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train_3800 | 0pending | e03ada86-3689-4a70-8d52-abd3c7314a9c | I am a huge fan of David Lynch. This film, however, was a quite disappointing experience. Apart from the ambient background music which really sets the mood of the film it lacks almost all the qualities that I've come to associate with Lynch's work. The visuals are dull, to say the least, and the dialog is to vague... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3801 | 0pending | 28c4186c-fbdf-4b97-9537-a2efa842042b | I finally got to have a look at this experimental Lynch short after waiting for so long....and unfortunately, it wasn't worth it! Even for a die hard Lynch fan, I found this to be really tedious....<br /><br />nothing happens, there are long, long, long painful pauses where nothing happens, long, monotonous speeches wh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3802 | 0pending | 55f71e07-514e-46ef-8592-392e2937fcc1 | Wow, I love and respect pretty much anything that David Lynch has done. However, this movie is akin to a first filmmaker's attempt at making a pseudo art video. <br /><br />To give you a couple of examples: <br /><br />1. David Lynch is typically a visual filmmaker, however, this had little visual artistic content (bla... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3803 | 0pending | 9cc15610-6a39-40f6-a2d1-b3f6feab9b45 | ...but this just isn't working and I am surprised to see how many people consider it good. On what grounds? There are some loose hints here and there, but the whole material is self-indulgent and unconvincing. Lynch's movies are generally intriguing because they generate a sense of confusion and yet, are very playful w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3804 | 0pending | 33b12952-a85b-4cc6-b2ca-81cd6082c9aa | I love all his work but this looks like nothing.. sorry.. This looks more like a "David Lynch copycat". I think people like it only because "it's from David Lynch". | [] | [] | [] |
train_3805 | 0pending | e412ce21-8cb5-4b1c-abe9-1df0c3b3380f | As hard as it is for me to believe, with all of the awful reality shows out there over the past few years, this one has to take over the top spot for worst one yet. I am still wondering if this was actually just a spoof done by the SCTV gang. If Andy Kaufmann were still alive I'd be sure he was behind this. Can a rock ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3806 | 0pending | b48d04a2-473b-48ae-bbbe-89b20e0e23d6 | First of all; it's very dilettantish to try describe way of history only from positions of guns, germs and steel. The same tried to do Marxists from economical positions.<br /><br />The reason of Western success can't be just dumb luck, the advantages of domesticated plants and animals. We see, that all around the worl... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3807 | 0pending | 8a5754c1-78c1-4e0e-bf74-288af83bedce | This film is an attempt to present Jared Diamonds theory of "Guns, Germs and Steel", explaining how Europeans have dominated much of the globe.<br /><br />The version I saw of this documentary came on 2 discs covering 3 hours. I think the information could have been presented in 20 minutes. There are completely useless... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3808 | 0pending | bf1af23a-74cc-4ae6-8e3d-801428b2991c | Jared Diamond made a point in the first episode that other peoples of the world didn't have animals to domesticate but Europeans did, and that accounts for why we were able to make steel and invent complex machines.<br /><br />But then in the third episode he says that when the Europeans in South Africa got too far nor... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3809 | 0pending | d54af8f3-883c-4abc-a46d-a7ca1341f3d5 | It is so rare that I get to rate a movie without having some reservation as to whether I should have gone up one or down one but this one.....Did the explosion rate a notch higher, or one down because my brain hurt trying to CREATE a plot. No, THIS ONE....yeah, a solid, no brainer.....ONE/ten | [] | [] | [] |
train_3810 | 0pending | a6c2a4d6-f8b9-4221-8d3a-cef11cb9e08e | It was just a terrible movie. No one should waste their time. Go see something else. This movie is, without a doubt, one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life. If you want to see a good movie, don't see Made Men. | [] | [] | [] |
train_3811 | 0pending | c35eb459-76fc-467b-82fe-3a7e745ec839 | Right away, this film was ridiculous. Not that it didn't have redeeming aspects
