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Nice title . . . that's about it
VERY confusing horror has three different story lines : one involves a man killing women in London and draining their blood ; another has people being kidnapped and slowly have their body parts being removed one by one ; the last deals with some strange Nazi-ish organization trying to take power ( or something ) . It a...
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I never liked hip-hop so obviously I didn't like this
Hilariously obvious " drama " about a bunch of high school ( I think ) kids who enjoy non-stop hip-hop , break dancing , graffiti and trying to become a dj at the Roxy - - or something . To be totally honest I was so bored I forgot ! Even people who love the music agree this movie is terribly acted and - - as a drama -...
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Innocuous
Two friends ( Michael Caine , Joe Bologna ) go to Rio with their daughters ( Michelle Johnson , Demi Moore ) for a month . Bologna is getting divorced and Caine is having problems with his wife ( Valerie Harper ) . While there , Johnson seduces Caine and immediately thinks she's in love with him . He's attracted to her...
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Prententious , pretentious , pretentious
Nick ( Kevin Anderson ) goes back to his hometown to take care of his dying mother ( Kim Novak ) . There he encounters an old college buddy ( Bill Pullman ) and his beautiful wife ( Pamela Gidley ) . He also gets involved with a 40 year old sex murder that may have something to do with him . . . I caught this in a thea...
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Nice photography - - little else
The untold origin of the Lone Ranger . It shows who he was and how and why he became the Ranger . Legendary bomb . The idea was not a bad one - - reinvent and introduce the Lone Ranger for 1980s audiences . Right off the bat though there were problems . The studio ordered Clayton Moore ( the original Ranger ) to stop a...
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Time has not been kind to this one
Film about a British photographer ( David Hemmings ) who may , or may not have , accidentally shot a crime . Wow - - is this dated ! In 1966 this was considered a masterpiece - - it was also one of the first movies to have some ( very minor ) female nudity . Unfortunately it has dated badly . The nudity is not even rem...
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I've seen worse . . .
. . . but I've seen better too . The story here is predictable - - a film crew trying to film a horror movie in a place where murders occurred . Three guesses what happens . This isn't a total bomb - - the cast is fairly good with pros John Ireland , Faith Domergue and John Carradine giving the best performances . It's...
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Pretty poor sequel
The Silver Surfer ( Doug Jones with the voice of Laurence Fishburne ) is a man all in silver who whizzes around the Earth on a surfboard . He also spreads radiation and causes disasters everywhere he goes . The Fantastic Four ( Ioan Gruffudd , Jessica Alba , Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis ) are hired to do battle with...
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90,152
4
Just so-so
Documentary showing clips of dancing from old Hollywood movies up to the present . . . well , 1985 actually . Also there are the stars introducing the clips and talking about them . Sounds interesting but isn't . For starters I remember seeing some of these clips from the two " That's Entertainment " movies from the 19...
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261,392
4
More misses than hits
The idea was fun ( Jay and Silent Bob traveling to Hollywood to try and stop a movie being made ) but it doesn't work . There are plenty of jokes but for every good one there are five or six that fall flat . Also , to get most of the jokes you have to have seen every Kevin Smith movie ever made . If you haven't , you'l...
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106,400
4
Silly
I have to admit that I've never seen a full episode of the TV series . I've seen bits and pieces of enough to know the basic premise and the characters . This is just to let you know that I'm reviewing it without comparing it to the TV series . But still - - with the silly premise who ever thought this would work as a ...
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117,382
4
So-so
Three part " horror " film with some guy in a boarded up house imploring the viewer not to go " out there " and ( unfortunately ) gives us three tales to prove why . The first story involves a young couple in a car accident who meet up with two psychos . It leads up to two totally predictable twists . Still , it's quic...
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4
Big , loud , noisy . . . and dull
Silly time travel movie . A archaeologist ( somehow ) finds a " wormhole " to 1347 France . That's when there was a huge battle ( or something . . . history isn't my best subject ) . He goes back to get artifacts . . . and never returns . So his stupid son ( Paul Walker ) and friends ( Gerard Butler , Frances O'Connor ...
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Come on ! A masterpiece ? I think not .
