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train_4600 | 0pending | 9667d3a7-f1b2-4885-92ce-dcc67dab417f | As a fan of Science-fiction movies, I have been aware of The Matrix since its release in 1999. From the little bit I would allow people to tell me about it, I assumed it was highly original and sophisticated. I am also a devotee of Alice in Wonderland. I could never quite figure out how I missed The Matrix when it was ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4601 | 0pending | 0cb1347b-cea3-41cf-b86c-c0e4571b751e | What the hell was all that about? I saw The Matrix and was amazed. It was the most spectacular movie ever made. What ever possesed the Wachowski brothers to do this film is beyond me.<br /><br />There is no plot, you can't argue with that. Basically all this film was was a load of talking, and don't get me wrong, I hav... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4602 | 0pending | 9cf8cf28-7281-4ad5-ad06-699441620e12 | It seems as if in Science Fiction you have this periodic throwback to perform an odd phenomenon that appears in long serial novels. It's where the first novel (Dune, Ender's Game) blows you away with an actionpacked revolutionary story. The sequels however take that universe and lead you down the garden path to whateve... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4603 | 0pending | d3cb9272-b4d8-44df-9657-ebaca223aa4c | As soon as I began to see posters and hear talk about this movie, I was immediately excited. The Matrix was an incredible to behold and I couldn't wait to see the second one, especially after beginning to see the trailers for it at other movies. However, when I saw it, I left the theater extremely disappointed, as did ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4604 | 0pending | f9a4262d-3c90-46bf-9d9d-b371d139b09a | I'll admit that I liked the first one, and was really looking forward to the sequel.<br /><br />I was let down. Sure the special effects were technically amazing -- but they weren't believable looking. It looked more like a cartoon. Alright, I admit to liking 80% of the chase scene -- but the fight with all the Mr Smit... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4605 | 0pending | f5d19539-023d-4bc5-b9b9-8bdca3e1c483 | A perfect little atrocity...I doubt if a single shot lasted for more then the reglamentary-MTV 4.4 seconds. Woeful casting, worse even than in Kusminsky's version (a reminder: he managed to miscast Juliet Binoche and Ralph Feinnnes). But, hey-the rich got what they deserved. Dark and brooding Heathcliff reduced to the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4606 | 0pending | b4be9323-7a9f-4d87-97f5-6437764d4ed7 | I was skeptical when I first saw the Calvin Kline-esque commercials, but thought I'd give it a chance. So I've watched it, and all I can say is bleh. This movie was so bad. It's rare that I hate a movie this much. Watching this flick reminded me of those funny scenes in Altman's "The Player," when the writers pitch the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4607 | 0pending | 531140fa-665c-4a24-82b7-90a063fef338 | Let me start off by saying that I didn't watch this movie at first with high expectations. It was recommended to me by a friend with mediocre taste in movies, and "MTV" was pasted on the front cover so I was not expecting much. What i was expecting was a tear-jerker, overly dramatic but at least effective.<br /><br />I... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4608 | 0pending | 9efbd203-64ab-4ac2-a9e0-ce2e8d155c5a | There's no denying the first Azumi film was a commercial product; it was an adaptation of a popular manga and had cast of young, attractive actors and certainly wasn't lacking in the budget department. Yet it more than entertained for what it was, and I can't deny I enjoyed it immensely.<br /><br />"Azumi 2" lacks just... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4609 | 0pending | 53e61613-c22e-4f50-a556-32695b7373da | You like beautiful girls? Yeah me too. What is there bad to say about beautiful girls/women? Nothing imo, so why would I give this movie only 2 stars out of 5, although it got the "talents" of Chiaki Kuriyama and Aya Ueto? <br /><br />If I really wanted to watch beautiful people, I'd watch MTV or something that's why. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4610 | 0pending | 656f2d11-3157-4648-9f8e-d79f01084d97 | I can't believe I actually sat through the whole thing. This movie has the worst acting since Killjoy.<br /><br />Here is a brief outline of the plot: The movie starts out with Jojo and that other chick sitting around on the beach, drooling over a skinny blonde-haired beach "hunk" who looks like he hasn't been to the g... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4611 | 0pending | 5031babe-39b7-4702-bb7f-2b966de2da78 | If I write a review about a movie, maybe it will stick with me... but generally I expect that I will have forgotten I've seen this one a mere two weeks from now. So why bother? Because again I find myself watching a low-rated movie that was fun to watch. I didn't expect I'd to be able to stay in the room while it was o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4612 | 0pending | 59fa00ed-61b2-4e81-8052-b6b3a1ff5247 | A half-hearted attempt to bring Elvis Presley into the modern day, but despite a sexy little shower scene and a pseudo-Playboy magazine subplot, Presley is surrounded by the same old coy, winking clichés. A woman picks E.P. up on the beach and then proceeds to take over his life--and he doesn't seem to care! Dick Sarge... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4613 | 0pending | e642da7b-4afa-49c2-86c7-429bcaa66d4b | When I was seventeen I genuinely believed Elvis to be the king of rock and roll, and not only did I wish to see all 31 of his "character" movies, but it was my ambition to own them, too. What an exceptionally poor excuse for a seventeen-year-old I must have been. Thankfully sense prevailed and Live A Little, Love A Lit... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4614 | 0pending | a4bdd725-668d-44c6-9198-97098ae974f9 | LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE is one of Elvis' weirdest movies. Part slapstick, part fluff, part surreal and part strange. Elvis meets up with a very off-beat girl with an annoying voice. She looks like Jennifer Aniston. Story doesn't make much sense as is the case with most Elvis Presley movies, and there a bunch of od... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4615 | 0pending | 63e19875-075d-4cb3-bbef-ca192519140a | This is easily the worst Presley vehicle ever, which would bring us pretty close to the worst film ever made. It is measurably worse than even the revolting "Happy Ending" song at the end of "It Happened At The World's Fair", and here I thought that moment when Elvis buys all of the vendor's balloons for his girl, and ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4616 | 0pending | eba2aeef-d3f9-414b-a663-268fd8343360 | This film is really something of a curate's egg, good in parts. In contrast to other reviewers, I found that the main fault with it is its inability to draw in the viewer's interest in the characters and the plot. I sat through it because I'm interested in rock'n'roll and the dynamics of bands, but if I were to evaluat... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4617 | 0pending | c97af98e-325c-4166-9e90-4dbf1ecc7189 | Yet another film about a tortured self-centered, arrogant, unfeeling hateful, self-destructive lead character we are supposed to care about.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong I am very open to all kinds of off the wall movies that have as the lead character a strongly self-destructive character. What I object to about this... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4618 | 0pending | f5357fef-b6aa-49e0-a8ef-0b410c2385c7 | A great opportunity for and Indy director to make an interesting film about a rock musician on the brink of stardom. It could have been a decent film if it would have dealt with John Livien's traumatic past and how it is torturing his psyche. Instead, it is a ridiculous attempt to identify John Livien's life with John ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4619 | 0pending | f24e2523-5d93-46ab-a066-0361b13a2fac | This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I saw it at the premiere at SXSW and was extremely disappointed. The director knew little about John Lennon and even said as much at the premiere. This is a drama, but people were laughing throughout at how cheesy the film was. That's never a good sign. The only saving gr... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4620 | 0pending | 1e9f14da-14be-4530-919a-4ebd6682d6ad | First of all, I apologize for my English. <br /><br />Everybody from ex-Yugoslavia who isn't some extreme Serbian radical will agree with me. This movie, shows Serbian side, and only Serbian side. No Serbian crimes were represented. Luckily, everyone can see that this movie was made by Serbians, so there is no neutrali... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4621 | 0pending | dc54d2a8-f94d-4a00-b15c-9b1830cc4693 | don't watch this Serbian documentary and Serbian propaganda look out for this documentary and you will see facts and truth http://imdb.com/title/tt0283181/<br /><br />The Death of Yugoslavia documentary series (of five episodes) is a painstakingly compiled and researched account of the extended mass-bloodshed which mar... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4622 | 0pending | 801da1b6-6ffd-438a-9a85-95a5103f8923 | Before seeing this movie, please check out reviews available on the internet regarding the movie's falsification of events, particularly its prevarications regarding the widely accepted fact that 7-8,000 Muslim men were bused out of Srebrenica and shot by Serbian paramilitaries. The documentarian also belongs to variou... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4623 | 0pending | 8d03def1-a221-4882-afaa-b24693a81621 | When I saw this "documentary", I was disappointed to see Serbian Propaganda in action once again. Even though Serbia and its nationalist politics is main reason of Yugoslavian breakup, it is not mentioned in this "documentary", which is made by Bogdanovich whose name tells us that he is Serbian and his movie that he is... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4624 | 0pending | 922556cc-7912-4c96-ae5c-39d207e7a579 | I just want to say that this production is very one sided, breaks the impartiality needed if you want to be taken seriously. <br /><br />There are no credits of the persons they interviewed, so you cant have an idea if they are worthy of being heard.<br /><br />Tells the story from just one point of view. To do this is... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4625 | 0pending | fd6edb0d-e068-4c48-bb15-8b9803541eb7 | There are no reasons of taking this documentary serious and there are four reasons for that: <br /><br />1) The people who made this documentary (including the director and the producer) are Serbs or of Serbian origin, therefore the criteria of neutrality fails. For instance, they mentioned that the diaspora Croats (th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4626 | 0pending | 6b1ddb37-9a61-4871-9c4e-038faae11e63 | And how it made it into production astounds me. The main character is an obnoxious show off who isn't the least bit funny. I can't stand the character at all. He's a dumb ass with nothing to offer the show. <br /><br />This is the worst cartoon to surface in the last 10 years, no joke. The story lines are both poorly w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4627 | 0pending | 71f93e24-8a00-4389-92d2-ad1094176ed3 | This show is dull, lame, and basically rips off all sorts of various things in order to make it "original." First off: The animation is so ugly... Johnny's hideous... and everyone's annoying. The twins look like teen female Dexters from "Dexter's Lab," and Johnny is almost like a more intelligent male Dee Dee (also fro... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4628 | 0pending | fce44a94-04e7-432b-b16e-8765ce9f8f35 | I had recently been watching Johnny Test in an attempt to find humor in it. I failed, horribly. Cartoon Network usually has a tendency to make their shows enjoyable by all audiences, but Johnny Test is "entertainment" in it's lowest form. The writing is incredibly predictable, and the running gags aren't much gags at a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4629 | 0pending | a86a6672-999e-474a-b889-96bf95376bd1 | I want so badly to give this piece of GARBAGE a zero, unfortunately, there isn't, so, I had to give it a 1 just to warn you about how stupidly terrible this imposter of a familiar cartoon really is! The characters look like they were drawn by pre-schoolers, no, wait, I've seen pre-schoolers do better! I prefer "Misadve... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4630 | 0pending | a211f6e1-3fe1-48a1-b463-fbbb074365b9 | As you can guess by my rating and my title of this review that I don't like Johnny Test. Now I think I know what people are going to say, " How do you know how bad it is? Have you ever watched it?", I did watch this show a couple times because I am studying film and animation and this just doesn't hold a candle to my s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4631 | 0pending | a7227e56-32d5-4166-abfc-a6a0318ae896 | This show is possibly the biggest, ugliest, most generic steam pile I've seen in children's programming that's actually become successful. The lead character, Johnny, while I understand he's supposed to represent an ordinary kid, isn't likable or even tolerable. The jokes are lame, overdone (i.e. the "Whoa! Didn't see ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4632 | 0pending | 6f5d56be-4146-42ad-8535-96c5e1c087c3 | I really hate this show! I had watched one episode, and I knew this show is really terrible. The story lines are both poorly written and executed and the jokes are really bad...I mean it is just a sh++ty rip-off of Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Quest, 'bout an obnoxious boy with flamed blond hair with his twin genius ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4633 | 0pending | 1d750a64-ade6-4c75-88ca-3efdb615e8f5 | My brother is in love with this show, let's get this straight. I completely agree with the people who said it was copying off of Dexter's Lab and Fairly Odd Parents. <br /><br />I've never really liked fairly odd parents, I mean, some things did make me laugh, but most of the time it's downright annoying and not cute a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4634 | 0pending | 27d7b521-a256-4149-998d-f8d153a43b75 | Cartoon Network seems to be desperate for ratings. Beginning with the cancellation of Samurai Jack, the network seemed hellbent on removing all the shows that made it so popular, such as the Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, Dragonball Z, etc. When the ratings started to plummet, CN began putting up some pretty mediocre s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4635 | 0pending | 3b108dff-71c6-4bf0-afd5-f1963579437e | Oh dear! The first time I heard of this bad show was when one of my friends was yelling like an idiot "JOHNY TEST" while we were playing video games. I thought he was confusing "Johny Quest" (by the way, one of the best cartoons I've ever seen in my life", and changing the "Quest" with "Test". Its something weird that ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4636 | 0pending | 1d5a8e3b-c3a5-4b8d-8a5e-9df3fe4185d3 | OMG this was the most painful experience of my life watching this. I could even finish it what is happening to Nick. Their best thing on teen Nick is Drake and Josh and thats about to go off air. The kids songs are kinda of annoying and the so are the kids. My little sister wanted to watch the show because she likes an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4637 | 0pending | 9334c2e3-f459-421a-9832-9026d6c1f11e | That's right, you heard me this movie is a freaking' ABOMINATION. First off, the