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test_800 | pending | ce002b33-9062-4c36-8832-842a94b7ba95 | I happened to catch this movie on late night TV. I saw the opening credits and thought this looks good. Well I was very wrong. While not excruciatingly bad (it had some funny and tender moments)it lacked any sense of cohesion.<br /><br />It started off well enough with Kathy Bates'character having a midlife crisis of s... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_801 | pending | e0ee455e-040c-4303-babd-9d0975a1f995 | Opening with some blatantly reused footage from 'Kit for Cat', 'Tweety's S.O.S' fails to live up to that classic cartoon. Instead, we get an example of Friz Freleng's Tweety and Sylvester series at its most generic. Unlike Chuck Jones's Road Runner series, which strived to introduce new jokes to the same setting, Frele... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_802 | pending | 6f94e746-ec2f-4d3c-a740-5bf9c8f14561 | Sylvester the cat stowaway upon a ship that Tweety bird happens to be on with his owner Granny. Oh I don't even have enough words to convey how much I disdain both the Tweety and Granny characters. They simply are not funny to me and made this short quite the chore to sit through indeed. Sylvester is a great character ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_803 | pending | 262ad65b-e36c-4627-ac19-7a01d00d9242 | Nothing special to see here, the animation has being outdated and the plot is a typical futuristic era. This film has an original story, but if it doesn't have an original plot or characters, so in my opinion it's not worth seeing. I'm not saying that the movie was bad, it was just a typical anime story and I thought I... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_804 | pending | 513780c8-fa02-4ee3-b13f-a2e74ae7dd61 | I had the misfortune of seeing this crapulous effort on television a few years ago. Suffice it to say Michael Gross phones in his performance, and Hasselhoff is the least convincing thief/psycho...EVER! If you have a couple of hours to kill, watch it and prepare to laugh. | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_805 | pending | 3876a423-5f77-4cb0-8f33-99074c19fb12 | "The Duke" is a film based in the heart of the British aristocracy where an old Duke (John Neville) dies and to avoid his large property and the vast riches to be taken from him after death by 2 devious aristocrats (Oliver Muirhead and Sophie Heyman); he passes his Dukeship down to his dog. The dog's "best friend", an ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_806 | pending | 5871756f-09f7-4579-916d-cbb140bf7a33 | Even those of us who like cute animal pictures --- and I abhor them ---would be hard pressed to find any merit in this abysmally bad travesty of a film. Perhaps inspired by "101 Dalmatians" with its smart and loyal dogs, its dumb and devious humans and its absurdly "happy" and predictable ending, the alternate title "1... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_807 | pending | 007efcc7-a966-4a65-93a1-4b0296757ce0 | Okay, now I am pretty sure that my summary got your attention and my commenting that Zazu Pitts is Satan is not without some basis. Let me explain. The film at first appears to be a dandy B-movie about an evil organization called "the Crooked Circle" and their vow of revenge in the form of murder on a rival organizatio... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_808 | pending | 11a6a637-d23d-4a23-9d84-848703650425 | Spike Milligan was one of the funniest men I've ever seen, and a huge influence on my life.<br /><br />This movie is limp and awful, and does his memory no credit. The script is cluttered and preserves too many lines from the book intact (the leg jokes here are incomprehensible). The actors' performances are uniformly ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_809 | pending | 130018e5-8dc4-47b6-85ac-80318d4c8763 | technically, this movie would have had it all: decent actors, a nice landscape, no obvious sights of a lack of budget, a celebrity like richard attenborough. the plot summary also sounded promising, suggesting a satire on silly bureaucracy and common people outwitting it.<br /><br />however, it never delivers. the plot... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_810 | pending | 666697cf-b5de-48d1-ab28-17fbc643ea97 | When I first looked at the back of the cover of this film, it seemed like me and my friends could be looking forward to 82 memorable minutes. And it certainly was memorable. Puckoon was the kind of movie where you keep asking yourself how this was possible. How it was possible that it was released on DVD at all. Out of... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_811 | pending | 7fa4f263-b0e8-407d-93c1-56d30642ec66 | This was a mish mash of a film that started out going nowhere, got lost on the way then suddenly found a plot in the last 5 minutes when the title character is FINALLY introduced. There were so many ugly, mutton-chopped guys in this film, I lost track of who was the owner and who were the overseers. I have a theory abo... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_812 | pending | 02868618-8ed3-4476-bed5-38ec6328d50b | The Italians are undeniable masters in the questionable "art" of ripping off and imitating movies. What they do is take an innovative, money-making and foreign concept, maintain the basic plot and just add a whole lot of action, sleaze and political incorrectness. But what to do when the non-Italian original is already... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_813 | pending | 23c689ba-0cec-4dfd-896c-9ae8ba37cb90 | Trading on the success of the 1975 hit, this film is a cheaply made story of a plantation where Massa gets down with the slave women, and the Missus gets down with the big black stud, and with massa'a son also. In fact, there is so much getting down going on, that I really don't know why anyone bothered to get dressed.... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_814 | completed | 0299cf60-03e3-4a15-bb7f-47665d507b7d | Italian rip off of Mandingo and The Drum is a badly dubbed Italian life on the plantation yarn. Lots of people who don't look like they belong in the American South wear badly tailored costumes and wander around locations that look nothing like the American south. The plot has something about the romance between a rich... | [
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test_815 | pending | 75bf0f33-3e98-4eee-a5cb-1d00cf5b8d02 | 1st watched 3/17/2002 - 2 out of 10(Dir-Mario Pinzauti): Silly, sex-filled master & slave having too many intimate relations movie. This movie seemed to care more about the sex than the story and kind of worked the story around the sex. Laughable dubbing of the original Italian language in the version I watched with ri... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_816 | pending | cf5cdc07-beb4-461d-8afc-01d8cbbe4049 | I actually was looking forward to this movie. After reading a number of reviews before the release, it sounded like a genuinely nice film, one that was beautifully filmed and one with an interesting cast (Nicholas Cage, Penelope Cruz and John Hurt.)<br /><br />Well, it might have been all of those things BUT it is so b... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_817 | pending | e61df95b-7462-462e-a500-72b55a2fafda | I give it a 2, because of the beautiful Mediterranean Greece, otherwise it would be 1. When Nicholas Cage came into with his first lines, I thought he was just kidding. Cage as an Italian ?? I'm sorry, but very wrong actor who's acting is also BAD, not to mention his Italiano accent. The story is very loose, it might h... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_818 | pending | 49e86fdc-419e-40ba-ba28-b7f28b39166a | In 4 words, Captain Corelli's Mandolin was "completely out of tune" with the book. The novel provided sufficient character background to understand the relationships and personal challenges the characters needed to overcome; the script writer chose to ignore the details. In ignoring them (e.g. the priest's role initial... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_819 | pending | caf35a88-ea0f-49be-bda2-daac6c48fcd7 | An awful travesty of the Greek resistance. Senorita Cruz badly miscast as a Cephalonian Greek girl (there are plenty of attractive good English speaking Greek actresses so why pick a Spanish lady for one of the leading roles and with an English actor as her father, supposedly a Greek doctor!? Many of the supporting ca... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_820 | pending | ce654d0d-3c92-4d82-8631-95f6bcfed202 | This is supposed to be based on Wilkie Collins' _The_Woman_In_White_, but the only resemblance it bore to that story were the characters' names, the time period, and the settings. If they were going to change the story so thoroughly, I don't understand why they needed to keep up the pretense that it came from Wilkie Co... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_821 | pending | e22fe228-d0b1-4e2e-b69b-ee01504c8764 | Having first read the novel, I don't mind,for the purposes of filming, how differently it is scripted, as long as it adheres to, or at least includes, the plot. For reasons known only to Hollywood, important parts of the story are completely ignored, and a different story line added. The reason this novel passed the te... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_822 | pending | 7cba79eb-e4fb-4145-81c3-1409edcaeb66 | OK, so one night me and some friends decided to get really stoned and watch a movie. Unfortunately for us, we chose 'Ernest Goes to Africa.' I have never laughed so hard in my entire life. This movie is beyond bad. I have literally pooped out better films than 'Ernest Goes to Africa.' (I poop films) <br /><br />The hig... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_823 | pending | b6ca3d6a-9493-4ba7-8f1b-86a1d022717b | I honestly don't know where to begin when reviewing a movie as pathetic as Ernest Goes to Africa. Aside from two or three good laughs dispersed throughout the film, there is nothing positive about this hour-and-a-half waste of time and life. It is incredible that someone was able to round up a group of people willing t... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_824 | pending | 01d2ed22-39c1-474b-87f6-6bd823e7b4dc | There's considerable amount of money behind this production, so the look of it is very good. It includes some interesting appearances by Gilbert Roland, Eddie Burns, and a brief cameo at the beginning by Christopher Lee. There are a few exciting gunfights, and a humorous bit or two - the satire on Django, the Man with ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_825 | pending | df1bdea8-2472-4957-8b5b-b44993bee322 | Lately, I've been watching a lot of westerns from the 1930s to the present. There are some great low budget spaghetti westerns from the late 1960s and early 1970s. This movie had all the elements of a decent western: a good story with talented actors and everything else. Although, it's a spoof of this genre, and for me... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_826 | pending | 5295b141-e0ca-4db9-811a-5385f8b009ac | The film begins with a dandy gunfight, where three bandits are quickly gunned down by a bounty hunter--a bounty hunter who bears more than just a superficial to the Man With No Name from the Clint Eastwood trilogy (FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE and THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY).<br /><br />Immediately aft... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_827 | pending | 12fdc740-51c4-422f-8d57-d4606a9a0c04 | Undoubtedly, the least among the Spaghetti Westerns I've been watching lately: basically a low-brow rip-off of Leone's THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966) with three disparate characters outwitting one another (and occasionally forming shaky alliances) in their search for hidden gold. Leonard Maltin rated it a BOMB; ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_828 | pending | 1684acec-5a6d-4b08-8046-d63fc12d80de | ANY GUN CAN PLAY (2 outta 5 stars) Totally routine "spaghetti western" starring that guy who used to play "Kookie" on "77 Sunset Strip". The plot is some convoluted nonsense about some stolen gold coins and various gunmen of dubious motivation trying to track it down. This is one of those "lighthearted" westerns... whi... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_829 | pending | 25c93252-4831-479b-ae7b-7dfc479e0024 | Unlike the other spaghetti Westerns, this one has characters that almost make sense, and can be identified to some degree. It still has the goofy gunplay of other spaghettis Westerns. A spaghetti, by the way, is another word for a Western with no plot, no characters you can care about, and goofy gunplay that doesn't ma... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_830 | pending | 2c1d8b3d-4909-4bb6-a91e-014ad5214969 | This is a classic example of what happens when a sit com is on TV for far far too long. Everything gets tired and the jokes start getting repeated over and over again. OK, from the start, the first couple of series were quite good. You had an Entertainment Manager (Simon Cadel) being pursued by his deputy played by Rut... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_831 | pending | da16ee73-ef64-4e13-befb-618c91a3b342 | OK, yes I know I'm a Philistine, and I have no knowledge of, nor love for opera. I readily admit that I might feel differently about this film if I did. But I don't. So, for those of you like me, skip this one unless you want to look at the pretty (sometimes unclothed) girls. For what it's worth, I thought the first se... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_832 | pending | fd7b664a-3e4a-4aaa-86b7-52585695a916 | First off, let me say I wasted Halloween movie night by watching this garbage. Second, let me inform you that the current DVD available by Shriek Show is not uncut, so you gore hounds will be very upset. Third, that one scene is the highlight of the film and since it's been cut, well, you see where I'm going.<br /><br ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_833 | pending | 05b0ef24-a782-4ef5-b981-7ddeed6d4a75 | Even before this film it is clear to see that Ali G has become the exact character he set out to parody. I am not a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen's character anyway but was curious to see how a man of so little talent was able to convince universal studios to fund a near 1 and a half hour feature film out of a 3 minute joke... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_834 | pending | a77ca118-1b54-463e-a0db-cb652bc02bd0 | When I went to see this film, let's not say that I had high expectations. But merely that I had a faint hope that this full length feature would have at least some of the hilarity and wit of TV's "Da Ali G Show".<br /><br />But as one might expect, this cannot translate from a half hour TV show to a 90 minute film. The... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_835 | pending | 5f072c51-d3e6-4988-81a0-c316296be994 | MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS For about the last four years I've been a keen fan of Ali G. Sacha Baron Cohen is undoubtedly a very funny and intelligent guy and, in my view, his best creation is Borat who's as funny as Hell and quite shameless in what he does and says to people.<br /><br />Anyway, to the movie. I didn't bother ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_836 | pending | b2e8944c-4de7-4f60-bcfd-5f9f5265d04c | I have absolutely no idea why I watched Ali G Indahouse except for the fact that Salon seemed to think a crime was committed by not nominating Sacha Baron Cohen for a Emmy for his work on Da Ali G Show. It is a sure bet that I will never watch that show as there was absolutely nothing funny about the movie. Comedy? Tor... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_837 | pending | 9ee91a6a-8343-4681-9aea-b9beeee17158 | Ali G was funny at first. His interviews were fresh and original. The idea of a mock gangster wearing OTT clothes and using street wise lingo was appealing at first.<br /><br />But this film is just a rehash of old jokes, the humour was mainly childish and revolved around the male sex organ for the most part. The film ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_838 | pending | bd47e64b-86cd-43ee-9191-629cd1c25552 | My god how bad this is. Who is this impostor pretending to be Ali G? Avoid this at all costs. It replaces the smart multi-layered satire and humour of his show with down and out toilet humour.<br /><br />This was obviously an attempt to get him known in the States before he released his show there on HBO.<br /><br />On... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_839 | pending | f2b63283-e342-4298-a1f9-54e4767e9454 | If I compare two films with Sacha Cohen, Borat and Ali G then Ali G is immeasurably better. I'ts no master piece, but it's a film at least. Borat is complete garbage and I do not understand how it rated better then Ali G.<br /><br />I cannot put my finger on it, there something wrong with the Ali G script: half of the ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_840 | pending | 452ed2ed-767d-424f-973e-7f0634119e49 | Bean, Kevin & Perry, UK TV creations that have made successful transitions onto the BIG screen. Now its Ali G's turn and I m afraid to say this is not one of them!<br /><br />Ali has always been obscene but funny with it. This film was extremley sick and not funny at all. Scenes involving bestiality, gay sex and paedop... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_841 | pending | a6f5be51-95f7-4ab9-b7b5-40c0b0f53586 | Don't tell me this film was funny or a little funny. It was a complete disaster, and one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Ali G is only funny on Channel 4's Ali G Show. After watching his performance, all i can say is He is not made for Movies. With a Daft script, or more like no storyline, there's nothing to keep y... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_842 | pending | 2d01973a-fbf1-4a0a-a0be-1071c5520c7e | I had already heard of Ali G in Madonna's music video "Music". I always think he's funny. (In fact, he really is.) Just last year I always thought of buying a VCD of "Ali G Indahouse". That's why some months later, I bought it cheap and I started watching it.<br /><br />But the movie surprised me. My older brother and ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_843 | pending | bb77b6a2-cb09-4a2c-a231-d6f78012fa44 | I like Ali G's show, I believe the guy has comedic instinct, but hasn't (yet) developed it to a talent.<br /><br />The movie is a little worse than I was expecting. I don't find Ali-G offensive, just stupid. Jokes for 5-year olds, some good, some terrible.<br /><br />If you want to watch a movie that seems "offensive",... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_844 | pending | ac67f987-ad48-4ca1-b07f-7560c4138020 | it really is terrible, from start to finish you'll sit and watch this ridiculous idiot, thinking hes cool when he's really not, rubbish plot line, terrible acting and complete waste of time and money, do NOT bother. | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_845 | pending | 476b6827-81c2-4d0b-be0b-389d7549e903 | After seeing this piece of crap you will know why the limeys drive on the left side of the street...this movie is an absolute NO-BRAINER! The jokes (if this is the right word for it...) are mostly sub-standard (about 98%) and do miss any punch-line at all. Save the money and get drunk. You might enjoy this movie being ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_846 | pending | bc6d0870-0b83-488d-ac49-e6e322c38e60 | I say this. If you want to see art, you go to an art gallery. If you want to see a movie, you go to a theater. Trying to intertwine art and film proves disastrous in "Where the Heart Is". An interesting cast is totally wasted in this embarrassment. You like Dabney Coleman, see "Short Time". You like Crispin Glover, see... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_847 | pending | 294ce5fb-bd9d-439d-b960-41f2a868b73c | I'm a Boorman fan, but this is arguably his least successful film. Comedy has never been his strong suit, and here his attempts at screwball farce are clumsily done. Still, it's almost worth seeing for Boorman's eye for talent: this is one of Uma Thurman's first starring roles, and as always she is ravishing to watch. ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_848 | pending | 4c8b16fa-00fc-4167-8b22-d782705d6c46 | Hard to imagine what they were thinking of when they made this movie (i.e., the writers, directors, producers, actors, editors, etc.). Christopher Plummer, veteran of 129 movies, frolics along among scores of other actors with apparently no more motivation than to collect a paycheck. I guess there is nothing wrong with... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_849 | pending | 77980bf6-76ae-4121-879f-959603b012c6 | "Jaded" offers a premise with potential as it looks at the rape of a woman by two other women and ask the question "when is rape not rape?". Unfortunately the flick seems to suffer from bad direction as it slogs through legal minutia while trying to weave some kind of story with a handful of foul mouthed and poorly por... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_850 | pending | ed3d6322-df0a-4c32-b25b-e6e7431d4ae1 | I had this movie given to me, and have to admit, I am glad that I did not pay money for it.<br /><br />The back of the box makes it seem like some kind of sex triangle, with 2 women trying to seduce her. But the reality in this movie is far from that.<br /><br />In reality, the main subject is the victim of a vicious a... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_851 | pending | 4c97b50d-89fe-453a-b6b6-27a1243bebe4 | Outside Sweden you are not expected have seen this movie. Happy you. The cast includes several actors that are important part of modern the Swedish movie history. And still.. <br /><br />Seems like Peter Dalle only had a an idea lasting for about 20 minutes. Robert Gustafson is totally misused in this movie, trying to ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_852 | pending | 5ccdd2ab-d49f-4552-b26d-07a5b3075c57 | Set in 1945, Skenbart follows a failed Swedish book editor who decides to take a non-stop train to Berlin. Unfortunately for everyone around him, he's a walking disaster, causing mayhem everywhere he goes. The train also holds a man and his mistress scheming to murder the man's wife (who's also on the train), a soldier... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_853 | pending | 51755d3c-159a-4153-852b-5e0058a35a2f | If I could give this movie a negative rating I would. The humor is the cruelest I have ever seen in a film. Horrible things happen to good people and people who have already suffered horribly through no fault of their own. There are 2 plots, neither of which supports half of a film. Where is the "depth" others see in t... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_854 | pending | 7deae436-ade5-4b28-8da3-251849a7a471 | Don't see this movie! It's... repulsive! The start is indeed very good, but in the middle everything falls and I really regret spending 80 crowns (about 11 dollars) on the ticket! Peter Dalle should consider this as his last chance to gain peoples interest. AWFUL picture! The only bright spot is the splendid work of Ro... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_855 | pending | dc376ff3-39af-4b83-bccb-687c93577d16 | As a South African, living in South Africa again after a 32 year stay in the UK, I am sorry to say that this movie is a huge disappointment. The three main problems I had with the movie was a) why Swank and Ejiofor - an American and a Nigerian - to play the leads. This country is bursting with talent and has no need of... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_856 | pending | 4e948473-0f8d-4367-8e4f-051dc8f493ed | Arthur Hunnicutt plays a very stereotypical role as a mountain man (probably the Ozarks) who goes hunting with his favorite coon dog. However, the dog appears to be drowning when Hunnicutt jumps in after him. It becomes obvious pretty soon that despite Hunnicutt and his dog roaming about after leaving the water that th... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_857 | pending | d72096e3-5f61-4db8-b862-48732ab6d510 | who's responsible for these "behind the scenes" things? who are these actors? did they crawl out from beneath rocks? 'yuks, lots of yuks!' no. no yuks for me. only loathing and shame that i am a human being. i have to avert my eyes from the set, it's so embarrassing. in fact, i changed the channel.<br /><br />i've alwa... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_858 | pending | 717622ea-6c43-464c-8926-f0f2d0b54bf2 | Drab, dreary and a total waste of my time. The plot is incomprehensible (so don't think about it too much). The acting is odd and wooden - I would have sworn that they were all professional body builders trying their luck at acting, but that might be an insult to body builders. There are no interesting special effects ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_859 | pending | 6fab9067-eae3-43a2-b3f7-46a906a709ef | Where do I begin? The story was so bad, it must have been written in a high school film club! The acting was so wooden I felt sorry for the actors! One actor even reminded me of what a deer must look like when staring into a car's headlights! Another actor has this constant look of being constipated! But it was the dia... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_860 | pending | daee231c-c9f5-4076-8143-0248349e997f | Without being really the worst science fiction film ever made, or the worst I have seen, 'Time Under Fire' is still much under average. The premises and the first 10-15 minutes are not that bad, it starts as a X-Files story, combining Bermuda triangle mysteries with time travel. Pretty soon elements of other genres (to... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_861 | pending | 61c0e447-2a1f-4f45-8266-a0ce8821c1b2 | This must be the first movie I've rented and not seen to the end. Complete garbage! The acting, the plot, set and wardrobe looked like it came from a porno movie with a plot. Not even a B move. | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_862 | pending | 391392de-d09d-4fdb-b2c9-613e8a18a534 | Set in 1976 for no apparent reason other than to keep the set dressers busy, 'The Box' was directed by Richard Kelly ('Donnie Darko'), and stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as Norma and Arthur Lewis, a young couple who are supposedly struggling financially even though they both have successful careers--she as a high... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_863 | pending | 82e0f11f-391b-4c4d-b122-94e8cdd42c6b | A box with a button provides a couple with the opportunity to be financially free, but the cost is the life of someone they've never met. This is a very tedious film to watch. Richard Kelly, who wrote and directed it, decided to make a film without any payoff. You are taken on a ride of slow build ups, one after the ot... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_864 | pending | 32cd92ca-be6a-4c36-bd80-53dfe393ec79 | In 1976 a mother named Norma Lewis (Cameron Diaz) lives with her son Walter and her husband Arthur (James Marsden). One night a box is placed on the doorstep of their home and the following morning they cut open the box to reveal a button device that must be opened with a key. By the late afternoon, a man with terrible... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_865 | pending | 28237861-4ad3-4457-bf18-f85a0615b2af | I know that so many reviews on IMDb are extreme, with reviewers either praising a film to the hilt or inarticulately tearing it to pieces. I find neither of these kind of reviews helpful, and so I do not give this film the awful review I am about to, lightly. The film is art-house science-fiction of the worst kind dres... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_866 | pending | 7991d7cc-5186-4695-8a69-35793cc330b9 | Be warned, the next time you see "Richard Kelly" involved in any production, run away. Fast.<br /><br />Kelly proved to the world after his last movie, "Southland Tales", that he is one pretentious director. It was indulgent and convoluted. In "The Box", not much has changed.<br /><br />I can picture what his pitch to ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_867 | pending | 77d49754-ca99-4d00-b2df-af0450e0d614 | Ha ha. - oh no - what to say about this film? Yes - green eggs and ham makes more sense than this movie. Where does one start? A lot of the good stuff has already been said - so I won't divulge into the same territory. I believe you already have the movie summary - so I won't paraphrase the movie.<br /><br />First - le... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_868 | pending | 7b53deef-0e24-4d0a-803d-cab3d37daf24 | Before you dismiss my post as "not getting it", let me say...I'm one of the biggest Richard Kelly and "The Twilight Zone" fans out there. Donnie Darko is one my all-time favorites and I even thought Southland Tales had it's moments. I'm a HUGE sci-fi fan. I was very excited to see "The Box", couldn't wait for it to com... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_869 | pending | f7de43d0-01fe-4dc8-94b3-3c5734e3c8ad | THE BOX (2009) * Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn, Holmes Osborne, Sam Oz Stone, Celia Weston. Truly disappointing adaptation of genre legend Richard Matheson's sci-fi chiller "Button, Button" by on the wane wunderkind filmmaker Richard Kelly who truly stretches a small, well-crafted piece int... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_870 | pending | e7a0faf1-f5dd-431a-aec9-cec40c77ff28 | First time I ever felt I needed to write a review.<br /><br />I have seen thousands of movies in my life and I like a wide range of movies. I am reasonably opened minded, and can easily say I enjoyed a movie while still saying "yeah it was not good but I enjoyed it". I can appreciate the mastery of great movies like Th... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_871 | pending | 84bbfc82-bcb6-4d70-8b69-074e7714d4ef | i thought id check this film out as I'm currently making a film about a mysterious box, therefore it would be great to see how this film took and developed the idea of a mysterious and unexpected box.<br /><br />before going to the cinema i had a high expectation of this film. with actresses, like Cameron diaz you woul... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_872 | pending | 2a12eef6-e913-444f-ab6b-546cd6063994 | Couple having financial trouble gets a box delivered to their door. If they push the button they get a million dollars but someone they don't know will die. Do they push the button? <br /><br />This is an odd film based on a Richard Matheson short story has a few chills but mostly is a messy affair. The trouble is that... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_873 | pending | 91c4e4ab-c9ab-4a80-a00d-17a817a7a759 | Now, this movie is the worst i have ever seen!! It is simply a disaster. I think it's really a sick movie, i just wasted my time watching this cheap crap. I can't believe anyone would produce such a disaster. Such a waste of money and time. Nothing to learn from this movie, it's just a hollow sick evil flick. I don't t... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_874 | pending | 51b84204-4833-4892-953c-e9e66b704497 | I like to like movies, but I found nothing to like about The Box. I was interested in the 'hook' of the plot, but unfortunately it never went anywhere and was impossible to follow. Anyone who states that they understand this movie is probably faking it so that they can feel like they are a part of something, well I hav... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_875 | pending | e9a1a99a-1dd8-4846-a849-d04a91c311af | quite possibly one of (if not the) worst film ever conceived, cast and acted in the history of cinema. Who on God's green earth would ever think to cast Cameron Diaz and James Mardsen as a couple? She looked like his mother. God forgive me but I am just being honest. And that was the least of the many problems plaguing... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_876 | pending | f8ad7b75-f1fc-4393-bce5-c4ae5ee55151 | This is my first review on IMDb.com and probably first ever written review of a film I've done of my own accord - not for some class assignment. I think that fact alone says something about this movie... not a good thing! I am no seasoned journalist or critic (though I have seen my fair share of movies), but I found th... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_877 | pending | dc8fd3ed-f174-42cf-8670-815aceeaabee | Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella: that's an all-star power cast but "The Box" proves once again that it is not a guarantee for a solid movie. The premise sounds promising: a couple gets a visit from a mysterious person who offers them a million dollar. The downside is that someone will die, a person they pro... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_878 | pending | 97988d92-84b8-48e7-9d56-bf5f0eb6fc40 | "Don't be greedy" sums up the depth of this movie. All the rest of the baloney is big budget window dressing. The movie rotates through hiding the ball annoyingly and revealing too much. None of the potentially interesting plot tangents are developed yet the trite ones are hashed and rehashed to excess.<br /><br />The ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_879 | pending | b496d0e8-4470-4696-9c03-747be702693b | First of all. Should Cameron Diaz ever be allowed to act again? To call that a bad performance would be an insult to bad performances. That was a historically horrific performance. Any small chance that Diaz had at being a serious actress is now completely done after that. Laughably horrible.<br /><br />Two, the movie ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_880 | pending | 751b5142-8554-43ce-8970-43e52243b857 | How truly sad that this sprung from the same mind as Donnie Darko, possibly one of the best films in this genre. Where do I even begin? I think one of the must infuriating aspects of the film is that we are supposed to be critiquing humanity, and yet we see no humanity in the film. No more than 5 minutes of the film is... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_881 | pending | 4bf34804-6645-4425-9926-74c641af65a0 | The Box is a film with great potential, but the makers totally misused that potential. The film seemed to take for ever, because of the boring family dinners and scenes about school and job-dialogs between the action. Those scenes could and must be deleted in my opinion to keep up the tensity and thrill. The philosophy... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_882 | pending | b04ab9e0-24ef-4134-bab7-6980d47ae5fa | This is a flic that you can safely avoid. childish plot and poor acting from Cameron (she really shouldn't take on these serious roles - they don't suit her)Besides she looks most unglamorous, Lets face it, shes' great in Charlies Angels and She was superb in There's Something about Mary... The Pope wouldn't be a good ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_883 | pending | 3a61024b-118e-49a7-a2ea-db4ca218848a | Oddly, I have very little to say about "The Box" so this will be pretty brief. I have never read the Richard Matheson novella "Button, Button" from which the film is based, but considering what I saw in this "adaptation", there couldn't have been much semblance to such a legendary author's work. "The Box" is about a fa... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_884 | pending | 2803e23b-e54d-4788-9c62-0eb62846f7c0 | Maybe if you smoked enough weed this would seem funny or would make you nostalgic for how completely unhinged people allowed themselves to be in the early 70's. There's an odd innocence to this movie and the sex is a lot more awkward and playful than the steely pros who do it for the cameras now.<br /><br />The real cu... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_885 | pending | 171be74f-00bd-4cea-9d0a-857aa6cd5a2c | I don't understand why so many of the comments here seem to indicate that this is acceptable entertainment. The eye-popping horror of this cinematic monstrosity cannot be overstated. Me and my girlfriend just watched it together, and I'm not sure we'll ever be able to have sex again. I'm not sure what was worse, the sc... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_886 | pending | e88c1f34-7a0e-4728-b081-b29d3691296e | I was greatly disappointed by the quality of this documentary. The content is poorly produced, very poor quality video and, especially awful audio. There's extremely little about how Bruce Haack produced his music and virtually no examples of direct connection to later and contemporary electronic music. The interviews ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_887 | pending | 6c4d9e26-6b06-4ca3-b76f-f5daf0e09f51 | I'm Mike Sedlak. I co-wrote the score for this movie. And proud of it. <br /><br />And I love all of the comments. Some have not gone far enough.