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test_600 | pending | 4162abfa-c25a-4a40-a985-fd6484dded67 | In 1984, The Karate Kid had some charm to it, even if it was little more than a poor man's Rocky. Alas, producer Jerry Weintraub failed to realize it was best to leave the story at the point where it had ended, and convinced Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita to make an extra effort to turn the film into a trilogy. Part III ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_601 | pending | acb8accc-9af1-43d4-91f5-799bb9c9047f | The final installment in the Karate Kid series is predictable, poorly acted, and so bad it borders on the enjoyable. But not quite, it's just bad. In this installment Ralph Macchio's Karate Kid is absent, already having been in one too many of the episodes. The new Kid, played by Hillary Swank, is the teenage granddaug... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_602 | pending | 034fa018-39b1-442f-88d5-303e6abfb225 | I had been delighted to find that TCM was showing this, as I love the 1992 version with Josie Lawrence, Jim Broadbent, Joan Plowright...This film had a luminous Ann Harding, a wonderful performance by Frank Morgan, but others' acting made the film more of a farce then the wonderful unfolding that the later film. Regina... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_603 | pending | f6f407fb-c74a-486c-a01d-3c612d71d3ed | Enchanted April was one of Harry Beaumont's last movies- he only directed a few more after this one. He had made the "Maisie" movies in the 1930s and 1940s. In the opening credits, it says "From the novel by Elizabeth", and completely leaves off the author's last name... rather odd, but since it was von Armin, they may... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_604 | pending | e646efae-eb4c-45f0-83a1-94d11c5f6efc | I found this to be a tremendously disappointing version of a charming story. I thought the acting was on the whole quite good. Reginald Owen did chew the scenery, as mentioned by others, but I found him moderately amusing in his brief scenes. TCM has made an Ann Harding fan of me, and I thought she was fine as usual he... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_605 | pending | da33ba4d-2cf5-4ea1-bdea-c35fc343b0dc | The 1935 version of "Enchanted April" manages to be simultaneously tedious<br /><br />and perfunctory. It is difficult to show the transformative magic of Italy shooting in a studio with only stereotypical Italian behavior to belabor. The transformation of the four strangers fleeing London is instantaneous in the cut f... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_606 | pending | c98d44eb-50cd-47c3-a1e4-390d335cd6ae | The basic story idea of ENCHANTED APRIL is excellent--two very unhappy wives meet and decide to pool their funds to rent an Italian villa for a month. To further defray costs, they get two other strangers to come along. What makes it interesting are the relationships both before and during this vacation--in particular,... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_607 | pending | 2caa527e-7580-400f-a901-3a93fe4d0c74 | The Comic Strip featured actors from 'The Young One's' - a student based sitcom from the 80's. Comic Strip features included parodies of westerns, 'The famous 5', and The Professionals - all a lot funnier than this. Having said that Alexei Sayle puts in a good turn as a traffic cop with ambition and the soundtrack feat... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_608 | pending | 26eebbc1-fbab-4f3c-9d98-3e0cd1d319a1 | I struggle to see the point of this movie. It is supposed to be a comedy but I didn't laugh once. The storyline is one that could have been interesting in a well made movie, but since this is acted by comics, the result is totally unbelievable (as comedies should be). The Comic strip series was very hit and miss, even ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_609 | pending | aaefe87e-1c34-4026-91bb-521de77f6652 | First of all, I just wanna say that I'm a very big Naruto fan. I love the Anime and the Manga stories. Also, the first movie just confirmed that Naruto is all about great fun, great action, great story, ... But then came the 2nd movie. I was very hyped because the first movie turned out great. But it didn't satisfy me ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_610 | pending | 947464a5-e988-4711-8578-48527397b09f | This ultra-low budget kitchen-sink yawn is the kind of film that can only be made in the UK in that, anywhere else in the world the fact the a market would need to exist before a green-light would be given. Most probably self funded this is clearly an attempt to redress important issues but ultimately undermines its po... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_611 | pending | 52796b55-8df8-434f-a942-e50ef4c0a66a | Hard up, No proper jobs going down at the pit, why not rent your kids! DIY pimp story without the gratuitous sex scenes, either hard core or soft core, therefore reads like a public information film from the fifties, give this a wide miss, use a barge pole if you can. | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_612 | pending | c3820cde-1cd5-4b4c-9907-4335dede1555 | Well OK, I've seen Wrath of the Ninja.