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train_7400 | 0pending | d27ac46d-6431-40c4-92ff-0bda185929e4 | when you get to the scenes that involve Albert Brooks without his shirt... try not to gag on a fur ball.<br /><br />I like Albert Brooks. I've seen most, if not all of his movies but it was the first time seeing this one. Modern Romance is an interesting take on the subject of love. There are few movies that handle the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7401 | 0pending | d72f283e-528f-4f3f-b4e2-2def13aae504 | This is a depressingly shallow, naive and mostly unfunny look at a wildly improbable relationship between Brooks' psychotic film editor and Harold, his vapid girlfriend. The two have ZERO chemistry together - primarily because Harold is incapable of doing anything besides looking pretty at this stage of her career; but... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7402 | 0pending | a0155458-2f3c-4716-95c4-67611792f301 | Having read the other comments on this film, I would like to share my own view that this is one tough movie to see unless you are a total Brooksophile. I am not.<br /><br />When looked at by a purely objective observer, the film is an unbalanced narrative that presents us with more undistilled neuroses than are capable... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7403 | 0pending | 94fd5baa-d256-401b-9afd-6171ed90e294 | When I saw the previews for this movie, I didn't expect much to begin with - around a second rate teen horror movie. But wow, this movie was absolutely awful. And that's being generous.<br /><br />First of all, the casting for the movie was terrible. You feel no sympathy (or for that matter any morbid feeling) for the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7404 | 0pending | d932e627-dce4-4d2b-9f01-e2fb5cc50b7e | OK let's get right to the point. We have five recent college grads (must have majored in the F word) going out on a weekend camping trip. They run into someone who is in need of help, but instead of trying to assist him, they decide to set him on fire instead. Nice bunch of people. Next some of them start go get sick -... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7405 | 0pending | 496361b7-7fee-461d-b2fc-5a8d944a1bc5 | Anyone who has read my review for Uwe Boll's "Alone In The Dark" will remember that I compared the unenviable task of sitting through that piece of human waste to having each and every hair on your arm pulled out. Well, take that analogy a step further with this irredeemable gutter trash and try to imagine the pain of ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7406 | 0pending | 67a7a904-cbf6-4b57-beec-c6db6a65b299 | I wasted 5.75 to see this crappy movie so I just want to know a few things:<br /><br />What was the point of the dog being split in half at the beginning of the movie, the disease had nothing to do with being split in half.<br /><br />What was the point of dragging Karen into the shed, she already totally infected her ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7407 | 0pending | 027b493b-25d5-48c5-83d9-3b90e4828309 | I don't really know whether Cabin Fever is supposed to be a joke or a film... But as far as I know, it's much closer to being a joke than anything else. A few years ago, the community of horror film makers decided to take a new step and make fun of the genre, thus giving birth to the Scream series. A list was given in ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7408 | 0pending | d41f8c95-b470-471a-89b8-31978328df06 | Okay I had heard little about this film, so when it came on the movie channels on TV, I wanted to watch it, being a horror aficionado. I think I can do a collective "huh?" for everyone who watched it.<br /><br />I decided to move on with my life, but at a party with my closest friends, we saw it was coming on and some ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7409 | 0pending | 19091ea5-7967-464a-8b34-d001747fbb1d | **SPOILERS BELOW!!!**<br /><br />Cabin Fever has my nod for WORST film of the year...that I've seen that is. This movie is straight GARBAGE! There is so much wrong with the film you can't help but be amazed at how bad it really is. This movie had so much potential to be good, but ultimately made nothing of it. The char... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7410 | 0pending | 1b1a1fcf-1e2c-4189-9df8-4acca1fae19d | I've rented and watched this movie for the 1st time on DVD without reading any reviews about it. So, after 15 minutes of watching I've noticed that something is wrong with this movie; it's TERRIBLE! I mean, in the trailers it looked scary and serious!<br /><br />I think that Eli Roth (Mr. Director) thought that if all ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7411 | 0pending | d7bb8edc-e80c-4f88-b2a9-71ccea5102de | Liongate has yet to prove itself. Every single movie from lionsgate has been abysmal. i've tried and tried to give them more opportunities and they just keep slapping me over and over again. And Cabin Fever is definitely no exception.<br /><br />I couldn't even pay attention to most of this movie it was so frustrating ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7412 | 0pending | d4c1b2ab-cf3c-49a0-bc5f-c49bec0ca4ed | This is probably one of the worst films i have ever seen. The events in it are completely random and make little or no sense. The fact that there is a sequel is so sickening i may come down with a case of cabin fever (I'M SO SORRY). I describe it as bug being smooshed to a newspaper because it seems to be different par... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7413 | 0pending | 3189d75f-a4e4-47d2-8dfc-b7d538256ae1 | Truly one of the most dire films I've ever sat through. I've never actually taken the time to write one of these but felt compelled to after witnessing this affront to film-making and feel somewhat aggrieved to be wasting my time on such a piece of turd to be honest. There were so many parts that infuriated me with the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7414 | 0pending | d151ae4f-f57a-44a2-b0a6-ae9330d76f0c | The premise of Cabin Fever starts like it MIGHT have something to offer. A group of college teens after finals (in the fall?) goes to a resort cabin in the woods where one by one they are attacked by an unseen flesh eating virus.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the first paragraph is where any remote elements of film quality... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7415 | 0pending | ae973e6e-a196-42d9-be7d-de81b91ada83 | I had heard some bad things about Cabin Fever almost as much as I heard the cultish hype. As it turns out, the first film from the new impresario Eli Roth, it's just a so-so effort with the IQ points dropping as the film progresses. There are worse movies out there, and surely more gory ones (while I'm not sure how the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7416 | 0pending | e02d2e5d-b451-4fd0-9d54-67bd9bc9ec3e | Cabin Fever is the first feature film directed by Eli Roth.Roth and Randy Pearlstein co wrote the script from a story by Roth.this a zombie film,which owes a lot to George Romero and his earlier "living dead movies",and to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacrenot to mention Sam Ramie's "Evil Dead".there is nothing origi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7417 | 0pending | fe0cf3b5-0ff7-45e4-8b36-778808ba505c | The first five minutes of this movie showed potential. After that, it went straight from something possibly decent to some sort of illegitimate comedy. The best part is that I couldn't stop thinking of Supertroopers thanks to Joey Kern. I would recommend watching this movie for the sheer fact of learning how not to mak... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7418 | 0pending | 56e5fcd8-a766-4176-81d7-241914732f7a | There's a major difference between releasing an original, intense, edge-of-your-seat, scary, gore-fest, and doing like filmmaker Eli Roth and his team have done with "Cabin Fever" and simply acted like it. The film follows five college graduates into a cabin in the woods that begins to prove fatal as one after the othe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7419 | 0pending | 1ae6c74e-8cf4-47a7-9f7c-aa1e778ac99e | This film is about a group of five friends who rent a cabin in the woods. One of the friends catches a horrifying flesh-eating virus. Suddenly, the friends turn on one another in a desperate attempt to keep from contracting the disease themselves.<br /><br />"Cabin Fever" is a horrible film. For one, it tries to be man... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7420 | 0pending | 8e007c79-a4d9-4f1b-b64a-e56de527b415 | Sure I've seen bad movies in my life, but this one was so bad that I actually became angry in the theater. I wanted my money back. I wrote to the director asking him to refund my movie ticket, of course I didn't receive a refund (or even a reply) but it's the point that matters. On a scale of 1-10 I give this movie a -... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7421 | 0pending | b3794f8e-5ae5-45e4-a5c1-b2df5e02f0c3 | no redeeming qualities can possibly be expressed. i wish i could get my time back. nice skull face broad really smiles, bright at the camera when the disease has already wreaked enough havoc on the ill informed script. i was ((spoiler)) happy to see all the characters dead or severely incapacitated by the end, especial... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7422 | 0pending | a38cc45a-bb28-47a1-b9c5-d5631294c5d8 | From the opening dialog and scenes, I knew I knew I was in for a train wreck. Didn't want to look, but couldn't turn away. If it weren't for the meer eye candy of this film, I would have given one star. The fact that the interaction between characters and relationship behavior were so far fetched, added by poor directi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7423 | 0pending | 8665429c-7c66-4f0f-8498-0a557b950fe5 | Columbo movies have been going downhill for years, this year it may have reached the bottom. Peter Falk gives the same uninspired performance and comes over as creepy in this movie. As is usual in this series, crime scene protocols are unheard of so plausibility is always lacking. Brenda Vaccaro chews the scenery and p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7424 | 0pending | 2eafc4d8-b5f5-4ecf-9897-a572e4ad6d87 | Well, finally got to see the remake last night in London, unintentionally hilarious, sexless and devoid of any real humour. I don't really know where to start, whilst I was entertained by this strange homage, it didn't really move me. The acting is screamingly hammy, there is no original music, the costumes are far too... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7425 | 0pending | f0e763c3-32b2-47cf-bf9c-fe0f827a4567 | OK, so I am an original Wicker Man fan and I usually don't like British films remade by Americans, so why oh why did I put myself through the most painful cinema experiences ever? I am not a Nicolas Cage fan and I had some kind of moment of madness perhaps? The film was appalling! The bit at the beginning with the cras... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7426 | 0pending | ea55c093-4973-49c6-a859-ecca29ab2ce2 | If Edward Woodward was the the flicks watching this film then that's what he would scream out in horror. <br /><br />I'm sorry folks but enough's enough. We had Get Carter, The Italian Job, Alfie and now this. What's the similarities? No. It's not exactly a coincidence that three of the originals star Maurice Micklewhi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7427 | 0pending | 7ae3754c-66d2-44e8-9088-eb7c7a4128a0 | Sometimes laughter in the middle of a horror film is a signal of its greatness. I remember the nervous laughter from the audience in the re-release of The Excorcist
really nervous laughter. It punctuated just how freaked out we all were watching the voice of Satan coming out of a 12 year old girl. In the case of the 2... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7428 | 0pending | 9f157c5d-02f9-438d-b6c8-89cbe323b993 | Waitress: Honey, here's them eggs you ordered. Honey, like bee, get it? That's called pointless foreshadowing.<br /><br />Edward Basket: Huh? (On the road) Basket: Here's your doll back, little girl. You really shouldn't be so careless with your belongings.<br /><br />Little girl: Yeah, whatever.<br /><br />Crash! Boom... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7429 | 0pending | d605247a-1649-477d-ae4d-fce1df08d937 | I'm a big fan of Nicolas Cage and I never thought he would work on a movie like this. I couldn't believe the other reviews and I thought it shouldn't be bad to watch it at least once...but trust me, it is.<br /><br />I haven't seen the old movie..but why would they want to remake a movie like this. The very basic idea ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7430 | 0pending | 647f5423-7f15-4724-bc62-6af1b67dcd0d | It's unfortunate that you can't go any lower than one star. Prior to watching The Wicker Man, I had considered Aliens 3 to be the only movie that would actually merit negative stars. In all fairness, The Wicker Man doesn't detract from the enjoyment of an earlier film, but the fact remains that my cumulative movie enjo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7431 | 0pending | 1dde39ea-31bb-422d-b213-f7ab97204c32 | First this movie was not that bad.It was entertaining...at least to me for probably all the wrong reasons. I have never seen the original so can't compare the two.<br /><br />This movie reminded me of that weird Christopher Reeve movie Village of the Damned. THe two movies have different plots, but that creepy disguste... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7432 | 0pending | 320e38e1-1f2b-4481-82de-5ab66580ee51 | A trooper is on the side of the road making sure every1 is obeying the speed limit (doing his job); he then pulls over a woman who appears she is a mother (there is a child in the back seat); he then is telling her what is wrong and BAM...they get killed. Okay, this is the start of what i personally thought would have ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7433 | 0pending | 7b6a2c49-09d3-4252-a847-d2696b560661 | This movie is suppose to be a mysterious, serious thriller about a man looking for a missing girl. However, 30 minutes into the movie, it turns into a funny, unrealistic story with annoying characters and random scenes. I can't imagine anyone not laughing when Cage randomly Karate kicks that blonde girl or when he "bea... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7434 | 0pending | ae47dbc5-ccc3-4223-b84e-ba14c11f552e | great mystery, but the film goes down hill from there. The beginning is promising with a car wreck and a woman and her daughter being burned alive in front of a police officer, Edward. He is traumatized over this and is seen popping pills. A mysterious letter turns up from an old girlfriend asking for help in finding h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7435 | 0pending | b927f159-0db6-4901-b1c5-1f715e2363b8 | The Wicker Man, starring Nicolas Cage, is by no means a good movie, but I can't really say it's one I regret watching. I could go on and on about the negative aspects of the movie, like the terrible acting and the lengthy scenes where Cage is looking for the girl, has a hallucination, followed by another hallucination,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7436 | 0pending | 0870ce5c-7be6-439d-8034-d805ce9bc224 | Where oh where to begin in describing the comprehensive wretchedness of Neil LaBute's latest attempt at film making? <br /><br />There are many kinds of film fans out there, but by far the most annoying and shallow is Mr. Intriguing. You know Mr. Intriguing, don't you? <br /><br />He's the fellow that no matter how stu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7437 | 0pending | ff25949a-71e9-4e10-921c-153e6d928dec | I watched this movie because I like Nicolas Cage and well, I found it strange and completely pointless... so I decided to poke around a little bit and got my hands on the 70s copy of it. Wow. what a difference. The original one was way better. I'd like you all to know it did originally actually make a statement, it's e... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7438 | 0pending | d2dfd805-8323-4b33-8f74-ca1e668c4240 | And I thought The Beach was bad, with the difference that this movie has one of the greatest actors of our time, Nicolas Cage. Don't blame him for the awful script, if any one can make any sense of what the hell was the point of that movie, give your self a pat on the back. Its a cross between The Village and a crappie... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7439 | 0pending | 7d663de0-38c6-4395-9fb5-fecb42c13650 | I'd like to start off by saying that I am NOT an anime fan (with a few notable exceptions), and I generally have a low opinion of so-called otakus, as they are so in love with their particular brand of cartooning that they label every movie starring spiky-haired, big-eyed characters as a work of art without even consid... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7440 | 0pending | eda3c050-4d56-4cde-8d81-c745be917ade | its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a movie which has no story,again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambli... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7441 | 0pending | 0d7cc568-df2c-4fda-acbc-6e72315e1293 | A mummy narrates vignettes about men, women, and the sex between them. Huh? At the beginning, the mummy randomly asks the viewer, "Imagine having sex with this girl. Imagine having sex with this boy" about 37 times, while flashing pictures of half naked mod youths. Later, said mods boys pelt mod girls with...vegetables... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7442 | 0pending | 6f3d9849-c0fd-4eeb-85d4-d00578f7d1d4 | The film had some likable aspects. Perhaps too many for my taste. It felt as though the writer/director was desperately trying to get us to feel the inner conflict of ALL of its characters. Not once, a few times...but all of the time. <br /><br />This is the job of television, not cinema. <br /><br />The location of th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7443 | 0pending | 1f5c9564-9ff4-4195-bc3c-edf493b4b781 | Something I really love about this woman's short films was the elusiveness of theme -- especially in "Living with Happiness." This film has some nice beginnings -- unusual location and the potential for a strange cinematic treatment, but fails to succeed with clunky expositional dialogue, patchy performances and very t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7444 | 0pending | dd41fd7a-ff68-487c-a01e-e7e47af964f2 | This is, ostensibly, a movie about multiple grief. As such, it ought to move viewers and make them empathetic with the plight of the main characters. However, its irritatingly postmodern style makes it almost incomprehensible. The camera continually switches from one scene to another, from one personal crisis to the ne... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7445 | 0pending | 22c4d983-9bd6-46bf-a097-c9a504c55a31 | I found this movie boring, monotonous and quite uninteresting with a hurried, shallow "upbeat" ending that didn't ring true to the overall story. Following these characters through a weekend of awful events, unfriendly attitudes and bad news just isn't my idea of a watchable, interesting movie and I got very tired of i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7446 | 0pending | 24bceb96-9431-432f-8186-be2140511fac | Bruce Lee was a great martial artist, but this film still is probably one of the worst films ever made. It has Bruce Lee die as the result of falling off a helicopter after being hit by some kind of a ninja knife to the back of the neck but it doesn't explain how he came to be on a helicopter since the prior scene has ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7447 | 0pending | 1a51b14c-ab5c-47d4-9632-df0f8dc8fd60 | This is even worse than the original Game of Death. A jumbled, incoherent storyline leads to "Billy Lo" falling from a helicopter to the ground below, killing him, as we're left to follow his younger brother, Bobby Lo. So not only do we start out following some Bruce Lee clone, the film kills that one off and has us fo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7448 | 0pending | 580ca0ec-6fe4-4c8d-866f-78fabc0c986e | There are so many stupid moments in 'Tower of Death'/'Game of Death 2' that you really wonder if it's a spoof. At times, it felt like I was watching a sequel to Kung Pow rather than a Bruce Lee film.<br /><br />To be honest, this film has bugger all to do with 'Game of Death'. If anything, it's more a sequel/remake of ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7449 | 0pending | 49f97bf2-34e7-4674-8bda-b79140b2b3ca | This is high grade cheese fare of B movie kung fu flicks. Bruce "wannabe" Lee is played by Bruce Li...I think. Of course, let's show quick clips of Bruce and do closeups of his eyes and if you quint at the right angle during a certain time of the day during the winter solstice, it kind of looks like Bruce. You'll laugh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7450 | 0pending | dd873ca9-db10-4325-91d5-8dcbfcaeda87 | In this 'sequel' Bruce is still called Billy Lo (get it? Bruce= Billy, Lo= Lee. No?) But apart from that, that's all it has in common with the other movie. Billy doesn't seem to be an actor anymore. He seems to be in another country. He's more like a spy. He's the only cast member to return and sadly, they kill him off... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7451 | 0pending | 9c1d46a3-25e2-42c0-812c-70e6966ad85a | A handful of critics have awarded this film with positive comments. I don't wish to argue with their opinion, but I strongly disagree. When I first watched this film I was mildly impressed. But after comparing it with other films, particularly with the late master, Bruce Lee I quickly changed my mind. In fact, if it wa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7452 | 0pending | 1e634630-8bb1-43a7-83f5-99b725a733cc | Once again I took a chance and rented this bag of crap. Billed as a horror flick, there wasn't one scene, not one, that was even remotely scarey. NOT ONE!! Sure there was some nudity, but all the lesbian action got a little old. I guess maybe that was suppose to be this movie's saving grace? And Dan, what an annoying a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7453 | 0pending | 701c1a68-10d8-4b0e-8054-810466b76763 | Wow...where to begin...picked this up at Big Lots for only $2.99. That's three bucks I'll never see again...ever...and for what? I'll tell ya. An hour and fifteen minutes of boring, boring, boring chat and college angst that seemed more suitable for a Lifetime movie than the horror flick advertised on the box. (May the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7454 | 0pending | e4bcc50b-5350-453d-a982-5b095202be0e | I probably give this more credit than it deserves because it's Halloween, I was just at "Knott's Scary Farm" and I was in a mood to watch a really cheesy Halloween movie.<br /><br />Oh, and it only cost me one dollar.<br /><br />Usually I'll ffwd through a movie like this to get to "the good stuff," but I resisted the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7455 | 0pending | 1975c2a2-4660-4a57-bfda-71e91edb2a4d | This movie proves that you can't judge a movie by the awesome artwork on the DVD cover. It also goes to show that you should learn more about a movie before you buy it (or get it for someone at Christmas). The beginning of this movie actually looks somewhat promising. Well, until you meet the characters. Pumpkin Jack (... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7456 | 0pending | f8a1028d-0081-43f7-bee7-1bc32ac6b657 | *WARNING. THERE MIGHT BE SPOILERS AHEAD, IF YOU CARE.*<br /><br />Okay, the basic premise of this homegrown Texas film is: College kids + spookhouse + evil magic book = scary stuff. In practice, it equals a lot of time looking at the time to see how much longer this movie is going to drag on. A bunch of frat boys, alon... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7457 | 0pending | 9f61d6a2-bc7e-4f6d-aa94-d9647d1e401a | Horror movies can be a lot of fun with low budgets, bad acting, and a bit of panache. I think the film is just missing panache, because, one thuddingly dull scene after another, people make laughably harmless claw-handed grabs at the air. If it weren't so boring, it might be funny.<br /><br />A horror film can go a lon... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7458 | 0pending | 7c4eeab8-ed66-466b-bfba-91ce609adfaa | ***One Out of Ten Stars*** <br /><br />Because if it was, it gets an F. Holy Mother Mary of God was this bad. I mean, I gave it every reasonable accommodation considering it was a straight to video film, but it let me down at every turn. Like so many other B movies, the basic storyline was decent and the filmmakers see... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7459 | 0pending | 511ef63c-4203-49f2-b490-f69974e7565e | Ya I rented it, so shoot me!<br /><br />A decent premise sets up an otherwise awkward story with no real payoff, but at least it's shot well. Director Jon Keeyes takes the simple idea of a fake haunted house with real danger inside. In most cases this should be a slam dunk, but this little stinker derails quite quickly... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7460 | 0pending | 3a459be2-37dd-427c-9c16-6d618d599ac1 | SUcks. That's all I got to say about this sorry excuse for a film. Sucks. Sucks. Sucks. I mean, what the hell were they thinking? The idiots involved should never be allowed to make another films. The acting was so bad that it even failed to entertain on a bad level. The attempt at a "lesbian scene" was sad. I felt so ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7461 | 0pending | c6089ee1-cb2a-4f39-8fe9-e6d53a26fb12 | A low budget effort from Texas that's at least filmed well, but that is little consolation. Bad acting, or, should I say, bad over-acting, a pretty limp story line that's nothing new, bad special effects, bad, bad, bad. Seems like a bunch of young folks are putting together a haunted house for Halloween, which is done ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7462 | 0pending | 48b629d9-4b05-4505-974a-733f08bf6a14 | What can I say? I think I have to write "Spoiler alert" and then "reveal" they used the F-word a LOT in this movie - like in every two sentences. I did not like this movie at all - too much hints on sexual perversions, sidesteps and cheating. And that swearing was totally out the window. I gave this movie "3" and two o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7463 | 0pending | 28b29aa0-fd94-458a-a393-9904dc4d2e94 | I had to walk out of the theater. After an hour, all I was seeing was people cheating on wives, schtupping like dogs in a rut, and using the f-word like a diabetic using Equal.