id
stringlengths
7
10
status
class label
2 classes
_server_id
stringlengths
36
36
text
stringlengths
53
8.97k
ranking_0.responses
listlengths
0
1
ranking_0.responses.users
listlengths
0
1
ranking_0.responses.status
listlengths
0
1
train_6300
0pending
ca85137b-4d6d-4495-b039-5d5cfcd1c001
...cause they're both pretty lousy. I think the best part of the movie is the horrendously imperial picture of Faye Dunaway at the top of the stairs. She looks like she could very easily step out of that picture, rip someone to bloody pieces, and calmly re-enter the portrait looking as if nothing had happened. Now, you...
[]
[]
[]
train_6301
0pending
9aebbb28-1af4-40f9-96ed-bc19b32b261e
For some reason, TV Guide gave this two and a half stars, plus Faye Dunaway is in it, so it definitely looked like something to see. My, oh, my, this may be the worst film I've ever seen. Ever. From its horrid acting (every time the girl asks the boy what's wrong with him, I shouted to the TV "I can't act!" When she as...
[]
[]
[]
train_6302
0pending
ff2da0b4-30f0-4ee1-a603-dcbb059704fe
The only reason I rented this was because of the article in Fangoria Magazine. The article made this film look interesting. Well, it isn't. This was a very boring, amateurishly written and directed movie. All the actors in this movie are awful, except Faye Dunaway, who is always a joy to watch. But too much time was fo...
[]
[]
[]
train_6303
0pending
727a8917-b1d5-4dd0-a864-0656bf20c821
This is the last time I rent a video without checking in at the IMDB reviews. The Limey is directed by Steven Soderbergh who also wrote wrote the truly awful Nightwatch with Ewan Macgregor and directed such trash as Out of Sight with the anti-talented Jennifer Lopez. Terence Stamp is a fine actor and it is a shame he i...
[]
[]
[]
train_6304
0pending
66cb9f6d-f878-4bec-a9a3-3c679d17750c
This film has the look and feel of a Student film project. Yeah, there are some interesting (albeit gimmicky) edits and shots, but the end result was juvenile.<br /><br />The director didn't seem to be saying "Look at this film." It seemed as if he were saying, "Look at ME! I'm a DIRECTOR!"<br /><br />Thumbs down.
[]
[]
[]
train_6305
0pending
295c348b-49fc-4d73-a2bb-0ba220eba2bf
There was not one single redeeming factor in this movie. The girlfriend and I both love action films. Especially fight scenes (Bloodsport and Kickboxer was awesome), but this movie was not entertaining. Five minutes of action followed twenty minutes of talking and "angry" facial expressions. The main hero is a troubled...
[]
[]
[]
train_6306
0pending
44fd6526-ee3f-4ce2-b48a-ab537dba0497
Wow, I knew this film was going to be bad but not this bad. Spoilerific comments ensue.<br /><br />Roddy Roddy Piper is sickly sweet retired cop (cliche!), helping out everyone - smiling like a post-op lobotomy patient through-out and lamenting over his dead son. His adopted son returns from Armed Forces "Special Ops" ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6307
0pending
3573d555-ed96-4c90-95d0-87099445458f
Absolute garbage, worse fight scenes than a 20 year old van damme movie or American ninja etc.<br /><br />Truly dire acting, not a skill in sight in the entire movie its like a cast of wooden sculptures.<br /><br />Watch it just for how truly bad this film is, it may have been acceptable in the 80s but this is a 2006 m...
[]
[]
[]
train_6308
0pending
e3ca2471-ee44-4d29-98e6-d06e8734fc0b
I have not yet seen anyone slate this film and i think i may be the first.<br /><br />It was awful. I actually didn't watch the end of it. It was like watching a boring soap or a really good one (all soaps are crap). The actors were poor and storyline was bad. The person who rated it 10/10 has no idea what he is on abo...
[]
[]
[]
train_6309
0pending
e39905de-0003-47e4-b170-0c73d45fbf1f
I'm a big fan of Italian films from the seventies, and I wouldn't hesitate to list the beautiful Barbara Bouchet among my favourite actresses of all time, so I did go into this film with some hopes. However, it soon becomes apparent that this is a largely pointless film that isn't going to go anywhere. Clearly nobody w...
[]
[]
[]
train_6310
0pending
8270f018-fe48-4139-8350-0826fa10b148
Wow this movie sucked big time. I heard this movie expresses the meaning of friendship very well. And with all the internet hype on this movie I figured what could go wrong? However the movie was just plain bad. It was boring and the character development was never there. Space Travelers was also a horrible movie, if y...
