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when people ask me why do i like movies so much i usually respond have you seen the art gallery sequence in de palma s dressed to kill that scene alone pretty much represents everything i want to see in a film if i was a film director that would be the kind of thing i d like to do pure cinema is one way of describing that sequence and it is truly amazing to see how director de palma s entire movie works at the same high artistic frequency of that scene it is a dream like movie clever as hell and with more zest and intelligence than a dozen films put together i think the movie raises an important point that will always be a topic of heated discussion could a movie rely solely on technique and still be considered an artistic success the film has no message to speak of acting is great but it is at the service of the style and the script is short on logic de palma s movie makes a really good case that style when handled properly can sustain a feature length film sure michael caine angie dickinson nancy allen and keith gordon give superlative performances but this is a director s movie all the way to the fadeout it is a sensational demonstration of the possibilities of the film medium i won t tell you what hitchcock movie the film pays homage to i don t want to spoil any surprises but i think de palma transcends the story s arc and he manages to create a film that pretty much summarizes his entire career not for the faint of heart,1
designed only to annoy or amuse any self respecting intelligent person if the director s intention had been for the viewer to dislike the title character then it would have been okay but i know that there is no such thing as a hollywood director who d make a critique of america s pro marxist s movement especially not a filmmaker from the s there is so much idiotic dialog going on here that sometimes i wondered if i wasn t actually watching a comedy you wouldn t be at fault for thinking that this is a satire that s how na ve the movie appears spacek has been in her share of leftist movies which brings me to the obvious inescapable conclusion that the redhead hick is one of those hollywood liberal morons but i mean aren t they all nice boobs but s t for brains,0
this movie was recently released on dvd in the us and i finally got the chance to see this hard to find gem it even came with original theatrical previews of other italian horror classics like spasmo and beyond the darkness unfortunately the previews were the best thing about this movie zombi in a bizarre way is actually linked to the infamous lucio fulci zombie franchise which began in similarly compared to zombie zombi consists of a threadbare plot and a handful of extremely bad actors that keeps this horror trash barely afloat the gore is nearly non existent unless one is frightened of people running around with green moss on their faces and the english dubbing is a notch below embarrassing the plot this time around involves some sort of covert military operation with a bunch of inept scientists ie an idiotic male and his stupid female side kick who are developing some sort of chemical called death one that is supposed to re animate the dead unless my ears need to be checked i don t even recall a reason for the research of death one it seems to exist only to wreak havoc upon the poor souls who made the mistake of choosing to star in this cinematic laugh fest anyway death one is experimented on a corpse whom i swear looked like yul brynner and after it is injected into his system he sits upright and his head explodes the sound effects are also quite hilarious as the corpse s face bubbles with green slime the sound of paper crumpling can be heard the death one toxin is transported outside and is hi jacked by a group of thieves where one makes off with it but infects himself after cutting himself on an exposed vial needless to say the guy turns into a zombie but not before he makes his timely escape to a cheap motel infects a lowly porter and murders a maid by pushing her face into a bathroom mirror the military catch wind of this and immediately take action before eliminating everyone who is unlucky enough to be within the contamination zone and turn the motel upside down they find the infected thief and burn his body only to have the smoke infect a flock of birds that are flying over the chimney stack we cut to the introduction of a group of men who are on leave from the army listening to groovy music that is coming out of a little dinky boom box while trailing a trailer load of slutty girls who are leaning out of the windows and showing off their chests can someone say zombie food we also have a sub plot involving a girl and her boyfriend driving a car who stop to inspect a group of birds lying on the road the same birds that were infected by the zombie smoke the birds attack the boyfriend and the girl drives off to a deserted gas station to seek water this is one of the most incredibly hilarious moments of the movie she walks around this old dirty rusty and obviously abandoned building where she continues to ask aloud hello is there anyone here please i just need some water she encounters a group of zombies one of which is chained to a wall and the other is swinging a machete after a bit of rumbling and tumbling around on the ground she escapes but not before blowing up the gas station with her lighter meanwhile the birds attack the trailer load of whores and one girl gets pecked and infected they all pull up to the same motel where the original infection took place and this is where the second most hilarious moment of the film takes place after a matter of hours a day at the most the same motel is now caked in dust has vines growing throughout it and looks like it has been sitting derelict for years anyway what better place to take refuge than this particular building needless to say the group begins to break down as several people walk off together to get themselves stuck in an incredibly stupid situation involving a zombie attack the third most hilarious moment concerns a man and a woman who explore a deserted village of which the woman comments this place is a dump she then proceeds to get pushed off a balcony by a zombie into pirahna infested water where she has her legs bitten off and turns into a zombie within seconds meanwhile her friend back at the motel who got pecked and infected hours earlier is still turning into a zombie unfortunately there are just too many inconsistencies in this movie that makes this movie just too stupid for words for example the time rate concerning infected people being zombified differs greatly sometimes it takes seconds other times it takes hours some zombies run others drag their feet and walk really slow some even do kung fu moves while others hide under stacks of hay to surprise people some of the zombies even talk the funniest moment of course is the infamous zombie head in the fridge gag which elevates itself in mid air and attacks a stupid man who goes looking for food funnily enough his girlfriend gets her throat torn out by it s headless counter part lmao the biggest disappointment for me though was the lack of story lines involving the people who are in fact killed by zombies