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train_7200 | 0pending | 3174efec-6041-4173-a908-144412888be8 | This star-studded British/Spanish co-production looks great, what you can see of it. I have three versions, two VHS, one DVD, and all are terribly cropped, so badly that it looks as if buildings are having conversations with each other. Few films suffer as badly from pan and scan as this one, as director Robert Parrish... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7201 | 0pending | 9a6f9f03-2672-4f27-b233-65a38c0ccef2 | There are some really terrific ideas in this violent movie that, if executed clearly, could have elevated it from Spaghetti-western blandness into something special. Unfortunately, A TOWN CALLED HELL is one of the worst edited movies imaginable! Scenes start and end abruptly, characters leave for long stretches, the pe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7202 | 0pending | 8baa3716-a376-49eb-956b-f703857544c5 | This British-Spanish co-production is one of the countless films shot in Spain in the wake of the unexpected phenomenal success enjoyed by the Italian "Spaghetti" Westerns and, as is typical of such genre efforts, features an eclectic assortment of established and emerging international stars: Robert Shaw, Telly Savala... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7203 | 0pending | 2cc4650a-c5f3-423d-b289-f3c868f1859f | "A Town Called Hell" (aka "A Town Called Bastard"), a British/Spanish co-production, was made on the heels of Clint Eastwood's success in the Italian made "Man With No Name" trilogy. The template used in most of these films was to hire recognizable American actors, whose careers were largely in decline and dub their vo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7204 | 0pending | 41979806-390a-422c-b116-962925facc52 | This is definitely one of the weirder 70's movies out there, and it's most notable for kicking off a decade of Bigfoot hysteria. It is also notable for the little touches of insanity throughout the movie, especially when the dark, moody first half is replaced by a MUSICAL INTERLUDE of all things (as another user pointe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7205 | 0pending | ae78d31e-b4a4-44c2-87e7-eecf5a65330a | This grainy film has a cult following and one of those word-of-mouth features you just had to see. Maybe hard to believe, but there is a rural community in southwest Arkansas, Fouke, that knows the legend is true. This tale is told in documentary-style narrated by Vern Stierman and filmed in actual locations talking to... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7206 | 0pending | 6dd196e1-0441-4f23-8579-d3e56b8c27bd | I was expecting a B-Movie French musical. After all, Dhéry, Blanche, DeFunès were superstars of low budget French films of that time. And it is in color! But I have hallucination in this unbelievable one hour 30 of pure mediocrity. Musical numbers are awful, and comedy is absolutely boring and stupid. And the songs? Wh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7207 | 0pending | 17e1a2fa-4bb4-4eb9-8f71-6a608fb90f7d | I purchased this movie on blu-ray because it promised great visuals and music. I was also a great fan of a similar movie... Baraka. The movie is very much styled after Baraka, wide angles, very similar shots with cameras set to capture long time passage in each shot. Even some of the scenes were identical (the street w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7208 | 0pending | 69461973-db8a-4ffd-9c7f-48c302a1dea4 | I wasn't particularly impressed by this movie that has lackluster music and only lasts 40 minutes. Thank God, because I was falling asleep. I makes excellent use of time lapse photography to display the passage of time in the movement of light and shadow, people, water, clouds, etc. Unfortunately, that's all it is.<br ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7209 | 0pending | df04e6b7-f1cd-4790-9b23-69137c97c587 | Who ever wrote the two or three glowing reviews were either involved in the making of this film, term used loosely, or bank rolling it, and should the latter be the case, I would want my seven dollars back! The actors, again term used loosely, are awful, in fact almost none of them did anything ever again which is a re... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7210 | 0pending | 4a1d6b74-3955-4b58-808e-a340dfacfd57 | We rented the DVD hoping for a good western. The film was pretty and the scenes reasonable, but the ideas were very bad. Here are my problems with the film.<br /><br />In the first part, why exactly did the bad guy kill the mine owner? Not really connected to the movie except to establish how bad he was and to have a h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7211 | 0pending | 9f706a3e-ae74-4825-97e8-4cfb0ec05ee4 | THE DECOY is one of those independent productions, made by obvious newcomers, but it doesn't have all the usual flaws that sink most such films. It has a definite story, it has adequate acting, the photography is very good, the hero and the bad guy are both formidable men, and the background music isn't overdone. This ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7212 | 0pending | be713fe5-2eef-468d-9fba-2f7b2dc27bed | Great western I hear you all say! Brilliant first effort! Well I'm not sure what film you all watched but it must have been a different one to the one I saw. Great westerns or indeed good films of any genre have characters you can believe in and this film had none! The acting was poor to say the least and I couldn't ca... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7213 | 0pending | 5d197295-76b2-4b31-a8f6-bb54a6f118db | After reading the other reviews for this film I am of the opinion that the high markers are probably paid studio lackeys as the film I saw was absolutely dire, with wooden acting, lacklustre scripting and plodding predictable directing, one of the few plus points has to be the stunning scenery as this film features som... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7214 | 0pending | 963dec0d-95ac-46f2-ac30-73d70f6c7cd0 | This movie rivals "Plan 9" as one of the dumbest movie ever made. Always be concerned when the same person is the:<br /><br />1. Star 2. Director 3. Producer 4. Writer 5. Stuntman, and 6. Editor. Unfortunately, Justin Kreinbrink did all 6 jobs! IMDb shows that he and his father were western 'stunt men'. So maybe that w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7215 | 0pending | 0e8128f4-9a47-4091-b2f1-7c881fe3c70a | When his in-laws are viciously murdered by a gang of thugs, a young deputy is ordered to escort his mute friend, forced to take the rap by the gang, to Tucson for trial and ending up having to face the real killers along the way.<br /><br />The Decoy is a real-life decoy sent to video stores to lure you away from bette... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7216 | 0pending | a0d64bb8-2a9c-465a-9ec5-6a95a13c40d8 | In a nutshell: this is a cookie cutter romantic comedy that really WANTS and TRIES to be something more. It wants to be Harold and Maude, Annie Hall, The Graduate. It wants to be deep and human. It has interesting camera shots, lighting, music, editing, all of which give it the feel of an important movie. The dialog is... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7217 | 0pending | 830cc367-54bc-4e33-8524-97aee186bb2b | Gwyneth Paltrow is absolutely great in this movie, but the story is, unfortunately, half-baked, and David Schwimmer's energy is sort of like cold mush. When he closes his mouth and gets serious for a moment or two there is a rush of what-might-have-been. Who thought 25-year-old kiddies would be entertaining? | [] | [] | [] |
train_7218 | 0pending | 442f38da-85f0-44cd-a8a9-5a00d60da328 | I'm not to keen on The Pallbearer, it's not too bad, but just very slow at the times. As the movie goes on, it gets a little more interesting, but nothing brilliant. I really like David Schwimmer and I think he's good here. I'm not a massive Gwyneth Paltrow fan, but I don't mind her sometimes and she's okay here. The P... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7219 | 0pending | e1ede35f-311e-4d17-8d1a-e602e9037fe8 | I wish I had my rental money back from this piece of trash so I could donate it to the Home for Aged Actors. Total rubbish!! Five people watched this movie at the same time and there wasn't one single laugh to be heard, lots of yawning though. Paltrow's a beautiful woman and she was the best thing to look at in the ent... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7220 | 0pending | d6ae6de8-1757-40b7-9791-cd359675ee7c | no comment - stupid movie, acting average or worse... screenplay - no sense at all... SKIP IT! | [] | [] | [] |
train_7221 | 0pending | 378496ce-2aa5-4ddd-9878-59779228be3f | The Pallbearer is a disappointment and at times extremely boring with a love story that just doesn't work partly with the casting of Gwyneth Paltrow (Julie). Gwyneth Paltrow walks through the entire film with a confused look on her face and its hard to tell what David Schwimmer even sees in her.<br /><br />However The ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7222 | 0pending | 354a056e-786f-41f5-a6f4-999b7feeb588 | ... You can't exactly shove her out of the way, because she's old; and if you were being charitable you might say that the ponderous gait she ambles along with isn't really her fault. Nevertheless, in these circumstances it's often difficult not to become irritated when you find yourself dragging your heels in her wake... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7223 | 0pending | bc87b5ea-7296-4d30-a21d-190fb83240e1 | Some 25 year olds behave like teenagers, coping with the death of a high-school mate, trying to find their purpose in live and love. The script is so lame that I had to force myself to even finish this movie. Stay away from it. 1/10 | [] | [] | [] |