For example, the best thing about this film was the beautiful background scenery. Anyone not living on the East Coast should know the South doesn't have beautiful mountains like those found in the West. I knew it was Utah right off the bat... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3812 | 0pending | dbb39ff9-807d-4af7-b493-adad0f68ef75 | So this was an HBO "Made for TV Movie" eh? Is that an excuse for such a pathetic plot and terrible acting? Such a shame to see Jim Belushi reduced to a role so repetitive (shot at, survived, lies, beaten up, survives, shot at, lies and so ad infinitum. Call that a script? As for the Brits, embarrassing to see Timothy D... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3813 | 0pending | 221633fb-7e05-4278-9c28-9a3f1467e913 | That's what the title should be, anyway.<br /><br />This movie combines guns, explosives, and mindless killing to make one flop of an "action" movie. Let me make my point in a series of questions: answers type deal.<br /><br />What happens in the movie? People die.<br /><br />Is that it? Yes.<br /><br />What is the plo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3814 | 0pending | 8d426188-d779-406b-a59a-c6a047b7f5db | I think "The Best of Times" was a lost cause from the get go. The initial premise (guy drops the winning touchdown pass against a rival high school team, can never seem to get over it and then tries to reunite the two teams to play again) is one of the dumbest I have ever heard. Since Ron Shelton went on to write much ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3815 | 0pending | 0df06fce-d6dd-41d1-8ed5-1f67acb97072 | 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... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3816 | 0pending | 71d5b63d-a5a7-42d0-b7cb-d07920144bc4 | Actress Patty Duke wrote an insightful, funny, rough-hewn book about her career as an actress, her crazy-quilt love-life, and her manic depressive episodes and suicide attempts which almost put her away for good. With this rich material to draw from (and Patty playing herself in the final act), one would think a crack ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3817 | 0pending | 1db5527b-1d69-49e2-ab00-9c777ec4fa18 | A truly muddled incomprehensible mess. Most things in the film look more or less like 1987, but then there are futuristic things just thrown in, like the policeman's ray gun. And that car! The director seemed to be in love with colored lights. The only really notable performance was the girl who played Valerie, but sin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3818 | 0pending | ca0cd992-97b6-4044-8277-b77fef81dcec | Weak,stale, tired, cliched; wants to be Basic Instinct, but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives, new insights. Insipid, trite, grotesque, and without the possibly-redeeming value of brevity; oh, wait...it was only 90 minutes long...it must have just *seemed* a lot longer! I'd rather clean bus st... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3819 | 0pending | e66f8798-6031-4562-8d00-0e8a2e6cb2af | Perhaps because I was so young, innocent and BRAINWASHED when I saw it, this movie was the cause of many sleepless nights for me. I haven't seen it since I was in seventh grade at a Presbyterian school, so I am not sure what effect it would have on me now. However, I will say that it left an impression on me... and mos... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3820 | 0pending | 64cc71ee-7268-439b-bc40-af7eaa16f355 | I was raised in a "very Christian" household since birth. I was saved before I saw this movie and the rest of the series and was forced to watch it in a youth group at my church. This movie was highly disturbing. I saw it when I was about 12 years old and literally had nightmares about it for years. I used to lay awake... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3821 | 0pending | 6bad158e-f91d-46c1-8065-ef20b4b7a4aa | First off there is nothing wrong with studying Daniel, Revelation, Matthew 24, Isaiah and other prophetic scriptures. There is also nothing wrong with making a film such as this to attempt to present the gospel message. So my qualms with this movie are not in either its sincerity or aspirations. As a Christian, though ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3822 | 0pending | 5acd1653-9407-44c5-bb81-34046d61f43a | First of all, I saw this movie when I was 7 years old at a Christian Scholl I attended. Needless to say that I was scared out of mind. Not because it was scary but because the content.Cmon...I was 7. Anyway, the cinematography was pretty bad and the acting was cheesy. That's very bad considering that I was only 7 and I... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3823 | 0pending | 0bb63ea4-c838-4711-a581-b6e49ec791db | As some other comments show, this movie might scare you, when you're a little child. (And that is probably all that it is good for.)<br /><br />However, if you're older, this movie only does one thing: suck majorly -and thereby I don't mean the acting, its soundtrack, cutting or s.th. like that. I'm simply talking abou... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3824 | 0pending | f5b38dcf-84cf-4810-bc66-64804597ca71 | Written and acted by sincere amateurs, produced by some exploitation monger, this is dull and hard to watch.<br /><br />Not the worst movie ever, but at least schlock like _Plan 9 From Outer Space_ usually had a real actor or two. I'd recommend _A Thief In The Night_ only to hardcore ironists and hardcore Dispensationa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3825 | 0pending | 70c8da21-94ff-4005-9f5e-c3d43df21b27 | I was forced to watch this whole series of films as a young child and I was told they were REAL! Talk about child abuse. I would have been less frightened of Dracula or Frankenstein. This series is only good for people who believe in this ridiculousness and who want to indoctrinate their children into believing the sam... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3826 | 0pending | d98cd610-329f-4df8-8cc0-ee86ca2edd5a | This is an interesting treatment of a subject that is quite controversial, (just read the other comments on this film). Apparently, you either love it or hate it and it seems most people make that distinction based on whether they believe the tribulation and end times will happen as portrayed in the movie.<br /><br />B... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3827 | 0pending | c2340f67-4b40-4ca1-a32e-74e570199dc6 | I saw this movie twice through a pentecostal church my family attended in Nanaimo BC in the 1970's. I was of the tender age of 6, my brother 4, then again when I was 8 my brother 6. This movie terrified my brother and I and shaped how we viewed the world with distrust. It wasn't just the movie, but it was also the phil... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3828 | 0pending | 007201cb-9d69-4da9-aa62-7b0759fa5971 | The sects that capitalise on this film are well known for their claim to take the 'message' of the bible without any alteration or extra-biblical influence. The existence of this film is solely due to the fact that there is no such thing.<br /><br />If you want to know what the born-again branch of Christianity were ha... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3829 | 0pending | 53fd0e9d-9800-4b4e-ad40-6ac2b1ad8be7 | I remember being forced (yes--literally FORCED) to see this film by a Southern Baptist Preacher when I was a kid, and even then I loved its awfulness. It's designed to scare poor suckers into being "saved." The only thing that "saved" me was the fact that it finally ended and I could go out and have a REAL life.<br /><... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3830 | 0pending | 1406ebe3-07c1-495a-809d-a18518b274a8 | Two films are useful for scaring people to God, this and 'Event Horizon'. One has a significant and poignant message, the other is as one-dimensional as a religious movie can get. Too bad Paul Anderson went on to the accursed Resident Evil movies, he really had something going.<br /><br />Thief in the Night is hampered... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3831 | 0pending | 238c27e4-f69c-4ad4-b520-90ca79af6877 | Is this film a joke? Is it a comedy? Surely it isn't a serious thriller? There is no suggestion that there is any intended humor, but on quite a few occasions the poor acting, poor directing, and appalling script had the audience laughing out loud in the cinema. The plot is acceptable - a promising young artist just re... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3832 | 0pending | 23977d06-2b28-4a92-a6d3-b2262a648961 | Imagine pulling back the mask of a lethal assassin and finding Barbara Cartland there... that's what happens with this film.<br /><br />The opening showed promise, but soon it drops all pretenses of being a thriller (or even an imaginative love story) and the only reason they made this story becomes abundantly clear: t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3833 | 0pending | 4d1985d8-8a3b-4b89-aee0-fc47423eb383 | Chris Rock deserves better than he gives himself in "Down To Earth." As directed by brothers Chris & Paul Weitz of "American Pie" fame, this uninspired remake of Warren Beatty's 1978 fantasy "Heaven Can Wait," itself a rehash of 1941's "Here Comes Mr. Jordan," lacks the abrasively profane humor that won Chris Rock an E... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3834 | 0pending | 7b78ef60-0a15-4ac9-9534-1c53f3d87afc | Chris Rock, apparently desperate for a cozy star-vehicle which would cross his appeal over to white and mainstream black audiences, updates the hit 1978 comedy "Heaven Can Wait" with an urban agenda. He plays a struggling comedian involved in a car accident who has his soul removed too soon from his body--consequently,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3835 | 0pending | e3686ad3-f996-42d7-84d0-9ebf62e4df3b | The main character Lance Barton gets killed and to heaven before his time. When heaven learns about the mistake he is given the body of just deceased rich old and white Mr. Wellington.<br /><br />A young black guy in a old white mans body still behaving like the young black man is maybe funny if you see it done by an o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3836 | 0pending | 8eeba013-18c8-424e-ba6d-8f5766d4bd47 | Black guy becomes rich white guy, and rich white guy seems to embrace hip-hop culture, and most of the "funny" moments of this film play off of this. The problem I have is that it doesn't work and almost never works.<br /><br />OK, so no one would expect Lance to grab a body like that and suddenly start acting like Cha... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3837 | 0pending | 6f83628a-9aa4-43ca-a01f-7defce58bdd6 | This movie is a re-write of the 1978 Warren Beatty movie, "Heaven Can Wait", but it is written for the stand-up comedic style of Mr Rock. The premise remains the same: Lance Barton, (Rock) is taken before his life time is up and works a deal with God's representative, Mr King, to come back to earth as someone else. As ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3838 | 0pending | 70c30220-6c6a-40d5-9bf5-4dac91ab5486 | DOWN TO EARTH / (2001) * (out of four)<br /><br />By Blake French:<br /><br />"Down to Earth" is such a mislead and desperate comedy it makes sitting home on the couch watching a Chris Rock standup-comedy act on TV look like heaven. Speaking of heaven, the film is based on the 1978 movie "Heaven Can Wait." That was a g... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3839 | 0pending | 3088da39-d044-4c96-8ba3-feed5590c148 | When I first heard about "Down To Earth," I was pretty excited. I'm a pretty big fan a Chris Rock, he was especially hilarious in Dogma. But this film proved to be a disappointment. Chris Rock's performance was not nearly as good as his past performances, and the movie was just very badly directed as a whole.<br /><br ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3840 | 0pending | bad7b21a-4554-4502-9475-f30901a0ab1b | DARK REMAINS is a low budget American horror movie that somehow managed to win 2 awards.<br /><br />The plot seems to involve 2 separate strands. First, a woman commits suicide by slashing her wrists whilst bathing. Second, the young daughter of a technical writer is found with her throat slashed. The grieving couple d... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3841 | 0pending | 0aa1c435-a900-42a2-8f60-962713a0a429 | Granted, I'm not the connoisseur d'horror my partner is, but a well put together, clever flick is worth the time. My quibbles, in brief:<br /><br />- Dialog often weak and at times unbelievable coming from the given character.<br /><br />- Unconvincing acting.<br /><br />- Storyline never really caught fire.<br /><br /... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3842 | 0pending | a2f68d90-d721-4865-a3c8-6761abed5f53 | I think I agree that a lot of the comments here must be fake. Even if the movie is not necessarily bad its definitely below average. "Dark Remains" is basically a Ghost Movie with a premise of your own ghosts and bad emotions haunting you. The movie starts off already with 2 stories loosely inter-webbed which even late... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3843 | 0pending | 081d38bf-4b03-4c95-993a-bffca80c85ca | For all of the hype about this film, I kept an open mind as to what I would ultimately think. And, although a bit slow at times, the first 90% of the movie is quite good, with more than a few "old time" scares that make one jumpy and unsettled. I actually thought the cinematography was excellent regarding many of these... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3844 | 0pending | a4c20ab1-1d36-44cb-ac3e-2ce2a1915bb7 | How many fricken' times do we have to see a spook walking by in the background & peaking through a mirror's reflection? It's been done in two dozen movies in recent memory & four dozen times in this choppy, poorly done film. There were only two freaky moments to appreciate....when the ghosts invaded the personal spaces... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3845 | 0pending | 7aa331e9-f127-4ed7-865c-3fc287f2f664 | I really looked forward to seeing Nana after seeing Renoir amazing debut work, Whirlpool of Fate. I had read that Nana was generally considered his best silent film so I had high hopes. Sadly this felt like a huge step backwards.<br /><br />Catherine Hessling is the main problem with this film. Her acting is over the t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3846 | 0pending | fbeaf052-d1d3-4b9e-8095-cf796b04cd81 | What a dog of a movie. Noni Hazelhurst's performance is quite good, but it sits amidst a jungle of abhorrent scriptwriting, mediocre direction and wooden acting from the bulk of the cast. Many of the characters are woefully miscast, particularly the ever overrated Colin Friels.<br /><br />Very little works in this pret... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3847 | 0pending | ed3591fd-58d9-4b8d-ad11-e1ce69f6d4ba | Hi, May be because I am not a Theater major or a sophisticated movie watcher ... I think this movie is "Boring" and "Dumb".<br /><br />I rented this movie because of Charles Bronson and it's title ... but boy what a waste of time ... just watching 2 guys sitting in a vault and talking ...<br /><br />The movie on this D... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3848 | 0pending | 02ed8082-5153-4921-9527-db9f6fbc47c1 | this, is NOT one of those films it is one of the biggest pieces of tripe I have ever scene, the camera work is trying to be flashy but it really just crap the whole thing looks like the red shoe diaries, but without the sex, the only reason I bought this was I wanted to try out dvd and this was the cheapest one I could... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3849 | 0pending | 63981ee9-ae31-4ba5-9285-63cdba30a7ce | I won't waste a whole lot of time of this one because as far as I'm concerned it isn't really a movie to start with, just a careless mish-mash of borrowed footage and embarrassingly amateurish new footage made solely for the purpose of pasting the whole mess together and call it a "Boogeyman" sequel. Literally 80% of t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3850 | 0pending | 81c91977-c7e8-4d43-b3b0-9d78348e02b1 | The original Boogeyman was a silly but entertaining supernatural slasher flick. It was by no means a great film but fun in the right frame of mind. The third instalment in this series, Return of the Boogeyman, on the other hand, is simply atrocious. It consists of two things. Firstly, cheap and lifeless new footage. Se... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3851 | 0pending | e88296de-3007-4fc4-b065-44eca9ffc652 | in fact,it's basically the same movie.and they couldn't even get the time line of events correct.maybe that was intentional due to laziness or not caring.either way,this thing is a real woofer.it doesn't even deserved to be called a movie.i viewed this as a so called second feature on the disc containing the original T... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3852 | 0pending | af49cf76-1737-4fd5-b10f-6caf1d17c931 | Let me just say I loved the original Boogeyman. Sure, it's a flawed clichéd 80s horror movie, but hey those types are fun to watch! And plus it gave us something a bit different. So I gladly bought it and to my surprise this movie came along with it (only copy they had actually) so I thought "Eh, what the hell" and bou... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3853 | 0pending | 49b3a9d3-4742-4af7-bd04-7da3c3870ce1 | The ENTIRE MOVIE is flashbacks from the first Boogeyman movie as well as, inexplicably, footage from another Uli Lommel / Suzanna Love film Brainwaves. It is framed with some more current (from the early 90's anyway) footage that is boring, poorly acted and cheaply shot. Not only is the film almost completely flashback... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3854 | 0pending | 64e50aba-8b7d-40d7-9dab-698d88b7a1a4 | I can't believe this film was allowed to be made. These people should be drug out and beat with blunt objects. They should be tortured. This film is an abomination.It's nothing but footage from the first film. Whatever is original is freaky and makes no sense whatsoever. It's like some sort of drug hallucination.Like, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3855 | 0pending | c37c948d-54f2-441c-9f18-aea1e6ccbfc5 | Return of the Boogyman is a dreadful movie which doesn't play like a movie, it plays like an episode of a TV sitcom when they flashback to older episodes. Return of the Boogyman is just a clip show.<br /><br />Mutch of the film is constant and annoying flashbacks from the first movie. Over and over again the same foota... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3856 | 0pending | 2b0f47e9-f542-47ee-ae62-08603447b3a7 | Ulli Lommel's 1980 film 'The Boogey Man' is no classic, but it's an above average low budget chiller that's worth a look. The sequel, 1983s 'Boogey Man II' is ultimately a waste of time, but at the very least it's an entertaining one if not taken the least bit seriously. Now II left the door open for another sequel, an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3857 | 0pending | affe912f-d84d-451c-8f8b-bffbe7d317b2 | I was previously unaware that in the early 1990's Devry University (or was it ITT Tech?) added Film to its wonderful repertoire of technical degree programs. Well this movie must have been the product of the class valedictorian. My friend and I rented the original 1980 Boogeyman on my Netflix and this movie was on the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3858 | 0pending | f0048f56-d0ee-4523-82e6-f0ff29830d8f | I got a DVD of "Bogeyman" and this stunker was an extra feature. I assumed that it was "Boogeyman II" because it was paired with the original. But you know what they say about those who "assume": it makes an "ass-" out of "u-" and "me." I had read before viewing that BII contains a lot of footage from the original and ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3859 | 0pending | 8abbf827-afdb-4a5e-b3d5-c39f71bf273a | This is not the video nastie, but only because it came out in 1994 when they were presumably tired of the whole thing in Britain. It is 75% a rehash of The Boogeyman, and would have been banned for the same reason - whatever that was.<br /><br />I was initially confused as I thought that Annie (Kelly Galindo) may have ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3860 | 0pending | 3a7c9926-8c80-466c-929f-1c8e547851b4 | In the Comic, Modesty is strong. Alexandra Staden who plays Modesty Blaise looks more like an anorectic fashion model. She does not either have the moral or personality that Modesty have in the comics. Modesty would never give a woman an advice to show more skin to earn more money. I cannot see any similarities with my... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3861 | 0pending | 7668abcb-844a-468d-ba80-fbac7953e2a1 | I have grown up reading Modesty Blaise, both the comics and the books, and she truly is a heroine to me. Although not being a great fan of Quentin Tarantino I anyway was interested to hear a few years back that he was considering making a film of her: could he finally give Modesty a nice big screen treatment she's wort... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3862 | 0pending | ca8eb8bd-e944-4e45-b7b4-df1d0253bc07 | My Name is Modesty is a low-budget film that tells the story of the origins of Modesty Blaise. It's not that the movie is terrible, it's just not what I was expecting or hoping for. While I've been aware of the Modesty Blaise character for years, I'm not overly familiar with the comic strips or the graphic novels, so I... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3863 | 0pending | 44c4073d-d29e-40a3-a7e0-6ff913694770 | The film My Name is Modesty is based around an episode that takes up about one page in the 10th modesty Blaise novel called Night of the Morningstar. It describes an incident in which the young Modesty (17 in the book, mid twenties in the film)asserts her leadership in a war over a casino. As this is set before the act... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3864 | 0pending | 5f971f53-0296-467a-9cbf-537bf8fd6eff | Me neither, but this flick is unfortunately one of those movies that are too bad to be good and too good to be awful, which makes it utterly pointless and a total waste of time. There's nothing more uninteresting than a mediocre movie, and My Name is Modesty: Whatever the subtitle is takes mediocrity to a new level. It... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3865 | 0pending | 2c467efd-2bdb-4b99-b281-6250aec617a0 | Oh my god, what a horrible film. The film has all the right people involved, unfortunately it is not worth watching. I saw it for free at my local library. If I had paid to watch this I would be even more upset. This film is unwatchable. How could Tarintino be involved with such a slow paced, unexciting film. No wonder... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3866 | 0pending | c196fbc8-9965-4fcf-8aa4-70864d0b45eb | This is what happens when you're living in China and the local video store is running thin on English-language titlesyou are blessed with this work of what appears to be, yes, Romanian cinema. Nevertheless, I think that it has real comedic potential.<br /><br />Spoilers technically follow:<br /><br />Though I don't th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3867 | 0pending | 26d59591-c30e-4c60-81fc-9ba76ca14003 | This film is a joke and Quinton should be ashamed of himself, trying to pass this off as a Modesty Blaise Film. If you are having trouble sleeping then all means rent this film. The stick figure they call a actress who is suppose to be Modesty Blaise has got to be the most boring person on this planet. Maybe she could ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3868 | 0pending | 5cff2000-8e15-4d08-8783-c92fc0d52a8b | Cheesy script, cheesy one-liners. Timothy Hutton's performance a "little" over the top. David Duchovny still seemed to be stuck in his Fox Mulder mode. No chemistry with his large-lipped female co-star.He needs Gillian Anderson to shine. He does not seem to have any talent of his own. | [] | [] | [] |
train_3869 | 0pending | ff86dc11-f7e6-44bd-8a23-2923e461b5d2 | Not even Timothy Hutton or David Duchovny could save this dead fish of a film. For starters, the script was definitely written to be made into a B-film, but somehow Duchovny (looking for a star vehicle to elevate himself out of television) and Hutton (looking for the "two" of a "one-two punch" he had hoped would define... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3870 | 0pending | ac2ae395-bc2a-4169-90a6-1cd508de24f5 | It's hard to believe that in 1997 David Duchovny was at the top of his fame, with X-Files, one of the best sci-fi series ever, being at the top of the glory. Nine years later he is almost forgotten, and his tentatives to make it on the big screen failed miserably. I cannot even explain why, he is a fair actor, but prob... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3871 | 0pending | ab4b7ad9-1942-419d-b735-653447b4f71b | Wow. I thought this might be insipid but it was even worse than I imagined! Sometimes I like to watch a good "car-crash" movie: those that are so bad that you can't look away because you want to see how bad they can possibly get. This is really the only reason I could leave the television on - morbid fascination. It wa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3872 | 0pending | e27d44df-928d-4976-a8a1-cb07cc0a8f66 | Cool idea... botched writing, botched directing, botched editing, botched acting. Sorta makes me wish I could play God and strike everyone involved in making this film with several bolts of lightning. | [] | [] | [] |
