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| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| i was absolutely mesmerised by this series from the moment tom long walked into shot the whole bad boy thing it was just addictive the story has you hooked what will happen next will joey get the girl in the end after doing years in prison and all that time thinking about his lost love crossing paths with her again finding he has a son although he is a violent bad guy you still want him to find happiness a truly captivating two parter please bring it out on video,1 | |
| all dogs go to heaven is in my opinion the best animated film ever made i m not really a big fan of animated films but there s something about this one that makes it better than any other animated film i ve seen the music is wonderful as is the performances of burt reynolds dom deluise and especially ken page as the king gator let s make music together is perhaps one of my favorite songs from any movie musical i ve seen this is definitely a must see for people of all ages,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| this adaptation of pearl s buck s film is certainly a classic a true hollywood epic it has all the things a great hollywood film has birth death happiness sadness exhilaration despair and so on there is only one thing that irks me i know it was a sign of the times but neither of the two main characters are played by asian actors paul muni was a great actor and he does an admirable job as wang lung the owner of a farm in china luise rainier plays olan she does not even look chinese i think she tried to get the role but they should have put anna may wong in the role i know why they didn t and ms rainier is very good in the film but they hardly tried to make her look authentic stillm its a great film especially if you read the book i did in high school decades ago its a must see just look beyond the casting i think you can,1 | |
| 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 | |
| an excellent film with great performances from zack lochley much to their displeasure mine garibaldi arrived on station all due respect to jerry doyle but in seasons i lost sympathy for the character it doesn t take him long to start criticizing zack who i love best of all on the show and taking charge i m sure zack could have coped the soulhunter plot is fascinating especially if you believe in heaven as zack does the humour supplements it nicely,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| holes is my all time favorite movie so far i have seen this movie three times in theaters and am looking forward to purchasing it on dvd this upcoming september i read the book after seeing the movie and was amazed at how alike the book and movie were the director of this film did an excellent job of re creating the book into movie form also all of the actors selected to play the roles did wonderful playing their characters especially max kasch as zigzag props to all those involved in making this movie it was a real success out of stars i definitely recommend it for everyone to see,1 | |
| bo derek will not go down in history as a great actress on the other hand starting in the s actual acting talent seemed to be less and less of a required ability in hollywood so bo could very well have gone onto bigger and better things after the big box office take of blake edwards that is if she hadn t allowed her husband john derek to take over her career numerous playboy spreads and bad movies like this one this one in particular directed by john destroyed what momentum she had and made her the butt of many a joke in the s it was assumed that you could put a certain personality in a certain movie and it would be box office gold john figured that putting bo in a movie wherein she was nude for much of the running time would make people flock to the theaters after the hype maybe if the movie had been any good perhaps this version of tarzan has got to be the all time worst of the many iterpretations of burrough s lord of the jungle a slap in the face to character s book and film legacy tarzan is in fact an after thought as the film is primarily a vehicle for bo s breasts and richard harris wonderful over acting remember the pair had worked together in orca his scenery chewing helps you to stay awake during the boredom of it all and yes the film is quite boring nothing really exciting happens and the few action scenes seem to have been shot by someone in a trance bo s body can only get you so far miles o keeffe who played tarzan at least would go onto a long and enjoyable b movie career and richard harris can put this behind him after his recent acting triumphs but bo and john derek never recovered from this fiasco and future collaborations between the two only served to show why his directing career and her acting career died in the first place and how did the orangutan get to africa,0 | |
| this only gets bashed because it stars david hasselhoff well then let me bash it to compared to the garbage they call horror coming out nowadays this film isn t too bad it has the beautiful leslie cumming she is super hot but can t talk very well there is a great scene with her when she is supernaturally raped she shows off her nice body linda blair does nothing here as well as hasselhoff,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| god this film was just so boring apart from the music which i really loved i mean what was the point in actually making this movie please anyone who reads this review do not watch this film it is a waste of time emraan can act but was really pathetic in this film i am actually ashamed to be one of his fans especially in this movie it was just really bad celina is just another pretty face with no lack of talent what so ever she can t act at all and there was no point of her being in this film as for the other girl radha she was okay i guess but could have done better what a waste of time please buy the great music and don t watch this movie,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| i understand