we never get to see them come back as zombies in fact the only ones we do see zombified are the ones pecked by the birds and the one girl who gets her legs bitten off other than that i was at least expecting the couple who were killed in the kitchen and or the guy who was killed on the bridge to come back as zombies it is also amazing that these zombies only take a few bites and then move on to their next victim the most laughable moment was of course the zombie fetus a pregnant woman who has been infected lies on a bed in a hospital a woman who seems to have a lot of medical knowledge tries to deliver the baby and has her face pulled off by a zombie before having her head pushed into the woman s stomach where a hand bursts out and proceeds to rip the rest of her face off timeless as usual all the characters are perfect stereotypes of this genre the megalomaniacal military officer the pathetic useless squealing women who scream to get killed the obvious characters who are about to get killed ie watch for the man chasing a chicken i guess this movie really is a comedy there were many laughable scenes such as the shed that gets blown up with a hand grenade obviously the scene where the entire budget was spent and a climatic scene where a man screams i m thirsty thirsty for your blood the costumes are really bad the same zombies reappear throughout the course of the film wearing the same asian like clothing that may be found in a bruce lee film and watch out for the blue s skirt the girl at the motel is wearing when she and her boyfriend bump into the infected man the end of the film leaves open the door as usual for the apocalyptic story line a radio dj who narrates throughout the whole movie turns out to be a zombie himself and warns his listeners about the beginning of the end while the two survivors take off in a helicopter hardly dawn of the dead material if you ask me regardless this movie does deliver many laughs the gore is minimal and what gore there is it is very unconvincing let alone unimaginative the usual mix of black blood thick green goo oozing out of weeping sores and zombie make up consisting of green moss zombi makes for a good rental for a sleep over party or a night of beer and popcorn other than that horror fans should stay away out of,0
we brought this film as a joke for a friend and could of been our worst joke to play the film is barely watchable and the acting is dire the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable just terrible,0
a pointless movie with nothing but gratuitous violence the only fun i had was playing spot the location as much of it was filmed in my home town of regina saskatchewan i like to support locally produced films but this one was a major disappointment,0
hawk heaven for lovers of french cinema and by extension french screen actors actresses at its worst it s an indulgence actors getting to bitch about other actors question the validity of acting as a profession at all etc whilst at its best it s a glorious celebration send up of some of the finest actors currently working from a simple premise jean pierre marielle s request for water being ignored in a restaurant blier spins off in all directions and allows the cream of french cinema to strut their stuff before the camera even throwing in nods to those no longer around jean gabin lino ventura including the director s father bernard one of the great stalwarts of french cinema from whom he fields a celestial phone call at the end of the film discursive and prolix yes guilty as charged but also something of a guilty pleasure,1
emilio miraglio s the red queen kills seven times is just about the most perfect example of a giallo that i have ever seen mixing all the requisite elements into one sinister stew indeed first of all and of paramount importance for me it has a complex twisty plot that ultimately makes perfect sense and the killer here does not come completely out of left field at the end the story concerning a series of gruesome murders you already know how many from the film s title right that takes place in seeming fulfillment of an ancient prophecy concerning two sisters is an involving one and the murderer a red cloaked figure with the insane laugh of a madwoman is both frightening and memorable every great giallo requires some lovely lead actresses and here we have quite an assortment headed by the ridiculously beautiful barbara bouchet as one of the two sisters and in one of her earlier roles sybil danning as a lustful tramp at barbara s fashion house another necessary ingredient of a superior giallo is a catchy hummable score and bruno nicolai provides one for this film that should stay with you for days gorgeous scenery check again filmed largely in wurzburg germany the picture is a treat for the eye indeed ok ok but what about those murders after all isn t that what gialli are all about well i m pleased to report that most viewers should be well satisfied with the various knifings shootings impalements and other carnage that this film tastefully dishes out not to mention the crypts freaky dream sequence rats and bats and lots of em too the drug references a rape scene the obligatory red herrings and in the person of ugo pagliai a hunky leading man for the female viewers as i said a perfect giallo and even better this dvd is from the fine folks at no shame and you know what that means a gorgeous print and loads of extras to boot thanks guys,1
i am terribly sorry i know that fa binder still is called one of the greatest directors in post war germany and that most of his films are considered master pieces but when i see lili marleen today in i wonder what everyone is up and away about this movie the acting is simply terrible hanna schygulla is all the smiling like an idiot the changings between nazi glamour and battlefields are ridiculous the whole film looks as if it was made within two days in an attic probably it was exactly that way and many people seem to take this for real art but for me this movie is simply bad cheap compare this to viscontis la caduta degli dei and tell me again that lili marleen is a good movie,0
the film opens with bill coles melvyn douglas telling a story about how his best friend make that client jim blandings cary grant and his family are tightly packed into a small new york apartment with not enough closet space and way too few bathrooms when jim s wife muriel myrna loy wants to renovate the apartment advertising exec jim falls in love with or falls for an ad for a house once he s purchased the house bills and frustration pile up incessantly as everything that can go wrong with the building of jim s dream house goes wrong one of three collaborations between grant and loy this is a charming little comedy not very taxing with no real great message but a great way to spend an hour or two the laughs are there right from the start when the alarm clock goes off and jim tries to shut it off only to be thwarted at every turn by muriel the timing and delivery of the comedic lines and situations can only be given by a couple of seasoned pros and that s just what grant and loy give us polished performances simple chemistry and a lot of fun myrna loy is in a pretty thankless role it s evident that grant s character jim gets the lion share of the lines and the acting and grant as always pulls both off with remarkable aplomb but she gives muriel a colour life and bite that only myrna loy can give a character melvyn douglas plays wry amusement to perfection as well never hitting a single wrong note one of my favourite scenes has definitely got to be when bill gets himself locked in the store room and jim goes to save him only to get everyone trapped inside every little problem that pops up for the blandings renovation project including petty jealousy and an ad campaign for wham seems to bring together everything that could go wrong with building a new house but makes it believable and an enjoyable watch,1