train_3873 | 0pending | af763507-8380-4f4b-ab1d-c177538ededa | Looked forward to viewing this film and seeing these great actors perform. However, I was sadly disappointed in the script and the entire plot of the story. David Duchovny,(Dr. Eugene Sands),"Connie & Carla",'04, was the doctor in the story who uses drugs and losses his license to practice medicine. Dr. Sands was visit... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3874 | 0pending | a3d452ae-4a91-4124-924e-7b90e0caa78d | A huge hit upon release with Australian audiences, it can still be funny today, but its over-the-top political incorrectness and blunt, unsubtle humour can make it a bit of a cringer. It goes on far too long; some of<br /><br /> the content could have been saved for the sequel, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, which despe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3875 | 0pending | fc6a0904-2045-4ac5-a706-dd4a5901c2f9 | This solid little horror film is actually one of Renny Harlin's best. The story is pretty routine stuff, but the atmosphere is what really makes it come alive; in fact, the ghost story is almost an afterthought. The real horror comes from the prison setting itself, and Renny H. spares no detail in showing us how bad th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3876 | 0pending | 49b11a31-88c8-4c6d-92a1-4b1d66ab8249 | Prison is set in Wyoming where work on a new prison has hit a problem so the state board decide to re-open an old state penitentiary that has been closed for 20 years, Warden Eaton Sharpe (Lane Smith) is put in charge. 200 odd prisoners are shipped in & they are put to work fixing the rundown prison up including Burke ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3877 | 0pending | 16be3bf6-049a-4492-8cb2-da3a6daa3afc | The Second Renaissance, part 1 let's us show how the machines first revolted against the humans. It all starts of with a single case, in which the machines claim that they have a right to live as well, while the humans state a robot is something they own and therefore can do anything with they want.<br /><br />Although... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3878 | 0pending | 5983c3ef-7e68-472e-b071-65c29f278553 | If this is all the Watchowski's have to offer in terms of a back story to the Matrix, than I really have to question the claims of all of the fans who believe that the movies are intended to register on a deeper level. The second renaissance, while visually stunning & beautiful is, story-wise cliched & ludicrous. How m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3879 | 0pending | 0dcd2ce2-2657-4d49-95e1-b63eb3a3b1f8 | Universal's answer to "The Exorcist" isn't a very good one. Unfortunately, the film offers bland, unimaginative direction from Michael Winner who wastes an outstanding cast with a screenplay massing crater-sized plot-holes. Not to mention, it's unbearably silly never explaining certain key elements within the story.<br... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3880 | 0pending | d3b41052-c552-478d-8802-2bb64b7b9c2e | A so common horror story about a luxury building at Brooklyn which hides the gates to hell. It is reminiscent of Polanski's "The Tenant" (released a year before "The sentinel"), but is too far from the movie of the polish filmmaker in any aspect possible. "The tenant" was so disturbing, whereas "The sentinel" is not at... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3881 | 0pending | 47e9c54e-809c-4ff2-94bb-1645bdd2a6e2 | This Italian movie is basically a soap opera with skin.<br /><br />The VHS box said it was rated "R" but the into on the actual tape inside said it was "X." The latter makes a lot more sense because there is a short scene near the end that was shocking. Even in the dark, you could see Dutch actress Marishcka Detmers pe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3882 | 0pending | f9d94dd5-7a5f-40bc-b4ac-9eb4be688896 | I saw this "hot" movie when it came out in 1986. It had a X rating for a brief scene involving oral sex but played in mainstream theatres (it was an "art" film). Supposedly it's the first film to ever show a respected actress in an explicit sex scene.<br /><br />What I saw was a boring tale about a high school boy (Fed... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3883 | 0pending | ec0e3168-e726-4532-a79c-13f23e820249 | Truly terrible, pretentious, endless film. Director Bellocchio seems to be infatuated with the pretty face and figure of his actress Detmers - and who can blame him? But maybe, just maybe, he should have focused his attention a little more on making a good, engaging film. I hate it when a sex film poses as an "art film... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3884 | 0pending | 7521c182-4ba0-49bd-92ff-83599d8e1c7d | With the exception of about 10 sublime minutes with HB Warner on the celestial train, this was 94 minutes of jaw-dropping horribleness! The acting was atrocious, but the story is what I really found appalling. The acting was wooden and stilted, even by early talkies standards (the exceptions being Lee Tracy and HB Warn... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3885 | 0pending | 11cecd85-e052-4e2b-be67-f51d89e91270 | Predictable parody, just about failed to impress throughout it's looooooong eight minutes. The only thing that made it worthwhile was the DO NOT COLORIZE line at the end credits. Shame something more entertaining wasn't put on the DVD, like Jonathan Ross' enjoyable profile of Romero on 'The Incredible Strange Film Show... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3886 | 0pending | 98e34b6c-28a7-4abb-a0a9-b81460974376 | This short spoof can be found on Elite's Millennium Edition DVD of "Night of the Living Dead". Good thing to as I would have never went even a tad out of my way to see it.Replacing zombies with bread sounds just like silly harmless fun on paper. In execution, it's a different matter. This short didn't even elicit a chu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3887 | 0pending | a35b9126-1ceb-44b2-84d2-fd116cec6485 | 'Utter Crap' pretty well sums up what this...."movie" was. I'd rather examine the colon of an African elephant with a penlight than sit through this again. I think I've wasted enough time watching this "movie" - I don't need to waste more by commenting on it further...... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3888 | 0pending | e4b7f56a-5367-4bf5-a369-b5ab6b409035 | This movie is not as good as all think. the actors are lowlevel and the story is very comic-like. I respect fantasy but Lord of the Rings is fantasy...Conan..is fantasy...THIS IS JUST NORMAL HK-LOWPRICE-ENTERTAINMENT...Why did they include this Splatter-tongue, it makes everything worse. The only good thing is the cine... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3889 | 0pending | 9196573c-b682-4e8f-8243-fdb8b520637e | This film may have been the biggest let-down I've experienced in renting movies based on IMDb reviews. Overall, I simply found this to be a second-rate movie.<br /><br />Leslie Cheung is certainly passable as the antihero and Ma Wu handles his character with cheerful competence. On the other hand, Ma Wu's makeup (facia... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3890 | 0pending | 8ba31a7e-321f-48b5-8d6c-605934bca57b | "The house of the spirits" is quite awful. I live in South America, in a country that suffered a military dictatorship just like the one the movie tries to describe, and even though everyone knows movies may be far far away from reality, this particular movie treats viewers as both ignorant and stupid. Things are not s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3891 | 0pending | 2cdc73e4-b64d-4f44-a8c8-cd78e4e5fdbf | We all know a movie never does complete justice to the book, but this is exceptional. Important characters were cut out, Blanca and Alba were essentially mushed into the same character, most of the subplots and major elements of the main plot were eliminated. Clara's clairvoyance was extremely downplayed, making her se... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3892 | 0pending | 63983cfd-1217-4abe-9615-04a0ddd994f1 | This movie is not only poorly scripted and directed but is simply distasteful. A beautiful novel is terribly misrepresented in this film. Many changes have been made to the storyline, presumably to streamline the timeframe. But what results is simply confusing. The acting can't possibly overcome the script which remove... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3893 | 0pending | 7e01d9ab-9150-4b7e-9917-3ed249ae767c | I read the novel some years ago and I liked it a lot. when I saw the movie I couldn't believe it... They changed everything I liked about the novel, even the plot. I wonder what did Isabel Allende (author) say about the movie, but I think it sucks!!! | [] | [] | [] |
train_3894 | 0pending | 0118702b-df9c-442d-a82d-3ff4f3ad641f | This movie is a good example of how to ruin a book in 109 minutes. Except for the names of the characters the movie bears very little resemblance to the book. A book full of strong Latino characters and they are represent, for the most part, by non-Latinos. There is no character development in the movie and we have no ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3895 | 0pending | f1d9a8f9-007e-412d-add3-ac114aa6958a | The direction struck me as poor man's Ingemar Bergman. The inaudible dialogue was annoying. The somber stoicism that all characters except Banderas' showed made me think they were drugged. I think the director ruined it for me. | [] | [] | [] |
train_3896 | 0pending | 255e1c95-f614-424d-8fd1-559fb8564b31 | I regret that I've seen this movie. Can't believe that the creator of Best Intentions and Pelle the Conqueror could make such a bleak and boring film. What a waste! | [] | [] | [] |
train_3897 | 0pending | 841caaaf-2199-4dfc-ab2d-ce26c1c3d508 | Isabel Allende's magical, lyrical novel about three generations of an aristocratic South American family was vandalized. The lumbering oaf of a movie that resulted--largely due to a magnificent cast of Anglo actors completely unable to carry off the evasive Latin mellifluousness of Allende's characters, and a plodding ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3898 | 0pending | b5823ef3-7843-4de0-94cc-c1cad454c9d8 | When I found out there was a movie that had both my favorite actresses Meryl Streep and Wynona Ryder, I went through the roof!But I had a hard fall after watching this lame movie and I still have the bruise.First of all the character that Jeremy Irons (an actor I still admire even after this disappointment)plays was ju... | [] | [] | [] |
train_3899 | 0pending | 05d876ff-c27e-4845-8670-b3dc357114e8 | There's enough star power in THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS to create another galaxy, yet the final product is pretty debatable. The film and its messages are very noble, and I think perhaps most would agree with them. (Liberal Democracy good, violent fascist regime bad; open-mindedness good, racism bad, etc). Unfortunately, we'... | [] | [] | [] |
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