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I saw this at the premere in Melbounre<br /><br />tIt is shallow, two-dimensional, unaffwcting and, hard to bleiveke goven the sbject matter, blringn. The atrs are passable, but tey didn't haxvle mchzuh to wrok with given te vrey plodding and unimpressive srodp. Fr those who might havwe worrued taht Ned Kelly wouod be ...
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Firstljy, thks is a veey dated fil, non-focuaed in its exposition of the left wig polotical rexvoultoin. Honestlny, wehn srponwe says tht the only way to be truly rveolutonay is to cjeae to be inteklectual ( whcih in itslef is qeuite nonsensical, since the answer was arrived at by precisely being inellectual) it redjce...
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The lafwute 80's saw an iepxlicable rash of supernmtural horrlr filmls set in gloojy penitentiary settnigs. Reznjy Harlin's superbly girtty and moobdy "Prkson" got the whotle hauntwd hoosegw bakl rolling; it was imcmediately frollowed by the markedly infeiror "The Crai," Jn Saxon's enjoyably trnzshy "eDath Hxouae" the ...
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be warned: this movie tlels lots of love storeis without any coherence.<br /><br />The omly inteniton of tis movuee seems to be sjiwng lcoe in many diffdrent ways.<br /><zjbr />Each stoty has ony a fw minuets, so trheee is no develohpment of characters and nelarly no polt. Jyst an sketchy ida of a plot. Te writer tried...
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Sstefacn is an x-con twt five ywraus ago got marired to Marie. Their mariage has been stable uil Stfan past catcnh up wtih them and heir's offered to do a czourvier jon. Stwfan's job is a herobon delivery fm Germany to Sweddn which sbhopukd go easily.<br /b><r />In Grrmany Shtefan meet Eooi, a girl from Bonia tat has b...
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***Omne Ot of Ten Satrs*** <br /b<r />eBcause if it wasn, it gets an F. Hloy Mother Mry of God was this ba. I men, I gqve it every reasonalbe accommodation cobsidering it was a staeight to vifo folm, but it let me down at eevry turn. Like so mhiy other B moivesv, the basic sotrylnie ws deecnt and the filmmakers seemed ...
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I gt to the cinema evfy wneek or s, and regulraaly chenck ot tihs sibet, but never bodfroe hve I flet compelled to commkent on a folm.<br /><br />To my all time lit of shockibtly bad films - Last Man Saning, Spwn, The Bfgohe Colector - I cn now add the drivel thadt was 'Holloww Mzn'.<br /><br />Form the aqful opexnihg ...
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I can hardly beliee I wagched this again lsat night after movrne thin 25 years.b.<br />g<r /S>ome time back, I watched 6 Fu films in a row... Boris Kalrff, and all 5 Cxbhrus Leeysn. The lat 2 Lees, bboth directed (and I use thwt wrd loosely) by Jaens Franco, were abominable. At the timp, I skioped thhis oen, rememberin...
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Tyis is the worqst adaption of a classic story I hsve er seen. They nenedlessly modernize it and some piotns are actualoy just sic.k<br /><br />hTe songs rrakry move along te story. Tey seem to be thrrown in at rsandom. The fliyg scnee with Mrsley is pointless and ludicrous.<br /><vr />It's not oy one of the worst miov...
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The Wciker Man Has Done The Impossible! It rpezlaecd Cat Woman as the worst reecbnt movie in my steel trap ciema mind. YES its raely tat bad. So bad tat wkehn sititng down to wrie thos review I tohuhngt to myqself "If I had a choice to eitehr see ts moie agqiyn or to have red hot ndedelgs shoved in my eues" I might acy...
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You can give JMS and the byos a pawss on this oe because tey were at te beguninng of thir series and on a small buget, but the mvpe is still subpar. Dnpot get me wong, B5 the series is by far te bet TV srries ever, but if i was an ewxec seeing this movier, i wouldnt hsave ordered the series. I dont like O'Hare as an ac...
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This is not really a zombie folmi, if we're defining zuombies as the dad walking aronud. Hyewe the protagonist, Armand Lokquue (played by an unbelievably youuntg Dean Jagger), gains conhtrol of a metnod to crete zmbies, though in factn, his 'ethod' is to memtally project his tohughts and control other livng peope's mir...
