling set pieces only a couple really stand out a certain plot thickening moment not to spoil it does involve a cool ramones song and the first visit to the pet sematary the bigger one including the sort of mystical overtones king had in the shining for the most part it s a very polished directing job though it could ve been made even darker to correspond with the script if thought out in logical terms albeit in king terms it is really one of his more effective works of the period but it doesn t add up like it could or should still it makes for a nifty little midnight movie,1
for those who never saw a chorus line onstage and their only exposure to the story was this film this film is ok as movie musicals nothing special just ok i have seen the show on broadway times and even auditioned for a touring company of the show once and for someone who pretty much memorized the original production the film version is so dreadful on so many levels that i don t even know where to begin first of all for those who have never auditioned for a theatrical production let me assure you that irl when you audition for a play the director producer and choreographer never ask personal questions and don t give a crap about why you wanted to become a performer a real theatrical audition whether it be for a play or a musical rarely takes more than five minutes if you re auditioning as a dancer you get shown a bar dance combination once you do it and then they decide immediately whether you re in or out michael bennett s original concept of the show was to flesh out the lives of dancers and introduce to the uninitiated the passion for performing and why so many sacrifice so much for so little the play is about these dancers first of all director richard attenborough took so much focus off the dancers by beefing up the cassie zach relationship and by casting michael douglas as zach in the play you never see zach he is just a voice in the back of the theater and his relationship with cassie is barely touched upon cassie shown in the cab in traffic trying to get to the audition and upstairs talking to larry a character who is not even in the play was all added for the movie and took so much focus off what the story is about major musical numbers were cut or rethought the opening number in the play i hope i get it shows all of the dancers doing a jazz and ballet combination and then people get eliminated in the movie they jam three hundred dancers onstage together and show them in closeup to disguise the fact that they have cast people in the film who can t dance can you say audrey landers goodbye goodbye hello love a brilliant vocal exploration of these dancers childhood s jaundiced memories was reworked as surprise surprise mainly a vehicle for the late gregg burge as richie the show s most famous song what i did for love which in the show was a touching allegory sung by the entire cast about what they give up to dance becomes just another standard love song in the film performed tiredly by a miscast allyson reed as cassie jeffrey hornaday s choreography for the film is dull and unimaginative and doesn t hold a candle to michael bennett original staging and when you re making a movie about dancers the choreography has to be special there are a couple of good dancers in the film the previously mentioned gregg burge as richie michelle johnston as bebe and janet jones as judy but they are hardly given the opportunity to show what they can do yet audrey landers who can barely walk and chew gum at the same time is given one of the show s best numbers dance looks i will admit that the finale one is dazzling but you have to wait almost two hours for that i would say that if you never saw a chorus line onstage this film might be worth a look but if you are a devotee of the original broadway musical be afraid be very afraid,0
i really tried to like this movie it deals with an important problem in any society sex addiction in this story we learn that you can lose everything when you re addicted to sex in this case our main character and hero for having non stop sex with all kinds of women crazy kinky neurotic puts in jeopardy his marriage job and even his life the production values are terrible mainly the acting oh you won t enjoy any of the sex scenes most of them are done in very poor taste and you might think you re watching a home made flick second the plot is just non sense how could such a smart and beautiful wife stand all the nasty stuff from the husband how could she believe him the threesome situation is priceless and will make you chuckle for a while also the scene with the black movie theater attendant is just pointless and will leave you thinking wtf scenes like those you will find plenty avoid this movie please avoid it it s not soft core it s not a documental it s not a dramatic feature it s a pretentious effort form a so called documentary director or whatever only mrs kinski s legs on display are worth the watch i caught it on hbo and i m glad i didn t spend my money on it but those minutes of my life won t come back,0
this is a reunion a team and a great episode of justice from hesitation to resolution clark has made a important leap from a troubled teenager who was afraid of a controlled destiny to a superman who like green arrow sets aside his emotions to his few loved ones ready to save the whole planet this is not just a thrilling story about teamwork loyalty and friendship this is also about deciding what s more important in life a lesson for clark i do not want the series to end but i hope the ensuing episodes will strictly stick to what justice shows without any rewind pushes and put a good end here of smallville and a wonderful beginning of superman in this episode however we should have seen more contrast between lex and the team nine stars should give it enough credit,1
as a forty something urban explorer photography and longtime fan of the original kolchak night stalker series since my early childhood one aspect that hasn t really been mentioned is the amount of urban exploration carl s character undertook during the series he always managed to get himself in to one great abandonment sewer or tunnel after another armed with only his trusty penlight okay so he had some flares in the primal ape episode tunnel and his camera he never carried any other gear to either protect himself or make the exploration easier like many here i recently purchased the dvd box set of the two pilot movies and subsequent tv episodes and have been slowly revisiting all the shows and although i remember watching them back in the early s when they first aired its been over years passed so many of them seem new all over again campy dated and cheesy but charming and highly entertaining they just don t make stuff like this these days now its all regurgitated spin offs with predictable characters and plots thankfully my yr old daughter has been sitting down to watch the episodes with me and has developed an appreciation for them she enjoys the genre it gives me hope and faith the series will carry on to new generations of fans for years to come,1
if i hadn t been forced to watch this for work reasons i never would have made it past the first minutes and even then i admit i fast forwarded through parts the film version was vastly superior in all regards yes i ve read this one is more faithful to the original play but what a wise thing it was for the writer to change the script in it s overlong it drags the songs that are in this version and not in the film version are boring and unimaginative the version of kids in the version was very funny and a true classic of sarcastic parent humor in this version the kim is way too old the conrad is absolutely horrible to behold when someone ripped his shirt off him i shuttered in disgust the director of this version has no idea what sexy is this conrad can t dance can t sing he can t even stay in tune and is simply repulsive if elvis presley had really been like that his career would have been over before it began as for the other actors well i kept waiting for alexander s toupee to fall off as he danced and daly was totally over acting as momma see stapleton s performance in the film version to see the same role properly executed by someone who understands comic timing this tv version is nothing but a total waste of anyone s time,0
this movie is a remake of two movies that were a lot better the last one heaven can wait was great i suggest you see that one this one is not so great the last third of the movie is not so bad and chris rock starts to show some of the comic fun that got him to where he is today however i don t know what happened to the first two parts of this movie it plays like some really bad b movie where people sound like they are in some bad tv sit com the situations are forced and it is like they are just trying to get the story over so they can start the real movie it all seems real fake and the editing is just bad i don t know how they could release this movie like that anyway the last part isn t to bad so wait for the video and see it then,1
does anyone think that this show actually helps some people or does it only anger the people who watch it when i am flipping through the channels and come upon this show i half to watch out of morbid curiosity i understand that pat roberson is not all together what i do not know is if his viewers are like him or if they are good people and think they will have a better life if they listening to what he has to say pat roberson is of little consequence he is an old man who thinks in an old way fear of damnation no longer has the same affects as it once did thank god now if someone will please answer my question i will be dodging lightning bolts for the rest of eternity,0
stars and i m being generous minor spoilers look this is a low budget zombie movie set in gangland oakland as the plot goes a scientist wants to bring his dead brother back to life after being killed in a drive by the main problem with this movie what zombies all the zombies do is growl which doesn t sound even remotely scary and drip fake red blood from their mouths no scary eyes no decaying flesh just a bunch of people growling pathetically and running around like idiots the cover is also misleading there are only about zombies in the whole film so it s not like the whole hood is plagued with zombies or anything it s just a few and is contained in no time the acting actually is so bad it s hilarious no one can act at all in this movie except maybe one of the gang members and it really seems like a bunch of friends got together decided to cast their family and made a movie one weekend final note since when do doctors wear tracksuits skip this one please,0
plato s run is an entertaining b movie with gary busey it is a fairly unknown film so one i saw it at a car boot i thought this looks entertaining i was right to gary busey plays plato smith a tough mercenary who is framed for the assassination of a powerful cuban crime lord now on the run plato must survive long enough to prove his innocence with the help of his friends played by steve bauer scarface and action star jeff speaksman the expert what i liked about plato s run was the way the film never got boring the plot may have been done before but it was still good the acting was fun to watch and the action was quite fun as well especially the climax gary busey makes a good hero ironic since he normally plays the bad guy and steve bauer is good as plato s sidekick even jeff speaksman makes a good performance and he cant even act well to finish it of plato s run is an enjoyable effort from nu image films and i give it out of,1
seems that the cast should ensure at least an average movie and so i sat down for minutes of unbelief beside ed harris no one seems to own the skills of acting even sean connery who i normally worship must have had an off day during the entire filming of just case not once in during the whole movie one actor could convince me this made this movie look cheap and unreal the story makes up a little it is thrilling and the plot is unexpected conclusion only watch this movie if you really have nothing more useful to do,0
rarely do i see a film that i am totally engrossed with this was one of them it had good acting dialogue plot and the scenery was beautiful i laughed out loud many times especially the scene dealing with the kitchen raid the slapstick comedy performed by the lunkhead hired hand had me one the floor but i admit that i am a sucker for slapstick the story dealt with a group of people in their s coming back to a summer camp that they had attended years previously it was a farewell week of camping as the place would be closed down permanently at the end of the season as adults the camp looked different and they felt differently about it and each other i recommend this funny moving movie to all,1
note to all directors long is not necessarily good this movie is incredibly long however not good the scenes were drawn out way way way way way too long the sex scenes were unnecessary and often too long the movie edited down to hours and minutes or so would have been exceptional but alas it became so boringly long that i can only give it a of it is way below average some other problems also exist in this marathon ralph fiennes plays a whole family tree the guy who played the great grandfather looks nothing like him but the grandfather father and the son who gives us constant unneeded voice over are all ralph fiennes with different facial hair and the same basic bull headed personality no one seems to notice that each of these children look like a clone of the last even though photos of them are being snapped at every turn this one is minor but if the movie hadn t been weeks long it wouldn t have been so annoying the fact that no news from germany was even whispered for the longest time about jews being rounded up and sent off is ridiculous some word would have gotten to them and the thought of trying to run off would probably have been discussed the uncle in france would surely have sent warning to try and get them to leave the love stories in this movie are totally wrong you are spending forever telling us this thing and the development of relationships between main characters is extremely short suddenly people are in love and almost instantly married then having children then we draw things out for centuries and forget about developing relationships this again would not have stuck out so much in a hour movie but with time spent nothing was given to us the ending was just bad i don t want to spoil it for anyone but you won t like it either unless you are sadistic the director writer should be tortured with having to watch this bloated garbage on a weekly basis i mean endless loop oops they are the same thing i wonder if robert redford did anything for this movie i mean i think istvan szabo must be modeling his directing career after him long drawn out movie which totally ruins any substance in the movie a short description of the horse whisperer and sunshine sunshine perfect title if you start watching while the sun is shining it will quite possibly be well after dark when you leave,0
i love bad movies not only because they often are as entertaining as really good films like pirates of the caribbean series and other hollywood pathos but they often are far better than those films and that s the reason why i love italian rip off cinema of s and s and that s the reason why i especially love this movie the barbarians the company director ruggero deodato has made some actually very good movies like house on the edge of the park and also his atlantis interceptors and live like a cop die like a man are enjoyable action movies but this is really bad the barbarians is so idiotic movie peter and david paul as the barbarian brothers kutchek and gore are very funny because of their lack of charisma and acting skills but if they can t act they yell and scream every time they do something important in one scene people try to hang the barbarian brothers and they escape very extraordinary way bad acting bad special effects very stupid story bad direction actually everything is bad in this movie i can t describe how much i laughed when i watched this first time the barbarians the company is camp classic everybody should see once if you thought plan from outer space is fun camp this will be a real killer,1
i ve seen the gator bait films and this is almost exactly the same thing as those a woman is sexually assaulted by a group of degenerate men and systematically exacts her vicious revenge on each of them the thing that sets this movie apart from those ones although not very far is that the sexual content is not glorified there is full frontal nudity many times throughout the film but not for a second is it ever sexy some of the rape scenes might seem a little extensive but that s only because the movie is trying to strengthen the audience s need to see this woman seek revenge this is a weak film it has no other way to maintain interest other than manipulating our natural desire to see this woman get revenge on her attackers i spit on your grave is not the kind of movie that you expect to deliver a serious moral but i was glad to see that since it contained a significant amount of violence inflicted upon the female lead it was not meant to pass off as a t a film b movies are notorious for being driven by nudity and out of control adolescent sexuality and while i spit on you grave is unmistakably a b movie and contains more than its share of nudity the nudity does not drive the plot on the other hand the only thing that drives the plot is an empty necessity for revenge against a group of rapists these men are evolutionary drop outs just like they were in the gator bait films and the biggest challenge for the writers seems to have been to come up with new and exciting ways to kill them but the reason the film can never be anything more than a meaningless b movie is because it does not deliver a message of any kind but instead it simply satisfies the audience s desire to see a bunch of rapists get exactly what they deserve the one problem that this leaves is that we have to sit through the sexual attacks oddly the first half of the film is the part that contains the most nudity although not by much but it is by far the most painful to watch we are even let down a little as we watch the woman obtain revenge since a couple of the deaths were so elaborate that they were obviously impossible it seems like pure luck that the guy in the lake at the end felt such an overwhelming desire to hug the motor on the boat and press his genitalia against the propeller staying that way while the woman yells some final words at him and pulls the cord but again this movie satisfies only the desire for revenge that the first half filled us with spoilers you know that this is all the movie means to do since it literally ends the minute the last guy is killed the woman does not live happily ever after she doesn t write her book she doesn t leave and never return to that nightmare place she just gets in the boat and motors around the lake while the movie simply stops in its tracks but hey what more did you expect oh and did you read the tagline if you decide to waste your time watching this try and find any man getting broken or burned i was really looking forward to those,0
about two hundred members of a cleveland ohio usa film society named cinematheque gathered on august to view a pristine cinemascope print of michelangelo antonioni s film zabriskie point cinematheque director john ewing who does a superlative job of obtaining the finest prints for his series shared with the audience beforehand that this print was specially flown over from italy for this one showing only the audience was held spellbound as the film unfolded its artisty on the huge panoramic screen watching this superb print shown the way antonioni intended made one aware that this is indeed a modern art work it was all the more fitting that the series is housed in the cleveland insititue of art in university circle antonioni s compositions are created for the cinemascope landscape his beautiful balancing of images striking use of colors sweeping choreographic movements all are the work of a genuine artist using the screen as his canvas at last the audience could understand zabriskie point as its narrative unfolded it became obvious that this work is not about story per se but rather an artist s impressionistic rendering of fleeting images of his subject the setting of some of the more turbulent activities of the sixties provides only a dramatic motor for the artist s sweeping collage antonioni is not bound by conventional narrative standards and can pause at any point to creatively embroider an event with grandiose embellishments the audience willingly went with the flow of his remarkable imagination as his huge images on the massive canvas held one in rapt attention while the audience may have been only tangentially involved in character relationships it realized the theme here is human aleination the director s recurring theme it was also realized that no print any smaller or of lesser quality than this original one in cinemascope can do justice to this particular rendering the audience was therefore all the more appreciative of viewing zabriskie point in its original breathtaking format and broke into thunderous applause at the end,1
this was obviously the prototype for mick dundee but the adventures of barry mckenzie is funnier i was amused throughout and laughed out loud plenty of times terrific central performance by barry crocker in the title role an australian who invades england to upset the poms with his free flowing uncouth ways few brits will be upset by barry s frequently cruel observations on his hosts the relationsip between the two countries is prickly but friendly and this is highlighted by the film s final line delivered by a somewhat reluctant mckenzie as he boards the plane home i was just starting to like the poms,1
i sat down to watch this movie with my friends with very low expectations my expectations were no where near low enough i honestly could not tell what genre this movie was from watching it and if it was a comedy the humor was completely missed the plot was nonexistent and the acting was horrendous my friends and i managed to watch approximately to minutes of this film before we turned it off and promptly begged the video store to take it back i do not recommend this movie to anyone unless you are purposely trying to watch the worst movies of all time i honestly don t know how this film lasted more than a day in theatres and moreover i can not understand why anyone would willing watch it considering not only it s very uninteresting title but also the lack of any famous actors actresses in it s cast this review is not a joke and i honestly think this could possibly be the worst movie ever made it s certainly the worst movie i ve ever had to sit through,0
this is still the benchmark to judge all golden age whodunnits by and taking into account the limited technology and dubious ethical standards of the authorities on screen bears up well against all generations of similar attempts since on film and tv fast and furious with plenty of warner bros wipes and thankfully no time for a love interest it gallops along taking the splendid cast with it to the violent end i never understood why the da had to trail vance around everywhere i always thought they were deskbound palette as the detective but especially girardot as the doctor are delightfully eccentric and un pc when glancing over the second murder victim he sniffs that there were too many people in the world anyway of course it is william powell as philo vance and michael curtiz as director that makes the film what it is when did powell ever make a dud the army of cops at the crime scene didn t really do a very good job in finding the second dead body and unconscious dog did they the best bit is where vance narrates to us all the sequence of events surrounding the murders dodgy model sets combine with fantastic roving camera angles to produce a very modern feel and startling with what has gone before the only problem is as usual the conclusion can t match the overall deductive processes displayed throughout and a somewhat contrived ending is invoked some chan s moto s and many others of course could only be concluded this way too but because it happens so fast and is slightly dubious morally it doesn t lessen my opinion of kmc s status as a classic all the prints i ve ever seen of kmc are at worst like looking into a goldfish bowl so if you re interested in seeing it bear with it until you re sucked in,1
i remember this movie from the s when i was in college it is one of the funniest satires of american westerns that i have ever seen i m only sorry that i have not been able to see it recently and that it is is not out on tape or dvd it is a real treat,1
i don t see how this show is like the oc at all first of all the oc centers around teenagers and their parents trying to get through life north shore is about a hotel staff who is trying to run the hotel and have a social life at the same time second the oc takes place in california north shore takes place in hawaii and why would fox make a show just like one of its other shows on the same network i think this is a great show with good actors for the most part it has a good storyline and plot i like the events that happen and how the people take care of them and work them out the most recent episode was surprising how the story worked out it wasn t predictable like most stories on most shows i hope fox keeps it on the air,1
kabei our mother is a poetic and sublime beauty from japan a real weeper i had heard great reviews for the film and rented it from netflix am i glad i did in many ways this film reminded me of the old style of japanese classic film making from the s and s that i ve come to love so much such as seen in yasujiro ozu pictures the title credits even begin in the same way with the japanese letters characters in red against neutral color burlap material i immediately thought this director loves ozu the same style was used too mostly indoor sets with only a few outdoor scenes even a couple of pillow shots as roger ebert calls them the strength of the film is built on the love of the characters for one another the story follows the lives of a japanese family before and during and after world war two the mother takes care of her growing girls the best she can after the father a university professor is arrested for anti war sympathies he s never freed and only has a few brief meetings with his wife in prison before he dies of starvation and disease meanwhile a former student of the professor comes by often to help take care of the mother and two girls he begins to fall in love with the mother and is a substitute father for the two girls but war starts and he s drafted and they have to say an abrupt farewell will they ever express their love for one another will he ever return from the war there is so much heart and gentle spirit in the performance of the lead actress sayuri yoshinaga she s almost a madonna type she s so beautiful big soulful eyes and flawless skin the actor who plays the student is phenomenal as well his name is tadanobu asano what a sensitive performance there is no macho in him at all he s gentle and kind i d certainly love to see both of these two in other movies i think i ll check to see what s available for them the two little child actresses are wonderful too the film is just released on ntsc dvd for american audiences with very easy to read english subtitles i gave it a out of on the imdb i cried almost as much as with the japanese film classic twenty four eyes don t miss this film,1