the jokes quite well they just aren t good the show is horrible i understand it and that s another horrible thing about it the only cool character there ever was on the show was that one hobo in that one episode but then i see the other episode including that episode and the show is horrible it s not funny not funny i don t want people to say only smart people get it because if they re so smart why do they judge people they don t even know and say that they re not smart or intellectual enough to understand it it s like saying the sky is red but never looking outside but anyways this is absolutely the worst show i have ever seen in my life the jokes are terrible i mean you can understand them they re just horrible her controversy is very lame her fart jokes and other jokes on bodily fluids are really dumb and usually consist of really bad acting i m not sure what these smart people see in this show but judging others when they don t even know anything about any of us isn t exactly a smart comment,0 | |
| 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 | |
| walt disney s the rookie is based on the story of jim morris a former minor league picher who made one of the most amazing comebacks in sports history ending an almost year retirement and making his major league debut in at the age of the film opens with a brief synopsis of morris childhood which included a series of re locations his father was a military man and even when his family settled for good in football crazed texas morris passion for baseball remained strong the childhood segment then jumps ahead about years to the adult morris played by dennis quaid who is now a baseball coach and chemistry teacher at big lake high school in real life it was reagan county high school in big lake texas it is mentioned that he attempted a career as a baseball player but that it didn t work out morris s team is struggling and he lectures them about giving up on their dreams they turn the table on him telling him that he should try out for a major league team at several times when he pitches to them in practice they express amazement at the speed with which he throws morris seems unconvinced but agrees to a deal with his players in which if they win district he will try out for a major league team big lake does win district and adhering to his end of the deal morris attends a tampa bay devil rays try out phenomenally he throws miles an hour faster than he threw during his minor league career and an outstanding speed even for a major league pitcher after another try out with the team morris is offered a contract with the devil rays this leaves him with a tough decision stay in his comfortable life or once again pursue his major league dream by going through the minor league grind of making little money and spending months at a time away from home and the decision is even more agonizing than during his first minor league stint because he now has a wife and three children morris signs with the devil rays begins at the aa level and moves up quickly to the aaa level one level below major league baseball but as the season winds down the chances of him getting called up grow increasingly slim for the most part i love this movie there are lots of great performances and likable characters and it s easy to find yourself really pulling for morris also the movie does a great job portraying professional baseball at both the major and minor league levels and most of all it teaches the timeless message of holding tight to your dreams even when they seem distant and almost impossible to achieve still the movie has some flaws while generally accurate it exaggerates and even fabricates a few things check out http espn go com page s closer html for some examples also except for one scene in which he prays with his players the movie completely ignores morris christian faith but considering disney s left wing zeal that s not surprising presumably a lot of the exaggerations fabrications were done to make the story more dramatic yet the minute documentary on morris that is included on the dvd features some information that makes his story more dramatic but is excluded from the movie for example from birth until his family settled in texas for good when he was morris re located times and his initial minor league career ended after four surgeries through which he lost half of the muscle in his left pitching shoulder thus making his throwing mph even more inexplicable to fully appreciate and understand the story of jim morris it s good to not only watch the rookie but to watch the dvd s documentary check out the aforementioned link to the movie s inaccuracies and probably also to read morris biography also titled the rookie i haven t read the book but i hope to one of these days but overall the rookie is a very good portrayal of a miraculous story and is a powerful testament to the power of dreams and the triumph of the common man,1 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| my wife is a fanatic as regards this show that being the case i bought her seasons one through three and season four is on order i personally think the show is one big farce the cast is equally bad alyssa milano should have stuck to the other trash movies she made such as poison ivy embrace of the vampire to name a few the other female supporting cast members are equally inept in their portrayals i ve seen better special effects in the old republic pictures serials i saw as a child i can understand why the male leads remained on the show for such short periods of time even though i don t know if it was their own choosing or not please please don t renew for another season as enough is enough bob,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| when i was a kid i totally loved both bill ted movies the other night bogus journey was on and since it was at least years since i last saw it i decided to tune in and i loved it all over again this film is still funny after all those years excellent adventure is better but this one rocks just the same sure some of the perfomances are a bit cheesy but hey this entire film is cheesy in a cool way plus it features the coolest personation of death ever in a movie concluding totally like non bogus movie dude way excellent station,1 | |