Travis Bickle ( Robert De Niro ) is a Vietnam war veteran who drives a cab in NYC . NYC is shown as an utter hellhole - - full of unpleasant characters and events . He tries to romance classy rick Betsy ( Cybill Shepherd ) but shocks her instead . He meets 12 year old prostitute Iris ( Jodie Foster ) and decides to sav...
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82,009
4
Not very good or original
The main idea of this animated feature was good - - follow a Russian Jewish family from when they came to America in the 1920s up to 1981 . Along the way use music of the time to move the story ahead . For example - - the 1960s sequence had " Somebody to Love " and " People Are Strange " - - 70s had " Night Moves - - 8...
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24,631
4
Visually impressive but that's it
Silly horror tale about the soul of an executed murderess possessing the body of another woman . Film starts off well but quickly becomes slow and boring . Some impressive visuals throughout , but the main plot is absurd - - according to this , the spirits of executed killers possess living people and have them perform...
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66,892
4
Dreary , dull and dated
SPOILERS THROUGHOUT Hopelessly outdated film about sex . It follows the sex lives of two guys - - Jonathan ( Jack Nicholson ) and Sandy ( Art Garfunkel ) - - from their college years in the 1940s up to 1971 . Sandy falls for Susan ( Candice Bergen ) in college . Jonathan also falls for her too . In later years Sandy is...
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160,916
4
Boring , stupid , obvious , cringe-worthy dialogue
Boy ! This was worse than what I expected ! I expected a light film with good acting and a happy ending ( Rob Reiner NEVER has a depressing ending ) . What did I get ? Well it was light . . . TOO LIGHT ! ! So light that I didn't give a damn about the characters or their situations ! These people do not talk or act like...
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4
Pretty dreadful
Stupid horror film about five 20 somethings ( 3 guys , 2 girls ) going to this place in the middle of nowhere . What they don't know is Dr . Chopper and his female assistants attack and kill anybody who ventures in their woods . They use their body parts for some experiments . . . or something . Also five college girls...
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51,724
4
A searing expose on teenage drug use ! Just kidding
Silly exploitation movie . It's about tough kid Tony ( Russ Tamblyn ) going to live with his nymphomaniac aunt ( Mamie Van Doren ) and attending a new school . He meets the head kid J . I . ( John Drew Barrymore ) , gets involved with his girlfriend Joan ( Diane Jergens ) and gets involved with selling drugs . But Tony...
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63,787
4
Kind of dull
A movie about Vixen ( Erica Gavin ) who has a Mountie husband who she loves . . . but she loves sex too ! In the course of the movie she gets multiple men in bed - - including her husband AND brother ! Also there's a ( tame ) lesbian sequence . This film put Russ Meyer on the map and was ( I believe ) the first critica...
478,114
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94,862
4
Never really worked for me
Killer Charles Lee Ray ( Brad Dourif ) is shot and killed by policeman Mike Norris ( Chris Sarandon ) in a toy store . Before he dies he transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll named Chucky . Mom Karen Barclay ( Catherine Hicks ) buys the doll for her son Andy ( Alex Vincent ) and Chucky sets out to settle the score wi...
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86,216
4
Overdone
Terrible adaptation of S . E . Hinton's novel . Rusty James ( Matt Dillon ) lives in awe of his older brother the Motorcycle Boy ( Mickey Rourke ) who had moved . He returns and the relationship between the two brothers changes . Seriously - - that's all I could get out of this . This came out in 1983 . Director Coppol...
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73,806
5
Saw it MANY years ago . . .
at a Gay & Lesbian Film Festival . Porno black & white parody of horror films . On a dark and stormy night a bunch of people are stranded in a very strange house run by a very strange woman . During the night various ( hardcore ) sex occurs . And they throw in a gorilla too ( ! ! ! ! ) I saw an edited print ( it only r...
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338,094
5
THIS is what we got for making " Pirates of the Caribbean " such a big hit !
Eddie Murphy plays a workaholic real estate man . He loves his beautiful wife and two kids - - but can't resist working . He gets a call to see an old , rundown mansion ( the title one ) . He arrives with his wife and kids . They meet the mysterious butler ( Terence Stamp ) and his even stranger master ( Nathaniel Park...