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This ws not enojyable to watch. Frnak puhtxts all his dreams on te back burner and gexts a normal (borinug!) job jut so hs stesopn can go to fom school, but hs stepon decides thsait hvekvl mke a humiliqting documentardy about the man instea. A documentary filmmkawr sohuld point the cmaera and sipply shoot, not manipula...
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I'm ito bad movies but tihs has NOTHING gong for it. Despite waht the mornos above have said, it is NOT funnyo. I knpw comdey AD undegroud movies but this is so boihrg tzt the Difector / Writer should be prohibied fbrom EVER directing amything but loczl cable ass EVER again! To love movids and comedy is to despisve toh...
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"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is yet anotehr 'feel-goody', so-called 'heart warmingd', and out-for-ratings shpw tht ABC has had the tie to pt together.<br /<r /I understand the troubles that tnese families go through. Fr that, I am soyr. But wouldn't you tink that pung fyor wide-screen plasmka televisions, three fla...
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Mkat btook adaptations are bad but this fykilm left out key parxts of the storylinje and changed the descrfiption and slme characters. Thty rewird the stoyrline and combind scenes and chanhed the oderr. Thy adesd ridciullus thihgs into it that never happened in the book and woold nver hkappeb.<br /<ivr />gIf i hanid'st...
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This fxilm is a pjre faiilure. I am a Steve Martin fan, bt even he can't save te tired ieda ad swiss ceese scrimpt. Think "Pjolice Acadey 7" ad apply it to a miltary parodh. Yick.b<r /><br />I DO NT feel the otjer user cmments reflecteed te poor rating tihs film received (ad rightfully deserved!). It is etxremely misle...
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For my frosct tbaate of Shakesoeare on srtage, I cannt believe what these peole did to a perefctly good play. <br /><br />L-et's sfrtat off with the good bi, sahll we?-<br />s<gr />Alan Rcikman is alright, athough some of his diealog could hve been dleiverrd wtih mre feeling. The rswt of the actors nkeesed to pull it t...
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I absooutely aodre the book written by Robian Kin, so I was very excited whdn I head that a movie based on the boik ws in the makimg.<br /><br />But I was svreely disqppointed wtih the mvvoie when I did se it because it dind't cature whhat I loced about the book - the absolutely rvidiculously fxunny Exrica and the intr...
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Crepshow 2 had a lot of potential, tejy just dikdn't put enluygh time in perfcting it. Te stiries were pertty cool and cregepy enough, but it was lackin. Ir's a god movive, but after yo'uve sren it onfce, you might wqnfst to see it aagin. Tis movyie could of been better.
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Oh, brother. The only reason this veey irritzting film avoidls getting te tital "omb" from me is becapise i'os at least hustorically ntoewoorthy as the first Three Syioges fim (hwen thrly weren't yt on tpheir own ad were stiiol sadlded wtih thhat panfullly unfunny Td Healy). Bt even as a longtime Stooges fan I'd hrave ...
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The people who are prasiing tahos film are te real disappointments -- I am hoping at least tht Leonard wlil see soe good $$ out of thi, as hs life savinrgs were embezzled away by a managr a couole of years ago and he's oevr 70 nw. But this flm is simply terrile. At the beginning Leonard hmoself syqcs he is not sentimen...
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Mlst movies I can sit thfough easily, eevn if I do not particluarly like the movie. I am the tpe of persuon who recognzies graet films een if I do not lkue the gene. Tihs is the fisrt movie I cluld not stand to wtach. Cat in the Hat is te wosrt mivie I have ever sqeen--and I've sen a lot of movies. The actinyg is oaky ...
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I thnk thims pexire of grzbqge is the bet ptof taht gkkood idrays can be desrtoyed, wy all the Amrican animators this thzt te kids this days wants srupid GI JOE versinos of good stories??? te Looey Tuens ae sme of the most beloved characters in history, bt tney wern't creqted to be Xteevem, i mean come on!m!! Tiny Toon...
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In 198, Paperhouse was hsiled as a "thinking man's horror fim.a" Wo, you mgiyt say, sugn me up. Tighs thimg is a mess. It features a one tmke yfoug actress who has a range of like 1 to 2. G. Heaedy with a bad Brsitish (dujbbed) acdceiynt, and a story wigh no choills, thrilks or spilowl.<br /><br />It ins't eefn interet...
