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train_600 | 0pending | 6b0953b7-6041-4855-85fb-b349533821d3 | I've been going through the AFI's list of the top 100 comedies, and I must say that this is truly one of the worst. Not just of the 90 movies on the list I've seen, but of any movie I've ever seen. Drunks are funny sometimes, Dudley isn't. Liza almost made it worthwhile, but alas... just go watch Arrested Development i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_601 | 0pending | f4363206-4acc-4d04-be93-bf0aea17439a | After the superb AANKHEN(2002) which was a remake of a Gujarati play he comes with WAQT which too looks like a stage play<br /><br />In stage plays, we have characters shouting, overacting here too the same<br /><br />The first half shows Amitabh almost kidding the 40+ Akshay Kumar who acts too funny like a small nerd<... | [] | [] | [] |
train_602 | 0pending | 4a6eed0c-f91b-4715-83aa-89a9e1475171 | I cannot believe that the Indian film industry still puts out such third-rate dross as Waqt. For starters, the storyline is totally implausible spoilt son gets thrown out of family home so as to teach him some self-sufficiency. So what does he do? He promptly goes on to win some national talent contest by doing some ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_603 | 0pending | f76f603b-4894-4bee-9a78-06f543bfea2a | I saw the 7.5 IMDb rating on this movie and on the basis of that decided to watch this movie which my roommate had rented. She said she had seen it before. "It's funny and sad! I cried the first time I saw it," she gushed. Maybe compared to other Bollywood movies this deserves a 7.5 out of 10, but in comparison to all ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_604 | 0pending | 5990a14d-b382-45a2-9231-12357f2c6e58 | This movie's full title is "Waqt: Race Against Time". That's a race no one can ever win, but you can certainly cut your losing margin by not wasting any of your precious "waqt" on this bakvaas. This movie was clumsy and manipulative in a way that made K3G look honest. It strained my credulity too far. It was ridiculous... | [] | [] | [] |
train_605 | 0pending | de5ad906-7281-46de-8ef8-e2c5770eed39 | Those 2 points are dedicated the reasonable performance from Akshay Kumar. I know Bollywood films do not really strive to be realistic but PLEASE a Walt Disney production is more realistic than this plot. The father is dying and does what any good parent does...kick his son out the son with his PREGNANT wife. A few thi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_606 | 0pending | ef02c5b2-e7b9-4e7c-85e6-f9909cc9adc7 | this is just usual Indian garbage that gets turned out as cinema, as Indians we can proudly boast that we have the biggest cinema industry, however it also the worst.<br /><br />how can other poor countries have films with real characters that challenge the views of their respective societies and we just keep on pumpin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_607 | 0pending | d6a414b3-7ac5-4d40-a5e8-d59cdc2a2db4 | PROS: Akshay Kumar's performance(is it just me or does this guy always manages to trump AB in their movies together?). Some touching scenes in the 2nd half.<br /><br />CONS: The whole 1st hour(the jokes were flat to say the least). Every scene involving Rajpal Yadav. Major stupidity in AB's decision making. Let me get ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_608 | 0pending | 3bf25869-26dd-4971-afe4-31b2517bab51 | well well One cant b wasting time just cause of a big star-cast ..i think all i could see is a bunch of talents wasting their time on a big screen with some pathetic humor which will appeal to i do not know who? some pathetic songs that will be heard by who? some pathetically abrupt turnings justified by who? race agai... | [] | [] | [] |
train_609 | 0pending | e178cf37-e029-44e6-b7ed-a6ef10353235 | First of all there is Gujarati Theatre then there is Bollywood. Both have their strengths and fan following. Director Vipul Shah should look elsewhere instead of Gujarati Theatre when making a Bollywood production. First he made Aankhen (adapted from a Gujarati play) - which had a unique plot, but could not hold as a H... | [] | [] | [] |
train_610 | 0pending | aeeb2edf-b699-4aa1-872d-2681cae24ea5 | I found this film to be quite an oddity. From the very get go I found it extremely hard to like this movie, and now after a little thinking about it I can pretty much pinpoint the reason why. Jean-Marc Barr, although I love him to bits (I think Zentropa is one of the best movies ever made) is quite miscast here, and al... | [] | [] | [] |
train_611 | 0pending | 95730bbe-036b-4d4c-a278-e04d33afc23d | ALL FOR LOVE ( as it titled when it was broadcast at the weekend ) is a romantic period drama featuring Captain Saint Ives a French officer in Napoleon`s army who is captured by the British and imprisoned in Scotland where he meets and falls in love with a young maiden who visits the prison . There`s also a storyline i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_612 | 0pending | dd4a21ae-bd57-4f39-a334-07e8a57d553d | Around the late 1970's, animator Don Bluth, frustrated with the output his company, Disney was churning, defected from the Mouse House to form his own studio. His first production, THE SECRET OF NIMH, was a brilliant feature that still holds up well to this day. This was followed by AN American TAIL and THE LAND BEFORE... | [] | [] | [] |
