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train_9300 | 0pending | 2fbb54ec-8525-4a74-bc51-3521ca8b3230 | 'The Omen 4: The Awakening' is a made-for-television sequel to the original 'The Omen' film. Instead of Satan possessing the body of a little boy, he possesses the body of a little girl adopted by rich parents, who is bullied at school and who ends up getting revenge against those who do her wrong. The film seems to st... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9301 | 0pending | 88966993-9438-4af9-b22c-3bc15f1f00bb | Its unfortunate that someone decided to spin off on the best horror movies of all time in my book. This poor copy steals lots of material from the first three films going as far as even copying how persons die and what will happen in the future to the key characters and it basically tries to cram in three films into on... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9302 | 0pending | abad647c-0e57-4b32-be70-9c99bddc7f31 | If you are hoping for ANYTHING new, you have chosen the wrong movie. Who can think that a movie that is a virtual replay of it's predeccesors can be good. Maybe the producer and maybe the director but hopefully they were not serious when they made this THING. This whole movie is like making a greatest hits DVD of the 1... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9303 | 0pending | 8b051151-621a-4263-9073-cdd7b883bd08 | Pointless short about a bunch of half naked men slapping and punching each other. That's it. For about 5 minutes we see this. It's shot in black and white with tons of half-naked men running around slapping each other to the tune of dreadful music. It LOOKS interesting but there's no plot and really--the violence inher... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9304 | 0pending | d16079c2-f137-49b2-93f7-24623a37bae7 | First, I should mention that I really enjoyed ISHII Katsuhito's previous film "Samehada Otoko to Momojiri Onna" ("Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl"). Although it owed a debt to Tarentino's "Pulp Fiction", Ishii's cast was up to the task of carrying the story, and the entire film crackled with energy. The scenes betwee... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9305 | 0pending | 5bd270b2-f48f-4eaa-a9ae-1d24b4f3bd3c | Resnais, wow! The genius who brought us Hiroshima Mon Amour takes on the challenge of making a 1930s French musical in vibrant colour. The opening voice-over with old, embellished inter-titles was a nice touch. Then the camera aperture opens (like the old hand crankers) on a black & white placard. The camera backs off ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9306 | 0pending | beef147c-638c-4418-8047-72b8ccc1e67e | If I hadn't read his name on the DVD cover, I never would have suspected that this rather gushy and old fashioned musical was made by a man so closely associated with the French New Wave. In fact, the film is so far from that, that I wonder if back in the 50s and 60s, New Wave auteurs would have absolutely hated this t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9307 | 0pending | f034ff9f-68c1-46be-8c2a-719d462ef30f | ...but the actress playing the daughter just doesn't come across as credible.<br /><br />It doesn't work for me when I see an actress of about 25 years playing the role of a 12-year-old... Other commentators have suggested that this is one of the messages of this film, that children may sometimes seem more adult-like t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9308 | 0pending | 81913df3-5f2a-43da-9d2d-f630dd987b5b | this movie is, despite its "independent" status, a stupid hollywood version of a nauseating mother-daughter relationship. it wasnt that bad at first, but somewhere during the course of the movie--around the time that the daughter goes out with that guy, i think--it turns into a cheesey mother-daughter bonding movie. im... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9309 | 0pending | e283bdaa-74b4-4cff-aad2-0dc608d14dab | Disappointing, predictable film in which a woman (Mc Teer) travels with her daughter from state to state because she can't maintain relationships and find happiness. In this genre 'Anywhere but here' starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman gave a much better insight into a mother/daughter relationship. With Better ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9310 | 0pending | a7934df2-407f-45fd-88d0-b1f70995912a | While watching the film, I'm not sure what direstion it was to take. There's a reason a writer shouldn't direct his work and even act in it as well, you can't do it all. I felt the story really suffered in this film due to the director wearing so many hats. Ms. McTeer is the film. To add to her amazing talents, her por... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9311 | 0pending | dc8c930b-0dd3-462e-9c0f-e31a43a9e88f | We've all seen this story a hundred times. You can see each plot turn coming a mile away. The relationship between the mother and daughter is way too sweet and understanding to pass for realistic. Janet Mcteer's performance is stock southern hot- ticket mother in vintage clothes. Should have been made for the Lifetime ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9312 | 0pending | 1334473a-7015-4f53-9601-db3aafd34ca0 | "The Bank" (1915, Chaplin) "The Bank" was one of Charlie's 1915 Essanay films. While these group of films are more watchable than their 1914 counterparts, this one seems a bit below average. The gag with the janitorial double combo-locked vault and the tough-luck ending that has Charlie waking up from a dream, in which... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9313 | 0pending | b92a9526-2e81-4dda-a357-673972b80a27 | I refused to watch this when it originally aired, treasuring the memory of the late, lamented 1960s series with Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope, but I can never resist a challenge. I should have known better. Not quite a remake, and more of a parody than a homage, this show didn't quite know how to play it, and plumped wit... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9314 | 0pending | 400942cc-08cf-4bdc-809a-0422e10338cb | This video guide was the masterpiece of the year 1995. Beautifully done! Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston have major on-screen chemistry when they talk about what the Start button does. I'm waiting for Microsoft to release a Special Edition DVD complete with deleted scenes, Bill Gates commentary, a documentary of how... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9315 | 0pending | 467cafa7-a924-4eda-a244-d9f1b0962e75 | One can deal with historical inaccuracies, but this film was just too much. Practically nothing was even close to truth, and even for the era, it was seen as silly.<br /><br />In defense of ford, it was revealed on an old talk show, that he was operating on the story as told to him by the real Wyatt Earp, who was obvio... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9316 | 0pending | ee086f55-1aeb-413a-a9d8-48175179647b | To put it simply, I am not fond of westerns. And having never sat through one from beginning to end, I decided to watch "My Darling Clementine" and see it all the way through, no matter how painful it was for me. At first it was excruciating as expected. I found the acting to be laughable, the scenery (your standard de... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9317 | 0pending | b520ea2b-c96b-4ff6-a926-41172cfc8993 | What a fantastic premise: A movie about the Berlin Airlift. It should have it all. Tragedy. Suspense. Comradeship. Rivals. Berliner Frauleins and tough US pilots. love and Tears. What we've got, is a film with none of the above. Heino Ferch tries to impersonate John Wayne or so, but he fails miserably. He acts so woode... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9318 | 0pending | 91445498-019b-4ba8-aebf-a3c5eb3aa39f | A few weeks ago the German broadcaster "SAT1" advertised this movie as the "TV-Event of the year" - sorry, but I've seen better things on TV this year.<br /><br />I didn't thought much of the movie but I soon reminisced about two other horrible movies when I watched the commercial - namely Titanic and Pearl Harbor beca... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9319 | 0pending | ac726af9-7313-4bb2-8682-c7b50abd4169 | The idea of making a miniseries about the Berlin airlift seemed to me as one of the more interesting German (post)war movies. It is a theme that has not been explored much as yet. However, the makers of this series stuffed it with clichés. It starts already with the DVD cover of the movie, which is a direct copy of the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9320 | 0pending | 2273aa45-0d45-4acc-bf95-48e9927496d2 | Heavenly Days commits a serious comedy faux pas: it's desperate to teach us a civics lesson, and it won't stop until we've passed the final exam. Fibber McGee and Molly take a trip to Washington, where they see the senate in action (or inaction, if you prefer), have a spat with their Senator (Eugene Palette in one of t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9321 | 0pending | a64e87cc-9ce3-4c82-9611-856597b4b4a8 | One-note comedy that probably sets modern day feminists' teeth on edge. Department store clerk Betsy Drake is in love with the idea of babies and marriage, pinning her hopes on women's magazines until she spies super-bait in the form of sleek bachelor Cary Grant. The rest of the film plods from one ploy to the next as ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9322 | 0pending | a9e71deb-44bf-4375-9424-a7620564da08 | Stalker is right! Girl sees guy, girl wants guy, girl contrives mundane ways to keep bumping into him, girl won't leave him alone, girl pretends to be a patient, girl can't stop talking about him, girl pretends to love another guy (or two), he doesn't pay attention to her because she's annoying, girl STILL won't leave ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9323 | 0pending | ac08c5bd-90ee-4f94-86c4-629e5de80f83 | I'm among millions who consider themselves Cary Grant fans, but I can't think of a single reason to recommend this movie.I don't understand the casting of Betsy Drake and it appears no one else did,if we're to judge from the small number of films in which she played afterwards.<br /><br />Most fans will agree that Kath... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9324 | 0pending | 9b5fa4ae-a9ef-4a21-a7f3-8a85a21570f9 | This woman never stops talking throughout the movie. She memorized every line, and delivered all without a bit of natural emotion. She also has a most uncharming lisp, and the pitch of her voice sounds like nails on a blackboard. This film has WAY too much Betsy Drake, and not enough Cary Grant, who carried what little... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9325 | 0pending | 41314ac6-996d-4c08-8235-dc2c9ba3841d | Remade today, this film would be a very creepy, very disturbing dark comedy. Stalking, obsession, and a web of lies and manipulations are given a 1948 gloss of aren't-they-cute harmlessness. Drake plays the stalker, an unabashed user of people, alternately pathetic and manipulative, Grant plays the stalking victim, alt... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9326 | 0pending | 12400924-39f9-49a5-804f-8247f668ffa1 | I always found Betsy Drake rather creepy, and this movie reinforces that. As another review said, this is a stalker movie that isn't very funny. I watched it because it has CG in it, but he hardly gets any screen time. It's no "North by Northwest"... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9327 | 0pending | 5edb3e6a-ca62-448c-9cf0-816458c9a987 | Maximally manipulative Anabel Sims (Betsy Drake) sets out to trap her ideal man, aided by her co-worker, Julie. Esteemed pediatrician Madison Brown (Cary Grant) goes from bemused to betrothed in the space of 90 minutes on film, but to the viewer it's all eternity. Can a movie receive less than one star? This one is a p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9328 | 0pending | 6602f5b4-c45f-429a-9644-5918be84080e | I went in to this movie thinking it was going to be the next Clerks, but left feeling let down. The humor was weak and the characters fairly flat. That isn't to say it was all bad, the idea of the dating service in the grocery store seemed like pretty fertile material, but the director switched focus to the cliche'd "s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9329 | 0pending | eadf6ea9-c0ab-43dd-81c7-025eb3f58aa0 | i should qualify that title, now that i think about it. Checkout is not entirely worthless. i've had the opportunity to see it twice, and on the second time i did get a great laugh at the movie's expense. so i guess it's worth something for that. and also it's worthwhile for the excruciating pain it caused me on my fir... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9330 | 0pending | 6dfbec7c-7ce8-41a6-a2a2-ce2b0961665f | This is a movie about making a movie. Such movies may be entertaining, but they need some substance, to do so. It did not happen here, I am afraid. Mr Coppola did not inherit his father's skills, unfortunately (neither did his sister, who can however make movies which one might watch).<br /><br />I do wonder how this m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9331 | 0pending | 32fa06b7-e107-46d2-b677-317c8c27cb30 | CQ is incredibly slow, and I'm a David Mamet fan. The movie follows around a young filmmaker who is making a very Barbarella-esque film. After that the movie started to lose me. Deep and profound? Not really. The movie "Dragonfly" being made in CQ has the problem of having no ending. This greatly parallels CQ, which al... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9332 | 0pending | e93a19da-39d6-40ea-9177-b69ac89a2108 | CQ was the worst film I saw this year. Nearly every film I choose to see in the theater is at least entertaining or has something to say. This film looked like like it was directed by a film student for his Intro. to Filmmaking class. His father makes great films. His sister made a good one. But brother Roman? NO! One ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9333 | 0pending | 6ed0b997-a523-4bd9-9a33-4930cb255572 | Okay, the film festival crowd probably loved it. But your average, popcorn munching movie goer who has scraped to-gether the ten or fifteen bucks it costs to see a movie these days will probably wonder why he or she made this choice. If it's stamped "Copolla" it's automatically great stuff, right? Wrong! It's a neat sp... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9334 | 0pending | b663df8a-daf7-46ff-a5ad-99d6ed7be262 | CQ could have been good, campy fun. But it commits the only unforgivable sin: it is b-o-r-i-n-g! The pace is deadly slow and the plot is fairly confused and so artificial that it's next to impossible to care where it's going. The story would have been acceptable in a creative writing class from a thoughtful and sensiti... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9335 | 0pending | a1326378-474f-4d37-8014-7dbbdc782012 | Style but no substance. Not as funny as it should be. Not as deep as it wants to be.<br /><br />This is another in the genre of films about the difficulties of filmmaking. A young filmaker is hired to finish a campy 60s sci-fi movie called Codename:Dragonfly. Think Barbarella, or Danger Diabolique.<br /><br />But Jerem... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9336 | 0pending | c813ee5f-afdd-4144-b879-2d68cdd76667 | From the nepotism capitol of the world comes another junk flick in a fancy wrapper. "CQ" tells a lame, disjointed mess of a story which is little more than a bunch of silly caricatures, a babe, and straight man Davies running around trying to make a stupid sci-fi flick. I can't think of any reason anyone would want to ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9337 | 0pending | 7543bbce-2b00-402f-87c5-687f6f7240bd | I really love the sexy action and sci-fi films of the sixties and its because of the actress's that appeared in them. They found the sexiest women to be in these films and it didn't matter if they could act (Remember "Candy"?). The reason I was disappointed by this film was because it wasn't nostalgic enough. The story... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9338 | 0pending | 4ecd3864-a175-421a-b43f-2aecf09ba10d | All you need to know about this film happens in the first five minutes: it looks cool, it has a solid original soundtrack reflective of the late-60s period, and all but a couple of its characters are unlikeable. Once you get that message, you may as well switch to another film.<br /><br />Davies's protagonist ignores h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9339 | 0pending | de6f9f20-7323-4e04-a158-e0039074d2c2 | When the film started the first 4 minutes seemed like a travelogue of California, I was wondering if I got the tapes mixed up. Then I breathed a sigh of relief to see Paul Thomas in a scene with the lovely Joanna Storm and Laurie Smith. This is being spied on by Jimmy (a young Tom Byron). Jimmy's aunt (Honey Wilder) is... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9340 | 0pending | 1ac99b61-9258-4dbe-9569-5536791c491b | I didn't even know this was originally a made-for-tv movie when I saw it, but I guessed it through the running time. It has the same washed-out colors, bland characters, and horrible synthesized music that I remember from the 80's, plus a 'social platform' that practically screams "Afterschool special". Anyhoo.<br /><b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9341 | 0pending | b0f76cc4-036b-4934-806b-f5dc419f2f47 | The psychology of this movie is really weird to try and figure out. Its often billed as an anti-RPG movie, but its really not that simple. Here are come apparent contradictions that make me wonder just what (if anything) they're trying to say about gaming.<br /><br />They laboriously introduce all the characters home l... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9342 | 0pending | e3d4a318-5c72-4686-9393-224d68e40ebc | Yes, about the only thing this film is memorable for is that it starred a youngish Tom Hanks who only a few short years later would be a relevant star in Hollywood. Here though is not a movie that is going to showcase his talents much at all and the only other thing that might be considered somewhat entertaining about ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9343 | 0pending | d68ede55-a57a-49d3-85c4-efd6c3240534 | Hoo boy, this was a real trial to get through. The DVD case has Tom Hanks' mug plastered on it and that is the only reason that anybody would buy it. He looks about forty on the box, however, the movie was made in 1982, so he still has his Bosom Buddies 'do and of course is about forty pounds lighter. The plot concerns... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9344 | 0pending | c5179771-11fc-4235-9ffe-c678db42b019 | Don't get me wrong, I assumed this movie would be stupid, I honestly did, I gave it an incredibly low standard to meet. The only reason I even saw it was because there were a bunch of girls going (different story for a different time). As I began watching I noticed something, this film was terrible. Now there are two t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9345 | 0pending | d63aad12-17a9-4331-ac43-038f7426abd6 | Film critics of the world, I apologize. It is your job to give advice to the moviegoing public so that they can wisely choose what to spend money on. But I ignored your advice and I have been deeply hurt. However, my decision to see "The Cat in the Hat" wasn't made haphazardly. You see, three years ago all of you criti... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9346 | 0pending | 3b4b210b-3b44-45c8-8e0d-e66701187e63 | Audrey, I know you truly cherish your husband Ted's memory but PLEASE do his legacy justice and heed his wishes. Dr. Seuss refused to license his characters during his lifetime for a very good reason. We beg of you to please stop cashing in on his stories, images, fantasies and characters. They are getting disemboweled... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9347 | 0pending | 7f971600-e1fa-4d2b-88e8-9c17c05b95b9 | The only good thing about this unfunny dreck is that I didn't have to pay for it. I saw it for free at college. And if a college student can't find humor in something that was free, it's hopeless.<br /><br />Stale acting and poor jokes cannot be masked by an excellent, yet bewildering set design (that goes out of its w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9348 | 0pending | 8e9fe5a8-9a99-4592-a453-976fa5b21ea2 | If you liked the Grinch movie... go watch that again, because this was no where near as good a Seussian movie translation. Mike Myers' Cat is probably the most annoying character to "grace" the screen in recent times. His voice/accent is terrible and he laughs at his own jokes with an awful weasing sound, which is abou... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9349 | 0pending | dd1eef4c-bc00-49ed-8924-018f94968d6c | This movie was physically painful to sit through, maybe because (like many people my age, and younger) I grew up with Dr. Seuss and loved his books - funny, clever, whimsical and subversive at the same time. "The Cat in the Hat" sucks all of the interest and spark out of the story, and Mike Myer's performance as the Ca... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9350 | 0pending | 4f06b99c-8a08-46f0-a7e2-1d7d548b0b08 | From the acting, direction, scriptwriting and art direction this film is just entirely ill conceived and the money would have been better spent on shoes for land mine victims. When did we get so sad that they have to fill a a children's movie with sexual innuendo to keep the parents attention.<br /><br />Dr Suess is ro... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9351 | 0pending | 0b6bf584-1199-4698-80aa-84b58a1d1f04 | Well the previews looked funny and I usually don't go to movies on opening night especially with my kids because ......well you never know. Here is a movie that doesn't appeal either to children or adults as the jokes are too perverse for children and falls completely flat for entertainment purposes for adults. I was a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9352 | 0pending | a8bde3a2-0906-417d-8231-c9fd81b52a0f | Mean spirited, and down right degrading adaptation to the classic children's tale not only lacks the charm of its forefather but lacks any talent what so ever. Mike Myers should not only be ashamed of himself for his horrible performance that is a clear rip off of what Jim Carrey did but he should give up acting all to... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9353 | 0pending | 2fdcedf7-217f-41ac-b040-ca591b57d6b6 | Inappropriate. The PG rating that this movie gets is yet another huge misstep by the MPAA. Whale Rider gets a PG-13 but this movie gets a PG? Please. Parents don't be fooled, taking an elementary school child to this movie is a huge mistake. There were numerous times I found myself being uncomfortable not just because ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9354 | 0pending | b210904a-a1ba-43b7-b93d-b16eab8fd7f4 | The Cat in the Hat is just a slap in the face film. Mike Myers as The Cat in the Hat is downright not funny and Mike Myers could not have been any worse. This is his worst film he has ever been in. The acting and the story was just terrible. I mean how could they make the most beloved stories by Dr. Seuss be made into ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9355 | 0pending | 2f470724-b72d-48e7-9fc9-9b2d1d26f388 | This movie has made me upset! When I think of Cat in the hat. Im thinking of cat in the hat books. You know, the one from a few years back that parents read to thier children. Well, I though that this movie would be a lot like that! But much to my suprise was nothing like the books! Insted it is more like young adult h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9356 | 0pending | 8e42141e-f2ac-4317-8861-a4db3d996699 | Bad. Bad. Bad. Those three lines sum up this crappy little film that can only attract idiot children and their parents to the cinema. and its... #1 Movie in America! What is this country thinking? Mike Myers looking more like Micheal Jackson. Some Chineese lady that falls asleep within 3 minutes. A lame plot with dirty... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9357 | 0pending | 9c1716a9-4901-44b2-8c01-4ea647c77a01 | There are plenty of comments already posted saying exactly how I felt about this film so Ill keep it short.<br /><br />"The Grinch" I thought was marvellous - Jim Carrey is a truly talented, physical comedian as well as being a versatile clever actor (in my opinion). Mike Myers on the other hand gets his laughs by bein... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9358 | 0pending | 138b45a6-c577-47cb-a089-a3a865367145 | Just about everything in this movie is wrong, wrong, wrong. Take Mike Myers, for example. He's reached the point where you realize that his shtick hasn't changed since his SNL days, over ten years ago. He's doing the same cutesy stream-of-consciousness jokes and the same voices. His Cat is painfully unfunny. He tries w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9359 | 0pending | d9fa90c2-161d-4760-8fe7-d59ebbd62e41 | The sun was not shining, it was too wet to play, so I went to the movies, that cold, cold, wet date day.<br /><br />"The Cat in the Hat" was the name of the flick, and when it was over, my stomach was sick.<br /><br />Mike Myers played the Cat, his humor was lame, and kids needn't see this, the humor was not tame.<br /... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9360 | 0pending | 6467c7f2-1527-475f-bad1-2f745cee73a9 | Well I guess I know the answer to that question. For the MONEY! We have been so bombarded with Cat In The Hat advertising and merchandise that we almost believe there has to be something good about this movie. I admit, I thought the trailers looked bad, but I still had to give it a chance. Well I should have went with ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9361 | 0pending | e10e7388-654d-4db4-aefb-6150bfdaa899 | When my own child is begging me to leave the opening show of this film, I know it is bad. I wanted to claw my eyes out. I wanted to reach through the screen and slap Mike Myers for sacrificing the last shred of dignity he had. This is one of the few films in my life I have watched and immediately wished to "unwatch", i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9362 | 0pending | 13260f35-76a3-42e9-a820-30d4f366461c | Holy cow, what a piece of sh*t this movie is. I didn't how these filmmakers could take a 250 word book and turn it into a movie. I guess they didn't know either! I don't remember any farting or belching in the book, do you?