band, who the hell is going to go see or listen to a band called "THE NAKED BROTHERS BAND"?!?! Not only is the name terrible but so are the musicians, they can't even play anything! Also, the lead singer sounds more girly than Geddy Lee, a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4638 | 0pending | d8656608-063d-4010-9b32-b8b1e341505f | My favorite memory of this show and the band was when I got together with a bunch of my friends which are NBB haters and had a big bonfire and we took a CD of their songs and the DVD of the movie and a bunch of pictures of the band members and threw them into the fire and danced a happy jig around the burning stuff whi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4639 | 0pending | 636b275f-d6a1-4b47-95c1-4dd9d9e8b213 | A very bad attempt at a young spinal tap. At least the music in spinal tap was good.<br /><br />This is really a very sad case of Hollywood nepotism at it's worst. A bunch of Hollywood execs, bad musicians and producers create some "poopie" show so their kids can be in the spotlight. Oh please!!! The potty humor was ev... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4640 | 0pending | 08dacde2-cb7d-4949-9a3b-83f9ce15067f | "Show me your boobies!" is not funny, and certainly not on a channel that shows cartoons if you understand where I'm coming from. I don't want my 6 and 7 years old daughters thinking like that or hearing that. I find it sad that Nick hyped this crap THAT much and then that's what we get, stupid little kids acting like ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4641 | 0pending | f4b86943-194d-4a99-b0a2-cbfaa04fa16c | I hate this movie. I hate the show. i hate just about everything about it. it's so annoying and stupid. everyone's saying that nat and alex wolff are heroes in the music world and that they're going to make it big. WHAT KIND OF DRUGS ARE YOU TAKING???!!!?!?!?!?! nat and alex are going to end up as either hobos or end u... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4642 | 0pending | 0660b945-fecc-479c-868d-a0a0ce7fd0e1 | It's terrible how some people can get away with such things... This is one of those overrated things again... And I hate things that are overrated that are no good... Why can't we have more TV Shows and Movies that actually have a story and excellent music and that are well written and are actually about something?? It... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4643 | 0pending | c28ed1af-a137-44d9-b6a0-c922e9b1cbe6 | I totally hated the movie. It was so retarded. They need to get some acting lessons....no, wait, that won't help because the Naked Brothers Band people a retards. You know why I am here even though I am a Naked Brothers Band hater? To warn people before they watch the dumb movie so that the NBB doesn't get any money fr... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4644 | 0pending | 30848502-c92a-48ad-a194-4a54002c2b67 | wow, the Naked Brothers Band. What should i say. I guess i can say this show just sucks. number one: they have no talent, they probably can't even play the instruments. number 2: on the commercial it said they were famous but nobody even heard of them till there crappy show came on. Look, i really don't hate it that ba... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4645 | 0pending | f2393432-e153-4509-bee8-4c8b8542bec6 | I mean seriously what group would sing about a crazy car? So what if their ten, It's way too immature for a little kid to sing about "being my women" I mean seriously! The name is pretty corny too, naked brothers? just because they take off their pants??? HOW CREATIVE.I don't get why they need a TV show I mean most art... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4646 | 0pending | 37d2a0fa-1533-44a0-b26f-a6fd29d1de94 | Okay I saw the sneak preview of this stupid movie. First off the movie is so posed and not real, they are all acting. They can't sing. They are way too full of themselves. Its awful. Yes kids like 8 to 10 might enjoy but its really stupid. I mean they say their manager is a kid. And there record label is fake. Its stup... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4647 | 0pending | f84ea7c6-f13a-40c4-adfc-cdb16464c838 | I know the people and I did some of the animation and graphic design and the show is horrible! They are rich little kids who don't have any talent, and probably just begged Nick to accept them! Alex has played the drums for one yearm, I've played for 4 1/2! The movie is terrible and so is the show! This is the craziest... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4648 | 0pending | 0ad73bfa-d1bc-4f87-bff5-544afce167fd | I have watched this movie a few times and never really thought it was that funny, but it's still fun to watch and good for a few laughs.<br /><br />Its about women that work at a company and their boss is a jerk and they end up giving him a taste of his own medicine, and try to get the respect they deserve.<br /><br />... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4649 | 0pending | 1f30f8d7-d57e-4734-972d-cb61ca3a5a5a | I was interested in the title and description of Big Rig while attending the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX. However, I was eager to get the heck out of the seats as soon as Big Rig ended. Big Rig is comprised of several "big rig" drivers who set out to deliver goods driven across the United States. The characters ar... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4650 | 0pending | 71cb54bb-16ae-461e-ab36-e3711d915b1f | This is exactly the type of film that frustrates me the most. Great cast, great director, great story potential, then they ruin it all with a screenplay that goes nowhere...and says nothing while going there! There is no depth here whatsoever. No depth of characters, no depth of plot, no depth of surprise, suspense, or... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4651 | 0pending | 16424e6f-6714-4b07-85a9-32c31496f9f8 | When I first saw this movie, it was titled TERROR ON A TRAIN and was the back half of a double feature. Glenn Ford, an armament expert is called on to defuse a hidden bomb on a train loaded with high explosives. The tension is slow and steady; and this black & white film runs only about an hour and twelve minutes. All ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4652 | 0pending | 0b144bae-5d04-4b5c-bf07-46acc991b9ba | A real blow-up of the film literally. This British film is boringly made.<br /><br />What an exciting plot! A terrorist places bombs on a train. How could the writers and producers of this stinker turn this into such a dull story?<br /><br />Glenn Ford, as the expert called upon to defuse the bomb, is given awful writi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4653 | 0pending | 4520a49c-fe87-4b94-8afa-9efec95c7933 | This British film is truly awful, and it's hard to believe that Glenn Ford is in it, although he pretty much sleepwalks through it. The idea of a bomb on a train sounds good...but it turns out this train ends up parked for the majority of the film! No action, no movement, just a static train. The area where the train i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4654 | 0pending | 9ba3dd6e-ff6f-44e0-92a9-a3b5754238d7 | Truly awful film made by cinematographer-turned-director Ted Tetzlaff. Decent enough looking film but for a time-bomb movie totally devoid of any tension whatsoever. Ford, as someone put it here, sleepwalks though this one with his characteristic smirk. There are some details thrown around- Canadian ex-army or RAF, def... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4655 | 0pending | 61ae60e4-9b1e-4ec5-b680-ce3df32a606e | Letting the class watch this in English was a bad idea. Films that are serious and more educational can have an effect, but it appears this one didn't have any effect whatsoever on the class - whenever the teacher left, conversations quickly started - and I didn't hear the words "Shakespeare" or "Tempest" being used at... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4656 | 0pending | a4db6953-ba23-42c8-825a-16293695e422 | SPOILERS (ALTHOUGH NONE THAT AREN'T REVEALED IN THE FIRST TWO MINUTES OF THE MOVIE)<br /><br />Robin Williams is actually quite good in this as the friendly, lonely, emotionally stunted loser Sy. He makes a very human, even sympathetic psycho, and really disappears into the character--no small feat for such a recogniza... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4657 | 0pending | 94191c32-ccd4-4d05-ae9d-34fd6871bd65 | There were good performances by Robin Williams and others but the movie was dull overall and very disappointing compared to the positive reviews.<br /><br />I thought Sy might become a serial killer who bores people to death: a forlorn guy in ugly clothes trails his victims around food courts, quoting Oprah and recitin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4658 | 0pending | 403b3b5f-e313-429c-9d64-0a552b1954a8 | Up until the last few minutes of the movie, I would have given the movie a score of 7 or 8 stars. However, the ending is so terrible and "Hollywoodized" that it completely undermines the first 80% of the movie.<br /><br />The plot revolves around a submarine and the possibility that they received an order to fire their... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4659 | 0pending | 6279899d-cd1b-42fb-b327-48694f776a20 | This movie is an insult to ALL submariners. It was stupid. It appeared to have been written by monkeys. The acting was absurd. If this is the view most people have of the Navy, then I weep for our defense. This movie was awful. I put it below "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" as far as submarine movies go. Gene Hackman... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4660 | 0pending | 500800d2-21a7-4a0e-ab9a-7f8a810761ba | As a former submariner, this was one of the worst submarine movies I have ever seen. First of all, a mutiny aboard any US Naval vessel, particularly a Nuclear Powered Trident submarine in unthinkable. These men are the best of the best and are dedicated to their mission. The responsibility they carry is awesome and the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4661 | 0pending | 23d5ee94-5e0d-4b7d-915d-3a5661889657 | Yep, lots of shouting, screaming, cheering, arguing, celebrating, fist clinching, high fiving & fighting. You have a general idea as to why, but can never be 100% certain. A naval knowledge would be an advantage for the finer points, but then you'd probably spot the many flaws. Not an awful film & Hackman & Washington ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4662 | 0pending | fe9cc402-354a-4c09-96cb-74c0c8736729 | We laughed our heads off. This script is so incredible you either zap to CNN or go to sleep.