train_613 | 0pending | bcd23e1a-da1b-4a83-9a6f-cfabd1459437 | Wow, what a waste of acting talent. My husband and I sat there, both thinking, this has to get better, these actresses are too good to have wasted their time on this crap. Unattractive characters, hackneyed script, and listless pacing make for a long two hours. I actually couldn't hack it and left to do the grocery sho... | [] | [] | [] |
train_614 | 0pending | a82e244b-a00c-46cd-8561-a5319c853c7c | I went to see "Evening" because of the cast. I'd gone to see "Norman's Room" for that reason -- that movie offering Diane Keaton, Leonardo De Caprio and, also, Meryl Streep -- and had loved every minute of it. Same for "The Notebook" even though it was chick-flit lite. And my feeling was, anything offering performances... | [] | [] | [] |
train_615 | 0pending | 5a0602f6-d9b5-45e2-9ba4-4c5f68664c66 | The story of a woman (Ann) on her death bed, her two daughters (Nina and Constance) and her thoughts about her past. The flashbacks are concerning a weekend where young Ann is in the wedding of her friend Lila. At the wedding she meets Harris who will impact her for the rest of her life. Through all the ups and downs o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_616 | 0pending | 8e5ecb60-af46-4771-a813-a875b9b567e4 | Some of these viewer comments are just ridiculous. Not painful to watch with your significant other? I was apologizing to my boyfriend the entire movie. <br /><br />It was so slow and awfully strange. <br /><br />Both Redgraves,Vanessa and Natasha were unfit for this, especially with Vanessa doing that ridiculous brash... | [] | [] | [] |
train_617 | 0pending | 5902ecde-d8f2-4988-8c60-00f3c5a0498d | This crap is like watching paint dry. I'm so disappointed because I was so eager to see it.<br /><br />There simply is no meaning to this film. If it were never made, no one would notice or care. It's hyped up because of all the big names in it, but if "nobody's" were in, nobody would give this film any love.<br /><br ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_618 | 0pending | 6f6fecb7-ea51-4d74-aabd-d35238618ef0 | I knew that 'Evening' was a girlie film, so I was expecting to be bored. A wicked tease on IMDb had said that it was a 'chick flick' but that your companion would survive.<br /><br />Survive? Yes. I am still here, but when the two of us came out we were amazed to find that it had only lasted two hours - it seemed a muc... | [] | [] | [] |
train_619 | 0pending | 028e495c-7d4f-45f2-9df6-77b5c39c9d9b | Just PPV'd this. I don't want to waste too much time on this as most of the posters here put it better than I ever could, but I did want to say a few things.<br /><br />I didn't know which was funnier: Redgrave chasing tiny moths and tripping over her nurse; Close wailing that her "precious" boy (whom she and the Mr. h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_620 | 0pending | e7a4a2a8-8e84-4879-a9d6-0e6570051669 | With a cast list like this one, I expected far better. Venessa Redgrave spent the majority of the movie lying in bed. The best actresses in the world cannot make anything very interesting when their acting is limited to lying down and falling asleep throughout the entire movie. The plot summary says that a secret is re... | [] | [] | [] |
train_621 | 0pending | 6ff4236d-0a52-4375-ab8a-94b61ca8732e | I saw this in a sneak two days before the official opening, and I must say I was extremely disappointed. And I have to put the majority of these problems on the decision to cast Claire Danes in the lead role. Depending on what you think about Danes, she was either horribly miscast, or is so far in over her head that sh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_622 | 0pending | 48710c7c-46e3-44b7-b20b-b781e93691cd | This is, without a doubt, the most offensive "chick flick" I have seen in years, if not ever. The writing & characterizations are so riddled with stereotypes that the film verges on parody. Before walking out of the theater an hour and five minutes into this disaster, we were subjected to the following themes: having a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_623 | 0pending | a93eae58-7ce5-4a7c-9abe-5a200e32a283 | I never expect a film adaptation to follow too closely to the novel (especially a beloved one, like Evening) but when I saw that the book's author, Susan Minot, was a screenplay writer and executive producer on the film, I thought that Evening would be a good adaptation.<br /><br />If you enjoyed the book, don't bother... | [] | [] | [] |
train_624 | 0pending | 54227c1a-12b7-4a5a-9f8d-bd04f9e67299 | Cast to die for in a movie that is considerably less. Vanessa Redgrave is dying but before she goes she begins to tell her daughters the story of her life and of her secret love...<br /><br />This is one of those movies which has the look and expectations of being a great film simply because they have so many great act... | [] | [] | [] |
