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train_3600 | 0pending | 85cb62dd-f4e3-4d6c-a92e-1f9634a50497 | Not the best of actors' movies.The director has concentrated on projected actor's stardom rather than giving a good entertainer. May be hero himself, his family and his sincere fans can enjoy it.But definitely it's not worth for neutral audience.The fight sequences are a total comedy.The dance moves in the song sequenc... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3601 | 0pending | 2da31000-62aa-4485-9041-f54e529dd602 | This is without doubt Rajnikanth's worst movies ever. The first part is held in place with solid comedy from Goundamani but it progressively gets worse and worse and completely illogical. Our hero also takes a dig at Saints with the same name (Baba) through a corny and utterly lame one-liner. The first half has Rajni u... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3602 | 0pending | 8d4ac162-bd53-4003-a75d-0386401ae71c | movie goers - avoid watching this movie. if you are faint hearted, you might want to commit suicide. if you are a short tempered, you would want to kill the lead performer of the movie.<br /><br />Though he does not have any talent in acting, he is the mass hero for all the rickshaw pullers,auto rickshaw drivers, rowdi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3603 | 0pending | 61e8a39e-a895-4d90-b958-bda786f36cbc | Rajinikanth becomes born again after getting a magical power which he can use seven times.<br /><br />There are several problems with this movie that are obvious to the casual audience: the 50ish Rajinikanth is still at home with his parents; the father of the girl next door thinks that he is a compelling "boy" ('vasee... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3604 | 0pending | 502907e6-a86b-45a4-a8e1-6778dd4d45da | I am not a big fan of Rajnikant in the first place, but Baba was a huge disappointment. In between an awful storyline, the action and songs were only mediocre. The storyline becomes very preachy. Instead of running for office like NTR or MGR, Rajni almost appeared to be running as Tamil Nadu's next big guru. My wife te... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3605 | 0pending | 00a3de4c-7f65-46e1-b5f3-71fe66b05fdf | Baba - Rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life. This is the movie which caused his downfall. It was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors. Rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred. Soon after its release, he t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3606 | 0pending | 428a997d-d335-496d-a3b7-137a712d943c | The main aspect about the Superstar's movies at his later stages were the frequency, the lacuna between one movie and the next. Being a well established star of the south Indian cinema, the feedbacks he was receiving before Baba was great. <br /><br />Since Nattukku Oru Nallavan (1991), the number of movies he acted in... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3607 | 0pending | 494ff57c-b1e4-417c-90cb-f3a1432d0551 | As usual, i went to watch this movie for A.R.Rahman. Otherwise, the film is no good. Rajni wanted to end his movie career with this film is it would be successful. But fortunately or unfortunately the film was a failure. After this he delivered a hit with Chandramukhi. I Am eagerly waiting for his forth coming Shivaji.... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3608 | 0pending | d405b6bc-46b5-4f66-8428-104c70f64174 | It's not just that this is a bad movie; it's not only that four of the "best" Mexican movie makers are in this film; and it's not only that the script is terrible. It's just that...this movie sucks...big time. This people are wasting money in terrible scripts. It's supposed to make a criticism about Mexican society but... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3609 | 0pending | 8f9513d5-acb9-4d0b-b6e5-7a124ff278e7 | I am surprised that everyone (even the critics) seems to think this was a good movie. It was the most clichéd thriller ever made that I have seen. We have the 'bad guy' who wants to force the 'good guy' (or girls in this case) to do something or face the consequence. The 'good girl' in this movie must use her smarts an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3610 | 0pending | c1f4aa05-189d-4ca1-b821-243557dbb501 | The main reasons to see "Red Eye" are Rachel McAdams, who delivers a stellar performance, and Jayma Mays, who is wonderful as the Assistant Hotel Manager. On the other hand, Cillian Murphy overacts so badly that he becomes cartoonish. The rest of the movie is riddled with plot holes, on which I will elaborate.<br /><br... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3611 | 0pending | d5114246-cf06-4d06-b121-37d93fb6a147 | They sell it as a horror movie, it's supposed to be a thriller, but I found it pretty funny (comedy?, don't think so), I laughed the whole movie I think it was because of the ridiculous acting and plot. I don't blame the actors, I think they were not very good, but O.K. I think Cillian is a very good "bad guy" I loved ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3612 | 0pending | a2ecdf4f-da80-4c53-b158-f7233ec81876 | Wes Craven, you are having a laugh... at our expense. The Red Eye plot is preposterous... We are confronted by a guy who has apparently spent 8 weeks watching a girl, who then turns up at an airport behind her, flirts and chats her up successfully, somehow wangles a seat next to her in a two seat space, not trapped in ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3613 | 0pending | e5f6483e-a380-4a3b-a329-bcfc0f28d51b | I've seen thousands of movies and have never written a review, but the Red Eye I witnessed is so at odds with the glowing tributes posted here that I'm compelled to offer my two cents in protest- and vote the lowest score possible just to bring the average closer to reality. <br /><br />This is a dull, boring stinker o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3614 | 0pending | fbbfb84e-4e02-4657-923b-6647a82d1161 | My goodness is this movie bad. I was totally misled by my local movie review because this is certifiable garbage. Yeah, yeah, good guys wear white, bad guys wear black....and the good guys always win. Now go home and hug your kids, and feel how good Hollywood has made you feel. Blech! I can't believe this brain dead mo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3615 | 0pending | 41cbc67e-49b4-4b3d-9164-8b9284a9b459 | I remember a certain Tuesday, the morning of 18/6/02 to be exact. I was dozed off, trying to convince myself to get out of bed when a horrific explosion was heard. I went to the kitchen where I have a view of several neighborhoods in the southern Jerusalem and saw a pillar of smoke rising from a distant point, the sigh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3616 | 0pending | f8f896f7-f2e0-4962-a8b2-28f7c4fd3b36 | This is a Japanese film but there is quite a bit of English also spoken in here. It's a pretty film, with nice visuals, featuring the scenic beauty of Hawaii.<br /><br />However, that was the only redeeming quality for me. The story was generally boring. Who wants to watch a young woman sulk for 90 percent of the film ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3617 | 0pending | 3648dc98-f539-4ae6-ab85-1ee921fb662f | I honestly had no idea that the Notorious B.I.G. (Bert I. Gordon the director; not the murdered rapper) was still active in the 80's! I always presumed the deliciously inept "Empire of the Ants" stood as his last masterful accomplishment in the horror genre, but that was before my dirty little hands stumbled upon an an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3618 | 0pending | 89053a86-2b52-4807-b775-fe6636b34360 | Time travel is a fun concept, and this film gives it a different slant. I got a kick out of Captain Billingham, one of the more down-to-earth characters, who was just not having a good day. Ordinarily, I don't choose to watch horror films, but this is an exception. Good story, excellent acting. | [] | [] | [] |
train_3619 | 0pending | b0d83452-deb5-4f6f-b95d-306f0c27bc68 | Susan Swift is an appealing youngster, a flower child transplanted to the 1980's (like a young Susan Dey), but she doesn't quite have the vocal range for a demanding dramatic lead and she tends to whine; still, she's rather sweet and has bright eyes and a pretty smile. In "The Coming" (as it was called when briefly rel... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3620 | 0pending | 8f5d19d1-131a-4257-a6c3-381fc00d0d4f | Really, everybody in this movie looks like they want to be someplace else! No wonder, the casting is done not with the left hand, but rather not at all. I haven't seen anything worse than Natascha McElhone impersonating some sort of agent, carrying a gun. You don't use a spoiled city-brat-look in such a role. The only ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3621 | 0pending | 45768170-b22b-4990-9a38-a68a11ab5d04 | Note: I will reveal a key part of the plot, but if you've looked at the DVD cover or any promotional material, you'll already know it.<br /><br />This movie seems to have been written by an eleven-year-old who isn't very bright and was probably very tired when he wrote it. The writer doesn't know the difference between... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3622 | 0pending | c6a39c02-cbc4-4f1b-92ce-37dbf9902c04 | William Hurt scuba diving scientist??? US agents running the investigation abroad? The sick contaminated man kicking butt after falling 20 feet on his back and running away? Sniper missing and not killing Hurt (just wounding him) but the second "kill" shot is dead on ? Waste of time. To compare this to falling down as ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3623 | 0pending | a7f91b6a-eb69-4daa-bc7b-613e864e9bc6 | I watched the entire movie recognizing the participation of William Hurt, Natascha McElhone, and Desiree Nosbusch. I'm glad that I had no idea of the presence of Peter Weller. At the end of the movie I said "THAT was Peter Weller?" Kudos to Mr. Weller for an outstanding performance. Weller played a major character, and... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3624 | 0pending | 37024370-db30-4f8e-87bb-8b56acbbc856 | Dull, predictable and uninteresting story of a man contaminated by a chemical substance (Weller) who goes on across the country just to find his ex-wife and children; meanwhile, he kills everyone in his way only by a single touch of his hands. In his dangerous track, a doctor (Hurt) and a young reporter (Natasha) try t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3625 | 0pending | 0320e6e8-0cde-483f-ae83-b362f13f4b52 | For a science scare movie to work well it has to be either truly original or a very good retelling. This movie is neither. Sure there is a pseudo-original twist in that the guy kills people because of a toxin and not because of a disease, but that is a very minor twist. There is the government conspiracy angle, the cru... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3626 | 0pending | b105153d-78e5-41a4-b872-9491c45da19e | I really cant think of anything good to say about this film...not a single thing. The script is a nightmare.. the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference. You'd think they would at least get a technical advisor. The performances were bad by most of the c... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3627 | 0pending | ca27dbd3-0bf2-4cdc-b2ce-5dec97537ba0 | This movie is so bad, you almost feel contaminated by it. Actually, there is a strong sense of relief when it's over, relief that you can now put the cassette back in the rewinder and RUSH this back to the video rental store before it contaminates the rest of your video collection. I jokingly suggested when we rented i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3628 | 0pending | 4bd2c349-b0a8-46e5-80f3-4a9376e15e90 | Opening scene 'explains' why Hurt is later 'immune' to the 'Contaminated Man'. Too bad it doesn't explain anything else: How did he get whatever he 'caught'/what was it/why does it work so fast. Then we go to "Present Day Budapest". OK, was the opener in the past or the future? It turns out to be the past, of course, b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3629 | 0pending | 5086b9d1-83d7-4e69-a997-c582241cdf9e | This is one very confusing movie. The film is very hard to follow and the plot just didn't seem to make any sense. The Fury of the Wolfman was made in Spain and I think that when any film is dubbed from one language to another, it doesn't translate exactly as it was first meant. Maybe this is part of the problem but I ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3630 | 0pending | c2a97d47-f5ca-49f1-8303-ee39b4fff258 | Apparently, this is what happens when a director allows his 14-year old nephew to rewrite the dialogue on the set while he indulges himself alcoholically in the meantime; as I said earlier, although I've always wanted to catch one of Paul Naschy's werewolf pictures, this atrocity served as my introduction and, as awful... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3631 | 0pending | 1f85cb3e-2030-48bc-9bed-025472a1de92 | Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) travels to Tibet and is bitten by a yeti, which causes him to become a werewolf. He is accidentally killed after he attacks his cheating wife and her lover, and is later revived by a female scientist, Dr. Ilona Ermann, who uses him in mind control experiments. Daninsky later discovers an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3632 | 0pending | 8d64d1a0-d656-4bb9-8da5-bdbc1da80909 | Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy stars in this, one of his weakest werewolf films... but bear with me for a moment. Most people will be familiar with it under its most common television title, THE FURY OF THE WOLF MAN, and there have been many home video versions of it over the years. If you want to be serious about giv... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3633 | 0pending | bf2b0d94-4cdb-44ab-8112-3d59adbd2a34 | "La Furia del Hombre Lobo" forms a completely stand-alone storyline which doesn't seem to fit in at all with the previous Waldemar Daninsky movies. Some have commented that this movie is supposed to take place before the events of "Werewolf Shadow", although it was released afterwards ... they may be right, I'm not sur... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3634 | 0pending | f999570e-fc43-48b6-8d2b-3b5d3155661b | "While traveling in the mountains, a man is attached by a mysterious creature that promptly departs, leaving no trace of its presence. Unbeknownst to the man, he has been attacked by a werewolf and now he's inherited the curse associated with such creatures. Now our hero must race against time to rid himself of this dr... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3635 | 0pending | f0c9c023-f9ba-457f-b0f7-1d6d3534b20f | I saw this little magnum opus for the first time very recently, on one of those dollar DVD's that seem to be everywhere nowadays, and was so moved by it that I cannot contain myself. For those who have never seen this mesmerizingly miserable Mexican import, and wish to view it without being prejudiced by anyone else's ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3636 | 0pending | aa023506-8a50-4a00-bcab-3507a68892e0 | This review applies for the cut of the film that's generally available as "Fury of the Wolfman". I understand there is an uncut version out there with additional footage, and I would hope that it contained at least eight or nine crucial scenes that seem to be missing from the cut known as "Fury of the Wolfman". In shor... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3637 | 0pending | 75288aea-976e-40b6-b7d0-37a4f34f1fa7 | Despite some mildly thought-provoking oddities in the script and the film's overall curiosity value, Fury of the Wolfman emerges as a dull, uninteresting excursion into lycanthropy, saved only by the statuesque presence of villainess Perla Cristal. The rest of the players, including the hammy Naschy, are a complete wri... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3638 | 0pending | b97422c3-3eb4-43e7-b9de-41d75762b5a4 | Whoever made this nonsense completely missed the point. Jane is a silly comic strip to titillate without being sleazy.<br /><br />This giant mess tries to be funny and exciting but is just a shambles. There is not one decent performance in it..even the usually reliable Jasper Carrott is painfully unfunny.<br /><br />Th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3639 | 0pending | 3e2ebb2a-f0e5-45ff-bcaf-999488c36264 | I must admit that I have been a sucker for Samurai flicks since I can remember. I used to watch rather indiscriminate, be it "elitist" works like The Seven Samurai or the bloody comic-book variation like Lone Wolf and Cub. I also liked US-/Japanese "Crossovers" like The Bushido Blade. And of course everything containin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3640 | 0pending | fad1a78f-fbed-4e17-85e5-1a43b3596b69 | Oh my, I think this may be the single cheesiest movie I've ever seen. I'm serious, this is one of the ultimate b-movies. The first proof is that it isn't a $5 DVD. Oh no, that's too mainstream for this. I got this on VHS, from a bin full of ex-rental videos at my local video store.<br /><br />If I may quote the blurb: ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3641 | 0pending | a725bde1-a136-4e97-bdbd-fd99044efe80 | In 17th Century Japan, there lived a samurai who would set the standard for the ages. His name was Mayeda. He is sent on an epic journey across the world to acquire 5,000 muscats from the King of Spain. Whilst at sea a violent storm swallows their precious gold intended to buy the weapons and almost takes their lives. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3642 | 0pending | 8230e8a6-6862-4d37-ac74-603cadbe72cc | I cant help it but i seem to like films that are meant to be scary and are just plain bad. I have personally listed it in my own top 10 worst movies right under creatures of the abyss!. Watch this film and have a laugh just don't expect to see any academy awards for acting. More chance of understanding the film its sel... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3643 | 0pending | 5f0da53b-0548-404d-a4c0-1dd57a3a8aed | I viewed this movie in DVD format. My copy may have been affected but I was disappointed with the lack of menu screen for the DVD. I will say that my initial reason for viewing this movie was Claire Forlani. While fun to watch, I feel she didn't live up to my expectations that I have so far found from her other films. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3644 | 0pending | e2892f89-9c8a-4e3b-b83e-3a1af5e7644a | I was expecting a very funny movie. Instead, I got a movie with a few funny jokes, and many that just didn't work. I didn't like the idea of bringing in Sherlock Holmes' and Moriarty's descendants. It was confusing. It would have been more funny if they just had someone new, instead of Moriarty resurrected. Some of the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3645 | 0pending | 807aa221-af90-4079-8dbd-76701dfd1509 | No laughs whatsoever. Yes, I watched this entire train wreck but only so that I wouldn't later wonder if Cleese had come to his senses in the latter part. (No, he had not.) <br /><br />This may be historically interesting to you youngsters out there, to see that British "humor" included black "jokes" like these, thirty... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3646 | 0pending | 795b18b0-129d-48e8-b86a-a735d2f9d492 | This is a fair little show about the paranormal although it feels as if Art Bell and his ilk figured out how to carve a career out of the attitude that Carl Kolchak exemplified. Of course there probably wouldn't be an X-Files if this show hadn't prepped this audience for it so well. Darren McGavin is not exactly the su... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3647 | 0pending | 3bfac9cb-4125-4758-967a-0ea870cb6ddb | A childless couple (Brooke Adams, Jeff Hayenga) go to a doctor (James Karen) to try to conceive. It works but Adams slowly becomes aware that there's something seriously wrong with the baby...<br /><br />Pretty interesting idea is thoroughly done in by a lousy script--the basic idea is OK but becomes screamingly predic... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3648 | 0pending | 299842cf-5559-4436-9ef9-dbd5651c5e18 | It's a good thing I didn't watch this while i was pregnant.I definitely would have cried my eyes out and/or vomit. It was Kind of gruesome mainly disturbing. I personally thought the baby was adorable in its own twisted little way.However as a mom I cringed when Beth stabbed herself in the stomach and when Virgina abor... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3649 | 0pending | ef7d12f8-4b82-4245-ba9e-8120b5b7b3ed | Oh... my... god... this is without a doubt the absolute cheesiest movie I have ever seen. The acting is bad, the story is weak, the characters are weaker, and the whole film just doesn't make sense. Couple this with mediocre directing, really strange scenes (such as the one where the kid reaches over the ravine and mys... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3650 | 0pending | 162d71f6-80d1-486c-a3c6-62bb435ce1b3 | A youth gets a bad hair day, goes out on a hill, and falls into where he can't escape. Then, he meets MR. ATLAS, a "mythological" dude from 2,000 years ago as his very best friend, and an Arnold Schwarzenegger look-and-sound-alike. His Herculean strength helps the boy out of danger, and later adjusts to modern life. So... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3651 | 0pending | 709c5c43-6d63-4189-92ee-00dd26a14359 | This film is pretty poor. The acting is abysmal and completely forced. Furthermore, by shooting the film as a docudrama doesn't necessarily make it more believable, you can't get out of it that easily Mr Dir. Don't let my comments mislead you however, as i would recommend you watch this film, as it does shed some light... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3652 | 0pending | 18e548e1-867a-4b3e-a38d-85499835f61e | I am fully aware there is no statistical data that readily supports the correlation between video games and real life violence. The movie is false and phony because it is in complete contradiction of itself, which is what I tried to emphasize in my original review. The movie fails, not necessarily because I really do t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3653 | 0pending | 0c853e79-d04a-4837-9d0a-3e7da0ccfad4 | Unfortunately the movie is more concerned with making lame social commentary on a real event, but doesnt have the balls to legitimately document what happened. The constant rhetoric of how violent video games are not to blame (I get the impression Ben Coccio is an avid gamer), or how media and music is completely devoi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3654 | 0pending | dcda54c1-0b9c-453d-963f-43a7add86c21 | Recap: According to legend, the Valkyrie Brunhilda defied Odin and was chained to a rock surrounded by an eternal fire. Only a warrior pure in heart can pass through the flames, free Brunhilda and release her from Odin's claim, and have her for himself. Now, war is brewing in the Norse lands, and the King needs an alli... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3655 | 0pending | 745f0576-f7ea-423b-8cd1-b2e71ea1f9c5 | I had no background knowledge of this movie before I bought it, but it sounded cool and I've been wanting to see a really kick-butt Viking movie for awhile now... alas, this film was not what I was looking for. I had hoped for the best, but instead, was delivered a boring Nordic soap-opera that seemed to drag on too lo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3656 | 0pending | 9b1ae831-01ee-4bfc-b4df-b9ddc456488c | This movie sucks from beginning till (especially) the end. You probably don't get 'm any worse, acting, storyline ,photography, camera work, etcetera it's all bad, very, very bad.<br /><br />But that's what makes it a 'great' watch, it will give you more than enough good laughs. The worse, the better! <br /><br />I rea... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3657 | 0pending | 95ddd227-aa9e-4d47-bbd0-b5e435064e23 | The film portrays France's unresolved problems with its colonial legacy in Western (Francophone) Africa through the befuddled and complex psychoanalytical prism of a young woman, France (herein symbolically representing her nation). It is an often engaging and challenging portrait of a young woman's desire to come to t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3658 | 0pending | 130c7acc-3c66-41b0-bea1-005ee458b63c | I am astounded at the positive reviews for this thoroughly uninspiring film.<br /><br />Often with foreign films I skip over reviews that complain about slow pace and seeming "absence of action" as many of the best international films do not live up to the Western Hollywood model of cinematic storytelling.<br /><br />I... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3659 | 0pending | 41ba2849-bced-4616-be05-7363e81fd00c | I am very open to foreign films and like to think that I grasp what they are trying to accomplish although some things are lost in translation. But the simplicity and "intelligence" of this film were boring. I've often thought how interesting it would be to make a movie that just shows a typical day or time period that... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3660 | 0pending | 0068eeab-4ddc-4c1b-ac09-b2b2ee4991a2 | Some good movies keep you in front of the TV, and you are dying to see the result.<br /><br />This movie does not have highs and lows. It simply describes a young girl's family life in Africa. People come and go, the weather and the background are all the same.<br /><br /> | [] | [] | [] |