<br /><br />They took this all times childrens classic, added some farting, belching and sexual i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9363 | 0pending | 076c0adc-0dbd-44a1-92da-1ec5b718698c | I was so looking forward to seeing this when it was in production.But it turned out to be the the biggest let down. A far cry from the whimsical world of Dr Seuss. It was vulgar and distasteful I don't think Dr Seuss would have approved.How the Grinch stole Christmas was much better. I understand it had some subtle adu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9364 | 0pending | 5ceb2167-b3cf-48d1-a2c3-cd62fa58698f | I've seen some bad things in my time. A half dead cow trying to get out of waist high mud; a head on collision between two cars; a thousand plates smashing on a kitchen floor; human beings living like animals.<br /><br />But never in my life have I seen anything as bad as The Cat in the Hat.<br /><br />This film is wor... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9365 | 0pending | 288b9c31-62e2-4826-9d47-8594938a6061 | Spend your time any other way, even housework is better than this movie. The jokes aren't funny, the fun rhymes that are Dr. Seus aren't there. A very lousy way to waste an evening. My kids 4-16 laughed a little at the beginning the younger ones got bored with it and left to play Barbies and the older ones left to play... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9366 | 0pending | f313e89e-89af-4832-8005-06cf953d1b52 | Dr. Seuss would sure be mad right now if he was alive. Cat in the Hat proves to show how movie productions can take a classic story and turn it into a mindless pile of goop. We have Mike Myers as the infamous Cat in the Hat, big mistake! Myers proves he can't act in this film. He acts like a prissy show girl with a tho... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9367 | 0pending | c6d80cd0-bc72-4a24-a3ff-846fdec1a6c6 | No redeeming features, this film is rubbish. Its jokes don't begin to be funny. The humour for children is pathetic, and the attempts to appeal to adults just add a tacky smuttishness to the whole miserable package. Sitting through it with my children just made me uncomfortable about what might be coming next. I couldn... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9368 | 0pending | a8ffa04b-c84f-444f-825f-f726ed2f13e0 | Most movies I can sit through easily, even if I do not particularly like the movie. I am the type of person who recognizes great films even if I do not like the genre. This is the first movie I could not stand to watch. Cat in the Hat is the worst movie I have ever seen--and I've seen a lot of movies. The acting is oka... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9369 | 0pending | 341cd707-aa4a-49ab-ac33-d9dff68b7f3d | An absolutely atrocious adaptation of the wonderful children's book. Crude and inappropriate humor, some scary parts, and a sickening side story about the mom's boyfriend wanting to send the boy away to military school to get him out of the way makes this totally inappropriate for the kids who will most likely want to ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9370 | 0pending | 46c5672b-4f76-4d8e-ba34-960bf60a8df8 | Shame Shame Shame on UA/DW for what you do! <br /><br />I was appalled. <br /><br />Do NOT take kids to see this movie. The humor is totally inappropriate for children - plus they'll be bored and disappointed. Certainly *we all* have read Theo's wonderful children book and certainly we have expectations...but this is p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9371 | 0pending | 83ab9fc5-d5a1-4890-8b94-67deff6d1a5b | There's only one thing I'm going to say about cat in the hat...as a KIDS movie and a good comedy movie it sucks...I lost track of how many terrible jokes in the movie that not only sucked but weren't exactly kid appropriate. Oh and by the way the way the cat in the hat talked was annoying...as for the plot I completely... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9372 | 0pending | 4d5eea40-2d4f-45d8-93c3-9898d9af2488 | If one sits down to watch Unhinged, it is probably because its advertisements, video boxes, whatever, scream that it was banned in the UK for over 20 years (as virtually every video nasty does). It's true; exploitation and taboo excites people and draws them in with their promise of controversy. Being an exploitation f... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9373 | 0pending | cdbc85cd-8b77-4685-9003-ab06fce5a88a | I tried to like this slasher, like I try to enjoy all slasher films. I mean mindless slaying mixed with a little nudity and some suspense, how can you go wrong. But Unhinged I think is an example of that formula going wrong. The main issue is the horrible acting of the main three girls that landed up in the house. It w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9374 | 0pending | e135c6c1-afc1-453f-a500-9a0f1717201d | this movie was banned in england? why? tom savini, george romero, dario argento, lucio fulci and others had done far worse before and have continued to so since...