<br /><br />My dad was a sea captain for 30 years, he could not believe his eyes when he saw the movie.<br /><br />During his experience as an officer he once claimed command over the ship, the captain drunk 3 bottles of whiskey... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4663 | 0pending | ec53e9a6-db2f-471d-b27e-ca5d0981bdb2 | If asked how I would define the word " Shallow " I would reply " Watch a Jerry Bruckheimer production " . If asked how I would define the phrase " Wasted potential " I would reply " Watch a Jerry Bruckheimer production " . Bruckheimer productions are nearly always sure fire hits at the box office but nearly always rece... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4664 | 0pending | 6258a74e-027a-46d4-95c0-8c6ad15d5d3d | What an appalling film. Don't get me wrong, Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington are good actors, but aside from a few interesting set pieces, the film is mostly taken up with hysterical submariners shouting, crying, sweating and generally freaking out when anything goes wrong.<br /><br />Take that with simplistic asides... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4665 | 0pending | 5923bb5c-8b76-404f-96e3-b1f78079a74d | This movie had some andrenaline kickers, but it's an old story that simply could never happen. Navy protocols could never break down that much that a crew much less an XO could ever go that far against the Captain. I'll take Dr. Strangelove any day if I wish to see this plot. Sidenote--the US Navy did not support this ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4666 | 0pending | b6f99985-14fd-46de-9c8e-851514f159f6 | What a load of Leftist Hollywood bilge. This movie glorifies mutiny as brave and noble if it be for pacifist principles. The fairytale ends with the pacifist character, played by Danzel Washington, actually getting promoted for his treason. What is it with these Hollywood tools? Is this still payback for McCarthyism?<b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4667 | 0pending | 2857e4a4-48f5-46f3-8167-78ff40608be3 | Edwin Porter's 1903 short film entitled "The Great Train Robbery" bursts onto the screen with so much excitement and ingenuity that one prepares to be blown away by another pioneering early film. Just like Melies' "A Trip to the Moon", critics have hailed this as being the film that introduced the western genre into mo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4668 | 0pending | 06ea4f20-f616-4610-9e04-d17cf457436f | "Washington Square" is a flat, shabby adaptation of the short novel by Henry James. Indeed, the novel is very good, but far from the level of James' masterpieces. Moreover its simple, eventless story seems unsuited to make it into a film (although William Wyler, with his "The Heiress", gave in 1949 a beautiful version ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4669 | 0pending | 567b5a4a-5ed8-48bf-9116-b1b79e9b9335 | I do not know who is to blame, Miss Leigh or her director, but her performance as Catherine is almost impossible to watch. Ben Chaplin on the other hand does a superior job - against all odds as far as I am concerned. His character is entirely too charming and appealing. but certainly not shown as greedy enough, to put... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4670 | 0pending | 746aa032-a37b-4033-a526-01477725cdf1 | I love Henry James books and Washington Square was no exception. I was very excited to see a new movie coming out, based on the book of that title. Jennifer Jason Lee is an exceptional actress and Ben Chaplin good enough to play the lead roles. Albert Finney is miscast and doesn't carry the role well. I wanted to shoot... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4671 | 0pending | ae0a2093-ef32-46b6-8fd0-767202acecc2 | This movie has some beautiful sets and Albert Finney does a great job as the ruthless father. The movie fails because Jennifer Jason Leigh is too jumpy as the daughter and is no match whatever for Olivia De Havilland's far more nuanced, mature rendering in The Heiress (1949). The film's feminist-leaning conclusion also... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4672 | 0pending | 53889bf0-9d88-4d57-9d93-18582105d29a | I understand there was some conflict between Leigh and the great Maggie Smith during the filming. Understandable when you put one of the world's greatest actresses of all time (Smith, of course) with one whose performances seem to get worse with each subsequent film. | [] | [] | [] |
train_4673 | 0pending | 875054c6-ca00-45f0-baef-37c971f45979 | This adaptation, like 1949's *The Heiress*, is based on the Henry James novel. *The Heiress*, starring Olivia de Havilland, remains as a well-respected piece of work, though less true to James' original story than this new remake, which retains James' original title. It is the story of a awkward, yet loving daughter (L... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4674 | 0pending | 97ee1f6f-da27-45a6-b3fe-58e3d28a0c17 | It's interesting that a novel with no plot has become the basis for two films. While The Heiress was a good, if not entirely accurate, adaptation, Washington Square is a heavy-handed and poorly acted, except for the part of Dr Sloper, film that could have been so much better.