| this 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| gave us the very decent gore porn flick hostel and gave us live feed a not so decent rip off of hostel live feed follows pretty much the same formula as eli roth s earlier film except this time the dumb kids are in asia rather than central europe the plot focuses on these dumb kids and one of them has annoyed one of the locals so they find themselves in trouble the locals decide to lock them all in a theatre and kill them despite the fact that i d heard some less than favourable things about this film before seeing it i still hoped that it might be at least half decent because director ryan nicholson previously made the very decent minute rape and revenge film torched but this film falls down simply because most of it is either ridiculous or boring the film is obviously trying to hark back to the good old days of grindhouse cinema which hostel did successfully but it really doesn t come off surprisingly considering nicholson s previous work in special effects not even the gore is impressive although it is a lot better than the acting there s not much else i can say about this film it s bad and not in a good way avoid it,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| my favorite movie what a great story this really was i d just like to be able to buy a copy of it but this does not seem possible,1 | |
| this is not really a zombie film if we re defining zombies as the dead walking around here the protagonist armand louque played by an unbelievably young dean jagger gains control of a method to create zombies though in fact his method is to mentally project his thoughts and control other living people s minds turning them into hypnotized slaves this is an interesting concept for a movie and was done much more effectively by fritz lang in his series of dr mabuse films including dr mabuse the gambler and the testament of dr mabuse here it is unfortunately subordinated to his quest to regain the love of his former fianc e claire duvall played by the anne heche look alike with a bad hairdo dorothy stone which is really the major theme the movie has an intriguing beginning as louque is sent on a military archaeological expedition to cambodia to end the cult of zombies that came from there at some type of compound where we get great s sets and clothes he announces his engagement to claire and then barely five minutes later she gives him back his ring declaring her love for his pal clifford greyson robert noland it s unintentionally funny the way they talk to each other without making eye contact this would have been a great movie for mystery science theater if they hadn t already roasted it it s never shown how louque actually learns the zombification secret but he then uses it to kill his enemies create a giant army of rifle carrying soldiers and body guards we won t see such sheer force of will until john agar in the brain from planet arous finally claire consents to marry him if he will let greyson live and return to america louque agrees but actually turns him into one of his hypnotized slaves on their wedding night he realizes that claire will only begin to love him if he gives up his powers to gain her love he does so causing the revolt of the title in which all his slaves awaken and attack his compound and kill him greyson embraces claire and we seem to be at the end of a parable whom the gods would destroy they first make mad so really then it s not that bad of a film despite the low imdb rating it currently has on repeated viewings one can see the artistry in the well formed script dean jagger had yet to develop into a good actor and is almost unrecognizable in his youngness is that really his own hair we remember him more for his bald old man roles in white christmas x the unknown and king creole the story borrows a lot of its basic themes from the halperin brothers better earlier film white zombie in which hapless robert frazier as charles beaumont uses zombification to win the love of madge bellamy as madeline parker if you want real zombie movies of which there are hundreds i d start with white zombie king of the zombies i walked with a zombie night of the living dead the last man on earth and its two remakes in the modern era of classy films there are horror express the serpent and the rainbow days later and its sequel as well as many many others too numerous to mention this one is not really a zombie film judging this movie on its own terms it s more of a semi gothic romance as such it ranks a little below some of universal s bottom billed b horror movies of the late s and early s so i ll give it a,0 | |
| 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 | |
| this is a very entertaining flick considering the budget and its length the storyline is hardly ever touched on in the movie world so it also brought a sense of novelty the acting was great p z to dom and the cinematography was also very well done i recommend this movie for anyone who s into thrillers it will not disappoint you,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| when i found this film in my local videostore i expected it to be another cheesy american vampire film in the same vein of the lost boys to my surprise to die for is a really good movie it s a little bit corny at times but still there are enough stylish set pieces and surprises to satisfy vampire enthusiasts this is a perfect mix of romance and horror and it s surprisingly gory at times highly recommended,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| i ve watched a few episodes of this show and have found certain elements of it to be rather interesting considering medical facts that can be learned but this is totally upstaged and wrecked by the neverending immoral relationships of the show s characters everybody seems to have slept with just about everyone even during