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train_9800 | 0pending | 0deb85e1-7f83-44a7-85dc-6afda0e30c5d | Not the worst movie I've seen but definitely not very good either. I myself am a paintball player, used to play airball a lot and going from woods to airball is quite a large change. The movie portrays similar qualitys First of all the movie starts off with this team that apparently is trying to shoot this "Phantom" gu... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9801 | 0pending | 55351734-3d5f-4490-9f23-02aa58ac909e | This film had such promise!! What a great idea, an underdog paintball team struggling for recognition and personal glory, only to lose it's speed due to bad dialoge, poor editing and a half-written story. The characters in the beginning were interesting, only to lose steam half way through to become one dimensional peo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9802 | 0pending | 35bce630-ef28-4c0a-b405-729ec3b97d79 | I don't think I'm too far off base saying that this is possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. I've been working on a list of my favorite war movies: "The Longest Day," "To Hell and Back," "Bridge on the River Kwai," (all black and white) which all have good plots, rich characters and great acting. I've seen better di... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9803 | 0pending | 0028029e-6555-43c7-8e99-25f2340d340f | Good lord, whoever made this turkey needs to be buried alive. I'm sorry, but the other reviewer must not have seen this movie, he must be watching something else, or have never seen a movie before... 9 out of ten stars? He's saying what, this is as good as Ben Hur or Gone With the Wind? Unintentionally funny, massively... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9804 | 0pending | a7744d50-4c40-416f-ac7e-9783111cd04d | Relentlessly stupid, no-budget "war picture" made mainly to show off the attributes of the spectacular Eve Meyer--not a bad idea in itself--but that should be an embarrassment to everyone connected with it. Laughable "script", performances that wouldn't pass muster in an elementary-school Christmas pageant, inept "acti... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9805 | 0pending | 3cdd7a88-d524-45bf-9c94-35c60331c795 | I'm sure that Operations Dames was a favorite at the drive-ins back in the day. There's absolutely nothing in the way of a plot that you might miss if you were otherwise preoccupied. And if you needed to get in the mood for other activities you did have some curvaceous cuties on screen to get you in the mood.<br /><br ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9806 | 0pending | 2046468c-605e-40ee-9880-ea075b95410d | I was drawn to this movie, curious to see how they have adapted Hubert Shelby's brutal novel. I thought that a literary piece of such depth, with a rich tapestry of characters, horrid situations, and social critique could not translate into a bad movie. I was wrong.<br /><br />This flick is a terrible movie experience,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9807 | 0pending | f0c6133d-1638-437c-9410-3f8b9c248474 | I don't know much about film-making, but good movies have to tell some sort of a story...your characters have to start and complete their journey. In Last Exit to Brooklyn they may, but its not in any satisfying way, and I'm not meaning a happy ending, just ANY ending.<br /><br />Last Exit to Brooklyn, set in 1952 Broo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9808 | 0pending | 6b483e70-ca67-4d4b-9d7e-696bbbf3c181 | Fine performances and art direction do not a good movie make. This movie is so grim and depressing, I could feel absolutely no joy at the "happy" ending involving the union strike. The attempts at humor involving Lake's pregnancy are absolutely disastrous, and any movie involving a Baldwin brother already has a strike ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9809 | 0pending | 8b20c9fb-9730-48cf-8f8a-1b9b0f7236aa | Hubert Selby Jr. gave us the book "Requiem For A Dream" and co-wrote the screenplay to Aronofsky's movie of it. That movie succeeded on every level by delivering an intimate, and unbiased portrait of the horrors of the characters lives and the vices that destroyed them. "Last Exit To Brooklyn" still has the vice and th... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9810 | 0pending | 53494d99-956a-4961-a563-6c4fa761f383 | When this was released, I thought this was one of the most profane films ever made. However, thanks to Martin Scorcese and a few other filmmakers like him, there have been mainline films worse, language-wise, than this....but this is a pretty brutal assault on one's ears. Hey, I can take a lot of it, but this got ridic... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9811 | 0pending | 6a12c728-4429-49cc-8dca-a4983ab4ea58 | Just too many incidents of violence.<br /><br />The film goes from one scene to another, and in nearly every one violence erupts.<br /><br />Now I am not one who is shocked by violence, and to me a film without a fight in it has something missing. But, please, not one after another. My reaction was not shock or horror,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9812 | 0pending | e1888c61-c8a3-4881-a12a-24adec2842f2 | Welcome to Our Town, welcome to your town? As we are introduced into the worlds of its townsfolk of 1901 America, this three act play is opened before us with the help of "The Stage Manager", a visual narrator if you like. After his initial introductions, we are lead into the homes of two particular families; The Webb'... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9813 | 0pending | 4d2848ea-2980-4309-b556-e9cf1724cf04 | This is the version that even the author hated, because it's so schmaltzy. They gave it a 'happy ending' and changed a lot of the dialogue, and it's just a big pile of saccharine. The 'stage manager' is quite good, I believe he originated the role, but everyone else falls into that acting style of the 40's that is real... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9814 | 0pending | 99a1f92d-8de0-4d82-9ce0-c56455141cce | I read this Thornton Wilder play last year in eighth grade. I was also forced to sit through this weak translation of it on screen. Let me tell you, it's not a terrific play, it is easily surpassed, but man it deserves a much better shot. The acting was really lacking, the scenery-honest to God-looked like it was desig... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9815 | 0pending | 0dde3884-489b-4d15-84cc-935a5c590cd4 | When I first popped in Happy Birthday to Me, I checked the timer to see how long the film was. I was amazed at the length. Both animated and horror films share a common ground: attention span of the selected audience and that should be at or right around 90 minutes. Anything more, and you'll lose the bulk of your audie... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9816 | 0pending | 757399c2-958b-41a5-8256-b1dcf8b8deec | I think if you are into the sixties kind of thing, as I am, you are obligated to waste about 80 minutes of your life watching this barely watchable trainwreck. The saving graces of this oddity include a surprisingly apt social commentary on sixties values along with a number of relatively well known actors caught in ea... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9817 | 0pending | f56393b1-9097-4588-9b96-102b2ff92c93 | Roger Corman is undeniably one of the most versatile and unpredictable directors/producers in history. He was single-handedly responsible for some of my favorite horror films ever (like the Edgar Allen Poe adaptations "Masque of the Red Death" and "Pit and the Pendulum") as well as some insufferably cheap and tacky rub... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9818 | 0pending | 5223de55-db0c-4e75-82d0-191266acdbc1 | I don't hand out "ones" often, but if there was ever a film that deserved this sort of attention, it's "Gas!" This is self-indulgent crap that reaches for some of the ambiance of M*A*S*H and falls completely flat on its face in the attempt.<br /><br />I see what Corman was going for - Malcolm Marmorstein and Elliott Go... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9819 | 0pending | e382a697-6cd4-4d46-9c81-ed6d13998c8d | In one word... abysmal. I give it one star for the hippie sex scenes and eye candy women, otherwise forget it. Corman's worst effort, bar none. Ben Vereen should have had his name permanently stricken from the cast. I cannot believe that this is now going to be on DVD (as of 2/15/05) with "Wild In The Streets" - anothe... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9820 | 0pending | f4325ce3-55f3-49a0-a4f9-097c8f242b8a | Bestselling writer George Plimpton(Alan Alda)takes on an assignment for Sports Illustrated. He is to go incognito to the Detroit Lions training camp and try out for a position as third string Quarterback. He is quickly found out by the team members featuring Alex Karras and Mike Lucci. The entire team finds it amusing ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9821 | 0pending | d830977c-0213-4132-a097-1ce11ab27879 | Alan Alda plays real-life "Sports Illustrated" writer George Plimpton, who was once invited to join the Detroit Lions football team as an honorary member. Rather wan, uncompelling drama curiously tempered with fantasy. Director Alex March takes an interesting tack on this material, shooting it in a quasi-documentary fa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9822 | 0pending | 4ec49311-a3bc-4d70-8e26-bb14d03ee69c | It's pretty clear that the director and production crew set out to paint a less than flattering picture of the Palestinian girl and her family. The film and it's website tries to imply that Ayat has a secret reason for blowing herself and Rachel up- a boyfriend problem- perhaps pregnancy. Neatly glossed over is the fac... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9823 | 0pending | 8f1a50d9-ed41-46b3-a9be-fcc857c4b871 | The filming crew did not have good access to the occupied territories, so filming of the Israeli side dominated. I was struck by the nearly completely opposite points of view of the mothers. The Israeli mother lost a child who had the possibility of a life of tremendous happiness. The Palestinian mother lost a child wh... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9824 | 0pending | f0d6fba4-4070-410e-9a3a-456cf9857e1a | It's rare that I feel a need to write a review on this site, but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created, and how bias its product was.<br /><br />I felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film-makers to display the Palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy. We hear them discuss the sa... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9825 | 0pending | f2bd1df9-560f-45db-abdf-55313dc1b479 | I tend to love everything the great late Paul Naschy (R.I.P.) ever was in. While not all films starring Naschy are great, they all have a specific charm that can be found nowhere but in Naschy-flicks, and they are always entertaining. There is no rule without exception, however, as "El Mariscal Del Infierno" aka. "The ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9826 | 0pending | 09b78074-45c0-42af-a587-082c60711d68 | Not the greatest film to remember Paul Naschy by.<br /><br />Gaston (Guillermo Bredeston) is probably the worst swordsman I have ever seen. Zorro would be ashamed! His only salvation came as the competition was just as bad.<br /><br />This film is described as adventure and horror. Forget the horror - there is none. No... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9827 | 0pending | 0a0de2a1-b58b-4bf1-ad21-d5cb1486d382 | Despite the (English) title, this seems to have little to do with Devils and much more to do with a power hungry ruler who seeks the Philospher's Stone & wants gold made from lead (& virgin's blood). Jacinto Molina plays Gilles de Lancre and seems to have little issue with having people put to death when he thinks they... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9828 | 0pending | 2c2b5122-e1a1-42e2-aa50-bfdb27437d0f | This 1974 Naschy outing is directed by Leon Klimovsky, and a cursory glance at the publicity photos and packaging might lead you to believe that this medieval romp lies somewhere between "Inquisition" and "Sadomania". Sadly not.<br /><br />This is a strictly PG affair with tame torture sequences, no nudity and little e... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9829 | 0pending | c6080db2-e183-490b-8eea-b207422e6e56 | Posh Spice Victoria Beckham and her alleged new adventures after just moving to LA for work purposes (footballer hubby David is now a Galaxy LA player after his transfer from Real Madrid) was originally going to be a full series,but was thankfully abridged to just one hour or so.But even in this form,it is still numbin... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9830 | 0pending | c7e7aeba-3333-4615-aa4b-3bbf4746b7b3 | I'm grateful for one thing and one thing only - that this woman will now be thousands of miles away on an entirely different continent!!! Yay!!! This programme summed up perfectly just how obsessed Victoria Beckham has become with whoring herself and her family out to the media in the name of self promotion and 'Brand ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9831 | 0pending | 60eb18d3-bd0e-4cf5-87ed-3550e7870f46 | I honestly can't believe what passes for entertainment now. Death (and making fun of death), violence, sexual innuendo, adults threatening children, crudeness, alcohol abuse by minors, drug theft, dysfunctional parents, babysitter from hell, stereotypical jokes about African Americans, police and fat people, and kids s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9832 | 0pending | 18f0b00d-97d9-4ea8-a090-085085321fd6 | The only reason I don't give this movie fewer than 3 stars is because it isn't quite on par with a movie like Manos: The Hands of Fate. This movie's greatest crime is the fact that it is head-meltingly boring & terribly, unforgivably British. The premise of this movie sounds potentially promising, the whole teleporting... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9833 | 0pending | dce0e904-e089-4851-9cb8-cc1950628b73 | The film, a Universal release of a Protelco-MLC production, is a boring retelling of the theory of breaking down the molecular structure of an object, capturing it in a cell as "pure energy," and then sending it back complete to a "target area." There is no explanation WHY this is necessary, but Professor Paul Steiner ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9834 | 0pending | 9644fc6b-5f3e-41d7-aff2-1bac303cc5a4 | Professor Paul Steiner is doing research in matter transference. He has developed a machine that he can use to make an object like a wrist watch or rodent disappear, only to have that object re-materialize in a different location. But there are those at his research facility that do not like or approve of his experimen... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9835 | 0pending | 57679a3c-a9f3-4c44-8fa4-375d5eab80d3 | The title alone (along with the poster) is enough to give away "The Projected Man" as an obvious rip-off of "The Fly". And Bryant Haliday, while much better than the typical IMDb review would have you think, is nobody's idea of an acceptable stand-in for Vincent Price. Although, come to think of it, who would be, unles... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9836 | 0pending | 081ad96d-fe7e-43c5-b6b8-9a3291a63607 | Ok first of all, this movie sucks. But lets examine why. The proposition that a machine is capable of transforming matter into energy, storing it, and then transporting it and reasembling it is at the least intriguing. But that's as far as they take this premise. Instead of delving into what could happen if someone mad... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9837 | 0pending | e9b6f323-7a74-47d6-bec6-6c588d4c97cb | I remember this film, exhibit in Barcelona (Spain) in 1970, for the time of a week. Although it could seems incredible, and I can't offer any explanation for it, this movie was exhibit in a theater dedicated to... movies of art and big quality (that, is, Bergman, Resnais, Malle, Buñuel, and... The Projected Man). Few p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9838 | 0pending | 69e70115-8ca0-4292-87df-14fdbc4fbfa9 | This movie is spoofed in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I think MST3K was at its best when they ripped this movie.<br /><br />Terrible acting, bad makeup, poor effects, chick in skimpy (1960's)underwear. I give it a 2.<br /><br />The villain is hard to understand due to the makeup. The assistant says thing... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9839 | 0pending | bd52092e-fb36-4ad4-a73d-997ce5dca54d | This is one of the worst things to ever come out of England, so that says a lot right there. The tension when we have to find out whether or not Lembach is staying is amazing though. The upside is seeing the nice secretary, Sheila, in her picnic table print underwear for awhile after being captured by Dr. Rat Face. Thi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9840 | 0pending | 1c933432-b325-4957-bb9e-f181f6300f6f | With that line starts one silly, boring British sci fi film. The Great Vorelli from the movie "Devil Doll" builds a teleportation machine only to have his funding cut off by Blanchard, a bearded man who has a thing for bow ties and men with large eye brows. When his experiment fails, the good doctor learns that Lembach... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9841 | 0pending | f6a4e83d-8066-469c-a7d1-f276e43b35c9 | This is a rather dull movie about a scientist that creates a teleporter device and gets horribly disfigured when he uses the machine to transport himself. Simple plot done before in the fly and others. Not only does he get disfigured, but he also can electrocute people with a touch. What is really dumb about this film ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9842 | 0pending | 6837704d-6077-4f7a-9b80-81544b58ef21 | (spoilers)The one truly memorable part of this otherwise rather dull and tepid bit of British cuisine is Steiner's henna rinse, one of the worst dye jobs ever. That, and the magnificent caterpillar eyebrows on the old evil dude who was trying to steal Steiner's invention. MST3K does an admirable job of making a wretche... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9843 | 0pending | 506ca717-f7ed-4f7b-a6c8-47bda0430237 | Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnn! :=8O<br /><br />ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........... <=8.<br /><br />Oh, um excuse me, sorry, fell asleep there for a mooment. Now where was I? Oh yes, "The Projected Man", yes... ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........... <=8.<br /><br />Ooops, sorry. Yes,... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9844 | 0pending | 09f9a9ca-de30-45f1-84c8-ad6eae929d19 | It's not so much that SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION had little potential. Indeed the under-explored title phenomenon is quite intriguing and, for at least the opening half, this Tobe Hooper effort promises to entertain in a way only cheesy '90s horror can. But somewhere between Brad Dourif's on-again-off-again performance and... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9845 | 0pending | c69f5d71-545c-40d4-9002-681427806f6f | Not as bad, as it's credited to being (Hooper's done far worse)
more so disappointing for me. Such an imaginative concept, which is never really tapped in to by Hooper with his economical direction and even less so in the smoky (excuse the pun) writing. It goes so sinister and over-the-top in a dead serious tone, beco... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9846 | 0pending | 0a494aa8-d2db-4e77-9dba-c6be097d4457 | Bizarre Tobe Hooper exercise regarding an unfortunate young man(Brad Dourif)with the ability to set people on fire. This ability stems from parents who partook in atomic experiments in the 50's. They die of Spontaneous Human Combustion and it seems that what Sam is beginning to suffer from derives by these pills his gi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9847 | 0pending | db4c85db-3232-4297-a81e-227191f5e09e | It's often said that Tobe Hooper just struck lucky with his grisly 1974 horror film 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' and every time I see another Hooper film - that view is only reinforced. It would seem that Hooper wanted to make his own version of films such as Scanners and Firestarter in 1990 and so we end up with Spo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9848 | 0pending | 2fe52dbf-5a3a-4f36-9ffc-a72a4b729c2b | I tried as hard as I could to sit all the way through this irritating mess, but I just couldn't do it. Brad Dourif absolutely sucked as the lead and all the supporting cast were only marginally worse. <br /><br />The whole thing is just ludicrous, from the awful acting to the laughable FX to the stupid plot.<br /><br /... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9849 | 0pending | 03040ccb-2054-4275-a0c0-bb5591d9acaa | A man discovers that his parents were part of a nuclear experiment in the 50's and that he now has the power to... burst into flames! <br /><br />I was really geared up for this film, what with being directed by the great Toby Hooper and staring wild card Brad Dourif. Unfortunately it didn't rise above the average indi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9850 | 0pending | a1cdb969-e066-4db3-aa39-9478c0125871 | Pretty poor Firestarter clone that seems more like a bad TV movie than a bad feature film. How disappointing for this to come from Hooper and Dourif!<br /><br />Government contractors do a human experiment with a Hydrogen bomb. The boy born to the couple from the experiment constantly runs a fever of 100 degrees, and w... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9851 | 0pending | 38ed61a6-de99-4806-a9db-3a47839e754f | First off, the lead, Brad Dourif is a KOOK. If you're trying to take this movie seriously, then, I guarantee he's going to ruin it for you. If you don't take him too seriously, then he's actually kind of fun to watch. As with another reviewer, I loved the scene where Lisa (Cynthia Bain) and Dourif are declaring their l... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9852 | 0pending | 15d60722-7199-475d-957b-c08a61b407bb | Others have already commented on the "decline" of director Tobe Hooper, but what about Brad Dourif? He was perfectly capable of selecting good projects (as he proved by starring in the same year's "Exorcist III"), so why did he agree to appear in this? Sure, he gives a suitably demented performance, and the film is not... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9853 | 0pending | 17938331-7e2f-41e7-8575-466f07fd53b2 | Now, i hired this movie because Brad Dourif was in it. He is an excellent actor, BRILLIANT in everything...except this movie. And i think that was only because he realized how stupid this movie was, and didn't bother with a good performance. This movie is a unintentional-comedy. Some of the lines just crack me up. And ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9854 | 0pending | 827d4615-5bff-4b74-a13b-c37db3bf2e45 | Seriously, what is THIS? Hooper has made such classic films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, then he made this god awful film, what happened? did he dip into the crack a little too much? This film is about some dude named Sam who has the ability to set things on fire,(Firestarter, anyone?) the acting was godawful, the plo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9855 | 0pending | 442351e9-7548-456a-8247-3f1ecc3b238e | Tobe Hooper has made great movies so I was certain this couldn't be BAD. I didn't read any reviews and tried to watch this unintentionally humorous film. At times this made me laugh, sometimes I almost fell asleep, sometimes made me almost CRY for Hooper.<br /><br />I rated this 3/10 because its 1990 "horror"-movie and... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9856 | 0pending | ad23bd13-bf1c-46a4-8715-69693941d018 | This film is a massive Yawn proving that Americans haven't got the hang of farce. Even when it has already been written for them! The original film "Hodet Over Vannet" is a witty comedy of errors that I would rate 8/10. It isn't just about a linguistic translation, but certain absurd chains of events are skipped entire... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9857 | 0pending | 169c9f1c-1858-47a0-b425-f0b589563874 | Story starts slow and nothing funny happens for a while. All the action is in the end, but you won't have to laugh because the movie is funny, but because the story is pathetic.<br /><br />The funniest part is when Harvey 'I'm not Paranoia' Keitel really loses it and the judge starts a massacre. Oscars for this guy! | [] | [] | [] |
train_9858 | 0pending | f9749318-3299-46cf-adde-f2529c8895e8 | This movie was billed as a comedy and a mystery. It fails badly at both. The only mystery here is why would anybody make such a poorly constructed movie. The only comedy is the laugh I got when I saw how high the readers here ranked it. Could there be two movies with the same name? The movie I saw starred a girl with p... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9859 | 0pending | 33bc63a0-b915-4dfe-b69e-d7984cf2ec09 | Don't waste 90 minutes of your time on "Fast Food, Fast Women." It's annoyingly episodic script with three story lines patched together is laughably bad due to predictable writing, horrific acting, and even bad music. I found the anorexic main character upsetting to watch every time she was on screen. SHE needs the fas... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9860 | 0pending | 38d4d832-87b4-42b6-adb1-aa5c7cbe6783 | This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen! I saw it at the Toronto film festival and totally regret wasting my time. Completely unwatchable with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.<br /><br />Steer clear. | [] | [] | [] |