[]
[]
[]
train_6311
0pending
e66232e5-97d9-48b3-bef6-431c88e2240c
May I please have my $13.00 back? I would have rather watched "Hydro- Electric Power Comes to North America". Again. This is a movie with one voice. The same voice, which comes out of every characters mouth regardless of age or gender. To listen to that voice again I would have to charge at least $150 an hour. And I do...
[]
[]
[]
train_6312
0pending
ea51967a-d9e0-4ba4-8338-287a74ebdc23
Woody Allen, when at his best, has one of the sharpest pens around. He can make an acute observation and wrap it around a punch line like nobody else. However, when he's at his worst his movies can stench of pretentiousness. Unfortunately, "Melinda and Melinda" has this stench from opening to closing. The set up is one...
[]
[]
[]
train_6313
0pending
a2b5c1e9-3216-4f50-b80d-06a5d70d4c3d
And how many actors can he get to stand in for his own neurotic, compulsive uber-New Yorker persona? In this film Woody is played by Will Ferrell in what is mercifully less a direct impersonation than the one Kenneth Branagh did in "Celebrity." It's an annoyingly repetitive story now: nebbishy, neurotic man with a wife...
[]
[]
[]
train_6314
0pending
192ea7b6-7bf0-489d-a0b4-a8399b052b2a
I am so disappointed. This movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy. Here was the quintessential Woody Allen film all over again: the neurotic upper-class Manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses. Woody, I've seen these characters already, I've seen the storyline from ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6315
0pending
ce022ac5-16de-48ee-8ddd-212c8670ba0d
If I accidentally stumbled across this script in textual form i would read it and maybe laugh. I would not, however laugh at the points in the film where the director would seem to want me to laugh. Although I am still not altogether sure where these are. I don't care if this is Woody Allen, this writer cannot write di...
[]
[]
[]
train_6316
0pending
0f982f8f-d305-43e0-b219-0fdbf4402bbb
I couldn't wait to see this movie. About half way through the movie, I couldn't wait for it to end. All of the (white) actors were delivering their lines like Woody Allen had just said, "Say it like this..." Then they said their lines on screen like they were trying to imitate Woody Allen. It was so annoying. We all kn...
[]
[]
[]
train_6317
0pending
85a19fd6-a696-4bb0-b1ac-ebbb5b6cc419
Woody Allen has lost his ability to write dialogue or characters that are clearly distinguishable from each other. This is the case with "Melinda and Melinda," where all the characters speak with Allen's generic pseudo-sophistication and have problems and points of view that are not relatable to anyone outside of a fou...
[]
[]
[]
train_6318
0pending
699a31d5-eea5-42f9-a6fd-16caeea5aa49
For a comedic writer, Woody Allen really lets the paying viewer down with this meager attempt at character development. There are a few entertaining moments, but no more than one would have listening to their dryer tumbling tennis balls.<br /><br />Will Ferrell wastes his time in this movie which fails to showcase his ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6319
0pending
7f3770f0-810a-480d-85f6-f7b090f5fcdb
I've always been a great fan of Woody Allen and always will be for most of what he did in the past, but only a blind lover could ignore how dull, meaningless, pretentious and most of all horrendously acted this movie is. A vacuous mental masturbation based on inconsistent grounds. And what a disastrous idea to artifici...
[]
[]
[]
train_6320
0pending
b5dbfb1f-cbfe-43a4-8c57-29563c3eae9c
Possible spoilers.<br /><br />Although there was some good acting - particularly Chloe Sevigny, and Radha Mitchell in the comedy half - this simply was not an engaging film. The segues between the comedy part and the tragedy part were awkward or sometimes not obvious. This viewer was initially confused by the fact that...
[]
[]
[]
train_6321
0pending
e333582d-e68a-4871-83ab-101821340366
I've seen my share of Woody Allen's movies, and while they're not always great, you can usually be sure you're going to be entertained. Probably the last really good ones were Bullets Over Broadway ('94) and Mighty Aphrodite ('95) - since then the ones I've seen have been patchy but watchable. And so when I was invited...
[]
[]
[]
train_6322
0pending
908e1c2d-2ca2-42a5-9c42-52f6377bf2d5
Woody Allen has made some of the greatest comedies ever and I would seriously consider saying that Annie Hall is the greatest movie ever but if I really think about it I will probably think of one or two that are better, but it would be hard. He has had of course some films that aren't quite good but not that bad eithe...
[]
[]
[]
train_6323
0pending
8f962d01-abf4-4ed0-ab28-56e612eb7f67
Utterly pretentious nonsense. The material is dull, dull, dull, and most of the cast wouldn't even have made understudies in Allen's earlier films. And to have to listen to the unfunny Will Ferrell do his Woody Allen imitation makes me loathe the second-rate (though mysteriously popular) Ferrell even more. It appears t...