office hours which is ridiculously unrealistic there doesn t seem to be one solid lasting marriage or relationship in the entire show everyone is broken up and on the prowl hardly a true reflection of all americans indeed there is a total lack of respect for marriage or monogamy and it s truly fulsome then we are presented with endless little moral dilemmas and they re generally solved in such a way that belittles anyone who doesn t agree with the all knowing degenerate management and staff of the private practice for instance in one of the latest episodes we re presented with an exceedingly rare situation of a baby who is born with an uncertain gender and addison absolutely refuses to perform the surgery because we re supposed to let the baby decide his gender later on anyone who disagrees with this is portrayed as immature and stupid and i think that anyone opposed to abortion would be offended by the way the show treats pro lifers addison made the comment that no man was allowed to have an opinion on the issue and only one black character was given dignity for opposing abortion on moral grounds the general feeling was that if you opposed abortion you re a freak hardly the popular sentiment in the us two of the main characters in the show nonchalantly mention that they had abortions when they were younger and had no apologies or regrets in spite of the fact that research has shown women can undergo intense depression what s more a young girl comes to the clinic for an abortion and then thanks the staff on the way out and someone talks about it as how they were helping this young person and it was like something to exult in the script could have been written by planned parenthood all in all this is a cheap show that lacks much of a future unless it decides to present more real relationships rather than just totally unbelievable soap opera relationships and far fetched medical situations throughout the whole show,0 | |
| i m surprised how many people give this move less than stars but they just don t understand the movie the story is about growing up in a difficult situation there is a crazy grandmother who really wants the best for your grandchildren and there s good reason why so many critics like this movie and the reason is because they understand the movie i feel sorry for the low scores given by some people i wish i could just write a brief summary of a movie but imdb requires you to write lines i frankly don t have anything else to say,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| i was expecting to love this movie film noir serial killer dark irony i was baffled by many choices the characters made hey i know they re creepy looking but let s hook up for a cross country road trip anyway found the pacing to be glacial and the emphasis on moody lighting to take the place of original thought by the director and cinematographer thinking about it now this would have been a much better movie if someone had just run the script through the common sense o meter model before starting to film,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| i grew up baptist and i know the story this movie is trying to tell although i no longer believe the story i ll give the movie kudos for being as good as the average lifetime movie of the week mildly interesting mediocre acting a bit slow the script is predictable the music is sappy and it is a bit melodramatic and all the people left behind have got to be the squeakiest clean non christians ever not a single curse word from any of them but i laughed out loud when the actor playing the man who runs the united nations pronounced nuclear as nu cu ler just like bush is there some christian code of honor that mandates that since bush claims he too is called by god that all christians must cover up his ignorance by mispronouncing that word the same way he does lol i really had a difficult time taking the movie seriously at all after that after the nu cu ler incident the movie began to feel like packaged manipulative propaganda i was looking for something bold actually i was looking for something that might make me think but i didn t find it here if you re looking for mindless entertainment stop here it s good for killing a rainy afternoon but if you re looking for intelligence look elsewhere,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| bela lugosi as creepy insane scientist who uses orchids to woo brides in order to steal life essence for aged wife the midget in this film is hilarious a lot of freaks plus a lot of padding and no plot makes watching this film a nightmare i loved how all the pieces fell together in the end in typical hollywood fashion the story never gets interesting and you feel helpless as you watch usually i d score bore flicks like this one low but the midget added just enough creepiness and entertainent to gain a couple more points,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| this is just a terrible comedy it really is a bad film there are no funny elements no jokes that are funny i don t know how some people can claim this dismal short film could be smartest or quality perhaps if its the only film that a person has seen you can make that claim of the brothers but i have seen thousands of better films namely leonard part six now that s funny i don t know how the brothers is even considered eligible to be listed on the internet movie database its more like a home video than an actual film jokes aside just skip this film a root canal is more enjoyable that this cliche ridden unfunny material,0 | |
| 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 | |
| these were over minutes of semi unexpected boredom first i was wondering how it is possible to produce something like that then reaching th minute i was convincing myself that it s only a few more minutes and i lasted to the very end which i m kinda proud of as i consider watching this movie as a great test for human s patience and crap tolerance was it worth watching at all well as i wrote above if you want to test yourself give it a try and if you re strong willed enough you may even last to the end the movie lacks coherence and characters seem to have no common sense at all all happenings in the movie you can be sure you saw somewhere before and they seem to be put in this movie just to fill the film reel,0 | |