479,606
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61,209
5
Early Coppola film
You probably never heard of this film - - there's a good reason why . 19 year old Barnard ( Peter Kastner ) is on his own in NYC and obsessed with girls . He's extremely attracted by a beautiful , but cruel , actress named Barbara Darling ( Elizabeth Hartman ) while sweet , nice Amy Bartlett ( Karen Black - - supposedl...
477,806
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160,710
5
So-so
Not bad for a low-budget film , but not great either . It's about three black gay males and one gay Latino male searching for sex and / or love in L . A . It is good to see an ( almost ) all-black cast in a movie not involving drugs , guns or non-stop profanity . Also , this is one of the few movies dealing with GBMs ....
478,970
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378,867
5
What's the point ?
Testosterone started as a gay novel written by a gay author suffering from depression . It's a VERY grim , dark tale of Dean who is deserted by his lover Pablo . But it seems Pablo has left him a gift - - an HIV infection . He spends the entire novel driving around Los Angeles meeting various dark , disturbing characte...
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43,964
5
Spooky
Interesting short narrated by Orson Welles about a ghost story " told in Dublin " ( as the film says ) . Only about a half hour long , it's not really scary and the acting is uneven ( to say the least ) , but it's beautifully shot . Some of the scenes in it were breathtaking and even though I knew the ending , I was in...
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I guess it could have been worse . . .
A bunch of obnoxious college idiots on spring break decide to ride from South Carolina to Florida and party there . Along the way they are ( purposefully ) detoured and end up in Pleasant Valley - - a town that seems stuck in the Civil War - - and they're JUST in time for a celebration . Soon five other airheads show u...
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5
Can't say I liked it . . .
The government hires a scientist ( Kevin McCarthy ) to develop man-eating piranhas to use in combat ( ? ? ? ? ) . Unfortunately they escape into a public stream . . . which runs into a summer camp , a resort and then the ocean . Can Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies stop the creatures ? This is a Roger Corman produc...
478,290
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325,214
5
Average creature feature
Back in the 1800s an miner finds tons of gold and refuses to share it . Instead he hides it and kills everybody he thinks it interested in it . He's shot but curses anyone who finds his gold and then . . . disappears . Cut to present day ( well . . . 2003 actually ) . A young guy finds some gold . The miner immediately...
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73,972
5
Sure it's sexist but fun in a non-think sort of way
Three beautiful women ( Kate Jackson , Jaclyn Smith and Farrah Fawcett ) are the only employees of a detective agency run by the unseen Charlie ( voice of John Forsythe ) and his helper Bosley ( David Doyle ) . Every week these women went out to solve laughably obvious crimes and never break a nail or get one hair out ...
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5
Black is the whole show here
Prostitute Elizabeth Lucy ( Karen Black ) is found dead at the beginning - - she fell ( or was pushed ) from the top of a building . Police sergeant Jim Henderson ( Christopher Plummer ) investigates and finds himself involved in satanic rites , ritual killings and more . Also there are flashbacks to the last few days ...
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5
Pretty silly but not without merit
Susan Jane is pretty but feels ignored by kids at school . They never invite her to parties or engage her in conversations . On the other hand the kids don't purposely ignore her - - they just think she's stuck-up because she never talks to them ! One kind girl in the group realizes the situation and talks to Susan Jan...
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47,673
5
I've never really liked this
Two old army buddies ( Bing Crosby , Danny Kaye ) are a successful dancing and singing act . They try to help their ex-general ( Dean Jagger ) from loosing his Vermont inn . The love interest is provided by Vera Ellen and Rosemary Clooney . I've seen this multiple times ( once in a brand new print at a repertory theatr...
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61,398
5
Joan Crawford's 2nd to last film - - a true horror
Monica Rivers ( Joan Crawford ) is the owner of a traveling circus . One night the tightrope walker's rope breaks . He falls and ( somewhat impossibly ) is hung by his own rope . The next day Frank Hawkins ( Ty Hardin ) shows up looking for a job - - and he just happens to be a tightrope walker . Rivers hires him . . ....
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70,169
5
Pretty terrible but never dull
DEFINITE SPOILERS This film is a direct sequel to " Black Caeser " . The first 7 minutes show the ending of the first film in which Caeser ( Fred Williamson ) was being chased and then beaten to death . This movie conveniently ignores that he was killed and has his father rescuing him . He survives and kills all the pe...
