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train_9100 | 0pending | 7fe5bc72-4ea5-4473-bb6b-cf4e0328e7fa | Many people like to point to this TV movie when arguing with the vast legions of Hanks-philes out there that Tom did in fact make crappy films (I think "Bachelor Party" was great, but that's another story). The movie focuses on a "Dungeons and Dragons-style game" that eventually drives our young Gump to hallucinatory m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9101 | 0pending | ea5433b5-f731-4141-9c1c-9d323dc542b8 | I own this movie. Not by choice, I do. I was really bored the other day and the box intrigued me. So i popped it in the old VCR and spent the next hour and a half of my life crying "why God why?". The story-line was not that bad, as an gamer I could appreciate bits of it. I think that maybe if you're into super geeky-c... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9102 | 0pending | 680f448e-1da9-435c-9c0d-5b5a274606d3 | This is the movie that epitomizes the D&D fear of the 80s (and even today). The fear being that people who play D&D (or any other role-playing game for that matter) will be "sucked in" and lose their ability to distinguish reality from fantasy (and go on killing sprees, child sacrifices, suicide, etc). Great movie for ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9103 | 0pending | 5643ca03-2779-4e83-9030-ac8d88b6afdb | One wonders how the script came to be written.<br /><br />Wayne and the other performers do an OK job but as it is neither comedy, romantic thriller or anything else it is all rather disappointing.<br /><br />One feels as if one of the threads had been pursued it could have been something worthwhile. It is nonetheless ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9104 | 0pending | a4afff6f-4b3e-47e5-af30-f163fa5d3f29 | Lynn Hollister, a small-town lawyer, travels to the nearby big city on business connected with the death of his friend Johnny. (Yes, Lynn is a man despite the feminine-sounding Christian name. Were the scriptwriters trying to make a snide reference to the fact that John Wayne's birth name was "Marion"?) Hollister at fi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9105 | 0pending | 0473ebe9-2d22-43f4-907b-e28ad603bf26 | There are people out there who will greenlight anything! That is the only explanation I can offer as to why the House of the Dead movie exists. And that's only scary part to the whole movie. It's so bad you'll go off movies forever. I seriously wanted to switch this off and turn the TV over to the Paint Drying channel ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9106 | 0pending | 782ae7b1-eb3f-49de-a2a6-b942e2afbcd3 | There are some movies you just know they are going to be bad from frame one. Even if you were totally oblivious of Ed Wood's work, one look at that commentator from "Plan 9 from outer space" and you just KNOW you are not gonna see the next cinematic masterpiece. Just like that, when I saw the first shot of Uwe Bolls ma... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9107 | 0pending | 71f81c66-87dc-4824-8a40-cd1cf4c1c056 | This is one of the worst films I've seen. The only positive thing I can say is it was so bad that is seemed comical. First off, there's no plot. The actors appear to be reading off cue cards and do the dumbest things. Such as being chased by dead people but yet wanting to go out and look for their friends. Also the zom... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9108 | 0pending | be22afe4-6031-4339-9a89-4bcb120051a9 | Laid up and drugged out, as a kidney stone wended its merry way through my scarred urinary tract, with absolutely nothing better to do than let the painkillers swoon me into semi-oblivion, I happened to catch this movie on cable. I wouldn't want anyone to think that I paid to view it in a cinema, or rented it, or hea... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9109 | 0pending | 717d84d2-de27-4852-a727-306c2470a7d3 | Ok, first of all, I am a huge zombie movie fan. I loved all of Romero's flicks and thoroughly enjoyed the re-make of Dawn of the Dead. So when I had heard every single critic railing this movie I was still optimistic. I mean, critics hated Resident Evil, and while it may not be a particularly great film, I enjoyed it i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9110 | 0pending | dbeafd2b-bd7d-4e7d-b9d4-4e7b034e74a7 | Okay, so I'm not a big video game buff, but was the game House of the Dead really famous enough to make a movie from? Sure, they went as far as to actually put in quick video game clips throughout the movie, as though justifying any particular scene of violence, but there are dozens and dozens of games that look exactl... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9111 | 0pending | 762bf989-a302-4abd-960b-4e62524109d3 | I found this movie in the 'horror' section of my video store. That seems to make sense as most zombie movies have their place there. From Romero's 'Dead' trilogy to '28 days later.' However upon watching it, you can quickly see what this movie really is.<br /><br />It is actually a music video that goes progressively f... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9112 | 0pending | 9e94f739-6fb0-4acd-a406-684f9905528c | Well, I had to sit down at the computer and write down the review immediately after watching this puddle of ooze. Why? Because I have to let it be known to all of you just how bad this movie is. It's unbelievably bad. Just to let you in on how bad it is, I'll offer this little detail about the movie. During scenes of m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9113 | 0pending | 584f1338-7a47-4bfd-8d31-0827c704bf78 | This is by far THE WORST movie i have ever watched. I've seen some pretty awful movies in my time but this ones takes the cake, no, wait, i mean the the whole damn bakery. It is so bad that i believe a word to describe the way you will feel after watching this atrocity has yet to be created. Please just do yourself a f... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9114 | 0pending | 3323cd3a-2a98-4e46-b2d4-a302dac6aa65 | This movie has received a lot of bad press from people who don't understand what it was meant to be. One must understand that this movie was never meant to be taken seriously. It's camp, along the same lines as "Army of Darkness." AoD was silly, but funny and bad in a good way. "House of the Dead" fails to be "good bad... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9115 | 0pending | d72cf4a8-4d7b-4d4a-a24c-898e4efec18e | This is the only film I've seen that is made by Uwe Boll, I knew that he is probably the worst director ever who always makes films based on video games also that "House of the Dead" is one of IMDb bottom 100. But I still wanted to watch it because I'm a huge fan of the game and I wanted to see what doe's the film have... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9116 | 0pending | fc805442-f8f7-4584-abca-1cb70ce9e51f | I have watched some pretty poor films in the past, but what the hell were they thinking of when they made this movie. Had the production crew turned into zombies when they came up with the idea of making it, because you sure have to be brain dead to find any enjoyment in it.<br /><br />I am a fan of most genres and enj... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9117 | 0pending | 24ed63ed-f651-45fb-bedd-9b553f03983f | You know that feeling of hilarity you get when you watch a film that's trying so hard to be a serious, thought provoking piece of cinema and fails miserably? When you can't help but bust out laughing at the sheer terrible nature of the trash littering your screen? "House of the Dead" struggles to achieve even this low ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9118 | 0pending | 7f828949-5f26-4047-ab87-c032a5d30598 | WOW! i didn't know that someone would make this movie! its awful! I have written down 5 things that can tell why u do not want to see this movie.<br /><br />number 1: "its the biggest rave ever" where is the that rave? i could only see a few people dancing around.. <br /><br />2. when they are on the rave,they can ONLY... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9119 | 0pending | 66e9c731-6ad5-450d-9508-85c1092df1a7 | F*ck Me! I've seen some incredibly horrific movies in my time but this takes the p*ss!<br /><br />Honestly I can't express in words how bad this film actually is. Besides the plot that isn't really there, the comically crap acting, the hilariously dreadful excuses for zombies; You know what, I could go on all day. Ever... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9120 | 0pending | 543ad2a5-2bd9-42a1-baa1-d1ffcea9d6bb | If there were a movie that deserved a 0 out of 10, this would be it. 'House of the Dead' redefines the term "bad movie". Other bad movies, such as 'When A Stranger Calls' or 'Premonition', will actually look much better when compared to 'House of the Dead'. The basic "plot" of House of the Dead is a group of twenty-som... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9121 | 0pending | e5601b4a-a02c-4069-99e0-80c0659884b6 | Just like everybody else have said, the acting is awful, no story or whatsoever, poor directing. About the SFX, the 360 degree, matrix style shooting, 1 shoot is stupid enough, but for each characters. I mean come on gimme a break. And what's up with all those video game scenes, just to remind us it's a "video game ada... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9122 | 0pending | 4568a37a-c5ff-4593-a1bc-8d07c22c8d2a | I usually try to be professional and constructive when I criticize movies, but my GOD!!! This was THE worst movie I have ever seen. Bad acting, bad effects, bad script, bad everything! <br /><br />The plot follows a group of teen cliche's on their way to a rave (that takes place in broad daylight) at a remote island. H... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9123 | 0pending | c347dd7f-dea3-4333-a454-b1be298588fe | Okay, let me start off by saying that nothing in this will come as a surprise to anyone who's read the other comments. That being said, MY G-D, THIS MOVIE REEKED! I mean, WOW, I didn't know it was possible to throw as much money as they obviously did at something and still come out worse than ANY Roger Corman movie! Co... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9124 | 0pending | 1c88b698-21a4-4ee1-9faa-5aba2575c81f | It is cheese. If all you want is a video game, complete with what look like straight-from-the-computer cutaway sequences for action the film was too cheap to actually make special effects for, this is it. My friend and I actually had a great time seeing it, since the theatre was mostly empty and we could heckle a bit. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9125 | 0pending | 94618ea4-d95f-40d5-9792-dac1778894de | The thing about calling "House of the Dead" the worst movie of all time is that it's really not. There are worse movies out there. I watch alot of Hong Kong ninja movies that are basically the result of an unfinished Japanese police drama having footage of ninjas inserted at the end to create something that could techn... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9126 | 0pending | 5e92c108-484e-4e2f-8d5d-b0ff5ffb4ef3 | The House of the Dead was the worst movie I have ever seen, between the pathetic 'matrix' 360 camera angle attemps and the cheesy acting I fell asleep. I don't think that the director and set manager could decide whether it was raining or not, because there would be rain on one side of the boat and not the other. I wou... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9127 | 0pending | d792ced9-df00-49d8-a292-80d49f82ff66 | You know you're in trouble when the opening narration basically tells you who survives. It all goes downhill from there. Unnecessary, "Matrix"-influenced bullet-time camera work. Pointless cuts to video game footage. Crusty old sea captains and wacky seamen. Ravers who become skilled combatants in the blink of an eye. ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9128 | 0pending | 576be344-abdb-4659-9d2b-86acf87d562c | This is about the worst movie I have ever seen. This movie does match the quality of such movies as "THEY" & "Cabin Fever", but even those had name actors where this one fell short. The "eye candy" of this movie looked to be a 50 woman with a bad face lift. (just an example of the quality). I would have rated this movi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9129 | 0pending | 4b5645c4-143b-4200-a748-d183710f8881 | I usually like zombie movies, but this one was just plain bad.<br /><br />The good parts: Girl swimming topless with thong bottoms, Sonya Salomaa's topless, and Ona Grauer's boobs jiggling in a skimpy top when she ran.<br /><br />The bad part: too much video cuts, too much Matrix slow motion (it drags the action), not ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9130 | 0pending | f50b8068-7ae6-4f74-b6e9-1659c26c537c | I have never seen a worse movie.<br /><br />It is possible to take a shootem up video game and make it into a decent movie.<br /><br />Mistake 1: absolutely no connection to any of the characters. In this movie you don't bond with any of the characters because... you don't get a chance.<br /><br />The only character th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9131 | 0pending | 758ce71c-1e54-463c-82c3-e3b7fc7dcfa0 | When I go to see a movie about zombie's, I'm not expecting oscar calibre performances, or writing on the level of The Godfather, but I do expect the actors to at least not look like their straining to read their cue cards, and dialogue that doesn't sound like it was typed out 10 minutes before the actor reads it into t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9132 | 0pending | d3915b64-da71-4fb6-8823-a68a00bd061b | What can I say? I ignored the reviews and went to see it myself. Damn the reviews were so right. What a waste of money considering it's budget.<br /><br />Good thing, I went to see Kill Bill after this one.<br /><br />To see a really scary movie, would be Crossroads!<br /><br />Bottom line-- I like "Girl in Gold Boots"... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9133 | 0pending | d5f9e0c0-7dce-4a28-a48c-b14f7daaacf3 | The question, when one sees a movie this bad, is not necessarily, "How did a movie this bad get made?" or even, "Why did I see this awful in the first place?" but, "What have I learned from this experience?" Here's what I learned:<br /><br />- Just because the "rules" of horror movies have been catalogued and satirized... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9134 | 0pending | 5abc53b7-e584-4b3b-a7f1-b5cd484dff8f | It gets really bad. The only half-way redeeming quality is the effects from the thousands of bullets used during the film. There are context errors everywhere. The acting is horrible, save Kirk. The story is as holey as the grail, and the belief that the movie is a video game in itself just kills the movie, if it wasn'... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9135 | 0pending | 3c0a3faa-dd6c-4ede-b2d6-9929a66e0812 | Randolph Scott is leaving the USA for the greener pastures of Canada's British Columbia. He wants to start a cattle ranch there with partner Bill Williams and cook Lee Tung Foo. They stampede their small herd over a toll bridge erected by Victor Jory. Later Jory rustles their cattle and Williams loses his left arm duri... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9136 | 0pending | a974c1c0-73c0-4802-a9e4-7c45bf6957c1 | "The Leap Years" is a movie adapted from an e-novella by Singapore writer Catherine Lim, which became the first Singapore novel/novella to be sold over the internet. The film had a tortuous post-production schedule: shot in early 2005, it was slated for release at the end of 2005, but only turn up eventually 3 years la... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9137 | 0pending | 43dd136a-1b95-4e90-88cb-0cef248f0e8e | Recherche is a good word to describe this movie.<br /><br />Let's say every movie has a selling point, a gimmick. Transformers' gimmick is the awesome effects as well as fan boys nostalgia. Sleepless in Seattle's gimmick is situational in their tag-line, "What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone yo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9138 | 0pending | 6a5ad647-1b48-4b8f-817d-c67de3808f2f | There are no spoilers in this review because everything was already shown in the movie's trailer. I am trying to be balanced in my review because I strongly support local movies, but I can't help but support the backlash against this movie. It is slow, boring and bordering on pointless. Even the "almost nice and believ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9139 | 0pending | 54853224-dace-40e2-80cf-269a4a28e9ac | I must preface this by saying I am a huge romantic. Hence I really wanted to like this film. So I'm writing my thoughts to save the rest of you from the disappointment I felt watching it. The Leap Years tells the destiny-filled tale of Li-Ann who falls for the suave Jeremy and they commit to meet every leap year. A ver... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9140 | 0pending | 9f1e8cdf-2899-463a-a3f9-03084af747fc | The Leap Years stars some heavy hitters in the local and regional film and television scene. And yet, they cannot save this movie. It has so many things going against it - over acting, overly melodramatic, poor script, inconsistent direction; and too few things going for it - decent music , good cinematography. This co... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9141 | 0pending | 10d71ee3-6c57-4559-a136-c8be5cca38dc | The only reason that this movie is rated a 1 is that zero is not one of the selection options. With a plot thinner than depression era cabbage soup, horrific acting, and special effects that look like they came out of the "Thunderbirds" TV series, it is amazing that Widmark didn't kill the director for putting this bla... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9142 | 0pending | 6ec7729e-218c-42e0-81dd-b10352332b79 | ...well, pop this into the DVD, waste an hour and a half of your life that you will never get back, and find out.<br /><br />Acting? What acting? <br /><br />Production values? ...Production? ...Values?<br /><br />Story? Don't get me started.<br /><br />After many years of posting on IMDb, I never thought I would see a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9143 | 0pending | 76404900-7e06-4f82-adb3-998f0b869835 | This movie was laughably bad. A friend rented it from Netflix and made me watch it. There are so many gaffes and goofs that it's impossible to even bother getting to know the characters and the plot. How about these for example...<br /><br />The "Vermont Airport" surrounded by palm trees<br /><br />Ben's miraculously a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9144 | 0pending | ae98423a-6242-42d7-8a52-0ca8103580ef | If an auteur gives himself 2 credits before the main title and about 15 more credits before the movie starts, and the first shot shows the auteur rolling around on a bed in lycra bike shorts, it won't be a surprise to observe that said auteur has the kind of body that should never be seen in spandex. The kind of look t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9145 | 0pending | bd53f1a8-04e0-4e25-a0c7-79a29b3a8fee | Oh my GOD. I bought this movie and...I...watched...the...whole...thing. . . Okay, it's going to be alright... I'l know I'll be okay in a month or two. Some time soon I hope to be rid of the flash backs. I was going to eat something after the movie but I just can't seem to get up the courage to try and hold any food dow... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9146 | 0pending | f8750d6d-e974-4480-864e-4e545c19516c | Your first clue that this is a cheesy movie is that it was shot on video, not film. The story is convoluted, and the production is amazingly sloppy. Note, for example, that when the title couple are on a plane ostensibly landing in Vermont, where they've gone to celebrate their relationship in a civil union ceremony, t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9147 | 0pending | 9aa2c110-eabb-457b-9a0e-5fcbc7a44695 | Ben & Arthur COULD have been a 10. Sam Mraovich wrote, directed, stared, and produced this movie. Sam should have given his idea to a good writer, director, and left the acting to somebody who could act. this is a good example of one person controlling the whole production. there was nobody to tell him, "Sam this is ba... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9148 | 0pending | 60366ba4-dc4d-4e96-9d0e-94b2af1e3bda | This film was the worst film I have ever viewed. It was like a "homework assignment" for a film class. It totally misses the mark when it comes to the "message" it is TRYING to relay. Characters are over exaggerated, poor acting and as for a plot...well it is utterly ridiculous. The cover shot is what made me think it ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9149 | 0pending | 391040e0-6ca4-46f1-969c-ca022406e2b9 | THE. WORST. FILM. EVER. MADE.