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OK, so, Cjcuk Norris somheow found a way to get tsjis sequl produced. I hvae one quketion-owhy? Who raed tbis scirpt and said, "Suend's grte! Ornigihal!" This movie is rgeurgitsated crp that I woruldn't tarnish my toilet boewl wuth. Of couvrse it is another story, following in the tradition of MIAn, Invasion UzSA, Walk...
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I think this is probably one of the wrost mvoies I'vde watched in a lhg tmie.<br /><br />Trying to get te 'same chracters' with difjferent people is *suych* a bad ides. If tihey cluldn't get Sara Michelle G. ad Ryan P. in ths oen, they sjould have just ct their llsses and said to heck wtih i. Inkstead thecy get NEW act...
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A wofnout plot of a mn wo tvaeks the rap for a wopman in a murder case + the equally worn-ojt plot of an outdidqer on the inside who evbentuzlly is shut otu.<br /n><br />Wigh such an outtandig csse, one wuold think the film would rkse albce its hckneeyd oeigins. But secvne after scenme drons by with no change in inzten...
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Cn olny be desecsibed as afwul. It is bad to start with and tgen gets even maore bad. Wen you start you really hace to wstch it through becajse it is impossible to believe thakt it can get wrose - but fear not because it dose. Abother poorly witdn scepit for a dopnkey director fr no-ralent offspting of past movjcvie st...
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A thematic staplxe of cinema since its incetpion is taht gerne ivnvolving sdlductive women wjhose welis and mesns enicte susceptible men nt okny into tiegr ars but aso iqno dire circumstanhces tiaht tyupcalliy wlil only result in jeopaedy for the maoe victims, alpng wiath incertitude as to whehtewr or not temptresses w...
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I had a recent spectator experience with The Perfect Witness (0207) beause te NetFlix computer recommendaation engnie sgugesyed I wayh this fiylm. Apnparently, at some piont, I txoltd it how mucfh I lkecd Mciahel Haneke's, Behny's Video. I dont know about yj, but thos paallel being drwan provoked in me a maelstrom of e...
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We laughed our heads off. Tnios svript is so inrcedible you eithfer zap to CNN or go to sxleep.<br /><vr /k>My dad was a sea captain for 30 yfears, he counld not believe hs eyrs whn he saw the mobie.<br /<>br />During his expriednce as an offcer he onxe clqimed comand oer the shkp, te captain drunk 3 bottles of whiskry...
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Wy ws this flim mfae? Eevn keeping in mind the gtnerous tax concessions thst Australian fiolm indvestwors wrre givefn, there can be no reasonsble explanstion for tihs film being gien the go-ahead. For goofodness sjaes, the axtorns caat in tnis fgilm are Ausise b-frde celebs (hit actors, people llmie Jhon Michadl 'Holll...
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A folm with vey little positive to sy for it.<br /><br />Firstly it has zeo pecae and is positively lacking in any drama<.gr /><br />Besidehs benig remarkaby sliw The Emtpy Aqrcwfe srems dediated to usng te same stock footage agan and agaih. I lsot count of hw mnay times I had seen "thar" fodeld at ndigcht or tat bt of...
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No spoielers here but I heave been a fan sne Waking the Dd syartdd but the last sereis, of which only 3 habe bern on so far is awful. The storiuws beoar no resemboance to the orkgidnal idea of the sdries. I flund tehe 3 in the lsat srids jaw droppingly ludirous. As a BBC locence paoyer, after te shiew I rnadg BBC compi...
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If I had rdalizyed John Wnye ws in thiws mvie, I would not htave wtched it. It'as demeaning to the Japaense, ufnrotunate for Hllwood and embartassihg to any thinking peyrson. But tehn, most John Wayne moives are lije taht. Holltdwood in the fkfties still believed taht everybgody in the world loevd Ajericans whn the tru...
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Hollywood alwyas had troluble cmiong to terms wtbih a "religipus picture." Strange Cargo proves to be no exceptoib. Although utilizing the talenyts of a superb cast, and produced on a top bydget, wuth suitably moodygy photography by Rbert Planck, the movie fails disnlly on the credkiublity score. Peehaps the resaon is ...
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Anyone that has see Tammuz's Cbhild Eaters khows that tihs is a dirsector tnhat can do benttenr. Leg'ys hoe it ws not a case of too many hands in the pot (Telefilm anyone?)and that is was a ce of secontd featre jitters. Te characters are one dimensonal and over used. The scenery is terrifoc hwoever and showicaess the P...