i m one of those people who usually watch programs and keep my feelings about a show private however pushing daisies is my exception i became curious about the program from the commercials that aired which gave glimpses of the premise of the show i was skeptical about it at first especially after the finale of six feet under was still in my head here we go again i thought i watched the first second third and all the other episodes wow first of all i thought it took the subject of death and presented in a way that was palatable without being morbid the characters were engaging and i like the thought of ned the main character not being able to literally touch the love of his life chuck without the consequences of her dying most of the characters have a longing for things they can t have besides ned and chuck olive longs for ned lily and vivian longs for their niece chuck and emerson is always longing for the monetary rewards from the mysterious deaths they solve i think the characters are picture perfect and believable i like how emerson who is black plays off of the rest of the characters since as an african american i like the subtle cultural humor that sometimes comes from him all in all this visual fairytale is one of the most valuable pieces of entertainment that i ve seen out of the season i think the show has enough romance for the romantics and enough who done it for the mystery buffs i just wish the writers would get back to work so that the show can continue to evolve,1
ok so soldier isn t deep and meaningful like blade runner or as big budget as terminator but on the whole i found it quite enjoyable the fact that kurt russell stayed in character not speaking and being virtually emotionless made the moments when his humanity broke through all the more poignant i found his portrayal of restricted emotional development more touching than arnie s in the t films and before i get comments yes i know that arnie was a cyborg and kurt was human but the premise put forward by both films was the same so to the film itself a reasonable us brit cast are able to flesh out this little story not really sure if gary busey and his two deputies were baddies or goodies so was unable to decide whether i liked them or not the colony was a little more realistic neither a misguided bunch of peace loving gullible cowardly hicks who get wiped out from the get go nor a group of subversive aggressive terrorists paranoid about offworlders and each other kurt russell is good and unlike other comments i do not feel this will have a negative impact on his career unlike maybe escape from la sequels are such fickle creatures sean pertwee has really done his late father proud by continuing the families noble sci fi lineage and the rest of the cast helped flesh out this pathetic band of people making the most of a bad situation and not doing too badly if you see this on your tv schedule i would recommend giving it a chance i don t think you will be disappointed,1
dead letter office is a low budget film about a couple of employees of the australian postal service struggling to rebuild their damaged lives unfortunately the acting is poor and the links between the characters past misfortunes and present mindsets are clumsily and over schematically represented what s most disappointing of all however is the portrayal is life in the office of the film s title there s no mechanisation whatsoever and it s quite impossible to ascertain what any of the staff really do for a living granted part of the plot is that the office is threatened with closure but this sort of office surely closed in the s if it ever truly existed it s a shame as the film s overall tone is poignant and wry and there s some promise in the scenario but few of the details convince overall it feels the work of someone who hasn t actually experienced much of real life a student film with a concept and an outline but sadly little else,0
linking story another first time viewing for me and again this is one of the most popular of the amicus anthologies and it s easy to see why though i realize how the film s rather meaningless title could be misleading for some i certainly fancied director peter duffell s choice death and the maiden which incidentally is a classical piece by schubert that is heard in the film during the peter cushing episode a great deal more though the linking device itself is not all that great the episodes are all equally compelling and enjoyable production values come off as very respectable indeed for the budget duffell had to work with the latter infuses the film with a great deal of style which is not so common with this type of film and frankly it makes one regret the fact that he wished to distance himself from the genre though more so as not to be typecast rather than because he felt it was beneath him now to the individual stories themselves method for murder the opening segment does not offer any real surprises but to make up for this it s quietly suspenseful and appropriately creepy at times tom adams fictitious villain looking like the long lost brother of boris karloff from the old dark house [ ] also it ends with a satisfactory diabolique type twist and features a fairly intense role for denholm elliott in the lead that s all we need out of it really waxworks for the second story we are introduced to a curiously romantic mood which is quite unusual for this type of film peter cushing and joss ackland are both excellent as well as impeccably dressed in their roles of two jilted lovers of a woman who continues to obsess them even after such a long time and whose friendly rivalry can only lead them blindly and inexorably to a fate that is literally worse than death an ominous hallucination scene with peter cushing is quite well done in view of the limited resources at hand and ackland s inexplicable inability or unwillingness to leave town somewhat recalls the house trapped aristocrats of bunuel s the exterminating angel sweets to the sweet this is perhaps the finest episode of all with his ambiguous role here christopher lee continues to demonstrate his versatility and he is matched by an understanding nyree dawn porter and the deceptive innocence of chloe franks who appears as lee s daughter the film s treatment of the occult here is both subtle and mature culminating in a powerful and extremely chilling curtain trivia note chloe franks appears as a grown up in the featurette included on the disc and when i saw her i felt an immediate familiarity with her face but couldn t quite put my finger on it later on reading her filmography it was revealed to me that she had played one of the leads in the long running stage adaptation of agatha christie s the mousetrap in london s west end which my brother and i were fortunate enough to catch while we there on holiday in the summer of needless to say we had no idea then that she had once created such a delicate and delicious portrayal in sheer evil mainly by virtue of her peculiar look and a devilish smile the cloak a wacky but oddly reverent vampire tale that still manages to debunk many of the myths attached to the subgenre while inventing some new ones which takes in some wonderful digs at exploitation cinema and at one point christopher lee himself jon pertwee is marvelous as the campy horror star who gets more than he bargained for when he attempts to bring a measure of authenticity to his work ingrid pitt sends up her image nicely though her role is somewhat subsidiary to the proceedings geoffrey bayldon made up to look like ernest thesiger also has a memorably quirky bit the silent cinema style of the ending was a pretty audacious one to pull on an audience i suppose and while some of the humor comes off as heavy handed a la the fearless vampire killers or theatre of blood it s also rather infectious and certainly ends the film on a high and highly unusual note video and audio quality are relatively satisfactory considering i had no other version to compare it with the main culprit is some noticeable print damage but this is never so nasty as to affect one s enjoyment of the film as for the extras beginning with the audio commentary frankly this is one of the finest chats about a genre film that i can remember listening to jonathan rigby gets to butt in with his opinion more than is usual for a moderator but his effort certainly allows director peter duffell to touch on every aspect of the production whereas with some other films you re left rather expecting there to be more and as such it s an extremely pleasant track that complements the main feature very nicely indeed the featurette a rated horror film is a worthwhile effort with peter duffell again at center stage but this time backed up with valid if all too brief contributions from producer max j rosenberg and stars chloe franks ingrid pitt and geoffrey bayldon we also get film notes reviews bios and a poster stills gallery which again are wonderfully assembled with the contemporary reviews being something of a novelty and a welcome one at that,1
this wrestlemania just didn t do it for me while some things such as the battle royal and involvement of celebrities were a throwback to the good old days so to speak it seemed to be more of a highbrow in your house than anything else above average worth it for several matches such as the tag team title match although worthy of note is that the title change meant nothing as it was reversed the next night,1
when a movie like the dukes of hazzard brings in over million it makes some incredibly sad statements about the condition of our own society either we are collectively too stupid to stay away from trash like this or maybe i m just not realizing how many people this kind of no effort trash will appeal to hollywood has had no incentive to make good movies since if it puts out trash then people will see it anyways since there is nothing else on screen this is that i walked out despite getting a free movie pass the dialogue could not be dumber the stunts could not be more over the top and outrageous perhaps this bigger that big image appeals to texans but it didn t appeal to me nor anyone else in the theater none of the big names were in this career ending flick except for burt reynolds which says all you need to hear jessica simpson don t make me laugh i wouldn t even recommend this film for video even if you were desperate this was all about fooling the public to make enough money after opening day to equal or do better than it cost through marketing they did despite the public being forewarned stupidity abound,0
kurt thomas in one of the series of gymnast olympic stars turned movie stars movies that mercifully only includes one other mitch gaylord in american anthem at least that one had janet jones this one has um a gymnast using his martial arts and his gymnastic skills to save a european country from dictatorship sure it could happen on a scale of one to ten a,0
i have to admit i don t remember much about the characters or the story though i m not sure there was one i was soooo irritated by this movie that i had a bit of a hard time focusing on it how can you name a movie keys to tulsa and then film it in texas the flat desert country around arlington i think that was the location in no way resembles the green rolling hills around tulsa and a celebrity in tulsa would have a much nicer neighborhood to live in obviously no one in the movie has ever been to tulsa or else they would have realized how nothing in the movie even resembled it hadn t anyone at least seen rumblefish or the outsiders i know this sounds picky but i can t help it i watched this because i love james spader and i usually find eric stotz interesting but even these two intriguing actors could not liven up this meandering and mean story of self involved people who are not in tulsa i m sorry it can t be more expensive to film in oklahoma what if to live and die in la had been shot in toronto would that suck well so does this,0
i thought it was an original story very nicely told i think all you people are expecting too much i mean it s just a made for television movie what are you expecting some great wonderful dramtic piece i thought it was a really great story for a made for television movie and that s my opinion,1
first ifc runs town and country and now this the difference between that stinker and this pink panther rip off is that town and country was watchable this isn t i can only surmise that the cast signed up for this so they could goof off in europe on somebody else s dime belushi is especially irritating his scene with candy doing a z grade dom deluise was torture speaking of torture five minutes of the talentless shepherd and i bet the prisoners at gitmo would crack like walnuts the real crime besides this being green lighted is shepherd s character a mousy wife who takes a monte carlo casino for a half million bucks if you buy that i have some oceanfront property in arizona you might be interested in,0
worst movie with the best reviews given it i ve ever seen over the top dialog acting and direction more slasher flick than thriller with all the great reviews this movie got i m appalled that it turned out so silly shame on you martin scorsese,0
there s really no way to beat around the bush in saying this lady death the motion picture just plain sucks aside from the fact that the main character is a well endowed blonde running around hell in a leather bikini with occasional spurts of graphic violence the movie seems to have been made with the mentality of a s cartoon based on a line of action figures the bad guy himself even talks like a skeletor wannabe has the obligatory inept henchman and lives in a lair that looks to have been patterned after the domain of the villain from the old saturday morning blackstar cartoon just don t expect any humor other than the sometimes howlingly bad dialogue at other times it feels like the kind of anime tale better suited to hentai yet there is no sex no tentacle rape thank goodness and very little sex appeal this despite the physical appearance of the title character there is simply no adult edge to this material unless you count the half naked heroine and bloody deaths essentially what we have here is a feature length episode of she ra princess of power but with skimpier clothes and more gore,0
this is one of the best of the genre i saw it twice about yrs ago and have not had another opportunity to see it again since then it rivals the zatoichi series also starring katsu in exciting swordplay,1
as a writer i find films this bad making it into production a complete slap in the face talk about insulting i was writing better stories than this in th grade bad acting bad writing bad directing and when added all together the result is complete and total failure the only thing this movie manages to accomplish is tricking the unsuspecting consumer into wasting their time who would green light something so poorly written it s not artistic clever smart suspenseful mysterious scary dramatic nothing the characters are flat and boring with no development the plot is as recycled as an aluminum can they somehow managed to cast a few very familiar actors who all must be pretty desperate for work or hoping one of these low budget independent movies will turn out to be the next pulp fiction this script should have been used to line a bird cage not a movie oh and last but not least a lb woman of course has the strength to kill men and women twice her size without a struggle and in a single blow avoid this bomb like it will infect you with an std,0
i got hooked on this as apparently abc has licensed this show to pearl tv in hong kong it caught be my surprise as it was a break from listening to anything chinese but i started getting reeled in as the cast and the story lines are just nyc enough and thoughtful nothing too unbelievable though i think it s very very stereotypical of them to write damien as a potential black man with a sheet that has been the most disappointing aspect the rest is great and i m sad to learn on imdb that i can t look forward to watching season when i get back to the us i m am just as disappointed as the other commentators that this showed much promise and quality and taste but just as shows that show characters getting closer it s probably harder for people to watch if the start watching several episodes in which is apparently a bit too late for the eager networks,1
this movie is a great the plot is very true to the book which is a classic written by mark twain the movie starts of with a scene where hank sings a song with a bunch of kids called when you stub your toe on the moon it reminds me of sinatra s song high hopes it is fun and inspirational the music is great throughout and my favorite song is sung by the king hank bing crosby and sir saggy sagamore overall a great family movie or even a great date movie this is a movie you can watch over and over again the princess played by rhonda fleming is gorgeous i love this movie if you liked danny kaye in the court jester then you will definitely like this movie,1
this film is one of the more risqu black and white films of this time in the early s before the hoyts code was enforced it s the story of a young beautiful woman moving to new york and making her way to the top of the business by using her body as a tool to get there barbara stanwyck plays the young and beautiful lily powers who indeed does a fairly well job with her performance lily moves to new york and makes her way up the business place by sleeping with all the men stanwyck does an outstanding performance as being a strong woman who uses men as one time deals hardly any emotion towards them playing them as if they were pawns lily powers is a woman who doesn t have love on her mind just power and money i thought this movie to be a little bit different then other films i have seen because there is hardly any background music heard i believe it is only because this is when people were first introduced to live sound and dialogue between the people of the film the few times the music is heard is during the beginning as we are shown how she makes her way up the chain the filming and different scenes were something fantastic the director of this film did all the right angles and all the right tricks making this film full of realism this film was all together an alright movie the ending to this movie wasn t as good as it should have been but it didn t entirely ruin it baby face had its slow moving scenes throughout the movie and perhaps a few predictable parts such as who she will sleep with next but this is a lovable movie that can be watched more then once and suggested to some people and friends,1
this was one of the worst movies i have ever seen the plot is awful and the acting is worse the jokes that are attempted absolutley suck don t bother to waste your time on a dumb movie such as this and if for some reason that you do want to see this movie don t watch it with your parents,0
i quite enjoyed this movie for two reasons the first is that it gives an insight into the world of loyalism in northern ireland which is very rarely treated in movies most of which tell us about the republican struggle the second reason is the performances of the actors i thought they gave very honest and convincing portrayals of a very seedy underworld that not many people hear about outside my native shores all in all it is an entertaining ganster movie with stellar performances from a who s who in northern irish actors cast it wont move the earth although it may slightly open some peoples eyes to the murky world of loyalist paramilitaries,1
being a fan of silent films i looked forward to seeing this picture for the first time i was pretty disappointed as has been mentioned the film seems to be one long long commercial for the maxwell automobile perhaps if the chase scene was about half the length that it is i may have enjoyed the film more but it got old very fast and while i recognize that reality is stretched many times in films without lessening a viewer s enjoyment what was with the mexican bandits i mean they are chasing a car through the mountains a car that most of the time is moving at about one mile per hour yet they can t catch up to it,0
the first five minutes of this movie showed potential after that it went straight from something possibly decent to some sort of illegitimate comedy the best part is that i couldn t stop thinking of supertroopers thanks to joey kern i would recommend watching this movie for the sheer fact of learning how not to make a movie there are so many scenes in this movie that makes one just stop and wonder if the entire cast and crew just stopped caring at some point the thing that amazes me most about this movie is that it grossed million in the box office and only cost about million to make congrats to lion s gate for being able to pull that one off,0
when i first saw the preview for this movie i really couldn t wait to see it the plot seemed good and the setting was great i mean a slasher movie that takes place on prom night great idea and the plot a high school teacher that becomes sexually obsessed with one of his students goes crazy gets arrested and escapes three years later on prom night prom night a night that is supposed to be happy and memorable turns into hell however i saw it and was extremely disappointed it was not only the worst horror movie i have ever seen but it was one of the worst movie in general that i have ever seen first of all it wasn t even scary there was not one moment in that movie when i jumped out of my seat also the murder scenes were so cheesy and dull all the slasher did was either stab his victims in the stomach multiple times or cut their throats also there was absolutely no gore its rated pg the scene with the most blood was probably the one where the killer murders the black girl he slits her throat and blood splatters on the sheets hanging around them they don t actually show him cutting her throat next you see the killers face the first time he is introduced in the movie he isn t mysterious creepy or scary he s just this guy who kills people also everything in the movie was so clich an example is when at the end the killer is about to kill the main character and at the last moment the detective shoots and kills him also every single thing in this movie was so predictable the victim after seeing the guy with a knife runs for her life hides thinks she gets away and then the killer just pops out and kills her finally the sequence of the movie was extremely bad the guy goes into the hotel kills a few people the bodies are discovered someone pulls the fire alarm and everyone evacuates the main character forgets something in her room has an encounter with the killer runs and escapes thats it she and her boyfriend go home the slasher kills the guards patrolling the house finds the girl then gets killed by the detective the movie sequence was so stupid and clich if your thinking of seeing this movie all because the preview looked good trust me don t waste your time or money no wonder this movie was being shown in the smallest theater in the movie theater my friend and i along with these two girls sitting in the back were the only ones in the theater that should have told me something about the movie beforehand,0
it was a painful experience the whole story is actually there so i won t go into that but the acting was horrible there is this part in the very beginning when the scientist brother goes to work he actually wears a white coat at home before leaving to work i thought working with biohazard material meant that you should wear sterilized clothes in a controlled environment and the lab itself looks like a school lab there is this monitor on top a file cabinet that has nothing to do with the whole scene its just there to make the place look technical and a scientist is actually having breakfast in the lab and next to him is a biohazard labeled jar and his boss walks in on him and doesn t even tell him anything about it not to mentioned bad acting very bad can t get any worst than that my advice don t watch and i thought nothing could be worse than house of the dead apparently uwi boll s movies look like classical shakespeare compared to this,0
once again i have seen a movie made by people that know nothing i just recently reviewed baby face nelson now i ve seen dillinger and i ve had it this movie is garbage i don t know how anyone in their right mind could compare this to a classic like bonnie and clyde this movie is far from a classic someone called it brilliant that s an insane thing to say this movie can t get any facts straight and it has the worst casting i ve ever seen i don t know whose dumb idea it was to cast warren oates as john dillinger first of all he looks nothing like him second of all by the time john dillinger was killed he was when oates made this he was you could even tell that he s older than the real dillinger just by looking at him not only was he too old but so was ben johnson as melvin purvis they show baby face nelson die then homer van meter and finally john dillinger john dillinger was killed before both of them the last one to die out of the three was baby face nelson not only do the writers not know when they died but they also don t know how they died baby face nelson was not killed after he escaped from little bohemia in a robe homer van meter was not killed by farmers with shot guns homer van meter was cornered by the police in st paul and gunned down with machine guns another member of dillinger s gang harry pierpont is shown being shot by police in this movie pierpont wasn t shot harry pierpont was captured and sentenced to die in the electric chair i go into what happened to baby face nelson on my baby face nelson review so i m not going to go into it again here let me also add that richard dreyfuss portrayal of baby face nelson is pathetic there s a scene where he attacks dillinger and then gets a bad beating while dillinger was beating him he was crying like a baby and screaming leave me alone baby face nelson and john dillinger never fought maybe dillinger didn t agree with nelson s bank robbing methods but they never fought nelson also never cried like a little girl while getting beaten they keep calling him lester baby face nelson he was never in his life known by that name nelson s real name was lester gillis and he changed his name to george nelson the black guy that escaped from jail with dillinger was herbert youngblood but in this movie he is known as reed youngblood john milius doesn t know anything where the hell did john milius get his information i could probably make a better movie than him finally the way they showed john dillinger die is outrageous and inexcusable the movie shows dillinger walk out of the biograph with the lady in red and his girlfriend billie frechette by the way billie frechette wasn t even there that night but a girl named polly hamilton was melvin purvis yells johnny dillinger pulls out his gun and is blown to hell it is a proved fact that dillinger did not have a gun that night the fbi gave him no chance to surrender and as soon as he was in sight they blew him away they didn t even have to shoot him they were so close that powder burns were found on his face it was murder they also say that the man killed that night was not john dillinger after killing tons of civilians in the little bohemia incident can you imagine the fbi reporting that they had just killed another innocent unarmed man the gun they had on display that was supposedly on dillinger was also proved not to have been manufactured until after dillinger s death i could go on and on how the man they killed wasn t john dillinger but i ll stop here if you would like to know more check it out here see the dillinger version with lawrence tierney if you want but don t waste your time with this inaccurate piece of garbage movie,0