train_3661 | 0pending | 3da544e5-7682-4c33-9dde-a4eb8a2aa166 | Boring children's fantasy that gives Joan Plowright star billing but little to do. Sappy kids pursue their dreams. Frankie wants to be a ballerina and a baseball player (yuk) while best-friend Hazel runs for mayor---she's 13! Totally pedestrian in every way, plus the added disadvantage of syrupy performances by the gir... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3662 | 0pending | 25bc37aa-f269-4f93-8a1f-3cc8f1f65758 | Of the ten actors who portrayed Philo Vance in the series, Edmund Lowe seemed the most personable, but in this script the audience is way ahead of the famed detective. After all, when the jockey, Douglas Walton, stares blankly in space, obviously hypnotized, and says something like "I must ride and be killed," I felt i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3663 | 0pending | 03e44eb3-ed69-48b7-b8cc-a91635fc617c | N.B.: Spoilers within. Assigning an artistic director to an operatic production naturally and inevitably means you are going to get a piece of that director's mind. But directing a Wagner opera is an especially tricky task, as he was perhaps the most explicit opera composer in terms of what things should look like and ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3664 | 0pending | 2607890f-372b-4c9f-beb8-7b4cb6851234 | Admittedly, Parsifal is not an opera that can appeal to everyone, although it is a favourite of mine, Knappertsbusch, 1951, in particular. Syberberg's entire approach is so static. Whenever the music suddenly begins to swell ... Syberberg keeps the cast moving at the same pace. The takes on Amfortas and Klingsor are en... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3665 | 0pending | 691b989a-ceb4-432c-a099-3e9794ab19a0 | It must be assumed that those who praised this film ("the greatest filmed opera ever," didn't I read somewhere?) either don't care for opera, don't care for Wagner, or don't care about anything except their desire to appear Cultured. Either as a representation of Wagner's swan-song, or as a movie, this strikes me as an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3666 | 0pending | e8845c1a-f8ab-4bc9-bd82-5a4b5cb46c2e | (various spoilers follow)<br /><br />Gene Kelly. Not Georges Guetary, who is sometimes criticized for being too young and un-French. Not Leslie Caron, who is sometimes criticized for her very green performance. Not even Oscar Levant, who more often than not annoys the dickens out of me.<br /><br />No, it would definite... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3667 | 0pending | fc691732-9e3a-4da5-add5-d0becb4000f1 | An art house maven's dream. Overrated, overpraised, overdone; a pretentious melange that not only did not deserve Best Picture of 1951 on its own merits, it was dwarfed by the competition from the start. Place in the Sun, Detective Story, Streetcar Named Desire, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man; you name it, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3668 | 0pending | 198a6e35-87c5-4f07-abdc-aaab299314c3 | I'm never much for classic films. Movies like Patton, Going My Way, How Green was My Valley, The Godfather, Casablanca, Annie Hall, Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, and Citizen Kane bore me. However, I would much rather watch any one of those films 3,469 times while being tied up on a chair than watch An America... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3669 | 0pending | 10749d4b-570a-41b8-afa5-c81e55287d87 | I don't know what the Oscar voters saw in this movie, but they must of seen some pretty hard stuff to see in it to be able to award it with the best picture Oscar. All I know is that fortunately there was Gene Kelly to play in it or this would have been twice as bad as I believe it is. First of all, I don't think Lesli... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3670 | 0pending | 108346f7-e1b5-4c99-b5a3-72355ae8720e | This is a film that belongs firmly to the 50's. Very surprising that American Film Institute has chosen this one for one for the best 100 American movies of all-time. I have seen practically all of the movies on that list, and this one is by far the most disappointing one of those. Musical numbers (and there many, many... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3671 | 0pending | d2a0bc36-60fb-4fd2-bd64-e2f5837d3e27 | I purchased the BLOOD CASTLE DVD on eBay for a few bucks not knowing what it was and all I can say is that I wasn't disappointed with this purchase. BLOOD CASTLE is one of those trashy European horror films that has almost no redeeming quality except for being thoroughly entertaining, for all the bad reasons. The openi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3672 | 0pending | 836f402c-0e3d-4f40-a63f-0dbc32a07b68 | (aka: BLOOD CASTLE or SCREAM OF THE DEMON)<br /><br />*spoiler*<br /><br />This was a drive-in feature, co-billed with THE VELVET VAMPIRE. A Spanish-Italian co-production where a series of women in a village are being murdered around the same time a local count named Yanos Dalmar is seen on horseback, riding off with h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3673 | 0pending | c4423c50-f929-4a58-a89d-e5280bb6716e | I caught this a few months ago on Family Channel, and having some memories of the TV show from my youth, decided to watch it along with my 4 year old daughter. I should have got some psychedelic mushrooms to go along with it, 'cause this is just bizarre! Not only is it a musical with annoyingly forgettable tunes, the r... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3674 | 0pending | 8cd28e87-f578-4689-a743-65e6e853c4c0 | I hated this show when I was a kid. That was back in the day when kids show characters actually had accents, not just the bland, generic, General American Dialect we're used to. Jack Wild had a British accent and Pufnstuf's was southern. Like one of the others mentioned, though, I never quite understood what the deal w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3675 | 0pending | e51ea35f-385e-4814-9ee8-8fe7d12da243 | I tried watching this abomination of the cinema when I was five years old; I have never been the same since. Filled to the brim with drug-induced images that reek of the common ravings of your average asylum resident, this "movie", despite its colorful appearance, is not for humans, ESPECIALLY not children.