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544,695 | 562,732 | 126,859 | 6 | And the people bowed and prayed ? | When I write film reviews , I almost never give movies a score of 1 , no matter how badly I hated it , unless it is completely incomprehensible on any level , generally a movie that literally has no discernible plot ( unless it is a film that is meant to have no plot ) . There's a ridiculous horror movie called Nightma... |
544,690 | 562,732 | 364,725 | 6 | Some funny parts , more stupid parts . | It should be noted that stupid parts are often funny , too , I still haven't figured out what it is exactly that makes one stupid scene funny and another one just stupid and vulgar . The mashed potato scene in Scary Movie 2 , for example , was not funny by any stretch of the imagination . If you really liked that , you... |
543,873 | 562,732 | 109,370 | 6 | The early , dry political comedy of Michael Moore ? | Sort of like how you could see the style of the Wachowski Brothers in their 1996 film Bound , you can also see the developing style of Michael Moore in this early comedy , a ham-handed political lash at America as compared with our angelic neighbors to the north . There are certainly a lot of things that we could learn... |
544,564 | 562,732 | 87,298 | 6 | The most star-studded one so far ! | The above statement is relative , of course , but whenever I watch old movies like these , I always watch for actors who later went on to more visible careers . I guess it would be more accurate to call this the most star-studded Friday since part 1 , since Kevin Bacon's later career probably overshadows all of the sem... |
544,482 | 562,732 | 187,078 | 6 | Sigh . It was good , but only as a good dose of mindless action . On the other hand , it also had the same drawbacks that The Rock , Armageddon , and Enemy of the State had . | Gone in 60 Seconds was a true Jerry Bruckheimer film . It has the fast-paced action , the big Hollywood stars , the fancy camera work , and the awkwardly tacked on bit of romance , but overall it was a disappointment . Much like Mission : Impossible II , it had great stunts , but they stretched the imagination to the b... |
544,071 | 562,732 | 190,865 | 6 | On the positive side , Vertical Limit wasn't the exact re-make of Cliffhanger that I thought it was going to be . | ( spoilers ) Here's the intricate plot : a bunch of people go up a huge cold mountain , stuff goes wrong , some people live , some people die , some people come back down the mountain , some people don't . Maybe I left out a detail here and there , but that's what it all boils down to . Extreme sports fans are sure to ... |
544,238 | 562,732 | 39,828 | 6 | Manny , Moe and Jack . . . | This is the first of the Shemp shorts that I've seen , and while some of the gags were not the cleverest I've seen from some the Stooges ' earlier works , there were also some pretty good sight gags in this film . Moe comes off as a pretty mean guy at the beginning , and cooking lunch on the linen press was hardly impr... |
544,854 | 562,732 | 319,262 | 6 | Dramatized for effect . | The Day After Tomorrow is one of those movies that comes along occasionally that operates on such a massive scale that it's sure to be a success even if for no other reason than because it takes place in such a massive setting . I think that a large part of the appeal of disaster movies comes from the possibility of se... |
544,100 | 562,732 | 52,846 | 6 | In 2003 , the digital effects team behind Independence Day made a worse movie than this one . | I had a pretty positive reaction to this movie , although my opinion is surely biased because I saw it a couple days after watching the 2003 film Coronado and I was still reeling at how staggeringly bad that movie was . Unbelievable , seriously . I'm not going to get over that shock for quite a while , actually . The G... |
543,761 | 562,732 | 95,882 | 6 | It's no James Bond , but still good , clean , dumb fun . | Okay , so something happens in the first few minutes of Police Academy 5 that must surely be the most meaningful and artistic bit of creative story-telling that has happened before or since in the entire series . As Captain Harris and Proctor are breaking into Chief Hurst's office to get their hands on his files , Proc... |
544,008 | 562,732 | 100,507 | 6 | Let the overacting begin ! | As I got to Part 5 , I was amazed that none of the Rocky movies were bad . Part 5 is the weakest of the entire series , but in a series this long there are almost always at least one or two that are just train wrecks , but the only really bad thing about Rocky 5 is that Stallone overacts so much . There is a definite f... |
544,157 | 562,732 | 182,789 | 6 | Just a rehash of the classic Pinocchio story . | Even though this film was badly lacking in the originality department , it had its redeeming values . The special effects were fairly well-done , the story was well-told , and Oliver Platt ( as usual ) was for some reason a lot of fun to watch . Overall , however , it was entirely too long , and it was hard to believe ... |