<br /><br />The movie premiered in San Francisco in the summer of 1973. The theater was packed with friends and family. We all clapped.<br /><br />Five days latter, it was pul... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_888 | pending | 126b38ea-9e37-4c13-b7f2-1f47eb14b65e | This is absolutely beyond question the worst movie I have ever seen. It is so bad in fact that I plan on renting it again as soon as I can find it. This movie makes 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' look like an Oscar contender. Just LOOKING at the actors makes me want to laugh out loud. I cannot say enough bad things about th... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_889 | pending | 7b70a33e-a542-4b0e-bd4b-2f048d2bfe99 | this could have been better,but it was alright...it helped me get away from my boredom.I didnt even wanna see it,the only reason i wanted to rent it is because Jamie Martz is in it..he is a unknown actor but he is shining and is the highlight of the movie...the ending was so horrible and the acting was good for a b mov... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_890 | pending | a71f54db-d7dd-4c51-b5f3-8f45271bf150 | Stay away from this movie. Far away. Phil Fondacaro stars as the demented ringleader of a Freakshow. Every performance is flat and unfeeling, except Fondacaro's. The plot is a simple one, and follows almost every horror movie cliche possible. A group of high-school kids go to a carnival, see a side-show, and get in ove... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_891 | pending | 7ca0b99c-89ae-435c-82fa-b7efe17ac881 | Sideshow is a good example of a basically interesting idea gone very, very wrong. As far as horror movies go, and especially with the influx of teen movies at the moment, a film based around a bunch of teens attending a mysterious freak show is something you could have a lot of fun with.<br /><br />However, the writer ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_892 | pending | e53cd03c-4e5a-46a7-b15c-a43b0e18efbb | Someone else called this film a "fable-horror" movie, and I think that fits pretty well. That's the concept at least. A group of teenagers, each with their own vice, catch the eye of a twisted sideshow barker. He decides to teach the teens a lesson by making them part of the freak show. A cool idea, but could have been... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_893 | pending | 1e2e4239-0282-4d8d-b5e0-46db7ab26a44 | This was not a very good movie, the acting pretty much stunk and the effects were bad most of the time. But there were some funny moments but most of those were not meant to be funny. The most hilarious part of the movie to me was the part were a little kid in wheelchair falls out (thats not the funny part What kind of... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_894 | pending | 141087e6-0a2e-4832-b803-0386cd691704 | Dumb is right: Tom and Jerry reach their goal of a non-stop air flight to Africa but then worry about mixing in with the natives. They put on "blackface," crash the plane, try to survive on an airplane wing floating in the ocean, and then survive the wild animals once they get on land<br /><br />Having read a few revie... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_895 | pending | 03ba140d-3fee-42e7-8db3-72904f61149a | Tom & Jerry are visiting Africa and disguise themselves in an "Amos-n-Andy" fashion. They even act and talk differently, with the standard degrading usage of extremely poor grammar associated with the stereotypical image of blacks portrayed in many cartoons of the era. Aside from the offensive images, this cartoon just... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_896 | pending | d7ff9832-96a4-4c57-861a-a954d6b843e0 | Terrific production and a good comedic performance by George Clooney can't save curiously detached, occasionally clumsy quasi-comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen. Depression-era road tale hearkens back to yesterday with three escaped chain-gang prisoners seeking a hidden fortune, and inadvertently becoming country music st... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_897 | pending | 8d311559-bfc7-441a-9551-2928502968c6 | Formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich Chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer (Vargas). It looks very much like a TV movie, not really exciting. The only reason I bothered to see it was because Valentina Vargas ... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_898 | pending | f3a1bee2-7e54-45c5-931f-ec8871644168 | Southern Cross, written and directed by James Becket is a waste of good celluloid and actor's efforts. A formula film is not necessarily bad if it pays off on it's promise, which this film does not. It is a tiresome concoction of movie cliches that can be traced to a thousand different films from the past. It is full o... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
test_899 | pending | 326864b4-e4ab-4e8f-9433-8ff6e841d4a7 | He's the only reason to see this film. He gives a very good performance--much better than this crap deserves. He's very handsome and very talented--he deserves better than this. Also depressing is to see Malcolm McDowell in this. He's another talented actor who deserves better but, like Esai, he gives a very good perfo... | null | null | null | neg | null | null |
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