train_9861 | 0pending | aa12a122-7f18-4b5c-8e79-8f2a4ecb1b98 | My girlfriend and I were stunned by how bad this film was. After 15 minutes we would have called it quits except we were too curious to see if the film could possibly redeem itself. It didn't.<br /><br />I can't understand the praise given to this film. The writing was downright awful and delivered by some of the worst... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9862 | 0pending | 7eb2dc1a-1b31-41c2-9575-2b8c565b6a94 | This kid is rather bad, but in no way do they make him the type that outsmarts adults and can foil experienced thieves at every turn. No, he is not so much a brat, as he is a kid with severe emotional problems. A nice couple looking to adopt get rather suckered into adopting him and while the husband is a bit more will... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9863 | 0pending | d8e4b9ad-fdf7-4171-b15e-c2fc3cb84f7e | The first scene in 'Problem Child' has a baby peeing into a nun's face. For this movie, that's witty. A nasty, mean-spirited 'comedy', it's inept on so many levels it beggars belief. John Ritter is the kind father who adopts the child from Hell, and kudos to him for maintaining his dignity in the surrounding onslaught ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9864 | 0pending | f5c64a97-daef-486e-a42e-217e69518ccb | I remember watching this movie several times as a very young kid, and there were parts of it (many in fact) that I did not understand. I think I have seen it once as an adult, and I then understood those parts. The only problem with viewing it as an adult was that it was not entertaining to me at all. So what kind of m... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9865 | 0pending | 910a3588-9cb0-4c07-8e12-50494accf8ac | I have to admit I've caught this one a few times on the USA Network. There's just something about the, well, sheer stupidity of this flick which makes me want to watch it whenever it's on. Yes, you're right about the sub-par acting, the plot which only an seven year old could like, etc. But I can't help feeling sympath... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9866 | 0pending | 7896690d-896e-497d-b32f-610db2f3fab5 | "Problem Child" is one of the goofiest movies ever made. It's not the worst (though some people will disagree with me on that), but it's not the best either. It's about a devilish 7-year-old boy who wrecks comic havoc on a childless couple (John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck) who foolishly adopts him. This film is too silly and ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9867 | 0pending | 6b3aa417-8dad-43eb-be8f-600e3ad69d74 | PROBLEM CHILD is one of the worst movies I have seen in the last decade! This is a bad movie about a savage boy adopted by two parents, but he gets into trouble later. That Junior can drive Grandpa's car. He can scare people with a bear. He can put a room on fire! It is a bad movie as much as BATTLEFIELD EARTH. A seque... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9868 | 0pending | c2bbd44d-dd15-4df2-9aa4-81d7cd337ec4 | I can't for the life of me remember why--I must have had a free ticket or something--but I saw this movie in the theater when it was released. I don't remember who I went with, which theater I was in, or even which city. All I remember was how offended I was at this travesty someone dared to call a film, and how half t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9869 | 0pending | fc1b7374-594e-4ec7-b937-2ba677d13f1b | People who actually liked Problem Child (1990) need to have their heads examined. Who would take the idea of watching a malevolent little boy wreak havoc on others and deem it funny? The movie is not funny, ever, in any way, beginning to end. It wants to be a cartoon, but the writers don't realize that slapstick isn't ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9870 | 0pending | b019e1c9-4568-4de4-9e39-0082f7e1f71d | I joined this site to see what comments people would make about this absolute disaster of a film. I wasn't drawn in for even a second. The characters were all one-dimensional. They threw every topic they could think of hoping something would stick. I would bet (and hope) that everyone involved in Teachers looks back wi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9871 | 0pending | edfaad8b-70a3-46dd-bac7-adb1dcd1ff01 | As an ex-teacher(!) I must confess to cringing through many scenes - 'though I continued to watch to the end. I wonder why?! (Boredom, perhaps?) :-)<br /><br />The initial opening scenes struck me as incredibly mish-mashed and unfocussed. The plot, too, although there were some good ideas - the plight of a relief teach... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9872 | 0pending | 5f9c6c0e-b175-4ab6-8fb4-c20c304b2e70 | <br /><br />This movie sucks. Ridiculous "school" athmosphere, unbelievable students that are very bad and behave like criminals but then later after the "good teacher" Nick Nolte taught them they became as good and as quiet as kittens.<br /><br />If this works for you, it doesn't for me. 0 out of 10 | [] | [] | [] |
