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test_1200 | pending | 6c947355-8c7f-4a92-ad3c-eec0d02ea832 | Okay, so I forgot to watch and only caught the last episode, thinking it was the first or second. Honestly, I thought CM would have at least one more installment to resolve plot points. The Rangers are left stranded on the plains ("We'll have to eat the horses"), for one thing. Little Newt is bereft, for another. What ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1201 | pending | 60e88b84-515f-48ba-9588-d4f9f9e19f32 | Having grown up on westerns and considering the present dearth of westerns on TV and at the theater, I was really looking forward to Commanche moon.<br /><br />After watching two nights, and not another, it appears to be have been shot on a tight budget. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones level stars are conspicuously a... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1202 | pending | 84ed2af7-01f1-4e21-8dd3-5274ecf168c5 | This is a poor caricature of "Lonesome Dove" - and Larry McMurtry.<br /><br />I love your books, with "Lonesome Dove" among the top three. I have admired the way you view yourself, through your characters, with such unflinching honesty, balanced by never taking it all too seriously. I am, therefore, spoiled.<br /><br /... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1203 | pending | 069eb834-dd00-4820-badb-8425031b2e03 | I, like many folks, believe the 1989 epic Lonesome Dove was one of the best westerns ever produced, maybe THE best. And, realizing that most sequels (in this case a prequel) are certain to disappoint, my expectations were low. Comanche Moon met that expectation with its marginal directing and acting, poor casting and f... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1204 | pending | 35f89b40-e389-474a-ad38-fb505a3f3ba4 | I am seldom motivated to write a review unless inspired by the quality of the movie. In the case of Comanche Moon I was so uninspired I felt the need to warn others how bad this TV mini series is. Here are a few thoughts.<br /><br />The Indians: They came across like they were in a Saturday Night Live Skit, making fun ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1205 | pending | a1e46860-f748-4c73-bd63-8d9c5bc1b339 | Was really looking forward to seeing a continuation of Lonesome Dove but this was total garbage. Cinematography was terrible. Shot way too tight. Was almost viewing the Grand Canyon through a stationary telescope. Editing was cut, cut, cut. Not even smooth. More like a bad student editor. Don't know if McMurtry did the... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1206 | pending | 56dcc1cb-dc77-4759-a8cd-2ebea6696124 | Wow...as a big fan of Larry McMurtry western tales and the Lonesome Dove series in particular, I was s-o-o-o looking forward to Comanche Moon. What a tremendous letdown. Maybe my expectations were set too high because of the all around excellence of Lonesome Dove...the story, the characters, the cinematography, the mus... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1207 | pending | 7ee8d4bf-c690-4746-9346-90f6f8495d28 | Lonesome Dove is my favorite western second only to The Searchers with John Wayne. I watch Lonesome Dove about every 6 months and never get tired of it. I have read all the LD books, although I cannot remember much of Comanche Moon. I too looked forward to this mini-series and decided to tape it on our DVR so we could ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1208 | pending | 6b3be74b-e192-4337-860a-46ae74326443 | I watched all three segments and am so disappointed in the story line. Zahn spends so much time mimicking Duvall he does nothing else in the show. And Tommy Lee Jones would never be so weak as a young man, unlikeable yes but weak never. We never see how or why they go to back to Lonesome Dove...which is a dirt hole in ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1209 | pending | 2e68611d-5b83-4120-b610-dd6c71650dab | It would be a shame if Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duval ever see this movie as they will probably be associated with it in years to come. "Oh yeah", the public will say, "'Comanche Moon', that's the mini series about the Texas Rangers and the Comanche Indians that starred Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duval. It was a real... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1210 | pending | 2af860e1-f134-4e53-b8a9-6b84ece85ff9 | Parrots? PARROTS? I have been around this old earth longer than most and have seen nearly all the westerns that have have produced. Old West history is my passion. Comanche Moon is one of the most poorly produced, directed and acted stories I have ever seen. There was very little historical accuracy but then, it is obv... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1211 | pending | 86ec06cb-1562-4a95-853b-e5ca476064a9 | The Jaws rip off is the trashiest of the all the Italian 'genres', and director Joe D'Amato is second only to the great Jess Franco in the trash film production stakes. Put the two together and what do you get? A gigantic piece of trash, of course. Unfortunately it's not trash in the good sense of the word either, as D... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1212 | pending | 53f6de84-30ea-404a-bb1f-c725a93eed5f | This movie is crappy beyond any limits. It's incredible - a very bad ripoff from Jaws and other (better) shark movies. A really bad one - everything is really pathetic. The story is purest crap, actors are bad, effects very cheap, no creativity whatsoever. It looks like some really debilitated children took Jaws script... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1213 | pending | c94cce4c-9613-40a5-b5a8-c02ce18c187c | This is the worst italian movie ever, quite possibly the worst movie of all time! Joe D'Amato is of course no cinematic genius but many of his movies are interesting and watchable. Unfortunatly this is not one of them. Its cheesy and boring....waaaaay boring. If you want a movie to MST3k, get Troll 2, if you want a mov... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1214 | pending | 61242d14-9392-4153-b3e5-b451f57777cf | Zzzzzzzzzzzz. This one came directly from the "Jaws" cookie-cutter mold, with some other bizarre cliches thrown in for good measure. I was interested in seeing this after finding a still from it in a book about Italian horror films, and wow...I guess I got what I deserved!<br /><br />Very slow-moving and talky, much of... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1215 | pending | 0f80d55a-ea1b-42cc-aa77-7d546d666021 | I like to think of myself as a bad movie connoisseur. I like to think that the films most people label as the worst of all time I can easily withstand.<br /><br />But...there are exceptions. I can only recall three movies I have had the misfortune to see that I have repeatedly used the fast-forward button for large chu... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1216 | pending | 9052f444-11ca-4074-bb02-39d72015b8a3 | It's amazing that such a cliche-ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place. The characters are so weak, and the acting so uninspired, that it's impossible to care about any of them-- especially Brooke Shields. The temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible. If you like t... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1217 | pending | 2790a5aa-a48a-4da0-b1a8-de4554a7d92d | Brooke Shields -- in a departure from her "Suddenly Susan" duties -- plays a bitter divorcee who embroils three girlfriends in a "girls only" weekend in Palm Springs. The problem: Brooke is "unattached" and on the prowl, while her friends are all involved. Hence the title implications and emotional backlash their "amor... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1218 | pending | 826ad947-a9f9-420b-adc5-5b0fe9fde1eb | I was pleasantly surprised with this one. It's actually quite interesting and engaging. The cast is strong, even Dan Cortese. Brooke Shields has come into her own as an actress. Black and White must have really set her free, 'cause I have never seen her in this much command playing a conventional character. If marketed... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1219 | pending | ba146e75-6845-418c-8ee0-226e0c55d343 | I loved this movie 10 years ago when I was about 16 years old. My biggest mistake was to watch it again, 10 years later. It's not the worst "I-wanna-be-a-pilot" movies ever, but it has so many flaws in it that you can hardly overlook them.<br /><br />Queen's "One Vision" (along with the rest of the soundtrack) makes th... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1220 | pending | 450aa2e3-3a51-4070-9d94-8e5d29ead11b | I wrote spoiler alert, but there's not really much that can be spoiled. It's like spoiling rotten meat. This movie is probably the worst I've ever seen. Not because of the actors or the special effects, but because of the sheer number of mistakes, both factual and physical. First of all, the MIGs aren't actually MIGs a... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1221 | pending | 664ba95a-3ec7-4fcd-af03-fc97551f4640 | as a retired USAF MSG (aircraft maint. spec), this has got to be one of the worst movies i have ever seen. the fact that a teenager could ever get on the flight-line, much less get into an f-16 is ludicrous. the military spends millions on each pilot to make them the best in the world and this movie makes the air force... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1222 | pending | 32b924eb-0fa7-4944-8985-5f29fa543ae1 | It's hard to believe that a movie this bad wasn't produced once, but four times! Most movies require a certain `suspension of reality' to enjoy, but this one takes it just too far. The basic scenario is an Air Force pilot who is shot down over a `Middle Eastern' country. The US government drags its feet in recovering h... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1223 | pending | 1e8a9e28-4dab-46d5-996b-318e1a9a6f42 | This movie is the proverbial 80s flick that shows the viewer that as long as he or she tries at something, they can be better than the pros. The main character, Doug, showed off his skills in flying a Cessna aircraft, which somehow equated to being fully capable of flying a jet aircraft and being able to kill people. W... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1224 | pending | 8408d78a-652c-4785-9589-f0ddffe25cff | I have rarely laughed so hard at a movie. Notice that I laughed AT Iron Eagle, not WITH it, because this is probably the stupidest film I have ever seen (with the obvious exception of sci-fi monstrosity CyberTracker). You should also remember that this film is not a comedy!