train_625 | 0pending | 69cb2ec8-87df-4a0a-b6a9-b0171141f513 | Almost as tedious to watch as it was to read, Evening is a gorgeously produced failure...until Meryl Streep walks in and quietly shows her other cast members how to act this kind of stuff. Vanessa Redgrave is shockingly off in her role as the dying Ann and Claire Danes is a cipher. Perhaps if Vanessa and Claire had swi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_626 | 0pending | 3e62a12b-2016-4f64-8bc7-07b8eba081f4 | I looked over the other comments and was thoroughly amused to find that clearly only people who actually worked on the movie had commented. I mean, I hate to say bad things about an amateur production, but if you make a bad movie and want to comment on it, tone it down a little. "Groundbreaking" is a little over the to... | [] | [] | [] |
train_627 | 0pending | 327de811-fb75-4600-a594-19bf405c7f61 | "The 40 Year Old Virgin" exists in a world I don't understand. A world where an electronics store employee can tell his boss to "f*** off" and broadcast videos of his naked ass throughout the store and not get reprimanded. A world where it's really funny to go drunk driving and smash into other peoples' cars. A world w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_628 | 0pending | 7551aae3-d028-4b7f-ba67-1025b235e97c | It is amazing to me what passes for entertainment today. maybe I am a dinosaur from the fifties, and I am out of touch with todays movie going generation, and apparently that is the case with regards to this movie, since so many people loved it. I found it foul and vulgar. I haven't said that about many movies in my li... | [] | [] | [] |
train_629 | 0pending | 39ed4398-e8a5-4052-89be-0ade872cc3ef | About 15 minutes in, my wife was already wanting to leave. Not so much because of the material, but the lack thereof. They decided to fill in the blanks where the funny stuff should've been with as much language and absolutely vulgar talk as they could. When this would let up (very rare), we'd sit back and watch (not l... | [] | [] | [] |
train_630 | 0pending | d6840dc4-6604-4271-b762-406680be6339 | Wow! This film is truly awful. I can't imagine how anyone could have read this badly written script and given it the greenlight. The cast is uniformly second rate with some truly horrendous performances from virtually all of the cast. The story is disjointed, fragmented and incoherent. The telling, leaden and predictab... | [] | [] | [] |
train_631 | 0pending | 5ed3690c-54ae-43fd-9162-c43b7c817901 | After we counted the use of the f word, oh, about 22 times in the first 10 minutes or so of the film, listened to some really bad actors going on about a woman and a horse, and pretty much acting like 12 year old boys being naughty together, well, we turned it off. Relying on gratuitous profanity and potty humor is a s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_632 | 0pending | 3d1180e2-7f6c-4e34-8e34-cb4be19c203d | At least with the teenage geek gets the girl films, the guy is usually unpopular with girls. In the 40 Year Old Virgin he is replaced with a 40 year old guy who is popular with women but somehow has remained a virgin. But then you are not supposed to engage your brain with this film or did I miss the bit about him bein... | [] | [] | [] |
train_633 | 0pending | 965b9349-6080-456b-b5dd-8713eded17e6 | Bela Lugosi is not typecast in this fantastic twelve-part adventure serial, playing the lead as Frank Chandler/Chandu the Magician, enjoying his role as a representative of the forces of White Magic pushed against those of Black, while displaying vigourous fighting skill, successfully wooing a young Egyptian princess, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_634 | 0pending | 01827314-0324-4b58-aed2-dd5ea91f0486 | "The Return of Chandu" is notable, if one can say that, for the casting of Bela Lugosi as the hero rather than the villain. Why he even gets the girl.<br /><br /> The story as such, involves the Black Magic Cult of Ubasti trying to capture the last Egyptian princess Nadji (the delectable Maria Alba) and use her as a sa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_635 | 0pending | 3fda005e-20c2-470c-964d-a30409effb94 | Ever notice how in his later movies Burt Reynolds' laugh sounds like screeching brakes?<br /><br />Must have been hanging out with Hal Needham too much.<br /><br />And from the looks of "Stroker Ace", WAY too much.<br /><br />Can you believe this was based on a book? Neither could I, but it was. And probably not a best... | [] | [] | [] |
train_636 | 0pending | 3de91ca0-17b5-423c-a798-a89f0979a770 | Oh man is this movie bad. It flows horribly. The story is about a race car driver who is in love with himself, and then has to promote a chicken fast food chain and while doing this, doesn't love himself. He tries getting out of the contract and horrible, painfully unfunny gags ensue. Jim Nabors seems as if he's sleepw... | [] | [] | [] |