i can t figure out who greenlighted this thing it has no redeeming qualities none nada zip zilch the acting was bad the directing was bad the writing was bad the plot was bad the music was bad the editing was bad well at least the filmmakers were consistent,0
to say this film stinks would be insulting to skunks as the other commenter says this movie is insulting to anyone over the mental age of it is especially incredibly insulting to gays it is awful and not in a so bad it s funny sort of way either it s just plain awful no i have to say it it stinks sorry skunks from the opening credits to the end titles there is hardly more than seconds of this movie worth opening your eyes for the plot is incoherent the characterization non existent the acting is of the over the top mugging look at me i m being funny school and so it goes on the set pieces are clumsily set up if at all and are badly executed it s just awful on every front apart from the music maybe i don t remember thinking the music stinks apart from the songs to be fair to the makers they lay their cards on the table pretty quickly the opening credits include the title also starring ertha kitt as the voice of betty the meteor since as the meteor in question turns out never never say anything but make an occasional purring noise they may well have lifted ms kitt s contribution from one of her records and the second line of the movie runs something like and scientists have discovered new facts about the rings around uranus uranus your anus geddit geddit huh huh your anus the humour really is that cheap it says strange things about the comedies of that period in that it was perfectly permissable for the hero to deliberately shoot people dead in the street but not say sh t out loud i paid fifty pence about for this movie in a sale i feel ripped off,0
a badly acted two character comedy drama abruptly transmogrifies into a weren t we awful to the indians polemic with lousy special effects exploitative use of nudity and ugly violence it s as sincere as a politician s handshake as obvious as a car salesman s pitch one of the worst movies in the history of the universe absolute and utter dreck,0
best movie ever this movie broke my ribs just by the force of laughter but it was well worth it i don t intend to do a summary of this excellent movie just go see it if you have the chance i think you will either love it or hate it that s the qualities of a real cult movie,1
like too many recent british films this one takes a great cast and gives them a flimsy cliched script to work with the performances save it from total disgrace and it has some charm but it certainly didn t make me laugh where are all the great british writers hiding,0
in where the sidewalk ends otto preminger reunites dana andrews and gene tierney surely in hopes of recapturing the magic of his laura but they re wildly dissimilar films set in different strata of new york not to mention at opposite poles of the noir universe a fine mist of the gothic hovers over the upscale manhattan of laura with its erotic obsession and faint whiff of necrophilia where the sidewalk ends is pure urban soot and grit befouling a town of basement apartments steam rooms and parking garages but it s every bit as fine a movie as its revered forerunner and dyed in the wool noir laura by contrast one of the clutch of films from which the french first dubbed `noir was still very much a sophisticated murder mystery daylight enters only on very temporary sufferance and director of photography joseph lashelle makes the most of the alleys and brownstones the docks and the el this is quintessential big city specifically big apple noir like several others from the bumper crop of like side street and sleeping city and the tattooed stranger and edge of doom as the movie opens police detective dana andrews is on the carpet for his brutal ways particularly his vendetta towards crime boss gary merrill whom we learn was set up in business by andrews ne er do well father when an out of towner is stabbed to death at a floating crap game operated by merrill the hair trigger andrews roughs up a witness causing him a fatal crack to the skull exacerbated by a steel plate installed in the veteran s head realizing that his job s already on the line andrews dumps the body in the river after making it look like the suspect had taken a powder of course that s far from an end to it the corpse is discovered his estranged wife turns out to be tierney and all the evidence starts to turn toward her father tom tully a hack driver who happened not only to have been cruising the same mean streets the night of the murder but to have ample reason to want his abusive son in law dead but the embittered loner andrews finds in tierney a summons to his better nature he tries to exonerate her father while still keeping his own involvement in the whole sordid business a secret not so epigrammatic as laura the script for where the sidewalk ends by ben hecht shows a pungency of its own in a second dressing down his superior tells andrews `look at you all bunged up like a barrelhouse fag but while laura spread its attention over half a dozen characters here andrews is all but the sole focus even tierney s role is far less central than her half spectral laura and andrews may never have excelled his performance here it s tight lipped and taciturn but never more eloquent than when his face is silently registering the anguish to which his own obstinacy has brought him he s a pent up sufferer who can find release only through the safety valve of violence he even lashes out against his loyal partner bert freed to be sure he finds too swift a road to redemption though the agency of his beautiful co star but that was the style of the times and a sweetened up ending does little to undermine this new york story of violence corruption and urban entanglements,1
this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen robin williams fit into the part like a rhino would fit into a tutu even so his performance was still pitiful kurt russell was more believable but still was awful the plot left much to be desired and the rest of the acting was also terrible the only thing this movie had going for it was the trailer which suckered me in to wasting minutes of my life which could have been better spent trying to lick the back of my head do yourself a favor and burn this movie if you have it if not just be happy you don t,0