train_9873 | 0pending | 611c98f1-71ae-4f8e-944b-136e19fe36b5 | Though I never like to be the sort of person who negates another's personal taste; if you like something, that's fine. But, this movie was horrible and there is no way around it. I don't like Ani Difranco too much, but she's a great guitarist and songwriter, that I can admit. But I can't admit to there being any redeem... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9874 | 0pending | ee8b8b98-c30b-430a-8ae9-9a334bc1564a | WARNING! SMALL PLOT DETAILS REVEALED!<br /><br />I can find virtually nothing positive to say about this film. It is written so badly that every character is a caricature, yet it seems to take itself seriously. It is poorly cast, especially Ralph Macchio (all baby-faced, 5-foot-nothing of him) as a streetwise tough. Pl... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9875 | 0pending | 630b21e3-c657-4370-ad0b-df7871077892 | In a recent biography of Alec Guinness I couldn't find too much about To Paris With Love. I'm sure Guinness did the film to get a free trip to Paris out of it. The film has no other reason for existence.<br /><br />Paris of course is nicely photographed with that wonderful opening of Guinness and his son driving down t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9876 | 0pending | 7e9c2ed2-3e9a-4ba3-a98c-13396ead5e98 | I love Alec Guinness. And that's saying a lot after this film. Actually, he is not bad in it. He just seems to stand aside, be urbane and his usual delightful self, but invest nada. It is obvious the girl he is matched with is a featherweight, even as an inexperienced young French girl. Sir Alec wouldn't have chosen he... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9877 | 0pending | 2bf571b5-c58d-4439-8941-a6623da29879 | Uta Hagen's "Respect for Acting" is the standard textbook in many college theater courses. In the book, Hagen presents two fundamentally different approaches to developing a character as an actor: the Presentational approach, and the Representational approach. In the Presentational approach, the actor focuses on realiz... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9878 | 0pending | ddc90cb5-f790-4ab3-b909-91c46ce497ed | Amelia and Michael are a married couple that are cheating on each other. Amelia has a long-time lover in the hospital and Michael hires a prostitute that doesn't satisfy him. The two smolder with their infidelity but manage to connect to each other in the end.<br /><br />There's not a whole lot to this particular short... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9879 | 0pending | 0bbd6905-3a76-402c-96fc-be41bd9f706e | MY BROTHER TOM <br /><br />Aspect ratio: 1.85:1<br /><br />Sound format: Dolby Digital<br /><br />Following an episode of sexual abuse at the hands of a trusted neighbor, young Jessica (Jenna Harrison) forms a relationship with a strange boy (Ben Whishaw) she meets in the woods. Unfortunately, Whishaw has secrets of hi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9880 | 0pending | f085fb50-89e9-4cf1-855a-28091f8fc328 | Cheap and manipulative. This film has no heart.<br /><br />It's also got dire dialogue, unconvincing characters and a preposterous, or rather non-existent, story. It just lurches from bad to worse in a cynical effort to wrench some kind of emotion from an insincere and unengaging hysterion-afest!<br /><br />And the HED... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9881 | 0pending | a2cd7b5e-971a-489d-8e02-3a642e5a76ff | If utterly facile, regressive, self-indulgent, anti-establishment, anti-civilisation juvenilia appeals to you, then this is the ideal film. Very poorly scripted, with often inaudible dialogue and infuriatingly tiresome hand-held camera throughout, this is a film that presents the world in appealingly simplistic, Manich... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9882 | 0pending | 0f85b01f-d560-4f1b-ad78-2fd2a43bbcbd | One of the most peculiar oft-used romance movie plots is this one: A seriously messed-up man falls in love with a terminally ill woman, who turns his life around before dying. Occasionally this story is done well and realistically (as in "The Theory of Flight", an excellent weepie), but more frequently it's done like i... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9883 | 0pending | 5b601072-92b7-4afe-bae3-3e421d85790a | I made a special effort to see this movie and was totally disappointed with the outcome. On paper, the script seems hopeful, and the choice of actors leaves one with hopes - I liked Pacino in Scent of a Woman and have seen Anny Duperrey and Marthe Keller in several French and other films of the 70s/80s. But I had forgo... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9884 | 0pending | 2656f577-66a9-4ee1-8fd0-b472585e4acb | The entire thing is very beautiful to look at..the European location shooting was a good idea. The lead actors are attractive. The score is servicable.<br /><br />BUT THEN THEY SPOKE! And the non-plot developed! And it was all downhill from there. Pacino is sleepwalking and Keller keeps talking about how bored she is..... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9885 | 0pending | e27b0b1b-eb8a-41d1-86e8-52b045d7d634 | From beginning to end, this is the most emotionally overwrought movie about NOTHING I have ever seen. The characterizations and interactions between the title character and Marthe Kller's character are pure torture. The racetrack as metaphor gimmick is so overplayed that it borders on cliche, yet director Pollack treat... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9886 | 0pending | 503cf410-fb09-4466-ac0a-7514d9637ace | I really must watch a good movie soon, because it seems every other entry or so is something that I despise. However my history speaks, I must not tell a lie. Bobby Deerfield and everything about it sucks big green banana peels. I never thought that I would see a film thud as thunderously as this one did. Al Pacino isn... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9887 | 0pending | a72cc285-c125-48bc-8eb7-0ef5d2db45cd | Just emailed a friend who's in film school about this flick. Something to avoid when making a film - characters blabbering senseless, overwrought, convoluted monologues on screen that are ultimately trite and unconvincing. If the film is an attempt at social realism, these verbal barrages are so over-the-top that they ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9888 | 0pending | 2aadb5c1-68a7-4d65-9762-464197ce195e | Johnny and Jeremy are vampires of sorts. Minus the fangs, of course. They're dark, bitter creatures with nothing better to do than to spread their own misery. Through their charms (namely a sharp tongue and a fat wallet, respectively) they seduce desperate souls, who they proceed to torment and victimize. That's more o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9889 | 0pending | 14901761-f5a6-49c8-b68e-c8256a9309e6 | Had the original casting idea been kept (hunting Rutger, not Ice-T), this movie might have worked. Sadly, racism had to come into the picture (literally) and mess it up. The predominantly black production staff couldn't allow the antagonist be black, so they swapped Rutger's and Ice-T's roles. This was only the start o... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9890 | 0pending | a0944260-7af0-4837-880f-b5c7a0584074 | This movie could have been so much better with a script rewrite. Not that I expect a great deal of plausibility in movies, but you'd think that even the homeless and urban-dwelling Jack Mason would question why a group of experienced hunters would want to hire him as a hunting guide. And upon reaching the hunting groun... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9891 | 0pending | 36e3ed44-2729-44d4-867d-7d83b3eef4f2 | Ice-T stars as Mason a homeless African-American who finds himself hunted by wealthy hunters (Rutger Hauer,Gary Busey,Charles S. Dutton, F.Murray Abraham,William McNamara and John C. McGinley) however Mason proves to be much harder prey then the usual targets in this ridiculous and slow paced actioner which takes too l... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9892 | 0pending | f72a8d00-d7ac-4a70-9ecd-1d547e209cd2 | This movie was horrible. I swear they didn't even write a script they just kinda winged it through out the whole movie. Ice-T was annoying as hell. *SPOILERS Phht more like reasons not to watch it* They sit down and eat breakfast for 20 minutes. he coulda been long gone. The ground was hard it would of been close to im... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9893 | 0pending | fcf1d416-bc27-4bd3-931a-2232e4c8cca4 | SPOILERS HEREIN<br /><br />My High School did all they could to try and motivate us for exams. But the most memorable method they used to get us into the right state of mind was a guest speaker, who was none other than Australian Kickboxing's favorite son, Stan "The Man" Longinidis. The first mistake they made was givi... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9894 | 0pending | 1a715110-b055-4598-809e-1cdc3edc3610 | After watching about half of this movie I noticed something peculiar ... I found myself constantly switching through tv-channels to see what else is on - not exactly a good movie trait.<br /><br />This movie is listed as being in a number of genres, and I must say it mostly failed misserably in every one of them. 80% t... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9895 | 0pending | f4fd2f6e-fc47-48a6-8b8b-13b4756ae0e3 | Well our standards have gone into the toilet. The direction was poor, the acting was mediocre and the writing was amateurish. And those are the good points. Hopefully there won't be a sequel. Otherwise, I might have to leave the country. | [] | [] | [] |
train_9896 | 0pending | 826985bf-669b-4621-a444-309e9ca00727 | The cover art (which features a man holding a scary pellet gun) would make it seem as if it's a martial arts film. (Hardly.)<br /><br />I find it interesting that the film's real title is Trojan Warrior. (Trojan is a brand of condoms in the US) This movie is loaded with homoeroticism. If you like that stuff, then this ... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9897 | 0pending | e2570a59-dda1-44d1-ba3e-2ddd24c5752f | At least the seats in the theater were comfortable and I ate the pop corn as loud as possible to drown out the inferior dialogue. This is absolutely not a girls film. Any blokes who like it, are the ones us ladies can be sure to stay far away from. Dumb story, mediocre dialogue and an overall cheap looking film. I've s... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9898 | 0pending | ea7e68d5-5b4d-433e-a2fe-9964b4b859d2 | I mean really. This is not going to help the Australian film industry to make this kind of film with no values of any kind. Okay, if you're a stoner and have nothing better to do, then maybe. I think film-makers from here should try to show the rest of the world what great talented people we have, and this is not the v... | [] | [] | [] |
train_9899 | 0pending | d024ffd7-beea-413f-9b26-badf23ff8be2 | In the 60's, having as the background the rehearsal and recording of "Sympathy for the Devil" in the classic album "Beggar's Banquet" by the revolutionary bad boy Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones plus Marianne Faithful, Godard discloses other contemporary revolut... | [] | [] | [] |
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