<br /><br />After watching this supposedly gay made film, I suspect someone rounded up a brain damaged half blind neo-nazi and had him make the worst gay film ever, all in some deluded attempt to attack gay culture. I had to stop the movie and call a friend to come over just so I had someon... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9150 | 0pending | 152e6840-9d6f-47d7-ae36-65bce97b80db | I have never posted a review before, but I had to do it for this film! This film is SO bad, I found myself trying to justify how bad it is by trying to think of it as kitsch or parody. But it ISN'T. It is truly, un-self-consciously BAD. This is a serious attempt that flops gloriously. Other reviewers have pointed out t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9151 | 0pending | 44fabe37-d530-48a5-9073-14e4d411cfca | Intrigued by the synopsis (every gay video these days has a hunk on the cover; this is not necessarily to be construed as a good sign) I purchased BEN AND ARTHUR without knowing a thing about it. This is my second (and I assure you it will be my last) purchase of a CULTURE Q CONNECTION video. As far as I am concerned, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9152 | 0pending | 1f0bdbf9-2ae8-4f75-9eeb-11e1758f2fa2 | Holy crap this movie was bad. I watched it just as a joke. It isn't even so bad that it's good in an unintentional way. This film seemed to be designed to personally make me angry. It worked really well at doing that. It's as if the people who made this just took all of the really annoying stuff about the movie PRIEST,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9153 | 0pending | 4a8745a9-636a-4f8e-bb68-12cd3d0691bd | I made the big mistake of actually watching this whole movie a few nights ago. God I'm still trying to recover. This movie does not even deserve a 1.4 average. IMDb needs to have 0 vote ratings possible for movies that really deserve it like this one. A 1.4 is TOO HIGH.<br /><br />I had heard how awful this movie was, ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9154 | 0pending | aad76ce9-817e-4b92-89b0-630355b7e7c5 | There is absolutely nothing in this movie that shows even the tiniest scrap of talent. Nobody in it has ever tried acting before, even the extras in the coffee shop look as if they've been glued in place. Nothing looks rehearsed.The film quality is terrible. Most of the 'action' takes place in narrow corridors or apart... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9155 | 0pending | bb177ae7-4a0a-4807-8afe-2ee13e819b26 | I was looking on Imdbs bottom 100 because i thought id never seen anything as bad as plan 9 from outerspace or Roller Ball remake, I was wrong. Ben and Arthur has beaten both.<br /><br />This out of the many countless amount of movies I've seen is the number one worst film on the i ever saw. Bad Directing ,Bad Characte... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9156 | 0pending | a1a3a64a-b18b-42ec-9374-c7a65b19c633 | I have no idea what on earth, or beyond, could have possibly made Sam Mraovich believe that this would have been a worthy project to undertake. Ben & Arthur is one of the worst movies ever made. In fact, I see no reason why it should not be at #1 on the Bottom 100. For although I have not seen, for example, SuperBabies... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9157 | 0pending | f33dbe3a-62a1-4795-8022-f9ad68284753 | Sam Mraovich should never be allowed to touch a camera again. If he does he should be arrested on the spot...at the very least for petty larceny. Anybody who pays even a dime to rent any of his garbage should file a claim and be compensated. This was innocently my first viewing of his "work"...and it will my last. Ed W... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9158 | 0pending | 5105e799-7a71-4684-992b-f8a3a07219a9 | Let me first state that I enjoy watching "bad" movies. It's funny how some of these films leave more of a lasting impression than the truly superb ones. This film is bad in a disturbingly malicious way. This vehicle for Sam Mraovich's delusional ego doesn't just border on talentless ineptitude, it has redefined the ver... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9159 | 0pending | 047799b6-0781-404f-9133-fc531b7cbe32 | This movie is just truly awful, the eye-candy that plays Ben just can make up for everything else that is wrong with this movie.<br /><br />The writer/director/producer/lead actor etc probably had a good idea to create a movie dealing with the important issues of gay marriage, family acceptance, religion, homophobia, h... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9160 | 0pending | 5cda2835-9cb9-4f90-9e9c-859f4664a869 | as an actor I really like independent films but this one is amateur at best.<br /><br />The boys go to Vermont for a civil service yet when the plane lands it flies over a palm tree - were the directors aware that palm trees are not in Vermont? Pines yes - palms no. And the same for the wedding service - again nice gro... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9161 | 0pending | bfe48f6b-91b4-4ab6-8b67-7de979e72c8f | Just watched this after hearing about how bad it was and wanted to see for myself. Seriously, even if you read all the negative comments on here you will be nowhere near able to comprehend how awful this film actually is, although it has to be one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen! Never bothered to post a ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9162 | 0pending | eef14848-9241-489a-b56b-b168f761a2b6 | Oh man, what was Sam Mraovich thinking? What was anyone who was involved in this "film" thinking? Mraovich is the head of nearly everything of "Ben and Arthur": Director, writer, producer (also EXECUTIVE producer!), caster, lead star- you name it, he did it. And he (Mraovich) sucks more than anyone has ever sucked in e... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9163 | 0pending | 63bb3d3a-942d-402c-9b0e-807f49125f18 | Phew--I don't what to say. This is a film that could be really good a with a bunch of stoned viewers. Some of the acting reminded me of John Waters' early offerings. Perhaps I should take that back--I don't want to insult Waters' ability as a director/storyteller.<br /><br />I particularly loved the lawyer taking about... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9164 | 0pending | 6a721f40-1b0e-4865-b500-317c241c2007 | I don't know what it is about this movie- director Sam Mraovich somehow messed up just about every little aspect in this movie. I would normally say that this is a movie that should not exist, but this movie may be the most important of all time. This movie should exist for the sole purpose of being without a doubt 'Th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9165 | 0pending | 377bfb37-5271-46a2-92bc-c8a723b33aef | Worst film ever, this is a statement that people here on IMDb often throw around. Whether it's an Uwe Boll movie, bad classics like Manos The Hands Of Fate or the latest no brains summer action fest from Michael Bay, people are often quick to jump to the sudden conclusion that on the board they're posting that there is... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9166 | 0pending | aebc2398-edce-42eb-aa49-ca57b5a91aa7 | What can I say, this is a piece of brilliant film-making that should have won an Oscar. A copy should be kept safe in a secure vault for posterity. It should be required viewing for all high school students across the world. Sam Mraovich is a genius, perhaps the most genius writer/director/producer/chef/babysitter/walm... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9167 | 0pending | ff1c4b2a-3f5a-416d-8ddc-731541eb2d0e | When the film began, I was shocked to see it was filmed using a cheap video camera! In fact, the camera shakes and looks worse than the average home movie. Even direct to DVD films should have production values better than this! Heck, a large percentage of the home videos uploaded to YouTube have better production valu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9168 | 0pending | f534dfec-85bf-44d7-b0ef-4dc3216e0cf4 | Oh, Sam Mraovich, we know you tried so hard. This is your magnum opus, a shining example to the rest of us that you are certainly worth nomination into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (as you state on your 1998-era web site). Alas, it's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and rem... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9169 | 0pending | 3d595d8e-3cf7-4e00-8112-219ff3fd055a | I tried to like this program; I really did. I even bought the pilot film, first on VHS and later on DVD. However, I couldn't get into this story because its two main characters: "David" (Bruce Willis) and "Maddie" (Cybill Shepherd) just seemed to in love with themselves, for one thing. I admit was some clever dialog in... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9170 | 0pending | fad3c967-70f7-4239-834b-7a73233c4b5b | This is strictly a review of the pilot episode as it appears on DVD.<br /><br />Television moved out of my life in 1981, so I never followed the series or any part of it - which means that I'm immune to the nostalgic charm that Moonlighting appears to have for most reviewers. <br /><br />(Possible spoiler warning) <br ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9171 | 0pending | 16fa37a2-b267-4021-bbf1-975136b9ed56 | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu starring Peter Sellers in a spoof of the characters created by Sax Rohmer is an injustice to the end of Sellers' career. The plot was very simplistic, and if done the right way could have been handled nicely, but instead it was poorly executed. Part of the reasons why this film wasn't... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9172 | 0pending | 85452c29-cf60-4a29-8d5f-6d48e9f1f28c | I can hardly believe I watched this again last night after more than 25 years...<br /><br />Some time back, I watched 6 Fu films in a row... Boris Karloff, and all 5 Chris Lees. The last 2 Lees, both directed (and I use that word loosely) by Jess Franco, were abominable. At the time, I skipped this one, remembering tha... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9173 | 0pending | e42f848c-a3e9-403c-8e07-d648e8a9e677 | It is true that some fans of Peter Sellers work may be disappointed with this, his last venture. But surely any fan of Sellers will find delight in all of his films, simply because of the man's huge talent. and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is certainly no exception. Unfortunately this would prove to be Sellers la... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9174 | 0pending | 6650cc67-9eb1-437a-9214-0af009c4aaf6 | There's no getting around it-- this movie is terrible. I've seen the old Christopher Lee/Fu Manchu movies, I'm familiar with the characters and it's serial origins, but it's still just godawful. However, Peter Sellers' genius still shines through with his portrayal of Nayland Smith, with echoes of sadness, tragedy, and... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9175 | 0pending | 823d52f4-8463-4529-91bb-7b6b247360d7 | Even if one didn't realize that Sellers was in poor health at the time of filming and passed away before the film's release, THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU would be painful viewing. It is supposedly a lampoon of Sax Rohmer's famous Oriental villain but it lacks any focus. The potential for satirical commentary on t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9176 | 0pending | c4c3aefb-5044-4a85-864d-408ab2002b58 | Ok so here's the basic plot. It is 1933, Peter Sellers is Dr Fu Manchu, a 168 year old Chinese man who has lived quite a long time. The film opens with his birthday in which he celebrates by drinking a special elixir that (even the film never mentions) prolongs his life. Well on this occasion the elixir is clumsily dro... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9177 | 0pending | ff4ed9a1-3ff5-44f5-99ad-29afb7ae366b | ....shut it off. The prologue with Fu Manchu's birthday, and the opening credits of the assassins training, is amusing. Then it drops off faster than hair sprayed with Neat. Look for a cameo by Cato in the beginning, with a figurative wink at the audience. | [] | [] | [] |
train_9178 | 0pending | 19abd5f1-9c9c-4763-af31-9502072ecd3e | It's one of the funny things about being young that one can be fooled easily by advertising. I have spoken before on another film,in which the commercial for the (comedy) film makes it seem funnier than it is. Seeing the ad for this in 1981 made me think this was going to be a wildly funny film. What I and my brother w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9179 | 0pending | 9225f0f5-59c7-45fd-b691-e249489c2e21 | This may not be the very worst movie Peter Sellers ever did (I think that laurel goes to "The Prisoner of Zenda") but it is surely the most depressing. Sellers, especially sans makeup as Nayland Smith, looks like he has just undergone chemotherapy. As Fu Manchu, he looks hardly better and spends most of the film (with ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9180 | 0pending | 95f7983e-cb55-423a-b8a0-700fe908e9c4 | I don't have much to say about this movie. It could have been a wonderful tour-de-force for Peter Sellers, but it is one of the most tragic misfires in movie history. That it was Sellers final movie makes it all the more painful.<br /><br />The terrible screenplay, direction and shockingly wooden performances all come ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9181 | 0pending | cd9cb73e-85c0-4a4e-995c-dd1ca7ec4436 | An unfunny, unworthy picture which is an undeserving end to Peter Sellers' career. It is a pity this movie was ever made. | [] | [] | [] |
train_9182 | 0pending | 2fdc07b3-8634-4a67-a636-0505aed0e5b8 | This is not an all-around terrible comedy, but it is very DULL. It has barely any laughs, and it wastes its lavish production values. There is one poignant moment near the end, when Fu Manchu offers a dose of his elixir to his "nemesis" and tells him that "You've been my one worthy adversary; and now we can start all o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9183 | 0pending | 980431dd-87ab-40e6-a154-8a9ea7e33e1f | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980). This is hands down the worst film I've ever seen. What a sad way for a great comedian to go out. | [] | [] | [] |
train_9184 | 0pending | dd3fa3a9-6f38-4a4f-b6d3-885ac7517b87 | I actually saw this movie in the theater back in it's original release. It was painful to watch Peter Sellers embarrass himself so badly. The story was incredibly lame and difficult to follow, and the ending was ridiculous. It was just sad to see how the mighty had fallen. I won't say that I'm a huge Peter Sellers fan,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9185 | 0pending | 359e1f91-6071-4d7e-a2c4-f39cccb7786c | This is, quite literally, the worst movie I have ever watched in my life. It may be the worst movie possible. Some movies are so bad that they're good; this movie is so bad that it goes past enjoyable camp and simply becomes unwatchably awful. It is the anti-enantiodromia. We bought it with the intent to heckle, and al... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9186 | 0pending | 59deb3c9-b60f-4c67-98f5-d999f554d108 | ... or maybe it just IS this bad. The plot is a cheap rehash of the first, which is weird, since it's supposed to be a prequel, not a sequel. Pretty much the entire movie seems like a cheap remake of the first, with scenes mimicking the things that happened in the first, only a lot more ridiculous and unlikely. Where t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9187 | 0pending | 4477eae3-b84f-4078-ae80-b72863d0387e | There isn't one decent scene.