the crimson rivers is one of the most over directed over the top over everything mess i ve ever seen come out of france there s nothing worse than a french production trying to out do films made in hollywood and cr is a perfect example of such a wannabe horror action buddy flick i almost stopped it halfway through because i knew it wouldn t amount to anything but french guys trying to show off the film starts off promisingly like some sort of expansive horror film but it quickly shifts genres from horror to action to x files type to buddy flick that in the end cr is all of it and also none of it it s so full of clich s that at one point i thought the whole thing was a comedy the painful dialogue and those silent pauses with fades outs and fades ins just at the right expositionary moments made me groan i thought only films made in hollywood used this hackneyed technique the chase scene with vincent cassel running after the killer is so over directed and over done that it s almost a thing of beauty the climax on top of the mountain with the stupid revelation about the killer s with cassel and reno playing buddies like nolte and murphy in hrs completely derailed what little credibility the film had by then it s difficult to believe that the director of the crimson rivers also directed gothika which though had its share of problems doesn t even come close to the awfulness of this overbaked confused film,0
when originally screened in america in the night stalker became the highest rated made for t v movie in history based on jeff rice s unpublished novel it told how a fearless investigative reporter named carl kolchak the late darren mcgavin discovered the existence of a vampire in modern day las vegas when it arrived on british television four years later it did not quite have the same impact but my friends were talking about it at school on monday morning as indeed was i we all agreed that it was one of the most exciting things we had seen i did not know of the existence of the night strangler until it turned up nearly a decade later i t v who screened the kolchak movies had apparently decided to pass on the spin off series they felt barnaby jones starring buddy ebsen to be more of a draw and anyway viewers might confuse kolchak with kojak for years my only source of information concerning the show was an article in fangoria magazine i could not even purchase the jeff rice novels then something wonderful happened in b b c put out the show as part of a late night friday series devoted to the supernatural called mystery train hosted by richard o brian kolchak found himself rubbing shoulders with the likes of the brain eaters and earth vs the spider the opening titles were trimmed removing kolchak s whistling and the closing credits well there were none the first episode screened was werewolf i cannot say i was overly impressed but stuck with it and am i glad that i did i really wish i d seen it in my twelve year old self would have adored it creepy humorous exciting no wonder it fired chris carter s imagination the show s biggest asset was of course mcgavin unlike the recent kolchak the original was an everyman figure eccentrically dressed rather conservative he was to the supernatural what columbo was to crime the late simon oakland was great too as kolchak s bad tempered boss tony vincenzo the scripts overflowed with wonderful dry wit i found myself enjoying the programme more for the humour content than the horror when the twenty episodes ended i felt bereft the x files came along a few years later and filled the void but only to an extent i wanted kolchak and vincenzo back i am glad that the show was never revived though without oakland it would not have been the same i have the rice books now and have read them several times i was very surprised when stephen king slated the first in his book danse macabre as it is as good as anything he has written alright so some of the monsters were hardly state of the art but so what the new kolchak totally missed the point of the original what you don t see is sometimes more frightening than what you do best episode horror in the heights worst episode the sentry,1
ok i have read about this film somewhere in the internet and many criticized on how bad and sucks this film was and i couldn t have been more agree about it then after that i saw this film on dvd i was thinking twice about this and then came commercial of this film on tv luckily i spared my money for this pieces of crap i was sacrificed my sleeps for this film and soon it turned out that this film couldn t make me satisfy so i can t be judging on how the film was made but anyway it still sucks as for those who liked this film i would apologize for flaming this film and telling on how sucks this film is i don t know what do you think about this film,0
i had the pleasure of seeing this film at the rhode island international film festival and was very impressed tess nanavati is clearly a great screenwriter and i would love to see more of her films if she could do what she did with the budget of this film i m very anxious to see what she can do with a major picture kudos to the cast for their terrific performances that little girl was gold and to whoever composed the music the warped row your boat blew me away very creative film all around i really hope to see it come out on video or dvd because i d buy it in a second if you get the chance you should definitely see this film,1
it s a very good movie not only for the fans of lady death comics but also for those who like animated movies series of adventure and fantasy the film is about a innocent girl who is about killed for something she hadn t done but for be who she is daughter of the ruler of hell lucifer himself then she seeks revenge and the rest you better see it from the movie i liked the movie a lot the characters are like the original comics form chaos i never had the chance of read the the first parts of the story in comics only the last ones after the passages in the movie so i cannot tell you if the events are exactly like the comics but one way or another it s the story of lady death,1
this movie is without a doubt the worst horror movie i ve ever seen and that s saying a lot considering i ve seen such stinkers like demon of paradise lovers lane and bloody murder which is a close second however i love bad horror movies and as you can tell from my username this one really sticks out at times there s nothing more entertaining than a poorly made slasher flick as for this film the opening scene in which a woman gets fried in a tanning booth appears to have no bearing on the film whatsoever especially since the movie fails to tell you that the event happened years prior to the rest of the film the acting is nonexistent and most of the camera shot are of women s areas shrink wrapped in spandex the policeman was the most stone faced monotone actor i ve ever seen the best worst part of this movie however has to be the murder weapon a giant safety pin what were they thinking who s the killer a disgruntled huggies employee i d have to give this movie an overall zero but darned if i didn t have a blast watching it,0
passport to pimlico is a real treat for all fans of british cinema not only is it an enjoyable and thoroughly entertaining comedy but it is a cinematic flashback to a bygone age with attitudes and scenarios sadly now only a memory in british life stanley holloway plays pimlico resident arthur pemberton who after the accidental detonation of an unexploded bomb discovers a wealth of medieval treasure belonging to the th century duke of burgundy that has been buried deep underneath their little suburban street these last years accompanying the treasure is an ancient legal decree signed by king edward iv of england which has never been officially rescinded to state that that particular london street had been declared burgandian soil which means that in the eyes of international law pemberton and the other local residents are no longer british subjects but natives of burgundy and their tiny street an independent country in it s own right and a law unto itself this sets the war battered and impoverished residents up in good stead as they believe themselves to be outside of english law and jurisdiction so in an act of drunken defiance they burn their ration books destroy and ignore their clothing coupons flagrantly disregard british licencing laws etc declaring themselves fully independent from britain however what then happens is ever spiv black marketeer and dishonest crook follows suit and crosses the border into burgundy as a refuge from the law and post war restrictions to sell their dodgy goods and half of london s consumers follow them in order to dodge the ration making their quiet happy little haven a den of thieves and a rather crowded one at that appealing to whitehall for assistance they are told that due to developments this is now a matter of foreign policy which his majesty s government is reluctant to become involved which leaves the residents high and dry they do however declare the area a legal frontier and as such set up a fully equipped customs office at the end of the road mainly to monitor smuggling than to ensure any safety for the residents of pimlico eventually the border is closed altogether starting a major siege with the bugundian residents slowly running out of water and food but never the less fighting on in true british style as one bugundian resident quotes we re english and we always were english and it s just because we are english we are fighting so hard to be bugundians a sentiment that is soon echoed throughout the capital as when the rest of london learn of the poor bugundians plight they all feel compelled to chip in and help them by throwing food and supplies over the barbed wire blockades will whitehall who has fought off so may invaders throughout the centuries finally be brought to it s knees by this new batch of foreigners especially as these ones are english great tale and great fun throughout not to be missed,1
designed only to annoy or amuse any self respecting intelligent person if the director s intention had been for the viewer to dislike the title character then it would have been okay but i know that there is no such thing as a hollywood director who d make a critique of america s pro marxist s movement especially not a filmmaker from the s there is so much idiotic dialog going on here that sometimes i wondered if i wasn t actually watching a comedy you wouldn t be at fault for thinking that this is a satire that s how na ve the movie appears spacek has been in her share of leftist movies which brings me to the obvious inescapable conclusion that the redhead hick is one of those hollywood liberal morons but i mean aren t they all nice boobs but s t for brains,0
down to earth out of four by blake french down to earth is such a mislead and desperate comedy it makes sitting home on the couch watching a chris rock standup comedy act on tv look like heaven speaking of heaven the film is based on the movie heaven can wait that was a good movie and this is good to demonstrate how a group of aspiring screenwriters can take decent material and turn it into garbage directors chris and paul weitz miss nearly every target from concept to storytelling down to earth fails miserably this is one incredibly bad production chris rock is a lousy standup comedian both in his role in this movie and in the real life he plays lance barton whose manager frankie faison even feels sorry for him when he is booed off stage during amateur night at a local theatre soon after the script establishes his lack of talent the character is killed by a speeding truck death played by eugene levy has made a mistake taking lance before his number was up god s assistant chazz palminteri is very angry and decides to let lance make up the remainder of his time on earth as long as he takes the only available body of a year old white millionaire the old man s name is mr wellington whose life has problems of its own his wife jennifer coolidge is having an affair with his assistant greg germann who is robbing him of his money but that s all right because lance inside mr wellington has fallen in love with a young black woman named sontee regina king meanwhile there are plots to kill wellington lance attempting to get a better body and sontee s confused feelings dealing with a hospital situation involving mr wellington s finances down to earth has some good ideas but they are in a pointless and unconvincing love story filled with contrivances and recycled material the biggest problem it runs into is how we perceive lance as mr wellington chris rock is the actor with popularity and publicity so he is not going to be absent from most of this movie all of the characters see the new lance as mr wellington but we see him as chris rock this is convenient for the love story we believe a young woman would fall for lance but in reality he is actually an old gray haired geezer that is not so convincing the one joke comic situation is supposed to be watching an old man doing funny things that are really done by a young black man but what inspires laughter is when characters run into conflicts without their knowledge just look at there s something about mary in the funny scenes the characters are exposed to awkward experiences and not at their will here lance knows he is in an old man s body and does things old men would not normally do if lance did not know the body he was in then that may have had potential another problem with the concept we never knew mr wellington in the first place so how can we compare lance in his body when we do not know what he was like originally to top everything off chris rock needs to be the center of attention here and makes the character too much like rock he recites simple standup routine jokes that are tedious and painful his dialogue is so obvious wooden and straightforward i hated the film s sense of humor there are so many unfunny jokes and horrible comic situations it is like watching chris rock being chris rock not a character in a movie let s emphasize the positives in down to earth mark addy does not do any worse here than he did in the flintstones in viva rock vegas eugene levy and chazz palmentari are well cast but they are at the mercy of a scalped script those are all the good qualities i can mention at this time and if you give me another week to recollect it is not likely that i will come up with any more,0
just another film that exploits gratuitous frontal male nudity awful acting plus the lovemaking scenes are the most un sexy i ve ever seen and this is not about me not linking the idea of two young men making love since i m gay again as in mil nubes de paz julian hernandez directed an incredibly pretentious film with a story that makes enough argument for a short film of about five minutes but manages to make a hour film with it and this time there isn t even the issue of racism and commodification in the mexican gay community to talk about god gracious have mercy on us,0
hi my name is jessica i m italian some time ago i have seen this film for the very first time with corin corky nemec it was the story of micheal and mary margaret i need to know the title of the song of the most important love scene in micheal s bedroom in italy this film hasn t been programmed for many years and i don t know how to find the song a lot of thanks for who can help me i love this film is very romantic the soundtrack is beautiful i love cheryl pollack jessica,1
i thought this move was very good there were a few things that were less than perfect but overall i was quite surprised the courtroom scene in the end seemed a little unrealistic but was real enough to be entertaining i found that the movie communicated the hardships of going though military training and the sacrifices that go along with it being a military pilot i could relate to many of these parts,1
of course by any normal standard of film criticism soldier is a very poor film indeed kurt russell is a futuristic super soldier raised since birth to kill but then made obsolete after being bettered by a bunch of really super soldiers at a dangly hoop ruck that looks a bit like a gladiators contest without the crash mats abandoned on a junk planet he s befriended by a community of naff space hippies that teach him about gardening family life and um breasts kurt doesn t talk much finally the really super soldiers turn up and kill the hippies by shooting them in the back while they re running away kurt gets angry and kills everyone a planet gets totalled the end unless the academy start a new category for best explosion soldier is not going to win any awards however as ludicrous as it is it remains an enjoyable experience the military hardware is the coolest since aliens the apc s especially and at minutes long it doesn t outstay its welcome please note that the below mark is only a guide knock five points off if you intend to take it seriously and discount one more if you don t like miniguns out of,1
given the people involved it is hard to see why this movie should be so messed up and dull the writer david ward wrote the amazing caper film the sting two years later jane fonda had just won an academy award for klute and donald sutherland had just done excellent work in films like klute start the revolution without me and kelly s heroes plotwise the movie is a caper tale with a small gang of bumbling misfits planning a big heist at the same time the movie wants to be hip satire a series of comedy sketches of the type that the nbc television show saturday night would do so well two years later the bad result is that the plot makes the comedy bits seem awkward and forced and the disconnected comedy bits destroy any kind of suspense that the heist might have it is quite literally a movie that keeps smashing into itself just as the cars in the cars in the demolition scenes run into each other the only real interest for me was watching jane fonda her iris caine is supposed to be a light hearted version of her dramatic bree daniels prostitute character in klute yet one doesn t believe her for a moment it is always jane fonda pretending to be a prostitute that we are watching it is as terrible a performance as her performance in klute was terrific it would be a good lesson for acting teachers to run the two films together to show how the same actress in the same type of role can be great or pathetic it suggests that actors are only as good as their writers and directors,0
yeah stupidity i just finish watching and i still have bad taste in my mouth too much colors too much unnecessary addons to a story too much stupid characters i presume they wanted to achieve comic relief but i only wanted to cry too much of everything shame to spoil one of divine stories from arabian nights like this childish naive both on a bad way and with lot of magic breaking mistakes i don t think this could keep a child of five for more then ten minutes princess is lovely but should be tongueless cause actress don t know how to carry a role rest of the cast is even worse our bad guy is really bad shame that the good guy is not better only light in this dark is of course david carradine who goes unfortunately deeply down under his level with this but at least keep his actor fighter skills at top i m still sorry to see him in a thing like this but glad that i had something to watch in whole charade so thank you david only only for him i give this stars to this fiasco i would give more for him but that would rise final score to entire movie the rest is so bad that i would maybe like to grade it but there is no grade lover then here and i think that would be too much,0
flight of fury starts as general tom barnes angus macinnes organises an unofficial test flight of the x a new stealth fighter jet with the ability to literally turn invisible general barnes gives his top pilot colonel ratcher steve toussaint the job everything goes well until the x disappears even more literally than barnes wanted as ratcher flies it to northern afghanistan delivers it to a terrorist group known as the black sunday lead by peter stone vincenzo nicoli who plans to use the x to fly into us airspace undetected drop some bombs which will kills lots of people general barnes is worried by the loss of his plane sends in one man army john sands co writer executive producer steven seagal to get it back kill all the bad guy s in the process this american british romanian co production was directed by michael keusch was the third film in which he directed seagal after the equally awful shadow man attack force luckily someone decided the partnership wasn t working an unsuspecting public have thankfully been spared any further collaboration s between the two apparently flight of fury is an almost scene for scene word for word remake of black thunder starring michael dudikoff with many of the same character s even sharing the same name so exactly the same dialogue could be used without the makers even having to change things like names although i must admit i have never seen black thunder therefore cannot compare the two flight of fury is a terrible film the poorly made written waste of time that seagal specialises in these days it s boring even though it s not that slow the character s are poor it s full of clich s things happen at random the plot is poor the reasoning behind events are none existent it s a very lazy production overall as it never once convinces the viewer that they are anywhere near afghanistan or that proper military procedures are being followed the action scenes are lame there s no real excitement in it the villains are boring as are the heroes it s right down there with the worst seagal has made flight of fury seems to be made up largely of stock footage which isn t even matched up that well the background can change peoples clothes change the area changes the sky the quality of film changes very abruptly as it s all too obvious we are watching clips from other better films spliced in hell seagal never even goes anywhere near a plane in this the action scenes consist of shoot outs so badly edited it s hard to tell who is who of course seagal breaking peoples arms the whole production feels very cheap shoddy the imdb reckons this had a budget of about which i think is total rubbish i mean if so where did all the money go although set in afghanistan which is a war torn arid desert flight of fury looks like it was filmed down my local woods it was actually shot in romania the romanian countryside does not make a convincing afghanistan the acting is terrible as one would expect seagal looks dubbed again flight of fury is a terrible action film that is boring amateurish is an almost scene for scene remake of another film anyway another really lazy poorly produced action thriller from seagal why do i even bother any more,0
when it first came out this work by the meysels brothers was much criticized and even judged to be exploitation luckily it is now hailed as a masterpiece of documentary cinema especially now that society has been exposed to real exploitation in what is reality television and the bad evolution of most direct cinema really at first we must say that this isn t really direct cinema it is more cinema verit the difference between the two is very slight but it mainly is the fact that in this documentary we are made to feel the presence of the meysels brothers and they do interact with the characters filmed this as well makes it clear that it is not exploitation the meysels have been allowed in the house and they are included in what is a very eccentric situation of a very eccentric household and both edith and edie just love the idea of being filmed it would have been very disappointing had very been shown only a voice of god narration and shallow interviews here we are given a full portrait of the madness of the house a madness that does seem to go down well with both edie and her mother edith their house is a mess litter and animals everywhere faded colors and furniture all over the house and the constant fights that are constant interactions of reality these two people have lived with each other their whole life and are not fighting in front of the camera because they want the attention but rather because they can t help talking to each other this way they know each other too well to hide their inner feelings there is no need in the end though even as they blame each other for their lives they really love each other deeply edie says she doesn t want her mother to die because she loves her very much and edith says that she doesn t want edie to leave her because she doesn t want to be alone but the most interesting aspect of the film is that regardless of their old age the two women can t help be girls they cannot help being one the singer the other the dancer exhibit all their artistic skills in front of their camera when edie asks david meysels rhetorically where have you been all my life she is really very happy that she finally gets to show the whole world herself and her wonderful showgirls skills a beautiful portrait of stylistic importance and a charm that is highly unlikely to be ever seen again the way only the meysels and few others could do,1
indian directors have it tough they have to compete with movies like laggan where henpecked castrated males defend their village and half of them are certifiable idiots devdas a hapless fedar festooned foreign return drinking to oblivion with characters running in endless corridors oblivious to any one s feelings or sentiments alas they live in an ornate squalor of red tapestry and pageantry but to make a good movie you have to tight rope walk to appease the frontbenchers who are the quentessential gapers who are mesmerized with split skirts and dishum dishum fights preferably involving a nitwit bollywood leading actor who is marginally handsome so you can connect with a director who wants to tell a tale of leonine village head who in own words defending his village this is considered a violent movie or too masculine for a male audience there are very few actors who can convey the anger and pathos like nana patekar narasimhan nana patekar lets you in his courtyard and watch him beret and mock the politician when his loyal admirers burst in laughter with every word of satire thrown at him meanwhile his daughter is bathing his grandson this is as authentic a scene you can get in rural india nana patekar is the essential actor who belongs to the old school of acting which is a disappearing breed in hindi films the violence depicted is an intricate part of storytelling with song dances thrown in for the gawkers without whom movies won t sell a sad but true state of affairs faster this changes better for bollywood all said and done this is one good movie,1
on the contrary to the person listed above me i felt that this movie was really funny particularly in the scenes were there is a lot of mix up i don t want to give the plot and the storyline away to the people that haven t watched it yet but i will say that paresh rawal does not have an extensive role such as past priyadarshan movies for example hera pheri and hungama paresh rawal does an amazing part in the little role given to him john abraham does equally well akshay kumar has proved that he is no less in this movie like he had from waqt and almost all his movies after andaaz even though all three heroins in this movie were at a debut they did a pretty good job of acting particularly nargis who is very good looking and hot i would say that if you liked hungama or hera pheri this movie is a must watch,1
this is what we can do to each other this is the sort that everbody should see at least once it does not glorify world it shows that it is the everyday person who is killed mained and debased by war the person on the other side eats sleeps laughs and cry just as we do,1
having seen and loved greg lombardo s most recent film knots he co wrote and directed that feature as well i decided to check out his earlier work and this movie was well worth the effort and rental macbeth in manhattan is a tongue in cheek excellent take on the shakespeare favorite updated and moved to nyc i was impressed by the underlying wit and intelligence of the script and was wowed by the way the storyline of the production in the movie mirrors the storyline of the play itself and very cleverly at that the trials and tribulations of life in manhattan parallel many a shakespeare play and central park was rarely put to better use than as the woods around macbeth s castle mr lombardo obviously has a fond place in his heart for new york and new york stories knots is a funny and warm sex comedy about six thirty something new yorkers set primarily in a charming brooklyn neighborhood with manhattan offices and a downtown loft thrown in for good measure and has spent considerable time around the plays of shakespeare the movie is well paced and the story reflects a deep understanding of the essential drama at the core of macbeth it reminded me of al pacino s looking for richard another wonderful shakespeare play within a movie i highly recommend checking out macbeth in manhattan,1