544,879 | 562,732 | 661,199 | 6 | I really wanted to smack the kid in this episode . . . | Interesting enough episode , although the ending really blew it for me . I have been losing taste very , very quickly for anything involving Matt's sex life . After the self-circumcision I was ready for that whole thing to just be put to rest for good , but I guess the show is about surgical bodily mutilation so such a... |
544,293 | 562,732 | 910,934 | 6 | Standard Segal with a bigger budget . . . | Urban Justice is your basic revenge story . Seagal plays an older , fatter version of himself on a mission to avenge the murder of his son in beautiful Compton , California . Seagal is undeniably past his prime now , although it's still fun to watch him cruising solo through the streets of east LA smacking gangsters ar... |
544,119 | 562,732 | 4,670 | 6 | The experiments continue ? | In Chaplin's first handful of short comedies , there is a very clear pattern of experimentation going on as he discovers where his real talent lies and while the personality of the beloved Tramp evolves and makes itself known . In Tango Tangles , or Charlie's Recreation , we see a bit of a digression as not only does C... |
544,744 | 562,732 | 107,076 | 6 | Is it just me or was John Woo just not trying ? | John Woo gets a lot of good press as an outstanding action director , but he seems to be hit or miss to me , with more misses than hits . I haven't seen many of his extensive list of Chinese films , except for Hard Boiled , which I found less than impressive , like the spectacularly disappointing Windtalkers . Hard Tar... |
544,380 | 562,732 | 115,798 | 6 | Too early . | Being a fairly die-hard Jim Carrey fan , I hesitate to condemn this movie as much as many people have . I've even seen the movie ridiculed on The Simpsons ( in one episode , I think Homer and Bart find some kind of secret vault , which contains The Cable Guy script , the GOOD version , which apparently never saw the li... |
544,358 | 562,732 | 210,567 | 6 | Average . . . | Beautiful is a film that delivers a surprisingly healthy message but unfortunately is only likely to be fully appreciated by those people freaky enough to understand Mona's ridiculous obsession with beauty pageants . It was bad enough that she spent the greater portion of her formative years sitting in front of the TV ... |
544,015 | 562,732 | 155,975 | 6 | I once heard a film critic call this movie the " unnecessary colorization of a classic , " and I have yet to hear it described more accurately . | Gus Van Sant's scene for scene and word for word re-make of Alfred Hitchcock's timeless original is both unimaginative and pointless . I've read other reviews of this movie , and I hear people talking about how this is a good way to make older movies more accessible to today's audiences . More accessible ? Are you kidd... |
543,788 | 562,732 | 299,930 | 6 | Here's a revealing statement , the goofy romance portion of this goofy romantic comedy is probably it's best part . | Now , that's a loaded sentence , if I've ever written one . Ben Affleck's and Jennifer Lopez's relationship is probably the most asinine and nauseating one discussed by supermarket tabloids since Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman , and yet their romantic relationship in this prescribed failure of a romantic comedy is th... |
544,519 | 562,732 | 305,224 | 6 | I wasn't sure to expect a great comedy because Jack Nicholson was in it or a ridiculous comedy because Adam Sandler was in it , but I should have known . | Jack Nicholson has an endless ability to entertain , he's one of the VERY few men in Hollywood that are just fun to watch almost regardless of what movie they're in , but unfortunately he is not able to overcome Sandler's equal skills in goofy childish humor , which generally serve to dumb his movies down and challenge... |
544,617 | 562,732 | 274,166 | 6 | The word ' mistakes , ' sir , is one that does not appear in my dictionary ? | Our first look at Johnny English is as an ultra-smooth secret agent , which turns out to be a dream sequence as we meet the real English , a bumbling desk jockey who fantasizes about a life of danger . The movie turns in a completely different direction when we realize that this is a dream sequence , and I have to say ... |
543,850 | 562,732 | 434,964 | 6 | Gammera's explosive debut . . . | Gammera , one of the most famous Japanese monsters to hit the big screen in the 1960s makes his debut in this zero-budget , politically charged monster thriller . It is interesting to consider the tensions that were taking place between certain nations at the time that the movie was made , especially between the U . S ... |
544,489 | 562,732 | 293,662 | 6 | Fast action and paper thin characters . . . | There are certain action movie premises that never go away despite the fact that they always produce movies that are clones of countless unimpressive action movies that came before . The kidnapped child , the raped and murdered wife , the otherwise wronged family , or in this case , the crusade against corrupt business... |
544,046 | 562,732 | 278,504 | 6 | You know , I had a pretty rough day today myself . | SPOILERS SPOILERS This is a tiny bit of a digression , but I watched this movie when I was taking a break from cramming for two midterms that I had to take this morning ( I watched the movie last night ) . I had been studying for most of the day and decided to make something to eat and watch the movie for a while to ta... |