<br /><br />... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3676 | 0pending | 878958da-f2f6-457a-bf2f-daaa82f6a5ff | Basically there's a family where a little boy (Jake) thinks there's a zombie in his closet & his parents are fighting all the time.<br /><br />This movie is slower than a soap opera... and suddenly, Jake decides to become Rambo and kill the zombie.<br /><br />OK, first of all when you're going to make a film you must D... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3677 | 0pending | 72a881c5-85f7-4ce4-b139-e98ecaf47153 | Cliché-ridden story of an impending divorce - or is it? - through the eyes of a 6 year-old child. Corny dialogue, cardboard characters, stock situations, a red herring zombie sub-plot and, worst of all, absolutely no payoff, either emotionally or dramatically.<br /><br />Does no-one teach creative writing any more? The... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3678 | 0pending | 590033ca-458f-4cd9-bd63-e2d15a6a6108 | Really, really bad slasher movie. A psychotic person escapes from an asylum. Three years later he kills a sociology professor, end of scene. One semester yesterday later (hey, that's what the title card said) a new sociology professor is at the school. She makes friends with another female sociology professor who works... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3679 | 0pending | aaa09984-a240-46c7-8cec-42bb30dd752a | If you merely look at the cover of this movie, it's cool. DON'T. The movie itself put me to sleep. It was slow paced, had minimal violence and a poor use of suspense. The acting was bottom feeder material and the plot, while it would've been cool for a different movie, was poorly shown here. They even kill the only lik... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3680 | 0pending | 57a1d0d8-cef0-401c-b89c-843d5bba93fb | How come I've never seen or even heard about this junk-movie before? It's right up my alley with bloody teenkill, laughable plotting and an irresistible 80's cheese-atmosphere hanging around it. For some reason nobody is really interested in, the staff and students of an elite Catholic university are butchered by an un... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3681 | 0pending | 2307085f-0b09-486d-8de8-07bed9a4baef | A schizophrenic has escaped from a NYC mental hospital and soon teachers start getting offed at St. Trinity University. New teacher Julie (Francine Forbes) has to deal with the mess of red herrings. Despite a 78 minute running time, this cheap-o slasher drags on and on until the lame finish where the person you suspect... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3682 | 0pending | 9e3aab09-be16-4bff-a067-4a0886e24e67 | It's a poor film, but I must give it to the lead actress in this one....Francine Forbes. She appeared to be acting the least and I personally thought she was kind of cute. Too bad she only appears in one other film in the database. Besides that, the film is filled with laughable gore and fakey death scenes. People get ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3683 | 0pending | c77a05a0-b336-4c26-b711-ebab6156f3bc | Nut case is murdering college students, can new teacher stop the madness?!<br /><br />Believe me, you won't care.<br /><br />With a title like Splatter University, one would immediately gather that this movie just isn't high art. But worse than that Splatter University doesn't even qualify for amusing garbage. Splatter... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3684 | 0pending | a08793e6-4c7b-4f6b-9851-c8aae8dca2b4 | Colleges, High Schools, Fraternities and Sororities have been the most popular stalking grounds for maniacal madmen since the slasher cycle first became a popular cinema culture throughout the late seventies. Even backwoods cabins and campsites have rode shotgun to the amount of massacres that have taken place on campu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3685 | 0pending | 50388c0b-3585-4e6e-ab5c-1d265fd02fc7 | A patient escapes from a mental hospital, killing one of his keepers and then a University professor after he makes his way to the local college. Next semester, the late prof's replacement and a new group of students have to deal with a new batch of killings. The dialogue is so clichéd it is hard to believe that I was ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3686 | 0pending | 76546707-0b56-42d2-8e8c-e34fb3156de1 | This has got to be the worst horror movie I have ever seen. I remember watching it years ago when it initially came out on video and for some strange reason I thought I enjoyed it. So, like an idiot, I ran out to purchase the DVD once it was released...what a tragic mistake! I won't even bother to go into the plot beca... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3687 | 0pending | 760a3d32-a446-43c5-8ad8-67efe7e91c40 | I have a nice collection on movies going, and this one was added to it. Number 274 to be exact. <br /><br />The title had me going at first. Splatter University. I thought this would be a great horror movie. Was I ever wrong. Don't get me wrong, this is not the worst movie I have ever seen, but it could have been a lot... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3688 | 0pending | 61522fa2-7681-4835-8691-cce6c78240f2 | I am starting this review with a big giant spoiler about this film. Do not read further...here it comes, avert your eyes! The main heroine, the girl who always survives in other slasher films, is murdered here. There, I just saved you 79 minutes of your life.<br /><br />This is one of those cheap movies that was thrown... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3689 | 0pending | 2ad5156f-ad23-4b7e-8d6d-3bcffd0822a8 | This film is the worst film, but it ranks very high for me. It is how a slasher movie should be. It takes place at a university in which there only seems to be a handful of students. The teachers are dumber than a sack of hammers. It is filled with good Catholic priest, sexually repressed humor. Bad hair, bad clothes. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3690 | 0pending | 86da4cc4-3380-4abb-bb80-b9e3f24b7cf4 | the cover of the box makes this movie look really good, don't be fooled. splatter university came out in 1984 which was the last good year for horror, but this movie sucks. the characters are so annoying. only the teacher is cool. there is like no plot to this movie, who the hell would ever produce this waste of a film... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3691 | 0pending | 4ad6f7a7-1f54-4d9a-9cec-95bc1803291b | Back in the days before the Toxic Avenger, the low-camp kings at Troma Films tried to take the high (OK, somewhat-less-low) road of producing straight slasher pics. I'd like to think that viewing the results here is what convinced them to give up all pretension and go for self-conscious parody.<br /><br />Splatter Univ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3692 | 0pending | 23940080-811b-4b9c-a69f-f9007fd40981 | Does this film suck!! Horrible acting, horrible script, horrible effects, horrible horrible horrible!! Nothing redeeming here for even the most die-hard of horror fans! A crazy killer stalks students at a college. People are showing up dead in the hallways, but still, class carries on as normal??? After about the 4th b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3693 | 0pending | dac763ac-5ad4-48c4-84b3-1f4e217d9443 | I am an avid B-Rate horror film buff and have viewed my fair share of slasher pictures, so I have a substantial gauge to judge this film by. It easily ranks in the upper echelon of the worst horror films the 1980's has to offer. It isn't as scary as Night of the Demons, it isn't as gory as Re-Animator and lacks the cam... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3694 | 0pending | c949b167-009a-4885-8fb1-56f4d4cdf3ab | Was it foreshadowing when Tori complained that her first boyfriend was treating her like a robot, and then her new boyfriend (the murderer) turned out to be a designer of artificial intelligence? I think so. Scenes to make you squeal with delight: montages galore, a strip-tease in a kimono (what do you call it when you... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3695 | 0pending | 5dfe6faa-82fb-4fa3-ac2b-7f6507d87ecf | A question for all you girls out there : If a man you`ve never met before accidentally phoned you up on purpose and continued to do so at the most indiscreet moments would you be intrigued by him or so freaked out you`d phone the police ? Yeah that`s what I thought so I couldn`t swallow the idea of Marti Gerrard puttin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3696 | 0pending | b7edaaa1-b9be-4106-b8be-35136a461933 | Umm.. I was quite surprised that someone actually gave this film high marks.<br /><br />Lets face it... Tori Spelling is not a great actress.. and this movie just proves the extent of her "talent". The movie's plot was weak... I bet the dork that came up with this concept was some perverted peeping tom. If there is a g... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3697 | 0pending | f34bc7cb-34c4-4cda-8e59-d501f8636f44 | Do you know when you look at your collection of old, videotaped movies, and realize that there are some that you've only seen once or twice, and you can't remember if they're worth the time it takes to see them? The Alibi is/was one of those films; I found it, not long ago, and decided I might as well give it a chance.... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3698 | 0pending | 0634087a-0db8-4c7f-aead-e1c49e9777f7 | Well, there you have it, another disillusion on my account. Two, actually! First of all, even though I like to think of myself that I know a little something about 70's euro-exploitation and its most prolific contributors, I never heard about Joseph W. Sarno before. Here's a guy who made over seventy rancid and cult-la... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3699 | 0pending | 12ef1f8f-5227-4de2-98b1-5e9907972862 | To be as honest as I possibly can, The Devil's Plaything (or Veil of Blood or Vampire Ecstasy or The Curse of the Black Sisters or
) is a complete bore. The movie has a good premise behind it the resurrection of a long dead vampire through the body of a descendant through the aid and assistance of a group of women d... | [] | [] | [] |
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