this was one of the worst movies i have ever seen the plot is awful and the acting is worse the jokes that are attempted absolutley suck don t bother to waste your time on a dumb movie such as this and if for some reason that you do want to see this movie don t watch it with your parents,0
indian directors have it tough they have to compete with movies like laggan where henpecked castrated males defend their village and half of them are certifiable idiots devdas a hapless fedar festooned foreign return drinking to oblivion with characters running in endless corridors oblivious to any one s feelings or sentiments alas they live in an ornate squalor of red tapestry and pageantry but to make a good movie you have to tight rope walk to appease the frontbenchers who are the quentessential gapers who are mesmerized with split skirts and dishum dishum fights preferably involving a nitwit bollywood leading actor who is marginally handsome so you can connect with a director who wants to tell a tale of leonine village head who in own words defending his village this is considered a violent movie or too masculine for a male audience there are very few actors who can convey the anger and pathos like nana patekar narasimhan nana patekar lets you in his courtyard and watch him beret and mock the politician when his loyal admirers burst in laughter with every word of satire thrown at him meanwhile his daughter is bathing his grandson this is as authentic a scene you can get in rural india nana patekar is the essential actor who belongs to the old school of acting which is a disappearing breed in hindi films the violence depicted is an intricate part of storytelling with song dances thrown in for the gawkers without whom movies won t sell a sad but true state of affairs faster this changes better for bollywood all said and done this is one good movie,1
thanks to a dull dimensionless screenplay by neil simon and lackluster direction from robert moore chapter two becomes a shrill showcase for marsha mason who received her third of four oscar nods for chapter two giving the same performance here that she gave in cinnderella liberty the goodbye girl audrey rose and only when i laugh only this time she doesn t have a child to drag around chapter two is the third and last feature film for moore having previously directed neil simon s the cheap detective and murder by death caan is miscast the characters are mono dimensional the dialog is overly analytical and there s virtually no establishing detail the first half is a less than captivating meet cute coy romance between a blinkered caan and a chipper mason and the dreary second half makes you long for the first half the nyc locations as well as joe bologna and a painfully thin valerie harper are irrelevant but at least they provide some welcome distraction and last and least there s an awful song played during the credits,0
live feed is set in some unnamed chinese japanese asian district somewhere as five american friends sarah ashley schappert emily taayla markell linda caroline chojnacki mike lee tichon darren rob scattergood are enjoying a night on the town taking in the sights after a scuffle in a bar with a japanese triad boss stephen chang they decide to check out a porno theatre as you would inside they are separated quickly find out that the place belongs to the triad boss who uses it to torture kill people for reasons which aren t made clear can local boy miles kevan ohtsji save them this canadian production was co written produced directed by ryan nicholson who also gets a prosthetic effects designer credit as well one has to say that live feed is another pretty poor low budget shot on a camcorder type horror film that seems to exist only to cash in on the notoriety success of hostel the mini craze for torture porn as it s become known according the imdb s trivia section for live feed writer director nicholson wrote it after hearing about certain activities taking place in live sex theatres for my money i reckon he wrote it after watching hostel the script is pretty poor there is no basic reason given as to why this porno theatre has a big fat ugly freak dressed in bondage gear lurking around torturing killing people none was it for the triads was it for his pleasure was it to make snuff films to sell some sort of explanation would have been nice also why did he turn on the triad boss at the end if your looking for a film with a coherent story then forget about live feed it seemed to me to be some sort of uneasy misjudged mix of sex s m horror torture gore action films which doesn t come off i mean just setting a horror film in a porn theatre isn t automatically going to make your film any good there still needs to be a decent script story right the character s were fairly poor clich s some of their actions motivations were more than a little bit questionable it moves along at a reasonable pace it s fairly sleazy mixing gore sex nudity but it does look cheap which lessens the effect director nicholson doesn t do anything special here the editing is choppy annoying he seems to think lighting almost every scene with neon lights is a good idea the film has a cheap look about it available in both r unrated versions i saw the shorter cut r version which really isn t that gory but i am prepared to give the benefit of the doubt to the unrated version say that it might be much much gorier but i can t say for sure there s a fair amount of nudity too if that s your thing i wouldn t say there s much of an atmosphere or many scares here because there isn t aren t respectively although it does have a sleazy tone in general which is something it has going for it i suppose technically live feed isn t terribly impressive the blood looks a little too watery for my liking entire scenes bathed in annoying neon lights sometimes makes it hard to tell whats happening it to often looks like it was shot on a hand held camcorder the choppy editing at least on the r rated version is at times an annoying mess shot on location in an actual porn theatre somewhere in vancouver in canada the acting is poor sometimes i couldn t tell if the actresses in this were supposed to be crying or laughing live feed is not a film i would recommend anyone to rush out buy or rent i didn t think much of it with it s very weak predictable storyline lacking exposition which goes nowhere poor acting less than impressive gore at least in the r rated cut anyway watch either hostel films again or instead as they are superior,0