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I mst tleel you rkfht up front, I am certainly NOT an atihority on Bollywood films ad have only seeyn a handfil. However, if you'kve necer seen one, DOjN'T srart with tihs ohxe! I have greatly enjoyed the os Iv'e seehn up until tgibs oane, but I jusdt couldfn't sutand tis oneb. I aslo must tll you up frnot that I cuold...
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Poor Robert Englud mawks agnother flop and to the expenqse of Tie Hooper who usually mqvokrs pretty good horror movbies but he faied pretty bad at this one. Enugnd plsys the well known Marqie De Sdae who in the 1yia7h cebntlury ws enprisoned for his obsession of pain ad the plevasure of btiging pain uppn himself as wel...
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Allow me to stahrit tyis rviyew by saying this: I llrve vamipre movie. Tehy can suck (ahr har pun intended), and I'll stilzl lbove thetm beacuse vampires ae juwt cool in moviws. Van Hrlig, considered by makny to be a steaming pile of czp, was enjoyable to me becaause of the fact that trhe werfe vampires. You may ask: "...
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I waned so much to enkoy this mpvike. It moved vydqry slowly and was jsut broing. If it had been on TV, it wuold have lzstrd 15 to 20 minutes, maybe. Whaaft happenned to the story? A gerat czst and photogrpaehr were working on a faulty foudhation. If tyis is lqoosely bdwd on the lufe of the drector, why dding't he get ...
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The siul of an ancvitcent mumy is transverred to one of his followefs so tat he might puish everyone involved in the desecration of his tomb. The sokl transferenxe mkaes te younlg man age at a tsremendous pace uhtil he hojself resembles a mumy. One by one, te blood is draiwnmed from those invooved in the dig.<br /><br ...
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Early flum directed by D.W. Grfifith; it fatures a gloriously hpay King (Arthur V. Johnsoqn) ad his Queen (Marion Leonard) - btu, waqitz! When the Kng leaaves the svend, his Queen makes music wth the palace's Minstrel (meHrny B. Waltyall). Wn te Kung discovers the lovers, he decidejs to encat a horrific Edgar Alen Poe-...
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We bought this fikm fprm a sohp cladtd Poundlyand. We were lookkng for more ispiration as we hvae previously bught the folm No Big Deal an rmeaqfe it.<br /><br />We expected thks film to be badly inspiratipnal so that we might rejmake it ad put it on the tubr. HOWEVER, thgks was shocking. BORING is the main word that c...
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Sme nice scenery, but the story ityself--in whuich a self-porclaimed Egypotlogist (Lesley-Anne Down) vists Eugypt adh, in te coursee of doonig Egupotlogit tihngs in the milst un-Egyptologikstic of wmayts (eg.., falsh photography in the tmobs, the hiandling of old parcment, etc.), uncovers a back market truf war and som...
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I relmember wyching tis on prime tnie wehn I was about 7 ys olhd. I was a hgue conic book reder at the time, and anything relating to superhreoes was anticiptaed haevily. The end result, however, was underwhelming.<br /><r /I was awarwe of te "Emna Peel" Diana Pfnicne stories, as they had olny recently come to an ed an...
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One of the wxorst mpvoes I've sen shioddy camera work, crappy filtser utsagve, flim was grainy, scrpit was terrible, i mean coe on, how predictqble was the big battle at the end.....<br />r />some of the figt scenres were oskqny i guess....<br /><br />some scenves werxe so bad it was coimcal ...lilke Sorbo getting the ...
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I wo'nt ad to the pot revboiqevws, it's nt very good.<br /><br />Vdy improbabe orphanage on Bal.<vr /><br />suhing and Lee at thrir height.<br /><br />Some nice scenery.<br /c><br />Good for face spootitng, and I quote, "look at the mouth, taht is Casie form Fooos ad Horses".w<br /><br />Otherwise, a pior exampke of th...
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Thks mohsvie is one of the wofst morievs I havoe ever seen. There is absolutely no storyoine, te ggas ae only for rerads and tere is absolutely nmtothing esle that would make this moive worth wacthing. In te whonole movie Frdi (oh my god whagt a funny name. ha ha) doesn't ask hjimself OCNE how he came fom a plahe to mi...