<br /><br />It isn't something that I would recommend to people who aren't seriously into japanese fighting movies. This is a sort of japanese fighting ninja movie, with a complex plot. It's about these 3 old ninja schools that had these 3 "Swords of Sorcery". I saw the subtitled v... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_613 | pending | b9354af4-254e-4a35-b646-adadb28af3e4 | It's perfectly ok that people dies in an animation, but there are just way too many death in this one. Start from the very beginning, the story is all around battles, fights, death, and revenge. It goes on and on for entire one and a half hour. It was interesting at the beginning, but I grew very tire after before the ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_614 | pending | fe78fdc5-00f1-476b-a8ca-d23aff8dfac5 | I'd have to agree with the previous reviewer: This film has awesome animation, but has problems throughout the rest of the movie.<br /><br />Plot holes are huge, dialog barely explains the concepts of the plot--the MAIN PLOT POINTS aren't even fully explained until the last five minutes of the film. The characters stat... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_615 | pending | cef7e3f9-7d22-4903-9731-67b1e451c156 | This movie stinks majorly. The only reason I gave it a 3 was because the graphics were semi charming. It's total disregard for a plot and the lack of even insubstantial surface character development made it seem like just a bunch of nice drawings. This is by far THE worse anime that came out of Japan. I can't believe t... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_616 | pending | 2ce994c0-8aea-475f-a34a-6ec5e14361f3 | I kind of had somewhat high expectations for this movie. I've always thought that Tom Selleck's lesser known movies (ie Runaway and Coma), where well above the ones he had more press for. Maybe the producers should have had a little more knowledge about former major league baseball players who became stars overseas. Th... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_617 | pending | e37fe1a7-ffcb-4fd5-ba5a-a79c8d2cba46 | It's a kinder, gentler Cyborg movie with a love story. Awww. It's not as bad as it sounds. The action, when it is there, is decent and Jack Palance, Elias Koteas, and Angelina Jolie are always dependable. It's the fact that this is a sequel to the terrible Jean Claude Van Damme film, or is that the capper to the Master... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_618 | pending | 89d36789-9640-466b-9ac0-08f20be533ec | As a sci-fi and casual Angelina Jolie fan, I thought this obviously low-budget movie might be worth a look... maybe it had a few scenes or a storyline that would make up for all its other faults. Plus, it might be interesting to watch Angelina as she was embarking on her star-bound career.<br /><br />Oh how wrong I was... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_619 | pending | 3a3edfc1-de12-49f1-b4ae-9921ff786158 | This movie is a cyborg in and of itself: half nonsense/half Lifetime Original Movie.<br /><br />As a cyborg, this movie has but one objective: to make you wish that you had spent the duration of the film in a dark room punching yourself in the testicles.<br /><br />Unlike many people, I did not rent this movie because ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_620 | pending | 3a2ab882-f875-487b-84dc-472d5fdeb66f | Cybrog 2:Glass Shadow stars Elias Koteas as Colton Hicks (Rhymes with kicks!) a karate instructor who helps a Cash (Jolie) escape from Pinwheel, her creators who look to detonate her and destroy a rival company. Along the way Billy Drago and Karen Shepherd show up to displace the duo, while Jack Palance is there to del... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_621 | pending | 739a9652-d964-48e5-afd9-c232fa5b098b | Two things are always signs that you`re going to be watching a bad movie :<br /><br />1 ) If you`re instantly reminded of other movies like THE TERMINATOR, HARDWARE or BLADE RUNNER during the title sequence <br /><br />2 ) If there`s a death during a sex scene straight after the title sequence<br /><br />There`s actual... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_622 | pending | bf9e2cbb-8365-4707-af11-8102d0eb43c5 | Simply awful. I'm including a spoiler warning here only because of including a coupla jokes from the movie - there is nothing else to spoil, as it is already rotten. This dross was made during what must have been one of Sellers' "For A Few Dollars More" periods, when he'd participate in any crap for a few bucks. I'd se... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_623 | pending | fe4cf99a-6c13-40bd-9ffe-c434f35cc510 | I wasted 35 minutes of my life on this turkey before I gave up. The main character is completely clueless and astoundingly unsympathetic, but there is no humor in his blundering. As soon as he arrives in Germany, the screenwriter pulls the old "there's only one room in the hotel, you'll have to share a room with a pret... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_624 | pending | 35daf878-81b3-4f2a-bc4a-2178a368ddb4 | This movie moved much too slowly for my taste.The concept of the story is refreshingly different in that it explores the family dynamics of living with a mentally-retarded family member in a way that I have not previously seen on-screen.However,the execution of the concept was flawed.Each character was developed fully ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_625 | pending | 24654235-a8fc-468c-a3a1-91f6e092698d | I finally got hold of a DVD copy of this production and was agog with curiosity, since I had read so many people praising it to the skies, particularly Angela Lansbury's portrayal of Mrs. Lovett. I saw the Tim Burton movie a few months ago and thought it over the top and overly bloody; thankfully this version is not so... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_626 | pending | a306239a-5f2d-4d8f-ac8c-79bd88b43033 | Some aspects of this production are good, such as the performances of Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, and Sal Mistretta. But am I the only one who is distracted by the horrible performance by Betsy Joslyn as Johanna? She is terrible! She slauters the songs with her screechy voice and overacts in a role... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_627 | pending | 7518d9df-56a7-4088-9a98-303b11306b97 | Among the many accolades here for this production, there was one individual whose comments asked if he/she were the only one (who wasn't that enthralled by it) - i.e. giving this film 3 stars. However, the comment went on to indicate an overall liking of the story, and other production of same. Well, this person isn't ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_628 | pending | b4757f51-1c91-4d1b-a08e-2beb38cb39b4 | This movie was one of the worst I have ever seen (not including anything by or with Pauly Shore). I couldn't believe that a film could actually be THIS bad!<br /><br />Coolio has to be the single worst actor (again, not including Pauly Shore) to ever "star" in a movie. The temptation to hit the STOP button during this ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_629 | pending | 38da71cd-f70d-460a-8d9e-8bee82612b1e | Okay, I just had to sound off on this one... Like a tremendous mental-gimp, I've just sat through this film in its entirety.<br /><br />You'll note that the trivia section of IMDB points out that portions of the raising of the 747 were "borrowed" from Airport 1977. This really doesn't scratch the surface... Virtually a... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_630 | pending | c6b0f888-b80c-4af2-87c1-cad881468a37 | Boring, ridicules and stupid "Submerged" is a waste of time. The shootouts were a joke, real people do not just stand out in the open with out any cover, hoping to get shot first! So many things wrong or bad, not worth the effort to list, except one major flaw. At 500 mph for 20 minutes = about 166 miles west of L.A. a... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_631 | pending | 82bcf63c-026e-45ec-bbc2-80b11652b83c | This is a terrible movie that only gets worse and seems to never end. The acting was bad, the plot was worse, and the special effects seemed to have been created by a 5th grade science class. Dennis Weaver is such a great actor and should have never taken such a part. My advise, DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE! | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_632 | pending | 4013c9c0-1fd6-4aba-852a-845343e3c4ac | This film has to rank down there with Ed Wood films. A terrible script and bad, bad acting.<br /><br />A machine gun fight in front of plate glass windows; minutes go by before anyone is hit and nobody has cover - not one window ever breaks. You'd think after a fire fight like that the big U-Haul truck might be riddled... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_633 | pending | 29dac694-803e-4470-a30b-94d5c89046b6 | "Submerged" is definitely NOT "the worst movie ever". It does have its flaws, such as borrowed footage, crazy script and non-existent special effects (these are the worst), but it also has some good points too. The acting is surprisingly good, there are LOTS of familiar faces whom you probably know if u're a b-movie fa... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_634 | pending | 6bdfcacc-7145-46ca-b267-fe35912f9676 | There is part of one sequence where some water rushes into the sunken plane, everything else that happens in this movie is stock footage for Airport 77. You can even make out Jack Lemmon and Christopher Lee in some of the shots. A total rip off? Well almost by definition. There may be more stock footage in this film th... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_635 | pending | ced6d91f-3995-48df-8a2e-b4486e1061c8 | You have to see this movie, it's a big footnote in the history of film. When this film was made, American film industry reached the bottom of sucking. See this movie, laugh, and feel sorry for yourself for wasting the last 2 hours of your life. It's the worst acting I've seen and even worse directing. The villains laug... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_636 | pending | 002e9019-2a12-4e19-a6bd-3667cdcfb7be | This is really a terrible film by any of the regular yardsticks. Plot, storyline, acting, effects, direction - I could go on. Suffice to say it's poor. However, it has a certain appeal. Many totally out of context sex scenes appear, it's fun looking for the Batman references. Umm - that's it. Poor really, don't bother. | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_637 | pending | dd234688-4d74-4675-bf24-70784dd0cf3d | Pun intended. This low budget action/horror vehicle for Don Wilson's ability to kick things is the stuff direct-to-video fare is made of.