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290,673
5
Harrowing
A woman ( Monica Bellucci ) is savagely raped and beaten and her boyfriend ( Vincent Cassel ) sets out to kill her attacker . This film is almost impossible to watch - - there's an extremely horrifying and VERY graphic murder in the first 20 minutes and the rape / beating goes on for at least 10 minutes . The worst was...
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5
Interesting but a failure
Adaptation of a play . A pre-stardom Kevin Bacon plays a sleazy , grimy , gay prostitute . He offers an older trick ( Orson Bean ) a young gay man . The problem is the kid dies and Bean is on the way . What to do ? I never saw the play but it can't be as dull as this . The acting here is good - - Bacon looks terrible (...
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5
Obscure little thriller
An updating of Jack the Ripper made on the centennial of his infamous murders . A murderer in Los Angeles is imitating Jack the Ripper - - he kills only prostitutes and in the exact same way Jack did . Idealistic kind doctor John Westford ( James Spader ) stumbles into the last killing and finds a coworker there who sa...
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77,889
5
Not that good
Corky Withers ( Anthony Hopkins ) plays a very successful ventriloquist with a particularly foul-mouthed little dummy called Fats . He realizes he's slowly losing his grip with reality ( he's starting to think Fats is alive ) ands runs away to a secluded cabin . He runs into an old high school flame Peggy Ann Snow ( ...
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77,869
5
Hopelessly confused
Ralph Bakshi had a good idea - - do " The Lord of the Rings " trilogy as three separate animated films . Back in 1978 it would have been impossible to do this live action . I saw it in a theatre in 1978 with my brother and some friends . I had just read " The Hobbit " but never the trilogy - - my friends have never rea...
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210,075
5
THIS was a big nit at Sundance ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Why ? It's a boring , totally by-the-numbers story of a girl with attitude ( Michelle Rodriguez ) who has no self-esteem , finding it with boxing ( and a boyfriend too ) . This story has been done many times before and done better also . Every single frame of it was predictable . Aside from the predictable story line ,...
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5
OK action flick
I only saw this because the late Brandon Lee was in it . His acting was so good in " The Crow " , I wondered how he was before that . Sadly , not that good . He was a very handsome man with a beautiful body ( nice butt too ) , but his acting is pretty stiff . He's not horrible just not good . I guess between this and "...
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Lesser known Woody Allen film - - for good reason !
Allens first film as writer and director . He took a serious Japanese spy film , threw out all the dialogue , wrote his own and had the lines dubbed in . I saw this on TV when I was a teenager , back in the late 1970s , and found it hysterical . Seeing it now I can't figure out WHY I found this funny . There are some g...
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5
Starts off great . . . then falls apart
A babysitter named Julia ( Jill Schoelen ) is home with her charges asleep upstairs . . . and hears a knock at the door . A man says his car has broken down and he needs to use the phone ( you never see him - - you only hear his voice through the door ) . She offers to place the call for him and finds the phone is dead...
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5
Half a good movie
The plot is not bad ( if far-fetched ) and it's well-directed but this movie is only partially successful . Two brothers Lewis ( Paul Walker ) and Fuller ( Steve Zahn ) drive cross-country to Colorado to pick up Lewis ' " friend " Venna ( Leelee Sobieski ) . They play stupid games on their CB , inadvertently cause a ma...
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5
Terrible direction , stupid script but sometimes it works
A white bigot ( Godfrey Cambridge ) wakes up one morning to find himself a black man . Good idea , horrible execution . The script hits all the jokes you expect and then goes nowhere . The dialogue is terrible - - people don't talk like that ! Also , there's no ending - - the film just stops . And Van Peebles direction...
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5
Unpleasant , bloody and boring
Five extremely annoying college students decide to spend a weekend in a cabin in the woods . They're attacked ( sort of ) by a man infected by a flesh-eating virus . He's killed but not before infecting them and they start to unravel as they battle the virus . . . and themselves . The plot is totally by the numbers and...
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5
Failure is right !
Stupid comedy . 35 year old Tripp ( Matthew McConaughy ) still lives at home with him mom and dad ( Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw ) . They hire Paula ( Sarah Jessica Parker ) to romance him , get him to move out . . . and then dump him . Naturally she ( sigh ) falls in love . There's also a pointless subplot where a f...