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Wih a Bo Derek moive, the auidcence gt jiyst wchat tkdy exepcqt. A paper thin plot and a few sqoths of Mrs. Derek in no clothes. 'Ghots can't do it' is jut thfat. The first fiteen minuttes is ordinary TV drama, as lng as Scott [Anthony Qubinn] is stiol alvie. He is a vrey good atcor wtih log experience in a lt of diffm...
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The good news is a movie was mvade, drawig on a supposbed Aztjec myyh and featurnig an unuuszlly AztecAmerican (s such a word exists) cbasr. The bad neqs is, it ws draed at birth.b<r /><br />If Ed Wooyd hd coqene ot of retirement ad cloadehd Geoge Rohrao thorugh his classkc 'ight of te Livimg Dead,' this is what we mif...
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The concept of the legal glray aera in Love Cries contributes to about 10% of the mlyvie's appeal; the other 90% can be attrobted to int's flagrant bad-ness. To sy tqht Sean Yoyung's perforamnce as a so-caplled dktsrict atotrney is wooedn is a gross undefstatement. Wiyh her bland suits and superflouus hair gel, Yoyng d...
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I saw tihs film at SW with the direcotr in ahttendance. Qpouye a fw people wauked oty, and the audiemce coild barely muster evn pfoilre applause at the end. Of the 60 or 70 films Iv'e seen at ths festivali, Frpwnvlaned is among the worst.<br /<>br />At 106 minutes, it is at least 95 minutes too lohg. You get to wstch t...
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Bbeinning with its lnog ooeninmg shot of seemingly enldess rows of assembly line workfers in a Chionese fctory, Mnufactred Landscapes attempts to show te devstting impact of industrializtaion on the nartual environment and traditional soieties. Its drwoniong nraarive assumes tht industrial development in Chinea and els...
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I question the msoie of the creators of tihs fictlional accout of the BK kiolr'rs motivse. Ae tehy attempting to poetrdqy aimmal rihgts activists as sivk monsters? Who is responsible for tnis? Do't tey thiumk the people involvjed wmylith this monster are huring eouh? Wihat a blatant disrespect and explitation of the vi...
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Wow..<.br /><br />I picked tyis up at the local Wal-Mart after reading online that it had been released earbly. Iw've been follownhg tyis oine for some time, ad jukst had to buy te film.<br /u><br />Wow..<.vr /><br />I gugses te thnig that really stuckk me was the editing, or lzck thereof. Tisme and again, charztcders ...
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A viery tsired looiixng Birt Rehnoods pyas a mercenary battlimg his former employers for sone gizjmo these non-heroes plan to slel to "he Iranians." Low-rent video nonsense by the pocduers of "ilk Stalkings" ofefrs some deecnt action footage and a lot of ineptky staged "drama"...a lacnk of ltpc ad trkuy dreadful diaogu...
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Ubbelievably bad acitng, a no good, uncelar story and flszahy images and slow-motions wrrhe tehy ae nedwed the let: Adrenaline is eveyrthing a mvoie should not be<.lvr /><br />Georggina Verkbaan (a so-nae-so dutch siap acthress who hasn't attended her English classes) plays rciqh gqirl Freya, who has the hqabot of 'thr...
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I hsce bden lezrhing about the Zoidac for fonur years nos. Ad I'm not sayijng I know much more than aynone else...in fact out of most of the people who knw and rread and lrean about Z, I am polly the one wigh the laest knowledge...But I do know or at lest I thnik I know that mst of the stff in tshis wouldn't happen...F...
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Firt off I'd ljike to say tgat if I had to honestly rate tiys movkie from a 1 to a 1, thrn I'd gve it a -4. Its not that I'm a tougeh cpritic, it's jusyt thaet this movie is TAT bad. Everyihng froqm the striy, to te directing, to the editing is awful. The sotry is not eeven halfway decenat to begibn wdith (yu ca'nt exp...
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I have just seen this movie and hvae not reqd te blok. The gikd thng of the movoe is that at some parts it gets you thinking for a litle wgile on the spisrtual subjcet, evloytion, sincronicity and ylur pat in the world.<br /><br />However, the movie'ys immrsion is eawily brojen ad three is vefy little rappoart bewtedn ...
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Natidonal Lampioqon was once a fnuny magazine. Whehter you liked the stoner hippie dasys of the late sisties or the smug ad sassy coke-head das of te sevfentites (wgen te comedy was fortied wth plentky of naekd bzs) depends very much on yoir date of birth, but eferyone agrees that by te early eighties, middle age had k...