<br /><br />this movie has all the basic elements of a decent 70s or early 80's horror film. good looking girls (who can't act to save their lives, by the wa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9375 | 0pending | 8195c1b9-81ce-4e70-8b81-5dab52f2782b | Unhinged was part of the Video Nasty censorship film selection that the UK built up in the 80's. Keeps the gory stuff out of the hands of children, don't you know! It must have left many wondering what the fuss was all about. By today's standard, Unhinged is a tame little fairy tale.<br /><br />3 girls are off to a jaz... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9376 | 0pending | 8dfb8bae-5d3b-4a5d-bca8-fba685822502 | Twist endings can be really cool in a movie. It's especially interesting when the twist is right in front of our eyes, but we just don't pay attention. Those type of twist endings are the one's that make people think. Then we've got twists like this film has. Twists that, whether or not you pay attention, you have no c... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9377 | 0pending | eb6e43ce-7b54-4e6b-b947-9e1be1ba815d | Ever watched a movie that lost the plot? Well, this didn't even really have one to begin with.<br /><br />Where to begin? The achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms (that are strangely ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9378 | 0pending | 25dc4e83-78ec-480f-bd38-fa49e452115a | I've never really considered myself much of "student" when it comes to watching films, I watch them, form an opinion and that's it. But Unhinged changed all this. This film is without a doubt the most inept attempt at film making I've ever seen. Every kid who rocks up at university thinking they're gonna be the next Sp... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9379 | 0pending | 6c732bac-d5dc-4268-8e77-ca3c7c939b03 | Unhinged follows the typical plot of the early 80's slasher trend. Pretty Young Girls In Peril. I have to give it up for the filmmaker who used a helicopter for some of the early road-trip shots, you actually think for a second there's going to be quality in the production. Watching "Unhinged" was like seeing an amateu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9380 | 0pending | d7d8ddda-9dec-430b-bd54-0f62da8df87f | I had never heard of this one before the owner of my local DVD rental outlet mentioned it to me; being a 1980s horror flick with the notorious distinction of having been banned in the U.K., I decided to check it out. The film turned out be a dull, amateurish and ugly-looking ride; the sound recording is so poor that di... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9381 | 0pending | 66817066-0ae4-4586-9fe4-6b6847c27bb8 | Banned as a 'Video Nasty' in the UK, Unhinged has naturally gained quite a bit of notoriety. However, the most shocking thing I found about the film was its amateurishness in all departments. The bloodletting I could handle: the terrible acting, shoddy editing, awful direction, lousy script and abysmal soundtrack were ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9382 | 0pending | f4bfaccd-1c77-460f-b3cc-08e431deb2e8 | I bought Unhinged because I got suckered by the gory picture on the cover. If you want to see all the good parts of the movie just look on the back of the box. All the kills are shown and I can honestly tell you that they look much better in the still frames than they do in the movie.<br /><br />Having said that, let's... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9383 | 0pending | dd396ff9-43e7-4047-81b2-6f0f801d909e | "Unhinged" is one strange little film, a forgotten slasher from the golden age of the genre. It's hard to really write a satisfying review of this film simply because of the fact that the film is so unique. It's plot is fairly overdone--three young women on their way to a rock concert get in a car crash and end up stra... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9384 | 0pending | f896764b-73d8-403f-8371-9ae139cc713d | Basic slasher movie premise, 3 young ladies wreck their car and end up staying with a creepy family. YAWN.<br /><br />Watching 36 minutes of a premonition of OJ's car chase with a white sedan instead of a bronco. YAWN.<br /><br />Old lady with hot and cold dementia controlling her daughter... YAWN<br /><br />23 minutes... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9385 | 0pending | 5a8f6e93-c8f7-4e6e-b338-b6839d699b3a | I, too, was fooled by the packaging. I, too, fell for the gory packaging and the DVD casing that claims "grieved fans as every copy was pulled from shelves". Though it was inexpensive ($6.99), it wasn't really all that worth it - no scares, and very limited gore. The ending was very cheesy and didn't deliver the punch ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9386 | 0pending | 46ec34cf-3f32-4bfe-b1cd-f0d14378e9a2 | I bought this movie for $5 at a used CD store, and I kinda regret it. I'll start by saying I'm a huge fan of cheesy horror flicks. They provide a horribly tacky cheap entertainment. This movie entertained for the first half hour, because it was so bad it could be made fun of in an MST3K style manner quite easily. Then ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9387 | 0pending | 3af9d0aa-f349-4fbc-81d2-630259a89f47 | I normally do not take the time to make comments that few people will read, about movies few will see. However, in this case, I feel I must warn all those who might consider wasting time on it. I just finished watching it only five minutes ago. This is, quite simply, one of the worst movies that I have ever seen in my ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9388 | 0pending | 1041a40d-8db1-4386-a59a-6b15b5c43efc | When I rented "Unhinged", I was expecting a gore movie. The box even claimed that the movie had extreme scenes of violence that were cut from the theatrical release (I now have serious doubts about this being released in the theater). After finishing the movie, I wondered how it could even receive a video release.