543,766 | 562,732 | 159,273 | 6 | Saving Private Burnett . | Behind Enemy Lines is a classic example of a story that was told in order to be made into a neatly packaged action film . Owen Wilson plays the part of Lt . Chris Burnett , a fighter pilot in the Navy who , after seven years of service , has yet to see a single day of the kind of thing that he has been trained for . In... |
544,601 | 562,732 | 164,184 | 6 | The latest installment in the brilliant Jack Ryan series from Tom Clancy falls tremendously short of it's predecessors . | The Sum of All Fears is exactly what it was advertised to be - a fast paced military / political thriller , and it even comes out bearing more weight than originally intended because of the effects on the world of the September 11th attacks , which occurred before the film was released but after it was filmed . Ben Aff... |
544,106 | 562,732 | 94,602 | 6 | Anytime we have people immune to investigation , we'll always have those in government who are above the law . | OK , so I have been a fan of Steven Seagal since I was a kid ( I can't remember why my parents allowed me to watch early Seagal films , by the way ) , and lately I have been going back and watching his oldest and best movies . Out of pure curiosity , I looked him up on Youtube because I realized that I had never seen a... |
543,924 | 562,732 | 417,148 | 6 | Wait a minute , you can bring a dog on a plane ? ? ? | Snakes on a Plane is a movie of an increasingly rare breed . It includes a warning within the title , meaning that if you see a title like " Snakes on a Plane " and can't deduce that it's going to be preposterous in the extreme , then you deserve to feel ripped off . Now , like other laughable predecessors such as Anac... |
543,881 | 562,732 | 239,948 | 6 | Bad for obvious reasons . | Saving Silverman is one of those hopelessly immature comedies that is sure to be either attacked or ignored by the critics . However , there are quite a few good laughs in the movie , due in no small part to the excellent comedic acting of Jack Black and Steve Zahn . You already know that Jack Black is going to be funn... |
544,478 | 562,732 | 168,122 | 6 | This was an interesting enough story , and even a bit informative , but it seemed to be lacking in its completeness . . . | What you have in Pirates of Silicon Valley is a basic skeletal structure of the formation of Apple Computers and the gigantic Microsoft corporation , but it's not a very detailed account . Sure , it follows the creators from high school age , but the film structure is very blocky and it jumps around a lot . We get no h... |
544,094 | 562,732 | 196,229 | 6 | Occasionally , Zoolander is painfully hilarious , but even that does not overshadow the pre-production goals of lucrative cheeseball comedy and the tasteless subject matter that resulted . | Zoolander is the story of the hottest but dumbest male model in the world , Derek Zoolander ( who happens to be living the skinny American Dream of getting paid vast amounts of money to have his picture taken and become famous ) , who grows disillusioned with the modeling industry after he is suddenly overshadowed by a... |
544,189 | 562,732 | 5,542 | 6 | One of Chaplin's lesser short comedies . | SPOILERS SPOILERS In The Park starts off with a scene that is very similar to one of Chaplin's other short films , By The Sea , where Charlie comes across a woman who is involved with another man . In this scene , Charlie approaches her and flirts with her while her oafish husband is temporarily away , and when he come... |
544,777 | 562,732 | 387,564 | 6 | Here is something you can't understand . How I could just kill a man . | It's a bit odd to say that the thing I liked best about Saw was that there was true suffering in it rather than detached horror movie gore , but that was the case with this movie . I am reminded of some of Wes Craven's early films like Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes , which were essentially about people... |
544,705 | 562,732 | 84,745 | 6 | Every man for himself , and God against all . | It's too bad about the last third of this movie , because it really works pretty well as a comic book movie before the bad guys start drinking the serum and transforming . It takes place in a swamp and throughout most of the movie looks exactly like some of those stupid , stupid exploitation films like Gator Bait and D... |
543,798 | 562,732 | 113,957 | 6 | 25 years ago this would have been science fiction . Today it's cliché . | Odd the way technology works . Less than a decade ago , there was this completely different technological world , a world of pagers , floppy disks , dial-up modems ( which are as obsolete as typewriters ) , and gigantic brick-like cell phones . I remember being amazed at that little tiny flap at the bottom of the phone... |