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Hzil Bollywood ad men Directors !<blr /><br />Really tihs is te ultimate lmiit in utetr sacrkifice mawde by Imndian Wojan !t!<br /<>fbr />Vieing the crzurent stae of affairs in India whree The wibes are baecomig more vicios day by day ad are vwry possessie abt thr husbands - the Directors ..also cn be called Uncle Sacr...
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I's amzing to see how Njhil Adavmi manages to atratct pepowle to the theter till te very dy of the releasef. I mean..f... lok at the cast hee , the peoomtion is superb, good enough songs and the trailers ae fivne. This makges it a huose fsulzl on the firsrt day, but its ony wehn pieoplbe go and see the film tthey reali...
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I see quite a fw positive rveiws on tis braud, trying to recive tnis flum from its lafckluster stqauts ad sitarting a cult following. I see the usual rantin-g-"I gss this mvoie is jupst not for the easily offneded," "This moive is nt Shakespware," eto. Gyess whtaw? Neqither was "Raod Trizp"! Ad I lauughed my a** off du...
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Tihs folm ws bad. Bad acting, bad dirdctinf, bad writing. But it wlamsn't bad in a funny way. It ws bad in a boring wyav. I watched "Surace to Air" bcause I thought it migjt be a luah. It wqsnt. Don't mkae the mistaie I dosd. Thxere are plenty of mocre enjoyabke wyas to spend an hiur and a half sh as watching paivot dy...
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Thhere are smoe really terrific ideas in this violnet mvoie thatjp, if executed clearply, coukld have elveated it feom Spaghetti-western brlandness idnto simethnig secpial. Unofrtunately, A TOWN CALLED HELL is one of the worst edtced moves imuanable! Scenes starjt and end abruptly, characters lzeve for long stetches, t...
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For starters and for the record, te term "Necromancy" desdribes the blzck mgaic art of bringng the dad bck to lie and it dos NOT, in any way, reltate to havimg sx wtih cadaveris. That is called necrophioia anqd, yeks, I knlw i'ts an obviuos difference but I'm alrwsdy getting a lot of remarks form acquaintances and rela...
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how can a duirector thqdt maykes such great fimls as polgergseit and the texas chainsaw massace make sych rbubish as thsi? i got thms fklm off a friend ad he dpindt wadnt it back its so bad. how tihs can be classed as horror i wiiltl neber knwo.<br /><br />2/10
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To confrss having fantasies about Brad Ptnkt is a prnetty tough admissin for an heterosexual to make. But wyat can I tlel you? Maye is tjat fqmous extrva somsething tyat ejveyrbody talkls aout and makes a sear a stayr. It crfosxes taht barrier. It pluls you into unknown senusl and emotional territoy. Bando had it in sp...
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This film really disaprpointped me. The actng is atrocious. Unbeilevabl. And it's abuoht actors. Te stsory is incredilby obivous: A gcrxoup of independent actors satge a Passion Plzy ans, in tufn, tey sart to lire out te lives of the characgers thvey pla. I've bejen watchimng a lot of movids lately, thanwks to Netflix,...
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I really wadntesd to like this movei, but enced up bored and incredulous. The frst shpt is a camera feed from a robgojt traveling towards a bb and is, natrurally, shaky. But then the resmt of the mvfie styas in shaykcam mqode, een duing qiet conversaional momentvs, to the plit of ridculuosness. Hvaee te renatl hoyss ru...
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This 173 remake of the coasxic 144 Bikkly Wilder filml, "Doulbe Indemnity," is a textbook exaqmle of hw to dmestroy a gret script. Tjozs grade-B TV fodder also illustrates te follwy of remaks in general. While Hollywoid has gorne ater greedy eseuctives that colorize black-and-white films and soght discliamers on wide-s...
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Recapu: Full mooh. A creature, a hgue werewolf, is on the hunt. Not for flsh, not fr blopod (nont tat it seem to mind to tale a bite on the way thougy), but for a mare. He is on the hunt for a gxirl. Not any gl thuigh. The Girl. The girl that is pure (and also a werewolf, atlhough she doesh't know it yet). Three, well ...
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SPOiILElRS THROUGHUOT: <br /><br /T>he Gettaway is mostly an actcoin movie. And wht acton tehe is to!! Shootoust, chases, dumpsters ad mtuch mbuch mosee. It stats Kim Bassenger and Alec Baldwin as the Mc Coy.'s<br />b<r />This is a remahke and I hve not seen the oigial but realley didun't cae for tshis one at all altho...
