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train_4000 | 0pending | e6a1eb01-c868-411a-ae06-0943bc7bb3ed | There is one really good scene in Faat Kine. The title character gets in an argument with another woman and after being threatened, Faat Kine sprays her in the face. The scene works because the act is so unexpected, bizarre, and rather funny at the same time. In that one instance, writer/director Ousmane Sembene gives ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4001 | 0pending | 0c8e2083-b04b-40f2-9a2d-c84688ff5a22 | Few films have left me with such a feeling of unease, and this is not a compliment. Since I saw it in a theater (How it ended there I can only wonder) I was subjected to 90 mn of hateful, derivative garbage, the main impression being a bit like this other sick-o movie "Don't answer the phone" - but worse. The nastiness... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4002 | 0pending | 05739842-7bd2-477a-8508-2e4912315f58 | While not quite as monstrously preposterous as later works, this slow-moving, repetitive giallo offers some nice touches in the first half, but grows more and more lethargic and silly as it stumbles to its lame denouement.<br /><br />To be sure, the actors are above average - considering this is an Argento movie - and ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4003 | 0pending | 71ed3fef-0d21-4efd-88fa-dd30be411ec1 | THE CAT O'NINE TAILS (Il Gatto a Nove Code) <br /><br />Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 (Cromoscope)<br /><br />Sound format: Mono<br /><br />(35mm and 70mm release prints)<br /><br />A blind ex-journalist (Karl Malden) overhears a blackmail plot outside a genetics research laboratory and later teams up with a fellow reporter (Ja... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4004 | 0pending | cfe74b0b-e9fc-448d-b8ee-613c9d45f901 | Rarely has such an amazing cast been wasted so badly. Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Illeana Douglas, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, and John Turturro, all jumped on board, only to be torpedoed by a script that seems like nothing more than a Hollywood in joke. Attaching Martin Scorsese's name to this... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4005 | 0pending | f1b6b1b6-d49a-44bc-820c-d240d858e83d | From the start, you know how this movie will end. It's so full of clichés your typical NRA member will not even like this movie. I give it 2 out of 10, only because of the acting of William Benton. I can't believe people voted 6+ for this movie. It's so biased towards a 'certain point of view' (once a thief...). People... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4006 | 0pending | 84f4d4c8-db71-4019-ba7c-794e687d6668 | This is an extremely boring film. If you grew up during the Vietnam Was, as I did, then you've seen and heard all of the film footage and arguments here a hundred times by now. But what really makes this film boring is the narration by director Carlton Sherwood. The majority of the film is shot with Sherwood talking di... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4007 | 0pending | 83294e61-2c07-4413-9139-b3cce9630046 | The British Public School system did not evolve solely with the idea of educating the upper classes despite that popular and widespread misconception.It was designed to produce administrators and governors,civil servants and military men to run the British Colonies.These people were almost entirely recruited from the m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4008 | 0pending | 3f29b5f0-c501-42be-bca9-7ff80333c5a0 | I've read reviews that apparently you have to have been a student in a very strict, British school in the 1960's to understand this. Maybe that's true, if so, then this movie is outdated.<br /><br />*************SPOILER ALERT**************************************** The ending makes about as much sense as all the kids w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4009 | 0pending | a627b4bf-f73b-4924-8856-24707bee43a3 | Ah, the spirit of '68. The streets of Paris were running wild with rebellion, the hippies were high on the spirit of love. How was Britain marking this age of radicalism and revolution? Erm, by the looks of it, dear Old Blighty was focusing on making films about boys in boarding schools. If... contains the evil establi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4010 | 0pending | 27e1529f-225d-4314-b990-657a6472d936 | if.... is the cinematic equivalent of Sgt. Pepper's: Revered by baby boomers as the pinnacle of creation, and viewed as rather a silly bit of business by preceding and subsequent generations. Now that the children of the middle classes the world over are seemingly super human due to the internet, and view the prospect ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4011 | 0pending | bf52f640-96ca-4525-bad0-cc20316074e5 | I just saw "If