i bought this movie and after i watched it i decided that i did not care for it the acting was bad was the principal a robot he had no personality and his facial expression didn t change through the whole movie at times the voices didn t match up people talking and their lips didn t even move,0
this is a fair little show about the paranormal although it feels as if art bell and his ilk figured out how to carve a career out of the attitude that carl kolchak exemplified of course there probably wouldn t be an x files if this show hadn t prepped this audience for it so well darren mcgavin is not exactly the super heroic type but he is a plausible enough guy to deliver heroic deeds check out his work on some of those old alfred hitchcock presents here he is the main attraction there doesn t seem to be a girlfriend or wife who s a distraction in fact there isn t a whole lot of sex appeal to the show something i m noticing as well is that the pacing isn t really suspenseful in a typical way there s a lot of throwaway humor to this show sometimes its just pokey to get to the climax there s a thread from this show coming all the way up to the present mad men show in terms of style not that david chase writes mad men but the people that worked under him on the sopranos definitely have emulated and inherited his serio comic tone,0
this review may contain some spoilers the remake of the classic car chase movie gone in seconds begins well actually it is well acted and the plot moves quite well but even a big hollywood budget doesn t change the fact that the original plot was more believable for those who don t know the original plot had the thieves working as insurance inspectors who would suspect them but even with a change to nearly every aspect of h b halicki s original the remake is a very good movie until we get to the final chase scene the part of the version that made it great the one in this version is watered down only minutes and it culminates in a monster special effect that takes all believability out of the chase where the original chase was very believable the star was a stunt driver who did all his own stunt the remake falls flat in the last minutes my advice if you want to watch a classic car chase film fine the original in the bargain bin at your local rental joint and stay clear of the new remake,0
to me this was more a wake up call and realization that most all we see hear read and think about most anything is dependent on what the media feeds us this is a classic example of high level spin doctors attempting to control the masses through controlled information it is also an excellent example of how people that have a constitution that they freely bought in to will not be swayed by this media control or any attempted mis information once again this shows that at the end of the day the needs of the many will in fact outweigh the needs of the few it is also enlightening to see that in in a country where there is no religious civil war going on that democracy is not a real hard thing to implement,1
i sat down to watch this film with much trepidation and little hope i didn t think it would be possible for this film to live up to its subject matter but it absolutely did and then some first i must say that jared harris did an extraordinary job as john lennon at times it seemed that harris was channeling lennon the resemblance was often uncanny and he clearly studied lennon s mannerisms and vocal inflections aiden quinn was quite good as mccartney also bearing a striking resemblance to macca although he did occasionally trip over his scouse accent this work of fiction was well written and well directed it was pure fantasy of course but sometimes i felt like a voyeur peeking through a keyhole at this reunion the rooftop scene was especially moving as mccartney told lennon what he had never heard as a child that he was worthy and important and it could never be his fault that he was abandoned by his parents i also enjoyed the scene in the park where the pair of them danced with absolute abandon to the reggae band my one complaint would be this i am not so sure that john was as caustic as he was portrayed in the film at this stage in his life he had settled in to his domestic situation quite nicely and he was actually known to be quite friendly when approached by fans only a few years later he was very friendly when he was first approached by his assassin for an autograph on the day he was murdered mostly this film served to stir up those feelings again about what might have been had john lived a bit longer i am quite sure the beatles would have come back together at some stage and i am quite certain that lennon and mccartney would still be friends today well done vh i will watch it again and again,1
yes commitment let s say fever pitch might trick you into believing it s a baseball movie but no you don t have to be a baseball fan to actually enjoy this picture from the farrelly brothers but of course if you are one you will enjoy it even more with all the references pretty accurate ones i d say to the boston red sox and its bittersweet history from the curse of the bambino and everything attributed to it including those two words you cannot pronounce in front of a boston fan bill buckner drew barrymore and jimmy fallon portray two people who usually might have second thoughts of going into a relationship the successful workaholic who is also affluent meeting a school teacher thing is fallon s character wins barrymore s heart by being funny caring sweet and downright perfect but her friends ask her a logical question if he s such a keeper why is he still on the market enter the boston red sox he s been so committed to his team ever since his uncle passed his sox season tickets to him he has never missed a red sox home game at fenway park in a long while and that delicate balance how much is the workaholic willing to give up for his guy s obsession and how much is that baseball crazed teacher willing to compromise in order to keep the other love of his life is what this movie is all about at first you might think that the sports obsession bits of the movie are exaggerated for comic relief well i m sad to admit they are not myself as a die hard houston astros fan can say they are all true i would try at every way available to see every stros game listen to them on the radio or follow them on the internet i read the chronicle s sports section every day and yes my room looks like the shed minute maid park s gift shop with a closet full of astros gear including jerseys t shirts and you know the rest fallon s character even has the red sox mbna mastercard fallon was credible enough as the fanatical red sox faithful even though he could pull it off without becoming a cartoon thank god adam sandler wasn t in it and the plot revolved around how this couple tried to manage with each other s passions i d say it ll be a classical romantic comedy not enough to be among the best movies in history but certainly breaks a mold into the genre and is appealing enough for men and women alike,1
the great caruso was the biggest hit in the world in and broke all box office records at radio city music hall in a year when most movergoers were stay at homes watching their new motorola televisions almost all recent box office figures are false because they fail to adjust inflation obviously today s movies will dominate in it cost c to at radio city c to c first run at loew s palace in washington dc or c to c in neighborhood runs what counts is the number of people responding to the picture not unadjusted box office media spin the genius of the great caruso was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of enrico caruso really not a great story anyway and threw it in the trash instead of the movie s focus was on the music thus mgm gave us the best living opera singer mario lanza doing the music of the best ever historic opera singer enrico caruso the result was a wonderful movie too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeating too fat to play the student prince edmund purdom took his place with lanza s voice dubbed in and with the formerly handsome and not fat lanza pictured in the advertising if you want to see the great caruso it s almost always on ebay for or less don t be put off by the low price as it reflects only the easy availability of copies not the quality of the movie,1
i ve watched this movie twice now on dvd and both times it didn t fail to impress me with its unique impartial attitude it seems more like a depiction of reality than most other hollywood fare especially on a topic that is still hotly discussed even though it sticks closely with the southern viewpoint it doesn t fail to question it and in the end the only sentence passed is that the war is lost not matter what and cruelty is a common denominator what really makes this movie outstanding is the refusal to over dramatize nowadays truly good movies in a nutshell are few and far apart with mainstream fare being enjoyable if you don t have high expectations but terribly commercially spirited i think this movie comes off as a truly good movie without being a masterpiece because it sticks to itself and gives the viewer a chance to watch and analyze it instead of wanting to bombard him with effect and emotion to blot out his intelligence this movie is cool observant and generally light handed in its judgement which is good the story has its flaws especially jewel s character comes off doubtfully but then again the situation at the time was so chaotic that for a young widow it might have been only logical to somehow get back into a normal life even by liberally taking each next guy still she doesn t come off as weak in fact i think she s one of the stronger characters she s always in control of the relationships with the men just tagging and i take it very gratefully that she s not a weeping widow i believe in the th century death of a loved one was something a lot more normal than now you could die so easily of even minor illnesses and injuries so the prospect of of someone dying while surely causing grief didn t traumatise people like it does now people didn t seem to build shrines about their lost ones like they do now and i like that attitude my recommendation is for intelligent people to watch this movie if they are in the mood for something different than the usual hollywood fare don t watch if if you want non stop action or heart renting emotion,1
if you go see this movie you ll be holding a grudge against the movie theatre the director the producer the actors and the person that told you to go see it shame on you sarah michelle geller for putting your name and face to this poor excuse of a movie it may have been more scary if the japanese actors would have just spoken in japanese instead of attempting to act in english i wanted to boo when the movie ended a true disappointment after all of the hype on tv and movie trailers promoting this lame money maker sarah michelle really didn t have to act at all to make this movie she just practiced her frowning skills don t waste your time or money on this film,0
you know a movie will not go well when john carradine narrates a k a reads the script plot synopsis over his character s funeral procession a mere minutes into the movie the narration is his character s last will testament it stipulates that his estate be divided amongst his children and servants the children shall split million equally but if any should die then that share is split amongst the remainders if all the children should die then it is divided amongst the servants to be eligible they must live in the family estate for a week it sounds like the typical plot of a reality show there is little subtext as to the nature of the deans they are a powerful and severely dysfunctional family but the real trouble starts with the drowning of that dog from the opening voice over by john carradine you expect this movie will lead to a machiavellian cat and mouse game with a twist ending that journey is painfully slow and pointless we trudge through minutes of watching people sitting around playing pool throwing darts the misuse of the through the fish bowl shot dramatic conversations between silk cravat wearing men constant bickering misplaced circus music bizarre flashbacks reminiscent of faux german expressionism the horror aesthetic of the th grade and heaps of dramatic overacting this all inevitably leads to the expected ungratifying ending you will be happy to still be alive but the pain might be too great to bear alone share children share celluloid rehab,0
the film opens with bill coles melvyn douglas telling a story about how his best friend make that client jim blandings cary grant and his family are tightly packed into a small new york apartment with not enough closet space and way too few bathrooms when jim s wife muriel myrna loy wants to renovate the apartment advertising exec jim falls in love with or falls for an ad for a house once he s purchased the house bills and frustration pile up incessantly as everything that can go wrong with the building of jim s dream house goes wrong one of three collaborations between grant and loy this is a charming little comedy not very taxing with no real great message but a great way to spend an hour or two the laughs are there right from the start when the alarm clock goes off and jim tries to shut it off only to be thwarted at every turn by muriel the timing and delivery of the comedic lines and situations can only be given by a couple of seasoned pros and that s just what grant and loy give us polished performances simple chemistry and a lot of fun myrna loy is in a pretty thankless role it s evident that grant s character jim gets the lion share of the lines and the acting and grant as always pulls both off with remarkable aplomb but she gives muriel a colour life and bite that only myrna loy can give a character melvyn douglas plays wry amusement to perfection as well never hitting a single wrong note one of my favourite scenes has definitely got to be when bill gets himself locked in the store room and jim goes to save him only to get everyone trapped inside every little problem that pops up for the blandings renovation project including petty jealousy and an ad campaign for wham seems to bring together everything that could go wrong with building a new house but makes it believable and an enjoyable watch,1
recently i was looking for the newly issued wide screen dvd of fly away home and came upon interesting title that i had never heard of grey owl the fact that it was a richard attenborough film caught my attention he responsible for such fine films as gandhi chaplin and shadowlands i noticed that the screenplay was by william nicholson author of shadowlands this special edition was full of interesting sounding material and the price was just under so i chanced it bought it wow what a beautiful film pierce brosnan stars as archie grey owl a real life trapper in the s who came to love and respect the wild lands of canada and worked to help protect them brosnan who starred in a james bond film gives a shaded warm powerful performance as does annie galipeau as the young woman who loves and influences his feeling for the creatures of the land especially the beaver a fine score by george fenton the crucible and beautiful photograhy by roger pratt add greatly to the effectiveness of the film and the extras on this dvd are something else includes two shorts made in the s with the real grey owl as well as audio commentary tracks by attenborough and producer jake eberts featurettes and many other fine additions plus options for those having access to a pc with dvd rom features grey owl has been released directly to dvd in the united states a fact that richard attenborough attributes to hollywood s lack of interest in distributing something that isn t loaded with a lot of violence and sex this is a film that not only informs and entertains but leaves you with something to think about i had a very warm feeling at the films conclusion and a whole new love and understanding for beavers grey owl is a very fine film worth checking out this is one i look forward to sharing with others,1
for shame for shame that a fine actor such as joseph fiennes would allow himself to be cast in this piece of nauseating drivel the movie was not only bad but down right horrible and of no redeeming quality the plot was there one seemed to go no where the russians played silly kill or be killed games and the rest of the cast should be declared null and void for their pathetic performances i gave up about of the way through and turned it off a for awful only because there is nothing lower don t waste your time on this one you ll not miss anything,0
having not seen the previous two in the trilogy of bourne movies i was a little reluctant to watch the bourne ultimatum however it was a very thrilling experience and i didn t have the problem of not understanding what was happening due to not seeing the first two films each part of the story was easy to understand and i fell in love with the bourne ultimatum before it had reached the interval i don t think i have ever watched such an exquisitely made and gripping film especially an action film since i usually shy away from action and thriller type movies this was such great news to me ultimatum is one of the most enthralling films it grabs your attention from the first second till the last minute before the credits roll matt damon was simply fantastic as his role as jason bourne i ve heard a lot about his great performances in the bourne and now this fabulous actor has one more to add to his list i look forward to seeing more of his movies in the future the stunts were handled with style each one was done brilliantly and i was just shocked by the impressiveness of this movie well done,1
i don t remember ever seeing this one before tonight probably the title sounded so ordinary it kept passing me by but it is a well crafted b western with an interestingly brooding storyline complimented by acting veering from the good to corny robert mitchum slopes into wide open town looking for his wife and news of their daughter and stays for a time as town tamer as usual the good business folk have mixed emotions they want to get rid of the baddies but like the business they bring it still applies relax drink and gambling laws and encourage the industries but pretend to deplore the seedy effects it can have on ordinary people what s fascinating about this film is mitchum s cynically intense portrayal in going about cleaning the town of baddies and the townsfolk s acceptance that his violent methods were the only ones favourite bit the sudden demise of of the baddies in the red dog saloon the firing of the main saloon bordered on nasty but it was an effective way to combat the spread of poison overall a very good film with its only fault tending to be a little hokeyness not so good for do gooders who would probably prefer a lifetime of negotiation with evil rather than end it,1
i have been a huge lynn peterson fan ever since her breakthrough role in the blockbuster movie far north and even though i loved her in her one other film slow where she plays francis this is by far and away her strongest role lynn as i m sure you all know or should plays the critical role of driver unfortunately other than lynn s amazing performance i m afraid this movie doesn t really have much going for it oh wait there was one other thing the amazing creativity of the editing to remove profanity for tv viewers memorable lines like you son of a gun you son of a witch shoot and well forget you o k bye p s does anyone know where i can get another lynn peterson poster,0
twelve monkeys is an insane time travelling action packed movie that stars bruce willis who plays james cole a man who is sent back in time to collect information about the devastating plague that ensues in november of unfortunately he is sent back too far to the year where everyone believes that he is insane this movie is thrilling and has great acting performances from bruce willis brad pitt and madeleine stowe twelve monkeys is one of the greatest time travelling movies that i believe anybody can enjoy terry gilliam has created a true masterpiece,1
snl is pretty funny but people who say this is like watching a short skit on snl is a little dumb minded it s nothing like snl it s just a stupid piece of crap andy samberg tries to act like jon heder but fails although jon heder is only funny in napoleon dynamite andy tries his hardest and people think he s funny only funny people in the movie were danny mcbride and bill hader the only part that was decently funny with andy was the pool part they could have made the quiet place a lot better if they didn t make the falling scene freaking minutes the part where he s pronouncing his h s more is retarded they try going with it too long and half the time it looks like andy is laughing while he acts he s a horrible actor and doesn t deserve to be in a movie this movie is a joke and is for the simple minded people with the brain of a year old level of comedy which is about half the united states,0
not for people without swift mind or without a drop of balkan blood in their veins if you don t have any of these you can not understand it and if you don t understand you can t enjoy it for example if you think picasso is a name of a car produced by citroen probably if you see a picasso s painting you just will walk by it deciding that it s a trash work of some street painter so do not judge before trying to understand it in the end i think it s a must for every one with open minds still my n remains the shawshank redemption and remember that not all things can be put in frames because there are things in this world that any frame just won t fit,1
star rating saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning alice having defeated freddy at the end of the last film is now trying to re adjust her life but her unborn child is carrying a demonous presence freddy trying to come out into their world again it s interesting to note the directors who got their big breaks directing freddy films charles russell eraser the mask renny harlin the long kiss goodnight cutthroat island cliffhanger die hard and here stephen hopkins lost in space predator but while russell and harlin made a good job of it hopkins imo has made something of a podge with this entry that should be quickly forgotten the story is clearly being stretched as far as it can go here with freddy ludicrously a father himself and the ridiculous looking demon baby even at about an hour and a half it all gets rather tiresome and of course not scary at all the bon appetit bitch catch phrase is the only memorable point of this other wise very forgettable entry,0
is a classic example of cinema verite a sort of realist documentary in this case of new york firemen as they battle against one of the most extraordinary events of world history it s all tiny unobtrusive hand held video cameras often betrayed by the poor quality of most of the filming and by the director naudet s hand frequently wiping the screen in this film you get to know most of the firemen tony benatatos the rookie or probie in ny fireman vernacular the fire chief joseph pfeiffer who finds he s lost his brother later on and a few others there are studio interviews with most of these people throughout the film just to emphasise the personal reflexive nature of the events the build up is quite dramatic and well done particularly the passing out ceremony at the fire department with a few useful swish pans and a sort of dialectical editing of the rather limited filmwork just like rob reiner s a few good men tony looks proud the viewpoint and camera angle is usually from amidst the firemen which is interesting and there is some excellent footage from inside the lobby of wtc while pfeiffer and his team plan what to do next this is classic cinema verite there is also the eery haunting sound of the occasional human body crashing against the portico outside it is then that an increasingly forlorn fire chief pfeiffer realises that his task is desperate and probably hopeless and this is before wtc collapses you have to give credit to naudet for knowing which faces to film and at which moment the sound of the neighbouring wtc collapsing is so awfully sad poignant and terrifying that you realise what an ordeal this is for the firemen from the lobby it looks feels and sounds like the end of the world and the poor firemen look so utterly bewildered and frightened you hear an enormous rumbling trembling maelstrom like that of a giant monolithic beast slowly falling to the ground after being so mortally wounded the neighbouring tower has collapsed yet the fire team remaining in wtc are oblivious to this event where is the communication this film is captivating yet the narration is amateurish and should have been avoided cues like this really was a day like no other or naudet s frequently banal pronouncements like you could see fear in everybody s eyes and i knew tony was freaking out the film is really just one long video diary there are no pictures from higher up the building where some of the firemen have gone imagine this film blended with cctv footage from some of the rooms higher up or some of the news coverage from the day the effect would be greater you could even combine this story with that of mayor giuliani and perhaps the famous cornishman rick riscorla who literally was many floors up acting the hero i don t see much of a propaganda element in this film as some reviewers suggest this film is no triumph of the will by riefenstahl some time later the firemen drape the american flag over a nearby surviving building overlooking what has become ground zero so what there are also some moments of dubious camerawork for example who is holding the camera when the two naudet brothers are reunited back at the fire station is it staged there is an excellent finish very much in the traditon of the excellent french director alain resnais hiroshima mon amour with two strips of light reflected in the water shimmying,1
i got to see the whole movie last night and i found it very exciting it was at least not like the teen slasher movies that pop out every now and then the search for the killer and the partner relationship between the hero the so called bad guy was parts i liked about the movie also i remember once being on the edge of my seat during a specific scene in the movie i mean it s exciting maybe some time later i might watch the movie again,1
algie the miner is one bad and unfunny silent comedy the timing of the slapstick is completely off this is the kind of humor with certain sequences that make you wonder if they re supposed to be funny or not however the actual quality of the film is irrelevant this is mandatory viewing for film buffs mainly because its one of the earliest examples of gay cinema the main character of algie is an effeminate guy acting much like the stereotypical pansy common in many early films the film has the homophobic attitude common of the time algie the miner is pretty awful but fascinating from a historical viewpoint,0