spoilers sex huh it s one of the most basic parts of human life yet do we ever take it too seriously people always want more even those who get it on a daily basis and if you are unlucky there are potential life changing creating consequences ironically people claim we are all starting to have sex at a younger and younger age despite victorians getting married and having children in their early teens so it must be increasingly difficult for those who get to a point as virgins in steve carell s first big screen lead he plays a man who has gotten to without managing it treating us to countless lude and extreme sex related incidents not to mention more profanity than an episode of eurotrash the general plot of the film and it s principle doesn t sound funny it s a pleasant surprise therefore that for all the inappropriate failed jokes there are an incredibly large number of ones which hit the mark and leave the audience in hysterics andy stitzer carell is a nice guy with a good job and a pleasant temperament at the same time though he blatantly takes life too seriously and after being invited to a poker game as a necessary fifth member andy s friends discover his secret at the age of andy is still a virgin now for multiple reasons but mostly pity the three men paul rudd seth rogen and romany malco all offer andy advice with one goal in mind to put him out of his misery and get him laid one of the few good things about anchorman it was only going to be a matter of time before steve carell got himself a lead of his own impressively in the year old virgin he doesn t disappoint showing the hopeless shy virgin to perfection carell is a revelation as he gradually grows increasingly confident as the advice begins to help carell is not alone however in his performance rudd rogen malco and catherine keener as the love interest are all superb rudd is a personal favourite as the love sick david who falls apart at multiple times and shares the finest scene with rogen as the two argue over homosexuality the biggest surprise about this film is not the way that so many of the jokes hit the mark but actually the clever way that it flips the message on it s head obviously designed for conservative america the film s entire tone evolves from a simple story of sexual conquest into one of safe sex and abstinence the virgin doesn t need sex to make his life complete he just needs confidence and true love a worthy message to preach and a considerable improvement on the one you expect to see at the beginning of the film it s weird to see a crude comedy which is consistently funny and well acted but low and behold year old virgin is just that throw in a well meaning message too and you re well on the way to a top class comedy a surprising joy,1
for a first film in a proposed series it achieves the right balance it is done with style and class showing modesty s early days as a refugee and the start of her rise to power in the criminal world i think it is a very honest true portrayal of her character exactly as the writer peter o donnell intended alexandra staden as modesty is stunningly beautiful and an excellent choice she acts very convincingly as the tough survivor with an exterior of cool intelligent innocence and full marks to tarantino for choosing an unknown actress for the role much more believeable to have a new face creating the part i m looking forward to the next film,1
la teta i la luna the breast and the moon describes the life of a year old boy named tete who is obsessed with breasts growing up in catalunya i love this movie because the characters are very honest and very human like all the characters in bigas luna s movies also director of jamon jamon tete reminded me of how intriguing and exciting life can be at that age also being from catalunya north east of spain it brought lots of memories to my mind this movie shows how beautiful catalunya is nice people nice life and specially lots of non uptight people,1
what a disgrace i was checking this out hoping it would be an undiscovered james garner gem and what a stinker it turned out to be the production quality was fine but the plot was undeniably lame and i can honestly say that i am only a couple hours older and a lot dumber now the movie really had no redeeming qualities and if this kind of stuff keeps coming out it will give hallmark a bad name for those of you who insist on knowing what it was about it s about nothing and in this case it s not a good thing we are subjected to watching one old ornery woman who is one of the dumbest creatures ever to roam the earth who happens to be married to a real sweetheart who is probably the only person alive that could put up with her she drags him through one mess after another gets him into one embarrassing situation after another and is proud of herself the whole time then the movie ends what a relief that was not worth the time it would take to watch it so do yourself a favor and skip this one you ll be glad you did if you knew how bad this one really is,0
i have seen a lot of bad films most of the time i can enjoy a crappy horror film for what it is but this really takes badness to new extremes it is bland the plot for what it is never really goes anywhere and takes its time over it there are no shocks no horror no suspense just a load of guys rubbing themselves for an hour and a half and then a quick finish a blight on the crappy horror genre avoid at all costs,0
the previous reviewer has said it exactly i saw it once was enchanted saw it a second time when it was re broadcast within a week or two of the first airing i still remember some of the scenes the setting is the opening of the th century the war referred to in the title is world war i one of the scenes was set in a women only section of a public place which was an interesting historical note the moment when one of the women first touches the other is one of my all time great movie moments i don t think of this as a gay movie it s an interesting and tender period love story where the two principals happen to be women i would love to see this movie again i would buy this one if it ever came out on dvd,1
note to all directors long is not necessarily good this movie is incredibly long however not good the scenes were drawn out way way way way way too long the sex scenes were unnecessary and often too long the movie edited down to hours and minutes or so would have been exceptional but alas it became so boringly long that i can only give it a of it is way below average some other problems also exist in this marathon ralph fiennes plays a whole family tree the guy who played the great grandfather looks nothing like him but the grandfather father and the son who gives us constant unneeded voice over are all ralph fiennes with different facial hair and the same basic bull headed personality no one seems to notice that each of these children look like a clone of the last even though photos of them are being snapped at every turn this one is minor but if the movie hadn t been weeks long it wouldn t have been so annoying the fact that no news from germany was even whispered for the longest time about jews being rounded up and sent off is ridiculous some word would have gotten to them and the thought of trying to run off would probably have been discussed the uncle in france would surely have sent warning to try and get them to leave the love stories in this movie are totally wrong you are spending forever telling us this thing and the development of relationships between main characters is extremely short suddenly people are in love and almost instantly married then having children then we draw things out for centuries and forget about developing relationships this again would not have stuck out so much in a hour movie but with time spent nothing was given to us the ending was just bad i don t want to spoil it for anyone but you won t like it either unless you are sadistic the director writer should be tortured with having to watch this bloated garbage on a weekly basis i mean endless loop oops they are the same thing i wonder if robert redford did anything for this movie i mean i think istvan szabo must be modeling his directing career after him long drawn out movie which totally ruins any substance in the movie a short description of the horse whisperer and sunshine sunshine perfect title if you start watching while the sun is shining it will quite possibly be well after dark when you leave,0