<br /><br />Even overlooking the preposterous ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1225 | pending | 903fa8f1-50a1-477d-9867-44dcb987134c | Don't bother to check for logic. There is none. But on the other hand, there are MANY really great movies that totally lack logic, so why bother?<br /><br />I both like and dislike this film. I like it because the action sequences in the air are really great, you get to see a lot of dogfighting. I also like the F-16, w... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1226 | pending | d18a431b-83ac-4e5c-9e01-340c2fb63659 | I Liked this move when I was a kid, but now that I'm older I can see how absurd the plot really is. In case you didn't read the earlier reviews it's about a teenager and an Air Force Colonel who steal two fully loaded F-16s to rescue said teenager's dad.<br /><br />It does have some nice aerial stunts, even if the dial... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1227 | pending | 0bf3aa11-d877-4962-9a70-c3dca840505b | A teen-age boy, who is not in the military and has not trained to be a jet pilot, takes off for a foreign country to rescue his dad. If this is not ridiculous enough, he talks a Colonel in the Air Force into helping him get his hands on a jet [wow!]. To make the picture even more absurd, the Colonel risks his career an... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1228 | pending | 89b90222-afee-429e-923b-584bf87fc293 | I remember watching this for the first time in the 80's as a teen. Man, I've read the reviews on this trash and I find myself astonished by the voting. This movie does not deserve four stars!!! This movie is NOT better than Topgun. Topgun has its own problems; don't get me wrong. This movie should be banned just for it... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1229 | pending | 32cadbf5-10c9-484c-937b-8da4f8afd331 | ...But it definitely still only deserves 4/10 stars and no more. A moronic dumb kid's father is a fighter pilot who gets shot down by some Arab country. They never name the country in the movie, its really ridiculous, they just vaguely refer to some Arab nation, this movie is really ignorant like that. But Lamar from R... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1230 | pending | 6605b863-c70e-4895-8102-13e5c41cc03a | Without actually giving away my age, I saw this for the first time over 20 years ago when it first came out on video (maybe it was a beta tape??) and I was old enough to drink (barely) and perhaps I had had a few because I remember thinking how great this movie was! I have since seen it sober and have to admit it is a ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1231 | pending | 6f0710e4-c148-4ee5-8719-55a9b261c038 | <br /><br />I still can't belive Louis Gossett Jr. agreed to appear in this film. Everything about this move feels artificial, forced, and contrived. The air sequences are flat. The enemy characters seem like puppets. This is just a poor excuse of a movie. At least Top Gun had air sequences that looked good (the extern... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1232 | pending | 552cbd29-f86e-4634-b373-22e16aa3e6a1 | OK, the very idea is ludicrous.<br /><br />1. Kids don't own planes 2. Kids don't race planes with dirtbikes 3. It made the Air Force look like total idiots 4. The kids father would not jeopardize his entire career to allow his boy to joyride with him 5. Neither would a reserve colonel<br /><br />The sequels, I am sure... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1233 | pending | d0bfdfe5-d97e-43db-9e6e-f21454347be8 | Jean-Hugh Anglade is excellent as the teenaged boy who wants to be a whore to please the man he loves, but the rest of this film is so bad--acting, writing, cinematography, and everything else--that Anglade's performance is wasted. Sad to see so fine an actor in such a garbage flick. | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1234 | pending | c06c9fe5-7481-4e4b-9659-766eb65f4f4d | According to the blurb on the back of the DVD case; Jonothan Ross 'laughed until a little bit of wee came out'. I suspect that that has more to do with his being full of it.<br /><br />I never watched the series for one reason or another, so maybe I'm missing some essential cues. As to this movie; I watched the first 4... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1235 | pending | 1d58230c-c362-40e0-a30a-4520c33c65d9 | This film was okay, but like most TV series it would of been better if it just made for television. The best and most loved characters only had five minute roles, whilst the three mediocre characters were all the way through the film.<br /><br />Unlike most British movies that are based on television series, this film ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1236 | pending | b1ff90e5-6d21-4534-9f5c-e3c9caa9d91e | Had the League been unknowns pitching this script, the backers would simply have turned around and said "no - you're not having the money - this is dreadful". As a fan of the League of Gentlemen, this is their poorest outing to date. Not particularly funny, not particularly entertaining, there are few laugh out loud mo... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1237 | pending | d1a0575b-9e0c-4b07-9107-9724163ecf1e | I watched this film in the theater in Edinbourgh along with 3 other Americans and our friend from Manchester and we all thought this was a waste of time. We would have much rather spent an extra hour to watch vapid dialog of Star wars III that was playing down the hall than all of this. <br /><br />Opening with one of ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1238 | pending | 91f1db34-c441-4745-a544-72650f3ddf05 | I am a massive fan of the LoG. I thought the first two series provided some of the best comedy this country has ever seen and the third series, though different, was wonderfully dark and imaginative. The thought of seeing Tubbs, Edward and Briss on the big screen made July 3 something to wait for. Yet, somewhere, it al... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1239 | pending | ca62cbb8-d9ad-4132-915b-981f1f2b7bc8 | Don't get me wrong, I love the TV series of League Of Gentlemen. It was funny, twisted and completely inspired. I was looking forward to the movie, the premise was interesting and I looked forward to see what they had done with the characters and where the bizarre storyline would take them.<br /><br />It was a total di... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1240 | pending | 58892a57-e6ec-4ecd-9adf-de627bad39c0 | Am i right in thinking i went to see the same film as everyone else .. this film was terrible. I'm a fan of all 3 series of the league of gentelmen and have always respected the originality of the writers, even when the format changed in series 3. This film however was a blatant half effort, the plot was extremely poor... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1241 | pending | 67a593f2-c5d7-497c-89f5-93efe26f7801 | It became apparent in the first 25 mins of watching this that the writers really wanted to make a feature length film and they probably certainly enjoyed the whole process, but then seemed to forget the fact that it needed a decent plot! If the best they could do was have 3 of the dullest characters enter the real worl... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1242 | pending | 44bb318b-bc90-4767-9d47-da2ec6594a00 | If you watched the series and love the league as I do then prepare to be disappointed. I went to the cinema with a group of die-hard league fans and we were all in agreement that this film wasn't as funny or dark as the three series before. In my personal opinion it was a money spinner. The writing was contrived and th... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1243 | pending | fbc2c7d9-0072-4474-a157-79a62cf4bce2 | As a massive fan of the three TV series, I was very interested to learn that LoG were moving onto the big screen. In my more honest moments though, I had my doubts about the likely success of the concept, and whether the writers would be able to sustain the high level of wit, comedy and horror that infuse the original ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1244 | pending | 325ced6b-8304-4970-aa8e-54729b607a98 | This review took longer to write than I took to watch this film. It's just plain bad. The plot is terrible in comparison to the TV shows. It is flat, unfunny and boring.<br /><br />It is clear that the LoG ran out of ideas long before this film was green lit. Viewers should read this as an example of not knowing when t... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1245 | pending | f19e239d-5809-4212-90c5-b359e67b903f | very disappointing and incoherent - every now and then a germ of an idea would develop and be discarded in the next line - it had the feel of a film that had been cut and re-cut to try and make it work - I was bored and distracted all the way through, and I'm speaking as a huge fan of the series. Many of the jokes were... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1246 | pending | 136d49e8-3ef7-4d1b-912b-d52bd1cbf370 | please re-watch all 3 series and do not go see this movie, the trailer is completely misleading and the 3 weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out 25min TV episode into the most painful 2hrs of my life, truly an awful film. tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins, micky has 1 line, and her lipp ju... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1247 | pending | 338d25b4-810a-4373-aa29-9c1e2f2af112 | I just don't get these reviews! I can't help thinking they are written by the sort of L.O.G fan who would worship anything they ever do without questioning whether it is actually any good.<br /><br />I'm a massive fan of the programme but thought this film was a pointless project. I could forgive the ridiculous plot if... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1248 | pending | edbf596b-3510-435f-892a-a320ca7ae7af | ***May contain spoilers***<br /><br />I had very high expectations for this film, based on the trailer. I knew a bit about the real Ed Gein, so I figured this was a medium-budget Hollywood version of the real events. Man was I wrong.<br /><br />First, the writing apparently came from an eight-grader who barely knew any... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1249 | pending | 02889a52-1161-4114-8e2c-f6840ce9335c | I stopped watching this film half way through. It was just terrible! Boring, contrived subplots. A complete lack of the pathos seen in Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill, or Steve Railsback's portrayal of Ed Gein. A movie doesn't have to be historically accurate, but the true story of Ed Gein is so much more interesting than t... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1250 | pending | ebca9e8b-2a70-42f8-a35f-eeecb4e91241 | This was, without a doubt, the worse horror movie I have ever seen.... Forget the fact that the story had little to do with the facts of Ed Gein... Ed Gein's story is horrific & this movie ignored the facts and strayed way off course. Acting, on all levels, was pathetic. Story, again, for some unknown reason didn't go ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1251 | pending | 6d9f405f-fff9-4744-9b37-70411a98943b | What a waste of time to watch this movie. Poor picture quality, poor sound, poor acting and definitely not based on actual facts. The deputy's "girlfriend" did so much overacting, as did the sheriff, that it was more comedy than horror. The deputy tries to make an emergency phone call by dialing 911...PROBLEM...in 1957... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1252 | pending | 0a5702e5-5a43-462e-b135-fbef4ccd7474 | This movie was really bad. First they didn't even follow the facts for it. Half of the movie was made up and it was more about the deputy whose mother was one of Ed Gein's victims. The acting was horrible, except for the guy playing Ed Gein, but its not hard to mess up playing a weird guy. though i think it was horribl... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1253 | pending | 6102ca37-7b90-4c4a-b079-d448a77c11a7 | There are many reasons I'm not a fan of fact based films, but more than any other is how the filmmakers give themselves creative license over the story. If they have such great imaginations then why not use that talent to make something original? Otherwise stick to the facts. This could have been an okay movie if only ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1254 | pending | 4e251bdc-0336-408e-9d02-435318ff0af5 | With a catchy title like the Butcher of Plainfield this Ed Gein variation and Kane Hodder playing him will no doubt fly off the shelves for a couple of weeks.Most viewers will be bored silly with this latest take on the life of Ed Gien.<br /><br />The movie focuses on Ed's rampage and gives us a(few)glimpses into his P... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1255 | pending | 9f863d78-e7bf-401c-824f-0e73c41f7944 | I have watched this movie quite bemused. I am not sure whether it was attempting to be a horror gore fest in a Rob Zombie type affair or an exploration of real events.<br /><br />In either case it missed its mark. It's not particularly historically accurate with characters being chopped and changed for the sake of the ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1256 | pending | ca2454cc-6cc9-4811-b476-2e89b6182b04 | Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield is set in the small American town of Plainfield in Wisconsin during 1957 where loner Ed Gein (Kane Hodder) lives by himself on a farm after the death if his mother & brother. The local police have had a spate of grave robberies to deal with & when local barmaid Sue Layton (Ceia Coley)... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1257 | pending | 85b35455-21a6-4af8-9785-2b79da871cfc | I would hate to have anyone watch this "inspired by a true story" movie and draw any conclusions about the true event. Few things they did get right were overshadowed by the things that were just not true. Ed Gein never dragged anyone behind a car, never met up with anyone at the graveyard and killed them, no proof he ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1258 | pending | 1f112dc5-a193-48d8-943e-393def8736d9 | I did a review for this director's fictional recreation about BTK. I had also seen this movie and it was terrible. Please save your money and time. This movie was terrible and this director is untalented. I do not understand how he is funding these movies. They are horrible. I have decided to make sure that I check who... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1259 | pending | 76d05e84-60c0-4f6d-907b-942106230a33 | The story of Ed Gein is a disturbing and terrifying story. Ed was truly a messed up character and his legacy went on to inspire such 'greats' as The Tooth Fairy, Norman Bates, and Leatherface. How is it then that such a fascinating man has inspired such a boring melodramatic piece of drivel?? Ed Gein made belts out of ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1260 | pending | d11fdb8b-3842-43ec-abb3-9e3b2f7e24ac | Old Ed was active back in the late 1950's He was apprehended 16 November 1957. The PR-24 Police Baton was invented in 1974. Yet the cops in the movie are all carrying the PR 24. Back then it would have been a standard "billy club" not the side handled PR 24. Sheeze, if you are gonna make movies do your research and get... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1261 | pending | e6b424db-cf75-4f63-82eb-836da20655bc | The title tells it all -- Ed Gein, the butcher of Plainfield.<br /><br />It's not a zappy action-filled slasher movie made for teens high on energy drinks. That would fit it into a well-established genre, the kind that some people find entertaining, something along the lines of "Halloween" or "The Texas Chain Saw Massa... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1262 | pending | 0ea60c4f-bb61-4eea-bd39-b114f139ac26 | I own a vacation lake home not far from Plainfield, WI. Ten minutes from the Gein property to be exact. I've seen his land, the cemetery where he is buried and where he did his digging, and I've shopped at the hardware store that was formerly owned by the Worden family. While visiting relatives in California, we decide... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1263 | pending | 1ab82a60-464b-4a83-9172-da3a18869dd6 | My reasoning behind viewing this film (despite the fact that it was free), was more or less out of curiosity... slight, slight curiosity... I wasn't all that familiar with this straight-to-video "biographical" account of Mr. Gein and discovered during the opening credits that it featured horror icon Kane Hodder in the ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1264 | pending | c4f556e8-99fb-4340-abbf-fa8f76e94e97 | Ever since he played a goon in Lone Wolf McQuade, actor/stuntman Kane Hodder has been busy. His film, Hatchet, got all the publicity last year, but he still makes a couple of more films every year. He should have skipped this one.<br /><br />Hodder seems to be the king of the slashers. he has played Jason Voorhees from... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1265 | pending | 3d3b8cf2-1963-4c62-ae5d-c5c14ac2c2a8 | When "Deranged" was made the film-makers saw fit to turn Ed Gein into Ezra Cobb even though the resultant film was actually quite close to the facts of the notorious case. I presume that enough was fictionalised that they thought they should change names and such.<br /><br />"Ed Gein - The Butcher Of Plainfield" masque... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1266 | pending | 97ac2ceb-71da-4787-b979-54b4fd47b2b3 | I just saw this movie and it turns out to be pretty lame just as mentioned by other user reviews and the one thing that bothered me the most was the southern accent some of the characters had, it took place in Wisconsin, not the south. As mentioned from other reviews, Ed Geine wasn't a big dude, so why did the guy that... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1267 | pending | 6ceb565a-393c-4dae-8d2b-5b0a4ba899fa | This is the worst movie I have ever seen and believe me I've sen a lot of bad movies. I love cheeesy horror but this was just terrible. There was not one scene in this film where I felt scared. All the actors must have been people that they found at a bus stop 20 minutes prior to shooting. I wish that Blockbutser would... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1268 | pending | 68480fa8-e037-4105-88e4-0111e2cb5bb5 | All of the great horror movies of the 70's, 80's, and even the early 90's from Psycho, to Texas Chainsaw Masacre (The original not that warmed over WB crap), to Silence of the Lambs. The characters in these movies were based upon the crimes of Ed Gein. The writers and directors tapped into the true story for the inspir... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1269 | pending | b2f25022-46ad-4370-991e-6d9588b8fea0 | I got this movie for fifty cents at a going out of business sale. I want my fifty cents back. Bad acting, poor script writing, lousy direction, historically inaccurate, even the sound of the film is awful. It's not the subject matter that offends. I'm one of the many who find suspense films and true crime films very in... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1270 | pending | 147dd168-9083-4973-bd04-27918052a74f | I have done some research on Ed Gien, and I have found a few interesting things. Like the fact that Ed Gien, was quiet and a loner, not some buff over bearing jerk as in this movie. I will say that I didn't finish this movie but I will. I will cringe through the fact that all of us, Wisconsinites, talk like we are from... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1271 | pending | f4fc5e84-e2ba-4f53-9602-9f1fce94fc4c | PLEASE people! DO NOT bother with this poorly directed joke. The direction was totally wrong from the outset. Where is the history of his mothers' emotional interference and the general madness in the original family? Why is ED portrayed as this large, overbearing imposing figure full of anger and hate? What IS this cr... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1272 | pending | 6adabf58-a5e2-40a9-a45c-22d1c330c08d | Ed Gein, one of the most famous serial killers of all time, he was the inspiration for famous movie killers like Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill. He is also one of the most sick and disturbing killers of all time, I watched a documentary on him, so I know his story pretty well. When I saw this, I was curiou... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1273 | pending | d90fb116-0239-48ec-afa5-4eced2731498 | Michael Feifer writes and directs this fictitious story based on the arrest of Edward Gein in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Gein was responsible for a rash of gruesome murders that sent a shock wave of terror through his rural hometown in the late 1950's. His evil mind and twisted world is suspected to be caused by his domine... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1274 | pending | 060bf401-6eb4-4996-81d2-1966574ff0d9 | The story of Ed Gein is interesting, VERY interesting. This movie, however, interesting only in the fact that it was actually made. Kane Hodder's portrayal of Ed Gein is so far off, it's not even the slightest bit funny. Ed Gein did not behave psychotic in public, he was very calm and collected and always extremely pol... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1275 | pending | 5766a714-d467-4e12-be22-d8474fc0d5fb | I am a big fan of horror movies, and know a lot of info on serial killers. Obviously the director of this one refused to research the film he was creating, because half of the movie was fictional. More than that, the character of Ed Gein was portrayed in the wrong light. I did not rent the movie to worry about the Depu... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1276 | pending | 7bfd9e55-35b3-4cd1-982e-d9f4ba149705 | Just saw this at the Madison Horror Film Festival and was disappointed. A few shocking, funny moments (fisting the hollow Carla, a urinating harpy in the Dreamland) and two competing interesting premises (similar to New Nightmare with belief bringing a mythical character to life and also Lost Highway with a man living ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1277 | pending | 29559302-6273-4d16-b7b3-7f6adb85fcde | Most likely "Cleopatra 2525" will be of little interest if you did not watch the series when it was broadcast; and I don't think that many people did. But if you are still somewhat intrigued it is a "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" premise without space ships and with no budget for wardrobe or production design. <br /... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1278 | pending | 6a019eeb-df2d-408e-9481-bf345cce23ab | If good intentions were enough to produce a good film, I would have rated the turgid, ponderous, obvious "Focus" a bit higher than 4. Macy does his best, but as an earlier poster commented, Miller's little parable asks us to suspend disbelief too often. Perhaps the novel gives us a bit more background on Newman, so we ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1279 | pending | 155d9df2-28ba-4f11-957e-db341b62f8ea | I had never heard of this film until it came to DVD. I was immediately intrigued by everything about it: the actors, the title, the cover, and especially the author. Arthur Miller, you can't go wrong with him, can you? Yep. I haven't read the novel, but I'm going to guess it was a lot better than the film. I had high h... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1280 | pending | 36819866-e408-4a10-b5c0-a04988896c75 | The somewhat-belligerent brother of a suicide finds that he and his mother grieve in much the same way (by acting out) but that Dad is morose and blaming himself. Writer-director Dan Harris gives us a dysfunctional family torn at the seams, characters with question marks hanging over them, and then lays all the story-p... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1281 | pending | acf62e66-a02a-46f2-89f7-a01a6ec51653 | Viewers of independent films know that once or twice a year they are going to see stories about dysfunctional families and they have come to expect them and it's becoming more of a challenge to keep them fresh but here despite the good cast it just seems more of the same. Story is about the Travis family who is trying ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1282 | pending | 18d4ee11-5474-460f-b992-7d77ea70db14 | ===========BIG SPOILER================================== This is a terrible movie with no likable characters. So many clichés and senseless scenes. It needs a good editor but then there might not be any movie left. Please save your two hours. The only decent and unpredictable scene in the movie was when the younger bro... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1283 | pending | 80a8f5e6-ee92-45b1-8650-9ef0051f0d0c | This was a character's movie. The plot wasn't that hot when it was there, but the characters were interesting and very well-acted. The story focuses on the Travis family in the wake of the eldest son's suicide. I say that loosely, because the story is mostly about the surviving son and the mother, because if the father... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1284 | pending | 9825433d-a501-44ff-af89-29b0a00012ae | This wretched psychodrama uses every shabby device in the book to wheedle attention and sympathy from us for its characters, who, with one exception, are not worthy of any notice at all, let alone two precious hours of filmgoers' time.<br /><br />As in Robert Redford's "Ordinary People" (a superb film that, in comparis... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1285 | pending | ec39d5a8-3add-4b61-81d9-9887dd6e3382 | I just finished watching this horribly depressing drama and realized that, in light of recent dramas such as these, the only ones who could be considered abnormal are those who are least aware that life is nothing more than tragic. I would suggest how nauseatingly defeatist and counter-productive this conclusion is, ev... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1286 | pending | a8bcae14-26f6-4732-ab63-ae0dde669248 | Kinda funny how comments for this film went consistently downhill, now add mine. I think the script could have been saved by better acting, and the acting by a better script. Together, it was difficult to watch, and I don't flinch from such subject matter.<br /><br />Sigourney was the best part (I thought the relations... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1287 | pending | 0a3b4c67-dfbc-48e2-99bc-3c2c72c01bd9 | Stylized Hollywood Westerns, full of familiar conventions, seem to have eternal life and this is an avatar. Everything in it seems to have been scraped out of the back of a drawer from 1939, a larger budget applied, and this production its issue.