[]
[]
[]
train_6324
0pending
a5799652-f6cc-423d-bade-b1bb7b0776d9
I will probably always go to see a Woody Alleb movie, as one never knows when he just might make a real return to his past greatness. Just one or two great moments or lines could make it worthwhile. sadly however this film just does'nt make it on any score. Saying thar actually makes me sad and even a little guilty. I'...
[]
[]
[]
train_6325
0pending
3445a3f1-25e3-496f-8a76-12ad9ebb823d
This movie stinks! You will want back the two-plus hours it takes to get through it. Sliding Doors, w/ Gwyenth Paltrow and directed by Peter Howit, did what Melinda & Melinda tries to do much much MUCH better. That movie was clever, witty, and well-acted. I cared about what happened to both Gwyenths -- or rather the ch...
[]
[]
[]
train_6326
0pending
19f9e56d-0e36-4ca4-801f-a8eea1ae330d
this movie is just an excuse for the writer to make a film out of 2 failed scripts.<br /><br />its characters are just an assembly of characters with cliché tragic or comic attributes the sum total of which is neurotic dialog like only woody Allen could write. woman love this because its like looking in the mirror so t...
[]
[]
[]
train_6327
0pending
cc767ed4-7aba-4a6f-9dd0-2a8fde4f2e9e
Well I'm blowed, a Woody Allen film that I walked out of after half an hour (I'm aware of the moral fragility of commenting on a film of which I've seen less than half, but I hope you'll understand why). Basically, it became apparent very early on that we were going to be patronised from the screen with: a script that ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6328
0pending
7d7bdfe0-e24a-4171-b5d0-9b8739363492
Perhaps I'm not a sophisticate. This and Closer are two of the more supposedly cerebral films I've seen recently, and both suffer from exactly the same problem to an excruciating extent. The dialogue is false false false. Nothing that comes out of anyone's mouth seems remotely believable. Perhaps the way this film is s...
[]
[]
[]
train_6329
0pending
a41e3430-55ce-4ef4-bd59-91ac941c094c
I picked this up at the video store because of Tarantino's recommendation ("If you don't like (this), go f&^% yourself!") on the box... seemed like a ringing endorsement.... I was expecting something a bit more like "Death Proof"... not much actual violence in this one tho, or plot, of character, or dialogue. <br /><br...
[]
[]
[]
train_6330
0pending
ab2033e3-0d56-4823-8e6c-c149e3b7df7d
East Palace, West Palace reminded me somewhat of The Detective, with Frank Sinatra in the role of the cop, and William Windom is the boy. It's a progressive film for China, I guess, but it also perpetuates myths about the femininity of gay men: much is made of Chinese myths in which men take on female roles. The movie ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6331
0pending
c309338c-d204-429c-8cf6-ae28cbff42c2
This is the kind of movie i fear the most. Arrogant and Irresponsible, it presents a sketch of the colombian conflict so cliched and dumb it represents an insult to all Colombian people. The performances are godawul, from Grisales (her naked scene is absolutely pitiful), to Bejarano, to Fanny Mickey (who looks right ou...
[]
[]
[]
train_6332
0pending
5aa7451c-5f74-4074-8eea-15c96dc20ac6
All of David Prior's movies are terrible on all counts: bad writing, bad acting, bad cinematography, no budget (the director's brother is usually cast as the male lead). But they all have incredible entertainment value because of their unintentional hilarity. The plot of almost every David Prior "film" (as I like to re...
[]
[]
[]
train_6333
0pending
2698ce1c-9ad1-4eed-b1b5-3cd7da46d56c
Imagine the worst A-team episode Add even more bad taste Remove humor and you might get an idea of how despicable this movie is ! Looks like a teenager stole Daddy's Camcorder and filmed the explosion of his little sister Barbie model house. Pathetic.
[]
[]
[]
train_6334
0pending
b311be35-93ff-4372-a5cb-50659d36fd6f
This one features all the (bad) effect of Prior's cheap-o movies, but is so overtly racist, nasty and unpleasant that it is difficult to give this piece of dreck any redeeming feature. Unless you plan to enlist in the Marines, skip this one. Oh, and even if you do, avoid it at all costs.
[]
[]
[]
train_6335
0pending
4fd4f651-eb73-4825-a8cd-ead594cb133d
Updating of the Bliss theme is merely the latest in a lengthening queue of bad-to-average local comedies which appeal to the conservative cinema-going set. (For the record, this list, all of the films on which appear to be attempting a Castle-esque miracle, includes, Strange Bedfellows, Thunderstruck, Bad Eggs, The Hon...
[]
[]
[]
train_6336
0pending
84ff4f2d-07d6-4db0-9e7c-727e7bde297e
It is a real shame that nearly no one under 30 knows the "over the top" writing of Michael O'Donoghugh- magazine articles and SNL skits that were genius for the time...and so it is a true shame that anyone who may take the opportunity to research his work will no doubt take the easy way out and watch videos- thus leadi...
