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train_4800 | 0pending | e33176ee-3270-4151-8fdc-711d9cdfc6a9 | I myself am a big fan of low-budget 80's horror films. This isn't the worst but still not to spectacular. The plot line is decent but drags out way too long. You're through half the movie before you even get to see any zombie action. The kills aren't very creative and the zombies aren't too crafty. I truly think this m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4801 | 0pending | 70789e85-9e57-4fd2-a37b-1029516e20df | *Contains some spoilers* This movie is cheesy 80s horror in all its awfulness. The plot takes way too long to get off the ground, never steadies itself, and then just plain crashes about 40 minutes into the film. There are a few gem moments for zombie fans, but not nearly enough zombies to create a real sense of terror... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4802 | 0pending | b672e444-5a9c-415f-8e9a-e1e3e3bab8d5 | After mob boss Vic Moretti (late great Anthony Franciosa) kills his lady whom has been cheating on him with Derek, their new chauffeur/ Vietnam vet, and blames it on the poor guy, Derek finds himself in jail where he has to contend with a corrupt warden, Vic's prisoner brother who runs the jail, and, oh yeah illegal ex... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4803 | 0pending | 6e1596ee-1636-43db-bbf0-ac4966e19e72 | I love John Saxon in anything he's in. The one time he takes over the camera though he directs a movie that should have more aptly been been titled "Please Do Not Watch This Movie Called: Zombie Death House". The $1000 dollar Shock Insurance Certificate is dear Fred Olen Ray's tricky way of making you spend 14 dollars ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4804 | 0pending | 984c3c96-e167-42fc-b7c6-e536741aaf2e | It seems like this is the only film that John Saxon ever directed, and that he had the good sense to stop after that and stay in front of the camera. This movie is a dog, from start to finish, and it's dull and wooden with nothing much going for it. A Viet Nam war hero takes a job working for a mob boss, gets a bit too... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4805 | 0pending | 27dd7132-a487-4e12-93f3-ff27f0b9f18e | Why watch this? There is only one reason and that is for the greatness of John Saxon. I love his acting. My most favorite appearances by him are in Nightmare On Elm Street 1,3, and 7 as Nancy's father a cop, Black Christmas as a cop, and From Dusk Till Dawn again as a cop. When I was rummaging through my local mall vid... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4806 | 0pending | cb09680d-af94-4771-8e56-1850a4994006 | It's been close to ten years since I've seen either of the last two sequels to "Phantasm" - surely due to my still vivid remembrance of them not being very good. That being acknowledged to this day, I'm still a huge fan of the first two installments so I thought I'd go back and re-experience the 'final chapters'. Part ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4807 | 0pending | 8eddfe8c-656e-4a68-a492-c9ee6964f0e6 | Phantasm ....Class. Phantasm II.....awesome. Phantasm III.....erm.....terrible.<br /><br />Even though i would love to stick up for this film, i quite simply can't. The movie seems to have "sold out". First bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start (something the others did not). Also too ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4808 | 0pending | 111d8cec-f9b8-48d3-adf8-113c0affd4f3 | *spoliers* do not read any further if you haven't seen this movie<br /><br />Picking up after the depressing "Phantasm II" ended; The Tall Man kidnaps Mike, while Reggie and new kid Tim spend most of the rest of the movie trying to get him back, and not end up as slaves on the Tall Man's "Red Planet". This one gets rea... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4809 | 0pending | 0f52652c-4a3a-4dd3-b2f1-c02a8c209ad0 | I loathed this film. The original Phantasm had such wonderful ambiance and mystery. Like many 70s horror flicks, it looked and felt like some creepy, unfinished documentary. Phantasm II, from the late 80s, pumped up the action, but maintained this nice attention to mood. Sadly, Phantasm III is just awful. It tediously ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4810 | 0pending | fdcbb2fa-6d82-408c-8f5a-40b396c4b824 | "Phantasm" of 1979 was a highly atmospheric, creepy, scary and very original Horror flick, and, in one word, cult. The first sequel of 1988 was gory, witty, action-packed and highly entertaining. After the first sequel however, "Phantasm" creator Don Coscarelly apparently lacked new ideas. "Phantasm III - Lord Of The D... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4811 | 0pending | 1780a5ca-0c20-457e-849d-e3a12518b6a0 | In the third entry of the Phantasm series, Mike and Reggie continue chasing the Tall Man, assisted by a trigger-happy 9 year old, a black G.I. Jane and the spirit of Mike's deceased brother (he died in the original Phantasm). Number 3 is a rather disappointing sequel, since the gore and black comedy is a lot less inspi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4812 | 0pending | 1a3715b8-b51e-4950-89de-8df2b3a1338e | This entry is certainly interesting for series fans (like myself), but yet it is mostly incomprehensible. The plot is confusing, as is the sequel continuity. Some striking effects, to be sure, but we never find out what it all really means.