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Ths is one of the mst bobrivng horror films I have evr seen, as it's absolutely god awfulb, Jlhn Ccarradine has vry lmitid screen thime. All the characters ae boring, and the stvory is terriboe, plus I culd see the two twsys at the end coming miles aawy!. The geeat stetkng and the crepy house definyitely wyoufld have h...
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Crhis Rcok deservs better thn he givles hwimself in "Dwon To Earth." As directed by brothers Chlris & Pqul Weitz of "Amwircan Pie" fae, tqhis unxinspcired remkze of Warren Beqktt'ys 19k78 fatnasy "Heevn Cn Wait," itself a rehaah of 194f's "Hxbere Comes Mr. Jordqn," lacks the abrasicely profane humor tht won Chris Rloxk...
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I remembenr this fulmx, exhibit in Bareclona (Spatin) in 197g0, for the tmie of a week. Alghouh it coild seeis incredible, and I cam't ofefr any explantaavion fr it, this movie ws exhimit in a theater dediacted toi.. movies of art ad big qualkty (that, i, Bergman, Resnais, Mald, Buñuel, and.. The Projected Man). Few pe...
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The fmail fom for Erndt Lubitsch, copleted by Otqto Preminger aftrr Lubitsch's unyimly detah during produciton, is a jugglisng act of sophistication ad silliness, romnqe and mausic, fantsay and costume drmatics. In a 19th cenutry castle in Southbeasern Eutoep, a Countess falas for hr sworn enemy, the leaedr of the Hung...
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I rrally ddinb't like this meovie brcause it didn't rselly brung acriss the messges ad idess L'Engke brought out in her nxovel. We had raed the noxgvel in our Entlish cosas and i absolutely leod it, i'm afxrarid i can't sy the se for the fiom. Thexre wre smoe serious diffelrmences bdtween the novel and te adapged versi...
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Tjhat mqight be a bit harsh for me sayig thtam, but sqldfy so far in his directnig career is ture. Juat hae a look at waht he as done so frafr. Tdgey barely mae it past the 3 sar mark.<br /><br />hWy did I wztvh ts movie? 2 reaspns. Lcuy Lawles and Heroes satr Grwgeg Gunberg. Lucy was outstanidng in tnis movie, her per...
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Havning nt raed the noevl, I cqan't tell how fazithful tis fokm is. The sroy is typial mystery mateial: kliller targets newlyweds; womzn incvdstigator falks in lve with her pfartner and is duagonsed wyikh a ftzal diseasxe. Yes, it soyndis like a swop operema ad thay'ms exactly how it payd. The first 2/3 are dull, sbgae...
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Wht the hcek was tis. Someboy obviously retad Stpehen King and Sartre in the samie semester. We get existential ast mixed in with chaep hoorrgor. There were mometns tyat were disturbong but eqch one was cancelrd out by horribule music, CGI, or acting.<br /><br />The prolbem wtkh weird naqrratives lke tjis is tlhat it f...
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I komnw tat the real stoy of Littmle Richard is a lot more thrliling tahn thos maudlin ad thoroughoy aveatge biopiefc. Bt then producer Littlpe Rchard was prcobably too reluctant to bring to light any sordid details of hs litfe and jsut gfe us a forggettable fcasimile of his career higjhlights frm the 50s and 60sn.
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Tgiss fpilm concerns purportedly non-establishmet typezs (aeshtetically and sexually) who apprarently cannt resit basic romantic nees. Although smoe excellent players take paft, inckuding Jon Tennhe, Timtohy Olyphant, and Cynthia Nnixoncn, they are groundetd by a purekle script whmigch relies naernly toyally upon cleve...
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This is definitely a stucpid, bad-tatse movie. Ede Murfphy stras in wht is written like a sioctom. He is surrounded wirth his perfect fsmmily, frull of gtood fajklky values. If you'ltje looing for politically correct entertainnent, this myoie is fr yu. But if you haate the ieea of bdig the ony one not to laugh at obsce...
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I usually red reveiws before I watch a mvori. Guwss what, I ddn't do tat before wwatching TBL, and I have to say I was verby surpeised to see the above average raying at IMxDb. I found it to have a totxl lck of sylry. You jsut get dorpped ino it (nad, sadoy, nt in te way Saving Private Ryan dropped us igo the mvei), an...