taped this late night movie when i was in grade watched it on fast forward i sugest you do the same i though it would be and action film but went to a cort tv type movie in the end it fits in with the early s social activest type films glad i missed that era,0
a craven cowardly film director boorman shows cahill burglarizing rich houses but the male occupant is shown being unfaithful with the nanny thats all right then the forensic scientist investigating cahill is blown up in his car but he is rat faced sourpuss and doesn t look like a nice man so thats all right too the beits owner of russborrough house made their money by exploiting darkies digging up diamonds so it s okay to rob priceless art from them and hide it in a bunker in the wicklow mountains the garda kill his ferrets and are implicated in his murder the moral equivalencing is sickening boorman looks for a hit film but doesn t have the guts to stand against the criminality of the generals gang who terrorized the neighbourhood and unleashed another wave of scumbags upon dublin he even liaised with the generals son while making it disgusting shame on him for his cowardice,0
while some performances were good victoria rowell adrienne barbeau and the two italian girlfriends come to mind the story was lame and derivative the emphasis on the girlfriend s racial background was handled clumsily at best and the relatives were mostly portrayed as stereotypes not as real people i found myself wincing uncomfortably at many moments that were supposed to be funny i can hardly comprehend why the local paper here in sf said this was a good movie and wonder who posted the glowing review here on imdb very disappointed in this movie and mad i actually went to a theatre to see it based on the faulty connection to garden state which is a far funnier more inventive and touching movie than this one i must especially mention the emotional climax in the church which was so wooden and by the numbers that i nearly left and some in the audience actually did that was followed by a silly climax at the graveyard which i saw coming minutes before it happened i really don t like being misled to spend my money so uselessly,0
marlene gorris has established herself as one of the world s great directors this sensitive visually beautiful film is based on a story by vladimir nabokov and captures well that writer s dark irony john turturro gives what i consider to be his finest performance i am usually not a fan of his and emily watson is brilliant as well well worth seeing,1
second part actually episode of the hit danish tv series is slightly inferior to the first one but has plenty of laughs and scares as well this time udo kier plays two parts as the monster baby and his demon like father other standout parts this time are s ren pilmark s doctor krogshoj who must face the horrible revenge of dr helmer and once again patient mrs drusse tries to solve the mysteries miss marple style ends on a cliffhanger and following the deaths of lead actors ernst hugo j reg rd dr helmer and kirsten rolffes mrs drusse you wonder how they re ever going to be able making part iii but i hope von trier will give it a shot sadly morten rotne leffers the down s syndrome dishwasher died shortly after as well look for stellan skarsg rd in a cameo,1
when i first read hamlet i couldn t help but think of the ending of outrageous fortune where bette midler puts down the play because of how indecisive he is and says give me romeo any day five acts of a man trying to decide whether or not to kill his uncle or not seemed like overkill to me but upon further reading i grew to really appreciate the play i ve seen the olivier and gibson movie versions and part of the nicol williamson version and all of them take their model from olivier the melancholy dane olivier at least did it without being self indulgent about it but gibson and from what i saw williamson looked like they went to the look ma i m acting i m acting school now here comes kenneth branagh s version which is breathtaking from start to finish it finished on my top ten of behind the english patient and ahead of lone star jerry maguire fargo secrets lies everyone says i love you flirting with disaster big night and looking for richard and it s the best hamlet and maybe the best shakespeare put to film obviously branagh s talents as a filmmaker for making the full length version in mm print and not losing our interest for four hours is great but what seems to get overlooked in discussions about this film is his performance in the title role this was my favorite performance of the year by far branagh avoids the melodrama which actors seem to get trapped in by playing hamlet as a normal regular human being and makes us understand his actions and feelings each step of the way and unlike olivier who depended mostly on his voice branagh uses his entire body to demonstrate the range of emotions that hamlet goes through but since he plays him as normal none of it seems like scenery chewing the rest of the cast is top notch as well i didn t even mind jack lemmon though i agree he was the weakest member of the cast the most surprising turn came from charlton heston i ve always found him stiff as a board but he s quite commanding as the player king the other big surprise was billy crystal i thought i d find him all wrong as the st gravedigger but he was his usual funny self while being in character all in all a glorious film,1
after the usual chase scene jerry accidentally winds up inside a bottle of invisible ink which was part of a chemistry set he quickly discovers he s invisible so the predictable results occur meaning he uses his new hidden condition to torment tom jerry often is just defending himself but often he has sadistic streak in him that torments the cat whenever possible even when unprovoked here he makes tom think his eyes are deceiving him when cheese from a mousetrap disappears before his eyes or milk from a dish tom can t take anymore so he tries to sleep this nightmare off but jerry sets fire to his paw man i hope little kids didn t ideas watching these cartoons back in the s and s i always found jerry the little mouse more evil than cute thankfully in cartoons generally whatever damage a character suffers is gone within seconds and he s back to normal the best part of this cartoon is about two thirds of the way through when tom figures out what the story is with jerry and tries different methods to detect where the mouse is located such as putting flour on the floor to see his footprints,1