train_7224 | 0pending | 62c7cf1c-9c28-4251-8201-8dcb8c74e84c | This film is advertised as a clever romantic comedy. It is neither clever nor romantic and it is definitely not an effective comedy. The fortunes of the well meaning yet pathetic character, "Tom", oscillate from one extremely embarrassing disaster to another. The only saving graces are the competent performance by Toni... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7225 | 0pending | d9cf6b3b-76aa-4c20-9eb5-8c4c8b611c14 | The interplay between the characters is a moral disaster. You end up disliking most of the characters and you don't particularly like any of them.<br /><br />Even the two main characters played by David and Gwen are so badly written that you really don't care one bit about them. The movie has no plot, no direction and ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7226 | 0pending | 747e10b9-0125-44a0-93a5-e08f208ad717 | Life is really too short for movies like this. I knew it couldn't be good when I realized what I'd already suspected - that David Schwimmer would be playing the exact same type of person he plays in 'Friends'.<br /><br />Let's face it, either the guy can't play anything but a nerd or he is never offered any other parts... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7227 | 0pending | 2d9b46ae-8095-4ffa-95f9-7eaa743da3a6 | Let's see...I'm trying to practice finding the positive in everything, so what kind thing can I say about the Pallbearer?<br /><br />I know! The performances were -- no, that won't work as they succeeded in draining all personality from Gwyneth Paltrow, usually so vibrant, and ended up creating caricatures out of Carol... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7228 | 0pending | 5cb609df-e2b0-4d82-97a8-b4b23e8b867f | Not even Bob Hope, escorted by a raft of fine character actors, can save this poorly written attempt at wartime comedy, as his patented timing has little which which to work. The plot involves a Hollywood film star named Don Bolton (Hope), and his attempt to evade military service at the beginning of World War II, foll... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7229 | 0pending | 12ad126b-f831-45f1-aa2b-a5319eaf68d2 | In one word: excruciating. I was advised to read some articles about this film's philosophical meanings afterward, but, having sat through the movie's interminable 115 minutes and being slowly crushed beneath its bloated symbolism and lava-flowing oppressiveness, it seemed better to just report my reactions to the movi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7230 | 0pending | 97a83569-cf65-4d43-8f37-e4480641098b | I kind of feel like a genius; I feel like I'm the only one who saw through this fake film. I watched it three times, once with commentary, and I found myself getting annoyed at all the close-ups, all the times the screen just blacks out, and worst of all, I feel the film never really resolves anything. Yes, the priest ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7231 | 0pending | 58062f59-f045-4ec1-a5f9-0d25cc70b21e | I thoroughly enjoyed Bilal's graphic novel when it came out, and was amazed when I saw the trailer for this film, and even more so when I found that Bilal had directed it himself. The film, however, was a major letdown. The visuals are nowhere near the rich and gritty texture of the original artworks, and the story is ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7232 | 0pending | ebd34cac-d6ed-48c1-9dfb-37af435cba8b | I saw this at an arty cinema that was also showing "Last Days" and some Charlie Chaplin films. Based on the quality of the other features, I decided to give "Immortel" a chance. I nearly walked out of this movie, and I LIKE science-fiction! The story is set in a futuristic New York city, filled with Blade Runner-style ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7233 | 0pending | 54df25ae-4287-4f00-ab2b-8bfdfc2d503d | I love science fiction, I am fascinated by Egyptian mythology and I appreciate digital animation. I figured a movie that combines these three would be at least enjoyable. I could not have been more wrong: The story (or actually the lack there of) was completely uninspired and lacks imagination - while imagination usual... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7234 | 0pending | ca16b31a-d5ba-40be-a8c1-923e0164bb61 | This movie seems to start in the middle, introduces peripheral players as if they were significant and presents main characters without any substance and paper-thin and/or impenetrable back-stories. Almost nobody has a credible or discernible motivation for their actions in this film. The plot rambles and ultimately go... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7235 | 0pending | b2d5e3be-f6cd-47e1-846c-65abaa36c18b | The Good:<br /><br />Effective color scheme. Good costumes. Top notch set production. Well detailed CGI buildings and vehicles.<br /><br />The Bad:<br /><br />Horrible mixture of actors with all CGI actors mixes Fifth Element with Final Fantasy. The CGI actors look even worse than video games from a few years ago. Flaw... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7236 | 0pending | 434778ef-c045-408c-94bb-f5c194888ce0 | While others may contend that by viewing other works by Bilal, one will better appreciate this movie, it does fail in one major way. It does not stand on its own. The plot is a mishmash that is confuses symbolism with substance. Here's an idea start with a definite story. Then craft symbolism around it. We start with t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7237 | 0pending | d6748563-d881-4241-9167-231680a45e08 | I love the comics. Although I do have problems fully understanding the stories the visual style is unique with all its dirt, dust and decay. So I thought I knew what I was up for. Surprisingly I understood the main plot but some extremely poorly decisions where made for its visual style. <br /><br />I mean - really... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7238 | 0pending | d2836c38-7c79-4104-9789-91cf8773a8cb | I sat through this film and i have to say it only just managed to keep my attention. The film would have been a bit more bearable if i did not have to watch the awful CGI, for future reference to the industry if your going to use CGI watch this so you know what to avoid.<br /><br />Apparently this is supposed to be a g... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7239 | 0pending | 4f9cb014-54dc-4f00-a3de-79c622d4ac2c | The movie remains in the gray for far too long. Very little gets explained as the movie progresses, with as a result lots of weird sequences that seem to have a deeper meaning but because of the way of storytelling they become only just weird and not understandable to watch. It sort of forces you to watch the movie aga... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7240 | 0pending | d16defd9-9767-49cf-bff8-95fff629d9bf | My first attempt at watching this ended in 8 minutes, roughly after the TV report scene, which I couldn't handle. It went approximately like this:<br /><br />Reporter 1: Hmm, there's a pyramid in our skies. Reporter 2: I think it's aliens. *awkward silence* Reporter 1: In other news...<br /><br />A few days later I wat... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7241 | 0pending | 9383982c-797c-4304-8cf9-3211b9129271 | Knowing Enki Bilal's comics for quite some time, I had to see this movie. I have thought this would be a good way for the artist as Bilal to spread his art and ideas to wider audience. I have also thought this would be a good movie to recommend, and I thought I will enjoy watching it... I was wrong! The movie was a tru... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7242 | 0pending | d9800380-1f1d-4f73-ac17-87e8df6611a7 | ....CAUSE IT'S CRAP! The kind of movie that makes you want to go and smack the movie maker and say "WHY?". Horrible camera work...count the times the camera tries to remain steady on one person and can't. The dialog is ridiculous. The acting is comical. It looks like they took over a ghost town in the west to see if th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7243 | 0pending | daf2ab27-e9e3-404a-8e21-d7c5b6dafa4f | Where do they get the money to make films like this? I mean, there's nothing redeeming about this film. None of the actors are known, the writing is terrible, the photography is blurry, the story wanders between being a bad version of Repo Man and a nicklodeon western and the acting is unbelievable. For someone who wat... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7244 | 0pending | 6aaf4ce9-b801-4825-a0ff-09b2c56f895e | I still find it difficult to comprehend that a movie as bad as this could be made in Hollywood. The acting and story is simply pathetic & the direction is awful. I don't see any logic behind this trash except may be that the director had nothing good to do. I took me ten minutes to realize that i had wasted my precious... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7245 | 0pending | 0ce54678-32e6-4250-b402-579e77615afd | There is a scene near the beginning after a shootout where horses are running. If something red catches your eye it is because a white van is parked behind a bush by the trail. I thought I had seen bad but this is it. A white van in a western. Did they not catch this? Oh well, and I paid top dollar at the rental. It wi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7246 | 0pending | c6991e0c-06cf-4021-8bf4-bb47179622e0 | I just got through watching this DVD at home. We love Westerns, so my husband rented it. He started apologizing to me half way through. The saddles, costumes, accents--everything was off. The part that made me so mad is where the guy didn't shoot the "collector" with his bow and arrow as he was taking the fat guy's sou... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7247 | 0pending | eef2f8d5-ef00-43f8-a0bf-b43d81eb4819 | I love Westerns. I could watch them all day. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" is my all time favorite. I watched "Silverado" for probably the 8th time just the other day because it was being featured on CMT. However, this movie, Shiloh Falls is without a doubt the worst Western I have ever watched. The acting was terr... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7248 | 0pending | a0240d76-9562-4bb1-9fac-422b7ad41eea | This movie was a stupid piece of crap. Bad everything. Why is it that we who love western movies get jilted nine out of ten times when renting westerns. It seems that if you don't see names like Robert Duval, Kevin Kostner, or Tom Selleck attached to the cover, it isn't worth messing with. For the most part the main ac... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7249 | 0pending | 4209e943-9485-4233-ad35-cc2eeb8e29ff | Nahhh! Leila (Grace Mills) is a teenager turned on to Satan (and LSD) by her archaeologist fiancé Richard. There's a neighborhood hippie demon cult hanging out at the local decrepit ancient castle, where Leila and Richard drink blood, drop drugs, join in sex orgies, dance to lame psychedelic rock and participate in bla... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7250 | 0pending | a663e313-9d8b-43e7-a66c-6a0c44e26602 | While I certainly consider The Exorcist to be a horror classic, I have to admit that I don't hold it in quite as high regard as many other horror fans do. As a consequence of that, I haven't seen many of The Exorcist rip-offs, and if Exorcismo is anything to go by, I'll have to say that's a good thing as this film is b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7251 | 0pending | a2b82ae1-3ebd-4335-bd02-0ad11e227820 | Why every horror director wants to imitate "The Exorcist" is a complete riddle to me, as William Friedkin's "classic" is a very overrated film and, in my opinion, not all that tense or shocking. And yet here's another clean rip-off, a Spanish one this time, that shamelessly repeats the story of a young girl that gets p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7252 | 0pending | 90c5fee6-a5e1-4bf2-abe7-2366fe3cbd4d | I grew up watching Inspector Gadget. It was, and still is, one of my favorite cartoons, if not my absolute favorite. I learned a lot of geography and history from the spin-off Inspector Gadget's Field Trip. I wanted to slip on a banana peel and become the greatest detective ever.<br /><br />But the film has ruined the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7253 | 0pending | 94ffcde7-30e7-456d-9188-a2728f035ec2 | Once again, Disney manages to make a children's movie which totally ignores its background. About the only thing common with this and the original Gadget cartoons is the names. The most glaring errors are the characters - Penny does not have her book, Brain has been reduced from a character to a fancy prop, Dr Claw is ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7254 | 0pending | ca8cba5b-e202-43ea-bf83-6bb4eb574851 | I used to have a fascination with the cartoon back in college when it was being made. It had much the charm of "Get Smart". While it admittedly had its faults, it was rather enjoyable.<br /><br />Naturally I was very interested in seeing the film version. That was before I saw it. Afterwords I wished it had never been ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7255 | 0pending | c9d140f6-dd1d-45d0-8032-8098ad67237c | I grew up watching the old Inspector Gadget cartoon as a kid. It was like Get Smart for kids. Bumbling boob can't solve any case and all the work is done by the walking talking dog Brain and his niece Penny. I had heard the live action movie was decent so I checked it out at the library. I rented this movie for free an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7256 | 0pending | 62ccc850-4573-403d-aff8-a9a2236c9e8f | I was a huge fan of the original cartoon series, and was looking forward to finally seeing Gadget on the big screen -- but I never in my wildest dreams expected something so extremely extremely terrible. The pace was WAY too fast, there was no plot, and 'wowser!' - what the hell is that?? It was 'WOWSERS!!'. | [] | [] | [] |
train_7257 | 0pending | 753fb605-3b48-4051-a3c0-1021ee20bebf | Well. Where to begin. Let's just say this; avoid this movie at all<br /><br />costs. It's based on a cartoon series. The movie makes the cartoon look<br /><br />like Hamlet. Filled with emasculated actors who seem embarrassed to be<br /><br />here, lousy camera work, terrible music, and enough product placement to<br /... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7258 | 0pending | ce2fc1c1-8e8e-4386-a482-6c66186ef462 | If you enjoy seeing what must have started as a 2 hour movie in unconnected bursts of unwatchability, you'll love this film. Otherwise, you'll just wonder how they could have made such a film from something so simple to translate to the big screen as Inspector Gadget.<br /><br />In the previews for the film, many scene... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7259 | 0pending | 275f65a8-a398-4b57-920d-535730a03758 | This is one of those movies you think that the makers would refuse to release it because it is so terrible. Obviously they were thinking that children are stupid and are excellent for absorbing endless ads and would think they are entertainment because it is slapstick funny. What is it with the talking car with buttons... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7260 | 0pending | 8a9ec5df-37b6-466b-b21e-56ba2074bca2 | I'm not quite sure why, but this movie just doesn't play the way it should. It should be humerous and fun, but instead is just boring. I think a large part of it is because they way over played the "gadgets." The old cartoon it is based on is much better.<br /><br />3/10 | [] | [] | [] |
train_7261 | 0pending | ebad34d4-247a-4494-920e-1cf26b02e5e4 | Since I had loved the Inspector Gadget cartoon in the 80's, I went to see this movie. I wasted my money. The plot was very thin. Also, the movie could not keep me interested for long. I was glad it was over.<br /><br />If you want to see Inspector Gadget, watch the cartoon instead. It was much better than the movie. | [] | [] | [] |