" I can remember the advertisements for the movie from 1968, so I was interested in finally seeing it. It may be the perspective of an American who never went to a British public school and misses some of the social references, but I thought the movie was awful. For one thing, as others have pointed out,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4012 | 0pending | f5f2ee94-5f21-44f1-8217-928b643ca9c9 | Lindsay Anderson was very much a European film maker , whereas the likes of David Lean , Ridley Scott and Alan Parker make spectacular movies involving visuel scope Anderson`s movie are more about social commentary and subtext , so much so that the message often ends up taking over the entire film whose primary functio... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4013 | 0pending | 52738410-d308-43db-afac-897f2e4b87cd | That is quite an outdated movie which aims to showcase the youth's yearning for freedom in some dehumanizing British school. Oh yes it's like in the army, you learn to obey and do what you're asked to. Yes the young dream of something else but it breaks their dreams and sweeps away their optimism on the threshold of li... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4014 | 0pending | e8bd40ee-d741-4fa5-b640-ee78a79a830c | I didn't like this Bill Murray vehicle when it was originally released in the 80s, so I tried watching it again to see if my distaste for this film was down to my movie-going tastes in the 80s or was it that "Stripes" is simply a bad movie. Well, the verdict is in and "Stripes" is a bad movie.<br /><br />Now, "Stripes"... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4015 | 0pending | aad897e0-a174-40a7-ad74-a207f223fe49 | Possibly not, but it is awful. Even the fantastic cast cant save it. OK, I admit it started off quite funny but it seemed to plummet downhill as soon as they jumped those girls in the Generals house. Bill Murray turned from being a quick witted, humorous guy into an arsehole who was shouting things at people in the str... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4016 | 0pending | e0b74eed-e503-44de-9820-553242576e07 | *****WARNING, MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS WHICH WILL BE MORE ENTERTAINING THAN THIS TRIPE.**** <br /><br />Heres some good advise to anyone living in the U.K. Whenever Channel 5 has an old 80's comedy on late at night, read a book instead. I am currently in the process of recovering from a seizure, due to reading some of the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4017 | 0pending | 5957a47c-f7f3-46d7-be60-65d8d3664db5 | What an insult to the SA film industry! I have seen better SA films. The comments I read about Hijack Stories,by saying it is worthy of a ten out of ten is quite scary. A movie's rating should not depend on.., "OH, A MOVIE FROM A DEVELOPING COUNTRY. LETS BOOST THEIR INDUSTRY BY SAYING NICE THINGS ABOUT THEIR WORK, EVEN... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4018 | 0pending | 7db4518f-b831-4000-97f7-c37aa74ad63a | Set in South Africa, a young black guy tries to land a part in a 'gangsta' movie. But with no knowledge of street life, he's told to find out what that life is really like or he won't get the part. He manages to work his way into a gang led by an old friend of his from school and his chances of appearing in the film de... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4019 | 0pending | 8bc15888-d42f-47f7-aa09-74e482eab729 | From a plot and movement standpoint, this movie was terrible. I found myself looking at the clock in theater hoping it would end and relieved after 80 long minutes that it mercifully did. Basically, five characters appear in the movie, A Son & Father, son's girl friend, and two male characters of the son's age who appe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4020 | 0pending | 180bf922-677a-4edc-a2eb-d2757a37c172 | The film begins with promise, but lingers too long in a sepia world of distance and alienation. We are left hanging, but with nothing much else save languid shots of grave and pensive male faces to savour. Certainly no rope up the wall to help us climb over. It's a shame, because the concept is not without merit.<br />... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4021 | 0pending | 41643d15-ff10-48e8-98b9-755d9f620eff | This film is beautiful to look at, but is like watching really bad experimental theater. The plot (if there was one) doesn't make any sense. But it is very "artistic". Lots of shots of half-dressed actors wrestling and looking deep into each other's eyes. Lots of arty shots through windows and with people out of frame.... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4022 | 0pending | 2d24a6f3-7642-4387-9f47-17d20c62f923 | Like wearing a hair shirt. Positively, absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt one of the worst movies ever. Pure torture. Zero stars out of ten. One long, tedious, labored, pretentious, self-conscious, theatrical, and leadenly artsy scene after another. Intended to be dreamlike and impressionistic, the soul bared, it ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4023 | 0pending | b2243a5c-d881-40c4-9b26-83226d546254 | I consider myself to be a bit of a snob when it comes to everything and although the cinematic experience is more suited to explosions than high drama, I can be very stuck up about films, too.<br /><br />Not all art films, however, are better than King Kong. I quite possibly would give Kong two stars, double this film'... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4024 | 0pending | b2a19359-5569-455c-9fb0-bcab7735f427 | There are two kinds of characters on THE SHIELD: people who try to do the best they can and do the right thing, and people who relentlessly pursue their own self interest and commit every mortal sin they can while telling themselves and everyone else that they are heroes, and everyone's only hope. More than any other s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4025 | 0pending | baf25833-4188-41c9-80f1-9968e505eb5a | To sat how awful The Shield is, you'd have to write pages and pages, so suffice it to say that it is a monument to bad directing.<br /><br />"When Directors Go Awry" should have been the title of this production. Indeed, directors are supposed to infuse their work with a sense of visual style and story-telling that pro... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4026 | 0pending | f35ca4ea-fd4d-4258-8cf2-8377ffe94148 | I have no idea what the producers of The Shield were trying to do, but the result speaks for itself: The Shield is practically unwatchable.<br /><br />Supposedly the performances on The Shield are great...<br /><br />In reality, the show is so badly put together that you can't even really see the performances. For inst... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4027 | 0pending | e36144d5-4e8f-4ff5-8c08-5bcda90d3909 | Almost from the word go this film is poor and lacking conviction but then again most people would struggle to show commitment to a script as uninspiring as this. The dialogue really does not flow and sometimes as in this case more is less (or should have been). This is also backed-up by odd scenes (e.g. the Cemetry slo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4028 | 0pending | 59ea1c6c-515b-46f0-abe3-7d3a2dc0d99e | I hate to be the one to rain on a parade (even a small one like this) but from the very first scene, you could tell this film was going to be absolute shite. Its a shame really, as I quite like Martin Freeman and Danny dyer. I was intrigued as to how they would mix in a film together, but to my dismay, they did not eve... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4029 | 0pending | 00e22fa4-b5b5-48d0-a6b8-fb7ceac159e6 | Oh dear. good cast, but to write and direct is an art and to write wit and direct wit is a bit of a task. Even doing good comedy you have to get the timing and moment right. Im not putting it all down there were parts where i laughed loud but that was at very few times. The main focus to me was on the fast free flowing... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4030 | 0pending | ddcdc4b5-572b-4c7f-b0e3-0f7e852f751a | It pains me to write such a scathing review but by not doing so I'm simply encouraging these people. First off, just because a film is made on a small budget does not automatically make it good nor endearing. In fact in this case, the small budget is probably the films sole achievement in that it prevented large sums o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4031 | 0pending | ba5849a4-2c1d-4140-a6d7-378d42ed54a5 | I had never heard of this one before it turned up on Cable TV. It's very typical of late 50s sci-fi: sober, depressing and not a little paranoid! Despite the equally typical inclusion of a romantic couple, the film is pretty much put across in a documentary style - which is perhaps a cheap way of leaving a lot of the e... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4032 | 0pending | a16a96ca-cd63-4cf7-aefb-23a9aa9b0940 | Really it's a dreadful cheat of a film. Its 70-minute running time is very well padded with stock footage. The rest are non descript exteriors and drab interiors scenes. The plot exposition is very poorly rendered. They are all just perfunctory scenes sort of strung together. There is no attempt at drama in scene selec... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4033 | 0pending | 1c74d1ae-884d-42b4-8a97-a1848d5da411 | I remember watching "Lost Missile" (actually throwing a fit until my brother and several cousins at whose home I was an overnight guest agreed to watch it with me - I was, from time to time, the Eric Cartman of the 1960s - sorry, guys) and being somewhat embarrassed when the sustained wave of million-degree heat emerge... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4034 | 0pending | e6a1ce6d-8d06-4141-bb0c-ba6d1482e3fe | The story idea behind THE LOST MISSILE isn't bad at all, but unfortunately the story does get a bit dull towards the middle and the overuse of stock footage as well as poor special effects sink this film to the sub-par level.<br /><br />The film begins with a missile heading towards the Earth. In a panic because it's a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4035 | 0pending | 116dc95b-4844-4550-ad4a-165606c888a5 | This had all the makings of a very good film -- good actors (Robert Loggia, Ellen Parker), a good plot (mysterious missile from space threatens to burn up the planet) and lots of stock footage (if the Air Force had film of jets firing rockets, it was used). Unfortunately, it is ruined by too much melodrama and an impos... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4036 | 0pending | 882b7977-a8b7-4139-bbf4-b2017ea0876e | This must be one of the most overrated Spanish films in history. Its lack of subtlety and complexity and its total political correction make it really childish, with only good/bad characters. The world is just not like this, and good movies show complex characters with opposite impulses, dilemmas, etc. However, what I ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4037 | 0pending | c71be697-1281-4b69-adfe-be367ec414b7 | If there was a God, he would have made sure this movie stayed in the toilet were it was crapped up. This is BY FAR the worst vampire movie I have ever seen. I may never watch a vampire film again because of this movie. It makes Zombie Lake look like The Sound of Music. | [] | [] | [] |