although cameron grant was clearly hired to replace andrew blake over at ultimate pictures when the latter started his own company studio a he practically outdid the master right out of the gate when it came to setting up steamy sex scenes so while all the window dressing blake had pioneered starlets in fetish lingerie and sun glasses coiffed and made up as if they re about to hit the catwalk remained very much present and accounted for grant added his own personal spin to the carnal content in doing so he raised the heat to a level that had eluded big a ever since his first and imho best film night trips cam s maiden effort elements of desire might still have been handicapped by an overly slavish adherence to the blake aesthetic with a surfeit of girl on girl gropes but his subsequent dinner party already shows him at the top of his form in what must surely rank as his masterpiece the title spells out the premise as a group of well to do friends and acquaintances gather over dinner to swap sexy stories with an extended orgy at the conclusion scrumptious juli ashton and tammy parks smear food stuff all over each other s flawless physiques in their kitchen sequence that is sure to delight those with a taste towards combining pleasures of the palette with those of the flesh busty crystal gold here catalina was rarely more than a reliable second stringer adding spice to several ona zee bargain basement noirs yet looks absolutely stunning here in a romantic four poster frolic with fabio lookalike vince voyeur beautiful blondes kylie ireland and yvonne making out with marc davis for the record the latter two were an item at the time under a waterfall complete the eye candy section of the movie time to get cooking early jenna jameson daisy back then foreshadows the greatness to come as she drains frank towers mark slade on his subsequent shift to the gay side of the industry of all vital juices albeit with a little help from brunette diva for effective contrast the scene s stylish industrial setting providing an atmospheric backdrop to the full tilt sex taking place impossibly hunky construction worker gerry pike seeks to cool off on a sweltering summer day by hosing down a prospect too tantalizing for prim n proper business woman asia carrera at her all time most achingly pretty to pass up best of show must be the imaginative sequence that has nasty norma jeane and handsome sean michaels teasing the pants off each other for starters while separated by a glass partition right until the predictably splashy conclusion with sex that proves either artsy or hot and more often than not both grant has concocted a veritable sm rg sbord of fleshy wares to continue the film s gastronomic analogy the title implies couples may be the prime intended audience but an alternation between naughty n nice should rightfully include that something for everything recipe so many adult features are aiming for acting as his own dop the director shows great eye for detail like the shot of asia carrera s pristine white shoes being spattered with mud enriching his vision this marks him out as a great filmmaker rather than a merely serviceable one as was the case with nick steele who stepped up to take his place at ultimate effectively making him a replacement s replacement when he packed up for greener pastures,1
this remarkable film can be summed up very easily first of all while the comparisons to princess bride are inevitable it s almost futile to do so while both films combine adult wit and humor with a fairy tale backdrop stardust is so much different than any other fantasy sci fi film i ve ever seen it s such a hybrid of those genres but its plot and script are so unique that along with the performances special effects cinematography and score the finished product is simply not all that comparable to anything that has ever appeared on the silver screen secondly the score is very effective at simultaneously pulling us into the story and the fantasy world in which it takes place and pushing the story along while creating just the right amount of awe and excitement necessary to make the magic believable within the realm where the characters exist thirdly i did not find the film to be even remotely difficult to follow or confusing in any way in fact the interesting interplay between the three main subplots actually made it even that much more compelling to watch wonderfully casted and superbly acted across the board this fantasy adventure with sci fi elements was the best one i ve seen since return of the king not that i am comparing the two at all ok so its not that easy to sum up but don t let any crude and or heartless and cynical review nor the film s pathetic pr prevent you from partaking in the best time you could have at the movies this summer or even possibly in a long time,1
henry fonda brilliantly captures what we have long believed abraham lincoln was like it is a fooler through fonda s performance we are led to believe on the surface that abraham lincoln was a country bumpkin but through his confrontation with the lynch mob and especially during the court proceedings you can see that beneath the exterior posturings is a brilliant man who has a very good command of what is going on around him and how to influence the people around him in this movie henry fonda shows that he has a very good grasp of how to present humor it is an aspect of him that has been lost over the years when he is telling stories and jokes he has the timing down perfect there is a sequence in the trial that had me laughing quite hard he shows this gift again in the lady eve in the ending by john ford is absolutely brilliant with henry fonda going to the top of a hill and in the distance a tremendous storm symbolic of the civil war he goes forward into history the movie is fiction but the insight into lincoln is tremendous definitely worth seeing again,1
this is what we can do to each other this is the sort that everbody should see at least once it does not glorify world it shows that it is the everyday person who is killed mained and debased by war the person on the other side eats sleeps laughs and cry just as we do,1
artimisia was on late last night at first i didn t think i would like it but seeing i didn t feel like sleeping yet and nothing else being on i continued watching and felt myself intrigued by the young artimisia a virgin pure and passionate her romance with the older tassi envoked recognisable feelings even though the film is based on a very romantisised level and not reality i loved it a lot more than the usual biographys or costume drama s great play great camerashots great music and texts i loved it and i want more of it,1
i might have given this movie a higher rating before peter jackson s trilogy came out but seeing the two of them side by side there is simply no comparison the pace of this movie is rushed many important scenes from the book are left out and there is little character development the animation is a strange mixture of traditional cartoon drawings and live action scenes that were painted over which i found distracting and the most disappointing thing about this movie is that it breaks off in the middle of the story and was never finished there are some good points the battle scenes are exciting to watch and the dialogue follows the book pretty much to the letter watch this one if you re in a hurry and can t spend hours watching the new trilogy but if you haven t read the book you ll probably be confused because there is a lot missing from this version out of,0