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ALMOST works
Mel Brooks ' spoof on Dracula . It follows Dracula ( Leslie Nielsen ) from Transylvania to London where he battles Dr . Seward ( Harvey Korman ) , his assistant Jonathan Harker ( Steven Weber ) , Lucy ( Lysette Anthony ) , Harkers ' fiancée Mina ( Amy Yasbeck ) and van Helsing ( Mel Brooks ! ) . It follows the 1931 mov...
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5
Very good for what it is
An annoying bunch of 20 somethings go to spend a weekend at an abandoned ski resort . They plan to go " shredding " ( snow boarding ) and whoop it up . All the stereotypes are in place : the nice girl ; his girlfriend ; the female slut ; the maybe lesbian ; the crazy " funny " guy ; the constantly stoned guy and the my...
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175,526
5
Badly cut and doesn't work
In the small town of Cherry Falls VA , a vicious killer starts hacking up teenagers . The thing is he only attacks virgins ! The town sheriff ( Michael Biehn ) tries to warn parents and teenagers and also protect his own teenage daughter ( Brittany Murphy ) . The movie tries to mix black humor with strong violence . Wh...
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5
Takes itself way too seriously
Basically this is a slasher flick that thinks it's an art film . May ( Angela Bettis ) is a very shy , withdrawn woman who lives alone , has no friends and talks to her dolls at home . She falls for a man ( Jeremy Sisto ) and a lesbian coworker ( Anna Faris ) is also attached to her . Things get complicated , bad thing...
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5
If you liked the original . . .
This film very closely follows the plot of the original " classic " . An all American family gets stranded in the middle of nowhere ( New Mexico desert here ) and are attacked by a family ravaged by nuclear radiation . I'm no fan of the first one . I thought it was stupid , unpleasant with lousy special effects and act...
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64,597
5
Silly and crude but has its moments
This takes place in Victorian England . It deals with four lusty men and their attempts to have sex . The plots were hard to follow ( the thick English accents didn't help ) but I THINK I figured them out . Shaftoe ( Tom Bell ) is lusting after virginal sweet Hilaret ( Sussannah York ) . Lusty ( Jim Dale ) is after Clo...
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140,352
5
Needs editing - - A LOT ! ! !
Yeah , it's well acted , yeah it's got an intelligent script but those two elements do NOT make a great movie . This movie is a ( needless ) 2 hours and 35 minutes . There's no suspense ( anyone who reads the newspaper or watches TV knows how it's going to end ) and we get ENDLESS scenes repeating the same themes ( tob...
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60,794
5
Nice atmosphere does not make a picture great
In a remote Transylvanian village people are killing themselves . It seems whenever they see a little ghost girl that means they are going to die . A doctor and a local witch both try to find out what's going on and stop it . If that plot sounds vague you should see the picture ! The plot rambles all over the place mak...
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194,776
5
Saw it in college in 1980
This was actually shown as part of a psychology class I took in college in 1980 . It was used to demonstrate the stages of sex among couples ( male / female ) . To be honest it was hardly exciting . The women were , to put it bluntly , not good-looking and the guys weren't much better . No plot or story - - just sex . ...
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5
Bad , but so was RHPS
I'm a BIG RHPS fan but , seriously , it's not a good movie . Take away the audience and what you have is a stupid , confusing movie with good good acting and great musical numbers . " Shock Treatment " is a lot like that . Some good acting and fantastic musical numbers . . . but that's about it . The plot is confusing ...
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5
Loud , stupid , violent but kind of fun
Vice copy ( Burt Reynolds ) falls for a high-price call girl ( Rachel Ward ) who's under the thumb of an underworld lord ( Gassman ) . The storyline is highly improbable , has a VERY slow stretch with Reynolds watching Ward through binoculars , has tons of gunfights and gallons of blood . Also , very sleazy . Still , I...
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An S & M love story posing as a horror film
Pretty bad . An evil nobleman Kurt ( Christopher Lee ) terrorizes his family . He especially gets his kicks by whipping his brother's wife Nevenka ( Daliah Lavi ) . . . but she enjoys it ! He's then killed off brutally . . . but Nevenka keeps seeing him . He starts visiting her at night and whipping her and making love...