| 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 | |
| it s interesting to see what the director tried to do with this film but the problem is that it s not very good there was nothing really original in the film and while the plot was well presented the main characters were all a bit to shallow and you didn t bother for any of them rather bland and sometimes downright bad photo leaves a bit to be desired but i guess you can t expect to much from people who are just doing a low budget film for the heck of it it s unfair to review the film and compare it to other high budget films but alas that is what one must do on its own it s not very good and compared to others it s still not very good but it is not without its good points i liked the plot it was built up rather nicely and tied together well at the end sometimes in the really dark scenes it managed to build up a creepy feeling as well however in the end the film fails to impress the characters are pretty much non existent and we don t care for any of them any of them might die but it s possible to pinpoint the final survivor from very early on,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| st watched out of dir steve purcell typical mary kate ashley fare with a few more kisses it looks to me like the girls are getting pretty tired of this stuff and it will be interesting what happens to them if they ever decide to split up and go there own ways in this episode of their adventures they are interns in rome for a `fashion designer who puts them right into the mailroom to learn what working hard is all about i guess besides the typical flirtations with boys there is nothing much else except the rome scenario until about way into the movie when it s finally revealed why they are getting fired then re hired then fired again then re hired again this is definetly made by people who don t understand the corporate world and it shows in their interpretation of it maybe the real world will be their next adventure if there is one even my kids didn t seem to care for this boring `adventure in the make believe let s see they probably only have a couple of years till their legal adults we ll see what happens then,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 | |
| this sure is one comedy i m not likely to forget for a while wouldn t normally bother to comment on this movie it s so minor that no one would watch it anyway but as it happens it s kind of popular in p p sharing networks such as kazaa and so this saaad production needs to be exposed for what it is so what is it then well of course it s not really a comedy instead it s intended as a horror flick intended very much being the key word here the script is a totally incoherent and unbalanced mess the special effects are only special in that they re especially pathetic and as for the acting well let s just say that if this had been my graduating play at primary school my teachers would have burst out crying at our talent of course i realise that this is a very low budget film and that in those cases one should lower one s expectations certainly as far as things like special effects are concerned also even though i m a big fan of the horror genre i m aware that these movies are only rarely the places to look for interesting scripts and top notch acting but still b movies often have some redeeming features to make up for the lack of funding such as humour the only laughs in cradle to fear lie in the ridiculous performances if you can find the humour in that and i could for the first minutes or so gradually dozing off after that then that s going to be the only thing the movie has to offer oh that and two or three pairs of breasts woohoo how exciting as for the story it s not even that it doesn t try to convey anything the victims either use drugs and or are involved in serious crime the lesson watch out naughty boys and girls because one day you ll be made to pay for what you ve done i rest my case so all in all a little bit of sex a fair amount of drugs but absolutely zero rock n roll i rate this one out of but would go to if i could or perhaps i wouldn t it deserves a for spelling the actors names correctly in the titles i mean that s something innit,0 | |
| the thing that makes this movie so scary is the way that it portrays andre and calvin as relatively normal guys these are definitely not people who want to become professional filmmakers since they goof around in front of the camera forget scripted lines etc they are only making the video as a diary to show the survivors how normal their lives were their parents just think the guys are filming for a family home video by researching other kids attacks on their schools andre and calvin learn what not to do and they inform usually in a silly this old house kind of way any potential andres and calvins who might be watching this video how to make bombs get weapons and not get caught before zero day the day of the attack,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| i have been an environmentalist for years and was really looking forward to this show i had it set to record all episodes because i thought i could really learn some great new things i probably could if i could get past rachelle i m sure a lot of this is staged to seem like a reality show and appeal to that class of viewer it doesn t work for someone who s really interested in improving the planet this show should be called nagging with rachelle since ed is such a great font of information maybe a second show that s really serious about the environment would be a good idea dumbing things down is not necessary for some of us i no longer record episodes or watch the show but do let me know if a real green show may be in the works,0 | |