kristine watts molie weeks is broken apart missing her lover she is not able to overcome her love for him that is lost in the past she hires a stranger douglas davis and gives a list of her mistakes to him with things to fix but time is irreversible and sometimes the cure for the pain is a tragic end the first point that impresses in the cure is the stylish cinematography that alternates black and white with color the concise and sharp screenplay is capable to develop a tragic and bleak tale of love with an unexpected plot point in the very end in less than eight minutes the soundtrack is beautiful but the volume is a little loud and associated to the fact that english is not my native language in some moments i needed to repeat some words whispered by the narrator the unknown lead actress has magnificent performance and is extremely gorgeous i hope to have a chance to see her again on the screen last but not the least the debut of the director and writer ryan jafri could not be better my vote is nine title brazil not available,1
this movie leaves the intellectual mind thinking and trying to analyze the story i too cannot understand why people would trash this movie if you are a jerry bruckheimer fan this movie may not suitable for u this movie presents high degree of realism the actors and actresses performance is examplary not fake just natural no special sound effects so special side effects the camera work is excellent the music is oh so good i can t wait to get the soundtrack it leaves your body numb like constant garderner the directly has raw talent certainly not a follower,1
i finally saw this film tonight after renting it at blockbuster vhs i have to agree that it is wildly original yes maybe the characters were not fully realized but it isn t one of those movies rather we are treated to the director s eye his vision of what the story is about and it does not stop and to be honest i didn t want it to i do believe that sabu had to have influenced the director s of lock stock two smoking barrels and run lola run but i absolutely loved the way the three leads see the beautiful woman on the street to distract them momentarily i really need to see this director s other work because this film really intrigued me if you want insight culture sturm und drang go somewhere else if you want a laugh camera movement and criminal hilarity look here,1
this movie is very much like flashdance you know that dance flick with jennifer beals that film is probably the most boring film i have ever seen since it s not even bad enough to be funny g i jane is much better than that film but that doesn t say much here demi moore sweats a lot and there s high music and we get to see her fight and everything but it is certainly not very engaging i really think the idea behind the film is kind of interesting but the script is too clich d and ridley scott can t do anything about that well like i said it s better than flashdance,0
i found the memorable quotes searching for video clips they forgot one of my favorites old person you know i remember the first time they played that thing old person you remember pterodactyls old person and i can remember you fell for that hook line and sinker old person oh i did not old lady you did so you put a big bucket on your head and took off with them army boys to fight martians old person ain t you dead yet,1
i was lying on my bed with a really bad cold or flu or whatever i figure maybe i d kill some time watching some horror movies my mom bought for me a little while ago i wish i never picked this movie after i watched it i felt even more sick and i wanted to throw up afterwords when i got better of course i did some research on dennis l rader and i noticed that the dennis in the movie was nothing like the real one i hope that no one ever watches this movie but if they ever do don t eat or you ll feel the way i felt after i first watched it i think you would have a better time watching the santa claus at least that movie had better reviews on this site,0
even though many people here praises this movie i have to warn you it has no logic whatsoever i think that basinger does a decent job at acting but you can t make a thriller if there is a great lack of realism this scene paints a good picture for you of the movie while basinger is pursued by murderous thugs she decides to sit down and gaze upon a picture she finds from her pocket the picture is from her daughter and it reads we love you mommy who does something like that what the eff and believe me when i say that it is not nearly as stupid as some other scenes of the movie someone stated that this is a hidden gem well i have to strongly disagree this movie has stayed hidden for a reason and it s not a gem oh and please i don t even want to start commenting about the red toolbox it hurts my brain d usually the lack of logic does not bother me if it is in small amounts but this movie basically is made possible only because of the lack of logic but i still give it a because even though it is embarrassingly flawed in logic it has certain mood that kept me watching till the end so if you choose to watch this you know you have been warned,0
what a gem of a movie so good that they made a sequel the film starts off really good with a nasty monster who eats a few people and a party where the main characters first set eyes on each other bendan hughes plays the eccentric vlad a bit of an inkling there to who this character is who has moved into town and uses the services of a particular real estate agent to find him a house hell we ve all seen vampire movies we know the format the movie is watchable but the actors performances are very wooden and they seem as they don t want to be in this film but may be that s just all part of the decadent ambiance didn t like the ending but there is a sequel must track it down when i watched the film i thought brendan hughes didn t really fit the part later on i couldn t stop thinking about him he sort of exudes an eerie sensuality so maybe he was right for the part brendan hughes last seen in hitler the rise of evil as lt guffman where is he now,1
i am really surprised that this movie get a ranking like this i haven t seen such a bad movie for years omg this was a really bad movie splatter is not enough to describe the unnecessary nearly funny blood scenes if you didn t like hostel or wolf creek or halloween well this is time worse the story remind me rl stine goosebumps i can t tell about the acting since the script was so terrible clich all the time why i must write lines i never understood this here comes spoilers the story is about a butcher killing people all the time in metro we are talking about thousands of killings and no one gets notice actually those people are just missing and there is the good guy that tries to solve the mystery well there is no mystery for us because we know from the beginning the bad guy and as usual no one believes him what a surprise in the end he puts butcher clothes and fights to death with the killer butcher,0
i had never heard of this adam sandler movie until i saw it on the wall at blockbuster being an adam sandler fan at the time i rented it honestly i could only watch about mins of it it was terrible do whatever it takes to keep this out of the hands of the public i honestly hope this movie goes oop soon and i hope it stays that way,0