train_637 | 0pending | 1ff1c88c-1ee8-4484-a07a-0a3c3e0f1654 | This is one of the most insipid, lackluster, unoriginal, and pointless movies ever made! It almost feels like everyone involved in this project didn't even try to make an appealing movie. This is nothing more than a continuation of a tiresome series of films that attempt to cash in on the success of Smokey and the Band... | [] | [] | [] |
train_638 | 0pending | 23db6b66-86f8-4090-b2f6-5858398722df | Burt Reynolds came to a point in his career where he appeared to just be going thru the motions. He'd show up, party with his friends on film, and take home a big paycheck. It didn't seem to matter to him that the product he was representing was pure crap.<br /><br />No film epitomized this more than "Stroker Ace" whic... | [] | [] | [] |
train_639 | 0pending | d7c17820-3182-4ad7-a298-329f6d623fe4 | It occurs to me that some of the films that have been banned during the course of cinema history were actually very important and very good films. I'd like to argue that instead of banning challenging, controversial movies the censors should consider banning films that are so bad that they pose a threat to your IQ and ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_640 | 0pending | fa785b61-feaa-4aef-a70b-e5b1a4ec6522 | This should not have been listed as a Colombo because in my opinion it does not resemble any of the other Colombo ever made. This should have been listed as a movie starring Peter Falk and not playing the caracter of Colombo because it does not do justice at all to our great lieutenant Colombo. | [] | [] | [] |
train_641 | 0pending | 36aa9c4e-75a0-4aac-9e91-879dd3c622c8 | Whenever a Columbo story deviates from the familiar plot (colorful killer commits crime, Columbo smokes out killer, Columbo becomes a pest in the process), the writers somehow are never able to match the quality and interest of most traditional episodes. This episode deviates in the extreme, and the result is a major f... | [] | [] | [] |
train_642 | 0pending | b77402ff-e851-4741-995a-9cf47690c4af | Seriously what were they thinking? Over the course of years the Columbo series has tried out some new things and diverted away from the usual successful formula but this movie really overdoes it. This movie is basically very different from any other Columbo movie but the differences are not for the good of the movie.<b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_643 | 0pending | 7d347e8d-9524-4872-bbc9-cfd93d768d92 | The script for this Columbo film seemed to be pulled right out of a sappy 1980's soap opera. Deeply character-driven films are great, but only if the characters are compelling. And in this film the only thing compelling was my desire to change the channel. The villain's dialog sounds as if it were written by a romance ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_644 | 0pending | 5789027a-330c-41b4-bfdd-b7381c29880b | I love Columbo and have seen pretty much all of the episodes but this one undoubtedly ranks as the worst of the lot. A mind-bogglingly tedious, pointless, muddled pile of unwatchable drivel that wastes both the time of the viewing audience and of the acting talents of an exceedingly bored-looking Peter Falk. The 'plot'... | [] | [] | [] |
train_645 | 0pending | 9faf4ac2-d364-40b7-9d69-061d78ca4e42 | Loyalty to Peter Falk is all that kept me from giving this awful picture the (1) it deserved. (For that matter, loyalty to Mr. Falk was what kept me watching this film all the way from heads to tails.) Even if you forgive all the glaring errors, this was just plain the poorest excuse for a made-for-TV "Columbo" film ev... | [] | [] | [] |
train_646 | 0pending | dc1cd765-ecef-4ecd-8b1f-02e53363b3d6 | Absolute garbage. The reason that this is so terrible is not because it deviated from the formula, but because the plot was just pathetic. <br /><br />The supposed star didn't do anything to solve the case - and neither did anyone else really - it was just routine police work. Utterly tedious.<br /><br />You sat right ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_647 | 0pending | 749b33d1-4e08-446a-8ded-e4041f50d123 | An uninspired and undistinguished "new" Columbo which sees the man-in-the-mac attend his nephew's wedding, only for his bride to disappear on their wedding night. Columbo investigates...<br /><br />And that it is about it: indifferently plotted and surprisingly laden with a flat script, given that it is written by Robe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_648 | 0pending | 27552c1a-e509-4f74-99d0-67b10cb5017d | Most definitely the worst Columbo ever dreamt up. No murder and the abandonment of the tried and tested formula makes this a real drag. Falk looks bored throughout and so will you be if you waste anytime watching this. | [] | [] | [] |
train_649 | 0pending | 942f50fc-0428-41b0-9a0a-61e9536418d8 | This show stinks. For parents, they usually want their kids to watch something good for them. It is usually educational, funny, and bright.<br /><br />Is it educational? No. the Doodlebops sing and that's it. They usually sing about themselves, they don't try teaching anything.<br /><br />Is it funny? No. The Doodlebop... | [] | [] | [] |