train_4038 | 0pending | d89cf1fc-6e93-47a2-8fd9-ecd2eb8a2204 | Absolutely unwatchable, lowest quality film making. This film makes "Show Girls" look good. The acting is insufferable. The cinematography gives a bad name to amateurism. No wonder it went right to video and bypassed the theaters. This film wasn't released...it escaped. | [] | [] | [] |
train_4039 | 0pending | 105afd80-eaf8-4e04-b62c-a503bca7f9fb | This movie is just plain terrible. Poor John Savage had to stoop this low in order to be in another movie. He stars as a rare type of vampire that is to help a lady that looks like a washed out and thrown in the streets hooker that is a dancer at a local strip club. She acidently tastes a drop of blood from another dan... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4040 | 0pending | 17a3ae54-5d0e-40fb-8a8f-b027dc47c1e7 | I was watching this with one of my friends, who is a vampire freak, and I was extremely disgusted at the fact that this film exists. This film should be shown to prisoners of war, yes, it's that bad. Even John McCain wouldn't be able to sit through this. So why the 3/10 rating? Because it had a vampire midget. Come on,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4041 | 0pending | 657608c0-e0d6-4524-bf06-512746ccddb4 | This movie was horrible. I watched it three times, and not even the whole thing. It's just impossible to watch, the story line sucks, it's depressing, and utterly disgusting. I don't write spoilers for anything, so if you want to know why it's so disgusting, see it for yourself. The only good thing about this movie was... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4042 | 0pending | aab288c1-da0b-4cb7-b5c4-4572e1bcef65 | This is probably the worst movie ever made it is just to bad the name of Roger Corman is associated with it. I could've understand it in his early years when he had lower budgets but nowadays there is no excuses for giving birth to this! I'm a "B" movie pervert and from certain people point of view all the flicks I lov... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4043 | 0pending | 26c95160-083f-406c-8efa-75c35009a2f8 | I will never be a member of any club that would have me,<br /><br />especially this one.<br /><br />Starr Andreeff is a single mom/stripper who gets attacked by a<br /><br />female vampire and left for dead. She begins to get a hankering for<br /><br />blood, and meets up with John Savage, looking like he's<br /><br />... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4044 | 0pending | edb9a8bb-8ce3-4d3e-be6c-cf750cb8a4df | Dakota (1988) was another early Lou Diamond Phillips starring vehicle. This film is similar to the later released film Harley. There are a few differences but they're both the same. I don't know which one came first. I guess it'll remain one of the mysteries of life. But they both are troubled "kids" who are trying to ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4045 | 0pending | 69a90698-fd45-49b5-bbfe-5664405f711c | This film is too skeletal. It's a fairly low-budget film (I hope!) which excuses it somewhat, but the lack of a decent cast and a fleshed out plot hurts it too much. Phillips is quite believable in his role as a torn-apart son of a well-off family who's searching for himself (though his family is...er...well, a little ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4046 | 0pending | 1eba616b-6f18-4de9-832f-acf9063b9677 | Yes, this film gets a lot of attention and is considered a classic in the adult film genre. Still, I did not like this one at all. About a woman who commits suicide in a scene more fitting a horror movie, she is given the opportunity to return to earth briefly to live the life of lust she never did before in her mundan... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4047 | 0pending | 614abce1-0b51-48c7-bcd6-5d792e35d25c | There is a DVD published in the UK in 2002 Code HRGD002 on the cover, no ASIN, VFC 19796 on the disk, no IFPI code in the inner rim.<br /><br />Probably a straight transfer from VHS. <br /><br />There is no much point is commenting an adult film. But this one contains a minimal plot, and the characters are believable. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4048 | 0pending | a5f5e8d6-03d8-4fa7-8f44-67a04df07308 | a friend gave it to me saying it was another classic like "Debbie does Dallas". Nowhere close. I think my main complaint is about the most unattractive lead actress in porn industry ever. Even more terrible is that she is on screen virtually all the time. But I read somewhere that back in those days, porn had to have s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4049 | 0pending | c9218faf-e11c-4f1e-b91c-0f3a3e0fb068 | One of those classics, held up next to "Deep Throat" and "Behind the Green Door."<br /><br />Sure, it was clever, but the female lead isn't that attractive and sex isn't that hot. But if not for this film, porn would not have blossomed into what it is today.