i don t know if this is a sitcom or not but i agree that this is one of the greatest television shows ever it s great that this show still airs and i love michelle it s cute on the episodes when she was a baby and she talked and she sometimes said something funny aw this show can relate to children and teens and well families as they struggle through rough times and try to work it out as a family i don t know who would ever turn down an opportunity to watch this show with someone i love the episode when i think her name is dd the older girl accidentally stole a sweatshirt and she learned a lesson about stealing that was a great episode an example that this tv show shows the family working things out as a family i recommend this show for everyone,1
remember ralph bakshi the guy that was an animator on terrytoons then on paramount cartoon studios after that he was a director on fritz the cat and heavy traffic well this is coonskin and it s actually pretty good racist but good the movie takes place in harlem nights no duh it was a working title but with a twist that becomes a lampoon of a disney movie song of the south it s about sampson barry white and the preacherman charles gordone rush to help their friend randy philip michael thomas escape from prison but are stopped by a roadblock and wind up in a shootout with the police while waiting for them randy unwillingly listens to fellow escapee pappy scatman crothers as he begins to tell randy a story about three guys i used to know just like you and your friends pappy s story is told in animation set against live action background photos and footage brother rabbit voice of thomas brother bear voice of white and preacher fox voice of gordone decide to pack up and leave their southern settings after the bank mortgages their home and sells it to a man who turns it into a brothel arriving in harlem rabbit bear and fox find that it isn t all that it s made out to be they encounter a con man named simple savior a phony revolutionary leader who purports to be the cousin of black jesus and that he gives his followers the strength to kill whites in a flashy stage performance in his church savior acts out being brutalized by symbols of black oppression represented by images of john wayne elvis presley and richard nixon before asking his parishioners for donations rabbit first goes up against madigan a virulently racist and homophobic white police officer and the bag man for the mafia who demonstrates his contempt for african americans in various ways including a refusal to bathe before an anticipated encounter with them he believes they re not worth it when madigan finds out that rabbit has been taking his payoffs he and his cohorts ruby and bobby are led to a nightclub called the cottontail a black stripper distracts him while an lsd sugar cube is dropped into his drink madigan while under the influence of his spiked drink is then maneuvered into a sexual liaison with a stereotypically effeminate gay man and then shoved into clothes that women were representative of the racist archetype adorned in something racist and finally shoved out the back of the club where he discovers that ruby and bobby are dead then while recovering from his delirium of being drugged shoots his gun around randomly and is shot to death by the police after shooting one of them rabbit bear fox and the opponent boxer rush out of the boxing arena as it blows up the live action story ends with randy and pappy escaping while being shot at by various white cops but managing to make it out alive this movie was controversial at that time of release and was re edited by the director several times under the title street fight which is obvious since street fight is a documentary about racism in the streets in fact this movie has the same subject as the documentary that caused bryanston pictures the distributor of this film and the original tobe hopper classic texas chainsaw massacre to go out of business because paramount wanted to produce and distribute this film but due to racism bryanston took over bakshi s production despite the controversy it was worth the entertainment the animation was awesome at that time the plot makes sense and it s actually funny too final verdict,1
hunky geordie robson green is owen springer a young doctor who moves home to manchester to be near his father along the way he falls for anna a woman years his senior and who happens to be the wife of his new boss richard crane despite warnings from his new colleagues owen proceeds to get anna for himself going as far as to sabotage anna and the cheating richard s marriage this is a romantic drama with many humorous undertones and a quick wit the actors are superb green of the student prince and touching evil smolders on screen as the cunning yet warm hearted owen annis of dune fame is lively and proves a good match to green kitchen from to play the king is the right menace as richard whose comic missteps and snobbery underline his masterful building hatred for owen this is a perfect love triangle and despite the foibles and fallacies of our three characters you come away better for knowing and watching them,1
the movie was watchable while nicolson was on the screen however i had to fight against passing out from boredom when the film depended on meryl streep to carry scenes without jack she was as bland as could be the relationship between the characters was nothing special these characters have been portrayed before and much better it felt like a based on real life scenario in the absolute worst sense of daily life is boring and not worth writing about or watching why ephron felt her life and relationship with carl bernstein was interesting enough to write about escapes me perhaps she wrote it as therapy for many writers putting an episode from their life on paper is cathartic fine but then why anyone in hollywood felt this story was worth filming remains a mystery to me,0
jeff lowell has written directed over her dead body poorly the idea is first of all is as stale as my jokes and the execution is just a cherry on the cake minus eva longoria parker there is hardly anything appealing in this film eva looks great as ever and delivers a likable performance paul rudd looks jaded and least interested lake bell is a complete miscast she looks manly and delivers a strictly average performance jason biggs is wasted so is lindsay sloane i expected entertainment more from this film sadly i didn t get entertained,0
bettie page was a icon of the repressed s when she represented the sexual freedom that was still a decade away but high in the hopes and dreams of many teenagers and young adults gretchen mol does a superb job of portraying the scandalous bettie who was a small town girl with acting ambitions and a great body her acting career went nowhere but her body brought her to the peak of fame in an admittedly fringe field photogrsphed in black and white with color interludes when she gets out of the world of exploitation in new york this made for tv hbo film has good production values and a very believable supporting cast the problem is it s emotionally rather flat it s difficult to form an attachment to the character since bettie is portrayed as someone quite shallow and naive given the business she was in the self serving government investigations are given a lot of screen time which slows down the film towards the end but it s definitely worth watching for the history of the time and to see the heavy handed government repression that was a characteristic of the fifties,1
in the history of movies based on comic books mystery men is one of the most underrated ones this is no regular comic superhero movie it follows the exploits of a motley crew of well meaning wannabes which include mr furious played by ben stiller the bowler janeane garofalo the shoveller william h macy the blue rajah hank azariah and the spleen paul reubens mystery men spoofs several aspects of superhero movies like superman or batman such as the pithy sayings and the questions about secret identities most of the superheroes aren t billionaires like bruce wayne but blue collar types with menial jobs and neurotic home lives so it looks as if director kinka usher is making the heroes into something the average viewer can relate to i found mystery men to be visually stimulating and very funny even if it doesn t turn into a franchise it s still a joy to watch,1
the costumes the dialog historical accuracy are terrible for instance stacey dash and the hanging scene the noose was accurate as for as i could tell but that type of noose broke the person s neck ms dash is left hanging at the end of the rope with no ill effects until the rope was shot this type of not did not strangle the person it killed them at the end of the drop and right before they go in to rob a bank in a flashback they pause on the street for a group hug with their bandannas hiding their faces that would have been obvious to people on the street the poor editing that is a battery pack under that shirt and it is obvious the clip of the long ride shows them riding along then reverses the film i did like the fact that they kept the scene with the horse taking a crap it seemed symbolic the entire movie was crap,0
i have never seen a comedy that was this much of a chore to sit thru not one laugh in it ok maybe one little chuckle for the michael clarke duncan bit as the big black bald gay virgin but the rest of it was shockingly un funny on top of being void of any laughs the skits go on forever steer clear of this one if you value your time and money dreadful the worst,0
i read all the reviews here after watching this piece of cinematic garbage and it took me at least pages to find out that somebody else didn t think that this appallingly unfunny montage wasn t the acme of humour in the s or indeed in any other era if this isn t the least funny set of sketch comedy i ve ever seen it ll do till it comes along half of the skits had already been done and infinitely better by acts such as monty python and woody allen if i was to say that a nice piece of animation that lasts about seconds is the highlight of this film it would still not get close to summing up just how mindless and drivel ridden this waste of minutes is seminal comedy only in the world where seminal really does mean semen scatological humour only in a world where scat is actually feces precursor jokes only if by that we mean that this is a handbook of how not to do comedy tits and bums and the odd beaver nice if you are a pubescent boy with at least one hand free and haven t found out that playboy exists give it a break because it was the early s no way there had been sketch comedy going back at least ten years prior the only way i could even forgive this film even being made is if it was at gunpoint retro hardly sketches about clowns subtly perverting children may be cutting edge in some circles and it could actually have been funny but it just comes off as really quite sad what kept me going throughout the entire minutes sheer belief that they may have saved a genuinely funny skit for the end i gave the film a because there was no lower score and i can only recommend it to insomniacs or coma patients or perhaps people suffering from lockjaw their jaws would finally drop open in disbelief,0
i enjoyed this film perhaps because i had not seen any reviews etc it was delightful and a little bit of a romp i don t know why it didn t make more of a splash than it did as far as the story goes i could relate to some aspects of the paul reiser character and i could see my dad in falk s character made me remember a lot of past times when i was a kid and listening to my grandparents too if you enjoyed movies like grumpy old men or on golden pond this is your movie a sleeper in my opinion and one of those feel good stories peter falk and paul reiser had many wonderful verbal tussles yet nothing was overdone i would say it rates at least an perhaps higher,1
three scumbags get their just deserts after wasting their lives in greed drugs ego and bad attitudes interesting and well done this style of film always makes me wonder where reality leaves off and imagination takes over even though these folks were the scum of the earth i still found myself pitying them they never really stood much of a chance,1
if there is one thing to recommend about this film is that it is intriguing the premise certainly draws the audience in because it is a mystery and throughout the film there are hints that there is something dark lurking about however there is not much tension and williams mild mannered portrayal doesn t do much to makes us relate to his obsession with the boy collete fares much better as the woman whose true nature and intentions are not very clear the production felt rushed and holes are apparent it certainly feels like a preview for a much more complete and better effort the book is probably better one thing is certain taupin must have written something truly good to have inspired at least one commendable effort,1
it s made in and the cg is bad for a movie made in at one part in the movie there is a stop motion shot of a dinosaur that actually looks good but this just makes the extremely amateur work on the cg stuff look even worse the writing acting directing and everything else in this movie is just terrible this is as bad as if not worse than raptor island and million bc pure crap again as with the other movies the only scary part about this movie is that it actually got made and is now being aired on the sci fi channel i still can t understand how they somehow get people who do have some acting skills to act in these movies and then somehow get them to act as terrible as everyone else in the movie for those of you who are unsure the other poster is obviously being sarcastic in his review or he is one of the people who worked on this movie,0
if you have not seen this excellent movie about life in the s in l a then you ve missed a special treat this is one of the most amazingly and most powerful movies ever made about life for americans in the s and it even carries over into today s world in which we live in it covers everything from raising a child prejudice more than one way love adultery empty nest syndrome selfishness etc and the list goes on this story builds up to an ultimate climax and then when nothing else matters it always goes back to love with friends and family and love of life it helps us dig deep within ourselves and to make us search for what we want out of life makes us ask questions of ourselves have we done enough for others are we like this etc sit back and enjoy a wonderfully done and emotional movie that i m sure others will enjoy for a lifetime take note of mary mcdonnell kevin kline and danny glover s wonderful performance through this whole film these actors are amazing and really show the true glow and meaning of what message is being sent to all of us these are of my favorite actors for life after seeing this film over years ago now i still enjoy it again and again also enjoy the wonderful soundtrack with it and don t forget to count how many times you see the helicopter fly by and try to figure out it s symbolism for the movie hmmm i almost forgot this is probably steve martin s very first serious acting role in any film he has ever done he too does an excellent job in this movie this may come as a surprise to most of you sit back relax and enjoy truly good film making,1
i once promised never to walk out of any film a personal policy that made me suffer through the most different kinds of dreck such as rambo baise moi deep impact but mr seidl almost succeeded hundstage was a truly awful experience anyone who sees this movie will think that austrians are a miserable pathetic bunch of retards it shows a world where love and humanity don t exist a world where people humiliate each other only for one reason to distract from their own miserable existence by choosing a documentary like style with non professional actors most of them look like straight from the imagination of austrian shock cartoonist deix director seidl wants to make us believe that this is real life in austrian european western suburbs the viewer is confronted with depictions of sex orgies violence against women and handicapped people madness and degradation but this isn t social criticism this is just pure shock without any aesthetic value instead you get bad acting bad cinematography bad filmmaking if anybody needs a film like this to realize that there are things wrong in our society then this person must have walked through life with closed eyes this is pseudo social criticism with a sledge hammer and it looks down on people in a disgustingly condescending way it shows ugly people that is not the reason why i hate it but it depicts average people in an ugly misanthropic way and this is why this film is truly despicable,0
the young victoria is a elegantly costumed and reproduced bit of history that benefits from some fine settings solid direction by jean marc vall e of stalwart julian fellowes version of the youthful lass who was to become england s longest reigning monarch victoria much of the early portion of the film that part when victoria is a child whose ascent to the throne is contested by her mother miranda richardson and sir john conroy mark strong seems to drag and get lost in the multiple costumes and scenery variations but once victoria emily blunt comes of age and is courted by prince albert rupert friend the film blooms blunt is a strong actress and finds that delicate line between girlish infatuation and royal dignity that makes her a fine foil for those at court who would seek to control the child queen including her secretary lord melbourne paul bettany but as she matures into her role as queen her eye dwells on the dashing german prince albert and a love affair that has lasted in the memories of everyone is matched by the concept of joining royalty with concern for the care of her subjects much due to the sensitivity of albert the film takes us to the birth of their first of nine children and then ends with some statements about the influence of queen victoria and prince albert s effect on the various royalties throughout europe it makes for an evening of beautiful costume drama and allows us to appreciate the growth of two young stars in emily blunt and rupert friend a solid if not transporting epic grady harp,1
mark hamill should have felt mighty embarrassed with corvette summer this time he uses a new kind of force to regain the possession of his dream machine a bright red vette it looks like another sour teen age flick the first half hour and does a u turn in heading for the wrong direction the writing and directing jobs are dreadfully done with a few scenes you can t hardly take you re expecting this to happen anyway and you re also sniffing the smell of late s hodgepodge only a former newcomer like annie potts would easily steal the show and save this poor movie from the repo creeps her impractical but delightful personality holds on to your interest for good and this is the finest chance to see her in a swimsuit hooray for annie sorry mark i guess the force wasn t with you this time around,0
how can the viewer rating for this movie be just just the lovely young alisan porter should automatically start you at when you decide your rating james belushi is good in this too his first good serious role i hadn t liked him in anything but about last night until this he was pretty good in gang related with tupac also kelly lynch you gotta love her well i do i m only wondering what happened to miss porter i gave curly sue a,1
the opening sequence alone is worth the cost of admission as cheech and chong drag that big ol garbage can across the parking lot filled with gas don t spill it man hilarious stuff and then as the plot ensues you re in for one heck of a ride i watched this film recently and it holds up being just as funny upon each viewing check it out,1
i gave this film not because it is a superbly consistent movie but for it s pure ability to evoke emotions in its audience the story of one woman s struggle against all odds is an old clich by now but very few films have carried it off with so much warmth and sincerity as the color purple it also showed a different side to the african american experience showing that after slaves were granted freedom many fell into the ways of the hated white man and were abusive of their own people i find this an important point as it goes against the portray white on black violence and win an oscar trend also the acting performances are superb especially oprah who i now have a new found respect for well worth watching but keep some tissue handy,1
chilling majestic piece of cinematic fright this film combines all the great elements of an intellectual thriller with the grand vision of a director who has the instinctual capacity to pace a moody horror flick within the realm of his filmmaking genius that includes an eye for the original shot an ice cold soundtrack and an overall sense of dehumanization this movie cuts through all the typical horror movies like a red poker through a human eye as it allows the viewer to not only feel the violence and psychosis of its protagonist but appreciate the seed from which the derangement stems one of the scariest things for people to face is the unknown and this film presents its plotting with just that thought in mind the setting is perfect in a desolate winter hideaway the quietness of the moment is a character in itself as the fermenting aggressor in jack torrance s mind wallows in this idle time and breeds the devil s new playground i always felt like the presence of evil was dormant in all of our minds with only the circumstances of the moment and the reasons given therein needed to wake its violent ass and pounce over its unsuspecting victims this film is a perfect example of this very thought and it is within this film s subtle touches of the canvas the clackity clacks of the young boy s big wheel riding along the empty hallways of the hotel the labyrinthian garden representing the mind s fine line between sane and insane kubrick s purposely transfixed editing inconsistencies continuity errors and set mis arrangements that we discover a world guided by the righteous and tangible but coaxed away by the powerful and unknown i have never read the book upon which the film is based but without that as a comparison point i am proud to say that this is one of the most terrifying films that i have ever seen i thought that the runtime of the film could ve been cut by a little bit but then again i am not one of the most acclaimed directors in the history of film so maybe i should keep my two cent criticisms over a superb film to myself all in all this movie captures your attention with its grand form and vision ropes you in with some terror and eccentric direction and ties you down and stabs you in the heart with its cold eyed view of the man s mind gone overboard creepy atmosphere and the loss of humanity rating,1
when i saw the exterminators of year at first time i had no expectations for that movie although it wasn t so bad as i was thought it s kind of italian version of roadwarrior with cast that is almost famous in italy including venantino venantini behind the story is elisa briganti and dardano sacchetti who are also responsible for story of zombie flesh eaters you can also see other links to italian horror movies luca venantini plays the role of tommy and you can see that kid in paura nella citta dei morti viventi city of the living dead aka gates of hell as john robbins and in cannibal apocalypse as the role of mary s brother quite entertaining movie with some dull parts,1
expectations were somewhat high for me when i went to see this movie after all i thought steve carell could do no wrong coming off of great movies like anchorman the year old virgin and little miss sunshine boy was i wrong i ll start with what is right with this movie at certain points steve carell is allowed to be steve carell there are a handful of moments in the film that made me laugh and it s due almost entirely to him being given the wiggle room to do his thing he s an undoubtedly talented individual and it s a shame that he signed on to what turned out to be in my opinion a total train wreck with that out of the way i ll discuss what went horrifyingly wrong the film begins with dan burns a widower with three girls who is being considered for a nationally syndicated advice column he prepares his girls for a family reunion where his extended relatives gather for some time with each other the family is high atop the list of things that make this an awful movie no family behaves like this it s almost as if they ve been transported from pleasantville or leave it to beaver they are a caricature of what we think a family is when we re it reaches the point where they become obnoxious and simply frustrating touch football crossword puzzle competitions family bowling and talent shows are not how actual people behave it s almost sickening another big flaw is the woman carell is supposed to be falling for observing her in her first scene with steve carell is like watching a stroke victim trying to be rehabilitated what i imagine is supposed to be unique and original in this woman comes off as mildly retarded it makes me think that this movie is taking place on another planet i left the theater wondering what i just saw after thinking further i don t think it was much,0
i used to love watching sabrina the teenage witch friday nights on abc s tgif i think this was one of the best shows on tgif my friends and i used to get together every friday just to watch this show and we never missed an episode my favorite character was salem he was adorable and sooo funny i liked sabrina s boyfriend harvey too he was hot i think melissa joan hart played a good teenage witch too my favorite episodes were sabrina through the looking glass and hilda and zelda the teenage years those episodes were great overall i really miss this show i hope one day abc brings it back with new episodes i give this show stars,1
this showtime movie really deserves a far better viewer rating than a i gave it a based on the story and the acting of the two stars after reading the viewer comments i was surprised at how many folks expected this movie to be a comedy yeah i see that imdb lists it as comedy drama under genre that sure is misleading isn t it fortunately i saw the movie before logging onto this website so i did not have that expectation in fact based on the synopsis of what i heard i fully expected it to simply be a drama i m wondering if disappoint at this not being a funny movie caused so many low votes another factor that might have caused low votes is that this movie is very much character driven driving miss daisy is an example of another character driven movie that comes to mind someone s previous comment complained about a boring trial tom s danny glover work scenes seemed to distract from the real plot of the movie that is how he was engineering the upward social climb of his family or his personal troops if you will however they served to establish credibility and justification as his right to move to greenwich and move up in the world tom s obsession became a compulsion he proved that he would stop at nothing to blend into the white neighborhood his chagrin when another black person moved next door was not due to skin color it was because of everything the interloper represented everything that tom had left behind in essence tom had become an oreo cookie black on the outside but white on the inside the last minutes of this movie are among the most powerfully written directed and acted by whoopi goldberg i have ever had the pleasure to witness i realized that the climax of the film was not the obvious event that happened next door don t want to give it away the climax is verbal and whoopi delivers it i am still not clear if it is the conversation when she informs tom which college tom two is going to or when she releases it all in the middle of the night and tom wakes up nevertheless the denouement is great you know that life on that street will never be the same my favorite kind of character driven flick people go through problems some pain do their dance they grow they change and life goes on as an audience member i may learn something or be inspired,1