train_650 | 0pending | 778653d1-df0e-4479-9af7-341d0299ddf6 | My children watch the show everyday that its on. Its a great program for younger children. However they need to stop showing re-runs and do some more actual shows and get rid of Rooney's and Deedee's YELLOW TEETH. Moe is the only Doodle bop with clean white pearlie teeth and the children notice these things and ask if ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_651 | 0pending | 43f0f8e2-4fda-4117-84bb-fe8d53de99c6 | Normally when I write a review for a movie online, it is for one of three reasons. Either, I have found something exceptionally lacking in a film that otherwise would have been excellent, I feel that the public's perception of a film before viewing it is inaccurate for a number of reasons, or I believe that the purpose... | [] | [] | [] |
train_652 | 0pending | a52aeab0-118c-45ab-a20a-669132c57d95 | I am currently sitting here, forcing myself to finish this. I figure I blew 6 bux on the VHS, might as well suffer for it. I remember about 4 or 5 years ago doing a search on the internet for "War of the Worlds" cause of the rumors of the Spielberg movie at the time, and I missed the old TV series from the early 90's. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_653 | 0pending | e968d9bf-6dc5-4b50-9443-ad967a313638 | I must admit I burst out laughing when I saw one reviewer compare this to LOTR. Well yes, if you exclude the dwarfs, the cast of thousands, the great special effects, the big battles, the strong characterization, the decent plot, the good acting, the classy direction and everything else. Which leaves you with the walki... | [] | [] | [] |
train_654 | 0pending | de1d96ce-d2a2-443d-9ece-ba3f772dc22d | Wow...<br /><br />I picked this up at the local Wal-Mart after reading online that it had been released early. I've been following this online for some time, and just had to buy the film.<br /><br />Wow...<br /><br />I guess the thing that really struck me was the editing, or lack thereof. Time and again, characters (u... | [] | [] | [] |
train_655 | 0pending | 3cd91d92-0911-42de-9cef-6557857e87e6 | Is it possible to give a movie NO STARS? I suppose not. However many stars IMDb displays this just think zero and you'll get my drift. Director and photographer Timothy Hines didn't have much of a budget compared to Spielberg's Herculean effort with the same material (rumored to be the most expensive movie ever made), ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_656 | 0pending | 9944ead3-69c5-443b-ae9d-c57129977a2a | I honestly believe that ANYONE considering film-making be subjected to this mind-boggling failure. Like the "films" of Edward Wood, Jr. in the '60s and '70s, this film is a shining example of why real filmmakers expend so much energy rewriting scripts, re-editing their films, and reworking their special effects until t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_657 | 0pending | 88e3078a-6a3e-4c70-b95d-addb81712441 | After hearing the word of mouth of just how bad this film is I took the plunge and bought the DVD. That said everything previously mentioned about this film is true. For a film that claimed to have a budget in the millions it just does not show on the screen at all. The list of problems with the film could drag on fore... | [] | [] | [] |
train_658 | 0pending | 82dd96aa-f96c-45bb-aa84-8a80f35fddf5 | Nu Image, UFO and others produce films for the SCI FI channel that come in with budgets of roughly $2 million. Some feature extensive effects work, others feature recognizable casts and still others feature both -- for $2 million.<br /><br />Mr. Hines initially claimed that this film was budgeted at $20 million dollars... | [] | [] | [] |
train_659 | 0pending | b0b26098-c86b-4ed9-91df-15981c7130eb | I love movies, and I'll watch any movie all the way through, just to give it a chance. I can finally say that I found a movie I can't watch all the way through. The acting is terribly stale and monotone, the CGI looks like a computer geek did it in his mother's basement with minimal software, and.....the long scenes of... | [] | [] | [] |
train_660 | 0pending | a10280a3-75d7-4627-8d1e-c2eaebe9b829 | Finally i thought someone is going to do justice to H.G. Wells's classic , not another version set in the wrong locale or era , but one based firmly on the book . Well it definitely follows the book pretty closely , and that is the only plus to this mess.<br /><br />This is 180 Min's (yes 3 hours) long , the book is on... | [] | [] | [] |
train_661 | 0pending | c56f5d51-213b-4b35-b3ef-8dc1d7f1fb26 | Save the $8.97 you'll spend at Walmart to buy this DVD and go see the real film by Steven Spielberg.<br /><br />I'm a filmmaker, and being an avid fan of H.G. Wells, I had to buy this hoping to sit down and watch three hours of good entertainment. Instead, it took four days to finish watching this because I couldn't st... | [] | [] | [] |
train_662 | 0pending | a6023cc0-082a-40c4-a48d-92240c1fece7 | I'm not really sure how to even begin to describe how bad this movie is. I like bad films, as they are often the most entertaining. I love bad special effects, bad acting, bad music, and inept direction. With the exception of the music (which was better than I had expected), this movie had all of those qualities. <br /... | [] | [] | [] |