| what an inspiring movie i laughed cried and felt love for a true story it does give you hope and that miracles do happen it has a great cast ellen burstyn samantha mathis jodelle ferland she s or yrs old what a actress its on showtime a must see movie,1 | |
| fay grim is on its face a tale of espionage and intrigue told with a nod and a wink as the sequel to his extraordinary henry fool hal hartley creates a surprising blend of film noir and hardboiled spy thriller that starts with a knowing smile and large dose of laughter and turns as poignant and warm as any film i ve seen this year parkey posey is fay grim an unwitting mata hari caught between the love of her exiled husband henry fool and the questionable intentions of a charming cia operative as agent fulbright jeff goldblum is a master of wit and sarcasm in a role that seems tailored to his talents he has never been better james urbaniak is fay s brother simon jailed but renowned for his wildly popular books of poetry his love of his work and his sister brings a jolt of passion to contrast the dour nature of the spies which eventually populate fay s world and liam aiken is fay s oversexed year old son although that may be redundant aiken s understated style is remarkably old soul for someone his age the entire film is shot dutch angle the off kilter style made famous by orson welles and used primarily in horror films and psychological thrillers to impart a sense of foreboding in fay grim using that style from opening credits to closing is intriguing at first deceptively clever the next for just as the viewer begins to fall for the perfectly timed comedic elements and wit of hartley s brilliant script something happens the film takes a dark yet strangely comforting turn as these characters magically become sympathetic before our eyes what began as dark comedy morphs into romantic drama and the transition is masterful slow pacing gives way to breathtaking action and we are sucked right into the vortex in the end hartley s sharp dialog combined with the amazing performances of a perfectly matched ensemble cast makes for a delicious cinematic cocktail told with the luxury of one able to write produce direct edit and even compose the music hal hartley has crafted a smart sexy tale of espionage with tongue just barely planted in cheek fay grim is one part dashiell hammett one part raymond chandler and one part ian fleming shaken and maybe stirred as well,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| the invisible man is a fantastic movie from a cutting edge film for it s time where objects appeared to rest on top of a man who was truly invisible go ahead take a look at the film you will be shocked that it was made in it was the first true special effects movie come computer aided special effects seem like child s play audiences are not blown away by special effects instead they are disappointed if they are not done right the special effects in hollow man the update of the hg wells story are ok but not the biggest problem with this film directed by paul verhoeven who you might remember from showgirls and total recall kevin bacon plays sebastian caine a scientist dabbling in the world of bio invisibilation yeah i know that s not a word but of course is battling higher ups who are threatening to take away the team s funding so as movie characters who are about to have their funding cutoff are prone to do he makes the ultimate sacrifice and becomes a guinea pig for the invisibilation yeah i know i used that non word again process the process has dire consequences no caine does not die but instead becomes a horny violent creature aka a guy now that he s invisible caine stalks a sexy neighbor a co worker former girlfriend linda elisabeth shue and the man who took away his funding then a funny thing happens caine becomes a new supernatural being the thing that won t die laughing in the face of all things natural caine faces down death and spits in it s face as it take what feels like hours for this creature to die dragging the ending of the movie out the movie is silly stupid and finally laughable with the way realism is sometimes used sometimes not there are neat possibilities in hollow man but of course not one of them is explored for a more interesting look at an invisible being get ready for some good old fashioned black and white cinema and check out the invisible man kevin bacon will still be invisible when you come back probably still alive at the bottom of a volcano,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| when an actor has to play the role of an actor fictional or factual the task becomes much more difficult than playing a role in a double life ronald coleman surpassed himself as anthony john the tortured double personality he put into that character all his talent and sincerity the facial expressions mannerisms gait and stance spoke eloquently of what anthony john was going through while playing othello on stage coleman also did extremely well as a shakespearean actor in those short scenes as othello that were part of this gem of a movie closups of coleman s face as othello tortured by doubts about the fidelity of desdemona were in themselves scenes worth watching add to that his character s off stage desperation and only someone with coleman s depth of acting perception can achieve it was like watching spenser tracy as dr jekyll and mr hyde except this double role was much more profound and poignant shelly winters looked so sweet vulnerable and gorgeous at the same time and added her talent to the movie it is believed that ronald coleman liked his role in this film above all others he played and went on to win the oscar for best actor in i would see this movie repeatedly and never feel bored,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| i watched this last night after not having seen it for several years it really is a fun little film with a bunch of faces you didn t know were in it arkin shines as always check it out you won t be dissappointed by the way it was just released on dvd and contrary to its packaging it is widescreen the transfer is rather poor but at least the whole movie is visible,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| this movie deals with one of the most feared geriatric diseases among the aging today as one who has encountered a number of families who are facing the potential of alzheimer s or who are in the formative stages i would suggest that every health care giver recommend this movie to any family facing the trauma of this disease the movie is designed primarily to speak to the family of the patient and reaches into the very heart of the struggle casting is excellent and the dramatic portrayal is outstanding with a very commanding plot line,1 | |