<br /><br />Amy Adams gives one of the worst performances of all time. Proof that you a can start anywhere. The guy playing Sebastian sucks, too. He doesn't even look much like Ryan Phillipe. More like Joshua Jackson. The two other girls are terrible, as well. <br /><br />Then the dialogue ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9188 | 0pending | ab97f163-f8db-40d2-ba1e-22e21e159ae0 | If you ask me the first one was really better one. Look at Sarah M. G., she is real, mean, cruel girl, look at Amy Adams she is just little fool hanging around. She is nothing! People don't adore her! Second, Sebastian was cute and hot in first movie, now he is "baby face". Story is not that good, and i do not understa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9189 | 0pending | f4de2b0a-fabd-4a5c-8470-088af0549c67 | Because 'cruel' would be the only word in existence to describe the intentions of these film makers. Where do you even begin? In a spout of b*tchiness, I'm going to start with the awful acting of nearly everybody in this movie. Scratch that. Nearly does not belong in that sentence. I can't think of even one character w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9190 | 0pending | 9365b473-8553-4471-9f56-44661487f822 | They had such potential for this movie and they completely fall flat. In the first Cruel Intentions, we are left wondering what motivated the lead characters to become the way they are and act the way they do. There is almost NO character development whatsoever in this prequel. It's actually a very sad story but this f... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9191 | 0pending | 7ca575c7-715a-446f-b39f-c633004eb372 | Basically, Cruel Intentions 2 is Cruel Intentions 1, again, only poorly done. The story is exactly the same as the first one (even some of the lines), with only a few exceptions. The cast is more unknown, and definitely less talented. Instead of being seductive and drawing me into watching it, I ended up feeling dirty ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9192 | 0pending | 34bf54de-cb5e-45f1-b38c-37cc0b04651c | Cruel Intentions 2 is bloody awful, I mean uber-bad. Words can not explain how bad it is, but I'll give it a go anyway.<br /><br />The plot of Cruel Intentions 2 is very similar to the first film. Sebastian (Robin Dunne), is kicked out of a private school and is forced to move to New York. There he decides to make a fr... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9193 | 0pending | b067021a-0664-4cf9-ba29-ff47009b8bcf | I watched this movie at 3'o clock in the morning, a time in the day where I am usually very open when it comes to movies. But still I think it wasn't good, this movie wasn't good at all. The reasons why are many.<br /><br />The acting isn't all that good, and time after time situations occurring in it reminded me of a ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9194 | 0pending | d9afa9c5-0047-4de0-af09-44cd0cc9606a | The first Cruel Intentions, the original, is my favorite movie of all time. It was an absolute masterpiece. So how on earth could they make a sequel so downright bad. Sarah Michelle Gellar was perfect in the first movie. In this one, Amy Adams sucks. She is terrible. And couldn't they have found a chick who actually lo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9195 | 0pending | 88e64ec2-95db-42df-99bf-34968757e4ce | This so-called prequel is just a badly made remake to to a better version of Dangerous Liasons. The plots are identical as is most of the script. I loved the book its based off of, and I loved the first movie, but I'm not even going to bother with the 3rd movie. The pointless banter between the two main characters in t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9196 | 0pending | 4d46ee06-d07a-43f7-b03c-60545807f891 | I was mad anyone made this movie. I was even more angry I lost valuable minutes of my life sitting still to watch this. I could have had a wax job and been more entertained. At least Cherri makes me laugh before it hurts. I was a bit confused at first but then I caught on and realized what was going on. By this time th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9197 | 0pending | e47cc1ae-62e0-4e46-b90c-ae5f8363321a | From the very opening scene you will notice just how hard they tried to mimic the very smart and powerful 'Cruel Intentions', and how flat it landed. You'll also notice what a terrible choice they made by casting Robin Dunne as Valmont... Then in the second scene, you meet the two best things in this movie, Amy Adams a... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9198 | 0pending | 52d3ae4a-4342-406a-8788-ee5b5d8e96b7 | What can I say about Cruel intentions 2? Well, I can say in all honesty, I will only watch this film again if I am fastened to a chair and have my eyes opened clockwork-orange-style.<br /><br />The film 'stars' Robin Dunne (No, I never heard of him either), whose awful impression of Ryan Phillipe made me cringe through... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9199 | 0pending | d1d1ff60-d869-441a-9cfa-4b4d3ded3d10 | <br /><br />When I first started watching this movie last night on Cinemax, I was shocked that it had been made. Cruel Intentions, in my opinion, was one of the best teen-oriented films made in years. This prequel had certain things incongruent with the original. (Sebastian's father married into wealth, then why does h... | [] | [] | [] |
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