train_663 | 0pending | 816bc843-62c6-4ea6-821a-166b7de4bf99 | Holy freaking God all-freaking-mighty. This movie was so bad, I thought I was on drugs. In a bad way... The character acting is the poorest thing I've seen in quite some time. This movie was more akin to Lord of the G-Strings, IMHO(it's a real movie). Most of the movie appeared to be done on a horrible green screen. My... | [] | [] | [] |
train_664 | 0pending | adaf59df-9cfb-4d1f-b322-22af4ff9f9d4 | Holy freaking God all-freaking-mighty. This movie was so bad, I thought I was on drugs. In a bad way... The character acting is the poorest thing I've seen in quite some time. This movie was more akin to Lord of the G-Strings, IMHO(it's a real movie). Most of the movie appeared to be done on a horrible green screen. My... | [] | [] | [] |
train_665 | 0pending | 0955655f-94c1-4e19-9561-fd20065630ef | If this film had a budget of 20 million I'd just like to know where the money went. A monkey could make better CGI effects then what was wasted for 3 hours on this dreadful piece of garbage, although I must admit the machines and the martians would have looked really, really cool on an original play-station 1 game, and... | [] | [] | [] |
train_666 | 0pending | ad284cf2-9031-4734-807b-8832ba0daae4 | I have just lost three hours of my life to this travesty, and I can honestly say I feel violated. I had read the reviews and heard the warnings, and I thought I was prepared for anything - at best I thought, a faithful (if misguided) attempt at an original adaptation; at worst, a so-good-it's-bad "Plan 9" for the new m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_667 | 0pending | 0137bdec-4c59-42a7-9156-e36feff63773 | Well, on it's credit side (if it can be said to have one), Timothy Hines DID manage to capture the original setting of H.G. Wells' outstanding novella. But other than that - well, to call a spade a spade - it sucks bigtime. What the Master Ed Wood could have done with the alleged $20 million dollar budget! Timothy Hine... | [] | [] | [] |
train_668 | 0pending | c590855f-b034-448f-9d90-1eaee74141e8 | Hines and Goforth, the perpetrators of this crime, begin on the wrong foot first step, by assuming that Wells wrote Gothic horror and that all of his lines are meant to be taken seriously. That simply isn't true. Wells was very much an inheritor of the Enlightenment, and his main concern was that Victorian self-satisfa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_669 | 0pending | e3ebbb6d-0893-4a2b-b074-865396895eb0 | Let this serve as a warning to anyone wishing to draw attention to themselves in the media by linking their name to that of a well-loved and well-respected, not to say revered author, in order to draw attention to their home-movies out on DVD.<br /><br />Hyped to the skies by its obviously talentless makers, in fact li... | [] | [] | [] |
train_670 | 0pending | 89dd646b-8501-4585-b14c-5937778e828b | WOW!<br /><br />I just was given this film from a friend of mine, who bought it for 1.98 at Walmart, and he felt that he got taken! It is beyond boring, most of the scenes are filmed in front of a green screen, the acting is somewhat improvised, almost as if they didn't have a script. The Martians are CGI, which look l... | [] | [] | [] |
train_671 | 0pending | 28ebe296-43d8-4619-9a85-f0c6fb86d9ae | Twenty years ago, the five years old boy Michael Hawthorne witnessed his father killing his mother with an axe in an empty road and committing suicide later. On the present days, Michael (Gordon Currie) invites his girlfriend Peg (Stacy Grant) and his best friends Chris (Myc Agnew), Jennifer (Emmanuelle Vaugier), Lisa ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_672 | 0pending | cdfdd76c-5e24-4e25-9390-a608db9ed293 | Five-year-old Michael sees his mother getting axed to death by his serial killer father "The Highwayman," who later commits suicide. "20 years later" grown Mike (Gordon Currie, from PUPPET MASTER 4 and 5) invites seven of his friends to his secluded grandparents home to "master their own fears" at a Halloween night cos... | [] | [] | [] |
train_673 | 0pending | 40e7cba9-a315-45e2-91eb-cb482c8765bc | This movie was crap with a capital "C." The opening scene showed promise. But that "promise" was broken shortly after the viewer learns where the plot is going.<br /><br />And the wooden statue, Morty, who was rather creepy in the original film, looks plain goofy in this one. It was so obviously just a guy in a cheap p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_674 | 0pending | 818b03b6-bb45-47f8-87a8-993802651241 | Those of you who, like me, were disappointed with the original 1995 horror yarn, "The Fear" will find more to be disappointed with in this silly little sequel. It sort of follows a similar plot, but it is impossible to connect to the original, with the exception of the presence of Morty, the mannequin monster made of w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_675 | 0pending | 2bd2bf5d-0ad8-4f0e-aa3b-1271898781cb | A young boy sees his mother getting killed and his father hanging himself. 