<br /><br />No thanks.<br /><br />It was especially frustrating because the movie could have done a lot. Any one of the characters could have be... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7464 | 0pending | d3c670f4-3c88-43e2-84e7-5edef884d4a2 | This was one of the most ridiculous and badly directed movies I've seen in a very long time. I've never liked Spike Lee, but thought I'd give this one a try: bad mistake. The movie is supposed to show how the Son of Sam real life murders affected a neighborhood in the summer of 1977; what it really did was center aroun... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7465 | 0pending | 0ed096db-b146-4fec-a5d9-51a54589c0f3 | The film is a collection of cliche's on just about anything out there. It has no focus whatsoever, no goals, no real message. Symbolism is pushed over the top and stereotyping is abundant and outrageous. This movie can't resist the temptation of making drama where non exists. Every small exchange of words turns immedia... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7466 | 0pending | 83751b91-1788-4418-a7a8-d820544666df | "Why?"<br /><br />That simple question had to be on the lips of every single New Yorker during the 12 months of terror that David Berkowitz created in 1976-77. That same one word will surely become the same perplexing question 22 summers later as people exit theaters exhibiting the trite and exploitative "Summer of Sam... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7467 | 0pending | 20c4f2d2-bd24-43c0-9858-1db0c5e9822f | I wish Spike Lee had chosen a different title for his film. "Summer Of Sam" conveys the impression that the film is about the infamous serial killer, David Berkowitz. It's not. It's a gritty, earthy portrait of NYC street life during the hot summer of '77 when Berkowitz terrorized that city.<br /><br />The film follows... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7468 | 0pending | 536e2742-3526-41f8-931c-1371b8a699d3 | This movie is bad news and I'm really surprised at the level of big name talent who would ever agree to appear in such a piece of junk as this. I imagine there were a few strangled agents sprawled across Hollywood Blvd. as a result of this fiasco. What really gets you is that it could have been good. The directors star... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7469 | 0pending | fbb850b5-0f4c-4d91-977f-aa73de1960e2 | Good actors and good performances can't mask a pointless script, bad dialogue, and patterns of behavior spiraling into nothing you'd care about. The most interesting character is David Berkowitz. No character development - no growth, no interest, just some suffering for no particular reason, teaching us nothing and not... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7470 | 0pending | 549dbda7-b917-46b8-98be-243f31682a5d | This long winded film turns out to be less about Berkowitz and his effect on NYC, but more about painting caricatures of a certain group of Italian-Americans, known locally as "Guidos." The problem is that "Guidos" are uninteresting, no matter what kind of story or setting they are immersed in. They are already living ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7471 | 0pending | 381d1d59-2cd0-4889-b9fd-57a990ac48b8 | I'm afraid that I have to disagree with the majority. I found Spike Lee's latest a wee bit boring! Although he was trying something different, i.e. not just documenting the rise and fall of the serial killer, I don't think it worked too well.<br /><br />There's really a bit too much going on - Vinny (John Leguizamo) an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7472 | 0pending | 91fa4b28-e7d8-437f-9535-b4b1606a70fb | Before I give Spike Lee's mess of a film SUMMER OF SAM a well-deserved thrashing, I would like to make one thing clear. I do not revile this film simply for its abundance of sleazy and unpleasant images. What makes this film so unwatchable is the fact that Lee seems to believe that SUMMER OF SAM should be taken serious... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7473 | 0pending | d546ca64-9410-416b-bc1b-eadb7cee6210 | I have always liked Spike Lee's movies, but this one was a total waste of 2 1/2 hours. I expected more about Son of Sam and instead got a movie that seemed to have very little to do with the 1977 serial killings. The talking dog was laughable (you know you're in trouble when all the movie patrons burst into laughter in... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7474 | 0pending | f3e7d0c4-5ee5-4076-81c6-8cdb09c50f89 | I went to this movie expecting a concise movie relating the effect the Son of Sam had on the society. I didn't expect Spike Lee to force-feed me more garbage on racial tension, mob-justice, or the inability of the common citizen to make a choice under pressure by peers. Lee has presented an extreme opinion.<br /><br />... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7475 | 0pending | 15a276d8-f125-4b05-8b94-8765738d610b | Spike lee has to be one of the most over rated directors I have ever seen. He is the critic's darling because he supposedly makes films with a "message" or he is just so bohemian in his approach that it makes critics that are waterlogged from formula Hollywood films eat his stuff up just for being different.<br /><br /... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7476 | 0pending | 6bf52f0c-29e1-43b0-8524-27d295252549 | John Leguizemo, a wonderful comic actor, is a New York Latino, able to get inside a myriad of characters, both male and female, to show the bizarre foibles of an ethnic group trying to cope in an alien culture. He is not, however, Italian. He doesn't look, think or behave Italian...Especially Sicilian or Calabrese, imm... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7477 | 0pending | 9ae444be-73be-4ba6-9b8b-697ab33de17e | Spike Lee has been in a decline since his early successes and this mess does nothing to help. I looked at my watch frequently hoping the movie would end or get to the point. Lee's first movie with an all-white cast is a major disappointment.<br /><br />What's the point? That Italians swear and like funky sex, but not w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7478 | 0pending | 582f4ca9-a2ad-4140-8d93-3e589ac9d0d4 | After seeing the trailer for this movie and finding out Spike Lee was directing, I was excited to hear about this event. I wasn't alive at the time, I didn't live in New York, so I expected more of a history lesson than anything. What I got was some interesting acting, a lot of sex, and about 30 minutes worth of film t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7479 | 0pending | c072e184-8c4b-4b72-a862-49b69c966da4 | It's difficult to put into words the almost seething hatred I have of this film. But I'll try:<br /><br />Every other word was an expletive, the sex scenes were uncomfortable, drugs were rampant and stereotyping was beyond the norm, if not offensive to Italian-Americans.<br /><br />I'm not saying the acting was terribl... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7480 | 0pending | 4ad6ee17-cd26-46c1-875d-30ccc73e7548 | Fox's "The True Story Of Jesse James" (1957) is a remarkably poor widescreen remake of their prestigious 1939 Tyrone Power/Henry Fonda classic "Jesse James". I'm not sure where the fault lies but the casting in this version of the two central characters, the uneven direction of Nicholas Ray and the ham-fisted screenpla... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7481 | 0pending | 1e545e55-0fb5-456d-b5d1-71df11c75840 | That word 'True' in this film's title got my alarm bells ringing. They rang louder when a title card referred to America's Civil War as the 'War Between the States' (the circumlocution preferred by die-hard southerners). Jesse James -- thief, slave-holder and murderer -- is described as a quiet, gentle farm boy.<br /><... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7482 | 0pending | 4652223a-6a17-4584-b720-a202a016e15b | I couldn't believe my eyes when I watched Nuremberg yesterday on Dutch television. It starts very slowly, the backgrounds of the Nuremberg trials become clear step by step, the Germans have a funny English accent, but then, suddenly, in the last few minutes of the first part of the series, the audience gets to see the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7483 | 0pending | 3d4c9869-e499-42fe-816b-71078040791a | Apparently most viewer knows nothing about the history of Europe, including Germany, Hungary and the whole Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Hitler and Stalin Era. Nuremberg (and a lot of forgotten trials all over Europe) was a revenge and injustice of the winners. What do you think, why were not any American, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7484 | 0pending | 5c2134b6-3994-469d-bd9c-8f4eb6dc0cd9 | An accurate review of nuremburg must consider the door to history inadvertently opened with the movie "valkyrie" (Tom Cruise). "Valkyrie" (2008) at long last tells the world there was a German resistance during world war two professionally organised with bureaucrats, military generals, soldiers and civilians who tried ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7485 | 0pending | e7b8ac9b-27c3-4066-8415-53bc323bcaac | This movie was disappointing. It was incomplete and dull. While Alec Baldwin tried to portray himself as the Perfect fair and just prosecutor (not to mention executive producer), the movie never showed any of the defense counsels or tried to challenge the audience with an actual meaningful debate on the subject of how ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7486 | 0pending | de5f8e87-03f3-4f4e-9e83-fed2dc2cc68b | American movies about war and Nazis simply cannot be good. They can not refrain from becoming idiot and following an agenda. All Nazis are bad, crazy, too proud, and Americans are so modest yet so capable and sensible and human. Come on, stop this bullshit. The main character says something like "by this trial, we have... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7487 | 0pending | a0413d61-fe93-49c5-a512-20703549b01f | Anyone who saw the original 1970 movie knows how an excellent cast, script, and director can put together a comedy masterpiece. By the same token, it's easy to see how the opposite of that can create another insipid Hollywood bore-a-thon! This movie was pathetic! Had it not been for John Cleese (a comic genius), I woul... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7488 | 0pending | b482d981-d3fb-49f4-b201-48f55d7616d7 | Unfortunately, this movie is so bad. The original Out of Towners was manic and very funny, of course they used the script written by Neil Simon. For some reason Neil Simons script is not used in this film so it falls flat time and time again. Even the audience I was with never laughed. The direction is very slow and te... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7489 | 0pending | a61c7c31-699a-4e40-bee4-fad02f27ddfa | In an apparent attempt to avoid remaking the original movie an excellent cast that should have made this inherently funny, classic Neil Simon material better than the original failed on every level.<br /><br />The chemistry between Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin that was magic in `Housesitter' was nonexistent in this eff... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7490 | 0pending | d23af8d3-c25a-494a-8f44-c648655088c4 | Granted, this seems like a good idea. Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, and John Cleese in a Neil Simon comedy. Where can you go wrong? Watch the movie, and you'll find out.<br /><br />In truth, Martin, the lead, is mis-cast. He's not doing the great slapstick he's known for, from movies like "The Jerk", but instead plays a s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7491 | 0pending | bfd56988-e15e-40cc-bbd2-c0721033751e | Within 15 minutes, my whole family was rooting for Goldie Hawn's character to die, or at least for Steve Martin's character to leave her. At 40 minutes, we turned it off. There are only a couple of movies a year we try that turn out so annoying that we can't even stomach it long enough for the story to get established.... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7492 | 0pending | 94532f4a-4d58-42c4-9e81-391c07e4317b | One would think (as I did), that with Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, and John Cleese, a movie should be, at the very least, decent. These stars (especially Martin and Cleese) have produced some of the funniest works of comedy of all time.<br /><br />Well, apparently I was grossly mistaken--this is single-handedly one of th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7493 | 0pending | 26e92c19-4655-4fd9-9a4e-00fedddfbf97 | This film so NOT funny - such a waste of great stars, who seem to be caught up so in their own stardom that they forget. Only shining moments belong to John Cleese as the hotel manager who likes to dress up - you almost fall out of your chair with helpless laughter when he dances to Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" while wea... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7494 | 0pending | d685e366-fbdb-4344-9bce-3882d6a9f7ac | Someone should tell Goldie Hawn that her career as a teen-age gamin ended thirty years ago. <br /><br />This is one of the worst films released in years, an unequivocal disaster in which the two leads give themselves over to a frenetic exposition of their trademark tics in an effort to make up for a bad script and bad ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7495 | 0pending | 5d88342d-b719-4590-a51b-3e9f739e19a9 | We all know what's like when we have a bad day at the office, right? Well, this Neil Simon comedy looks at what it's like when you have the worst of all days just trying to get to the office. Sometimes, it's just not worth going, know what I mean? And, sometimes, it's just not worth doing something when it's already be... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7496 | 0pending | 80b41d2c-2937-4b75-a350-ccf1e5a998b8 | It's terrific when a funny movie doesn't make smile you. What a pity!! This film is very boring and so long. It's simply painfull. The story is staggering without goal and no fun.<br /><br />You feel better when it's finished. | [] | [] | [] |
train_7497 | 0pending | 25f1a04a-093c-40c9-87f1-8b1f191fef7b | When I saw previews of this movie I thought that it may be dumb, but it will at least be funny. Well I was wrong. Even though somewhere deep down the producers had an interesting message to convey about parents being left alone and re-evaluating their life, the way they tried to deliver that message was horrible. The f... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7498 | 0pending | 4cd77bd3-b5bd-4f2a-b774-c9aff36b7685 | Largely dense road movie with some comic relief provided by the excellent John Cleese (although he is really sending up his performance in Fawlty Towers). Seems to flip from over the top slapstick to slushy sentimentality at the drop of a hat, and the worst part of the film is that Martin and Hawn have to "find themsel... | [] | [] | [] |
train_7499 | 0pending | b6371995-a6ad-44ff-9110-1c1a9e4a8ed6 | Evil Aliens owes a huge debt to Peter Jacksons early films Bad Taste and Braindead.I must confess to never enjoying those films particularly and i say the same about this.Jake West is a director who clearly lacks inspiration of his own and chooses to steal from those whom he looks up to.I lost count of the amount of ti... | [] | [] | [] |
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