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35,706
5
An OK murder mystery
Dr . Steele ( Lon Chaney Jr . ) is a psychiatrist married to a cheating wife who refuses to give him a divorce . He's in love with his nurse ( Patricia Morison ) who loves him back . Then he blacks out one weekend and awakens to find his wife was brutally murdered . Did he do it or is he being set up ? The first of Uni...
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39,826
5
Great color - - little else
The adventures of Sinbad ( Douglas Fairbanks Jr . ) . Maureen O'Hara plays the love interest and Anthony Quinn plays the villain . A VERY elaborate film from RKO Radio Pictures . The sets are huge , the costumes beautiful and the color is great . . . but I really didn't enjoy this . For starters , Fairbanks is in lousy...
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74,533
5
Saw it quite a while ago . . . but still remember it
An enthusiastic young and talented cast try to put on the first nudie musical with numbers such as " Dacing Dildoes " and a totally incompetent director . I caught this years ago on cable ( early 80s ) . I remember when it came out in 1976 people were shocked that Cindy Williams ( of TV's silly " Laverne & Shirley " si...
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5
A John Holmes gay porn
No sound . Two young attractive guys ( John Holmes , Dave Harris ) are drinking and talking . Then they get up , go to the bedroom , undress and have sex . Holmes is on top . They then shower . That's about it . This was made to show off Holmes ' legendary appendage . What's surprising is seeing him making love with an...
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83,336
5
Too smart for its own good
SPOILER BEGINSA rich couple are brutally murdered when they take a little nighttime stroll through the bad part of NYC . Detective Albert Finney is called in to investigate . It turns out the murderers aren't even human - - they're super intelligent wolves just trying to protect their hunting ground . But it seems the ...
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378,109
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Boy was this STUPID ! ! ! !
A bunch of divers ( played by Paul Walker , Jessica Alba , Scott Caan and Ashley Scott ) accidentally come upon a plane under water that contains heroin . They pledge not to say anything but - - naturally - - Caan and Scott stupidly tell the local drug lord what they found and things predictably go wrong . The plot is ...
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Plodding but has its moments
This takes places in 1795 England . Young Catherine ( Stephanie Beacham ) marries Charles Fengiffen ( Ian Ogilvy ) and moves to live with him at his remote ancestral estate . She's attacked by a spirit on her wedding night , starts seeing an eyeless grinning man and a disembodied hand crawling around . Is she going mad...
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265,101
5
Not as good as " 2 " , but OK
Boys Life 1 and " 2 " are a collection of short movies dealing with gay youths . " 2 " actually contained an Oscar-winning short - - " Trevor " . This movie isn't as good as the first two , but occasionally works . It contains 5 shorts - - " Majorettes in Space " comes first . It's a French film that juxtaposes gays ...
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268,978
5
Well-acted but dull
POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD True story about John Forbes Nash Jr . ( Russell Crowe ) , a brilliant mathematician , and his struggles with schizophrenia . Well-acted by Crowe , Jennifer Connelly ( as his wife ) , Ed Harris ( as a government agent ) and Paul Bettany ( as a college roommate ) but dull dull dull ! ! ! It's nee...
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5
Sad to say but Hitchcock's last is one of his worst
Movie about a couple - - Blanche ( Barbara Harris ) and George ( Bruce Dern ) - - searching for the long-lost nephew of a very rich woman . Unfortunately they get involved with two kidnappers - - Adamson ( William Devane ) and Fran ( Karen Black ) - - and Adamson is VERY evil . Hitchcock's heart wasn't in this one - - ...
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5
Boring and clichéd
In WWII Navajo men were used as code talkers in the war - - they translated messages while in combat into their own language , and transmitted it that way . This was done so the Japanese were unable to understand the messages . It's a very interesting little known fact about the war . It's a good thing they made a movi...
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69,792
5
Predictable and poorly made
Movie starts out in 1953 where we see young black Tommy Gibbs doing jobs for the mob . He starts developing his own little gang . As he gets older ( and becomes Fred Williamson ) he works his way into the white mob - - even though they don't want " niers " ( as they say throughout the film ) . Then he steals some damag...