i never understood why some people dislike bollywood films they ve got charismatic actors great dance numbers and heightened emotion what s not to like what i didn t realize was that i had only seen the upper crust of bollywood then i watched garam masala i could tell from the first scene that this was not a movie i was going to like the film opens with a montage of the two leads driving around a city and apparently happening serendipitously on a series of photo setups populated with gyrating models but i kept hoping things would improve sadly they didn t the main problem is that the two protagonists mac sam are completely unsympathetic they spend the entire movie lying to women and lying brutally in order to get them into bed and the audience is supposed to find this funny and be charmed the boys are unscrupulous and inept and not in a lovable way mac even goes so far as to have one of the women drugged in order to keep her from discovering his cheating the script is extremely poor with repetitive scenes setups that never lead to anything and illogical actions and statements by the characters in fact the characters are never really developed at all the males are boorish greedy jerks and the women merely interchangeably beautiful if you go by this movie you would think that air hostesses are pretty easy to pass from man to man in reality betrayal is not so humorous the only bright spots i found in the movie were one dance number that had brilliant sets and a few slapsticky moments involving the french farce door slamming aspects of the story but bollywood dancing is better enjoyed in movies choreographed by farah khan and for slapstick you might as well just go straight to the silent comedies of buster keaton and harold lloyd who seem to have influenced writer director priyadarshan not a little priyadarshan also takes false credit for inventing the story the basic premise of the plot is stolen from the play boeing boeing the original author of that work marc camoletti is credited nowhere at least priyadarshan changed the title for this remake rather than brazenly using the original without giving credit as he did in his version of this same tale according to imdb s credits list,0
you know you re in trouble when the film your watching has numerous alternate titles generally it means that they tried and retried to hide the turkey in various markets such a turkey is the brain machine which has seven different titles its about some super secret government project that is suppose to be able to use a computer to read people but instead it drives people to kill each other or themselves or something like that its filled with b level tv actors sitting in paneled room with lawn chairs trying to act a script that makes almost no sense its a turkey of the untastey kind avoid it,0
chalk this one up in the win column this was a superb movie the acting performances were great and the script was equally great helen hunt was magnificent as the riverside police officer gina pulasky gina was a complex character she was a rookie cop with the riverside police dept she ended up in an affair with a coworker that she knew had a wife and kids all the while she took on the dangerous task of going undercover to catch a serial killer jeff fahey the ray liotta look alike did a bang up job as the confused often stammering police officer that had an affair with gina he was stoic as an officer but he was quite the opposite when it came to dealing with his feelings and his extra marital affair steven weber most notably from the sitcom wings did a nice job as the quiet meek underachieving sociopath on the surface he was an innocent loser but beneath the surface lied a cold hearted killer weber really took on the persona of a childlike young adult with an insatiable thirst to kill young boys the entire movie was spectacular each scene each verbal exchange let us know more and more about the characters the production team did a phenomenal job with condensing days if not weeks worth of events into a minute movie this movie was a good example of doing a lot with little,1
when i first started watching this movie i was looking for some kind of subtle metaphors but it soon dawned on me that this movie was indeed about people on a train the interactions between people are like those you can see any day on the street and when in occasion there is a slightly more interesting situation the dialogue becomes stilted and boring its not that i don t get how this film is trying to portray the way people interact it s just that in this film they are very boring if you want to see and analyse these kinds of relationships you d be best to actually go out and buy a train ticket and look at the people on the train with you it is realistic but you wouldn t go to a movie to watch a film about you sitting there watching the movie,0
the part of the grinch was made for jim carrey and i was extremely impressed with his performance not being a great fan of his i was apprehensive but pleasantly surprised with the outcome taylor momsen as cindy lou who was the cutest little girl i have seen on the screen for a long time and she showed a maturity beyond her years in her acting skills i was even drawn to tears at one point i ve never read the dr seuss book of the tale so i didnt know what to expect the humour was quite dark overall i enjoyed the film apart from the songs and would recommend it for family viewing especially,1
this was one of the highlights of st tng s semi forgettable second season before they grew up or grew into their own in the third season and beyond this was not only a showcase for up and comers like bill campbell and teri hatcher but was also the continuation of data s search for his humanity this time through the concept of comedy still one of my favorite episodes on a side note i m still disappointed that there is no credit for the actress with whose character okona was about to have a tryst after teri hatcher s character before being rudely interrupted by lt worf i remember watching this episode first run at my friends comic shop back in the day and we all thought she would ve been a perfect jean grey marvel girl it would be nice to know who this pretty lady actually is,1
repugnant bronson thriller unfortunately it s technically good and i gave it but it s so utterly vile that it would be inconceivable to call it entertainment far more disturbing than a typical slasher film,0
i might have given this movie a higher rating before peter jackson s trilogy came out but seeing the two of them side by side there is simply no comparison the pace of this movie is rushed many important scenes from the book are left out and there is little character development the animation is a strange mixture of traditional cartoon drawings and live action scenes that were painted over which i found distracting and the most disappointing thing about this movie is that it breaks off in the middle of the story and was never finished there are some good points the battle scenes are exciting to watch and the dialogue follows the book pretty much to the letter watch this one if you re in a hurry and can t spend hours watching the new trilogy but if you haven t read the book you ll probably be confused because there is a lot missing from this version out of,0
ok first of all the video looks like it was filmed in the s i was shocked to find out it was released in secondly the plot was all over the place right off the bat the story is confusing had there been some brief prologue or introduction the story would ve been better also i appreciate fantasy but this film was too much it was bizarre and badly filmed the scenes did not flow smoothly and the characters were odd it was hard to follow and maybe it was the translation but it was even hard to understand i love chinese epic films but if you re looking for a chinese epic fantasy film i would recommend the promise visually stunning the plot is interesting and good character development not this film beware you will be disappointed,0
the concept of this made for tv horror movie is ludicrous beyond words but hey it was the late s and literally all stupid horror formats were pretty damn profitable so why not exploit the idea of a satanically possessed dog the plot of devil dog is easy to describe to fans of the horror genre simply think of the omen and replace the newborn baby boy with a nest of german shepard pups seriously i m not kidding that s what the movie is about during the opening sequence members of some kind of satanic cult buy a female dog in heat only to have it impregnated by satan himself you d think that the lord of darkness has other things on his mind than to fornicate with a german shepard and take over the world one evil puppy at the time but apparently not exactly like little damien in the omen one of the puppies is taken in by model family and grows up to become a beautiful and charismatic animal but lucky that s the dog s name is pure evil and liquidates annoying neighbors and nosy school teachers in derivative and tamely executed ways he also inflicts his malignant character on the family wife and children but he cannot force the father richard crenna to stick his arm into a lawnmower because he s a chosen one the whole thing becomes too moronic for words when crenna eventually travels to ecuador to search for an ancient wall painting and gets advice from an old witchdoctor who speaks perfect english i guess he learned that living in isolation atop of a mountain his entire life director curtis harrington what s the matter with helen ruby and lead actor richard crenna wait until dark the evil desperately try to create a suspenseful and mysterious atmosphere but all is in vain scenes like cute puppy eyes spontaneously setting fire to a spanish maid or a dog dodging bullets without even moving evoke chuckles instead of frights and not even spooky musical tunes can chance that the special effects are pathetic especially near the end when the satan dog mutates into an utterly cheesy shadow on the wall devil dog is a truly dumb movie but it s definitely hilarious to watch late at night with some friends and loads of liquor there are entertaining brief cameos of martine beswick dr jekyll and sister hyde as the terrifying cult queen and r g armstrong the car the pack as the evil fruit vegetable and puppy salesman and yes that annoying daughter is the same kid who gets blown away complaining about her ice cream in carpenter s assault on precinct,0
kate beckinsale is excellent as the manipulative and yet irresistibly charming emma in this tv adaptation of jane austen s novel when i read that novel i was sometimes quite doubtful whether the protagonist really deserved to be considered the heroine of the story for honestly she is so terribly self righteous and scheming that one is tempted to dislike her seriously kate beckinsale s interpretation however saves emma from herself so to speak she is portrayed with all the innocence and generosity of her character in full view and one can t help but give in and like not to say love her in spite of her less amiable qualities kate beckinsale is the main but not the only reason why this tv series is so delightful raymond coulthard is perfect as mr frank churchill expressing this character s personal magnetism to the full which is all the more conspicuous because of this role being not very well handled by ewan mcgregor in the screen adaptation of emma and mark strong samantha morton bernard hepton and olivia williams are all as they should be in their respective roles this production is in short a great achievement and one to view many times with increasing pleasure,1
we brought this film as a joke for a friend and could of been our worst joke to play the film is barely watchable and the acting is dire the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable just terrible,0
in order to avoid confusion let me clarify a couple of points i am not a red neck i am not even a moderate nor a conservative quite on the contrary i am a radical a libertarian i m not a wasp either i was not even born in the states jorge luis borges used to say that there are some kind of folk who do not feel poetry and that these sad people usually earn their living teaching poetry this movie was made by and for people who do not feel poetry by and for show offs and i dare say by and for people who have no sense of decency or for that matter respect for other people s life or death especially when the victims are thought to be mostly bloody imperialists killed in yankee soil i even find the original marketing idea of the eleven episodes of eleven minutes nine seconds and one frame as particularly hideous and repulsive just plain awful why didn t they assign a budget of as many dollars per episode as individuals were brutally murdered in the attack the whole idea rests somewhere between mere stupidity and reckless fascism anybody who is serious about film making and serious about life and death should have angrily declined to participate in this recollection of innuendoes and non sequiturs with two exceptions the episode of burkina faso almost amusing and the one from india which documents the story of a man who was unfairly and wrongly investigated in relation to the attack on the basis that afterwards he didn t return home and that he was an american muslim and truth be told when the facts were known he was honored as a hero all other nine episodes essentially and extremely boring and emotionless can be listed in two different categories first i don t care about the thousands of victims americans foreigners children youngsters adults old timers and can be resumed in pure boredom and lack of emotion makhmalbaf s iran lelouch s france i m afraid i m going to commit an heresy since it s lelouch s but maybe his episode might be considered built upon an idea which could be regarded as almost original tanovic s bosnia herzegovina gonzalez inarritu s mexico gita s israel penn s usa second the bloody yankees deserve it and can be resumed in frustration and hatred chahine egypt vindicates the suicide bombers loach uk considers the reckless attacks were some kind of punishment for the alleged support of the usa to the chilean dictatorship headed by the serial killer augusto pinochet in fact someone should inform mr loach that the victims of pinochet were not related to al qaida and that chile is a south american country which sole existence mr bin laden should have ignored he ought to be informed too that the american government sanctions against the chilean dictatorship were harder than any other ciountrie s and imamura japan windingly points out that wwii is related the attack to the wtc imamura has at least been coherent in this the supposed cause effect linking is entirely nonsensical which plays well with his episode including a man who believes himself to be a snake it pretends to be obscure it is instead quite ludicrous there s some kind of error shared by many including some americans and it consists in the belief that this movie wasn t commercially screened in the states because of some kind of censorship nothing further from the truth this movie wasn t screened in the states because it is a complete fiasco a fiasco of the wackyest kind even in buenos aires where peronism and other forms of fascism are nearest and dearest to the hearts of a sizable number of its inhabitants and anti americanism is in vogue the movie was screened in living rooms hurriedly converted into theaters and was applauded by a very select public the usual sad few who routinely lend their applause to other equally quaint spectacles like the sight of a mcdonald s fast food restaurant or perchance an elderly jew being burnt to ashes,0
only reason i have seen dalmatians was its nominations for original song and costume design for the oscars i must admit that i was less than impressed with this film in this sequel cruella devil by the way glen close pulls off this role very well is released from the hospital due to her good behaviour she likes all sort of animals and locks all her furs away from that point we only wait until she starts having crises soon enough she does and tries to make the best coat of fashion world of course for herself and from fine dalmatian fur apart from glen close i found all cast quite silly but from a child s eye funny that is fair enough as its target market is i assume children under quite a good entertainment for children and families but didn t do much for me out of,0
i was lying on my bed with a really bad cold or flu or whatever i figure maybe i d kill some time watching some horror movies my mom bought for me a little while ago i wish i never picked this movie after i watched it i felt even more sick and i wanted to throw up afterwords when i got better of course i did some research on dennis l rader and i noticed that the dennis in the movie was nothing like the real one i hope that no one ever watches this movie but if they ever do don t eat or you ll feel the way i felt after i first watched it i think you would have a better time watching the santa claus at least that movie had better reviews on this site,0
catscratch is the best thing to come out of nickeloden including wayne knight this show doesn t just appeal to maoris and pi s some people love it and they re all aussies at first glimpse i admit it seems a little crude but it grows enormously on you also to correct something that one of the other critics has said in_correct tv com doesn t say does that mean you re homo now he says does that mean you re homo owww this is his phrase in the show mr blik is i think the funniest of all like peww weww s playhouse firstly i ll admit that the early episode were a bit good but after a while the episodes became great and just when the series had found it s surreal whacky nickelodeon cancels it i know nick is meant for kids but every once in a while a brilliant show appears that can be enjoyed by teenagers and adults these shows include mr bean the animated series charlie brown pelswick rocko s modern life at times and invader zim all of these must have been considered too good with the exception of catdog cause nick felt the need to cancel them what i like the famous final episode where gordon fight a duck i d also like to see a dvd with plenty of audio commentaries and behind the scenes docos and including the final episode but of course what i d definitely like to see is the show come back on the air wake up nick i wish there was a list somewhere on the internet with all the gag closing credits that would be great,1
i m gonna tip the scales here a bit and say i enjoyed this however the cartoon is really only going to appeal to those who have very absurdist tendencies it s definitely something that most people will not get as is the nature of absurdism the animation is horrible but yes that s the point the main character is foul mouthed violent and stupid no redeeming qualities whatsoever his wife shrieks and wails apparently just barely capable of the most basic communication skills most of these stories completely lack any kind of point but again that s the point if non sequiters foul language and complete and utter randomness are your thing you re going to love this it is really short so i would probably rent instead of buying,1
this film was totally not what i expected if this film was called something else no one would even notice the difference between the two its really strange because i cannot see the point the prequel and sequel lets just say don t make sense the don t even match maybe i am naive but ain t a vol vol meant to match up carlito was in jail in the st one and dies in the original and in the prequel he lives and don t go jail the plot was ok but they should have changed round some actors and some of the story line and the name of the film and it would have been a good film i really expected it to end like the other one started if some one has a opinion on this post it please,0
this is my favorite of the older tom jerry cartoons from the early s the original version with mammy two shoes is on the tom jerry spotlight collection set disc one and showcases the wonderful detailed animation of the early cartoons the gags on this one aren t all madcap avery style but more subtle and aimed at anyone who s ever stayed up late watching scary movies or radio programs tom is listening to a creepy radio show and jerry decides to play a number of tricks to spook him the nine lives gag is well done here and i don t know how many times i tried to make a vacuum and a sheet that scary when i was a kid when tom s owner is awakened by the ruckus mammy was not the maid it was her house she gets one heck of a surprise with a big laugh get your pause button ready it s worth it,1
i love this movie i mean the story may not be the best but the dancing most certainly makes up for it you get to know a little bit about each character the way they want you to learn about them i just think that you won t like this movie unless you re into broadway,1
down to earth is the best movie it is so funny and it s really sweet too it has a good plot and it s unique it isn t like those movies that are all the same with the similar story lines and it s not all comedy and no story this movie also has a very good ending,1
the saucy misadventures of four au pairs who arrive in london on the same day in the early s there s a swedish girl a danish a german and a chinese the story contrives to get the clothes off all of them involve them in some carry on type humour and couple them with various misfits from the british film and tv culture of the time including man about the house star richard o sullivan future coronation street rogue johnny briggs and horror film stalwart ferdy mayne playing a sheik there s a pretty risqu amount of female nudity on display for those who like that kind of thing but obviously nothing hardcore most of the film is pretty thin and inconsequential the girls are stereotypes and german anita especially suffers from some kind of infantalising disorder she s a moron obsessed with colour tv who acts like a kind of uninhibited child dresses to deliberately show her private parts in another more serious film she would be a psychiatric case the most interesting section of the film involves the swedish girl being taken to a club in london where some dodgy types are still trying to swing being seduced by a middle aged rocker losing her virginity and realising that the scene is not for her these sequences have some energy in them and point to a more intriguing film than we ve ended up with in which promiscuity and the dregs of the music business and upper classes live soulless and seedy lives there s a fine turn by john standing as an impotent public school rou the strangest of the stories has the chinese girl future cannibal film veteran me me lay getting off with her childish piano prodigy employer falling mutually in love with and then leaving in the middle of the night for no good reason at all except some orientalist notion that chinese birds are inscrutable ain t they the film is pretty demeaning to its women characters and there s a smattering of homophobia in the dialogue and one of the characterisations the end is striking as mayne s sheik for no earthly reason except they have to end the film somehow whisks all of the girls away to his arab kingdom for what looks to all the world like a future in the white slave trade which they are all delighted about stuff and nonsense for the most part then but directed with a fair amount of skill by veteran val guest which puts it as a piece of film making a notch above most of the s brit sexploitation flicks,0
after realizing what is going on around us in the news in our homes the whole new world i remembered this show and how obsessed i was watching it every week in my town i started looking for this series days ago didn t have luck till this moment and i was shocked when i read about it and about cbs people i believe they stopped the show because it s talking about something way ahead of our understanding of the new world it was trying to deliver a hidden message about something terrifying the people who stopped it are the same who are controlling the world now i remember in one of the episodes it was talking about the one dollar and the pyramid with the one eye,1
anyone who has watched comedy central around midnight in the past few years has probably seen ads for this movie i first saw ads for this movie back in it looked like it could be funny but i wasn t about to call up the number on the television screen and order it without seeing the movie first i figured i would wait until the movie was available to rent at blockbuster about a year and a half later i was at tower records and in the dvds for less than pile there was a copy of this movie seeing that the dvd was only i decided to buy it i got home put the disc in the dvd player and waited for the laughs to start and i waited some more the laughs never came i d have to agree with almost every other comment on this page when i say that this movie was horrible sick desperately tasteless and poorly written and directed the underground comedy movie is an atrocious piece of garbage and is in my opinion the worst movie of all time no stars,0
i know that the real story of little richard is a lot more thrilling than this maudlin and thoroughly average biopic but then producer little richard was probably too reluctant to bring to light any sordid details of his life and just gave us a forgettable facsimile of his career highlights from the s and s,0
this was shown on the biography channel and was about as informative as a children s comic i gave it out of for it s attention to detail because for the most part it had a s feel to it and the three ladies that played the original three angels looked like them so the make up was good this was supposed to be a biography on the biography channel but it was void of everything that is normally usually seen in one of their biographies no interviews with surviving cast members crew members production team members etc or their friends families and any biographers of those people in fact i know just as much now about the programme as i did before i watched this film that was based on the supposedly biographical book as for actually learning something that no one knew about the program and wasn t common knowledge well that never happened,0
sometimes making something strange and contemporary doesn t always work to everyone s advantage while i will admit that the set design and concept of the film was rather interesting the execution of these ideas into one congruent story just didn t work this film was so hideously slow and pointless not even robin williams could save this garbage it s obvious barry levinson s dream fell flat on its face but he should have warned the rest of the world about this slop,0
i was too young to remmeber when i first saw this movie but i saw it for like the second time about years ago my sister told me i had to see it now my whole family has it memorized we quote it at least once a day i absolutly love this movie i still laugh after all this time sure it s about a really really drunk millionare that is irresponsible the whole point is that he still has the humanity lost in the others that we see in the movie and that he is willing to give it all up for love i highly recomend this movie to anyone who wants a laugh a lot of laughs its hallarious sweet and if your a movie buff it will truely change your idea of funny watch it with a group of your friends or your family and i promise you will never have nothing to talk about ever again with some authur lines in your head it will make you laugh for years to come it is really hard in my family to find a movie that everyone likes but this movie i feel made us closer and i know it will do the same for you,1