<br /... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9389 | 0pending | 70afc12c-55b6-4c0f-86f1-709911ed20a5 | After the opening credits, there's a black screen for about a minute. A minute of nothing, then a girl wakes up and takes a shower.Then her and two college friends are driving to a rock concert, after much padding, they hit something and skid off the road. They awaken in a cabin inhabited by a wheelchair-bound old lady... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9390 | 0pending | 4b56bed5-3e63-4a4e-ab3a-0ccc8f9eaf4f | Did anyone edit this film? Or was it only the DVD release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes? It's OK though, I fell asleep watching it the first time. Then I fell asleep the second time and the third time. The plot is actually not the worst I've seen, but it's close. The acting is not the worst I've seen ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9391 | 0pending | dae539e8-c0e8-4915-8fec-e8aeb74d4a55 | This was not enjoyable to watch. Frank puts all his dreams on the back burner and gets a normal (boring!) job just so his stepson can go to film school, but his stepson decides that he'll make a humiliating documentary about the man instead. A documentary filmmaker should point the camera and simply shoot, not manipula... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9392 | 0pending | 1cc2759e-ed3d-40b6-8d92-b325bed5a87b | The BFG is one of Roald Dahl's most cherished books, but in this animated adaptation the magic just isn't there. This version remains pretty faithful to Dahl's original story so one can't lay the blame on John Hambley's script. If anything the fault lies with the colourless animation, the lethargic pace and the general... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9393 | 0pending | ee512082-eb57-4fd6-957e-eb871aabd104 | This film describes the experiences of a couple of hit men (one of them Burt Reynolds), a prostitute, and two drag queens over the interval of a few hours on one night in Miami. The convergent storylines eventually bring all the people together at one place and time. The movie was mildly entertaining, but the big probl... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9394 | 0pending | 72f528a3-adec-464c-b2d8-8487a9870f39 | If you liked watching Mel Gibson in Million Dollar Hotel then you might enjoy watching Burt Reynolds in yet another film so bad it could never be distributed. I can only attest to the DVD version so maybe the VHS version is better quality wise but the movies night and dark scenes have been so poorly done that everythin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9395 | 0pending | f92f4f76-8b67-462c-b418-0b2ccaca0787 | Follow-up to 1973's far better "Cleopatra Jones" has statuesque black actress Tamara Dobson returning to her signature role as chic, super-tough narcotics agent, here busting a heroin ring in Hong Kong. Cross-pollination of blaxploitation action-flick and kung-fu B-movie is fun at the outset but eventually flags. The s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9396 | 0pending | d7194bec-6fa1-4bd2-875f-02856472d65d | I'd never heard of this, then found out it's the man with the deadly lens, which I'd heard of but not seen. Connery's presence drove me to buy it, and it's not good. It wants to be a sort of cross between Dr Strangelove and Mash, but it just isn't that funny, unless you find the name General Wombat (?) funny. It comes ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9397 | 0pending | c49a17b4-4413-4f11-b8ae-bb7470efc5f2 | This is a weak film with a troubled history of cuts and re-naming. It doesn't work at all. Firstly the dramaturgy is all wrong. It's very slow moving at first and then hastily and unsatisfactorily moves to an end. But there is also (and that may have to do with the cuts) an uneasy moving between genres. It starts off w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9398 | 0pending | 6c7b860d-c0e7-4dc9-8482-c95f5627293d | When the remake of When A Stranger Calls was out, obviously I was interested in watching the original. Then when I read about the original (which I recall had my sisters totally freaked out back in the day) I saw that the real money is on Black Christmas, which apparently beat everyone to the "the caller is in the hous... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9399 | 0pending | 4d808196-66f4-430d-9c68-b8b2174cc953 | Steve McQueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there. He certainly was a charismatic fellow, one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew. But even McQueen can't save this turkey of a film, shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in St. Louis.<br /><br />McQueen's a new kid with ... | [] | [] | [] |
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