<br /><br />Harry Reems was the Ron Jeremy of his day. Worth a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4050 | 0pending | c1bc3f8d-e3b3-4192-9ca6-af3f4c346065 | After watching some of HBO's great stuff - Band of Brothers, Rome, etc. - I must say I had pretty high expectations before watching the first episode of "True Blood". Jeez. Often the script seemed to be written by an 8-year-old, some parts are just horribly filmed, (The scene in which she "saves" Bill, I mean come on. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4051 | 0pending | 5b4dd6b4-7d84-494d-a352-617cddd6e963 | This show had a lot of hype but I didn't know about it until the midseason (season 1). Someone even recommended the show to me. But I decided that if I was going to watch it, I was going to wait until the end of the season so I could watch it in bulk. Due to the show's format, I'm happy I waited. I imagine it would hav... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4052 | 0pending | 8d7dc2c6-2487-4ef4-abb0-25849222b275 | For every series that makes it to television, a 100 ideas are formed, 50 scripts are written, 15 pilots are made, and one, just one, actually makes it to production. From such a selection process, we are lead to believe that the final product must be the cream of the crop, for what other reason could so many ideas be r... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4053 | 0pending | e51761e6-7cbe-4968-b926-5daa72fd3402 | When I first watched the show, the first few episodes seemed promising. Bill Compton introduced himself as the stereotypical "mysterious" vampire and Sookie presented herself as an independent woman. However, the show went downhill from here and the once interesting characters are as entertaining as a cardboard box.<br... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4054 | 0pending | d73c0bf5-1b60-45c1-94e1-f865be6cc6c0 | Man, I really find it hard to believe that the wonderful Alan Ball had anything to do with this mess. Having seen the first two episodes thus far, I think I can safely say this show isn't going to be on my must see list. It's just got so many things working against it.<br /><br />None of the actors cast are particularl... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4055 | 0pending | 116996d4-899b-48d1-98fa-ae08bd01d05b | As a fan of the Sookie Stackhouse books, I find this series to be a totally crass representation of them. Vampire Bill is not very good looking and looks much older than described in the book. I found that they have made already wonderfully colourful characters seem very course and vulgar. One of the things I loved abo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4056 | 0pending | 51bf68d7-0e97-45ab-a204-224dab0eb02b | I hope whoever coached these losers on their accents was fired. The only high points are a few of the supporting characters, 3 of 5 of my favourites were killed off by the end of the season (and one of them was a cat, to put that into perspective).<br /><br />The whole storyline is centered around sex, and nothing else... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4057 | 0pending | ecf1c058-fa1b-4545-be56-e3c1e6991f4b | For those of you who've never heard of it (or seen it on A&E), Cracker is a brilliant British TV show about an overweight, chain-smoking, foulmouthed psychologist named Fitz who helps the Manchester police department get into the heads of violent criminals. It's considered to be one of the finest shows ever to come out... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4058 | 0pending | dfed65d8-ca45-4470-b7dc-39b06caa0c5f | I'm a true fan of the original Cracker series, and own all of them on DVD. Cracker had a tendency to be over-the-top on occasion, but Robbie Coltrane and the other cast members, as well as the writers, always seemed to carry it off despite themselves. I count the original Cracker among the great Brit TV crime series of... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4059 | 0pending | c92e0dc2-773f-4a85-b413-8fffdd914d28 | As a huge fan or the Cracker series, I have been waiting 7 years for the next addition. This Episode I'm afraid just does not live up to the legend.<br /><br />Fitz returns to Manchester after 7 years for his daughters wedding and gets involved in a murder investigation were a soldier, tormented by flash backs from his... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4060 | 0pending | d91cced2-272f-46bd-b735-8f0514495f8a | A major disappointment. This was one of the best UK crime drama / detective shows from the 90's which developed the fascinating title character played by Scotland's Robbie Coltrane. However this one-off has little to add and perhaps suffers from an inevitable let down due to raised expectations when a favored show retu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4061 | 0pending | 06ec40f7-805c-4287-8370-79b794a1983c | The social commentary was way overblown and the mystery itself is built and solved through a series of implausible coincidences that were entirely unbelievable. Nothing has changed in Fitz's personal life in the past decade that makes it remotely interesting. <br /><br />I even had trouble understanding why he was comp... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4062 | 0pending | c9f0ba88-fabb-4c88-8c25-06fe8f20d682 | Having heard so much about the 1990s Cracker series without seeing any of them, I looked forward to this eagerly. Surely the combination of Jimmie McGovern and Robbie Coltrane could not go wrong. How wrong I was! <br /><br />The polemics, backed by frequent, repetitive and violent flashbacks, were overpowering. The pro... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4063 | 0pending | f3205f04-b921-4c49-b03d-52c2a6fb18f5 | I enjoyed "American Movie", so I rented Chris Smith's first film, which I thought was a documentary too. In the first minute I saw that it wasn't, but I gave it a go.<br /><br />What a dead end film. Being true-to-life hardly serves you if you're merely going to examine tediousness, esp. tediousness that we're already ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4064 | 0pending | 75fc5ebb-235e-4d90-8497-ddbdaf334d0b | I must say that I was disapointed with this film. I have never been a huge BNL fans, I find their songs kind of childish and obsessively nostalgic (this is me in grade 9, if i had a million dollars, shoe box of life etc). However, I have seen clips of their live show and I really like the improvisational and goofy natu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4065 | 0pending | 72fcc235-a24f-4654-9a9f-7258424a003f | Can you say "All shock, no plot?" There were so many unexplored directions in this movie. There was no history about the room other than the deaths. *WHY* was it evil? What made it that way? Why an "hour" countdown? Then, there were the unexplored things hinted at; for example we *saw* a camera in the air vent, which h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4066 | 0pending | 9a744f1c-bed1-4482-93da-cd1c38b7638d | After spotting the high rating on IMDb, I decided to go see this movie. Beyond that high rating, I intentionally avoided reading any of the reviews. I wanted to go into the theater with a clean slate, without knowing the plot or having predetermined expectations.<br /><br />Given my rating, you can see that I was disap... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4067 | 0pending | b16e5013-6258-43be-b648-ddbe2f7bf067 | I don't see what everyone liked about this movie. The set-up was too long and talky, and when it was done, the main character remained as flat and opaque as he had been in the first scene. After the film finally got Cusack into the eponymous hotel room, I had to wonder, well, what's going to happen here for the next ho... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4068 | 0pending | cf8e42f6-e7b8-4bae-890b-d0cbe7d586a7 | '1408' is the latest hodge podge of cheap scare tactics. The kind that might make date-movie styled horror fans occasionally jump in their seat and scream in your ear, but disappoint audiences searching for a little depth and direction.<br /><br />John Cusak plays a writer who's made a career of writing books describin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4069 | 0pending | 0cc4ad34-2e3d-4fc5-9957-90e8cb15ab89 | I am a huge, huge fan of John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, and Tony Shalhoub. I'm slightly less fond of Stephen King, but I like some of his work.<br /><br />This said, I should have LOVED 1408.<br /><br />***POSSIBLE SPOILERS AFTER THIS POINT**** <br /><br />I walked in eager. I walked out disappointed.<br /><br />This ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4070 | 0pending | 33a5b24b-f43e-4ad9-a673-a24d80de8ece | This movie was exactly what I expected, not great, but also not that bad either. In my opinion PG13 movies aren't scary enough so that's why I already knew I was going to be bored throughout the entire film. Sure there were scary things going on in the hotel room, but nothing we all haven't already seen. I guess I didn... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4071 | 0pending | 577a6cde-482d-47ff-87ac-ad2f4024375b | Director Spike Lee is famous for making films pointing out racism. In many of films, such "Do The Right Thing," most of the white people are all brutal racists. In this movie, interracial marriage is the subject, with racism once again being the entire issue.<br /><br />What Lee does, however, is once again demonstrate... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4072 | 0pending | d8a58041-4483-42a4-ad3b-b847538f17c9 | I'm not sure why Spike Lee made this train wreck of a movie and conned poor Stevie Wonder into eternally pairing his beautiful music with this theatrical mess. I also resent the way he uses profanity as a part of the normal prose of professional Blacks. The abuse of his hold on ethnic movie goers is a shame. Scenes whi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4073 | 0pending | ba8be38b-442b-459d-b241-e557357ff51a | Jungle Fever is too highly stylized, stereotyped, and comes across as essentially dishonest. Wesley Snipes was wrong for the lead and there was no chemistry between him and Annabella Sciorra. Even though there's plenty of talent in this movie, it's mostly wasted because the parts are reduced to little more than decorat... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4074 | 0pending | 854c8193-890f-498c-884d-7c694fee06de | Who in their right mind plays a lyrical song at the same time they are portraying an emotional scene between two people? When Flipper confronts his wronged wife in the dressing room, the song sung with lyrical content is as loud as the dialog, so one can hear neither, diluting any emotional impact the scene may have ha... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4075 | 0pending | 6a628d3d-a2dd-4cbf-a902-83cbc12313a4 | In short:<br /><br />Spike Lee clearly has a lot on his mind. He's thinking about racism color-ism, media and hegemony, consumerism and capitalism, religion, sexism, 'hetero-sexism', politics of the drug war etc etc...<br /><br />That level of consciousness on is own is great. I think it is a blessing that more and mor... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4076 | 0pending | 84c85162-81c4-4fe5-9bb9-f73fedf6ec4e | I have walked out of very few movies before they end, but I couldn't finish this piece of garbage. This was the biggest load of racism trying to pass as legitimate film since "Birth of a Nation". The characters were little more than cardboard cutouts. I don't see how any actor would want their name associated with this... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4077 | 0pending | 1b9acff4-7714-4acd-98cb-4e27bc577c66 | When I refer to Malice as a film noir I am not likening it to such masterpieces as Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity or The Maltese Falcon, nor am I comparing director Becker to Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Kramer or Luis Bunuel. I am merely registering a protest against the darkness that pervades this m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4078 | 0pending | d41027d3-a9a6-4e8a-913d-be38b5c3514b | Flat, ordinary thriller about a conniving woman who deceives all those she supposedly loves in order to boost her bank account. Nicole Kidman plays the deceptive Tracey, married to the doting Andy (Bill Pullman). When an old school friend of Andy's named Jed Hill (Alec Baldwin) turns up as the resident surgeon, trouble... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4079 | 0pending | 22e854ff-aada-4ae9-8fe7-400516e4f340 | I saw this movie a few years back on the BBC i sat thru it. How? i don't know,this is way up there in the "so bad it'Good " charts Kidman ,Baldwin,and Pullman must cringe when they see it now.I think Woody Allen would have worked wonders with the outlandish plot, and Baldwin's part could have been played with gusto by ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4080 | 0pending | f2dc476a-98c6-4d24-9db1-357b12ca52a2 | Irene Dunne finished her illustrious career with this so-so movie. She should have gone out with a bang, being the classy actress she was, not in this unmemorable, almost unknown film. <br /><br />This lightweight comedy is okay, but nothing special. The first half of it is far better as it gets pretty stupid in the se... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4081 | 0pending | da16f8ff-2f50-4081-b13b-8a3d4a000a4b | For the love of god please don't see this movie! Its a waste of time, the plot is predictable, as are the romantic scenes. Trying to build too much with very little, this film and its evil predictable villain is just lame. The characters aren't developed, and most of the film is padded out with shots of Rome, which is ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4082 | 0pending | d344a222-c0b6-41a0-986e-bc4c90c93d23 | This movie really has no beginning or end. And it's really VERY unbelievable. Mary-K and Ashley are supposed to be interns working in a mailing room for an Italian fashion company. But, for some reason, they're put up in a 5-star hotel (conveniently located across the street from the Coliseum), and all of the other int... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4083 | 0pending | ab0dfe43-7dbb-44fa-9ba9-bf370e747f91 | No ,I'm not kidding. If they ever propose a movie idea, they should be kicked out of the studio. I'm serious. Their movies are exactly the same in every one, and they only consist of traveling to foreign locations, having a problem which they easily resolve, hoping to be popular, and getting new boyfriends. Think about... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4084 | 0pending | 12646c57-cdc0-4591-ac8c-99d1d298c717 | OK, this has got 2 be one of the worst excuses 4 a movie that i have ever had the misfortune of watching. Like all other Olsen twins movies with the possible exception of new york minute , this film had no story, gaping plot holes,disgustingly putrid acting and bad filming even!!!!!!!!! in case you haven't guessed yet ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4085 | 0pending | 8b379e1e-9742-4c9b-a702-751af1663122 | When In Rome is a definite improvement on Getting There. Getting There I found too predictable, contrived and slow, and to this day I still consider it as the Olsen twins' worst. However, while When In Rome isn't a terrible movie, it's not a great one either. If I had to sum it up in one word, I would say passable. It ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4086 | 0pending | d7712091-b071-4a23-b08c-a45e2fa0daec | Identical twin sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen climbed to fame in sitcoms like "Two of a Kind", I had never seen them in anything before, but I had an idea of what to expect, but it was much worse. Basically the Hunter sisters Charli (Mary-Kate) and Leila (Ashley) are in Rome for a Summer Intern Program, but not lon... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4087 | 0pending | fecdb6fc-fa03-4ffe-90af-a6c1d5f4014a | The plot was dull, the girls were sickening and the supposed Italian male lead had clearly never heard an Italian accent.Someone said the boys were cute in this film but it just seemed to be filled with mediocre people. There were literally no redeeming features about this film.<br /><br />I think this is a graveyard f... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4088 | 0pending | 6b39263c-8071-4659-a762-c449c33ea02f | 1st watched 12/7/2002 - 3 out of 10(Dir-Steve Purcell): Typical Mary Kate & Ashley fare with a few more kisses. It looks to me like the girls are getting pretty tired of this stuff and it will be interesting what happens to them if they ever decide to split up and go there own ways. In this episode of their adventures ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4089 | 0pending | a8688031-cc76-4780-b6e3-74c7d0b15e67 | I do agree with everything Calamine has said! And I don't always agree with people, but what Calamine has said is very true, it is time for the girls to move on to better roles. I would like to see them succeed very much as they were a very inspirational pair growing up and I would like to see them grow as people, actr... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4090 | 0pending | 598c8a0d-9755-4037-81a9-86cd1370bf70 | Acting was weak, but in a horror flick, I can live with that if the story is good. It wasn't. The initial event was an clumsy and obvious ploy to exploit most people's adoration of kids. OK, fine. Fast forward to the "place in the country" where they will recover emotionally. I like the revelation of the ghosts. OK, co... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4091 | 0pending | b8409bea-be7d-4cce-bb2d-9b2c0f341bbe | Grieving couple move to a cabin on a mountain after the loss of their daughter, discovering that there may be ghosts haunting the place, restless spirits of past occupants who committed suicide. Julie Pyke(Cheri Christian)blames husband Allen(Greg Thompson)for the horrible death of their daughter due to leaving the doo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4092 | 0pending | a6d743b8-a9af-4a60-96ad-1765e57987f2 | Give me my money back! Give me my life back! Give me a bit of credit. This movie was vomit worthy. Useless and time consuming. What a waste of energy and totally pointless. Okay I understand the premise and the idea sound but, give us a break! Next time just give me the money and let me spend it. Lost child, mothers re... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4093 | 0pending | 17babfcc-8cf1-4952-8a52-acc4d8d2c82c | Okay. Look- I've seen LOTS and I do mean LOTS of these types of films. You know, the ones where the DVD cover just look SO good and scaarrryyy that you just cant WAIT to see it? Well, I got GOT again. And I'm getting' pretty tired of it. But I digress. It's pretty simple. It sucked(I know, rather juvenile) but it did. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4094 | 0pending | db12c419-49b4-438b-8f0e-54601bceb330 | I'm writing this because I somehow felt being led to believe Dark Remains was a good movie. Whilst it's not the worst I've seen, it certainly isn't good.<br /><br />A Weak script, weak actors, and weak directing. Even if they can't afford big name cast, would it be too much to ask for a more attractive lead actress? It... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4095 | 0pending | 9de1fcea-fd30-43c3-8738-85bdc4625d5d | If you have ever seen a movie by Brian Avenet-Bradley and compares it to the feedbacks it gets on IMDb, you know that most of the comments and votes are faked. TRUST ME: you will be bored! People of the production team write their feedback themselves (sometimes they even admit it). But that's not enough: They also clic... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4096 | 0pending | 07a323e5-8791-4c9c-8a7a-0e864d2b1ebd | This is the weakest of the series, not much of a plot and a rather odd-looking Wallace. But it's still pretty good, considering. A sign of greater things to come!<br /><br />6/10 | [] | [] | [] |
train_4097 | 0pending | b9325694-608a-4282-99b4-d18ad4bc38d2 | For those of us that lived thru those weeks of filming in town and around the Valley - lest we not forget the tedious days of road closures and "film-making". As a reminder to those that live here - locales include Boulder Creek, Bonny Doon, Davenport, Big Basin. etc. The bank was the BC firehouse; chase scenes include... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4098 | 0pending | bd7cb2a8-87fa-4492-bf30-16777250724a | Quite possibly. How Francis Veber, one of the best comedy directors in the world (at least when sticking to his native France), managed to turn in a film so completely unwatchable is beyond the reason of mere mortal man to discern. It's not just that the characters are so unlikeable or that the film is so utterly devoi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4099 | 0pending | bfd16989-be2f-47d1-9ce6-26c2f28f3fbc | A short review but...<br /><br />Avoid at all costs, a thorough waste of 90mins. At the end of the film I was none the wiser as to what had actually happened. It's full of cameos (Stephen Fry (3mins), Jack Dee (30 secs), the "Philadelphia" girls) and some vaguely recognisable people but it just doesn't make any sense. ... | [] | [] | [] |
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