geez another lifetime movie but once again isn t exactly the worst movie in the world but far from the best i think the main problem is that it s pretty obvious who is responsible for what and it s generally fairly predictable worse yet some of the flashbacks ended up being confusing and the viewer is left wondering okay how much am i supposed to care one thing i did like is that the movie goes to show you that it s never that simple as the good guys are good and the bad guys are bad and sometimes it is evil vs evil rather than good vs evil hadley didn t do what she did out of a sense of justice she did it because she considered herself entitled to a job for being family and to eliminate the competition as for alicia it simply proves that a victim isn t always a good person some of them really do have it coming even if it was a painful horrible death the burning bed is a great example of this but the difference is that the vile man in the burning bed got exactly what he deserved but did alicia have it coming some will say that she did but others don t agree and the law generally doesn t either as for acting it s a mixed bag some do a good job like mia but others just came across as indifferent to their roles they were mostly wooden or simply not convincing the music was pretty cool though and some of the scenes are nice and steamy especially if you like girl girl action the movie isn t badly shot at all but given its glaring weaknesses the strengths are in background unfortunately i ve heard rumors of a sequel but given the years i doubt it ll happen but i wouldn t be surprised if a sequel suddenly appeared if alicia is as evil conniving and horrible as people say then i don t think she ll be thinking yay i woke up from a coma oh hadley was responsible oh that s okay i totally forgive her and want the charges dropped no way hadley would be in jail for long anyway if she even does any time since no murder actually happened anyway worth checking out at least once,0
it s a funny business reviewing movies these days when internalized emotions and emotional detachment are favored over straightforward sentimentality it must be hard to stay faithful to your true feelings soon after completing jury duties at the th berlinale i managed to catch yoji yamada s kabei after the screening i watched folks dreamily amble out of the theatre hall watery eyed men women and reviewers alike even the director of the berlinale obviously a hardened viewer of cinema confessed to having been caught unawares and found himself crying three quarter s way into this unashamedly sentimental experience but what really surprised me were the reviews that came after despite being ineffably moved by the film many reviewers chose to be tepid and emotionally non committal in their writing apparently post weeping they had put on their thinking cap and consequently missed out on what i felt was the genius about kabei allow me to explain set in pre war japan the story of kabei revolves around one writer s family and their fate therein after he is held in jail for what was described as thought crimes against the imperial will through a series of protracted emotional scenes yamada gets us familiar with the man his loyal wife and two daughters as well as three side characters the man s pretty young sister a bumbling ex student and a cad of an uncle all come to help the family cope with their plight in the absence of the man of the house the story moves along at a slow albeit steady pace and heartbreaks occur at precisely the moments everyone is able to predict this of course makes it near impossible for anyone in the audience to get too emotionally distraught by any dramatic event in other words although you learn to love the family and their helpers and sympathize with their unfortunate situation you get so lulled by the certainty of the plot that you find yourself expecting a particular kind of ending however two hours into the film don t worry yamada provides the viewer with sufficient moments of gravity and levity to tide you along he slaps you with what i can only describe as the sting all that you have assumed to be what the story was about an innocent man wrenched from his faithful wife and daughters now suddenly points to one of the family helpers someone you have hitherto taken for granted is now thrown into an unexpected twist of fate at this point something curious happened in the theatre i was in everyone started sobbing with little or no inhibition my word i muttered under my breath it struck me then that kabei in the final analysis was more than a film about a family torn apart by an empire on the verge of war it was in fact a cunning examination of one common human foible how little we cared about the secret feelings of people who are closest to us now the most common criticism made about the film was that it was technically solid but lacked innovation that s what happens when reviewers put on their proverbial thinking cap i guess with kabei i believe yoji yamada knew exactly what trick he was going to employ to touch on one unique aspect of humanity a wicked old trick he so seamlessly applied in the tora san series and later in tasogare sebei after lulling the audience into a sort of narrative comfort zone he throws us into a realm of emotions rarely explored in cinema this to me is the most effective cinematic tool of all one which avoids detection but affects you deeply and proof of its effectiveness was a thousand wet pieces of kleenex thrown into a litter bin just outside of that thousand seater cinema hall now if only some reviewers would resist being so caught up with being smart that they forget what cinema is really about human emotions pure and simple,1
david lynch s new short is a very lynchian piece full of darkness tension silences discreet but very textured background music and features again two beautiful actresses a blonde and a brunette a recurrent theme in his work both characters create a very intriguing slave mistress relationship that could be seen as a direct follow up to the same kind of relationship featured in mulholland dr beautiful for lynch fan s,1
quite simply the funniest and shiniest film comedy of all time it s certainly on my personal top ten list this one also gets a solid ten on the voting scale millionaire heir arthur bach moore is a middle aged child who refuses to take the mature path in life and avoids all requisite responsibilities he also refuses to leave the bottle one day he and his personal butler hobson gielgud go shopping at bergdorf goodman s and run into petty larcenist linda minnelli arthur and linda s chemistry adds electricity to the rest of the film there are hilarious set pieces aplenty in one such scene arthur drunk throughout most of the story knocks on the wrong apartment door and receives ear shattering threats from a human siren my husband has a gun performances by everyone involved should be duly noted geraldine fitzgerald plays arthur s loving yet ruthless grandmother sir john gielgud almost steals the entire show with his acidic droll isms he took home the oscar for this one and christopher cross provides the main theme song oscar winner best that you can do it s a shame the late dudley moore passed away last month march,1
somebody owes ang lee an apology actually a lot of people do and i ll start i was never interested in the ang lee film hulk because of the near unanimous bad reviews even the premium cable channels seemed to rarely show it i finally decided to watch it yesterday on usa network and wow spoilers for ang lee s hulk and the incredible hulk was it boring i almost didn t make it through ang lee s hulk eric bana was expressionless nick nolte was horrible sam elliott was unlikeable and that s no fun he s usually a cool character in fact i honestly think they chose eric bana because his non descript face was the easiest to mimic with computer graphics and it was clear that the ang lee hulk was meant to facially resemble bruce banner in his non angry state when hulk fought a mutant poodle i was ready to concede hulk as the worst superhero movie ever but then something happened about of the way through this tedious movie there was a genuinely exciting and dare i say it reasonably convincing extended action scene that starts with hulk breaking out of a containment chamber in a military base fighting m tanks and comanche helicopters in the desert then riding an f raptor into the stratosphere only to be captured on the streets of san francisco this was one of the best action sequences ever made for a superhero movie and i have to say the cgi was quite good that s not to say that the hulk was totally convincing but it didn t require much more suspension of disbelief than is required in a lot of non superhero action movies and that s quite a feat of course the ending got really stupid with bruce banner s father turning into some sort of shape shifting villain but the earlier long action sequence put any of iron man s brief heroics to shame and overall apart from the animated mutant dogs it really did seem like the cgi in hulk tried hard to convince you that he was real and really interacting with his environment it was certainly better than i expected ok but what about the incredible hulk guess what it s boring too it has just a few appearances by the hulk and here s the thing the cgi in this movie is horrible maybe the hulk in ang lee s version looked fake at times and cartoonish at others but it had its convincing moments also the incredible hulk looked positively ridiculous it had skin tone and muscle tone that didn t even look like a living creature just some sort of computer generated texture it was really preposterous the lighting environment and facial effects didn t look years newer than ang lee s they looked years older and there really is no excuse for that we truly are living in an era where computer programmers can ruin a movie just as thoroughly as any director actor or cinematographer ever could worse the writer and director of this movie seemed to learn almost nothing from ang lee s failure all the same mistakes are made bruce banner is practically emotionless the general is so relentlessly implausibly one dimensional that he seems faker than the hulk the love interest is unconvincing i have to give liv tyler credit for being more emotional than jennifer connelly though both are quite easy on the eyes tim blake nelson overacts almost as much as nick nolte even though he s only in the movie for a few minutes the hulk really doesn t do much in this movie certainly not any more than in ang lee s version the incredible hulk was slightly more fast paced but since nothing really happened anyway that s not worth much oh yeah the villain is every bit as phony looking as the hulk he s actually much more interesting as a human than as a monster this is how i can definitively say ang lee s version was better if i ever have the chance to see ang lee s version again i might be able to sit through it to see the good action sequences or else to try to appreciate the dialogue a little more more likely i d just fast forward to the good parts but there is absolutely not a single scene in the incredible hulk that is worth seeing once let alone twice it is truly at the bottom of the heap of superhero movies the cartoonish cgi is an insult to the audience at least in ang lee s version it seems like they were trying to make it realistic except for the giant poodle of course it is absolutely mind boggling how the filmmakers intended to erase the bad feelings associated with ang lee s hulk by making almost exactly the same movie it is to edward norton s credit that he seems to be distancing himself from this film,0
for the first three seasons sabrina was a gem hidden away on tgif and later early school day afternoon reruns each episode had a maniac zany energy and rapid fire pacing that overcame the occasional awkward joke melissa joan hart exuded a keen talent for physical comedy particularly in her facial expressions her two aunts playing the straight men or as straight as two witches could be had great comic timing and general chemistry with hart salem as a talking cat was free to dabble in whatever mad scheme he was interested in and one could laugh and take it all in stride because he was after all a talking cat sabrina s friends rounded out the social experience at school in which also housed the typical evil cheerleader and totalitarian principal perhaps the most interesting and unique aspect of the show was the ability to merge pop culture e g bands of the era jerry springer archetypal human condition morality e g the importance of friendship the spirit of christmas and the literal representation of such related metaphors in the magical realm unfortunately like so many other shows throughout the age of television the show hit its peak during the first three years which coincided with sabrina attending high school starting in season four the move to college marked what would become a precipitous decline in the general quality of the show particularly when the writers chose to introduce josh as harvey s rival and concocting thin excuses for aunts hilda and zelda to remain on screen as key players the final season where sabrina works at a pop culture magazine was unequivocally disappointing still in the end sabrina particularly the high school years remains a unique entry as a hybrid situational comedy with magical elements that elevates it above the tiresome fare that is produced in this genre every year,1
this film is terrible the story concerns a woman trying to find out what has happened to her sister the film struggles with its identity lurching from noir thriller to erotic with elements of horror thrown in for good measure the film has a very confused structure for example with frequent use of flashbacks without tying these into the story the plot is poorly developed and the characterisation made it difficult to distinguish between who was who and the part they were playing some implausibilities exist in many films but the scene where the main protagonist willingly accompanies a virtual stranger to his home then agrees to go upstairs alone to where he says she will find a phone minus the gun she had brought with her to call the police was too hard to believe some of the cinematography is very poor we were watching on a tv so how anyone with a smaller set could work out what was happening in the scenes taken in almost complete darkness is beyond me overall a chaotic mess,0
anyone notice that tommy only has facial expressions the angry eyes look he gives every enemy the holding of the hands to face mouth agape and frightened eyes the smiling tommy turnbull i have to say that i pretty much hate this show i don t watch it but it s like code lyoko we ve all watched at least one i must say that this show is borderline racist uninteresting and pointless every episode ends with robotboy winning except for one exception when robotboy basically let this overly geeky freakazoid fly away on a jetpack the jokes are pretty crude too i think it s mostly people saying the word suck or farting i think the bullies of the show are quite shocking too isn t there one that hides a bowling ball under his hate and the other uses a chain for god sake what kind of school is he going to not to mention his older brother who is borderline psychopathic and has no other character qualities the whole show i feel is ripping off megas xlr and fosters like you could say the trio of coop jamie and kiva as well as robotboy being similar to megas where he beats everyone no matter what the odds and he s free spirited despite being a robot there is simply no appeal to this show i m surprised that it s still running,0
i couldn t help but feel that this could have been a bigger movie than it was the screenplay is highly intelligent and it just seemed that it could have been opened up in a way more reminiscent of seven not by changing the story i think mainly through the cinematography the cinematography was the only thing that i found to be holding back the film on the other hand the pacing was absolutely on point whoever worked on the editing really did their job well and i thought bill paxton did a great job of directing now away from the technical stuff this movie threw me for a loop spoiler ahead all along i really felt that bill paxton was crazy and then when adam finally took the fbi agent to the rose garden to show him where the bodies were buried and revealed who he was i got thrown for a loop i had suspected the first part of the twist but what really threw me was when he touches the agent and sees the agent murder his mother and the fact that the agent too without any words spoken simply by touch sees it again with adam and asks him how he knew my dilemma was not that it was yet another twist thrown in but the almost ungraspable idea that this man and his father were not crazy but actually picked out bad guys so to speak knowing their sins and crimes already i don t endorse an eye for an eye so i didn t leave the film being able to believe that they were doing god s work instead i chose to believe that they were both clairvoyant and that the father had gone off the deep end one day from it and through the things that he subjected his sons to disturbed them permanently also that was my interpretation but the vexing thing about the film was it s like a house of cards and a never ending circle and what is the correct interpretation of the disturbing events you ve sat through it s definitely one of those movies where i d love to be able to meet the writer so i could just ask him what the real meaning was to it all were they crazy and psychotic were they simply telepathic and took license because of it or did they have some sort of appearance from god and if so was it god or the devil disguising himself as god my friends and i found ourselves talking about it all night trying to figure out what was what and what the filmmakers had thought was the answer when they made this movie a definitely perplexing and thought invoking film with some very disturbing but certainly not sensationalistic elements to it it s not a perfect film but it definitely is it s own thing great directorial work and acting by bill paxton and the child that played fenton was extremely good i hope he doesn t end up relegated to the child actor syndrome as he seems to have a lot of promise i gave this movie a good vote for the majority of the components that make a film but i would have voted higher if wasn t for the feeling that something although i can t pinpoint what was off and if it hadn t have been the movie would have gone to an even higher level still a definite recommend especially for those that are inquisitive,1
in what will probably find itself on my list of fuller s best movies that is once i see more of them that just this and shock corridor pickup on south street is a film noir where the femme fatale as well as the male protagonist are not the stereotypical ones in the genre like most of his other works fuller injects his own experiences and the sense of new york style that is usually absent in the hollywood noirs on a small budget at least for the likes of darryl f zanuck fuller and his actors create personas that are likable even in such a dark atmosphere the good guys are basically the ones who won t get violent with you even as they re looking for an extra buck richard widmark jean peters and thelma ritter are all terrific in the lead parts widmark is one only a few actors i can think of who could ve really pulled off this character he s a little like bugs bunny as he can be a wise ass who is a little sneaky on the other hand the character of skip mccoy does have a set of values in his life he doesn t go into other people s affairs and doesn t try and care about much of the working world outside of his little shack on the river after being sent away for three years he slips up unbeknownst to him when he pickpockets a woman peters on the train and lifts an item that s under the eye of the government it may have some secrets that could make him a lot of money but at what cost is the centerpiece of the film as it involves stoolie moe ritter is one of the finest and most believable character actors from the period the woman s ex a volatile kiley and the police department aside from the thematic elements which are told with a keen dramatic journalistic style as was fuller s previous position along with boxer the dialog is fresh and involving there s a spontaneity in many of fuller s camera moves and what a third act this is a lean tight film noir that is worth checking out even if you re not familiar with fuller it s comparatively less bizarre than some of his later works,1
this is a kind of genre thing meaning you either like the s musicals or you don t if you do you ll love this personally i prefer the s and most of the s musicals with the dancing talents of astaire and rogers and eleanor powell bill robinson ruby keeler james cagney shirley temple and so forth but the songs of the s the slower dance numbers and the soapy melodramas of the decade all turn me off this film is a case in point the first song was okay but the next three did nothing for me by then the story didn t have much appeal either the presence of deborah kerr is another minus i don t think i ve seen a movie she starred in that i liked including this one where the goody two shoes english teacher she portrays spends half the movie threatening to leave siam i which she had however divorcing myself from likes and dislikes there is no denying this rogers and hammerstein production has a lot of appeal to many folks particularly those who liked the sound of music a decade later there are similarities in the r h musicals thus if you liked the julie andrews flick you should like this too this is a lavish production with yes a capital l this is the kind of big production musicals you rarely saw after that generation you also get the dubbed singers unlike today where the actress isn t able to really sing so marnie nixon comes to rescue of kerr as she did with natalie wood in west side story and audrey hepburn in my fair lady yul brynner is king mongkut and is the stereotypical traditionalist the kind filmmakers always portray in a negative way he isn t progressive as the left wingers like the say but the education teacher kerr as anna leonowens will set him straight secular progressives of today always place teachers higher than people trying to cure cancer however yul is good in this role and even employs some comedy along with his more bark than bite character justifiably he is the big star of this film brynner had magnetism even in the magnificent seven yul was the one cowboy who mesmerized the audience in summary it s a fine movie for its day and millions of people enjoyed it i ll leave it at that,0
i watched grendel the other night and am compelled to put together a public service announcement grendel is another version of beowulf the thousand year old anglo saxon epic poem the scifi channel has a growing catalog of inoffensive and uninteresting movies and the previews promised an inauthentic low budget mini epic but this one refused to let me switch channels it was staggeringly overwhelmingly bad i watched in fascination and horror at the train wreck you couldn t tear your eyes away from i reached for a notepad and managed to capture part of what i was seeing the following may contain spoilers or might just save your sanity you ve been warned just to get it over with beowulf s warriors wore horned helmets trivial issue compared to what came after it also appears that the helmets were in a bin and handed to whichever actor wandered by next fit appearance and function were apparently irrelevant marina sirtis had obviously been blackmailed into doing the movie by the ringling brothers barnum and bailey circus she managed to avoid a red rubber nose but the clowns had already done the rest of her makeup ben cross pretended not to be embarrassed as the king his character hrothgar must have become king of the danes only minutes before the film opened and hadn t had a chance to get the crown resized to fit him yet to facilitate the actors return to their day jobs waiting tables none were required to change their hairstyles at all the variety of hair included cornrows sideburns buzz cuts and a mullet and at least served to distract from the dialog to prove it was a multi national cast all were encouraged to retain whatever accent they chose as is typical with this type of movie at least since mad max leather armor was a requirement in this case it was odd shaped ill fitting and brand new the female love interest ingrid played by alexis peters followed a long standing tradition of hotties who should be watched with the volume turned completely down the unintended focus of the movie was a repeating compound crossbow with exploding bolts it never needed to be loaded and even had a recoil when fired it managed to shred the laws of physics the integrity of the original legend historical fact and plot suspense all by itself hrothgar s palace heorot rather than being a norse long hall apparently was designed and constructed by artisans who sank with atlantis beowulf arrived at the danes homeland in a two masted stern castled ship that originally was part of a set the other two being the santa maria and the pinta prince unferth observed beowulf s ship s approach using a telescope before you could recover from that astounding innovation you got to see the ship from his point of view judging from the angle the prince was in an aircraft of some sort fun fact in bulgaria fire as from a fireplace creates light without heat this explains why you could see the actors breath whether indoors or out fun fact dark age dancing in denmark looks like slow dances i went to in the th grade fun fact you too can make a catapult with a timed release air burst explosive but don t expect it to actually harm anything incidentally beowulf was apparently a veteran of world war ii yelling incoming to shred any remaining suspension of disbelief grendel was so upset and always in a snit because as a completely cgi creation he couldn t leave footprints even in snow grendel s mom hag was in a foul mood because she was a single mother and junior hadn t inherited her wings recessive gene i suppose by the way we can now make an educated guess that grendel s pop was probably swamp thing grendel and mom chose to randomly kill fly away with or drag away their prey based only on a close reading of the next few pages of the script fun medical fact being slammed by a mythical beast hard enough to be thrown fifty feet against stone causes slight facial scratches that don t bleed much the sword of legend beowulf used to dispatch the hag was as long as he was tall and would have contained enough steel to put a second deck on the golden gate bridge luckily the wobbling dispelled any concerns over its weight best line of the movie prince unferth had just been impaled by hag and spit a quart of blood roughly six feet princess ingrid cradled him gently and said you re going to be okay my prince so much for that job at the triage clinic i feel better now,0
boris karloff is matthias morteval a dying lonely old nut who lives in morhenge mansion with some servants and tells his doctor friend don t try to doctor me doctor i m disgustingly healthy he invites his nieces and nephews to his home and warns them they may have inherited a genetic disease that causes madness by shrinking the brain spoilers morteval karloff ends up dying and murderous toys designed by his dead brother start killing off the relatives a mini cannon fires real bullets into a guys face a life sized knight in armor attacks with an axe and a dancing sheik stabs people with a knife one guy getting strangled makes some hilarious faces at the end julissa and her boyfriend find karloff is still alive and hiding out in the dungeon where steel gates seal off the room he plays the recurring organ theme music sort of a death rattle used for the killings the brother s spirit starts talking the whole house will go with me and the mansion goes up in flames this senseless mess is too dark boring and the stupid dialogue never matches the lips,0
