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train_8300 | 0pending | 96fc5719-45ab-4f07-bf44-49dbcb840004 | i read the book "7 years in Tibet" from Heinrich Harrer and was fascinated of it. then i immediately grabbed the DVD and started to watch the movie. i remember the first time i saw it back in 98, i kinda liked it. well, now i watched it again in full knowledge of the book it is based on. and soon i realized how WRONG i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8301 | 0pending | 8fa1fcb8-dea7-4d7e-99f0-65228dd91a44 | OK, here it is: "Nazi mountaineer befriends the Dalai Lama." What we do is, first we get a major star with no idea whatsoever how to do a Germanic accent, and we let him flounder around between French, German, American, and British for over 2 hours. Then we concoct a series of wildly improbable events and space them ap... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8302 | 0pending | 6e411bcc-69ae-4a31-b1d8-2409ba6f66cd | The acting, other reviews notwithstanding, was remarkably well-done. Brad Pitt handles the role of an annoying, obnoxious Austrian climber quite well. Other acting is fine. The story could have been riveting, but somehow, it misses - one never really understands or cares for the characters shown, and so the story, whic... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8303 | 0pending | 4cde0e33-b732-41ee-84bf-0b19ad333936 | "Hey everybody! I've got an idea, we found this egg-shaped thingie from outer space so why don't we thaw it out and open it up?" "Yes, I know that would be the dumbest thing a scientist could do, and it could be filled with contaminating bacteria or viruses unknown to earth and could potentially wipe out the human race... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8304 | 0pending | f2fadd08-f079-4378-8d77-28935138caf5 | Recap: Something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of Antarctica. The mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on Antarctica. Julian Rome, a former SETI-worker, is brought in to decipher the message. Problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8305 | 0pending | 96598cbd-6b6d-4750-8765-c79c3a9c743a | With one of my very favorite actors, James Spader, I expected this film to be at least tolerable. It wasn't. After the first half hour I watched the rest of it with the remote control in my hand so the fast forward was at the ready. So trite, so standard, one knows what's going to happen in each scene. One can even pre... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8306 | 0pending | 671dc7f8-9279-4e70-b2c2-653e5dac4567 | Very bad acting, and a very shallow story. Not even a decent B-Movie<br /><br />Events that were suposed to be shocking like humans geting on board an alien ship were boring and very lame.<br /><br />This is one of the worst sci-fi I've ever seen. I saw the 5.0 stars and decided to watch it since i like the genre, but ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8307 | 0pending | f4a6e05e-5d88-4292-abf9-824cd67cf094 | An unoriginal, overly predictable and only mildly entertaining low budget rehash of a sci-fi formula that we've all seen a hundred times before - a group of scientists in isolation confronting some unknown alien something, and in of all places (surprise, surprise) Antarctica!<br /><br />The film features James Spader a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8308 | 0pending | 8c6070e2-7ceb-438e-b308-658d76b83970 | Begins better than it ends. Funny that the russian submarine crew outperforms all other actors. It's like those scenes where documentary shots...<br /><br />--- SPOILER PART ---- The message dechifered was contrary to the whole story. It just does not mesh.<br /><br /> | [] | [] | [] |
train_8309 | 0pending | 36de5aca-ed89-4814-b34f-2569af839f76 | Is it a remake og the Thing (1982/1951), i think it is, there are so many factors from det previous movies do deny it.<br /><br />So the acting is bad, James Spader does a superlow stargate re-enactment of himself, with his coffy mug and his somwhat strange thinking/movements but that's about it, the other actors i did... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8310 | 0pending | 84abe179-fe38-4faf-ad93-7cc9a91c27dc | Snuggle down in your favourite chair and switch on the play-station, as you toss this into the waste disposal unit. Spend a useful 90 min. living your favourite game. Disjointed - poorly filmed - non directed junk. It takes a bits from several other "science fiction" movies and badly attempts to join the parts into a p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8311 | 0pending | 09e9d6b5-b8cc-4539-98f1-b78c8d43bbf2 | This movie couldn't decide what it wanted to be. There were a couple of sub-plots that for awhile made you think these items would all come together in the end... but they didn't. If you want a "alien in the frozen waste" story, stick with the 1950's version of THE THING (not the abomination that was remade in gore-o-v... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8312 | 0pending | dca45181-153f-4168-b33e-2addb576b96b | I am oh soooo glad I have not spent money to go to the cinema on it :-). It is nothing more than compilation of elements of few other classic titles like The Thing, Final Fantasy, The Abyss etc. framed in rather dull and meaningless scenario. I really can not figure out what was the purpose of creating this movie - it ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8313 | 0pending | a83ae01c-a4ab-426f-a471-e38999afdaf5 | Alien Hunter: 5 out of 10: Is it me or does every movie that starts in Roswell, New Mexico suck. Take Alien mixed with The Thing, mixed with Contact, mixed with of all things On the Beach, The Andromeda Strain, the classroom scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark and a throw in a little Stargate to boot. <br /><br />Deriva... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8314 | 0pending | 375281d6-18b2-436b-bcb1-35abb2f38f75 | I just saw this film tonight and I have to say that it's a mess. I love Vince Vaughn but he ends up more annoying that funny here and the film is more than less a remake of the crappy 80's classic " Santa Claus the movie" but with out the camp or the bad Sheena Easton song at the end. .The story is your run of the mill... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8315 | 0pending | 729b0825-58f2-4d86-b86b-3096aa1f200a | Painfully bad Christmas film that has an equally painfully bad performance by Vince Vaughn, who is paying his usual frat boy self but this time for a children's movie but with out the wit or charm that is in his R rated films. Vaughn seems like he's on autopilot though most of the film and he keeps running into walls w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8316 | 0pending | e4230cb6-3bf4-43a3-b2fc-4477ebd86e38 | Every Christmas eve I make my kids endure yet another showing of It's A Wonderful Life. I also thoroughly enjoyed Bad Santa. So sue me. I admit it. I like cheesy, schmaltzy movies. I like excellent, intelligent ones too, but as with so many things, variety is a good thing. What would the Christmas season be without the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8317 | 0pending | 167529d2-6687-4c7a-a165-9e9fd7d708fe | How hard is it to write a watchable film with Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti and Kevin Spacey? Apparently VERY difficult for the writers here.<br /><br />I still have no idea how Santa is younger and looks 20 years older than Vince (who plays the BIG brother). I must have missed that part of the story but in reality, it r... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8318 | 0pending | 112e6232-d6a9-4a0b-9083-f57002fd1a34 | Okay, during this past thanksgiving break, whilst having the whole family together everybody decided to go see a movie, and since Fred clause was voted majority, thats what we went and say. <br /><br />To start off the movie had so many plot holes it was pathetic. Simple explanations of why a certain event was happenin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8319 | 0pending | 39205a19-e0b4-4d7d-8c8d-e0c986576d75 | Well, I have to say, this movie was so bad that I would have walked out if i didn't have to review it for work. ANd the worst part is, I wanted to see it so badly that I drove all over the city, paid $10 parking two times because the newspaper listings were wrong. Vince Vaughn plays the guy he always does -- the only t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8320 | 0pending | 39600983-c3cb-4fcb-925e-cd133e34ea76 | I don't know what I missed here, but I can't believe all these positive comments by so many people on this film. I thought it was silly, and a bit over the top. I did like the performances of Gregg Henry and Michael Rooker, however the others were just... boring.<br /><br />Now I like B movies, I really do, but this wa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8321 | 0pending | 0e4d3545-32d9-4e12-be84-bd4ff2d9615f | Definitely the worst movie I have ever seen... Can somebody tell me where should have I laughed? There's not a single hint or shadow of an idea. The three leading actors are pestilential, especially the one (I think it's Aldo) from Sicily who _can't_ make a Sicilian accent!!! Not to say about the dream-like insertion a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8322 | 0pending | 276cca84-0a03-4754-9460-9f15df52d5eb | For me every piece of art is to be judged by these criteria: Form, Function and Meaning. Guernsey seems to be dedicated to forms: nice shots and sometimes interesting acting. The long close ups suggest a function that the viewer may fill in by himself. Because of lacking texts the story becomes a quiz. An introvert per... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8323 | 0pending | 3dd9c61c-33a9-4656-9354-7bf420d25aef | This film uses all art-house clichés (slow pace, long static shots, minimal amount of dialog) to try to hide the fact that there really is nothing worth watching here: There is no plot to speak of, the characters are dreary (female lead) or cliché (Tersteeghe's character), and they do not ever talk to each other about ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8324 | 0pending | e28b074d-5dae-4951-ac5b-f6ea97224952 | Anna lives with her family in a new housing estate just outside the city. She has been with her husband Sebastiaan for years and they don't talk so much anymore. While on a working visit abroad, a female colleague commits suicide. Anna is deeply impressed by her death, even though she hardly knew her. Nobody seems to k... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8325 | 0pending | 14555da9-041a-488f-8f6a-dbd44f78527b | GUERNSEY (Maria Kraakman - Belgium/Netherlands 2005).<br /><br />The mousy Maria Kraakman plays Anna, a woman in her thirties, who finds out her husband (Fedja van Huet) is cheating on her but she doesn't dare to confront him. She painfully avoids any confrontation with human beings, her parents as well as her sister, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8326 | 0pending | 59c5889f-7d36-415b-a2fb-819aa45fec86 | This movie was long and boring. Surprising that it was selected for Cannes, although they tend to like pretentiousness. Point is that contrary to other Dutch stars of the arty genre like Kerkhof and Kruishoop, Guernsey feels utterly empty. Even more so it has no cinematic quality whatsoever. A long opening shot doesn't... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8327 | 0pending | cc541b63-60bc-4dcc-b20d-ae9345c28f19 | For those fans of Laurel and Hardy, the 1940s and beyond were a very sad time for the team. Their contracts with Hal Roach Studios had expired and now they were "free agents"--able to work for any studio who offered them a job. Unfortunately, Fox, RKO, MGM (without Roach) and even a French film company who hired the bo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8328 | 0pending | ed190a10-1971-464d-aceb-ca90820da19c | I can understand after watching this again for the first time in many years how it is considered one of the worst Laurel & Hardy's. For me, it isn't as close to as bad as "Air Raid Wardens" and "The Bullfighters", but there are some definite huge flaws in it. The film is set up to show Laurel and Hardy as the owners an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8329 | 0pending | 51e28125-0367-4525-8324-d719b7aa3888 | I suppose bad Laurel and Hardy is better than no Laurel and Hardy at all, but just barely. It's sad that the Fox films are the ones getting a big release on DVD, exposing people who may not be too familiar with L&H to their WORST stuff rather than their classic comedies.<br /><br />Once again the boys are saddled with ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8330 | 0pending | a68b18ff-2034-46d2-8ab2-bb4a1ee7ae40 | As a big fan of David Mamet's films and plays, especially his first film House of Games that also starred Joe Mantegna, I was expecting great things from this film. Instead, I found myself annoyed by the film's superficiality and lack of credibility. Racial slurs are thrown about without any feeling or meaning behind t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8331 | 0pending | 630efe72-ad8c-45fa-8764-3f66f639b5bd | David Mamet is a very interesting and a very un-equal director. His first movie 'House of Games' was the one I liked best, and it set a series of films with characters whose perspective of life changes as they get into complicated situations, and so does the perspective of the viewer.<br /><br />So is 'Homicide' which ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8332 | 0pending | a59e264b-4c70-482f-bcce-d7e4e49f66eb | Very disappointing film. By the end I no longer cared for any of the characters. I did enjoy seeing Ving Rhames in a very small part, and William Macy was good as always, still not worth watching. It starts out strong and just keeps getting weaker and weaker. Insomniacs will like it as I am sure it will put them to sle... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8333 | 0pending | ec51c062-24d5-4c95-9b47-dd6e8ef41cb0 | This movie displayed more racial hatred of Jews by David Mamet than I have<br /><br />have ever encountered in an American film. The sterotypes are so over the top that my ability to continue watching died. I was so disappointed at Joe<br /><br />Mantegna calling a bunch of men ,sitting in a New York Jewish center clea... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8334 | 0pending | afbed8fc-ce44-4903-a537-95c19fb65d37 | Pere is an idiot, but he is aware about it and acts in consequence. His life is totally boring and he doesn't know how to change it. When his last friend, Nicco, dies. He feels totally empty and he decides to go out to become drunk. When he is returning home, he crashes with a girl that puts advertisements. Although sh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8335 | 0pending | fcbbd6fc-d94b-4ae7-b6f3-162e9b0613f6 | Leave it to geniuses like Ventura Pons, the Spanish director, to convince the higher ups in his country to subsidize this misguided attempt of a film. The sad state of the film industry in that country is a product of trying to make a film out of such thin material. Most of the pictures that are made in Spain fall unde... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8336 | 0pending | d930ff89-3e62-4b74-9d1f-3ce724fc69ba | Although the actors do a convincing job playing the losers that parade across the screen, the fact that these characters are impossible to identify with had me looking at my watch a mere 20 minutes into the film (and more than once after that). The plot development is disjointed and slow, the verbal diarrhoea of the ma... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8337 | 0pending | 1fc97a1d-6d46-4d4f-9394-6011b818c459 | OK, let me again admit that I haven't seen any other Merchant Ivory (the distributor) films. Nor have I seen more celebrated works by the director, so my capacity to discuss Before the Rains outside of analysis of the film itself is mitigated. With that admittance, let me begin.<br /><br />Before the Rains is a differe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8338 | 0pending | 341f00d1-e75d-4179-a311-1c4f311f8064 | This movie fails to offer anything new to a genre that has traditionally shown the cross cultural love story underpinned by the politics mid 20th century / pre-WWII India, where the British and their modern ways are bad and the primitive but honest and true Indians are good. Surely such clichéd depictions of the Britis... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8339 | 0pending | fc8369c4-f67b-47d7-9af7-a55c0d4896eb | Despite the mysteriously positive reviews and high rating, this is an awful movie. Awful enough, that l feel obligated to warn you how bad it is. <br /><br />The movie is set in the final period of the Raj, during the time of India's fight for independence. What follows in the ridiculous plot just fills me with disbeli... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8340 | 0pending | d39894ef-de50-4dad-b91d-18d26317c4fd | Let me start by saying how much I love the TV series. Despite the tragic nature of a middle-aged man seemingly unable to pursue his dreams because of his overbearing, manipulative father, it was incredibly light-hearted and fun to watch in practice. In my opinion, it is without doubt one of the greatest British sitcoms... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8341 | 0pending | 3edd352e-b36d-4cdd-9b1e-0c297a788eb5 | "Women? They're all scrubbers...!" <br /><br />No, not a good translation; not at all! This lags behind the previous year's "Dad's Army", entirely missing the special, small-screen magic of the seminal television sitcom original, and failing to play interestingly at all with the big screen... you could just about say t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8342 | 0pending | 2a57e23e-1c79-43fb-b2e6-3ba57511eec2 | Truly a disgusting, vile film, with only a small amount of real humour.<br /><br />The character of the father in particular is vulgar in the extreme (intentionally so, obviously), and portrayed in the most pathetic, seedy manner.<br /><br />My wife and I found this film horribly upsetting, with absolutely no redeeming... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8343 | 0pending | c0136d2c-821a-4149-afe4-3d902ddcc6d5 | This film can be judged from three viewpoints: as history, as a profile of Amin, as a fictional thriller. <br /><br />It fails as history, it mentions in passing the coup that threw out Obote, the expulsion of the Asians, and has the Entebbe hi-jack as background, but not in any chronologically consistent time frame. <... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8344 | 0pending | ca39100d-d908-4207-ad5c-745ba8ac6d04 | Forest Whitaker's performance is all the more impressive for making it almost worthwhile to sit through this dreck. "Historical fiction" does not justify changing history. The absurdity begins from the ground up with the imaginary lead character played by James McAvoy. To create a fictional observer for the purpose of ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8345 | 0pending | 340b5e4b-f666-424b-9ff3-d79d211c6a06 | Before I begin, I want to briefly say that this movie in and of itself is very well made and well acted by all involved, including Whittaker, who indeed deserves his nomination. It is highly entertaining, and . . . taken in the right context as a work of FICTION, it is a very good movie. For that, I give it the two sta... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8346 | 0pending | 56e15940-507a-49d5-b4c8-22135567c728 | Funny that I find myself forced to review this movie, but here I am.<br /><br />I am reviewing it, because just recently, I have had the chance to witness the revival of R.C. Sheriff's play "Journey's End" on stage in New York, at the Belasco Theatre, starring Hugh Darcy, Boyd Gaines, Jefferson Mays and others, as well... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8347 | 0pending | 054cb56a-398e-40aa-88ef-5bfa41807032 | Despite the excellent cast, this is an unremarkable film, especially from the aviation perspective. It may be somewhat better than the egregious "von Richthofen and Brown" but not by much. "Blue Max" remains the best of a small market over the last 35 years while "Darling Lilli" is fun if not taken seriously. It's inte... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8348 | 0pending | ead87e8d-9a8c-4180-8e10-83550c12885c | I had been looking forward to seeing Dreamgirls for quite a while...what with all it's raving reviews, nominations and media attention. And I must say, the first quarter of the movie was good! It really portrayed the black music scene back then. However, as the movie wore on, me and my whole family were bored out of ou... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8349 | 0pending | 2172ce00-3e83-4c37-9340-02489bb2a113 | Yes there are great performances here. Unfortunately, they happen in the context of a movie that doesn't seem to have a clue what it's doing. During the first 45-60 minutes of this all the music takes place as realistic performance. Suddenly, about an hour in, the characters who, until this point, had always spoken to ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8350 | 0pending | 196fb651-ae71-4a1c-9b0a-7c552fbb2cfe | I anticipated the release of the film as much as any fan of the Broadway play. I waited and read reviews for months about the award winning performances. I mean with the star power of Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Danny Glover... the movie couldn't be less than 4 out of 4 stars, right? WRONG! I was definit... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8351 | 0pending | a3976acc-a596-4684-ad31-88f61bc2a89f | It makes sense to me that this film is getting raves from Hollywood because oftentimes in Hollywood it's all just a popularity contest. It also makes sense when you think that people who are liking the film may just be reacting to the countless songs being spit out at you rather than story content. Yet, this film is ov... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8352 | 0pending | 0a997c79-a9ec-4206-bc48-0b3c986f197a | This was longer than the Ten Commandments, All Lord of the Rings and the Matrix Trilogy combined. My oh My, what a nightmare. This is the single biggest over-hype of 2006. THere is not a moment that is not scripted and clichéd. Movie Musicals can be done brilliantly and bring genuine excitement to the viewer. Dreamgirl... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8353 | 0pending | da48f939-675e-4102-b53f-a793a52ee515 | Yeah. Pretty sure I saw this movie years ago when it was about the Supremes.<br /><br />Another recycled storyline glitzed up Hollywood-style, borrowing scripts from better making-it-in-the-music-industry films.<br /><br />Nothing original here.<br /><br />More make-up, glammier costumes and choreography = more money f... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8354 | 0pending | 04135665-aaa6-43bd-9c66-932ca1102f28 | Dreamgirls, despite its fistful of Tony wins in an incredibly weak year on Broadway, has never been what one would call a jewel in the crown of stage musicals. However, that is not to say that in the right cinematic hands it could not be fleshed out and polished into something worthwhile on-screen. Unfortunately, what ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8355 | 0pending | 0846c6a2-928c-4a41-adcd-6b848682283b | I just saw DreamGirls yesterday, and I was REALLY underimpressed. Despite all the Oscar buzz, this is nothing special. Anyone who was really impressed by this film has never bothered to see any of the true movie musical classics. Except for Eddie Murphy's great musical and dramatic performance, Dreamgirls is just a glo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8356 | 0pending | 2fe79869-cf9e-45b0-ad55-d8ba3ae73cc7 | We expected something great when we went to see this bomb. It is basically a Broadway play put on film. The music is plain terrible. There isn't one memorable song in the movie -- heard any hits from this movie? You won't because there aren't any. Some of the musical numbers go on so long that I got up to go to the res... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8357 | 0pending | 4d5d6679-a2a5-408e-8c11-08ab93f5cedf | This movie is all flash and no soul. The actors put a lot of passion into the numbers, but these numbers often didn't connect with the film and felt like stand-alone music videos. And no effort was made to make the numbers sound as if they were happening right there in front of you, every single one sounds like its com... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8358 | 0pending | 9db489ea-5ccc-4c0f-a0f8-829843b0b456 | Eddie Murphy for best supporting actor??? What an insult to Alan Arkin and Djimon Hounsou. <br /><br />Jamie Foxx (who can act) walks through this film like a zombie. <br /><br />Beyonce ??? That was acting??? <br /><br />This movie pales in comparison to CHICAGO or just about any other recent musical. <br /><br />If i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8359 | 0pending | 9cff38bb-c66f-45ce-b307-80be258acc5e | Wow, this is very unusual in one regard: usually the first movie in a long string of sequels is the best of the bunch. People are surprised when a sequel is actually better. With Tarzan, I thought this movie was the worst of the bunch, or at least the first six which comprise my Tarzan Collection DVD package. I will gl... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8360 | 0pending | b5432884-fbd9-4c39-85cf-c343794b4fcc | From the stupid "quaint African natives" travelogue footage with our badly-superimposed principals acting as narrators, to the horrible fake ears which transform docile Indian elephants into African elephants, to the utter lack of any logic at all, to Maureen O'Sullivan's incessant whining of "Tarzan! Tarzan!", there i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8361 | 0pending | 2599a61a-9238-49b0-a19e-4b87965fc06a | A memorable line from a short lived show. After viewing the episode where that line was introduced my fraternity intramural flag football team started using the line to break our huddles on offense. Instead of Ready / Break, our quarter back said FOOTBALL and the rest of the squad responded YOU BET! A fun way to break ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8362 | 0pending | c22019a1-1c8d-4390-bd64-51d064a5fe39 | Before seeing this movie, I was expecting a fictional drama based loosely on ideas from the book; instead, it's the book, interrupted with dramatic scenes illustrating the different "illnesses." That didn't bother me much, but it hindered my enjoyment of the film. One story or even two or three long stories with excerp... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8363 | 0pending | 0a315e0a-fecf-44b9-9c91-931d8d21dbb3 | I have three comments to make about this film, which I discovered hanging out forlornly in a lower shelf at Blockbuster. First off, it is interesting to see the approaches film makers take in trying to film essentially unfilmable works. Some have, as Kubrick did with "Lolita", gotten the original author to write a scre... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8364 | 0pending | 0149acf5-daf1-425c-a343-835a4de1fe02 | I gave this a four purely out of its historical context. It was considered lost for many years until it popped up out of the blue on Showtime in the early nineties.<br /><br />Moe is the straight man and Larry and Curly act as a duo. Spade Cooley has a couple of numbers. I guess it had something to do with working on a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8365 | 0pending | 61e5ac1a-29da-49d5-aa55-98a1bd793628 | The Three Stooges in a feature length western comedy-musical? Perhaps "Rockin' in the Rockies" was meant to combine the Stooges comedy short with the western musical, in a matinée; if so, this was a pleasant way to break up a Saturday afternoon. Jay Kirby (as Rusty) is a handsome young hero; and, Mary Beth Hughes (as t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8366 | 0pending | f937abc9-af44-4fed-8f82-551734cef89c | Having just seen this on TMC, it's fresh in my mind. It's obvious that while the stooges are featured stars, they don't really run the show. First, they're broken into 2 groups - Moe, as "Shorty" and Larry and Curly as a pair of vagrants, so there's not a whole lot of full team work. The love story that fuels the plot ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8367 | 0pending | 51a5ba1b-8da5-47dd-85dc-abb8767a7881 | Not even the most ardent stooge fan could possibly like the movie, (I one of them) the stooges just aren't given any material to work with. It is really a shame too because this is the only feature length movie the stooges did with Curly, and this one effort by them is painfully unfunny, when it could have had great po... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8368 | 0pending | 5cdc0440-6e42-48f8-9a02-bfa5b3843be4 | I am a huge Stooges fan but the one and only redeeming quality this movie has is that Curley is in it. Done long before he started drinking heavily he is his classic self in this (and Larry's not bad either). Moe's character is a straight part (mostly) and this movie would be better named "The Curley and Larry Movie". ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8369 | 0pending | eb9f4e2a-12d5-4997-9383-3b597d0fa3de | Schlocky '70s horror films...ya gotta love 'em. In contrast to today's boring slasher flicks, these K-tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula.<br /><br />This is a B movie about the making of a B movie...that went horribly wrong. Faith Domergue (This Island Earth) stars as an over-... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8370 | 0pending | 6472a281-23f4-4641-ab5e-192b149491ed | After reading the previous comments, I'm just glad that I wasn't the only person left confused, especially by the last 20 minutes. John Carradine is shown twice walking down into a grave and pulling the lid shut after him. I anxiously awaited some kind of explanation for this odd behavior...naturally I assumed he had s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8371 | 0pending | d7fee255-2d7b-421a-a8d5-2865c2a9bf36 | ...but I've seen better too.<br /><br />The story here is predictable--a film crew trying to film a horror movie in a place where murders occurred. Three guesses what happens. This isn't a total bomb--the cast is fairly good with pros John Ireland, Faith Domergue and John Carradine giving the best performances. It's re... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8372 | 0pending | c85921d8-cb21-4596-88ab-4bbfb7a0f063 | - A film crew is shooting a horror movie in an old, supposedly cursed house where over the years, seven people have mysteriously died. One of the crew finds an old book of spells and it looks like it would be perfect to use in some of the ritual scenes in their movie. It is reasoned that the spells in the book are bett... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8373 | 0pending | 04e829f3-bbaa-4d24-ba6b-b5182d8e148d | Ostensibly this is a Z-grade DTV horror film.<br /><br />But with lines like :<br /><br />"It's easy to die, I have, many times"<br /><br />and<br /><br />"Why are you reading that book ?" "Because it makes the plot more interesting"<br /><br />and<br /><br />"You made your way in here, now you can make your way out ag... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8374 | 0pending | 65885148-af01-49d4-9c2c-6f086aeb5b8e | John Carradine, John Ireland, and Faith Domergue who as players all saw better days in better films got together for this Grade G horror film about life imitating art in a mysterious mansion.<br /><br />For Carradine it was in those last two decades of his career that he appeared in anything on the theory it was better... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8375 | 0pending | ab203cda-837a-430e-831e-3408b46c4ff6 | This is the type of movie where it actually hurts to acknowledge that it really, really sucks. I normally sanctify stuff like this! Early 70's grindhouse flicks with scrumptious sounding titles and a schlocky low-budget atmosphere usually ROCK. "House of Seven Corpses" appeared to dispose of even more trumps, since the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8376 | 0pending | dacb7396-90d8-4a2e-90d1-16c81a9ab3ae | Well...now that I know where Rob Zombie stole the title for his "House of 1,000 Corpses" crapfest, I can now rest in peace. Nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in "The House of Seven Corpses," but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot (ha!) anyway, to kill the bloody amat... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8377 | 0pending | f7ef0d35-376d-4648-9b28-ca035f399adc | A director and his crew head out to the isolated Beal mansion, to make a low-budget horror film about the seven mysterious deaths of the Beal family that have occurred there in the last century. Even with warnings by the caretaker, the director pays no attention to the supposedly cursed house. One of the crew find a bo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8378 | 0pending | 22ade915-ee05-4e45-8a2e-775403c0ca35 | So that´s what I called a bad, bad film... Poor acting, poor directing, terrible writing!!!! I just can´t stop laughing at some scenes, because the story is meaningless!!! Don´t waste your time watching this film... Well, I must recognize it has one or two good ideas but it´s sooooo badly writen... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8379 | 0pending | ef60eade-272b-487e-8531-54765bb1f1fb | Comes this heartwarming tale of hope. Hope that you'll never have to endure anything this awful again. *cough* Razzie award *cough*<br /><br />I disliked this movie because it was unfunny, predictable and inane. While watching I felt like I was in a psychology experiment to determine how low movie standards could get b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8380 | 0pending | d6d0ee91-d25b-445c-a16e-bfe5e929c954 | This was the worst movie I've ever seen in theaters. It was just a compilation of recycled material. People getting hit in the head is not funny. People getting kicked is not funny. After the third time a guy got kicked in the balls not even the youngest audience member was laughing anymore. It just got tired fast.<br ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8381 | 0pending | 5ae88af6-5ba1-46e4-a88f-ddde0def4a90 | Ripping this movie apart is like shooting fish in a barrel. It's too easy. So I'm going to challenge myself to acknowledge the positive aspects of Little Man. First, I'm impressed with the special effects. It really did look like Marlon Wayans' head was attached to the body of a little person. I never doubted it for a ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8382 | 0pending | ca9bbf8a-495b-4537-b76c-dc06a512c6de | I've now just realised that by watching this film I have lost valuable precious moments of my life I will never get back. Thsi film isn't just poor its dire. It reminded me of every stereotypical black sitcom ever made.<br /><br />I regret watching this film.<br /><br />Flixmedia reckons its a race issue, apparently "W... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8383 | 0pending | b85a10c3-1933-43f0-a3c7-cd9c2eedf8e6 | When I saw that IMDb users rated this movie the bottom 250 movies, I thought it was too harsh but little did I know that the low rating was absolutely correct.<br /><br />I am a big fan of the Wayans brothers. I loved their Scary Movie 2 and even enjoyed White Chicks. Little Man, however, had very few laughs and the jo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8384 | 0pending | 190be337-69df-4f38-a29d-abf77cb6748d | ...Ever. This is the bottom. I am not joking. The theater should've had a warning of some kind. 'Abandon all hope ye who enter here' would've been fitting.<br /><br />I don't have the words to describe accurately the hell that this movie is. Its debilitating stupidity even fails to amuse. This movie is definitely aimed... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8385 | 0pending | 711ea419-f4d7-4757-befe-c9c63a6b9183 | There was a Bugs Bunny cartoon titled "Baby Buggy Bunny" that was EXACTLY this plot. Baby-faced Finster robbed a bank and the money in the carriage rolled away and fell into Bug's rabbit hole. He dressed up as a baby to get into Bugg's hole to retrieve the money. The scene in "Little Man" where he's looking in the bath... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8386 | 0pending | bfbcc480-8952-4e05-8126-769e3d22aef2 | There are some extremely talented black directors Spike Lee,Carl Franklin,Billy Dukes,Denzel and a host of others who bring well deserved credit to the film industry . Then there are the Wayans Brothers who at one time(15,years ago) had an extremely funny television show'In Living Colour' that launched the career of Ji... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8387 | 0pending | 573df9bd-9a87-46f2-8b1c-2f60a918dc80 | It's here. finally a movie comes out that I can honestly say is worse than Larry the cable guy: health inspector. Yet I'm willing to bet the the wayan's brothers(hilarious) will make more money than I ever make in my whole life on what is sure to be one of the top five worst films of all time, outside of my fifth grade... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8388 | 0pending | f11d4c52-5859-4a74-8030-6850badf6c8c | Like some of the other reviewers have alluded to previously, I'd like to know what moron actually read the script and went', "Yea!!! This is it. This is the next film we are going to green light!!" And whoever that person is, should have his or her head examined for actual brain activity. Because whoever is responsible... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8389 | 0pending | fd621a91-200a-43ec-b4e3-5856553c4bac | This movie is most possibly the worst movie I have ever see in my entire life! The plot is ridiculous and the whole "Little Man" crap is just so stupid. The entire movie is unrealistic and dumb. Let's face it, It's just a "Black Comedy". This is just a pointless horrible piece that should have never made it to theaters... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8390 | 0pending | 439848bc-bd28-49a3-b4f3-7738a149f4ae | This is exactly the reason why many people remain homeless . . . because stupid producers pay their money to make awful films like this instead of donating if they can bother!<br /><br />This film is even worse than white chicks! Little Man has a lame excuse for posing a character midget as a baby. Story is awful consi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8391 | 0pending | 75e8eee9-1c24-46f3-9bae-de31d7b647ee | "Little Man", now on DVD, is a Wayans Brothers flop. It's the tale of a smaller than a midget criminal played by Marlon Wayans, who hides a diamond in a lady's purse after a heist. He and his partner Tracy Morgan cook up the genius plan to disguise Marlon as a baby and plant him at the lady's home. He then goes through... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8392 | 0pending | 4d3ec6d1-231c-41ce-8080-4546283237df | America. A land of freedom, of hope and of dreams. This is the nation that, since its independence, has striven to bring democracy, prosperity, and peace to the entire world, for the good of all mankind. There are times, however, when one cannot help but wish that the American's would just stay on their side of the Atl... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8393 | 0pending | 6be577ee-1809-41e0-849f-88ab961f5acb | What's the point of reviewing a movie like this? It's painfully and embarrassingly bad, not even in a way that allows you to make fun of it.<br /><br />Movies like "Little Man" depress me. They represent film at its most disposable. This movie was made for a bunch of 18-24 year old dipsh*t frat boys who the studio was ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8394 | 0pending | ca927942-9a64-4073-a75f-8b391fde8cb8 | I was not impressed about this film especially for the fact that I went to the cinema with my family in good faith to see a film which was certificate rated 12A here in the UK. To my dismay, this film was full of embarrassing sexual jokes. (Which is not a problem to me as an adult, but not good for watching with childr... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8395 | 0pending | 5065d62b-89d7-485a-ae5a-3dabc075f84d | I can catogoricaly and unequivocally say that in all my 51 years on this planet that is the worse (supposibly children's) film i have ever seen in my life.<br /><br />I took my three grand children to see it and even they were struggling to raise a smile during the all tortuous 90 mins. The sexual indendoes i will leav... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8396 | 0pending | 48bb9e69-cda3-4e46-b983-6ef3fdd1c76d | I think its pretty safe to say that this is the worst film ever made, When I saw the trailer on TV i knew right from second 1 that this would be a piece of **** and it would be best to avoid it, but I somehow got dragged into seeing this by some friends, I walked into the cinema with low expectations but i was hoping t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8397 | 0pending | ce233ca6-6c76-437c-9faf-18d81e5d3135 | So, has it really come to this? Are we, as consenting adults, to blame for the next generation of cinema-goers lack of cinematic understanding and celluloid capability? Concerning the Wayans and Co. latest addition to the moving pictures scenario; Little Man. This United Kingdom P.G. (Parental Guidance), anyone under t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8398 | 0pending | ae38a7e2-d306-42e5-af01-f9485d9f8e82 | Since this picture is classified a "pure entertainment" work and since there are already many comments on it, I'd like hereby to address something relevant to the abuse of humour. We can see that Marlon Wayans is playing the joker role in this film. Certainly as long as he has been involved in the casting job, he has a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_8399 | 0pending | 393e6f9a-b95d-4b5a-b788-f2c4a58cbb88 | When watching little man , you'll spend its running time trying to figure out its many plot holes . And thats not a good sign because this film is supposed to be a comedy ! Your supposed to be laughing at it !! But will you ? Probably not. <br /><br />The main problem with little man is its concept- its far too ridicul... | [] | [] | [] |
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