20 years later he gets a bunch of friends together to perform an exorcism on himself so he won't turn out like his father. All the stock characters are in place: the nice couple; the "funny" guy; the tough (but sensitive) hood; the smart girl (s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_676 | 0pending | 1ac2f7d9-8a57-4207-a947-0ca97f122c0a | Mike Hawthorne(Gordon Currie)is witness to the brutal murder of his mother and suicide of his father Morty(Jon Fedele). Twenty years later, Mike gathers a group of his friends to his family's cabin in the woods for a Halloween party. While playing a game where the guests confess and confront their worst fears...Mike tr... | [] | [] | [] |
train_677 | 0pending | 91b67dd0-e245-4986-9609-dd8692bd38a6 | I have not seen the first film and if it anything like this have no great desire to. <br /><br />Having just watched it a few hours ago I am struggling to remember a thing about it. <br /><br />From what I remember it's main plot seems to be a group of very annoying people stay at a house with that dodgy old woman from... | [] | [] | [] |
train_678 | 0pending | 4db47231-ab9c-4dc6-bbe9-a35eb5bafffd | Before starting to watch the show, I've heard it was great and aesthetically very interesting. What a deception, the scripts are so dumb that I am quite sure the authors are son and grandson of Scoobidoo writers. And what about the SFX and colors, they are so extreme that it is painful to watch, colors are not saturate... | [] | [] | [] |
train_679 | 0pending | 68c70131-8d5c-4a46-8c14-c7c925364457 | i am very disappointed with this movie because i like these french actors and i liked "Buffet Froid" from this Director (bertrand blier) but the script of "Les Acteurs" is VERY POOR. why these actors they agreed to play this poor scenario. | [] | [] | [] |
train_680 | 0pending | d2f73b76-897d-4b79-a7ff-cbf3d365b950 | I am really shocked that a great director like Chuck Jones started out making some of the most incredibly boring cartoons I've ever seen. I did not laugh once throughout this short, and it's a Bugs Bunny cartoon, for Christ's sake! Bugs Bunny cartoons are always funny, not boring! Alas, this short turns out to be Good ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_681 | 0pending | 6bc4a3fb-f5fb-48cd-83d9-36f2eaed8317 | I am amazed at the amount of praise that is heaped on this movie by other commentators. To me it was rather a disappointment, especially the combination of historical facts, fantasy and the main character's internal turmoil does not work at all (in Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse Five and even in George Roy Hill's adapt... | [] | [] | [] |
train_682 | 0pending | c1df5db0-25b9-43bd-be61-a030772b3d73 | This was an awful movie! Not for the subject matter, but for the delivery. I went with my girlfriend at the time (when the movie came out), expecting to see a movie about the triumph of the human spirit over oppression. What we saw was 2 hours of brutal police oppression, with no uplift at the end. The previews and ads... | [] | [] | [] |
train_683 | 0pending | 3173e948-e1e2-42c7-8ebc-e6b35699aa0a | The concept for Sarafina appears to be a sound one, that is aside from the musical perspective. It attempts to combine upbeat African music with a story describing the atrocious conditions and atmosphere that black people were forced to endure at the time the film was set. The contradictions of each of the two elements... | [] | [] | [] |
train_684 | 0pending | 60935e79-efaf-4215-9893-271a0b3b0c7a | I just didn't get this movie...Was it a musical? no..but there were choreographed songs and dancing in it...<br /><br />Was it a serious drama....no the acting was not good enough for that.<br /><br />Is Whoopi Goldberg a quality serious Actor..Definently not.<br /><br />I had difficulty staying awake through this disj... | [] | [] | [] |
train_685 | 0pending | 12deedb3-1644-4115-8db0-db43da782819 | One scene demonstrates the mentality of "Terminator Woman" pretty well: Karen Sheperd and another woman are trying to escape from the villain's camp. Karen runs across an armed guard, who points his gun at her, but after a few seconds throws it away and challenges her to a fight. Karen kicks him in the balls, picks up ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_686 | 0pending | 631bf3a8-38d9-4018-889f-4582ba67f2e3 | This film has got several key flaws. The first and most significant of which is the clear lack of a good plot! This sadly makes the film not only difficult to watch but also sends the watcher certain feelings of hopelessness, as if he or she is wasting valuable time of their short life. This means that the film cannot ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_687 | 0pending | bac56bfa-3fde-4184-a4ed-fc9da978e5b8 | You may want to know up front that I am not a Mormon, unlike a good number of those who have already reviewed this film. I mention this so you'll understand that the way I look at the film may differ greatly from those in the faith. For some, being critical of the film might be seen as being critical of the faith--and ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_688 | 0pending | dd4e5b9a-e57e-4b71-99e4-692f4c185545 | This film, though ostensibly a comedy, is deadly serious. Its subject is Imperialism (with a capital I): how Britain, foolishly, humiliatingly, tries to convince itself that it's still a great power after World War II. At home, the Empire is run by amiable dolts, benevolent Tories who are so in-bred that they can't dis... | [] | [] | [] |