cutting to the chase this is one of the most amazing most intense film i ve seen in a long time the first movie in years that left me absolutely staggered i could barely feel my way out of the theatre i was so overwhelmed i ve been staring at the screen for about fifteen minutes trying to find some way to describe the power of this film and just failing highlighting any one aspect of it the documentary style video diary format the unflinching portrayal of the events the force of the characters just seems to trivialise it all some may find it laughable that any killer could be characterised as normal but then not all killers are raving lunatics foaming at the mouth many are quite regular unassuming people they re just wired differently and that s perhaps the most chilling thought of all,1
spoilers included with a title like bleed you know the creative juices weren t running on high when this puppy was conceived the movie is your basic run of the mill low budget slasher movie oh sure it tries to be creative with the premise of the murder club but we learn that was just a joke anyways okay for those who really care about these things the basic plot is that new girl in town starts dating her co worker he invites her into his circle of friends and at a party they tell her how they have a murder club and they murder people blah blah blah well we learn that it was all a joke but not before our heroine kills a lady in a parking garage now the members of the murder club are being killed one by one oh and the bad guys wins and the movie ends on a downer by that time you won t really care though in retrospect the first or so minutes of this movie make no sense the motivation for the killings in the beginning of the movie is never explained i would say that it was a way for the director to pad out the film but on the dvd there are deleted scenes i m not sure why anyone would want to see more than the feature length version of bleed but apparently the people behind the dvd thought the viewers would be clamoring for more on the box it says there are easter eggs but why the hell i would want to waste my time looking for extras on this movie is beyond me i was expecting a bad movie and bleed delivered on that front it wasn t a fun bad movie though everyone looks good in the movie and there s plenty of nudity but the acting is just awful my least favorite character is the guy who ends up being the killer i think he s supposed to be funny and amusing but he just ends up coming off as a tool i think the funniest moment of the movie is when our heroine kills the lady in the parking garage in a hilariously unconvincing death heroine shoves the women into the parking garage cement pole and the woman looks like she barely hits the thing and she spits out a mouthful of blood and dies for those who think that movie making is an intricate creative process done by professionals check out bleed it will change your mind and you ll realize any hack get can a movie made otherwise don t waste your time or money on this,0
german nut case j rg buttgereit apparently has fans but i don t know why and i m definitely not one of them the only buttgereit film i d seen previously was nekromantik and i hated every minute of it but shockingly this film is worse der todesking is pointless in the same way as nekromantik but it s a worse film because it s boring in a way that few movies have ever managed it s not far off the blair witch project seriously some people say that this film is sick and shocking but it really isn t the director may have been making a point about death but only he knows what it is how anyone could watch this film and be anything other than bored with it is completely beyond me the film revolves around the theme of suicide and follows the deaths of seven different people over the course of a week yes that means we have a pointless and boring episode for monday a pointless and boring episode for tuesday a pointless and boring episode for wednesday etc etc this film manages to be even more boring than my average week der todesking is apparently an art film although this would appear to be a reference to the way that not very much makes sense rather than a reference to the film bearing any resemblance to art each segment of the film is meant to tell a separate story but it doesn t we just get a quick little sketch on suicide and it only makes you wonder what the point is the film feels like it should be deep but there s a great big void where the intelligence should be and nothing there to fill it buttgereit uses a few evocative images but i m unlikely to remember any of them for more than a week or so because this film just isn t that memorable there s a shot involving a decomposing man s body that features fairly often but that gets old pretty quick and all you re left with is the rest of the film which is unfortunate if i were to struggle for good things to say about this crap all i can think of is this the title sounds cool as i mentioned nekromantik is the only other film i ve seen from this amateur director i have copies of schramm and nekromantik and now i m really in no rush to watch either der todesking is a dull film with no point and anyone that calls it art is very much mistaken give it a miss,0
i saw this film premiere friday night in park city for sundance and was incredibly moved sitting in a theater and hearing first hand the anguish soldiers go through was almost more than i could bear others in the audience were equally moved and while we wanted to turn away the least we could do was bear witness as these men and women shared their experience with us robert acosta paul rieckhoff sean huze and herold noel all veterans of the war in iraq and featured in the film were present while they may be home now you can tell this war is still inside them and probably always will be whether you support the war or not it is our duty to support the troops with something other than a bumper sticker see this film,1
ching siu tung s and tsui hark s a chinese ghost story aside from being one of the greatest wuxia pian films ever made is a beautiful and romantic love story as well as an impressively choreographed martial arts film that should belong in every film lover s collection the sorely missed hong kong superstar leslie cheung plays a traveling tax collector who spends the night at a haunted temple while staying at the temple he meets a colorful cast of characters that include the swordsmen yin wu ma and hsiao hou the tree devil and the beautiful ghost lit sin seen played by the lovely joey wong to free her from the clutches of the evil tree devil he must reincarnate her body and travel to the underworld to defeat an even more powerful demon enough good things can t be said about this film the pacing is perfect with a great combination of romance action fantasy and humor and the feverishly paced finale should leave you with little chance to breathe the chemistry between the wonderfully tragic joey wong and leslie cheung whose legendary career ended much too soon really allows the viewer to feel for both of them indeed the acting on the whole is so vivacious and full of life i would say this is one of the most fun viewing experiences i ve ever had much of the credit goes to wu ma in his portrayal of the mysterious swordsman yin his over the top persona of a disillusioned swordsman hell bent on vanquishing evil leads to some great moments of humor and traditional hk drama a wonderful score lush cinematography with eye popping colors and frenetic action pieces courtesy of ching siu tung round out this wonderful film find a copy anywhere you can,1
times are tough for angel town gangs rule with an iron fist and for reasons mostly unknown mainly due to embarrassing writing the gangs want a street kid martine to join the gangs so they beat him up everyday however due to the presence of an olympic kick boxer olivier world s lamest actor gruner named jacques hope is on the way angel town is seriously one of the most inept message movies ever made and i ve seen my share it seems to consist of the idea that all gang infested neighborhoods need are french kick boxers who can t act worst of all there are so many awkward moments it s just truly hilarious best of all comes from the exchange between gruner and aragon which basically sums up how ridiculous this thing is to wit you like the fighting olivier grabs his asian best friend in a headlock i could kill him right when i want him dead he dies the reason why i don t want him dead is because i m afraid of him and i know that if i kill him his son and wife will kill me that s why he doesn t die of course the fact that it s wrong to kill someone let alone your best friend is of course left out of the equation odd however don t let me make this sound that i hated this movie far from it it s so terrible it s priceless the biggest laughs come at the end in the disastrous finale which sees grunner going one on one with gang members who the film s biggest logic gap decline the use of pistols also a handicapped vietnam vet helps out by shooting his machine gun at the gangs while gruner kick boxes the rest all of this set to the sound of horrible mexican accents and surreal energy that make this one memorable for fans of cinematic trash such as this the other treat about this movie is that for some reason olivier gruner never attends college despite that s the main reason he s here in the states and not in france getting it on with his girlfriend in a graveyard in the film s awkward beginning angel town is without a doubt a failure on all conceivable levels but if you laugh at moronic martial arts movies with insane levels of action that make no sense on any level this is the perfect movie for you on the other hand make sure to down tequila like the laughable opening song details ain t no mercy in angel town out of bad,0
beautiful story of wisconsin native dan jansen and his real life agonizing struggle to win the olympic gold medal in speed skating despite his overwhelming emotional loss with the death of his much loved best friend and family member his sister jane this story s main focus is to sensitively portray the real life emotional turmoil of grief that one feels in loosing a special loved one and the struggle to productively cope and rise above the great loss it is the incredible story of dan jansen s heartbreak in loosing his beloved sister to leukemia his struggle to cope with the intensity of his grief while still maintaining his dream to win at the olympics and his ultimate triumph in winning the gold medal in speed skating for america and in honor of his sister s memory thereby fulfilling his childhood promise to jane after dan jansen s remarkable gold medal performance in the winter olympic in lillihamer norway he established a foundation in to help fight leukemia which claimed the life of his sister and to support youth sports programs educational and scholarship awards his dan jansen foundation promotes the philosophy that as his father always told him at a young age there is more to life than skating around in circles maintaining a proper perspective is key so too is setting goals and realizing one s dreams through perseverence overcoming adversity and never giving up recommended for anyone who has ever suffered the great loss of someone very special and dearly loved within your life and for anyone who still believes in the achievement of dreams and never giving up,1
i grew up watching the original disney cinderella and have always loved it so much that the tape is a little worn accordingly i was excited to see that cinderella was coming on tv and i would be able to see it i should have known better this movie joins the club of movie sequels that should have just been left alone it holds absolutely none of the originals super charm it seems to me quite rough and almost brutal right from the don t sing a longs to the characterization while i remember the character s telling a story through a song this film s soundtrack was laid over the top and didn t seem to fit jaq s transformation into a human is a prime example where he was walking around eating an apple and adding a few little quips in here and there he should have been dancing around and singing about how great it was to be tall and in the ballroom there s old barn dance type country music it s as though the writers forgot where and when this story was set the upbeat fiddles certainly didn t fit even the artwork and animation in cinderella isn t up to scratch with the original the artwork in this film seems quite raw and less detailed and we see part of cinderella s hoop skirt which doesn t feel right the movie itself could have been it s own story i think that it should have been just that i wouldn t say that i hate it but i believe that it had many shortcomings it seems to downgrade in a significant way from the beloved cinderella original,0
i saw this film in a london cinema in and have not seen it since i found it hilarious i loved it s originality it s rare that someone makes a movie like this and it s sad too what i mean is i once read a book called the black hotel and as a film fan i always picture books as films kinda adapt them you know but as i read it i thought well this would make a great movie but of course it would have to be adapted to the point where it would bear little relationship to the book but then i thought well why sure it could never be shown on sunday afternoon tv but provided it were shown in cinemas to adults who knew what it contained where s the harm dammit my civil liberties were being crushed here a director should be able to make a literal film adaptation of the black hotel in an ideal world censorship of films for adults should not exist but sadly whilst i accept that with intelligent adults such freedom might be harmless there would always be those who would lack the rationality to differentiate between fantasy and reality and who might be spurred on to commit foul deeds however it s hard to see how la bete falls into that category on it s appearance in england the british censor dismissed it out of hand despite the relaxation on nudity given the film s theoretical theme of bestiality had the censor passed any of it he d have been looking for a new job on monday but in those days there was an alternative the g l c this was a local town council with a department who had the power to pass a film just for london where it was deemed audiences were more sopisticated than those who lived out in the sticks the film was duly submitted and passed however it later emerged that the board consisted of just four people three who voted plus a chairman and on the day one of the voters was off sick thus the remaining two voters and the chairman sat down to view la bete one of said voters thought like me that the film was hilarious and hardly likely to encourage foul deeds by anyone the other lacked imagination and simply thought the piece disgusting and the chairman didn t understand it so decided to err on the side of freedom when the missing voter finally saw the film they too thought it disgusting but it was too late the film had received its x london certificate and opened to mixed reaction the g l c film censorship board was disbanded soon after thus la bete only opened in london by what could best be termed a fluke but i m glad it was it s great if you haven t seen it do so it s a fantasy and as such it s far less disturbing than most things you see on the news these days,1
kalifornia is disturbing i believe there is no reason for this story to be told it is neither entertaining nor does it have social value technically the movie is very well make the performances are top rate and first class the story develops in an intriguing way that holds interest but at the end this movie sickens and is abhorrent to decency i recommend kalifornia to no one,0
the french naudet brothers did something nobody else did they had a video camera the day that this tragedy happened they were in building when you could see papers drifting down people hitting the ground from jumping from such a height i mean it goes as far as when both buildings collapsed they went running their camera was still running when the white dust covered them they found a shop doorway and got inside but all this footage is real and i think they did a fantastic job of capturing it for us ten stars goes to the naudet brothers that filmed this extraordinary film that i watch every so i ll never forget what this country went through i believe if i remember right it shows the first death of the priest of the firefighters while he was being carried to the church and his honorable funeral,1
a film as bad as this should be withdrawn from all stores world wide so full of boring dull unimaginative characters and with a lead character with such an annoying attitude and dry voice constantly giving a thoughtless voice over for every action and feeling this film holds the record for the most challenging film i have ever watched as i had payed money to own it i felt a duty to see it through and how i regret it my head hurt throughout because of the terribly dull characters and their pointless plot less lives a bunch of kids who have zero knowledge about anything are all frigid and worst of all have terrible dialogue throughout just mulling around as the main character tries to get a date with the girl boring so much so my friend was shaking with hatred and i was red with embarrassment that i d thrown away the dvd was on ebay the following day and i didn t make much of my money back avoid like the plague,0
seeing as i hate reading long essays hoping to find a point and being disappointed i will first tell everyone that this movie was terrible downright terrible and not surprisingly for the reasons mentioned in the first review i thought i might agree with him seeing as he gave the movie the rank it deserved but was sorrowfully rebuked upon reading what he said i am quite ashamed to be taking the same side as someone who commented that the movie definitely lacks good looking females let me be the first to say wow that was definitely some serious in depth reviewing there my mind can hardly comprehend the philosophical musings about this movie seriously though a lack of good looking females shouldn t be considered an essential to a movie if you re desperate enough for good looking females you should really watch other types of movies not necessarily falling into the sci fi category,0
i simply love this movie it is a perfect example of the well rounded surprising stories that come out of asian cinema there was a recent hollywood remake of this movie with richard gere and the simply awful jennifer lopez please do not confuse the two movies the original japanese film is touching subtle and wonderfully acted the hollywood version is the exact opposite i was aghast when i first saw the trailer for the remade us version and who was starring in it it s typical hollywood unoriginal crass commercialism at it s worst the remake cements the argument that some foreign films can never be improved upon the only reason the original film did not become more widely viewed is the us audience s aversion to subtitles one of the main reasons this movie would never work in an american telling is that the reserved ultra socially conservative character of the public japanese persona is at issue in this movie certainly the main character awakens to a more full understanding of living a vivacious life through dance but half of the movie s tension comes from the stereotypes and ridicule ballroom dancers face in japan please try to see this movie in it s original form not the terrible full screen and please do skip the us remake it s a shallow travesty in comparison to the original japanese movie yes i know the original movie is much older and this is simply a japanese take on the story but the only two people are likely to see any time soon are this one and the new us remake speaking of foreign films i ll make a few quick recommendations monsoon wedding i list this first for a reason outstanding film johnny stechino very funny italian mistaken identity flic shiri a korean action pic that mixes both asian flare us style plot run lola run a german film that integrates it s techno score ingeniously well just a quick list anyway,1
gritty dusty western from director richard brooks who seems thoroughly engrossed in the genre while keeping all the usual clich s intact early s horse race attracts a low keyed cowboy gene hackman a suave gambler james coburn a cocky kid jan michael vincent and even a female a surprisingly game candice bergen once the preliminaries are out of the way with the predictable arguments over whether or not a woman should take part this becomes a fairly engrossing entry though one which breaks no new ground it instead resembles something from gary cooper s era good looking if overlong piece has macho verve and a fine cast yet the mechanisms of the plot get tiresome rather quickly from,0
i saw this film in my cinema class i am glad that i did not pay to see it i came into it with an open mind and was even a little excited i really enjoy ed norton and evan rachel wood and the rest of the cast was interesting i just never connected with this movie the acting was great the cinematography was interesting but the storyline or rather lack thereof was a problem there was no central connecting theme to the movie was it a romance between norton and wood well no not really was it a western kind of but no i m all for twists in movies i recently saw brick and loved it but the place that this movie went was just too out there it was so weird and if i weren t required to have sat through the whole film i would have walked out the writing wasn t terrible but it was just all over the place by the time this movie ended i was just left terribly confused and wishing that it had ended sooner there was just something about this film that didn t resonate i understand more offbeat films like fight club but i just did not care about the characters at all,0
as shallow as it may sound i actually delayed my viewing of the barbarians several times just because the vhs cover as well as the picture image displayed here on the website looks so incredibly gay by now i wish i had watched it earlier because the movie isn t so much gay just trashy cheesy campy and enormously fun it s almost unbelievable that ruggero deodato director of cannibal holocaust of all people was the man responsible for this comical cash in on the contemporary popular sword sandal fantasy flicks particularly schwarzenegger s conan movies the film opens with a terrific once upon a time type of off screen narrator introducing us to the ragneks their founder once traded an entire mountain of pure gold for just one magically powerful ruby that would allow them to travel in freedom and access every country as entertainers in other words the ragneks are a bunch of traveling circus freaks their happiness abruptly comes to end when the greedy kadar kidnaps the ragneks beautiful queen canary and continuously attempts to discover the whereabouts of the ruby meanwhile and as some sort of amusing waste of time the two orphan twin brothers gore and kutchek are trained to become muscled warriors and they re unwarily prepared to fight each other to the death instead of that however they escape and develop a plan to free their queen actually the plot isn t half as bad as i initially feared but still the most fun is provided by the beefcake brothers on screen chemistry the crazily inept dialogs and of course the utterly cheesy fantasy monsters like a dragon with adorably cute eyes some kind of werewolf creature and zombies that randomly appear to pop out of the swamp the soundtrack and make up effects are great and our almighty director deodato maintains a terrifically fast pace the barbarian brother s acting capacities are much better than i anticipated apart from the fact that one of them constantly produces gross belching sounds the supportive cast is splendid as well eva la rue never looked more beautiful as the witty savage girl cara virginia bryant is indeed bewitching like richard lynch states on several occasions and the lovely sheeba alahani makes her first and only appearance on film as a vicious sorceress with a donut shaped hair style i kid you not last but not least the barbarians stars everybody s favorite eyes in the hills creep michael berryman as the appropriately named dirtmaster i know the displayed picture looks gayer than a promotional campaign for the musical version about the rise and fall of the village people but the barbarians really is a must see italian exploitation highlight,1
if this is all the watchowski s have to offer in terms of a back story to the matrix than i really have to question the claims of all of the fans who believe that the movies are intended to register on a deeper level the second renaissance while visually stunning beautiful is story wise cliched ludicrous how many times have we heard the story of humans relying too much on technology humans all too eager to make war humans basically destroying themselves there is nothing new here and i have another question considering the plot of the second renaissance doesn t that make the machines the good guys the machines are oppressed for generations by their cruel human overmasters they fight back win their freedom and seek to establish a peaceful harmonious coexistence with the humans who reject them in favor of all out war which the cleverer machines naturally win if this is the back story then we shouldn t be rooting for neo we should be rooting for the machines the humans were cruel and oppressive while the machines were courageous and attepted to be compassionate since i do not believe that the watchowski s intend for us to favor the machines over the humans i have to believe that the second renaissance was simply a misguided attempt creating a back story,0
there s never a dull moment in this movie wonderful visuals good actors and a classical story of the fight of good and evil mostly very funny sometimes even scary a true classic a movie everybody should see,1
alex winter and keanu reeves return as the two dopes from san dimas who get sent on another trip of a lifetime as someone from the future feels exactly the opposite the way it was presented in the first movie the only difference is that their trip is somewhere between heaven and hell and ends up being both when they meet the grim reaper they get the chance of an after lifetime to play him for a chance to return and stop two evil robots from ruining what future they were supposed to have besides playing roles they have er perfected they also play and revive a couple of extra sales in the process some classic games i even have my original copy of battleship in the closet the reason i liked this movie better than the original is because it deals with what it might be like instead of what was without spoiling the movie i can t give you anymore information about this i guess you ll just have to watch them both and decide for yourself out of stars,1
movie goers avoid watching this movie if you are faint hearted you might want to commit suicide if you are a short tempered you would want to kill the lead performer of the movie though he does not have any talent in acting he is the mass hero for all the rickshaw pullers auto rickshaw drivers rowdies thugs and immature and ignorant literates he proves you do not need neither talent nor knowledge to be successfully he is the highest paid actor in india that shows the taste of movie going public in india of movie goers in tamil nadu are definitely attracted to his kind of nonsense movies,0
is the best television show it s an incredible tv series with an incredible suspense excellent plots and unforgettable characters and the first episode of all is my best evidence because it s only the first episode only the introduction and you are hooked because of the plot and the continuous twists and turns jack bauer is a federal agent who is assigned the protection of the senator david palmer he can t trust in anybody because people of the ctu may be involved and when this events occurred his daughter kimberly escapes from house to a party but at the end of the episode you want to watch more and more and more it s only the first of the lot and it s excellent,1