<br /><br />Gary Cooper has played this sort of role dozens of times -- th... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1288 | pending | cee90c30-e2e0-4197-96c1-0e7c3538ea1e | This is one of the most ridiculous westerns that Hollywood ever made. Gary Cooper plays 'Reb Hollister', a former confederate officer wanted by the law. He meets up with a moron named Weatherby, played by Leif Erickson, who is a U.S. Marshal with no knowledge of firearms. Weatherby is on his way to Dallas to see his fi... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1289 | pending | d7062ec8-75d4-40cd-921b-ad73106b7d79 | This is the most pitiful excuse for a comedy show I've ever seen. I'm confounded that this guy was given his own show. It smells of complete and utter desperation on the part of comedy central, trying to fill the void left by the talented and incomparable Dave Chapelle. He's a tip from Ned's bag of comedy gold: Is a pu... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1290 | pending | dfa9df09-232d-4a13-8c2a-a8c366212fa9 | I thought "puppets making crank phone calls" was pretty low, but I don't believe that Carlos Mencia's show even qualifies as comedy. His main objective is to make the audience incredibly uncomfortable while using the word "beaner" as many times as he possible can. I have never felt compelled to write a review declaring... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1291 | pending | 9055be79-691c-49f7-8a49-c3b8e5587f07 | I haven't watched this show in months, but for a while I was forced to watch it every day because I had a roommate that liked it. So maybe it's undergone some vast improvement in all that time, although the commercials and the 4.2 rating on IMDb aren't a good sign.<br /><br />It was clearly just a quick replacement for... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1292 | pending | d8d774e4-8805-4e86-aa80-e26e1b834e49 | ...so where's my friggin trophy? I seriously expected a banner and confetti to drop from my ceiling for watching a full 30 minutes of that crap. Comedy Central is truly dropping the ball lately, trying to fill the void left by Chappelle with multiple seasons of a retarded man impersonating retarded men. Dah duh nah!! I... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1293 | pending | 60151ad1-b817-4daf-8992-34543c6c119c | Yup, that's right folks, this is undoubtedly the worst show in the history of television. If you want to watch a sad, lonely and unfunny hack comedian attempt to entertain the masses with a half hour of pale and tired social ramblings that your mildly retarded cousin commented on at the Thanksgiving dinner table then t... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1294 | pending | 8103ee7e-f4a6-4b7d-a6ea-32a39e7f7ef9 | I absolutely love stand-up comedy. I love to hear the raw thoughts of the stand-up on stage, as they are appealing to an audience of their peers different life experiences they have had, or things they have thought up or seen that they just thought were so ****ing stupid that they had to share it with someone. <br /><b... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1295 | pending | a558e097-bdb5-4175-8b53-110f8f1f9307 | What is it now-a-days that minority comedians feel its okay to slander their minority and expect to get away with it? <br /><br />Carlos Mencia is no George Lopez. There IS a difference. When watching comedian Carlos Mencia, I think he hates his own people. And more than that, I think he was forced to pattern his show ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1296 | pending | 639c2e8b-e274-423d-b573-47a67f63473d | Carlos Mencia just plain isn't funny! His show is painful to watch because of that. His sketches/parodies are all very horrible, and this really just feels like a filler for the Chapelle Show, which while I'm not a big fan of that, it is much funnier than this trash. Carlos Mencia gives the stupid speeches and he all t... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1297 | pending | 13b4347d-820c-472e-8c15-54444e1ea082 | This is a great example of what happened at Comedy Central after Dave Chapelle left. Here's the problem with Carlos Mencia. Firstly, his birth name is Ned Holness, and was known that until he was 18, when he switched his name to Ned Arnel Mencia. He was born in Honduras, though he acts like he's from Mexico. He grew up... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1298 | pending | 45041226-c8a5-4852-a014-0c8cf306ea9f | I'm surprised that the comparison hasn't been made yet between Mind of Mencia and the television program The Awful Truth, which ran a few years ago. Helmed by controversial director Michael Moore, the show would begin, in the exact same manor as this show, with Moore interacting with the audience, and introducing segme... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_1299 | pending | e66f728b-bcfd-4d0a-b497-793d89619ddd | ...If you've been laughing too much for a long time, and need to take a break.<br /><br />After reading about 25 unfavorable reviews of this show, I decided to turn it on and check it out for myself. Everything that each of those people have said about this show is absolutely true. Mind of Mencia is like a half hour ve... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
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