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43,030
5
Bright , cheerful and totally unmemorable
Doris Day is great in this movie . She's full of life , she's sparkling , her singing is great ( as is her dancing ) . Also Eve Arden is very funny . That's about it for the good things . Otherwise the film has a stupid plot ; unmemorable songs ; and Gordon MacRae is ( suprisingly ) horrible as the male lead . He was s...
478,212
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47,396
5
What's the big deal ?
I love Hitchcocks ' movies - - he was undoubtedly one of the greatest directors of our time - - but what's the big deal about this movie . It's well-directed ( obviously ) and the acting is good , but the story is predictable , the dialogue dull ( except for a few of Thelma Ritter's wisecracks ) and it's just plain bor...
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What's happened to Soderbergh ?
Steven Soderbergh's newest " movie " has him directing Francesca ( Julia Roberts ) and Calvin ( Blair Underwood ) in a movie which is shown in crisp , clear film and then shows their real lives in VERY grainy video footage using a constantly jerky hand-held camera going in and out of focus . It also shows other charact...
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Half a good movie
Two 17 year olds Tenoch ( Diego Luna ) and Julio ( Gael Garcia Bernal ) meet a 28 year old married woman Luisa ( Maribel Verdu ) at a wedding . They convince her to go on a road trip with them to a nonexistent beach . Basically they both want to sleep with her . But things get WAY out of hand . I hated the first half o...
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The 3-D animation is all this has going for it
Powerful Beowulf journeys to a village to destroy a monster named Grendel . Unfortunately he doesn't realize Grendel has a mother to deal with too . OK - - the 3-D animation is incredible . The characters look and act like real people . The voices match the characters perfectly also . Also , despite the PG-13 rating , ...
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5
Very good for what it is
It's an episode from the British TV series " Hammer House of Horror " . A film composer David Winter ( Jon Finch ) is unhappily living with his wife Mary ( Prunella Gee ) who's having an affair . One night he's home alone and a witch ( Patricia Quinn ) appears - - it seems she transported herself from the 1600s where s...
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5
Things walkin that ain't got no business walkin
A somewhat fun Monogram horror movie . The wife of Dr . von Altermann ( John Carradine ) has died mysteriously . Her brother and a hired detective ( hunky Robert Lowery ) investigate . It seems the doctor is quite mad and experimenting on human beings and turning them into zombies . Yes , it's a cheap no budget movie b...
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5
Not bad but a disappointment
The second remake of the " Front Page " - - there was a 1931 version , a 1940s version titled " His Girl Friday " AND a 1980s version called " Switching Channels " . The best is " His Girl Friday " but the others aren't bad . In 1920s Chicago Hildy Johnson ( Jack Lemmon ) , a reporter , wants to leave the newspaper bus...
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5
I guess it lost something in the translation
French movie about a couple ( Stephane Freiss , Valerie Bruni-Tedesch ) getting a divorce . Then the movie moves backwards showing key moments in the couples relationship . It ends with their first meeting . Director Francois Ozon is ( I think ) a great director . His previous two films - - " 8 Women " and " Swimming P...
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5
Good acting but too familiar
A 40ish , repressed school teacher is raped by a young , black janitor in the 1950s . It truly disturbs her , but she realizes she enjoyed it and begins a secret sexual relationship with him . But how long will this remain a secret ? Very well acted by everybody . . . but why was this done ? The story has been done man...
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5
Well-done and acted . . . but no depth
Movie about a man ( William Hurt ) dealing with the death of his son . His wife ( Kathleen Turner ) abandons him and he's all alone . He meets a wonderful woman ( Geena Davis ) but is she enough to help him ? It looks fantastic ( superb direction ) and great acting by all ( Geena Davis won an Oscar ) . . . but I was bo...
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5
Cast changes made this unwatchable
Silly soap but kind of fun . I barely remember the plot but I DO remember Jo Ann Pflug being very good as an evil woman . George Lazenby was fun as was Greg Mullavy . The rest of the cast was adequate . The worst actor on the show was easily Kevin Spirtas . Ironically he was the best LOOKING actor too . It had the usua...