[]
[]
[]
train_6337
0pending
454cd615-d3f5-4a30-9aa3-b45fcc308fbb
I saw this movie in 1979, I was 17 or 18, when it was released. The theater was perhaps 1/4 full when the movie started. Ten minutes into the movie me and the friend who went with me to see the film were the only two people in the theater. The movie was really weird and had no plot or reason to its script and people de...
[]
[]
[]
train_6338
0pending
33c791cc-756f-44eb-a8e3-8c1e45a6ecc7
I actually saw this movie at a theater. As soon as I handed the cashier my money, she said two words I had never heard at a theater, before or since: "No refunds!" As soon as I heard those words, I should have just waved bye-bye to my cash and gone home. But no, foolishly, I went in and watched the movie. This movie di...
[]
[]
[]
train_6339
0pending
ead9d7e9-cc80-4e7f-80ef-021aef6205d8
I looked forward to seeing this movie when it came out, since I was a huge SNL fan. When my boyfriend and I went to see it, the people coming out of the early show were yelling, "Don't waste your money!" But of course we had to find out for ourselves.<br /><br />While there were a few funny bits (Laser Bra 2000, Root B...
[]
[]
[]
train_6340
0pending
3ce04ca5-2215-41e5-8ae2-e33404207d17
Mr. Mike was probably the most misanthropic comedian of all time, so I was interested to see what he'd do with total creative control over a movie. Sadly, it is unwatchable, though not because the jokes aren't funny--some (I won't say most) of them are, and in fact Mr. Mike did a good job translating his mentally unbal...
[]
[]
[]
train_6341
0pending
90837cea-64cf-435d-91a0-855cc991cffc
If you enjoy the original SNL cast and shows then avoid this movie at all costs. When this first came out my friends and I waited in line for over an hour to get in to a sold out movie house. half way through the movie the theatre was 3/4 empty. We refused to leave thinking it would get better. When the movie ended we ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6342
0pending
ac904e83-aad0-4031-afef-b42e8911dfa8
I saw this cinematic wretchedness in a dollar theater with a friend in 1979 (back when the tickets actually sold for $1). This is the only film I have ever walked out on (with my friend, while the idiocy that is the "Laser Bra 2000" sketch was on screen). Evidently, my and my friend's reaction to the film was a common ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6343
0pending
22008854-0c90-4c09-b862-236d6eab68b8
Why does this movie fall WELL below standards? Ultimately, the answer lies in the poor, humourless script. A slim/average looking Travolta (looking rather dapper in black I must say, even with a HUGE mullet) and Gross both act very well as two young-ish 'slick-dressed' but nevertheless dimwitted New Yorkers eager to op...
[]
[]
[]
train_6344
0pending
b475d7e8-3fe3-4de3-9e1e-0f91bb21f476
I thought this film would be a lot better then it was. It sounded like a spoof off of the spy gener, and the start of it reminded me of Pleasantvil, but this film came up short.<br /><br />The plot is just to ridiculous. The KGB and Soviet Union in Russia have started up a spy school to teach their spies' how to act li...
[]
[]
[]
train_6345
0pending
4c7a1080-5b65-4445-9ecb-4232bcbcdea2
If you're in the mood for some dopey light entertainment, this will pass the time. If you expect one jot of plausibility, don't bother. To me, the dance scene looked like it was exaggerated for comic effect; it didn't look especially hot or skilled.
[]
[]
[]
train_6346
0pending
6f6c428e-582b-4b34-b12d-e80dd7d42a3a
One of the five worst movies I have ever watched. And I'm not exaggerating. In fact, I recommend watching it so you can get the same feeling of incredulity as you might by watching Showgirls.<br /><br />Out of 400 votes, the movie gets a user rating of 5.3/10. But there is a disproportionate number of voters who gave i...
[]
[]
[]
train_6347
0pending
3b7126c8-1f54-40ed-94ad-673c0062aecf
I spent eight years running movie theatres in the 80's and 90's. This was, by far, the worst film I ever showed to the public. One thing that made it so bad was that it put on airs of trying to be a great, inspiring film. Even the great Gregory Peck could not save this horrid piece of drivel from being far less than me...
[]
[]
[]
train_6348
0pending
ee26bed9-ce9c-4821-b74a-df9484760149
This movie is a bad memory from my childhood. This is one of those movies that they show kids on a rainy day at school when you can't go out for recess, and you'd rather be watching anything, ANYTHING else. At least that's what it was like when I was in elementary school. I just remember HATING this movie. Granted, I h...
[]
[]
[]
train_6349
0pending
63a8f1a0-9032-4393-893b-4d220e201457
This was among the STUPIDEST and PREACHIEST of the anti-nuke films out of the 1980s.<br /><br />The idea that a kid and a basketball star could "change the world" is pretty far-fetched, given how many "children's peace marches" and "celebrity protests" there were and ARE.<br /><br />But the idea that the Soviet Union w...
[]
[]
[]
train_6350
0pending
8b18881b-c4e4-4dad-af38-92891a040abf
I can't imagine anyone would ever, in a million years, want to watch this movie. Not because it was one of the worst ever made (it wasn't), but largely because it's about 20 years old and oh-so-out of the mainstream. I was trying to find out where I saw an actor before and this popped up. So, yeah, a kid stops playing ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6351
0pending
21087070-dab6-440b-af84-c0dbf341517a
I saw this in the summer of 1990. I'm still annoyed by how bad this movie is in 2001.<br /><br />Implausible plot. You'd have to be a child to think this could happen.<br /><br />I'm just really annoyed by it. Don't see this.
[]
[]
[]
train_6352
0pending
ae5f5154-e573-412c-b86a-e233c89642e5
This film reminds me of how college students used to protest against the Vietnam War. As if, upon hearing some kids were doing without cheeseburgers in Cow Dung Collehe, the President was going to immediately change all US foreign policy.<br /><br />The worst thing is that, while dangerous, the concept of a policy base...
[]
[]
[]
train_6353
0pending
17851f57-227d-4144-a592-91dfe7977a09
I saw this in the summer of 1990. I'm still annoyed by how bad this movie is in 2001.<br /><br />Implausible plot. You'd have to be a child to think this could happen.<br /><br />I'm just really annoyed by it. Don't see this.
[]
[]
[]
train_6354
0pending
d58070a3-b151-4a9f-9577-c02329b65ef3
I've no idea what dimwit from San Francisco came up with this stupid plot, but apparently they need to get off whatever drugs they are taking and put their analyst on danger money -- NOW.<br /><br />Yeah, this is a plausible story, if you regard the alien abduction sequence in "Life of Brian" as plausible.<br /><br />T...
[]
[]
[]
train_6355
0pending
de24f13b-bdfb-414a-b0c1-d826ed180d3e
A film like Amazing Grace and Chuck is a perfect example of how the left in this country just doesn't get it. They never did. And liberalism continues to slip further and further into political oblivion.<br /><br />This film deals with a little league baseball star who decides to stop playing ball as a protest to the e...
[]
[]
[]
train_6356
0pending
4f4cd716-272f-4756-81f7-8dd765ed0bc4
This sleek, sexy movie is a must-see. Only upon multiple viewings can one truly understand the uniqueness of this film. Personally I enjoy the narrator for his intelligent, no subject left untouched, style of narration. The introduction grips you right away, and holds you at the edge of your seat throughout the film. H...
[]
[]
[]
train_6357
0pending
5483dd73-f1bb-4e92-9d1e-1b705bc5f3f2
I love Seth Green. His appearances on THat 70s' Show is always worth watching but last night, I felt the show needed to overhauled. Four single young guys inherit a New York City apartment that most of us would die for. The grandmother must have been an heiress to have such space in the first place. So I felt the need ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6358
0pending
bac3502b-ff76-4a72-80c5-7bcc2871bcbf
Well it's not often that we in the UK have a film made about inner city life from the perspective of the Afro Caribbean community, the last example that I can remember was the underrated Babylon way back in 1980. So I had high expectations when I heard about Bullet Boy, a film that has been touted as the British versio...
[]
[]
[]
train_6359
0pending
3b9e1cb8-8aa1-4f7d-8681-c729d6786c43
Over the last 20 years the majority of British films are about how horribly poverty stricken the UK is and how our youth doesn't stand a chance of a good life whilst they live on the mean streets of British cities. The British film industry is obsessed with the idea of 'broken Britain'. Trainspotting, This is England, ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6360
0pending
36d6b367-b540-46ad-8fc4-856139b84ace
It's a bad, very bad movie.<br /><br />Well, for people a real realistic movie is a good thing. For me it is not. Life is also predictable, bad, nasty, trivial, senseless, sometimes. Maybe that's the reason for people say that this film is real.<br /><br />Too many common places: you're black, you're a criminal, you're...
[]
[]
[]
train_6361
0pending
3f4f6c72-61a7-4654-876c-0b1f9f3c299f
I watched this movie last night and was a bit disappointed. A lot of the "time facts" were off. At the beginning of the movie, the grandfather made a comment to this grandson and his friends about how they felt when 9-11 hit. This movie was supposed to be taking place in 1994. Also, one of the grandsons friends was wea...
[]
[]
[]
train_6362
0pending
792bd4b6-4cae-46c5-a8f4-0de2babe3862
This movie had good intentions and a good story to work with. The director and screenwriter of this movie failed miserably and created a dull, boring filmstrip that made me feel like I was back in Mr. Hartford's 8th grade Social Studies class -- way back in 67.<br /><br />What a waste, will somebody please take this st...
[]
[]
[]
train_6363
0pending
fc74af04-65c3-419d-afd9-24feccb4a171
Full marks for the content of this film, as a Brit I was not aware that there was segregation in the US Navy during WWII. A very brave attempt to bring this fact to the world. However, the movie is pathetic, direction is non existent, the acting is wooden and the script is just one cliché after another. I can honestly ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6364
0pending
5114a198-d938-4123-a567-a75d8afe3527
I will give it a 3 just because it showed history that we need to know about, to prevent it from happening again. I agree with the comments from the gentleman from UK. The movie was pretty terrible. All cliché, no real plot. Historical and technical inaccuracies abound. Look up the technical specs on DE 529, or any Eve...
[]
[]
[]
train_6365
0pending
9f3c0a18-30c0-4889-9618-be2f3b4867d7
Working at a video store I get to see quite a few movies and on occasion I try to watch some of the not so big movies. Proud happened to be one of them. The initial idea of telling of the story of a primarily black crewed ship during WWII had some merit. However in less than 10 minutes of watching the movie you find ou...
[]
[]
[]
train_6366
0pending
b74209c8-0e43-4e13-94ca-8a0bf3bfd194
This is a great story and was just the beginning of equality in the United States. (We are still working on it too.) However despite the fact this is true, it's still a movie and this is a movie site. I realize independent films have a hard time getting good actors, but wow. The only one even mediocre is the excellent ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6367
0pending
dbce2472-c572-4cee-8754-9b9addbb68a8
As a WWII naval history buff, and someone who is not proud of this country's history of race relations, I was looking forward to seeing this movie. What a disappointing piece of schlock. I made it about 3/4 of the way through, but I should have turned it off at the sub attack scene. The idea that a U-boat would fire a ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6368
0pending
58d42e19-a59f-4f92-acd4-5211884e6646
I had high hopes for this film. I thought the premise interesting. I stuck through it, even though I found the acting, save Helena Bonham Carter, unremarkable. I kept hoping my time spent would pay off, but in the end I was left me wondering why they even bothered to make this thing. Maybe in George Orwell's version th...
[]
[]
[]
train_6369
0pending
451c883e-5fc5-4309-ad25-7b4ccc551e22
The British 'heritage film' industry is out of control. There's nothing wrong with filming classic novels, but why must they all be filmed by talentless nobodies? This film rips the guts out of Orwell's tough novel, turning it into a harmless, fluffy romantic comedy. 'Aspidistra' may not be Orwell's best work, but no-o...
[]
[]
[]
train_6370
0pending
140dbcfb-efde-4d69-a659-38928f7156eb
In spite of sterling work by the supporting actors, and an intelligent script by Alan Plater, this film suffers from a fatal flaw - the lack of charm of the central character/actor. One of the characters describes Richard E Grant's character as "a whining little turd" and unfortunately this sums him up perfectly. There...
[]
[]
[]
train_6371
0pending
a6c7d8e5-dfe8-4286-bdf7-11e14d61fe48
this seemed an odd combination of Withnail and I with A Room with a View.. sometimes it worked, other times it did not. tragedy that they changed the name for the US release though.. Keep the Apidistra Flying is much better than the nothing title A Merry War. acting was okay, script was okay.. overall it was a mediocre...
[]
[]
[]
train_6372
0pending
ed887e2d-6e1e-44c0-9bc6-3d32510dec37
This inept adaptation of arguably one of Martin Amis's weaker novels fails to even draw comparisons with other druggy oeuvres such as Requiem For A Dream or anything penned by Irvine Walsh as it struggles to decide whether it is a slap-stick cartoon or a hyper-realistic hallucination.<br /><br />Boringly directed by Wi...
[]
[]
[]
train_6373
0pending
9db7367b-1cfe-44bc-8435-4c10e3b0e262
A terrible storyline (Amis at his worst), pointless and self-conscious 'decadence', obvious shock tactics and patchy acting make this film (rather like "Rancid Aluminium") embody everything that went wrong with the much-vaunted British film revival. The humour is, at best, limp, and the pretentiousness of the whole set...
[]
[]
[]
train_6374
0pending
28fa0e5a-b029-4126-9628-3c1c428a5c62
I am a great fan of Martin Amis, on whose book this film is based. Unfortunately the director has been unable to translate the book to the screen. The novel is thoroughly post modern and highly artificial in its wildly overblown characters and the disintegration of traditional plot line and character development. It is...
[]
[]
[]
train_6375
0pending
2c79f48c-27bf-4276-b218-02852530f686
This film looked interesting; I'd read the book a number of years ago and it informed me that the feature followed the plot outline pretty tightly.<br /><br />Started watching it and almost from the outset it failed to live up to expectations. In fact, I didn't bother watching the whole thing... utter drivel - bad perf...
[]
[]
[]
train_6376
0pending
14d73122-0e29-4c0a-b051-7f6d33026c96
Suffice to say that - despite the odd ludicrous panegyric to his soi disant "abilities" posted here - the director of this inept, odious tosh hasn't made a film since. Well that is excellent news as far as I'm concerned.<br /><br />Dead Babies has all of the bile of its creator, but lacks the wit and technical proficie...
[]
[]
[]
train_6377
0pending
19debae0-4d0f-4297-885c-910825e1fc10
A couple of days after writing about how garbage like MAD COWS and THIS FILTHY EARTH receive money while Ange , Duncan and Theo are totally ignored I had to sit through yet another British movie * that had me scratching my head as to why it received a single penny . Some people may claim that because DEAD BABIES is bas...
[]
[]
[]
train_6378
0pending
32c76ba4-591b-4582-bade-88f6de091d28
I had the pleasure of viewing this movie early and I have to say I thought that it was going to be boring and wondered how could they ever improve upon the 1984 version of Bachelor Party starring Tom Hanks, which I thought was pretty good...I was right...In all honesty I thought it could have been better...Sure there w...
[]
[]
[]
train_6379
0pending
acb56184-6ea1-4dd5-b81f-08b783c45d84
I wonder how much this movie actually has got to do with the 1984 movie "Bachelor Party", starring Tom Hanks. Is this movie even an official sequel? This movie is lacking in every department and you're obviously better off not watching it.<br /><br />For a comedy this movie simply isn't good or funny enough. It relies ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6380
0pending
ae40c6ec-1829-4c2e-9514-f4e466bf6752
Now I recently had the viewing pleasure to watch the hilarious comedy Bachelor Party, one of my new favorite comedies, laughed until it just hurt type of movies. So I naturally wanted to see the sequel, hoping it would have the same laughs, but instead Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation is made by the American Pie g...
[]
[]
[]
train_6381
0pending
8bf4d957-a179-4e84-ad90-f4260d3a7a63
Recap: Ron is about to marry Mel. They are deeply and love and certain they are perfect for each other even though they met just a few months ago. Todd, Ron's brother in law to be is not so happy. He is afraid the marriage is a threat to his cushy job in the family business and decides to arrange Ron's bachelor party. ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6382
0pending
ce7015ec-722d-45ee-a344-c0e94e11a864
This is the most cliche ridden and worst romantic comedy I have ever seen. Every scene is cringe worthy and the two lead actors - Corey and Danny are soo annoying. Corey is very dumb and naive and should have never listened to Danny's false promises.<br /><br />Neve Campbell and the killer from Urban Legend are the onl...
[]
[]
[]
train_6383
0pending
a76bdd97-fa48-44f7-ac4d-edfd3b12dff1
Having read many of the comments here, I'm surprised that no one has recognized this as basically an overlong remake of a Twilight Zone episode from 1960 called "Mirror Image," starring Vera Miles. Rod Serling did a much better job of creating an effective spooky tale in 24 minutes than Sean Ellis did in 88 minutes wit...
[]
[]
[]
train_6384
0pending
05f57e90-a0b1-466d-a5c5-9eedd35cbf8c
I read about this movie in a magazine and I was intrigued. A woman, who one day sees herself drive past in her own car. Well, I thought, this could be interesting...<br /><br />...but it isn't. First, the title. The Broken? The Broken...what? What is broken? The...oh, wait...I get it, the title itself is "broken"! WOW,...
[]
[]
[]
train_6385
0pending
2ebbe7cc-e161-419e-b3cb-b1e8f599bdd4
This film is pure, distilled, unadulterated boredom. I knew nothing of it before I entered the dark room, took my seat. I was seduced by the "mysterious and suspenseful" blurb on the poster I suppose. Also, Lena Headey is nice and unconventionally sexy, and Richard Jenkins is always a reliable guy to have around, so th...
[]
[]
[]
train_6386
0pending
7f1fd4ef-71c3-4161-989a-9c51521303ac
Horror movie??really???? i cant believe how bad this movie was,what the point of this movie??? the movie almost 1h and 30 min and the first 70 minutes of it,is just lena walking around with this stupid look on her face after she had an accident....not much talking at all,not even much actions at all.. i have to say tho...
[]
[]
[]
train_6387
0pending
978ea3e7-a43a-4507-bfc1-16d72f425255
I liked the initial premise to this film which is what led me to hunt it out but the problem I quickly found is that one pretty much knows what's going to happen within the first 20-30 minutes ( the doubles will come from behind the mirror and take over everybody).<br /><br />There is no real twist (which is fine) , bu...
[]
[]
[]
train_6388
0pending
cdece4b2-e428-431b-b35d-2364f758a26e
What an incredible fall for Sean Ellis.<br /><br />You gather a bunch of your friends at home, all hyped about the follow up work of Sean Ellis. You have an vague idea of the plot, no spoilers that could kill the fun, very high expectations.<br /><br />It is late at night, perfect atmosphere for a movie of this type.<b...
[]
[]
[]
train_6389
0pending
0f798620-1e45-42fa-88ec-c94a2c61252f
If the myth regarding broken mirrors would be accurate, everybody involved in this production would now face approximately 170 years of bad luck, because there are a lot of mirrors falling to little pieces here. If only the script was as shattering as the glass, then "The Broken" would have been a brilliant film. Now i...
[]
[]
[]
train_6390
0pending
b0e04b75-8771-42a5-b8b8-3b0ad8527962
I give this movie 3 out of 10 because I have watched zillions of movies and I can tell clearly what an intellectual movie with a mind-teasing message should look like. Definitely, The Broken is not one of those movies. I have to admit that the movie made me think a lot trying to understand what the whole thing was tryi...
[]
[]
[]
train_6391
0pending
458506eb-5af8-4bb6-8aa0-e494d190f8e3
Have you ever had a cool image in your mind that you thought it would be nice to be in a movie: Like seeing a detective peeking through the cracks of a broken fence of some abandoned house? Or seeing a woman walking down a street looking cold and intense and awfully alert? Yeah. Imagine stretching that image to a whole...
[]
[]
[]
train_6392
0pending
b6a47945-631b-4a7f-af00-eb31586bde59
No,<br /><br />Basically your watching something that doesn't make sense. To not spoil the film for people who actually want to this take a look at the flick I will explain the story.<br /><br />A normal everyday to day women, is walking down a street then find's herself driving by in her own car. She follows her and m...
[]
[]
[]
train_6393
0pending
f8abd7f5-86f4-45ec-8ac6-4b9ce6332bb7
You gotta wonder how some flics ever get made... this one decided to skip with the why among many other things and just wanders off beyond the moot. <br /><br />And yet you have a number of decent actors doing their best to pump some life into the story. The blue tint throughout the movie overshoots into 'yet again', w...
[]
[]
[]
train_6394
0pending
cf5fee61-6624-4bf9-99c8-e2051b0f7d60
this film really tries to hard. if your going to make a horror film, at least give it a reason to believe in to hook the viewer. <br /><br />you wait and wait through the film expecting for some grand explanation but it doesn't. instead it tries to be too clever ending and not revealing anything. <br /><br />what was t...
[]
[]
[]
train_6395
0pending
1dd6828e-4c11-43d1-9572-1a8e36daee83
THE BROKEN is part of the After Dark Horrorfest III. Not a slasher or filled with gore. Plenty of broken glass and mirrors in this edgy thriller from France and writer/director Sean Ellis. A successful radiologist Gina McVay(Lena Headly)inters a strange world as her life seems to spiral out of control. While attending ...
[]
[]
[]
train_6396
0pending
c27f352d-6e5e-4fc6-bf67-af31b8b21228
Very unnecessary movie with characters that are acting so unsympathetically that I really didn't care who would fare the best (or was that the purpose of the film, to portray some smooth talking cold-hearted New York city folks?) No romance here, no comedy either. Acting is very flat and a very predictable plot. What a...
[]
[]
[]
train_6397
0pending
2bd8b959-040a-4091-926c-fb29bfb6fcf6
i'm being generous giving this movie 2 stars. the line about "have you even seen the wizard of oz" was the best part for me! with terrible writing and acting like displayed in this movie it's no wonder so many are taken in by worthless tv reality shows. do yourself a favor and get out of the house and hit a royals base...
[]
[]
[]
train_6398
0pending
8e5cf98b-e870-4e45-a731-c605063734f4
This was a cute movie until the ending. The ending was merely one more despicable effort to emasculate men and empower women at their expense. The girl refused to listen to reason and logic and used her passive/aggressive nature to control and impose her will on the guy who ultimately yielded his power and control over...
[]
[]
[]
train_6399
0pending
30943c02-e938-455f-bad5-9a7c1a598f6f
That's a snippet of choice dialogue delivered by the evil, ballbusting lady assistant of a famous scientist to her prim maid just before she lures three incredibly dumb college girls to a mansion for behavior modification experiments. Meanwhile, at the local bar, people drink and dance to lame 80s rock songs. A biker p...
[]
[]
[]