train_7262 | 0pending | 6461a9d2-1734-4ad6-b6dd-729e9836899d | Luckily I did not pay to see this movie. Also, I cannot even reveal any spoilers because I willingly WALKED OUT after forty minutes of the movie. It was that bad. I laughed once, when the Yahoo! billboard fell on the guy, and the theme song came on. However, that was only because I thought it was making fun of it, but ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7263 | 0pending | 3922ad25-0388-46c8-b80b-3c4a08c598f2 | I really wanted to like this movie - the location shots were mostly filmed in Pittsburgh and the trailer had some wonderful photography. But, even for a filmed cartoon, it was a really badly-made movie. The continuity and pacing were both simply awful. The best bits in the movie are under the ending credits, so it's (a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7264 | 0pending | 5fe28e59-95e3-4de0-bae5-1e6c797e54d9 | Why?!! This was an insipid, uninspired and embarrassing film. The embarrassment comes from being from the city where they made it...Pittsburgh PA! Why did they let these people do such a BAAAAAD movie there?<br /><br />When this movie was originally to be released...it was more of a romantic comedy...and no ROBO-anythi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7265 | 0pending | 3927f0a6-bfdd-4fcf-9bfb-e7e3d809f0b1 | After Disney's witty live-action George of the Jungle, I had high hopes for this flick. Major disappointment. Thread bare plot, bad acting, bad visual effects. This film relied on lame one-liners, idiotic ( and pointless) product placement, and the lamest most annoying side-kick in that gadget car thing. I took two you... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7266 | 0pending | dac972c3-3b00-402a-9396-9a051bc10e97 | OK. I think the TV show is kind of cute and it always has some kind of lesson involved. So, when my kids decided they wanted to see this movie, I decided to tag along. I wish I'd stayed home and watched the TV show instead.<br /><br />The fact that the humor is silly and unoriginal is the least of the problems with thi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7267 | 0pending | f05f881e-cef0-4991-9f3b-821003b1aa23 | INSPECTOR GADGET (1999) **<br /><br />Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Andy Dick, Dabney Coleman Director: David Kellogg 80 minutes Rated PG<br /><br />By Blake French:<br /><br />Disney's new film, "Inspector Gadget" is about a cop named John who survives a major accident and is saved by a st... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7268 | 0pending | 24ddf29e-700f-4729-b9b3-458dce7957c3 | Disney's done it again. The company that made "Mr. Magoo" and "George of the Jungle" has made another movie that barely resembles the cartoon on which it is based, and keeps none of the spirit of the original.<br /><br />"Inspector Gadget" was one of my favorite cartoons when I was a young one, and for a movie of it to... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7269 | 0pending | 8ce38532-f823-422e-9e38-bc737cbec89a | In keeping with Disney's well-known practice of stealing.. I mean.. buying out known properties and bastardizing them, this live-action version of the venerable cartoon classic has got to be one of the worst re-makes in a year of bad re-makes. I grew up on the original cartoon TV series. Any episode of the original car... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7270 | 0pending | d3bfff74-37b4-4a5e-bd9d-1ae7b063b244 | I had absolutely nothing to do the past weekend, and tagged along with my friends to check out a movie...any movie. And since the only movie we'd not seen was Inspector Gadget, we decided to go in for that.<br /><br />BIG MISTAKE. This is a movie that might appeal only to kids. Oh, and it's not like I don't enjoy movie... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7271 | 0pending | 379463b1-5cc3-4cd2-a7c3-3325e0d37f60 | 5 minutes into this movie I was hyperventilating, shaking, and writhing in pain. And not in the good way. The story is about a troupe of idiotic children making prank phone calls to a psycho which is always a good idea. Turns out psychos don't like prank phone calls because in 2 minutes time he's at their door killing ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7272 | 0pending | 7e6b3fd7-530d-4464-81db-6adb8e8e2a1a | Saw it yesterday night at the Midnight Slam of the Festival des films du Monde in Montreal. What a disappointment. This movie is clearly over rated by IMDb fans. The acting was only but regular. The directing didn't bring anything new or interesting. The plot lacks considerably : the movie is all about those college gr... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7273 | 0pending | f76af168-503a-443e-a510-39f4e6377c27 | The plot of 7EVENTY 5IVE involves college kids who play a cruel phone game that unexpectedly (to them, if not to fans of horror) gets them in over their heads. The STORY of 7EVENTY 5IVE, on the other hand, is that of a horror film that had a wee little bit of promise, sadly outweighed by really bad writing.<br /><br />... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7274 | 0pending | 129f6052-3027-4849-9cf5-fc942cb03b7a | What an utter disappointment! The score of 6,1 here on IMDb built up some mild expectations but, oh my, was I disappointed. The first thing that bugs me are those braindead, stereotyped university kids. Yes, I know teens can be childish and so on, but why are they in movies always portrayed as complete braindead morons... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7275 | 0pending | c5c6cf2e-952f-4b80-aeb0-7d81c9a41ad6 | When I caught a glimpse of the title I thought are we going to get another try-hard hip slasher, but actually I found "7eventy 5ive" to be a mildly passable, and almost 80s throwback after a tediously slow mid-section it picks up momentum for the final half-hour leading to it's outrageously tacky climax and downright c... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7276 | 0pending | f7843c42-48d9-4698-aa5f-5e519b81cdc7 | Here we go with other slasher movie, Good looking people and Acting from everyone was really good!<br /><br />Few kids playing pranks phones calls and there parents are killed by the killer in front of the kids! 20 Years after they are still friends, They go to huge house, have fun, Drugs and Sex (no nudity) for least ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7277 | 0pending | 745f99c5-5967-44dc-949e-8516223d363b | I'm sorry to all the fans, but this is a useless movie. The acting is bad, even wooden, it over-hypes the fright-factor early on, and doesn't exactly work. I think there was supposed to be a twist at the end, but it just ended up being maddeningly confusing. What the hell? The dude who was killing everyone was one of t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7278 | 0pending | 2074069b-b8e8-496b-8232-b62b77afb02e | I was attracted to seeing this movie because of this plot and my desire to watch a horror.<br /><br />To my disappointment, this turned into more of a comedy than a horror. The acting, dialog, and flow of the movie was all very poorly done. Much of it didn't make sense. For example, there's a party of about 30 people a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7279 | 0pending | 954756e4-5637-410f-9e44-e7f33c9d75b6 | This wasn't really a very good movie. There were lots of implausible and predictable things that happened during the course of the film...but I think that most of the reviewers are missing the point of why this movie should be enjoyed by a wide audience. THIS MOVIE WAS PRODUCED BY MAGIC JOHNSON! Isn't that enough to in... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7280 | 0pending | 2dbca6f1-d457-4873-b6d5-18462fc7aae2 | This is the worst adaption of a classic story I have ever seen. They needlessly modernize it and some points are actually just sick.<br /><br />The songs rarely move along the story. They seem to be thrown in at random. The flying scene with Marley is pointless and ludicrous.<br /><br />It's not only one of the worst m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7281 | 0pending | ff673717-6d17-44c9-b877-11e49c8dfbca | I couldn't not recommend a Christmas movie more than this worthless piece of drivel (trust me, double negatives are required here -- it's that bad). This film was in trouble from the opening credits when it was revealed that the screenwriter was the same person as the songwriter. The musical numbers are all far too lon... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7282 | 0pending | 0b308608-0316-4b17-a59d-25ab2c7d83ac | now don't get me wrong, i do enjoy christmas movies. i love its a wonderful life and i really enjoy the versions of a christmas carol with george c. scott and alistair sim. but this particular movie is awful. i think the i love life song the ghost of christmas present sings is especially painful. albert finney sings fa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7283 | 0pending | ebd45e37-13f0-4454-b403-13eaf9a46218 | This is a bigger budgeted film than usual for genre director Honda (with more evidently elaborate sets) though the special effects still have that distinctive cheesiness to them (witness the giant bats and rodents on display). It also utilizes a surprising number of American actors: Joseph Cotten playing the visionar... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7284 | 0pending | 7f1ae851-d566-46d4-b722-cf1f5436e402 | No matter how well meaning his "message" is - this film is a terribly made trainwreck - awful acting, lame camera work - I do not know why Carr agreed to try and pull off a stutter - he is lousy at it. You watch the extras on the DVD and the way he has a camera follow him around - he just soaks it up - he loves being t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7285 | 0pending | 2278ff2f-282f-4a31-94b5-dc6d12f8c9ee | Overrated and only for those people in their 20's whom wear particularly thick rose tinted glasses, who never actually saw it in the first place because they were to young. Awful animation, dialogue and a tired narrative. A real product of the 80's, the novel gimmick of a puzzle TOY (thats right, TOY not the absurd, pr... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7286 | 0pending | 62d78410-73bf-45c2-86b6-52f8726f0ac2 | Being that I loved the original "Caligula" even with all its flaws, I have to say this remake trailer was abysmal.<br /><br />Listening to Jovovich say in that lazy American accent "Mmm cuhligyooluh..." makes me feel sick. The set doesn't look Roman at all... it looks like some rich actor's Hollywood mansion backyard, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7287 | 0pending | fcf88820-7c49-40d1-9352-be5aad08d198 | I have nothing more to say but it was awful. I cannot imagine why Helen Mirren and others were part of this degrading mess. And if certain actors don't want people to question their sexuality then perhaps they should refrain from making more of these films. There was at least one seen that left me curious. Just my opin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7288 | 0pending | 9ea7f7ff-bcc1-49d5-a108-5a72c01f29ef | This may have been based on historical events, and we know that the makers of this TV docu-drama took liberties to make it more dramatic - I can live with that - but it was just so badly done! I was amazed in the event of an unfolding mid-air crisis how calm everyone seemed, surely someone would have panicked, and what... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7289 | 0pending | 517834ab-9323-4aaa-a4c0-80f97b4079ad | I wanted to read the other comments before leaving my review and the majority definately rules: This movie is aweful! From the acting to the non-realistic animation to the countless errors. I was actually hoping that the flaps would have been extended by a stretch of the imagination (can't extend flaps without engines)... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7290 | 0pending | 26583c48-939f-4d67-b828-8e7a54a314a6 | I HATE plane crash movies...ALL of them! In fact, I hate them all with a passion! First of all, they are cheap-looking and have no craftsmanship! Secondly, they insult the airline industry and say to the audience that all planes do is...FALL OUT OF THE SKY AND CRASH!<br /><br />Why I wince at such a film? This could ha... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7291 | 0pending | 09f4a148-73e7-494b-ad75-fc314230f032 | A good cast and they do their best with what they're given, but the story makes no sense, the characters' actions are inexplicable, and there are too many moments of unintentional humor, as when a man is killed by being pierced with pieces of a phonograph record or when they get the witch drunk to a hip hop beat and th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7292 | 0pending | bb1ad7d9-0dea-4208-a9ea-e801b8ede4c3 | This film seems to be completely pointless. There is no reason why anything that happens in it happens, as if it was written by a small child who got bored halfway through and thought "how can I wrap this up?". And what were Jared Harris and Christopher Walken thinking? Did they do it for a bet? I couldn't tell you the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7293 | 0pending | ce607a0d-e6d5-43a8-9c26-e153864b455b | Yikes did this movie blow. The characters were weak, the plot weaker. I figured this couldn't be too bad because it has Christoper Walken, oops. He must have done this because he was bored and needed the money. The characters were supposed to be Irish but noone had an Irish accent. I am desperately trying to find somet... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7294 | 0pending | 90c2105e-c545-4bce-8c18-7691774c501f | This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. However, the little slave girl, Alice and Jared Harris imitating Christopher Walken is what makes this movie entertaining. Alice's smoking, drinking and uncanny way of showing up when her name is called is strange and interesting. I have to applaud Jared for his Christo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7295 | 0pending | 8db7d14a-dfd1-479a-b202-9beefb41efe2 | The writer came up with a pretty decent idea for a story, but many flaws in the execution of the plot took so much away from the film as to nearly render it unwatchable. Basic elements such as character development were glossed over, at best. Inconsistencies also reared their ugly heads. A massive mansion in the middle... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7296 | 0pending | 0ec749aa-80b7-4b60-8b44-637237727abf | There's really not a lot to say about Las Vegas Lady. It's harmless enough, but it is little more than a dull heist film from the 70s. The movie is neither as clever nor as sexy as it strives to be. The plot is a retread of the tired old casino robbery storyline that's been done to death. Except in the case of Las Vega... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7297 | 0pending | 539c38f8-b885-483d-a209-c5a22d59f544 | Well, i could nt get into the plot, but thats just me maybe. Listless camera-movements at times, nevertheless this movie has got a charming vintage quality.The acting is genuine at times and entertaining with the occasional chase sequence involving scantily clad ladies, which was nice. The climax is confused and disjoi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7298 | 0pending | a8cf6fd7-5693-4761-9190-7f57c40a6916 | Watching beautiful women sneaking around, playing cops and robbers is one of the most delightful guilty pleasures the medium film lets me enjoy. So The House on Carroll Street was not entirely a waste of time, although the story is contrived and the screenplay uninspired and somewhat irritating.<br /><br />There are ma... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7299 | 0pending | bd6f6748-b966-4dda-88f8-bc9a9b9c5aa3 | a romance without feeling, a drama of issues without point (or drama).... This film is supposed to be all these and fails on each and every account, as if it isn't trying. Or as if the director/editor/scriptwriter team isn't really trying. The actors are able--they need better support.<br /><br />One element that doesn... | [] | [] | [] |
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