<br /><br />The plot: Wilson is a humorless vampire hunter who comes under fire from local law enforcement after he is forced to slaughter creatures of the night in view of the public... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_638 | pending | 81529dd6-e60f-49b2-94a1-27b2353982f8 | Don Wilson stars as Jack Cutter (Ooh real tough name!)a vampire slayer who goes up against a vampire army, you see the story is a little different because vampires can't be killed with silver, crosses or sunlight but rather through snapping their necks (How convenient as it cuts down on the budget) and it's here Cutter... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_639 | pending | 52d0a27a-f50f-4de3-a8ec-a643cd45286e | I think vampire movies (usually) are wicked. Even if the film itself isn't all that good, I still like it 'cos its got vampires in it. But this stinks. It really does give vampire movies a bad name.<br /><br />For a start, the cheapness really shows. I'm not usually that bothered about low budget films - one of my favo... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_640 | pending | a7afce18-2e0d-4db0-ad1d-961ec515aabd | While credited as a Tom and Jerry cartoon, this is not the cat-and-mouse team but an earlier Mutt-and-Jeff rip-off featuring them going to Africa and disguising themselves in the stereotypical burnt cork makeup to try to blend in. While the dialect humor is mostly lame, there is a brief musical sequence involving "blac... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_641 | pending | 2b9a732e-d3ea-479a-ba91-83af36753449 | Tom and Jerry are transporting goods via airplane to Africa. But being white men, they're worried they won't be safe, so they put on blackface to fit in. Once they're wearing it, they adopt black dialect and fully inhabit their new characters. They crash into the ocean and use the wing of the plane as a raft. Before re... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_642 | pending | ed7eafb9-1542-41b0-bb59-155c0f0756ba | I was under assumption that this was the cat and mouse duo but it wasn't instead it was something that shouldn't have been made not even for its time. They disguise themselves in the "blackface" fashion because they fly to Africa and they even act like Stepin Fetchit and all the others rolled into one. There are some c... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_643 | pending | bd3479e5-30bd-4155-aa11-99aa38d17800 | My God, the things that passed for entertainment in this country...<br /><br />This is *not* the "Tom and Jerry" you may have enjoyed on Saturday Mornings, featuring a hapless cat and a clever mouse. This is a much earlier animation series, featuring a pair of Mutt-and-Jeff clones who get themselves into various scrape... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_644 | pending | 16d20c04-d59a-49b6-acc5-892df7345d34 | For a scientifically-engineered super-dog that was supposed to be the answer to petit crime, CHOMPS was a chump.<br /><br />All I ever saw Chomps do was sit, or walk, or run. Or run, then walk, then sit... and then get back up again and stretch, and then walk, and then jog to K-Tel dance hits. And sometimes it had all ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_645 | pending | 17e9935f-ebb6-4cc6-9727-15ec11a08ca3 | C.H.O.M.P.S. is very much like any number of cheesy late 70s Disney family comedys-The Cat from Outer Space or Unidentified Flying Oddball, for instance. Utterly devoid of anything creative, beating the same cliches to death, yet vaguely entertaining in a mindless sort of way. The actors won't win any awards, nor will ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_646 | pending | a1d407ee-0faa-4b9e-9348-df2c2dede4f4 | i think south park is hilarious, and i have no problem w/them taking shots at people on the left, but you'd think that, after taking a whole movie to attack celebrities for risking their careers taking on an illegal war, and then being GASP right along, they would have the sense to start giving w. and the bastards ruin... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_647 | pending | 47b1d2b9-aab0-4305-81f8-3b960f2b3e43 | An awful film; badly written, badly acted, cliched, hackneyed, dross. The premise is such a good one and a chance to educate about black cowboys but the film is truly dire. It is a curious mix of a bad 1950's Randolph Scott B movie and a bad 1970's spaghetti western. The villains are cardboard, the flashbacks laughable... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_648 | pending | 29eb113f-4fa4-40da-9adc-0541b2d4fee4 | This move is bad on so many levels I don't even know where to start. OK - the good points - Peebles is beautiful as a dirty outlaw in black leather. Some of the landscape photography was stunning. That's about it. Oh, and it was a nice touch having the buffalo head above the bar door in Freemanville, I figure it was a ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_649 | pending | dda158a1-a80f-4a78-976e-d8f083dac517 | It's not just that the movie is lame. It's more than that. This movie is just unnecessary. Do we need another Western? How about a western with afro-Americans in the titles roles? Sound stupid, implausible and a lame attempt at modernizing the genre? It is. Incredibly lame and simple minded. It's like that lame Baz Luh... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_650 | pending | 7b1b7d0b-6b73-4cc8-989d-88abaedf792e | This is the worst movie of ALL TIME! It's one of those that is so ridiculous and the acting so bad that you turn off the video 1/3 into it so that you can use your time for better purposes like cleaning the toilet. If you actually watch the whole thing, GOD help you. | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_651 | pending | dc68312c-c823-4846-98b6-9757c89d9b27 | Wow, what a racist, profane piece of celluloid garbage, and what an insult to the great genre of Westerns.<br /><br />Exploitive? Sex scenes abound, profanity abounds, violence and gore abounds.....everything that gives modern movies such a good name, especially among those who prefer classic-era movies. This is the ki... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_652 | pending | f19e6d40-c197-4382-8db3-4888eb723648 | In my opinion, the movie was laughable--bad dialogue. Whoever wrote the script--please keep your day job. It's definitely NO Godfather or Goodfellas. It's good to be on the otherside of the table--poor choice of words. Some of the characters were clowns. But what do you expect from a low budget movie with no name actor... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_653 | pending | c3944cda-5ef0-456c-a493-d73e9639d0f5 | Sometimes, changes to novels when they're made into films are not only necessary, but a good thing. However, in the case of Northanger Abbey, it's a very, very bad thing. Not only is the story itself ripped to shreds, but the satire is almost completely absent from the film, and it's mixture of romance and intrigue doe... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_654 | pending | 55c69cda-7b0e-4825-b875-db371c138fbe | Poor Jane Austen ought to be glad she's not around to see this dreadful wreck of an adaptation. So many great Jane Austen movies have come out recently that this one deserves to be permanently buried along with two other movies I despise-The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and the 1969 version of David Copperfield. My mai... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_655 | pending | 15f97380-0073-484e-9a4c-71b8f082b55e | Normally BBC productions of Jane Austen are pretty good but Northanger Abbey is just odd. What were they thinking? This film has little of Austen's charm and ironically mimics the Gothic novels that Austen so wonderfully mocked. Not only that, the "gothic" sequences are tacky, over-the-top, and frankly silly. The actre... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_656 | pending | 2b9a0153-8711-470e-a62e-d5ae15f77b32 | Is it possible to give a 0 out of 10 rating? Because this one deserves it. While I'm not a big fan of Jane Austen's books, I sat through this one with two women who are. Well, at least we had a big laugh about how bad this film is. Robert Hardy was the only actor with any charisma in the whole thing, though he overdid ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_657 | pending | 8a4681ab-fce6-43f3-9c4d-051d5568c55b | My first hugely disappointing BBC/Jane Austen flick. The tone is off, the costumes are off, the hair is off, the music is from outer space, and Robert Hardy, bless him, looks like he's really annoyed to be in such a stinker. Even some of the casting is off. No, I take that back, a good director can make a silk purse ou... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_658 | pending | 14dde87d-1241-48d5-8021-31e5645169a6 | My mom, my cousins, and I are pretty big Jane Austen fans. We know all the words to the 1995 Pride and Prejudice masterpiece, and have watched Gwyneth Paltrow's Emma an embarrassing number of times. I've read all the books, and I've even sat through Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion a few times. So my mom and I thou... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_659 | pending | 1d033439-39fb-4381-aa76-372549825bc5 | This movie started off well enough, sticking to the mood of the book fairly well even if the acting was not top notch. The soundtrack was torturously bad. Saxaphone and electric guitars? It was gratingly incongruous. The female singer was positively dreary! In the second half of the film the story takes a decidedly dar... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_660 | pending | 492378a9-5a7d-4dee-91d2-3586b422bb64 | The BBC and the Arts & Entertainment Network should be ashamed of themselves for foisting this unfortunate production onto the world. The acting is, with the exception of Robert Hardy as General Tilney, amateurish at best and excruciatingly painful at worst. The costumes are over-the-top and feature some truly ghoulish... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_661 | pending | 7e15acc8-df35-4652-9ad4-9ca600ac7975 | Shaky hand held cameras (this piece was shot for television mind you, not film) not only keep you utterly conscious of how horrible the cinematography is in this film, but make you absolutely unable to become immersed in the story. Poor Miss Austen must be rolling in her grave. All I can say is, if you enjoyed the nove... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_662 | pending | 6832f7b4-29a7-4ebc-8fba-f29422ea5806 | The filmmakers were clearly on drugs. That's the only explanation I have. How else do you explain this travesty of a Jane Austen adaptation? Northanger Abbey is a parody of a Gothic novel. But this film was made as if it WERE a Gothic novel. The bizarre music and dream sequences to me suggest drug-induced hallucination... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_663 | pending | 11e2a1ad-72ac-412e-92e2-23a4b757e104 | Northanger Abbey is not my favorite Jane Austen novel, but it has its charms. This movie doesn't. It has some of the same character names as the book, but the story is drastically altered, and the sweetest man in the whole Austen canon (unless Emma's Mr. Knightley gets pride of place) is made out to be a heartless and ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_664 | pending | 0d661fa0-778d-4f85-8354-54e78cca6423 | What an awful adaptation. The worst part was the music. Saxophone muzak and synthesizers playing in a story set in the early 1800's?????? The only character that didn't bore me to sleep was Robert Hardy. I had to fight to keep my eyes open on this one, and I love Jane Austen movies usually. I didn't even rent it, I bor... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_665 | pending | d2448914-89c5-4cdb-9241-1512d433c39f | I'm afraid I did not like this adaptation. When I started watching it I had a strange feeling of watching some 70s TV series, due to the filter and the musical score. I did not like the end scene. Mr Tilney appears dressed only in his waistcoat. Jane Austen would never have a gentleman ride out without a frock coat. Lo... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_666 | pending | 8d62966f-b4bc-46fc-9d00-9bf9b9068815 | Poor Jane Austen. This dog of a production does NOT do her wonderful tongue in cheek novel any justice. Starting at the top ... poorly adapted. The screenwriter deserves extra low marks for trying to -- come to think of it, I don't know WHAT she was trying for, but suffice it to say she missed the mark by light years!!... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_667 | pending | 83800139-46f5-45be-880c-8f5df8a386e6 | (This might have a spoiler)<br /><br />When I first started watching this movie, I thought it was OK. The music was good and that bizarro dream sequence I was willing to forgive, but the lack of looks in the main character and all of the other characters for that matter made me uninterested in watching the rest of this... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_668 | pending | 4777eb50-df4c-4929-8052-7e8c39aeb225 | This is a terrible movie, that is barely recognizable from the book, although they have sort of similar plots. The time it takes to watch this movie (which is only 1.5 hours) would be much better spent doing anything else, including watching grass grow. The addition of poorly done fantasy scenes make Catherine seem ins... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_669 | pending | 34b9ddb6-0d3c-4b58-8da9-a10c0854cfc9 | It is hard for a lover of the novel Northanger Abbey to sit through this BBC adaptation and to keep from throwing objects at the TV screen-in fact, if Jane Austen herself were to see this, she would be somewhat amused and possibly put out. Maggie Wadey's adaptation has made Northanger Abbey into what it satirized, the ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_670 | pending | c2da00c1-3e4b-4db8-aa91-771921331647 | We really don't know where to begin when talking about this movie. But we'll start with the plot. We sincerely suspect that whomever wrote/produced/directed this movie never read the book. Because they missed the entire point. SATIRICAL, not horror. Just a hint. Second, the bath scene. Enough said. Third, the added cha... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_671 | pending | d6816030-55f7-4ed6-ba30-f98577f86b60 | I've seen some terrible book-to-film adaptations in my day, but this one tops them all! The bizarrely unattractive cast detracts from the story, which is, in itself, untrue to the book. Mr. Tilney is nothing like handsome; as for Catherine Morland, a rat-like appearance makes this heroine a difficult one to sell to a s... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_672 | pending | 4a83eaa4-fb60-4582-9235-9178021981f7 | Awful, dreadful, terrible. The actors are bad, the music is ridiculous and the filming pathetic. I rented the DVD and had to force myself to watch it until the end.<br /><br />My advice: read the book, it is much better and you won't have to put up with all these silly images and ridiculous dreams Catherine has.<br /><... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_673 | pending | e31166b5-baae-40bd-912b-9cbc7a3e762a | Now and again, a film comes around purely by accident that makes you doubt your sanity. We just finished studying the novel, "Northanger Abbey", at school and decided to refresh our memory of this unexciting piece of humourless garbage with the BBC adaptation.<br /><br />The funny thing about Northanger Abbey is that i... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_674 | pending | a36bfeca-361b-4b19-8d7b-c73585a67d21 | I watched "Fuckland" a long time ago. I lied if I'd tell that I remember it in detail; what I remember most vividly is the irritation it provoked me and the feeling of a total waste of precious money and time, not only my time and money invested in watching the movie but also the director's.<br /><br />Supposedly, "Fuc... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_675 | pending | b3a0afd6-a860-4907-a97d-6e01a9fea5c4 | I will confess that once I started watching this movie, it had a hold on me that forced me to watch it through to its conclusion. Quite possibly this was some latent voyeuristic tendency in me that wanted to see our hero get it on with his victim, or maybe fascination that they got funding to make, distribute, and show... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_676 | pending | 7da49b69-cbd4-40f1-90ec-2979af502e07 | The preposterous premise of this flick has to do with Argentina reclaiming the Falkland Islands, having failed through force in 1982, by impregnating the European women inhabitants with Argentinean sperm thereby diluting the ethnic purity until it favored Argentina. Yeah, right. The reconnaissance is done by our hero/v... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_677 | pending | baed8a0e-97f5-48b7-b503-db2485a3287a | This is an absolutely horrid excuse for a show. People say its witty and intelligence? I don't see how? Maybe because the characters use fancy words? Maybe because they are snooty, use dry humor, and have 2 dimensional personalities. I went to an Ivy league school and nobody acted anywhere near as obnoxious as these ch... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_678 | pending | b3d92385-663c-4781-9bd1-9e4c6b843b7e | Usually when I don't see a show on an original run, I find it later on cable and realize it's a gem. The "Gimore Girls" is one of those rare exceptions. I'm glad I missed it.<br /><br />I truly despise shows that fill every minute of the actors space with rambling, stupid, boring banter. This is one hour of just that. ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_679 | pending | c48d957d-2c83-4dc3-ba09-d7e8bb7fc80e | I tired on several attempts to sit down and watch this program "Gilmore Girls". It baffled me for I just couldn't put my finger on what this was about. Was this about a young woman having a baby young in life and never growing up? Was this about the daughter being more responsible than the mother? Was this about a rebe... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_680 | pending | 3a2e4f86-dcd7-425c-93b8-acbef7f80efc | When I first watch this series, the impression I got was that the characters were charming and funny, Lorelai and Rory in particular were witty and intelligent conversationalist albeit a bit too talkative. After watching it for some time, however, my opinion changed.<br /><br />The main characters slowly revealed thems... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_681 | pending | 050d2459-2a63-4df2-819f-95d6758cbc34 | I decided to watch this show and give it a go but I found it to be boring, and more importantly dull.....Dull.<br /><br />There is far too much sarcasm and the characters are all dull, there is far too much talking and the character Lorelai...just keeps talking on and on and on.... During a second glance felt like suff... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_682 | pending | c823802f-829b-45b1-89b9-0c9b571f6041 | It's been mentioned by others the inane dialogue in this series and I agree.<br /><br />If Mom and daughter were really that sharp-witted they should be Queen and Princess of the Universe, not kicking around in some little town.<br /><br />I've really tried to watch a few episodes but when the witty staccato mumbling p... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_683 | pending | 4a593cbe-1361-47fc-8567-d7cf9f7ffad0 | This is one of four 1970s movies by TV writer Lane Slate about sensationalistic murders in small towns. They feature likable TV personalities as police chiefs and quirky characters as town regulars, including light-touch love interests. The others are: They Only Kill Their Masters (James Garner, 1972); and The Girl In ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_684 | pending | dd841f2e-e0a6-4069-b403-408c7bbc6122 | at first i thought 'nasaan ka man' might be one of those progressive new filipino films. as someone noted earlier, the movie does not look poorly made. it's clear that the directors used more expensive cameras to shoot, better angles, better sound equipment, good-looking actors, and nicer locations.<br /><br />however,... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_685 | pending | c1838f7f-7c46-470c-ae02-8a855a390a12 | Derek Jarman has shown us time and time again that dialog is not his strong suit. He is a painter, and paint he does. His films are almost always visually splendid, but about as exciting to watch as paint that is already dry. Watch his movies in fast forward, the really fast setting that you can only get on DVD. In The... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_686 | pending | b6714f92-b628-42c1-9321-c6dc8a9859db | I was loaned this DVD by the director of a film I am working with, in which I play an actor who is playing Prospero. Knowing his own style, I did not expect anything resembling a "classical" interpretation of the text.<br /><br />What I have found is sometimes striking, sometimes evocative, but often meandering and ted... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_687 | pending | f2b14a2c-4228-4c8c-bb82-d3cdbd821793 | This was an interesting adaption of William Shakespeare's last known solo play but in my humble opinion, a terrible one. Jarman tries to change the personalities of the characters for a start. He makes Miranda seem insane after being stuck on the island for so long, Prospero is no different - a mix of madness and self-... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_688 | pending | b5844eb1-4045-4a84-9d4a-2901a9c491cc | I have read all of Shakespeare's plays, seen productions of a majority of them and even acted in and directed some. I do not necessarily believe that Shakespeare must be done in the "traditional" fashion, but I hated this movie.<br /><br />There is nudity that is gratuitous and unnecessary. There is grotesqueness that ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_689 | pending | a6be6194-a962-4e0e-86fe-1a2841bf708b | This movie was recommended to me by some academics. From their comments, I had some pretty lofty expectations. But this movie was nothing but disappointing. The aim of the director is obvious--to use an interweaving of speeches/poems as a way to argue against the Bush doctrine. But the director fails miserably at this.... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_690 | pending | 989ea62c-11ce-418d-ae28-ec58614f211c | Despite the fact that the plot follows the well-known recipe of "who did it", which has characterised all the Perry Mason movies so far, the characters of the present film are not so well-developed and the selected cast fails to give them flesh and blood. Of course, in general, the Perry Mason movies are not significan... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_691 | pending | 58381003-25cb-42f4-be5c-4c946773938e | Of all of the post-1985 Perry Mason movies I have seen, this one is my least favorite.<br /><br />I confess I have never liked Diana Muldaur as an actress. She only seems to know how to play one type of character - a hard-bitten career woman with some undefined chip on her shoulder who for that reason is extremely diff... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_692 | pending | 8a39b9ad-7e95-423b-9f33-24724a7b9b6c | "People stranded in a country house during a storm discover that the home was the sight of an unsolved murder years before. During a dinner discussion of the incident, the lights go out and, when they come back on, they discover that one of the guests has been killed. Fearing for their lives, the guests attempt to find... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_693 | pending | ccffd6a7-95db-43c7-93f1-6628415bc676 | I find Herzog's documentary work to be very uneven. Fata Morgana, a companion piece of sorts to Lessons of Darkness, lacks not only the harrowing spectacle but mostly the discerning eye of an author. It is by comparison amateur looking, aimless pans left and right across the desert the kind of which you would expect fr... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_694 | pending | 19d4ebfc-0eef-4558-80f1-51d1d0007e65 | This is not a movie. This is a collection of random shots taken in a fascinating part of the world, dubbed over with some random text. The footage is not that great and the text is not that great either. The end product is excruciatingly dull.<br /><br />On the DVD, turning the commentary on can provide some entertainm... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_695 | pending | 714a577e-239b-429c-90bf-66c95574df66 | Released at a time when Duvivier was going again from strength to strength ."Black Jack" which was sandwiched between the overlooked extraordinary "Au Royaume des Cieux" and the dazzling stunning "Sous Le Ciel de Paris" , is a jumble,which Duvivier himself hated,which is not surprising.There's almost nothing to write a... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_696 | pending | 7c898c9c-6da4-4bf7-b2d4-fd09d98ecf5e | OK so it's not great either, but only because of how great Laurel and Hardy have been in the past. If this film received a total overhaul, with picture quality enhanced, add new dubbing to the badly dubbed voices and added a nice unobtrusive background music then this film would truly start to take shape. As it is, it ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_697 | pending | 42628e0d-848d-495d-92f9-3747c5e417d5 | Oh, why did it have to end like this? Laurel and Hardy's last film, from the crudely cranked-up Cuckoo theme (with erroneous credit to Hal Roach) to the closing "Nice mess"/"I couldn't help it" schtick, this is the duo as a grotesque parody of themselves. In between, their relationship is now solely constructed of unce... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_698 | pending | 41416f33-51d0-4118-97bf-680417fef687 | I just watched Atoll K-Laurel and Hardy's last movie together and known here in the states as Utopia-on Internet Archive expecting to see some extra footage since the IA version had a running time of 2 hours and 21 minutes. Turns out that it's basically the same version I previously watched on the bargain basement VHS ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_699 | pending | 5c9fa681-de37-448e-ada5-c33b28b6707d | This movie was difficult for me to watch. Stan looked very old and ill compared to what I remembered, and Ollie was heavier than I ever recall in another film. Most difficult though were gaps in the script/production where I found myself wondering, "How did they get from here to there???" It took nearly half the film b... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
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