| 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 have never panned a film on line but i felt moved to do so after seeing this one one doesn t show up at someone s funeral and say to the bereaved my relatives died so why should i care about yours minus the propaganda there was little if anything that could be called art as the daughter of deaf parents i was particularly annoyed by the use of deafness as a gimmick any deaf person feeling a vibration of that immensity would likely have investigated not ignored it the word chutzpah comes to mind as a writer there are few subjects i would stay away from the holocaust is one this is another i wish these movie makers had not been so arrogant and inept,0 | |
| this 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| two sisters their perverted brother and their cousin have car trouble they then happen about the home of dr hackenstein whom conveniently needs the body parts of three nubile young women to use in an experiment to bring his deceased lover back to life he tells them that he ll help them get home in the morning so they spend the night then the good doctor gets down to work in this low budget horror comedy i found this to be mildly amusing nothing at all to actually go out of your way for i stumbled across it on netflix instant view streamed it to the xbox but better then i expected it to be for a troma acquired film most of the humor doesn t work but their are still some parts that caused me to smile plus the late great anne ramsey has a small part and she was always a treat to watch eye candy bambi darro sylvia lee baker got topless my grade d,0 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 think this still is the best routine there are some others like rock s bring the pain and allen s men are pigs that are hilarious damon waynes last stand is also funny in a tearful way but this routine has no errors all the jokes are funny and the time limit of minutes is perfect just long enough to last years i just love how he allows the audience to be totally themselves and unrestricted i m a fan of the classics and for a guy who watched a lot of of jim carrey growing up watching a more laid back comic is pretty cool not putting in a category with ellen and newhart but something you can watch if you re bloated thanks eddie god bless,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 | |
| le grand voyage is a gentle miracle of a film a work made more profound because of its understated script by writer director isma l ferroukhi who allows the natural scenery of this road trip story and the sophisticated acting of the stars nicolas cazal and mohamed majd to carry the emotional impact of the film ferroukhi s vision is very capably enhanced by the cinematography of katell djian a sensitive mixture of travelogue vistas of horizons and tightly photographed duets between characters and the musical score by fowzi guerdjou who manages to maintain some beautiful themes throughout the film while paying homage to the many local musical variations from the numerous countries the film surveys reda nicolas cazal lives with his muslim family in southern france a young student with a western girlfriend who does not seem to be following the religious direction of his heritage his elderly father mohamed majd has decided his time has come to make his hadj to mecca and being unable to drive requests the reluctant reda to forsake his personal needs to drive him to his ultimate religious obligation the two set out in a fragile automobile to travel through france into italy and on through bulgaria croatia slovenia and turkey to saudi arabia along the trip reda pleads with his father to visit some of the interesting sights but his father remains focused on the purpose of the journey and reda is irritably left to struggle with his father s demands on their pilgrimage they encounter an old woman ghina ognianova who attaches herself to the two men and must eventually be deserted by reda a turkish man mustapha jacky nercessian who promises to guide the father son duo but instead brings about a schism by getting reda drunk in a bar and disappearing and countless border patrol guards and custom agents who delay their progress for various reasons tensions between father and son mount reda cannot understand the importance of this pilgrimage so fraught with trials and mishaps and the father cannot comprehend reda s insensitivity to the father s religious beliefs and needs at last they reach mecca where they are surrounded by hoards of pilgrims from all around the world and the sensation of trip s significance is overwhelming to reda the manner in which the story comes to a close is touching and rich with meaning it has taken a religious pilgrimage to restore the gap between youth and old age between son and father and between defiance and acceptance of religious values the visual impact of this film is extraordinary all the more so because it feels as though the camera just happens to catch the beauty of the many stopping points along the way without the need to enhance them with special effects nicolas cazal is a superb actor be sure to see his most recent and currently showing film the grocer s son and it is his carefully nuanced role that brings the magic to this film another fine film from the film movement this is a tender story brilliantly told highly recommended grady harp,1 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |