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train_900 | 0pending | 5a20b3da-2251-40e9-8a2d-7aa508b989d4 | Honestly before I watched this movie, I had heard many people said this movie was a disgrace. I did not believe that since Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey have taken roles in this movie, and watched it by my own. Apparently they were right. I was really disappointed and wondering all the time during the movie - why the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_901 | 0pending | 99749cb7-2c17-47cf-b7fd-130bbf28942f | There is an excellent reason Edison went straight to video: it would have landed in theaters with a crumbling thud. The movie lasted entirely too long and was perilously boring. Just a notch above lowbrow (thanks to Freeman and Spacey, who obviously had a spare two weeks before their next films), the bad guys are as la... | [] | [] | [] |
train_902 | 0pending | 0e3602de-d554-4df2-8e5e-5c101f9e6cf5 | Oh dear god. This was horrible. There is bad, then there was this. This movie makes no sense at all. It runs all over the map and isn't clear about what its saying at all. The music seemed like it was trying to be like Batman. The fact that 'Edison' isn't a real city, takes away. Since I live in Vancouver, watching thi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_903 | 0pending | 448a927d-421f-4426-b057-3d0d1bb8ed05 | The movie itself is not too bad; many comments have pointed out the obvious flaws of the script, but it is watchable. What really gives me the creeps though is that people like Justin Timberlake even get cast for movies, and on top of that for movies like this one. I have to admit I had never heard the man's name befor... | [] | [] | [] |
train_904 | 0pending | c0597fe6-936b-42cc-8480-8098c331cd48 | Pathetic... worse than a bad made-for-TV movie. I can't believe that Spacey and Freeman were in this flick. For some reason Morgan Freeman's character is constantly talking about and saying "pussy" when referring to NSync boy's girlfriend. Morgan Freeman calling women "pussy" is just awkward... What the hell were the p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_905 | 0pending | 586d9c48-607a-4e26-b8a3-1c7b57ae7f24 | Timberlake's performance almost made attack the screen. It wasn't all bad, I just think the reporters role was wrong for him.<br /><br />LL Cool J played the typical rapper role, toughest,baddest guy around. I don't think the cracked a smile in the whole movie, not even when proposed to his girlfriend.<br /><br />Morga... | [] | [] | [] |
train_906 | 0pending | 0a3261c5-e0f4-4a9b-be85-37eea479bd26 | If you watched this movie you know why I said "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus". Hehehe!!! Every time they said "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus"... I laughed thinking "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, why did I rent this movie"? I cannot believe how Oscar winners like Freeman and Spacey appeared here in the background while Timberlake and LL Cool J grab... | [] | [] | [] |
train_907 | 0pending | faee30ec-9c1d-4d54-be59-41854e32a78d | How can there be that many corrupt cops without any one of them slipping up? With enough cops to run a mini-war that include such weapons as flamethrowers, you would think they would have been caught before someone writing for a weekly coupon newspaper overheard someone saying 'thanks' to a corrupt cop.<br /><br />You ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_908 | 0pending | b1ac62cf-15c1-4136-a720-deea2eeb0f6f | LL Cool J. Morgan Freeman. Dylan McDermott. Kevin Spacey. John Heard. Cary Elwes. Roslyn Sanchez. Justin Timberlake -- wait a minute. Justin Timberlake? And he's the star? I should have known better than to rent EDISON FORCE. In fact, I did know better. But in a moment of absolute weakness, I rented this STV. When you ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_909 | 0pending | 1b4ed5c0-7cec-43d2-abe3-56ec2ea70872 | I rented this movie last week. I saw Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman were on it, so it seemed promising. And it was, until Justin Timberlake came on scene. He is a really bad actor and shouldn't be allowed to make a movie ever again. I mean, he is one of the most boring, uninspired actors I've ever seen. He puts absolu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_910 | 0pending | 9a29e57f-772c-4171-bee4-eaa72d4fb6f3 | *** REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS *** I'll make this review short and sweet. I bought this movie from Best Buy because it sounded interested and had some top actors in it like Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman. How bad could it be, right? Well, it's pretty bad. Justin Timberlake plays Pollack, a wannabe journalist who... | [] | [] | [] |
train_911 | 0pending | cafa6d7f-211a-420a-8f31-455a8b367382 | The plot of 'Edison' was decent, but one actor in particular ruined the entire film. Justin Timberlake ruined the film with every line he uttered during the movie. He is by far one of the worst actors I have ever seen, and should face the same fate as the entire F.R.A.T. squad. <br /><br />Whether it was an emotional s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_912 | 0pending | 48bcf109-b745-4038-bd43-b6be391b22c0 | I found it very very difficulty to watch this after the initial 5 minutes of the film. I managed to stomach 45-50 minutes before switching it off in disgust and watching Monster House instead (which, by the way, is great fun).<br /><br />The story has massive holes in it. The plot line is hugely over stated and dull, t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_913 | 0pending | 6373bbee-b2aa-48a6-8955-c50fc35143f0 | OK so I hear about this new Justin Timberlake movie coming out which features some pretty big names. I mean great actors like, The Freeman aka Morgan Freeman, an asset to Hollywood, however completely wasted in this film. Then we got Kevin Spacey, who I've been a great fan of ever since I watched American Beauty and Th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_914 | 0pending | 8a1c5ce2-50e3-4e79-a8e2-abc440b3b62f | When you go at an open air cinema under the Greek summer night you usually don't care what the movie is! Edison started really good with some good effort from the singers-who-want-to-be actors and a once again great Morgan Freeman but... (In a movie there is usually a good start to catch audience,done, a bit boring yet... | [] | [] | [] |
train_915 | 0pending | b0e54047-d1ea-4d60-9c6d-ac9631a1f8a2 | Jewish newspaper reporter Justin Timberlake (as Joshua "Josh" Pollack) is puzzled when a courtroom defendant whispers "Thank you" to testifying officer LL Cool J (as Rafe Deed) as he leaves the witness stand. In the opening sequences of this film, you are given the explanation. You will see Mr. Cool J's devilish detect... | [] | [] | [] |
train_916 | 0pending | 64b30477-4126-4e38-adac-34c356510b0f | OK, I am not Japanese. I do know a little about Japanese culture, and a little less about Japanese pop culture. Other than that, I am Spanish, I eat paella and I like black humor.<br /><br />Good, with that point set, I can comment on the movie: I have no idea on how it is enjoyable to the Japanese audiences, Mamoru Os... | [] | [] | [] |
train_917 | 0pending | 5e39fc7e-98ae-47b4-877a-8637d6be1fd8 | I don't want to go too far into detail, because I can't really justify wasting much time on reviewing this film, but I had to give an alternate opinion to hopefully help people avoid the movie. The animation is crud and the story alternates between boring/pointless to extremely irritating. The humor was completely lost... | [] | [] | [] |
train_918 | 0pending | d1e54bb9-0db6-43d1-892f-238b467cb787 | I rented this on DVD and I kind of feel bad since Dawson and Lugacy are so earnest about it in the DVD comments. It's not a bad movie exactly, but it's one of those films that desperately wants to be a deep comment on human nature while not realizing that its story is practically a genre. Plus, it is a little simplisti... | [] | [] | [] |
train_919 | 0pending | 9266180b-8267-40f5-824c-e9f7f965ee5b | The plot for Descent, if it actually can be called a plot, has two noteworthy events. One near the beginning - one at the end. Together these events make up maybe 5% of the total movie time. Everything (and I mean _everything_) in between is basically the director's desperate effort to fill in the minutes. I like distu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_920 | 0pending | 723016fd-978d-424c-be3b-4275f0ac7b0c | I saw 'Descent' last night at the Stockholm Film Festival and it was one huge disappointment. Disappointment because the storyline was potentially powerful, the prospect of seeing Rosario Dawson in a smaller intimate movie was exciting and, being a fan (sounds pervy, I'm not!) of 'rape/revenge' flicks of the 70's, I wa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_921 | 0pending | 1d6ae194-a130-44c5-8d3d-d36809d9904b | It's pretty bad when the generic movie synopsis has more information than the film itself. The paragraph-long "plot summary" written on the movie page has details I could not glean from watching the actual movie. I found myself constantly backing it up to see what details I had just missed which could tell me what the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_922 | 0pending | 675266d6-b31a-4ba4-a0e2-47ecde06fc59 | Having just recently re-viewed "Lipstick" for the first time in a few decades, I backed it with "Descent" even though I have heard more negative comments than good from other film friends with tastes as varied as mine.<br /><br />It's interesting to contrast how the unique niche of the Rape Revenge movie has evolved in... | [] | [] | [] |
train_923 | 0pending | 9ee880ff-0e02-4cbe-b657-bfea7e1dc7aa | Revenge is one of my favorite themes in film. Moreso, "the futility of revenge" is one of my favorite themes in film. Having seen Gaspar Noe's Irreversible (2002), I was expecting an even more relevant expression of this theme. Instead, this film is a weak half-hearted attempt which expressed nothing but the film's lac... | [] | [] | [] |
train_924 | 0pending | 35e8d78e-981e-4b78-8b18-fa61ee2312e7 | Rosario Dawson stars as a girl who is date raped and then begins a decent into darkness until given a chance at revenge. While its clear why Dawson took the role, its a chance to show her acting chops and to make a small independent, decidedly un-Hollywood film, its also clear that aside from stunning good looks, Dawso... | [] | [] | [] |
train_925 | 0pending | 5600afeb-c530-4ec5-8418-a1f0a415a4ed | This movie sucked plain and simple. Okay so it's basically about a girl that gets raped, and to get revenge she gets another guy to rape the rapist. The rapist is a douche, but the girl victim is partly to blame. I mean they both get in the mood and start kissing and stuff, but when the rapist tries to have sex with he... | [] | [] | [] |
train_926 | 0pending | 4bd54d66-2198-4aef-83a0-9aa4ac43bb56 | I'm going to write about this movie and about "Irreversible" (the (in)famous scene in it). So you are warned, if you haven't seen the movie yet. This are just my thoughts, why I think the movie fails (in the end - pun intended).<br /><br />Acting wise, Rosario Dawson is really good and almost conveys portraying someone... | [] | [] | [] |
train_927 | 0pending | db560f47-6cc4-4b30-9ef7-b8e8d3adc4b2 | This movie was disgusting. Their should be a warning that some sadistic nasty writer is attempting to make a name for herself before being held hostage for an hour and a half watching garbage. What is garbage? The misuse of peoples time, the misuse of energy, and the waste of whatever type of educational system that ta... | [] | [] | [] |
train_928 | 0pending | b48dcf52-2269-4783-ab48-2ec101ab103d | If you want to watch a good film about how women can fight back against sexual assault, then this film is not the film that you want to watch. It was a social commentary about a woman who was victimized and fights back. Spoiler: Rosario Dawson turns the tables on her assailant. Instead of using the criminal justice sys... | [] | [] | [] |
train_929 | 0pending | fbc2609c-dcee-4452-b5fa-84cf18dabd2d | Do not waste your time or your money on this movie. My roommate rented it because she thought it was the other movie called Descent (the flick about some travelers who get trapped in a cave). so, we decided to watch it anyways thinking it couldn't be that bad. It was. I can't believe this movie was actually produced an... | [] | [] | [] |
train_930 | 0pending | b9bbf69f-5499-4942-8927-5155336fec77 | Okay so i found out about this movie and I watched the preview read almost all the reviews and was having a hard time debating whether I should watch it or not. Before i even watched the movie i was emotionally weird on it. i was so unsure if i was going to watch this and be disturbed for like a long time. So i choose ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_931 | 0pending | 4e5f2922-784a-4626-99f5-90bdcb739d72 | This movie offers NOTHING to anyone. It doesn't succeed on ANY level. The acting is horrible, dull long-winded dribble. They obviously by the length of the end sex scene were trying to be shocking but just ended up being pretty much a parody of what the film was aiming for. Complete garbage, I can't believe what a laug... | [] | [] | [] |
train_932 | 0pending | ab8eeba8-c414-460c-a148-50efb8c3b7ce | You know all those letters to "Father Christmas" and "Jesus" that are sent every year? Well, it turns out that they are not actually delivered but dropped off in a half-forgotten corner of the post office to rot unless some bright spark figures out a way of posting them. As bizarre settings go, it's a winner and one wh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_933 | 0pending | 168c173c-1533-4baf-b668-3aaa644379e0 | This movie had a IMDB rating of 8.1 so I expected much more from it. It starts out funny and endearing with an energy that feels spontaneous. But before the movie is half-way through, it begins to drag and everything becomes sickingly predictable. The characters in the office were delightful in the first third of the m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_934 | 0pending | 6d7f1a50-2012-4e08-a6d3-d676b2b89e58 | 'Dead Letter Office' is a low-budget film about a couple of employees of the Australian postal service, struggling to rebuild their damaged lives. Unfortunately, the acting is poor and the links between the characters' past misfortunes and present mindsets are clumsily and over-schematically represented. What's most di... | [] | [] | [] |
train_935 | 0pending | 7107d3d7-3e3d-4e5c-a6bd-e354e596f2aa | This picture seemed way to slanted, it's almost as bad as the drum beating of the right wing kooks who say everything is rosy in Iraq. It paints a picture so unredeemable that I can't help but wonder about it's legitimacy and bias. Also it seemed to meander from being about the murderous carnage of our troops to the la... | [] | [] | [] |
train_936 | 0pending | 8bb77cc0-f5cd-47ab-9ff0-894640c91ad1 | When Marlene Dietrich was labeled box office poison in 1938 one of a handful of actresses so named by the trades papers, it was films like The Garden Of Allah. How a film could be so breathtakingly beautiful to behold and be so insipidly dull is beyond me. Also how Marlene if she was trying to expand her range and not ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_937 | 0pending | 01989cb3-47c7-4345-80bd-0561e0873602 | The real star of this ridiculous story is glorious technicolor. A visual treat to the eye, the film fails to stimulate the mind and heart. I was intrigued, at first, by the idea of Dietrich and Boyer leaving religion in order to "find" their capacity for love. What follows is a huge disappointment. Boyer is the only re... | [] | [] | [] |
train_938 | 0pending | 812cc757-c2df-46d9-93c1-1d8ad8adcd25 | As a great admirer of Marlene Dietrich, I had to (finally) watch this very, very dull picture. It is Miss Dietrich's first color film, and the world's most beautiful blond is a redhead! Bad start. The story is a tremendous bore, involving a subject which itself bores bores me stiff: religious guilt. (Who needs it???) S... | [] | [] | [] |
train_939 | 0pending | e362f5c1-de85-4e89-967e-64cf7982a66e | My first full Heston movie. The movie that everyone already knows the ending to. A "Sci Fi Thriller". The campy factor. Everything that goes with this movie was injected in my head when I rented it, and on the morning that I watched it, it was the perfect movie to watch in the mood that I was in (Not wanting to move. P... | [] | [] | [] |
train_940 | 0pending | 6c6265aa-5945-4e74-943a-c30c6527aa6d | Anyone who has a remote interest in science fiction should start at the basics. Everyone says STAR WARS and STAR TREK are the best science fiction films to begin at, which is fine but the truth is THE TERMINATOR and this movie, SOYLENT GREEN, are far better choices than those series. SOYLENT is probably science fiction... | [] | [] | [] |
train_941 | 0pending | 8bd6a432-e204-46d5-b73c-730d7276463a | I watched this movie recently together with my sister who likes the performances of Sophia Loren. I'm a person who they call a Cultural Barbarian. I hate art in any kind of shape or form. Rambo is more my kind of movie, action, kills, blood, horror. If you recognize yourself in this avoid this movie like the plague. No... | [] | [] | [] |
train_942 | 0pending | ab4999d1-4769-480b-83e5-8b85b5bac16a | "Fever Pitch" isn't a bad film; it's a terrible film.<br /><br />Is it possible American movie audiences and critics are so numbed and lobotomized by the excrement that Hollywood churns out that they'll praise to the skies even a mediocre film with barely any laughs? That's the only reason I can think of why this horri... | [] | [] | [] |
train_943 | 0pending | ef761073-58aa-444a-9ec2-03133bc2e4ee | I am generally more willing to be open minded about rom coms than many, but this was simply not a very good attempt. Its got nothing to do with comparisons with the British original -- have not seen, and doubt I will. It has a whole lot to do with a meandering plot, lack of chemistry between the leads and a godawful pe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_944 | 0pending | b1fd8ecc-6062-47dc-b6f4-bd89cc86df13 | I saw this director's "Woman On The Beach" and could not understand the good to great reviews. This film is much like that one, two people who are caught in a relationship with very little dynamic and even less interest to anyone else. Like his other films, you have to want to listen to vacuous dialog, wade through ver... | [] | [] | [] |
train_945 | 0pending | 1bc13876-5206-41f0-9fb4-cb9d5a65fa3f | This movie sounded like it might be entertaining and interesting from its description. But to me it was a bit of a let down. Very slow and hard to follow and see what was happening. It was as if the filmmaker took individual pieces of film and threw them in the air and had them spliced together whichever way they lande... | [] | [] | [] |
train_946 | 0pending | ec5fd48d-c64d-40eb-b17e-6e634af41923 | This typically melodramatic Bollywood film has inexplicably become a favorite of Western critics. The script is ludicrous, the acting is over-the-top, and it looks cheesy. The only reasons for watching this soap opera are the wonderful songs sung by Mangeshkar and the curtain call of the legendary Meena Kumari. Watchin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_947 | 0pending | 57468537-ce36-41ad-bf8b-ceead8dda5e5 | This was a disappointing horror film about a snotty young girl and her nightmares. For a horror or "thriller" film and hype, it's way too tame. There are only a few tense moments in here, not anywhere as near as many as should have been for a film of this genre. Even those "tense" scenes weren't much. The music made th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_948 | 0pending | 67fbf8f7-e048-48ff-941f-b3ca7be96619 | After reading some very good reviews about this film I thought I would give it a watch and after being very disappointed with the film I thought I would give it my own review. This is my first ever so bare with me.<br /><br />First of all I would scratch horror from the genre as in no way is it horrific or scary in the... | [] | [] | [] |
train_949 | 0pending | 89b4fdb4-0feb-4519-9dce-7b5c540c4e09 | normally i'm not the sort to be scared by horror movies, but this movie is the exception. some how this movie got into my mind!!! it is a very simple movie but at the same time extremelly effective, it has great atmosphere and this leads to some shocking moments, the girls father coming down the hill is a real standout... | [] | [] | [] |
train_950 | 0pending | e590d3e6-a94b-4727-aa61-cacb09a87165 | I was rooting for this film as it's a remake of a 1970s children's TV series "Escape into Night" which, though chaotic and stilted at times was definitely odd, fascinating and disturbing. The acting in "Paperhouse" is wooden, unintentionally a joke. The overdubs didn't add tension they only reinforced that I was sat wa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_951 | 0pending | c35fd3f5-7da0-4687-81c0-97a503121106 | An intriguing premise of hand-drawn fantasy come to life in a child's fever dreams. However, I imagine the average nonfictional child is far more adept at scaring themselves than Bernard Rose is at riveting the viewer. The duel between Anna's two realities drags on far too long to sustain interest, especially consideri... | [] | [] | [] |
train_952 | 0pending | e671e76c-de1b-4690-beab-4e118a73807c | In 1988, Paperhouse was hailed as a "thinking man's horror film." Wow, you might say, sign me up. This thing is a mess. It features a one time young actress who has a range of like 1 to 2. G. Headley with a bad British (dubbed) accent, and a story with no chills, thrills or spills.<br /><br />It isn't even interesting ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_953 | 0pending | d20933bb-3858-4ad5-802e-17f6aa8adfd3 | Films starring child actors put themselves on the back foot from the very beginning. While there are some exceptions, the majority of kids just cant act and even the ones that can normally become annoying after a few minutes. The kids in Paperhouse have managed to capture the worst of both worlds, as they're both very ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_954 | 0pending | 7fe9678e-0428-4924-9902-d4bd594eb1c7 | First I liked that movie. It seemed to me a nice comedy with some silly moments. The costume designer Albert Wolsky did his best!!! The same as wonderful set decorator Robert R. Benton - this man really had a very good taste!!! But the script writers disappointed me extremely. The best ending would be the scene on the ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_955 | 0pending | 31abcc77-0342-4411-9138-0d6cb08be20f | Predictable plot. Simple dialogue. Shockingly unemotional performances. But Robert Downey, Jr. is so cute, I gave this "poor man's afternoon special" a 3 instead of the 1 or 2 it so richly deserved. | [] | [] | [] |
train_956 | 0pending | 16f30185-c258-400c-b802-abc1e6546ec2 | 'Chances Are' a big mistake to see. You could know director Emile Ardolino from 'Dirty Dancing' and 'Sister Act' and should expect something amusing from him. But I guess I have to disillusion you. He made a really, really bad movie.<br /><br />According to the story Christopher McDonald dies to reburn as a baby. The b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_957 | 0pending | a241611c-19ba-4209-a1f0-906ca97830c9 | Chances are if I watched this again I might get physically sick, the film is so annoying.....unless you believe in psychics, re-incarnation and the other hocus- pocus which this promotes big-time. The "re-cycling of souls," they call it here. Puh-leeze.<br /><br />This story has been done several times before with such... | [] | [] | [] |
train_958 | 0pending | 3b13ac6e-d015-4bff-a462-b75ee8520e0c | Silly, simplistic, and short, GUN CRAZY (VOLUME 1: A WOMAN FROM NOWHERE) goes nowhere.<br /><br />This brief (just over sixty minutes) tale isn't so much inspired by the classic spaghetti Westerns as it is a rip-off of Sam Raimi's THE QUICK & THE DEAD (his admitted homage to the spaghetti Westerns) brought into a conte... | [] | [] | [] |
train_959 | 0pending | de11abd6-1489-4421-8a2f-5191747e7869 | Oh dear. I was so disappointed that this movie was just a rip-off of Japan's Ringu. Well, I guess the U.S. made their version of it as well, but at least it was an outright remake. So, so sad. I very much enjoy watching Filipino movies and know some great things can come out of such a little country, so I can't believe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_960 | 0pending | 23ac6cff-a9a4-4b3a-886b-c4f37b0b1a7c | i would have given this movie a 1 out of 10 if it weren't for ms. Claudine Barretto's performance. and i will take this time to overlook that Kris Aquino's here. and... end.<br /><br />i really AVOID watching Pinoy horror movies because stories lack originality and i really think that (some) writers don't give enough a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_961 | 0pending | 5d90afbb-4840-4df6-ad2a-5fdfce7c8eaf | How did this become a blockbuster? Dear God I don't know where to start why this movie sucked too much. The movie was predictable & there was no originality. The only thing I can admire is the acting of some characters. The movie was too bright, they should have done something with the lighting, eg. making the environm... | [] | [] | [] |
train_962 | 0pending | 84c22d0e-4cf8-4a4b-b30c-d1e81376b496 | So, I got a hold of this as an assignment for Trent Harris, who teaches occasionally in the film dept at the U of U. I guess this is his only real way to get anyone to see his film...<br /><br />The documentary section at the beginning dragged on. Yes, the kid is a nut-job from no where, but that's not good enough to k... | [] | [] | [] |
train_963 | 0pending | a1e16411-2afc-4973-a0ea-0fd79f5276b0 | It's amazing that this movie turns out to be in one of my hitlists after all. It is by far the number 1 worst movie I have ever seen.<br /><br />Not only have I ever been this bored before (luckily not for more then 1,5 hours), the pre-adolescent attempts at humor that feature it are not even close to getting but one o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_964 | 0pending | 8436c8bd-3efb-4de4-9d31-56a00ec9d8bb | I don't think any player in Hollywood history lasted as long as David Niven did given most of the weak films he had to carry by dint of his incredible charm. He could act, got an Oscar for it, but most of the material he did was as light as one ply of two ply tissue paper.<br /><br />Happy Go Lovely is a case in point.... | [] | [] | [] |
train_965 | 0pending | 95ee41bf-8545-420c-a38c-6f45e077efdb | The oddly-named Vera-Ellen was to movie dancing what Sonja Henie was to movie ice-skating: blonde, girlish, always delightful to watch, but not an especially good actress and usually lumbered with weak material. When I watch Vera-Ellen's sexy apache dance with Gene Kelly in 'Words and Music', I can't help noticing that... | [] | [] | [] |
train_966 | 0pending | 9d8c738c-9b61-403d-b21c-0ce1144376aa | "Happy Go Lovely" has only two things going for it. And those two things are Vera-Ellen's legs. This is a British (Excelsior Films) version of an M-G-M musical complete with second tier stars. I would imagine that Vera-Ellen took this role thinking that it might finally propel her to the status of a major musical star.... | [] | [] | [] |
train_967 | 0pending | 993e8d01-ca8e-4dbd-921f-ba4c15732a38 | Happy Go Lovely is a waste of everybody's time and talent including the audience. The lightness of the old-hat mistaken identity and faux scandal plot lines is eminently forgivable. Very few people watched these movies for their plots. But, they usually had some interesting minor characters involved in subplots -- not ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_968 | 0pending | 91184132-b8b7-485c-9710-e40c71d2b211 | *** May contain spoilers. *** <br /><br />If LIVING ON TOKYO TIME were some bold experiment where real-life wanna-be actors were given film parts on the condition that they would be required to take a combination of powerful prescription anti-anxiety, anti-depression, and anti-psychotic medications (this is the classic... | [] | [] | [] |
train_969 | 0pending | 66fde810-0649-4f53-8ae4-f0c2f4a1e85e | I caught this film on AZN on cable. It sounded like it would be a good film, a Japanese "Green Card". I can't say I've ever disliked an Asian film, quite the contrary. Some of the most incredible horror films of all time are Japanese and Korean, and I am a HUGE fan of John Woo's Hong Kong films. I an not adverse to a l... | [] | [] | [] |
train_970 | 0pending | 9dff6f7a-0b98-4b29-902f-dfaf25660e27 | I have never understood the appeal of this show. The acting is poor (Debra Jo Rupp being a notable exception), the plots of most episodes are trite and uninspiring, the dialogue is weak, the jokes unfunny and it is painful to try and sit through even half an episode. Furthermore the link between this show and the '70s'... | [] | [] | [] |
train_971 | 0pending | 57169571-a602-4d4b-8d12-f8f1d9343dd8 | I've tried to watch this show several times, but for a show called "That '70s Show," I don't find much apart from a few haircuts and the occasional reference to disco that actually evokes the '70s -- the decade in which I grew up. Of the episodes I have seen, most of the plots and jokes could be set in any time period.... | [] | [] | [] |
train_972 | 0pending | e08e73af-a841-45ab-b11b-dd26aa730f34 | As someone who lived through,and still remembers that decade vividly,if the actual '70s had been half this funny and (semi)normal,they would have been so much more enjoyable.Actual kids in that era did not act or behave anything close to as bright-eyed and normal as these kids did.The country's youth was still under th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_973 | 0pending | 931c7a25-7f5d-4790-b6ea-4bc9253839d4 | Why is this show so popular? It's beyond me why people like it. I think it's one of the worst sitcoms out there. <br /><br />Because it's so popular, I've tried more than once to watch it and I can't make it through an entire episode.