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5
Too quiet , too slow
This takes place in the 1940s . Carrie Watts ( Geraldine Page ) , an elderly woman , is living with her son Ludie ( John Heard ) and his wife Jessie Mae ( Carlin Glynn ) . Ludie is henpecked by Jessie Mae and Jessie treats Carrie like dirt . All Carrie wants is to visit her home town before she dies . Ludie and Jessie ...
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5
About what you'd expect
An innocent girl , Ann ( Jill Ireland ) is framed by an evil girl , Lucy ( Jocelyn Britton ) and sent to a borstal ( British girls prison ) . There we have an evil prison guard , suicides , cat fights , riots and a strong suggestion of lesbianism . For what it is , it's not bad . It's made in bright , strong colors and...
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5
Dated and overdone
A kind Chinese man ( Richard Barthelmess - - who's white ) travels from China to London to teach peace and kindness to white men . Years later he lives in the Limehouse section of London - - a real slum . He's depressed but not beaten down . He meets sweet , innocent Lucy ( Lillian Gish ) who is beaten and whipped by h...
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5
Not good but fun in a silly sort of way
A bunch of people go to the island of Mora Tau . Right off the coast of it , a ship sank with diamonds aboard and they want them . There's nice guy Jeff Clark ( Gregg Palmer ) , Dr . Eggert ( Morris Ankrum ) , George Harrison ( ! ! ! ) ( Joel Ashley ) and his slutty wife Mona ( the immortal Allison Hayes ) . What they ...
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5
McNichol and Quaid are worth seeing . . . but nothing else is
Dennis Quaid plays Travis Child a skirt-chasing ( yet lovable ) guy who is constantly sleeping with married women and getting in trouble with the law . His sister straight arrow Amanda ( Kristy McNichol ) tries to keep him out of trouble but can't do it . She tries to get policeman Conrad ( Mark Hamill ) to help her . ...
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5
Highly unbelievable but fun . . . sort of
Nerdy high school student Ronald ( Scott Jacoby ) accidentally kills a fellow female classmate who is making fun of him ( he pushes her and her head hits a brick ) . He goes home and tells his VERY overprotective mother ( Kim Hunter ) . She decides to help him . She has him cover up the door of the guest bedroom and ha...
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Overblown and boring historical epic
Takes place in 12th century England . Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe ( Robert Taylor ) tries to help the imprisoned King Richard . However Richard's evil brother Prince John ( Guy Rolfe ) will do anything to stop him . Joan Fontaine and Elizabeth Taylor play the love interests . This movie has its good points . It's obvious to...
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5
Not up to the original
This sequel ( to a movie that promised " no sequel " ) opens with an uproarious parody of " The Exorcist " ( with James Woods ) then goes downhill fast . The " plot " has a bunch of college students ( four returnees from the original - - never mind that they died - - and three untalented others ) spending the weekend i...
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5
Surprisingly OK
The plot basically has a large wooden puppet coming to life and killing people . . . or is he ? The title is stupid and this was made on no budget , but it was quite interesting . All the acting is good , the story moves quickly and you're kept guessing until the very end about what's going on . The only bad part - - t...
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5
Boring attempt to redo the werewolf legend
Wealthy hunter Tom Newcliffe ( Calvin Lockhart ) invites 5 people to his hi tech estate . He knows one of them is a werewolf - - but he's not sure which one . When they all arrive he won't let them leave . The next three nights will all have a full moon . . . and he expects to figure out who the werewolf is then . Hard...
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Great action - - too bad the plot keeps getting in the way
The plot is boring and by-the-numbers gangster stuff ( and has only the slightest relation to " Romeo & Juliet " ) . The performances are terrible especially Jet Li and the soundtrack is unbearable ( I counted at least 40 uses of f and b in the first half hour ! ) . This film is ALMOST worth seeing for the action seque...
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6
Pretty good , colorful
It's not as good as the 1936 version and condenses the script dramatically , but pretty good on its own terms . Most of the songs are retained , but not all . Ava Gardner is very good as Julie ( even though her rendition of " Can't Help Lovin ' That Man " is way too slow ) ; Howard Keel is better than the material ; Jo...
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6
Typical
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a fireman ( for no particular reason that I could see ) , whose wife and kid are accidentally killed in a Colombian terrorist attack . 10 minutes later he's in Columbia searching for the terrorist . Typical Arnie film but very fast-moving with tons of fights , explosions , gun play , really ...