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train_7600 | 0pending | 114d8d11-0f40-4296-9c43-7d28668d0d71 | I'm not going to comb over TLPS's obvious peterbogdanovichian flaws. Instead, I shall take a look at the positive aspects of this overrated celluloid pygmy of a film.<br /><br />1. Peter Bogdanovich managed to make a movie that can be endured in its entirety. This fact alone places the movie high up above and all the w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7601 | 0pending | a3b7ece3-92af-4a80-8b8c-9448bef884c9 | A boring movie about a boring town in the 50's. How can anyone think this is a classic? The producer pretty much ended his career by pushing his girlfriend, Cybil Shepard, into several movies that were way above her acting ability. I think this movie gives an insight to how bad Peter Bogdonovitch's future movies were g... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7602 | 0pending | ff806049-e36e-4141-beaa-01af80db89b9 | I gave this movie a very fair chance, and it betrayed me. This is very little more than a black and white excuse to bore the hell out of the audience even as the egotist Bogdanavich (who did way better with TARGETS) gets "great performances" out of a ton of hams in their debuts. Lots of teenage sex clichés come out of ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7603 | 0pending | 9e61ae88-0f8c-4b2d-a1cd-be763fb86042 | Black and White film. Good photography. Believable characters. <br /><br />Just awful.<br /><br />I have wasted another perfect evening watching a film that other rated as "worthy" and "very good." There is some good acting here and the back ground setting for the plot is good (more should have been done with this) but... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7604 | 0pending | b1ce6f80-ebca-496d-be77-e6b24d795b2e | For getting so many positive reviews, this movie really disappointed me! It is slow moving and long. At times the story is not clear, particularly in the evolving relationships among characters. My advice? Read the book, it's a fabulous story which loses it's impact on screen. | [] | [] | [] |
train_7605 | 0pending | 28a596ad-cc96-40a7-96e8-b4ae03bf9e69 | After hearing raves about this movie for years, I finally decided to rent it and watch. Let me start by saying that I'm glad that the rental was free from the local library. This move was slow, boring, unrealistic and the plot made no sense. After 2 hours, I was ready to nuke that backwater Texas town and put the group... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7606 | 0pending | b288d8a5-094a-414d-b2fd-a033f934d4e4 | This is your only spoiler warning. What a sad state of our cinema when unprofessional junk like this is considered "Oscar worthy".<br /><br />I divide material into three levels. The first is the stage theatre. Here the viewer is stagnant and the power rests in the presentation of the actor and, most importantly, in th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7607 | 0pending | 70c0f5d7-9679-40ff-b4fd-7a350883168d | Florence Chadwick was actually the far more accomplished swimmer, of course. She swam the English Channel both directions. She swam from Catalina Island to the California coast. Marilyn Bell's is a sweet story, but the usual glorification of us Canadians in the face of a superior world. Another sample of our inferiorit... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7608 | 0pending | 17d10c46-5fc6-4c8c-a6ba-6b5fdbb958a1 | This little show is obviously some stupid little prequel/spin off of the original series.<br /><br />Compared to the live action series this show is utter crap. The live action show had intelligent jokes and story lines. While the animated series is basically a toned down bittersweet version for younger viewers to dige... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7609 | 0pending | b462c172-efbf-4580-b7b1-b66d792e0de2 | One can only assume that Robert Osborne is contractually obligated to express delight at even the least appealing films in the TCM library as this would explain him extolling the 'virtues' of this "charming" film during his introduction when I saw this on cable TV. Seeing as any old film on IMDb receives 'classic' stat... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7610 | 0pending | 034ac85f-3ee5-40e8-9245-b5e231bd5888 | As has been noted, this formula has been filmed several times, most recently as "You've Got Mail", with Tom Hanks and Meg"Trout Pout" Ryan. Of the several versions, this is my least favorite. The problem i think is that the studio coasted on the Stars charisma, which doesn't quite cut it here.<br /><br />The chemistry ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7611 | 0pending | 633b13fa-8e19-4f8b-9b64-bde66f65830c | I rented this movie because it sounded pretty interesting but to my Horror this movie was the worst movie I had ever seen! I read the comment from Gumby-8 and he has to be a part of the cast or the crew. Unless Gumby-8 is a 4 year old child or some demented cult member no one in their right mind would think that this m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7612 | 0pending | a8a413ed-bbdb-4e87-9d5e-e01e0da04022 | As a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 fan, I can withstand ANY motion picture that can be foisted upon me, but there is absolutely no reason for this.