train_689 | 0pending | 922cb5a7-6be8-41b6-afd2-7a9424513d10 | The main reason people still care about "Carlton-Browne Of The F.O." is that it features Peter Sellers in a second-billed role. But watching this film to see Peter Sellers is a mistake.<br /><br />Sellers plays Amphibulos, a vaguely reptilian prime minister of the dirt-poor island nation of Gaillardia, formerly a Briti... | [] | [] | [] |
train_690 | 0pending | 42f71c7f-a2dd-40d7-919b-b9759d2180cb | It was meant to be a parody on the LOTR-Trilogy. But this was one of the most awful movies I've ever seen. Bad acting, bad screenplay, bad everything. THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION. I don't doubt any second that there are people who'll like this sense of "humor", but there have been better parodies on movies from acclaim... | [] | [] | [] |
train_691 | 0pending | 4608be86-a71f-4ba3-b265-ccdaa23d4cf6 | This movie is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. There is absolutely no storyline, the gags are only for retards and there is absolutely nothing else that would make this movie worth watching. In the whole movie Fredi (oh my god what a funny name. ha ha) doesn't ask himself ONCE how he came from a plane to middl... | [] | [] | [] |
train_692 | 0pending | 96cbe68a-1250-43eb-ab99-c69d56d748d2 | This sounded like a really interesting movie from the blurb. Nazis, occult , government conspiracies. I was expecting a low budget Nazi version of the DaVinci code or the Boys from Brazil or even Shockwaves. Instead you get something quite different, more psychological, more something like from David Lynch. That was ac... | [] | [] | [] |
train_693 | 0pending | 4f90a010-4d1d-45f5-a65e-6ad1f95fd42d | This is a movie of tired, yet weirdly childish, clichés. There's a Nazi witch master performing sf-related experiments in the basement? Oh please! <br /><br />Aiming for a creeping sense of horror and fear, the general impression of the film is that of a very immature conception of fright. Not having any expectations b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_694 | 0pending | aaed754d-63be-4423-a487-f0fb37d5b323 | Can I please say first of all, that I felt so strongly about this movie that I signed up to IMDb specifically to review it. And my review? This is easily the worst movie I have ever seen.<br /><br />The synopsis of the movie sounded interesting- Nazis, occult, time travel, etc., but the movies plot failed to properly b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_695 | 0pending | 35ffa806-07bb-4175-a216-0423fb9d8170 | When I started watching this movie I saw the dude from Buffy, Xander, and figured ah how nice that he's still making a living acting in movies. Now a weird movie I can stand, given that it's a good dose of weird like for example David Lynch movies, twin peaks, lost highway etc. And you sort of have to be in the mood fo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_696 | 0pending | a28e0856-4817-43b6-9897-70e2bb53e791 | I'm not sure this is a spoiler; perhaps it is a public service. If you are one of those people focused on instant gratification who skip end credits, you will miss the final line of the end credits news announcer's voice-over, which states the U.S. has just surrendered to Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945 to end WWII. Here a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_697 | 0pending | 150d218e-fe7b-4239-9d8b-d833ca7e850e | I read Rice's novel with interest, and became quite enchanted with its characters and heartbreaking tale based on historical truths.<br /><br />However, I was simply APPALLED at this disastrous adaptation. The casting was based merely on physical appearance, and not acting talent (with the obvious exception of Peter Ga... | [] | [] | [] |
train_698 | 0pending | 9b406d08-c5f5-4fa2-9ef5-add7e1ed0ead | This movie was so badly written, directed and acted that it beggars belief. It should be remade with a better script, director and casting service. The worst problem is the acting. You have Jennifer Beals on the one hand who is polished, professional and totally believable, and on the other hand, Ri'chard, who is woefu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_699 | 0pending | 21c44e4e-d3ce-4909-a72c-fcd1203d6a2b | The story and the show were good, but it was really depressing and I hate depressing movies. Ri'Chard is great. He really put on a top notch performance, and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous. Seriously, I thought she was Carmen Electra until I saw the IMDb profile. I can't say anything bad... | [] | [] | [] |
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