<br /><br />The director's attempts at makin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4675 | 0pending | 020333a6-d033-49af-a32d-329d0de53c74 | The potential movie extravaganza, set during the 19th century, failed to produce. With big-name actors like Maggie Smith, Albert Finney, and many others, there was no reason for the movie to fail. However, the movie lacked an ending, had a sorry excuse for a plot line, and fell to pieces with its continuity. A typical ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4676 | 0pending | ff59c9d1-eb84-463b-bf66-836f73942cd4 | Visually cluttered, plot less, incredibly mind-numbing rubbish. Not even close to Greenaway's better work. Avoid at all costs!<br /><br />The overlapping 'split screen' effects do nothing more than confuse, the film is very dark for a lot of the time and the 'artistic' composing of images is pretentious in the extreme.... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4677 | 0pending | 6c081f25-e5f7-4ad6-bc2e-79bceac1b78b | This film is about a Japanese woman who has an obsession with calligraphy on skin.<br /><br />The plot is absolutely bizarre. I fail to see any "sensual" or "erotic" undertones. The plot turns an ancient art form into a fetishistic pornography. In addition, the scenes that are filmed in Hong Kong are certainly portrayi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4678 | 0pending | efeef2f9-4314-4286-b85a-a8559621e747 | I really wanted to like The Pillow Book. Intriguing story, interesting character outlines, Ewan Macgregor in the utterly glorious altogether. Unfortunately, I hated every minute of it. Greenaway got so enamoured with presenting the movie uniquely, and not to the film's benefit. I won't even get into Vivian Wu's abysmal... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4679 | 0pending | dc1244a4-8d49-4768-9cd1-8b3fbaa187fd | I voted 3 for this movie because it looks great as does all of Greenaways output. However it was his usual mix of "art" sex and pretentious crap.I know lots of people like this film but I grew tired of it VERY quickly. It is definitely not for everyone. The ubiquitous McGregor obviously took the part for crediblity's s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4680 | 0pending | d75aa062-abf9-495a-b4fe-6977dab9ee10 | This movie was just down right bad. I love war movies and can normally come away from most movies and find something that I liked,but this was not one of them. This movie lacked substance and intensity.OK I get it, the Finns put up one hell of a fight and thats great, but the story is poorly told. You don't have any re... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4681 | 0pending | 94737a1b-d19d-4d2d-8a39-a623bcc3bf7b | The writers probably had no experience in the army, and probably never glanced at a history book, but I still give this cheaply produced war film some credit for taking a long-needed look at the role of black soldiers in the second world war.<br /><br />The action is confused and unbelievable--any episode of Combat! ha... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4682 | 0pending | 53b65129-2aef-411a-9e1c-aac1d5f13e6d | This movie has Richard Pryor, Rosey Grier and others. It's a curious WW2 movie, and serves as a statement about racism. It is worth watching to understand the fact that Movies reflect how we feel about the issues when they are produced and not about the period of time they portray. Meaning this is a 70's movie not a 40... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4683 | 0pending | a573f6c2-6dde-437b-869a-2ee506372c47 | At first glance this gives the impression that it is going to be a laughable blaxploitation flick, and it does contain moments where it veers in that direction. However, the basic story idea is much stronger than might be expected, and is a respectable effort at portraying racial issues in the World War II era Army. Th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4684 | 0pending | 9ab3a934-4f7d-4a73-a1ec-f043b7b68dfe | This movie is a waste of film stock. Do you believe that the map of a plan of a military mission would be placed on an easel on a patio in broad daylight for anyone with binoculars or a camera with a zoom lens to see? It happened in this film. Do you believe that a DEAF person would actually be enlisted in the active d... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4685 | 0pending | 6c085ec1-f422-4c49-b9e2-c2ecf433b6b8 | BRIEF ENCOUNTER is a ghastly and pointless remake of the 1945 David Lean classic, which was based on Noel Coward's play "Still Life". A doctor removes a particle of grit from a woman's eye at a railway station, he is in a miserable relationship, she is happily married social worker of Italian ancestry. They meet by acc... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4686 | 0pending | 5f8572f7-c3da-48ca-ae7f-353d72f34b59 | Remakes (and sequels) have been a staple of Cinema from the beginning of the media. It is pretty much a hit or miss venture though. If you take what's good of the original and build upon it and update key features too current standards, you can have a success. Note, such films like THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924/1940) or KI... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4687 | 0pending | 2e4c3e40-952f-429f-99df-8fac71b8d9b5 | Unremarkable and unmemorable remake of an old, celebrated English film. Although it may be overly maligned as a total disaster (which it is not), it never builds any tension and betrays its TV origins. Richard Burton sleepwalks through his role, and Sophia Loren's closed (in this movie) face doesn't display much passio... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4688 | 0pending | edd00cd5-bc9f-4640-a3f4-72883d72bb4d | I wanted to give Drawing Blood the benefit of the initial doubt. The opening moments, with a naked woman sprawled out and an painter, Diana, about to paint her and then sucking her blood to drain out so she can use it for her art, give the impression that this could be a kick-ass artsy-vampire flick. Turns out this ini... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4689 | 0pending | d3a35f03-ccfc-4a45-ac03-ed227081e28f | A female vampire kills young women and paints with their blood. She has an assistant who doesn't want to be a vampire, so he has to do what she orders or be turned into a blood sucker. After a few kills, the assistant gets remorse and falls in love with a homeless girl.<br /><br />What can I say about this movie ? That... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4690 | 0pending | c9bdb108-4218-4ed2-95ac-c33c547763ae | A vampire's's henchman wants to call her after falling in love with a five-dollar hooker in this extremely low-budget horror-comedy. I can't explain all the positive comments on this movie. I'll chalk it up to mass hallucination, but it's disconcerting none the less. The one redeeming factor (and this is me being extre... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4691 | 0pending | 48563a94-25b7-401e-861f-713c7055f0e7 | This was a painful example of a cheap, boring and unoriginal show produced by Australian TV stations to fulfil local content quotas. The writing was truly terrible and I'm not surprised that the writers are those responsible for the worst Australian film in recent memory the Honerable Wally Norman.<br /><br />Nothing a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4692 | 0pending | 3db65978-9b9d-468b-b859-43b0039dc3c4 | Of course, "Flatley" is already not exactly the ideal name for a dancer, but I think Michael is really pushing the irony envelope with this new title: "Feet of Flames" <br /><br />One really can't resist recommending Desenex Foot Spray to the retiring (and clearly, ailing) Flatley.<br /><br />I might add that, much lik... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4693 | 0pending | d38d5dad-756a-4927-be63-528da773b4a9 | With a cast of stalwart British character actors and pleasing photography of 1950s Britain, I had hoped and expected to be more entertained by this film. Unfortunately I found myself glued to it for the wrong reasons - I couldn't quite believe how awful it was. I must have watched thousands of old films and am always r... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4694 | 0pending | 78db2724-d435-4c1e-849a-e7ff5fcedd8d | A 1957 (yes, that's the correct date) J. Arthur Rank production with James Robertson Justice, Margaret Rutherford, Wilfred Hyde White; it has to be a smash comedy, right? Oh, it's just awful. It's a one gag film: watching people be shocked at the sight of a little alligator. Music is thrown in, most inappropriately and... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4695 | 0pending | 6fb6b172-f17b-4e34-aaea-8e244a0a4184 | This is a bad B movie masquerading as a mockumentary. The porn documentary filmmaker in the movie has almost as much screen time and dialog as any other character. That completely destroyed any "documentary feel" that they may have wanted to create.<br /><br />The fact that the film is not actually a mockumentary is th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4696 | 0pending | 269b87d6-d285-4606-96cb-35a4d8bef17d | Half the reviews were good so i took a chance for $10. Sure Priscilla Barnes had some sex talk but it wasn't much. The whole plot later that she may be the other actress mother & the documentary maker falling for the young woman is stretching it. Its not funny its not that raunchy its not much of anything but a waste o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4697 | 0pending | e33ff2a4-d707-4103-aad7-cfce5d3c33b0 | Spinal Tap was funny because if you knew a little about heavy metal, you saw in-jokes all over the place. If you know anything about porn, this mock documentary will leave you cold. Everything in it rings false.<br /><br />Spinal Tap was funny because it took a familiar world and pushed it over the top. This film is de... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4698 | 0pending | 09b7963d-969f-4b57-a25c-06e997523397 | Belmondo is a tough cop. He goes after a big-time drug dealer (played by Henry Silva, normally a great villain - see "Sharky's Machine"; but here he is clearly dubbed, and because of that he lacks his usual charisma). He goes to the scuzziest places of Paris and Marseilles, asks for some names, beats up some people, ge... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4699 | 0pending | 7fcd5492-b8ba-4607-ab1e-2046873e401c | This film is terrible. The story concerns a woman trying to find out what has happened to her sister. The film struggles with its identity, lurching from Noir/thriller to erotic, with elements of horror thrown in for good measure. The film has a very confused structure, for example with frequent use of flashbacks witho... | [] | [] | [] |
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