<br /><br />Rated "Super Action" in the Blockbuster Video section and given the dreaded "Restricted Viewing Sticker" I'm assuming these are the only methods that film maker (... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7613 | 0pending | 490914db-8b92-4828-a7b2-361997fb6606 | This isn't cinema. It isn't talent. It isn't informative. It isn't scary. It isn't entertaining. It isn't anything at all.<br /><br />I got this because my cousin says, "Diablo! COOL!" Yeah, right. The only thing cool about this experience was the lone fact that I didn't buy it but rented it instead.<br /><br />It's sh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7614 | 0pending | aa3bdf0b-33f2-443c-a350-31dedae4c950 | It is one of the worst movies i've ever seen, but Hostel is definitely much more worse. This movie is more funny and ridiculous, than scary. I laughed most of the time when watched it. Low quality effects (when you gonna watch it, you'll understand what i'm talking about and HOW LOW quality is that), bad actors (i hear... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7615 | 0pending | 4f8f463d-de8c-4ca6-9743-f4ad6f0b1bfc | The good news is a movie was made, drawing on a supposed Aztec myth and featuring an unusually Aztec-American (is such a word exists) cast. The bad news is, it was dead at birth.<br /><br />If Ed Wood had come out of retirement and coached George Romaro through his classic 'Night of the Living Dead,' this is what we mi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7616 | 0pending | 87540705-ab09-4949-a8f7-44a2a4380a74 | me, my boyfriend, and our friend watched this "movie" if thats what u wanna call it, and we agree with the last person, but we were stupid and bought the damn thing, we thought it really was about diablo so we bought it.<br /><br />we hate it Really SUXZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so beware: DO NOT BUY THIS THING T... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7617 | 0pending | 3bae1304-11f8-4f2f-8c25-89b9927e1b2f | This may be one of the worst movies to ever make it to production, ever.<br /><br />1. The most exciting part is the beginning, where the guy is walking... and walking... and walking (spoiler). There is about 15 minutes of just walking. How? <br /><br />2. Not to mention there's a lot of issues with the lighting, and i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7618 | 0pending | cd4dc8cd-3cfe-413f-8df1-4d742e10369b | The small California town of Diablo is plagued with mysterious deaths after sheriff Robert Lopez unearths an ancient box.Legend has it that the box holds the sixteenth-century Mexican demon named Azar.FBI agent Gil Vega is sent to investigate the murders and joins forces with the sheriff's daughters,Dominique and Mary ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7619 | 0pending | 2251cb3c-49fb-4c36-8c44-ba3c6e88b503 | I cannot get past the message of this movie. It's laid out much too clearly to ignore, and it is obscene because it has lost its sense of what it's about. I haven't read the novel, but Pollack's film opens with a scene at a CIA-front organization in New York, which is broken into by two professional assassins, headed b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7620 | 0pending | 65586052-59a8-44cf-a012-f0af8a59255c | 1st watched 2/28/2006 - 4 out of 10(Dir-Sydney Pollack):-DVD version I watched titled "3 Days of the Condor"- So so CIA drama full of laid-back performances making for a very laid-back movie. The premise of the story revolves around 7 out of 8 members of a CIA research group being killed with Robert Redford's character... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7621 | 0pending | 738d27b0-d401-42f3-9bcd-58a78718a183 | Generally I don't like films directed by Sydney Pollack ("The Firm" being somewhat of an exception) and I've never been a Robert Redford fan either. Still, I thought "Three Days of the Condor" must be good because of the number of praising comments it has received.<br /><br />Although the widescreen cinematography is q... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7622 | 0pending | 73c88cdf-d5c2-47ad-83f6-f17e68020cb0 | Being a big fan of Corman's horror movies I expected from his western a bit more than I got. Well, I was entertained all right. I had almost as many laughs as watching Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles.<br /><br />See the spectacle of mobile tire tracks on the prairie of the old west. You can kill time by counting them if th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7623 | 0pending | c977e9fc-79ea-4f37-9673-1e48b2c55639 | I'll admit that I don't expect much from a Roger Corman film. Generally, I expect a lot of walking and bad scripts. Yet in this case, I am pleasantly surprised.<br /><br />The Gunslinger is a story of a woman (played by the spunky Beverly Garland) who takes over as sheriff after her husband is brutally murdered. Ms. Ga... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7624 | 0pending | b4af270d-fda1-4644-a1a5-1521caba4675 | - When the local sheriff is killed, his wife takes over until and is determined to clean-up the town. Not everyone in town, however, is happy with what she's doing. When the sheriff orders a curfew in town, the local saloon owner (also a woman) hires a killer to take care of the sheriff. There's no way the saloon owner... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7625 | 0pending | c9e966d4-d97c-4a96-b16b-1693952e19a6 | Beverly garland was born in the wrong time. She was an actress ahead of her time, bringing power and grace to even such lame flicks as the Corman films she starred in. In Gunslinger, she's the town sheriff's wife. He gets offed, so she takes over his job to pursue his killers. She's better than the material she's worki... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7626 | 0pending | 7d79250c-4c64-492f-bccb-38f9068b8435 | I guess that "Gunslinger" wasn't quite as god-awful as most of the movies that "Mystery Science Theater 3000" shows, but westerns just aren't Roger Corman's forte. Portraying Rose Hood (Beverly Garland) becoming sheriff in an Old West town after her sheriff husband gets murdered and having to fight off baddies, the mov... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7627 | 0pending | 0cf8904f-7f88-48e9-8c81-1940d8af942b | Sure it takes place in the west, but the title makes it seem like it is a conventional western. Instead, it is a movie of a woman sheriff. Make no mistake though this is a bad movie about a woman sheriff. She becomes sheriff when her husband is gunned down; she is only a tad bit upset by this. Her main goal is to go af... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7628 | 0pending | cd6cea9e-05b8-46a6-81d7-42aa046a4fc9 | I'll be blunt. I'm not one for politically correct movies where the woman plays the bad ass who's not going to take any crap from anyone. If any one of the cast members wanted to, they could have just taken her out in a heartbeat. It was entertaining on MST 3K, but don't rent the real version. Trust me. Have I ever lie... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7629 | 0pending | 00735c02-8aa2-4394-9ba5-650e5c8f9bc8 | One of the other commenters mentioned that they almost walked out. If I hadn't been with my wife, who wanted to stay, I would have left. It's a shame, too, because I think it could have been a good movie. But this is easily one of the worst adapted screenplays I've ever seen. It starts out nowhere and it goes nowhere (... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7630 | 0pending | b3c94646-eac9-45e3-b7e5-5841e64d19bc | This is a movie that demonstrates that mood and music and texture aren't enough to make a good film. Sure, the viewer is treated to numerous fine scenes of Los Angeles in the thirties--I especially liked the view of the trolley approaching the tunnel, and the tram rising up the hillside--but in a sense this fine cinema... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7631 | 0pending | af17f660-23ad-4f08-a919-e70905c48f6d | This movie proves that good acting comes from good direction and this does not happen in Ask the Dust. Colin Farrell is usually a fine actor but in this he is juvenile. Donald Sutherland comes across as an amateur. Why? Because the script is awful, the adaptation is awful and the actors seem bored and half hearted. The... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7632 | 0pending | 9ab2f3a6-2515-41c2-b8a2-8bfada716614 | A friend told me of John Fante last summer after we got into a conversation about Charles Bukowski. I did not know that Fante was a favorite writer of Bukowski's - an author with similar edge and humor except from one generation earlier. 'Ask the Dust' was the first Fante book I read, and it remains one of my favorite ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7633 | 0pending | 73997f79-afcc-43ad-ac2a-aadcfd4c0000 | It must have been excruciating to attend the dailies as the shooting continued on this failure of a film. Probably Cruise, the Exec. Prod., saw what was happening and had Towne use much, much more of the nude footage in the final cut then Towne wanted to, to make up for the disaster he saw looming.(Maybe Cruise even th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7634 | 0pending | 949d2752-eb6e-448e-87a3-a123618cb512 | I love the depiction of the 30s and 40s in film. I love Salma Hayek. I was more than ready to love this picture. but . . .<br /><br />BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ! ! ! !! ! <br /><br />No sir, nothing good about this. The only entertaining aspect for me was Colin Farrell's character is an insecure ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7635 | 0pending | 238c5e85-bdd1-4be5-b57a-56e2f7fb4dc2 | A film starring Salma Hayek and Colin Farrell, two respected and talented actors, sounds like a great idea. An independent film sounds even better. The studios will control less of the content allowing the actors and writers and director more creativity.<br /><br />But then why is this movie so bland? Ask the dust.<br ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7636 | 0pending | 878dc761-93c0-4040-9948-bffca445ca42 | "Ask the Dust" looked intriguing from the trailer, and we especially like all of the actors. Unfortunately, the movie was not compelling enough to be considered drama, and it wasn't funny enough to be a comedy. It practically seemed to satirize itself, and to no entertaining effect. After seventy minutes of waiting for... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7637 | 0pending | 9671b08f-baea-4738-bbdf-943a775dbbf8 | Given the history of the director of this movie, it is hard to believe that this was such a painfully bad movie to sit through. I was at the European premiere last night and one of the Executive Producers was there. He was yet to see the movie and, boy, was he in for a surprise. I have not read the book that this is ba... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7638 | 0pending | da1c9698-507b-4582-b6f3-bff3e63f2be5 | I don't like this film, but then I didn't think much of the book either which, although lauded by many as a "masterpiece", I found lacking in character development and disjointed and illogical in plot, although it was far more readable than Fante's dreadful first effort "Road to Los Angeles" not published until Fante b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7639 | 0pending | a3518852-515c-4d14-ad2c-d1c8f8b537bf | The 1930' were a golden age of Los Angeles with its film industry and great potential of various other possibilities to become rich and famous and happy. People were arriving there hoping to fulfill their dreams. Expecting open arms and welcoming offers there were only a few who managed to succeed and find their way to... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7640 | 0pending | c412f41d-d038-48c8-af23-0ffd7c3eb0b0 | This film is based on the novel by John Fante. Could someone please tell me why? I see absolutely no reason why this fine book should be adapted in this way. If you want to make a romantic melodramatic Hollywood production with Colin Farell and Selma Hayek, then how could you possibly make a connection to Ask The Dust ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7641 | 0pending | 65afce49-c885-4e4d-9e04-fc9c1efd12b2 | Gorgeous bodies, gorgeous colors and camera work, pretentious dialog, banal plot. The name of the prima donna, Camilla, and the eponymous flowers that appear frequently, are enough to remind us of the plot similarities from Dumas' novel La Dame aux Camelias, the movie Camille starring Garbo and (I think) Robert Taylor,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7642 | 0pending | bc8f76b5-9094-4f32-8559-209f89ff4ea2 | What do you expect when there is no script to begin with, and therefore nothing that the director can work with. Hayek and Farrell, and Donaldson and Kirkin are good actors, they just don't have anything to say or anything to react to. Even the earthquake was pretty poor. And I don't know how closely the movie follows ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7643 | 0pending | a8864d74-67a1-4a0c-bc36-314eccf67c57 | A warning to potential viewers: if you are looking for an adaptation of the classic story "The Most Dangerous Game," look elsewhere. "Seven Women for Satan"<br /><br />only superficially addresses the original work by using the name of Zaroff and having said character murder people.<br /><br />Some of what follows migh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7644 | 0pending | ef010d76-5b37-4c0b-8ed9-641081d27a10 | You just got to love opening sequences like the one in "Seven Women for Satan"
During the intro there's a naked girl running through the woods, chased by a hunting dog and a malignant looking dude on a horse, until she falls off a cliff and splits her head open on a rock. Then the camera zooms out on the face of the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7645 | 0pending | abfd3ed7-5259-4738-832b-fb8583822b29 | Summer Holiday is the forgotten musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah Wilderness and deservedly so with the Broadway musical adaptation of Take Me Along. With the exception of the Stanley Steamer song, none of the other Harry Warren-Ralph Blane songs are worth remembering and even that one is questionable. <br /><br /... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7646 | 0pending | 8e35e7b2-029d-4f88-9e95-219dc95d7e93 | I love watching early colour films - you mean those 40s clothes weren't all grey? <br /><br />Margaret Rutherford dominates this movie. Her "eccentric" garb is actually rather attractive and yes, she has an amazing hourglass figure. But I feel she was given her head rather too much. She probably developed this characte... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7647 | 0pending | 35fa02bf-ae26-4e07-98fc-bc9a21788abd | I recently saw the Broadway revival of "Blithe Spirit" starring Angela Lansbury, Rupert Everett, Christine Ebersole, and Jayne Atkinson. It's a terrific production, and shows what good actors can do with a play that is less than perfect. Angela Lansbury is extremely funny as Madame Arcati.<br /><br />It was probably a ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7648 | 0pending | 2f65f1da-9d93-4aa3-af06-806b9f0afd69 | David Lean's worst film. Even 'In Which We Serve' was'nt as bad as this. Usually a film with a really good reputation like this one, has at least some redeeming qualities, which makes one understand why it might be considered a classic. But after watching this I just could not get why this piece of crap was liked so mu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7649 | 0pending | b9baf95b-29cd-4e10-afc3-059c668b864a | High heels are tricksy things. They can elevate women (or cross-dressing men) to newfound heights, put forward a sharp statement of style and bring a touch of fragile elegance. Alternatively, they can be a perilous foot pain that will inevitably lead to trips, falls and ultimate tragedy. Tacones lejanos is more of a di... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7650 | 0pending | df26dc5b-7eab-480a-9db4-93c511177181 | I saw this movie the other day in a film school class, and I hadn't seen an Almodovar movie before but went in expecting it to be good. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a pointless film with only a couple of laughs mixed in with two hours of sheer boredom. High Heels is just a collection of random scenes that might h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7651 | 0pending | 3ce409df-8aba-477d-bc10-a5102f8eb380 | This was an awful movie. Basically Jane March was a half-Korean North Korean spy sent by Kim Jong Il to do something horrible to the American forces in South Korea. She becomes a maid for an American military family, they all regard her as being Korean even though she looks more white (I believe the actress is either 1... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7652 | 0pending | 1d3a324d-de84-41ba-95ad-8eb504259ed7 | The name "cult movie" is often given to films which continue to be screened, or to sell in home movie format, more than a generation after they were first released. Superchick, which was first released in 1973, now comes into this category. Its cult status is largely due to ongoing interest in it by those women who reg... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7653 | 0pending | c31b0c97-958d-481d-999e-46aea6758159 | Suggesting nothing less than a movie-length version of the 1970s TV hit "Love, American Style," decked out with flashes of nudity, "Superchick" (1973) is a lighthearted piece of fluff that somehow still manages to entertain. And the lead character here, Tara B. True, really IS some kind of superchick. A stewardess (not... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7654 | 0pending | f48b1bce-06a3-4271-acae-51606c181f8b | This is only somewhat attractive for fans of "bad movie" entertainment. It is more worthwhile for students of 1970's pop culture: the fashions, the furniture, the attitudes, and that great "women's lib" moment of the early 1970's, when it was still fresh and novel for a self-employed, independent woman to exist.<br /><... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7655 | 0pending | da08feb0-800f-4b4b-ba12-d3a9311d7398 | This was a quite brutal movie. There were huge implausibilities, and a silly script, bad acting, etc.<br /><br />The only reason to watch this movie is that from time to time some quite impressive sets of breasts were exposed. | [] | [] | [] |
train_7656 | 0pending | 3edc1115-0f39-4087-9717-c1df57eb986e | A retired diplomat, played nicely by Michael York, goes to Russia to get revenge on the Russian gangster that murdered the diplomat's policeman son. There the diplomat meets an exceptionally strong and decent Russian cop who helps him bring the Russian gangster to justice.<br /><br />I remembered the old action flicks ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7657 | 0pending | e242c600-0ce0-41f1-8840-2afda3b460f5 | But it does have some good action and a plot that is somewhat interesting. Nevsky acts like a body builder and he isn't all that attractive, in fact, IMO, he is UGLY. ( his acting skills lack everything! ) Sascha is played very well by Joanna Pacula, but she needed more lines than she was given, her character needed to... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7658 | 0pending | 9e169842-c3a6-48f6-bb5f-a15c1a0fafd4 | This movie is a vehicle for Schwarzenegger-clone Alexander Nevsky. His charisma however is insufficient to lift this movie above the level of its poor script. He has little to add to his Arnie-act.<br /><br />Michael York is quite pathetic as the begging diplomat. Watching him revisit his D'Artagnan-act from the time t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7659 | 0pending | 40d3593c-d58c-472a-9934-75b3319e50d0 | It felt like I watched this movie thousand times before.It was absolutely predictable.Every time the story tried to get a bit twisted,every time I awaited something interesting to happen, I saw nothing but what I expected. Like "The bread factory opened up another facility,because there was not enough bread". In two wo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7660 | 0pending | 51e41ba2-5f69-4064-b0a7-08b86bc63710 | Woman (Miriam Hopkins as Virginia) chases Man (Joel McCrea as Kenneth) for father (Charles Winninger as B.J.). Woman wants to get Man to invest some of deceased mother's money in father's business venture; but, father is notorious for losing money on hair-brained schemes. Little does anyone know, but real evil schemers... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7661 | 0pending | 076b0bb2-36c8-479a-a90c-1d2f1d59170d | You don't expect much from a PRC picture, and with rare exceptions--mainly from Edgar G. Ulmer and a few by Joseph H. Lewis or Lew Landers--that's exactly what you get: not much. This "epic" about Nazis in Africa trying to incite an Arab revolt against the British isn't much different. The script, by longtime PRC hacks... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7662 | 0pending | 3028b5eb-dbd2-4c12-8938-f5f5900fdf90 | It definitely fits the time period as the Axis & Allies were playing espionage games throughout most of North Africa & the rest of the world. It's not the best of films, but certainly not the worst of the budget films as described previously from the compilation War Classics. <br /><br />Duncan"Cisco Kid" Renaldo was a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7663 | 0pending | 251318fe-8b1f-466c-84c1-fe8a0dbb38ca | Chan Wook Park is nothing if not inventive. I'M A CYBORG BUT THAT'S OK is chock full of amusing little technical flourishes with some ingenious ideas sprinkled in between. Attempting to walk in the footsteps of the likes of Marc Caro and Jeunet (CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, DELICATESSEN), Park embarks on a fanciful, lighthea... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7664 | 0pending | 5e1272a8-229f-45e5-9096-6ad9b64450c6 | The story: Young-goon is a girl whose family has a history of mental illness. She ends up in a mental institution after she starts believing that she is in fact a cyborg. In the institution she meets Park Il-sun, a young man who develops a bond with her.<br /><br />If you're reading this you probably already know how t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7665 | 0pending | 1f6eefe1-3bd7-4878-8331-a06abc9bad31 | Prior to this release, Neil LaBute had this to say about the 1973 original: "It's surprising how many people say it's their favorite soundtrack. I'm like, come on! You may not like the new one, but if that's your favorite soundtrack, I don't know if I *want* you to like my film." <br /><br />Neil, a word. You might wan... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7666 | 0pending | 03ad91ab-c94f-4ecb-8018-b2538b7ac2b2 | This movie is the biggest waste of nine dollars that I've spent in a very, very long time. If you knew how often I went to the movies you'd probably say, that's hard to imagine, but never-the-less, it's true! After seeing the trailer for this movie, I knew that I had to see it! If you're a fan of horror, mystery, and s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7667 | 0pending | c5dcd507-3f01-470f-bba3-e8b32504a1ca | The Wicker Man. I am so angry that I cannot write a proper comment about this movie.<br /><br />The plot was ridiculous, thinly tied together, and altogether-just lame. Nicolas Cage...shame on you! I assumed that since you were in it, that it would be at least decent. It was not.<br /><br />I felt like huge parts of th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7668 | 0pending | c37dd404-2041-47f0-8aa3-1da6a8308128 | Unfortunately, this movie does no credit whatsoever to the original. Nicholas Cage, fairly wooden as far as actors go, imbues the screen with a range of skill from, non-plussed to over the top. The supporting cast is no better.<br /><br />The plot stays much the same as the original in terms of scene progression but is... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7669 | 0pending | d395d52c-3626-4d51-909d-08e553f1f966 | I haven't seen the original, but just wanted to drop a quick note to anyone who happens to scroll down this far: Wicker Man is the worst movie I've seen this year. Maybe even in two years. I wish I could ask the theater for my money back or turn back time to warn myself not to see it.<br /><br />I'll give it two positi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7670 | 0pending | f058138b-d1d4-436e-9a05-135a7415ec3d | Anyone not aware of the 1973 original British Lion movie ' The Wicker Man' would,no doubt, have left the cinema with the impression 'Poor' and 'Peurile'.<br /><br />As a devotee of the original I left with the impression Purely Poor.<br /><br />From the grim reality of haggle toothed inbreds drawing the force of law an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7671 | 0pending | 95b35887-1093-4313-a2ee-7fd0ddc9b712 | How this film could miss so many of the fascinating, complex and mysterious aspects of the original story or the original movie is truly remarkable. An unbelievably thin and unengaging plot, ankle-deep characterisation/motivation and a really awful soundtrack (replacing tension with vast swathes of noise, replacing the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7672 | 0pending | 433bd56e-2ff5-4a7e-95ba-e8f406956e6b | This has got to be one of the worst fillums I've ever seen and I've seen a few. It is slow, boring, amateurish - not even consistent within its own simplistic reading of the plot. The actors do not act. I can't blame them - they have been given a script of such utter banality all they can do is trudge through it with a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7673 | 0pending | 1050ab05-eb17-41eb-8295-f238d25d91d7 | what ever you do do not waste your time on this pointless. movie. A remake that did not need to be retold. Everyone coming out of the theater had the same comments. Worst movie I ever saw. Save your time and money!!!<br /><br />Nicgolas Cage was biking down hills, swimming in murky water and rolling down hills while be... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7674 | 0pending | 3699dcf6-235e-4351-87b6-18cb678f7c48 | This film was terrible. OK, my favourite film is 'The Wicker Man' (1973), so I was always bound to be a little biased. <br /><br />The plot rambles along, throwing out enough of the key elements of the original to make the term 'remake' highly dubious. (He's not a virgin, but IS allergic to bees. WOW!) So many things h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7675 | 0pending | ea59a862-79c8-427f-b279-0f721ee607ca | Everyone else who has commented negatively about this film have done excellent analysis as to why this film is so bloody awful. I wasn't going to comment, but the film just bugs me so much, and the writer/director in particular. So I must toss in my hat to join the naysayers.<br /><br />I saw the original "Wicker Man" ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7676 | 0pending | 5c1a29c5-b45e-41f1-83bb-bf68a5e92279 | Don't let the premise fool you--this was one funny movie. The problem--it wasn't supposed to be a comedy. The story sets you up nicely for an ending that never comes. Even worse, the set-up is NEVER explained. You will leave the theater asking "Is that it?" I rate it a 2 simply because there were a few brief moments of... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7677 | 0pending | 67e5291d-588c-45fe-bd05-13d911405315 | I have never seen the 1973, older highly rated version. I am a Nicholas Cage fan (by the way, fine acting as usual). This movie probably took all of five minutes to hammer out the whole plot (I can see it being done on a cocktail napkin at a dinner party), if you can't figure out the ending of this drool in the first t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7678 | 0pending | 06dc7d87-3e39-464d-bc77-06e77ea9f79e | A phenomenal achievement in awfulness. It's actually hilariously awful.<br /><br />First off...Nicholas Cage must now have made it to the finals in the Over-Emoting Category in his acting class. Wearing new hair plugs and with a face that has been lifted so many times his pinned back ears seem to be straining to touch ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7679 | 0pending | f0ccc6b6-1ce7-4d3f-bbee-a7721b2aa986 | The Wicker Man Has Done The Impossible! It replaced Cat Woman as the worst recent movie in my steel trap cinema mind. YES it's really that bad. So bad that when sitting down to write this review I thought to myself "If I had a choice to either see this movie again or to have red hot needles shoved in my eyes" I might a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7680 | 0pending | d714930d-9466-45d5-8d59-d15dcc653f3c | I picked this DVD up at the Dollar Store. The DVD was on the 2 for $1 rack, but since it had Michael Madsen in it, I thought that since I had never seen the movie, I bought it anyway.<br /><br />I must say that I didn't like the movie. The movie played more like a documentary or an advertisement for religion than anyth... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7681 | 0pending | 04d2f7ae-062c-45e7-9930-c53434ecb2de | Poor Michael Madsen; he must be kicking himself to know folks have found out about this horrible flick. I really can't think of anything worse I have ever seen, except amateur porn. It's that bad, and all here; wooden acting, bad script, crappy moral ending, you hate it and it is in this movie.<br /><br />My question i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7682 | 0pending | 17396566-b955-4540-81e9-d37e35b11d0e | An actor's first film is usually something one can afford to miss - it's often that first job where the lack of film experience by everyone involved is truly on display, and this film is no exception.<br /><br />But worse than that, even by 1982 standards this is so bad, it's hysterically funny. Filmed entirely in the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7683 | 0pending | 9c02b441-73c1-488d-9330-28a74cb09d14 | THE TEMP (1993) didn't do much theatrical business, but here's the direct-to-video rip-off you didn't want, anyway! Ellen Bradford (Mel Harris) is the new woman at Millennium Investments, a high scale brokerage firm, who starts getting helpful hints from wide-eyed secretary Deidre (Sheila Kelley). Deidre turns out to b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7684 | 0pending | 8b91d392-7c6e-498d-9559-e9a3ed09938b | "The Secretary" is one of those cheesy, cliched, "thrillers" that one is subjected to watching on a Sunday afternoon, when there is virtually nothing else on. While the plot (a demented woman becomes jealous of all who succeed over her in the office and decides to do whatever she can to stop them) may be one of a kind,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7685 | 0pending | 1b287fd3-4101-42f6-b51f-3821d1cc81e5 | A chemical spill is turning people into zombies. It's up to two doctor's to survive the epidemic. It's an Andreas Schnaas film so you know what the par for the course will be. Bad acting, horribly awful special effects, and no budget to speak of. The dubbing is ridiculous with a capital R and the saddest thing is that ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7686 | 0pending | 97514437-2a1d-48c7-8549-51f7b01ffb43 | I will keep this as short as possible as this piece of crap barely warrants a mention. ZOMBIE 90 is one of the worst films ever made - right up there with Schnaas' other horrible zombie entry - ZOMBIE DOOM (aka VIOLENT SH!T 3). These films suck so bad that everyone involved in their creation should be shot. I somehow m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7687 | 0pending | 38ee553d-6a1c-482f-b085-42537e0f523a | Beyond dirt cheap, this shot-on-video exercise in ineptitude was difficult to get through. It's got the typical gore that you'd expect in a zombie movie, but none of the required atmosphere to make it worth while.<br /><br />What's strange is that this is an amateur German video, and the version I saw is English-dubbed... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7688 | 0pending | 97d16304-097a-4705-ad73-529d7fc7ac78 | What in God's name happened here? How does one go about creating what is practically a cheap knockoff of Redneck Zombies? Was Zombie '90 ever supposed to entertain someone ...anyone, or even make a dollars profit? But mainly, what happened here? <br /><br />Zombie '90 Extreme Pestilence was directed by a lunatic by the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7689 | 0pending | ab635058-4fc9-4864-bb17-2346a3e5e616 | This review is based on the dubbed Shock-o-Rama video released on an undeserving world in 2002. How bad is it? It's awful, which is what a '1' represents on the IMDb scale--but it's much worse than that. It's nice to imagine that an original German-language print might improve matters--the comedic English-language dubb... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7690 | 0pending | 6e7ef980-db58-47e4-b65f-590793816373 | This is one of the worst movies i've ever encountered, but i want to say that some of the criticisms i had heard turned out to be unwarranted..<br /><br />As far as pure film-making technique goes, this director is competent. He's held back by the limited budget and the VHS camera, but the actual editing, camera angles... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7691 | 0pending | 348cc2e6-ce73-47b1-8034-ca2d62940c0d | Wow, not only is this film a "new lesson in real bad taste," but also a lesson in "real bad film making." Don't get me wrong, I appreciated the concept of 'Zombie '90: Extreme Pestilence,' but at the same time one must realize when a movie is terrible. In case you missed out on the storyline, the plot of 'Zombie '90' i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7692 | 0pending | 30ff54be-1d3b-4432-b717-1899e356e1fa | First, I am not really a fan of the whole "things eating flesh in disgusting new ways" genre of film but I am a bad movie afficionado so my next door neighbor said he had the worst movie ever. This one. So we start watching it. First and foremost - it is recorded on a camcorder sans tripod! Second the voice of the skin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7693 | 0pending | 74d10522-403e-42c2-9eba-89444e3fe867 | This movie is god awful. Not one quality to this movie. You would think that the gore would be good but it sucks bad. The effects are worse and the acting if you can call it acting is the worst I've ever seen. This movie was obviously shot on a camcorder and runs on a budget around 500 dollars probably. If you want to ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7694 | 0pending | 62d26a44-aea0-451e-9f01-34e50e58d6d1 | This really is one of the worst movies ever made. I consider myself a HUGE zombie film fan and usually tolerate bad acting, lame "special effects" a dumb story and whatever you may encounter in second rate movies, AS LONG as the film has a good atmosphere/story/suspension or whatever to offer. This one has basically no... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7695 | 0pending | 735a3f18-7c4e-47e0-b58f-fe4f59d918c7 | A movie best summed up by the scene where a victim simulates disembowelment by pulling some poor animal's intestines out from under her T-shirt. Too terrible for words. | [] | [] | [] |
train_7696 | 0pending | 00e21d47-529c-494d-a802-baa477ae7081 | I've seen the original non-dubbed German version and I was surprised how bad this movie actually is. Thinking I had seen my share of bad movies like Ghoulies 2, Rabid Grannies, Zombie Lake and such, nothing could've prepared me for this! It really was a pain to sit through this flick, as there's no plot, no good acting... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7697 | 0pending | e6768d37-8a36-47ef-be80-edc4abf83205 | Like some of the other folks who have reviewed this film, I was also waxing nostalgic about it...before I had the misfortune to actually watch it again. Alas, my childhood memories of this film were completely untrustworthy, and The Perils of Pauline is now revealed to be an embarrassing exercise in banal, racist, and ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7698 | 0pending | 6ae2eb18-f062-4401-8488-73a9879283a9 | While not exactly offensive, the 1967 version of "The Perils of Pauline" is certainly moronic. The title might lead you to expect a tribute to Pearl White (the original Pauline in the 1914 silent 20 episode serial) but for that you would be better served by the 1947 version starring Betty Hutton. This 1967 version is l... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7699 | 0pending | d92eafb3-6341-4d35-ab89-43f0e7dc23d9 | I've noticed how all the other reviews of this film mention how "wholesome" and "entertaining" it is. These people need to get out of the house more often. I don't know why they're shilling for this vapid, insipid, brainless piece of fluff. Pat Boone has absolutely no acting talent whatsoever, and his ineptness is exce... | [] | [] | [] |
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