<br /><br />For one thing, the acting is horrible. Everybody is overacting to the poin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_974 | 0pending | 22c44bad-a5a6-47ca-bac3-fb36a090946f | The Invisible Maniac starts as a young Kevin Dornwinkle (Kris Russell) is caught by his strict mother (Marilyn Adams) watching a girl (Tracy Walker) strip through his telescope... Cut to 'Twenty Years Later' & Kevin Dornwinkle (Noel Peters) is now a physics professor who claims to have discovered a way to turn things i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_975 | 0pending | c1a56275-0791-4e7d-9db2-a44f057c7965 | Take one look at the cover of this movie, and you know right away that you are not about to watch a landmark film. This is cheese filmmaking in every respect, but it does have its moments. Despite the look of utter trash that the movie gives, the story is actually interesting at some points, although it is undeniably p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_976 | 0pending | a4bff1d7-7ffe-48b7-aee8-9b4d6a3b9699 | Here's an interesting little movie that strictly gives the phrase "low budget" a horrible name. Our physics teacher who has about nine kids creates a strange serum that causes "molecular reorganization". Students are hopelessly killed from fake coincidences of submarine sandwiches and flying school supplies. Sounds lik... | [] | [] | [] |
train_977 | 0pending | 406d7cbf-e506-4a65-88da-d4aea2ba4036 | Saw this late one night on cable. At the time I didn't know that the girl billed as "Shannon Wilsey" was actually porn star Savannah, but she was so beautiful (and got naked so often, thank God) that I actually sat through this brain-rotting drivel. I like cheesy flicks as much as the next guy--more than the next guy, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_978 | 0pending | 2fd0080a-0623-4ef3-8333-6ac834572086 | This movie is just plain bad. It isn't even worth watching to make fun of it. The lunatic professor is just plain annoying. Even suspending disbelief to allow for invisibility (which I glady do for the sake of good bad movies) and allowing for exceedingly stupid victims in a horror movie, this movie asks for even more ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_979 | 0pending | e00f9991-a58d-4f3c-a49e-3c81b510ac25 | Okay guys, we know why we watch film like "The Invisible Maniac" (just look at the cover, man!). T and A all over the place (with a lot more T than A). But...shouldn't there be a story to go with it?<br /><br />"C'mon," I can hear you say - "this is just girls gettin' naked! Who needs a story??!"<br /><br />Well, if th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_980 | 0pending | fc4ef435-f77e-4617-b03d-0af255e0fa28 | I loved the Batman tv series and was really looking forward to this. But they tried to do too much.<br /><br />Why they had the story of Adam West and Burt Ward trying to recover the batmobile was beyond me. I don't want to knock Burt or Adam for the way they look now.....It's been 35 years since they appeared at Batma... | [] | [] | [] |
train_981 | 0pending | db561e08-0470-481b-bacb-80ecca48d6a2 | I may not be the one to review this movie because after 45 minutes of pure boredom and stupidity I turned the channel. The original series only lasted 2 years which can be said about the careers for Adam West and Burt Ward. Put these two "actors" in a stupid movie and the result is twice as bad. | [] | [] | [] |
train_982 | 0pending | a4709b91-26fd-406f-b1a0-b6fc09c95b2b | How sheep-like the movie going public so often proves to be. As soon as a few critics say something new is good (ie - "Shake-Cam"), everyone jumps on the bandwagon, as if they are devoid of independent thought. This was not a good movie, it was a dreadful movie. 1) Plot? - What plot? Bourne was chased from here to ther... | [] | [] | [] |
train_983 | 0pending | c896d139-2ece-4c6c-aefc-37beadd9a4fa | I don't understand people. Why is it that this movie is getting an 8.3!!!!!!???? I had high hopes for this movie, but once i was about a half hour into it I just wanted to leave the theater. In the vast majority of the reviews on this site people are saying that this is one of the best action movies they've seen (or of... | [] | [] | [] |
train_984 | 0pending | 9bacb962-c0d4-4b65-964e-4469e67038cc | Users who have rated this movie so highly simply can't have seen enough good films to compare it with. Have they all been brainwashed?? I have rarely felt so disappointed by a film and some of that must be attributable to the ridiculous hype surrounding this movie.<br /><br />From the first, BU is just a chase film. We... | [] | [] | [] |
train_985 | 0pending | d73f2ffa-881a-418b-b52b-213d10569cc6 | Macy, Ullman and Sutherland were as great as usual. Ritter wasn't bad either. What's her name was as pretty as usual. It could have been a good movie. To bad the plot was atrocious. It was completely predictable, trite and boring.<br /><br />From the first 15 minutes, the rest of the movie was laid out like a child's p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_986 | 0pending | ee6c7928-b76b-431b-b3f5-7af343c9fae0 | Undeveloped/unbelievable story line,(by the time I sort of figured out where it was going, I no longer cared) bad casting.(come on... William Macy as a hit man???) bad directing,(have you ever seen Tracey Ullman perform SO badly?)(Was I supposed to care what happened to the unethical incompetent, uncaring John Ritter c... | [] | [] | [] |
train_987 | 0pending | 028a1c60-7ad8-4ea5-8069-67ffb56f29ed | I watched this movie, and hoped for something to get better the entire time. What is so great about a guy with no emotion? *yawn*<br /><br />You never see Alex show emotion for anyone other than his son. Yeah, I know that this is why his son is the only one to cause him to lose his temper (if you can call it that), I g... | [] | [] | [] |