<br /><br />Try to see the "NC-17" workprint version which contains the gore tha... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4813 | 0pending | 69c9a99e-70c5-49f9-ad3f-6ac66c8a9be9 | I despise horror movies, that is no secret. No plot, bad acting and gallons of blood are staples of these mistakes of cinema, and this "movie" is no exception. I cannot believe some cable stations actually run this garbage. (This particular garbage was released straight-to-video, as I recall.) As mentioning any other m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4814 | 0pending | ed3b3861-3dda-430d-8f99-cb4e52b1e1d9 | So much is wrong with this abysmal little wet fart of a movie that it's hard to know where to begin.<br /><br />First of all, it's a remarkably un-scary scary movie, even by Amercian standards. The dialogue is cliché, the characters are two-dimensional, the writing is ho-hum, and what little story there is is neither c... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4815 | 0pending | ceb35d5c-89e7-4186-8a0a-b6dc92ad4639 | Beautiful attracts excellent idea, but ruined with a bad selection of the actors. The main character is a loser and his woman friend and his friend upset viewers. Apart from the first episode all the other become more boring and boring. First, it considers it illogical behavior. No one normal would not behave the way t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4816 | 0pending | 3a05baff-f90b-4ca5-9a97-5d496b0d389d | This is yet another bad movie that you should probably avoid watching. The plot could be a lot "thicker" than it actually is and would be better made as a blockbuster type movie.<br /><br />The acting leaves something to be desired, though you can not quite place your finger on what it is.<br /><br />This is one of tho... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4817 | 0pending | 8850eb4f-0018-4eba-8e07-3f0678de6154 | 1st watched 12/24/2009 4 out of 10 (Dir-Robert Ellis Miller): Emotional Christmas fluff that doesn't really get specific enough to explain how the real story happened in this factual-based incident of a man who is wrongly put in jail trying to get a job for his family to make Christmas happen for them. The three kids... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4818 | 0pending | 888f64d0-8815-4f26-b541-9ed93392656f | This might be the poorest example of amateur propaganda ever made. The writers and producers should study the German films of the thirties and forties. They knew how to sell. Even soviet-style clunky leader as god-like father-figure were better done. Disappointing. The loss of faith, regained in church at last second j... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4819 | 0pending | 206da62f-de21-4812-87b5-0adc2a9f5073 | I think this cartoon is one of the worst cartoons I have ever watched. I would recommend this cartoon to people who are under 5. I did used to like this show when I was 4 and 5, I still only watched it when there was nothing on. Now I am other 5 and I would rather do my homework than watch it. The cartoon used to be a ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4820 | 0pending | 2c350b2f-40b6-4c00-afac-236ca73b52a7 | In 2004, I liked it. Then it became very stupid. It suggests that kids are brainless. It insults children. Cartoon Network used to be great. One of the shows I liked was Hamtaro. It did manage to be interesting and imaginative in its approach to children programming. The show (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) is li... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4821 | 0pending | 28e60138-6011-478c-8fcb-a2ab85ddb8fc | This is the worst show I have seen in years. I believe that it should be taken off of T.V. because of its retardedness. It is so dumb I could faint when I watch it. (even though I never watch it because it is SOOOOO poor) <br /><br />Goofs: When mac says he can;t eat sugar, in another episode he eats sugar. Almost ever... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4822 | 0pending | 01c16405-99ad-44e9-a194-a2d9c7d2b8b6 | The idea behind this film was a good one. Too bad it wasn't written well. Casting Sidney Poitier as the FBI agent was a good idea, and he did an outstanding job. Tom Berenger, on the other hand, only knows one emotion in most of his movies, anger. Kirstie Alley's character could have been a great one, and even showed s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4823 | 0pending | 39c11eb3-c179-4c7b-96e0-539788693cb4 | I had to write a review of this film after reading another comment saying that this is Sidney Poitier's best movie. Poitier had just returned from over a decade's break in film acting and he is clearly creaky here. 11 of his films are mentioned in Wikipedia and they don't include this. 5 of his films are on the AFI's l... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4824 | 0pending | 364e2222-e8d0-475f-832c-09a9b8e4c433 | What a complete waste of time. The movie starts as a clone of the Saw series, but with even worse acting. Melissa Joan Hart is absolutely horrible. The ending is ridiculous and the story contains no twists, not plot surprises and just a plain bad ending. I liked some of the characters and I was hoping for everything to... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4825 | 0pending | 9f8fd61d-f04c-4fc3-825d-d2938e07c257 | I'm not sure if the filmmakers were after a Saw-type movie or 12 Angry Men (people piecing together the facts to get at the truth). Whatever it was, it was poorly done and not worth watching.<br /><br />I don't watch movies for blood and gore, but because this film had little else going for it, it should have shown the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4826 | 0pending | 204fdb0a-8b84-414a-a385-0834c4487317 | an very good storyline, good thrill to it ... but the 10 last seconds destroyed the whole movie... what happened? extremely well made and an good story destroyed in the last seconds... sorry to say but a 1 in vote... thats what it it deserve, i would think that Chris Shadley could come up with a better end... but maybe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4827 | 0pending | e64f51fb-292b-4bbe-927c-a456709fccc4 | Before watching this film, I could already tell it was a complete copy of Saw (complete with the shack-like place they were in and the black guy wanting someone to break his hand to get out of the cuffs). MJH's name on a movie would typically turn me away (ugh, can we say GROSS?!), but I still wanted to give it a try.<... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4828 | 0pending | 401f4e45-890f-4d37-bf21-8bde6a1212df | Don't waste your time on this film. It could have been good, but the ending was one of the lamest I've ever seen. I seriously have to wonder how the people involved with the making of this film could've looked at that final scene and thought, "yeah! now there's an ending!" and patted themselves on the back about it. To... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4829 | 0pending | 33f029aa-f5f7-43f1-aff8-0d772fefbcf6 | I wanted to like this film, yes its a SAW, blah blah blah ripoff but I like those films. If done well this had all the ingredients of being a good, not brilliant, but good film....unfortunately those ingredients had gone off! The acting was terrible, and this was first seen when the captives are introduced with their c... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4830 | 0pending | e2295fef-9f02-4055-9bbe-16ffa2c11240 | Sadly it was misguided. This movie stunk from start to finish. It was hard to watch because I used to watch Clarissa Explains It All every day on Nickelodeon. I LOVED her. Then the next thing I found she did a spread in Maxim and she was gorgeous! I haven't really heard anything about her until I watched this movie on ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4831 | 0pending | a6c70ba4-2abf-474b-b2dc-aa347d82cc72 | I stumbled upon Nine Dead recently and read the current reviews thinking I could deal with an average movie. This movie however was slightly below average, yet watchable. The script was poorly written and the acting was at average for a B-level movie with a couple standing out as pretty good. The plot borders on that o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4832 | 0pending | f95b6c5c-1a31-4e10-9945-87aa8b54e9a4 | I watched this movie as I liked the plot, a group of strangers are held captive trying to figure out how they're connected.<br /><br />The setting and the premise were obviously influenced by the first (and best) Saw movie & although there wasn't much action the story moved at a relatively good pace.<br /><br />There w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4833 | 0pending | 0988d824-09d0-4319-a402-d203f9613df4 | you can tell they spent 5$ making this.it is a waste of your time... ugh.. there is not anything remotely good about this movie... .. i don't know why i kept watching it.. the chick is not hot. horrid acting.. you could do anything and its a better use of your time.. like watching TV playing shitty video games.. i feel... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4834 | 0pending | 3d25c904-663d-43ce-b60c-4c169fea87f2 | While the original titillates the intellect, this cheap remake is designed purely to shock the sensibilities. Instead of intricate plot-twists, this so-called thriller just features sudden and seemingly random story changes that serve only to debase it further with each bizarre development. Worst of all, replacing the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4835 | 0pending | 5107814b-1c72-44dc-a5d2-ebfa5b1e49de | 86 wasted minutes of my life. I fell asleep the first time I attempted watching it, and I must say I'm not one to ever fall asleep in the cinema.<br /><br />I have never seen such a pointless plot acted in such a stilted and forced manner, and can only surmise that the actors were as hard-up as the protagonist writer a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4836 | 0pending | 23d58ca2-4b06-4fe3-a8e3-17bfef26feae | The main reason for writing this review is I found this "revisioning" of a great play and worthy 1972 film, a horrible movie experience. If I can save someone from watching it, I will have done a good thing.<br /><br />This "new" version is loaded with talent, and it all goes wrong. Kenneth Branagh OKs an ugly, sterile... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4837 | 0pending | 2694520c-9057-4d2b-a903-e2864e588757 | I saw this movie not knowing anything about it before hand. The plot was terrible with large gaps of information missing. The movie didn't have the "battle of wits" feel to me. The actors just spewed out mouthful's of nonsense, at times causing me to gnash my teeth in agony as they droned on and on. The plot was predic... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4838 | 0pending | 128d737c-0518-4e48-a56b-cb336f4c1aff | Harold Pinter rewrites Anthony Schaeffer's classic play about a man going to visit the husband of his lover and having it all go sideways. The original film starred Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. Caine has the Olivier role in this version and he's paired with Jude Law. Here the film is directed by Kenneth Branaugh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4839 | 0pending | 6c8f839b-f7a7-4b5b-8bd1-2019ea237763 | This reworking of Anthony Shaffer's classic play did not last long in cinemas. Having recently suffered through it on cable, I still congratulate myself for not wasting money on a ticket. Director Kenneth Branagh, writer Harold Pinter, and star/producer Jude Law deluded themselves that their prestige alone could sustai... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4840 | 0pending | 8a4f6be6-2af2-41d3-b48a-3c9598027807 | At the name of Pinter, every knee shall bow - especially after his Nobel Literature Prize acceptance speech which did little more than regurgitate canned, by-the-numbers, sixth-form anti-Americanism. But this is even worse; not only is it a tour-de-force of talentlessness, a superb example of how to get away with coast... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4841 | 0pending | 4cec1dc6-0f3a-4b7b-af1e-8f10a34225aa | Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth didn't need a remake. It's a thoroughly well made film that stands up well to this day. However, given that the modern day remake machine is currently in full swing; I really can't say I'm surprised to see the film updated for modern audience. The plot remains identical to the original fil... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4842 | 0pending | 38efea99-0312-4ee1-9eec-204d54fcad62 | It's a while ago, that I have seen Sleuth (1972) with two great actors Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier. Michael Caine is back, but he is now the husband and Jude Law the lover of his wife. The story is still the same and it's a fantastic play.<br /><br />During the movie I always had the feeling to watch a play. Tha... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4843 | 0pending | ca1b8823-fb6c-4332-b580-0063515e1ead | A remake of the superb 1972 movie of the stage play, nicely casting Caine as the nemesis of his character from the first movie. But doing nothing else nicely at all.<br /><br />A under-parr performance from the actors, Law and Caine, diluted further by weak self-indulgent direction.<br /><br />The warmth of the setting... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4844 | 0pending | ae57dc1d-38a0-4824-9436-ed0b7bde4f38 | I thought the film was good in parts.the start was exciting .the first 30 minutes of the film were good.the camera angles in the first 30 minutes were strange and i did not like it coz the were they not covering the actors entirely.<br /><br />i think the last 25 minutes of the film were really not that great from whic... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4845 | 0pending | bd99353f-8c73-4b10-a589-7a0bec940da6 | I loved the original. It was brilliant and always will be. Strangely though, I actually looked forward to seeing the re-make. I'm usually a little bit against re-makes because there's far too many of them, but somehow this intrigued me. I was really enjoying it to begin with. Caine brilliant, as usual, and Jude Law man... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4846 | 0pending | 66e15e09-b95c-448a-bced-29641d203f78 | Director F.W. Murnau wisely stuck with the silent film medium he knew so well to cover this story of native islander life in the South Seas. The documentary style works very well for the first half of the movie. The landscapes are beautiful, and the daily life activities of the islanders are interesting to watch. The f... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4847 | 0pending | 59a80543-334e-4f74-b898-e044f485744e | I heard many stories about this film being great... Well, I took my chance when I saw it for a cheap price at Ebay last month.<br /><br />I watched it, and I have only a few comments about it:<br /><br />1) Terrible story-line, 2) Terrible acting, 3) Bad fighting-scenes...<br /><br />I never seen any worse movie in my ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4848 | 0pending | bab4f532-288b-4ab3-b6a1-243b10a68508 | First of all when I saw the teaser trailer for Wendy Wu, I was definitely excited. Brenda Song, one of the hottest girls on Disney Channel, would be doing martial arts and I was fine with that... until I saw the movie. The action was poorly constructed, the movie couldn't have realated to anyone, the fighting was unrea... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4849 | 0pending | afb87852-05af-409c-85cf-b2f6892f546a | I'd give it a 2/10.<br /><br />I was really, really disappointed.<br /><br />The storyline was poorly developed, for instance, the incidents were too short and brief, hence the moral was not clearly brought out. I thought Brenda Song did a fine job, but Shin Koyamada seemed to have a difficult time handling his role. I... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4850 | 0pending | a6da570b-008c-40bc-849e-13422325071c | This movie was so poorly written and directed I fell asleep 30 minutes through the movie. The jokes in the movie are corny and even though the plot is interesting at some angles, it is too far fetched and at some points- ridiculous. If you are 11 or older you will overlook the writing in the movie and be disappointed, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4851 | 0pending | cdaa8319-fdd0-4f3d-b5ed-9ee52ca575a9 | I thought the movie (especially the plot) needs a lot of work. The elements of the movie remains westernized and untrue to the attempt of trying to produce an eastern feel in the movie. I'll give three out of many of the flaws of the movie:<br /><br />First, when Shen told Wendy that he would help her study the history... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4852 | 0pending | 2e575905-6969-4675-a05b-7fb05ef36553 | I thought this movie was terrible. I'm Chinese, so I thought everything was totally wrong. Many of the facts were incorrect. The only thing right about Chinese history in the movie was when Wendy's mother explained to her husband about the statues that guarded ShiHuangDi. I also thought the fight scenes were very chees... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4853 | 0pending | a86df8c1-05bf-40ec-bd0c-61a4213500fd | There are several things wrong with this movie- Brenda Song's character being one of them. I do not believe that the girl is a lousy actor- I honestly don't. I believe she is given poor lines. She is just supposed to be, "that vain, rich girl", and while it is funny in the TV shows she plays in, it can't even get a dry... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4854 | 0pending | 95324219-e3bb-46b8-ad11-7fbab3bb59be | There isn't more I can say that saying this film was awful. The whole Chineseness is awakened in your being because of the ancestors was a hard sell. But telling the audience that every Chinese knows Chinese history without even studying it just laughable. That is like saying every American knows American history witho... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4855 | 0pending | 0355d9ca-121b-4138-b604-9dd627cb5bb1 | Worst DCOM I have seen. Ever. Well, maybe not as bad as Smart House. This was just bad. The acting and story was fine, but the effects SUCKED!<br /><br />They were so fake! The only good fight scene was between the brother and Shen. That was probably the only scene in which I was excited.<br /><br />Overall, I found th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4856 | 0pending | 2b304a22-7e5a-4e84-90dd-dbac8ec2924b | I'm here again in your local shopping mall (of course, 'cause that's where the high school kids hang out!!!!!) to demonstrate how awful "BENDY POO: PROM COURIER" really is!!!!! To prove how bad this joke of a DCOM this is...<br /><br />...we're going to take these four sumo wrestlers, and stuff them into this photo boo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4857 | 0pending | 4f606316-8c2a-4882-81ff-c5752868bd19 | Wow. This was probably the worst DCOM ever. I watched the first half hour and I laughed. Brenda Song plays Wendy, the popular girl with the hot jock boyfriend and stuck up friends who is determined to be Homecoming Queen. She is supposed to save the world as a warrior, and Shin comes to her aid to help her with her Mar... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4858 | 0pending | c78b30cc-f820-4e26-82b1-5d57edef370d | Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior has a very good, strong plot but is ruined by cheesy details throughout the movie. I am a younger teenager and didn't enjoy this movie very much. I thought the effects were horrible, but they might seem entertaining to younger children. The matrix moves ruined the action, you know that it w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4859 | 0pending | 71d10ebf-fccd-409d-9452-8deca59f4dd8 | I am so insulted by this movie, it's not even funny... And I thought "Mulan" was unbelievable! However low my expectations of Disney have become, I never figured they'd do something so stereotypical yet so off. There is no respect here for any true Chinese culture, just the Hollywood tradition of random martial arts.<b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4860 | 0pending | 2c4f3ddf-bd03-4e5a-b54d-14b21f8b7fd0 | The day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of Azumi's fate as an assassin, fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga.<br /><br />That's as poetical as I'll get when talking about Azumi 2: Death or Love, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4861 | 0pending | 3c7114c2-05b2-465b-9f7f-e9c84476a597 | I loved watching the original Azumi with its mix of live action manga, compelling storyline, cool soundtrack, directing (Kitamura rocks!), editing, and not to mention the beautiful Aya Ueto who filled the part perfectly. So I was really looking forward to seeing Azumi 2, but after finally seeing it I felt like i had wo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4862 | 0pending | e4d6518a-dc6d-4e8a-bcf0-558e01eaa8b5 | I loved the first "Azumi" movie. I've seen Ms. Ueto in a variety of her TV appearances and I've seen my fair share of samurai and ninja flicks. I have to say that this movie was much weaker than I'd expected.