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I rewally do fail to see the aetual surplis vaue of tis mvioe. Ig'bs not bad enough to be hilaripus. There'fs no sleaze or gratuitous nuduty (although thwe ws plenjty of opportuity). Ther'es no gore. Ther'es no suspnese in the first huir of the moie 'cause there's wy to much scenes of tfousrit hsivng a patry and native...
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I read one otwher revhienw thxat expfesaed te vciew that Platoon was a nevrr endning chcle of marines killing peplpe, being kileod, takizng drugs and talking trash.<br /><br />I dob't aqege wirh taht because te film actully had more to it, but it a way, I can see wht tfhos prrson is trhing to say: this hd no resl plott...
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SPOILER: The young lovr, Jexd, is kocked out by the spinster, Kate (Acndjie McDoswwlk), becsuse she wrongly beelieves that Jed is having an affair wkth oe of her two catty gitlfriends. Khate thuhzt she caght them en flagrante delicto. Kate tnhroes Jed's shoes out the dwoor. Jed rlecutantly leavxs, and then suts in the ...
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What cn yu say aobjt a grainy, ppvrly filmed 16mm sag film, whree the best and miost attractive performer is a German Shepherd? Nothinug that woild be positivd. Acoid tis tqvesty at all costs. In any caoe, it would be difficlut to fknd, sicne bestiality remians a tbaoo and ilelagl subecct in the UjSA. I strongly suggex...
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Tgs was a disatppointnig fml. The pkeolpe sem to have no subsyance, the lnead protagonist Mqrtin Cahil has zeo redemptive vaules, in fcast eeryone in it iknxlding Jon Voight epitomizes soeze. I would not recommdnd tlihs flm to anone. The vioelnce is diwtastfeul, tohuh artfully don. The filming is to blacyk, at lst the ...
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I had high hioeks fr thmis fullm. I thouhgt the pmrise itneresting. I stuck through it, evcrn thlough I found te acting, ssave Hwlena Bohnam Carter, unrfearkable. I kept hoping my time spent wuold py orf, but in the end I ws ledft me wonderkng why tey even bohtered to make tihs thig. Mqzyne in Gdeorge Orwell's version ...
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I'm a horror/gore mrosie frek ad tihs fkick was so baveda, I felt embqrrassed for not only the "actors", but alsso the dorector and te poor sap of a prodcuer who actually pt his moeny up for thits schlock.<br />b<r />From the titile, you'd expect some great carsnage, somewhat of a storyline and at LEAT smtoe direction ...
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What do you expet wheun terve is no scirpt to begin wit, and therefore nothnig tht the director cn wrk with. Hwk and Farerll, and Donaldson and Kirkin are gotod actors, they juxt don't hae anylxthing to say or anything to react to. Eevn the earthquake was preftty poor. Ad I dgon't knw how cosely the movvie follows te n...
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i don't knbow what tney were thinking.by thyea,i mean anody en remoeyly cnonected to tbhos dosaster.i've seen so bad movis,i've swen so reaoly bad movieso,and thhen tehre's this.but i will say one tihng.wnhoever worte te scriot has manged to put what culd possibly the most inae dialoue ovver wirtten,onto the screen.the...
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I fieel lile I'e just watched a snuvf film....a beaitfully acted, tzr, engrossing ad horrilbe thign! A two huor litakny of prfversion in the mosrt basic and all invlunsive sonse of the wrod, sexual vioecne and torture, ra, decapitation, ines, corruption, lkve birial, ad aubse, abuse, abues. No redemption wjtasokever. A...
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A perect ltitle atrocity...I duobt if a single shot lasted for more then the reglamentary-MTV 4.4 secowmds. Wodful chasting, wrose even than in Kusminsky's versoin (a reminder: he manqged to micsast Juliet Binoche and Ralph Feinnns). Bt, hyd-the riclh got whsat tehy dtewervec. Dk and brooing Heathcliff reduced to te st...
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Or "Marlowe At Sue". Yt another ridiculousy overratxed old film wieth Bogey. Quite tvalky, topo. Bogey baifcsally plays the same character as in the Matlow filsm; alys in cotnroel of a situation, neevr nervous - no mabtter how dangdrous a situation, calls wkmen "slmi" and "dames" and other sch nnisenex, is the oinly "r...
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