train_988 | 0pending | 62a5d3ca-405d-457b-8b36-b5a34c58e0d2 | I cannot believe this woodenly written and directed piece of cliche film got made. There are about four good looking shots (the director should think about switching to still photography) and that's it. A strong cast is utterly wasted, scenes repeatedly end at the least interesting moments and the script says nothing n... | [] | [] | [] |
train_989 | 0pending | d3e2b7f6-ede7-4fb4-be07-d049d57b8134 | Some kids are hiking in the mountains, and one of them goes into a large tunnel and discovers some old mummified gladiator. He puts on the gladiator's helmet and spends the rest of the movie killing all the other hikers.<br /><br />This thing is just so utterly senseless it's maddening. Here's a short list of things th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_990 | 0pending | 046ff639-9627-4500-a36b-4e7e52ebcf6f | My wife and I like to rent really stupid horror/sci-fi movies and watch them with our friends for a laugh. We saw this one on fullmoondirect.com and decided to add it to our netflix list. Now, when I say this movie is awful, I mean it in a good way. Everything about it, the acting, camera-work, story, costumes, is just... | [] | [] | [] |
train_991 | 0pending | 2d5f2946-040f-4b47-86a7-dd7e64e09062 | This movie is so awful, it is hard to find the right words to describe it!<br /><br />At first the story is so ridiculous.A narrow-minded human can write a better plot! The actors are boring and untalented, perhaps they were compelled to play in this cheesy Film.<br /><br />The camera receptions of the National Forest ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_992 | 0pending | 028ccbe4-e8e8-4f79-b17f-75c4553a07ae | I mean really, how could Charles Band the head of Full Moon let a total stink-ball like DEMONICUS out. I mean it should never got the green light to begin with. The story is repetitive, the characters are weak at best, there is no real story on Tyranus other then he's a bad dude. Then they writer or director goes out h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_993 | 0pending | 2bb9f173-1e83-4aff-af7d-b6a045696d9d | This movie is about Tyrannus, a gladiator who is brought back from the dead to summon Tyrannus, a gladiator who must be brought back from the dead. Tyrannus, we learn after about an hour, is also called Demonicus. This adds much needed depth to the screenplay and calls into question our assumptions about identity, psyc... | [] | [] | [] |
train_994 | 0pending | 108b7ca1-2a38-4e77-a745-c2cba7a025db | okay, this movie f*ck in' rules. it is without question one of the most technically inept pieces of cinema ever made. absolutely terrible, but you GOTTA see it. rent this with your buddies and come up with a drinking game or just have fun, it's hilarious. and the behind-the-scenes featurette proves it, you can do anyth... | [] | [] | [] |
train_995 | 0pending | 326abdaa-ddef-4ec8-8740-a8c0ed599983 | WARNING SPOILERS***** A really stupid movie about a group of young excursionists in Italy that find an armor of mythical warrior with a demonic souls. One of them wears it and becomes possessed by the spirit of a demon. It's killing time and several of his friends die under his blade to revive the demon corpse.<br /><b... | [] | [] | [] |
train_996 | 0pending | 2cae7075-140f-4cef-86a2-d73d25de6dce | For some reason, various young couples hiking through the Italian Alps split up to see who can reach their campsite designation first. James (Gregory Lee Kenyon) enters a cave, finds a skeleton of an ancient demonic gladiator and becomes possessed by the spirit of "Tyranus" when he puts on a helmet belonging to the cor... | [] | [] | [] |
train_997 | 0pending | a8bec104-0705-4737-b793-6aafccc7ef90 | This film is exactly what you get when you really over stretch your abilities, it's like someone who has just passed there driving test and then pitting them in a formula 1 Grand Prix (not I might add, the US Grand Prix as everyone might pull out due to dodgy tyres and you might just win), that is how far short this fi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_998 | 0pending | e8b19474-ac3a-402d-ad50-a0e86d7990f1 | I rented this one to see Vanesa Talor one more time. She can act, but doesn't get a chance in this clunker. The opening sequence is an elaborate crane shot of mountain landscapes. Must have come from a stock archive, because the movie is shot direct to videotape. The production values make _Blair Witch_ look profession... | [] | [] | [] |
train_999 | 0pending | ee4d3de1-8b33-4736-87b9-a1d7280e6b67 | Seriously. I just wrapped up my first viewing of Demonicus and words have failed me.<br /><br />I remember a time when I would see Charles Band's name on a film and my heart would race. He was never a Wes Craven or a John Carpenter. He was a bastion of hope for the little man. The guy whose movies arrived at the video ... | [] | [] | [] |
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