<br /><br />Given the movie's cast and set up in "Azumi", they should have been able to do a much better job wit... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4863 | 0pending | e296ebab-d999-463a-83c3-ed6c4f3da360 | The movie deserves 2/10. 1.5 stars for the girl, (I'm sorry I'm biased, i think pretty girl is the only highlight of the movies), and 0.5 for the fact that it is shorter than Azumi 1. I watched Azumi 1 and 2 in 1 seating. I amazed myself being able to sit through it. <br /><br />Lets talk about the plus points of the m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4864 | 0pending | ae8eecbb-0ab9-4aa2-a82e-d73ff39ad9f5 | One of the worst movies I've seen shoddy camera work, crappy filter usage, film was grainy, script was terrible, i mean come on, how predictable was the big battle at the end.....<br /><br />some of the fight scenes were okay i guess....<br /><br />some scenes were so bad it was comical ...like Sorbo getting the horse ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4865 | 0pending | 4d9eefc1-6a5d-4322-b176-72b0181b260d | I can enjoy a guilty pleasure vigilante flick, but this is just bad. And not bad in a way you might enjoy seeing MST3K make fun of it. It's just nauseatingly bad like you can't find anything to enjoy about this no matter how hard you try. I truly regret wasting 2 hours of precious life on this crap. You can tell by wat... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4866 | 0pending | 7e270cad-da7f-4d50-bee4-f6da81a59dae | Les Visiteurs, the first movie about the medieval time travelers was actually funny. I like Jean Reno as an actor, but there was more. There were unexpected twists, funny situations and of course plain absurdness, that would remind you a little bit of Louis de Funes.<br /><br />Now this sequel has the same characters, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4867 | 0pending | adf6b7ba-95b7-4129-b8a2-84fb1bbef164 | In a way, Corridors of Time is a success story because the movie reaches its goal : being seen by thousands. But it fails at making them laugh...<br /><br />Les Visiteurs has had its success, because the subject was an original way of considering the time travel : forget about Zemeckis's Back to the future, here comes ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4868 | 0pending | 0e9fc0ff-90f6-498f-a24b-40f692e79a0a | This film is so bad and gets worse in every imaginable fashion. Its not just the poor acting and script nor is it the lame and perverse time one wastes on watching it. What really puts this film in my hall of shame is the apparent struggling that the writers and producers do with the film to try and make it funny. The ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4869 | 0pending | bfb14037-9d2f-420b-9766-1a34798de779 | Everybody who wants to be an editor should watch this movie! It shows you about every mistake not to do in editing a movie! My grandma could have done better than that! But that's not the only reason why this movie is really bad! (It's actually so bad that I'm not able to write a sentence without exclamation mark!) If ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4870 | 0pending | 48ae03b8-6e10-4d60-8f5b-86a7a4621d1f | In 1993, "the visitors" was an enormous hit in France. So, the sequence was inevitable and unfortunately, this sequence ranks among the worst ones ever made. <br /><br />This is a movie that doesn't keep its promises. Indeed, it's supposed to tell a sole story. Jean Reno must go in the twentieth century and take Christ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4871 | 0pending | 0a9e34a5-dd69-4905-a251-74458c48a350 | The original "les visiteurs" was original, hilarious, interesting, balanced and near perfect. LV2 must be a candidate for "Worst first sequel to a really good film". In LV2 everyone keeps shouting, when a gag doesn't work first it's repeated another 5 times with some vague hope that it will eventually become funny. LV2... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4872 | 0pending | 87060814-1612-468e-88ac-5def4201ed0f | Corridors of time. The movie you can watch if you're looking for a sophisticated way of suicide. Some use guns, ropes, or gas, but you want to ruin your brains ? Do not wait any longer ! Corridors of time is probably one of the biggest possible mistakes : thinking Christian Clavier is able to act and to bring you fun. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4873 | 0pending | 52ce3d08-975a-4fc2-9f3f-929ad9243b06 | Where to begin? Anachronism? High tech cross bow with a scope in about 500AD? Arrows with explosive charges in 500AD? A monster Grendel that looks like a robocop and obviously never interacts with any of the weapons fired or swung against him? The heart torn out of his victim's chest without any sense of contact? Possi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4874 | 0pending | e4e6f0e3-f094-4218-9b35-628dc94b38d3 | Just once I'd like to see a version of Beowulf where it appears the screenwriters have at least a passing familiarity with the original poem. Yet again, after watching this Sci Fi presentation, I'm disappointed. <br /><br />I'm not suggesting the writers need to understand and analyze the poem in Old English, but I wis... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4875 | 0pending | 5d74c8ed-b7f5-48a2-a187-5bf8b0471881 | I just read a review defending this film because it had a low budget, now my take on things.<br /><br />The CGI monsters was reasonable well animated but was implemented in the worst possible way. The fight scenes weren't even fights it was just one shot of an actor then one shot of monster with very interaction at all... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4876 | 0pending | 5df7fec5-3f65-4f34-a1bd-504a802104f6 | Why oh why can't anyone make a decent film out of a legendary tale? This is the second adaptation of "Beowulf" I've been disappointed with in a year. But I have to say, the previous version ("Beowulf & Grendel", starring Gerald Butler) was far superior to this. That one was only a little disappointing. This one is a me... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4877 | 0pending | 94968dc3-7d9b-4d4c-82df-3d689b2119ec | This movie lost me with the crossbow RPG (rocket-propelled grenade). It was like someone cut and pasted a scene from Robocop. I half expected Beowulf to say exclaim, "I LIKE IT!"<br /><br />I watched this because I like Chris Bruno from "The Dead Zone" TV show and he did his part. He chose a strange accent, but at leas... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4878 | 0pending | 3342438a-464c-48e8-ad12-10641ea144b5 | This is a made-for-TV and rather needless Sci-fi Channel retelling of the Beowulf story, especially after the recent 2005 film "Beowulf and Grendel". This movie doesn't really get into Beowulf's story, but just takes us through his battle against the ravenous beast known as Grendel as it leaves a kingdom in absolute fe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4879 | 0pending | 6992dbff-d697-4535-abae-f2284d44cb9b | I watched Grendel the other night and am compelled to put together a Public Service Announcement.<br /><br />Grendel is another version of Beowulf, the thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon epic poem. The SciFi channel has a growing catalog of inoffensive and uninteresting movies, and the previews promised an inauthentic low-b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4880 | 0pending | d74c4ea0-36be-426e-b946-3653541c6ca9 | After having seen the Canadian/Icelandic/British 2004 production of "Beowulf & Grendel," which I thought brilliant and stunning, I approached this--the first of 3 newer Beowulf movies due out this year--with trepidation. As soon as I heard "Viking" and saw the horned helmets, I groaned. These were Migration Era Swedes ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4881 | 0pending | 164f2e40-452a-495e-beb2-118e7ef82559 | May the saints preserve us, because this movie is not going to help.<br /><br />Someone with access needs to e-mail Mel Gibson and tell him we need a faithful production of Beowulf. Something that actually has something in common with the epic poem that is the foundation for all modern western literature.<br /><br />Th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4882 | 0pending | 65e5d714-7314-4d91-8aa3-7a988d51598c | I stopped five minutes in when Beowulf was given a double-shot, automatic crossbow with sights on it. Not only do crossbows not have telescoping sights, but Beowulf beat Grendel in hand-to-hand combat. The terrible, wooden acting and eternal darkness that plagues all Sci-Fi Original Movies didn't help either. Having on... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4883 | 0pending | 21bf2e97-4c7c-44d6-a15b-af45b16e6fa0 | It's hard to say what was the worst thing about this show: the bad acting, poor acoustics of different portions, bad CGI, improper sets for the period, the poor script. It would have been nice if the script followed the original tale a bit closer -- there's enough tension and good material in Beowulf to provide a great... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4884 | 0pending | 4553e78e-0bae-4c3e-a2ec-7f374a7f6716 | I work at a Blockbuster store and every week we have movies that come in with just a few copies, these are the kind of movies that the Sci-Fi channel shows. The kind of movie that nobody ever wants, and only that idiots rent, when they bring it back I ask them "was it any good?", they say "no we turned it off after 15 ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4885 | 0pending | 43ef95ea-a832-4464-9ef3-e3198626ea73 | Good Folks, I stumbled on this film on evening while I was grading papers. My academic specialty is Anglo-Saxon literature, and I can say that no one has ever done the genre the honor it deserves. The Icelandic "Beowulf and Grendel" is the least offensive I have seen, and I did pay $3.00 for my copy. This Sci-Fi versio... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4886 | 0pending | 5625c354-38b7-4468-a3a6-4620a8d89e7a | First off, this is no where near as bad as some of the other trash the Sci-Fi Channel has produced; that isn't to say that Grendel is a good film, in fact, it is very bad, but it definitely had potential to be a lot better. The flaws of the film come from character design, character, absurd additions to the story, the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4887 | 0pending | 98c58995-7bef-49d4-b2f1-b5573ff6ffb5 | I was expecting the movie based on Grendel, the book written by John Gardner in the late 1970's. It was based on the Beowulf epic, but told from the perspective of the monster. <br /><br />Whatever you may think of Gardner's book, a movie based on the Beowulf epic should not be entitled Grendel, when it doesn't say any... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4888 | 0pending | 5ff5ac45-7db9-4001-aa43-8510de35e09d | SciFi has been having some extremely bad luck making quality movies lately (such as Minotaur or Dog Soldiers). Grendel is supposed to be based of the great epic Beowulf, however, it deviates so much (and offers so little in comparison) that the advertisements on television might as well have titled it 'some shitty Chri... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4889 | 0pending | 4f4d2ecb-2a86-43e1-b53c-c0c6ab5f1522 | I understand this movie was made on a very low budget but that is no excuse for the monstrosity that is Grendel. Deathstalker, The Throne of Fire, Barbarian Queen, Conquest, the Invincible Barbarian were all done on shoestring budgets and poor special effects yet they still managed to create cult classics by adding som... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4890 | 0pending | f5e779e0-4c00-41b4-bd67-04450248888f | For such a great classic tale, the setting (location), Grendel was disappointing. As a writer, I blame the script which completely lacked dramatic tension. The rubric of the club story is useful and would have provided a new take on the literary classic. For some weird reason that rubric was dropped early on. To know t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4891 | 0pending | 75dcc1f3-eb52-4bfd-9218-4bd8014fa67d | This movie is a farce! Names are grossly mispronounced and the plot is twisted and gnarled into something unrecognizable by any literature enthusiast. And they have the gall to give Beowulf a ridiculous cannon/crossbow weapon. Beowulf doesn't need a weapon like that! In the poem, he rips off Grendel's arm with his bare... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4892 | 0pending | 25396945-ea54-403c-afb9-09f25f843c9d | turned out to be another failed attempt by the laughable sci-fi channel. i am not sure who wrote the script, and interpreted the poem, but i am sure it was by some 17 year old teen who thought it would be awesome to a have a scoped crossbow in the movie. AAAAAAAH! when i saw that part, I lost all hope. Then...they set ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4893 | 0pending | b79aed06-3dba-498d-bf08-155a1b701441 | 99.999% pure crap. And the other .001% was a brief moment where I thought the blond chick was going to disrobe. Nope.<br /><br />The dialogue was legendarily bad. The action sucked, and there was no sex (the afore mentioned blond chick is modestly dressed, alas, the whole movie). The CGI had the dubious honor of being ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4894 | 0pending | 96030602-7781-4b21-b66a-60ed8fc8496f | And thats about all that is. This thing is slow. The actors have ability, they just don't seem motivated to put forth the effort. The plot isn't that great and is hampered further by the aforementioned slowness of it all. The accents, when there are any, are British. Uh, lots of these folks are supposed to be Danes. OK... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4895 | 0pending | 375453cb-f773-46c4-a5c4-a02d189cba6e | I am a great fan of the Batman comics and I became disappointed when I could no longer find Batman: The Animated Series on TV anymore. I was excited to learn that there was going to be a new Batman cartoon on TV. I watched the first episode the day it premiered and I was very disappointed.<br /><br />First of all, the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4896 | 0pending | 908a4283-e559-47fd-b061-c395d7e806d1 | Remember the good ol' animated batman show from the 90's? The one that people praised? The one that people of all ages could all appreciate? The one that showed batman as a real detective instead of the Hulk in a bat suit? The one that had villains you could relate to? The one that had villains with real motives?<br />... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4897 | 0pending | 40100988-372e-44ad-90c3-1f54a34061ea | Not only did they get the characters all wrong, not only do the voices suck, not only do the writers seriously need to get girlfriends, not only are the drawings really crude, but it seems like it was mainly created for ages 1-6. The only episode I've ever seen of this show that kept me watching, was "A Mattter Of Fami... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4898 | 0pending | 10468f2c-9092-444b-bcb7-c712af087d58 | I cant believe some people actually like this. Yet still call themselves Batman fans. Even going as far as to say it's better than BTAS. Which it's not. It should be plagiarism for them to use Batman's name for this piece of crap. It's not Batman.<br /><br />The whole premise of the show is ''if you cant defeat someone... | [] | [] | [] |
train_4899 | 0pending | a57e2718-9226-49f8-8255-dc7115bc71e9 | When this cartoon first aired I was under the impression that it would be at least half way descent, boy was I wrong. I must admit watching this cartoon is almost as painful as watching Batman and Robin with George Clooney all those years ago. I watched a few episodes and two of them had Batman literally get his ass ki... | [] | [] | [] |
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