543,964 | 562,732 | 230,030 | 6 | A crash course in wish making . | Okay , we all know that this re-make was made for no other reason than as an excuse to get Elizabeth Hurley into some ridiculous number of skimpy outfits , so there's no need to discuss that here . It's just a given . Brendan Fraser plays the part of a painfully geeky guy that gets no respect at the office and has a lo... |
544,774 | 562,732 | 106,315 | 6 | What's all this about Top Gun on the ski slopes and Endless Summer of skiing ? | If there's one thing I can say about Aspen Extreme , it is that it is not at all the Top Gun of the ski slopes , it's The Great Outdoors of the ski slopes . And by that , of course , I mean it's The Great Outdoors without John Candy or Dan Aykroyd . And by THAT , of course , I mean it's The Great Outdoors , but not fun... |
544,049 | 562,732 | 269,347 | 6 | In a surprisingly disappointing although basically effective action film , Tommy Lee Jones , Benecio del Toro , and the great William Friedkin all team up to prove that not even the greatest amount of star powe | The Hunted is one of those star-studded action films that generates huge amounts of anticipation just because of the people who are involved with it ( and the excellent theatrical trailers ) but is not able to live up to that anticipation . Tommy Lee Jones returns to a role that he knows all too well ( and in which we ... |
543,983 | 562,732 | 71,372 | 6 | How far would you go ? | I got this film on a collection of older mysteries that came with And Then There Were None . Normally I would have skipped over it but the reviews online said it was pretty good and since it's barely an hour long I decided to give it a shot . It is certainly a competent thriller , although with minimal production value... |
544,003 | 562,732 | 395,584 | 6 | Revenge is a dish best served cold , messy , fast , loud , and at great length . | Having been hugely impressed with House of 1000 Corpses , I was eager to see Rob Zombie's next directorial effort , but found that it fell short in a lot of areas . Midway through the film , for example , it roughly turns into an almost senseless mishmash of Texas Chainsaw elements , losing sight of the return to true ... |
543,838 | 562,732 | 163,978 | 6 | A stunning visual movie experience that was unfortunately brought down by the weak story . | Although The Beach was an interesting and well acted film , it ended up contradicting what it was trying to say at the beginning . The scenery in incredible with the beautiful white sand beach that is completely isolated from the modern world , and the transition between the two when Richard and Sal traveled back for s... |
543,736 | 562,732 | 368,447 | 6 | It's all about the scenery . | I read one IMDb user's review of The Village which stated that M . Night made a mistake releasing The Sixth Sense because it made everyone in the world expect some earth shattering twist at the end of all of his movies , which is almost right . Luckily , this reviewer goes on to explain that M . Night has been trying e... |
544,113 | 562,732 | 1,082,868 | 6 | Simple , basic logic is unusually destructive here , even for a horror movie ? | Quarantine starts off reasonably well , if not at all originally . A small film crew is doing a ride - along with the fire department to get a first hand look at what their daily professional lives are really like . The film is presented the film crew's unedited stock footage , so we get lots of video of the firemen ac... |
544,107 | 562,732 | 1,179,891 | 6 | Early 80s slasher returns to bore us in 3D . . . | So 3D first earned a wave of popularity as far back as the 1950s , when audiences surely were convinced that they were seeing the movies of the future . Now we are half a century beyond that time and 3D remains little more than a mildly interesting gimmick , and even the most recent movies can't seem to resist stopping... |
543,799 | 562,732 | 101,917 | 6 | Now you're playing with power ! | At this point in the series it seems clear that the movies realize that they are no longer horror films but gory comedies , since they have long since lost what little power they ever might have had to be scary . The alleged Final Nightmare starts off with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche which carries an unusual amoun... |
544,270 | 562,732 | 3,733 | 6 | Kid auto races in drag . | Not much is the same about A Busy Day and Kid Auto Races at Venice except that for the early scene in this film where Chaplin is causing a disruption at a parade , where a camera crew are attempting to film . He begins as a member of the audience ( a female member , as it were ) , and almost immediately begins kicking ... |
543,954 | 562,732 | 455,760 | 6 | Small minds breed small-minded superstitions . | Famous for coming from the same minds as brought us the disturbingly good Saw films , Dead Silence reveals a deeper fascination ( or obsession ) with dolls than those movies initially let on . This time we have another sort of murder mystery , in the sense that we have Donnie Wahlberg as a detective investigating what ... |
543,951 | 562,732 | 86,320 | 6 | Boring as hell until the end . . . | As soon as Sleepaway Camp ends it is instantly obvious that it will always be remembered for it's shocking ending and probably nothing else . The performances are horrendous , as seems to have been the style in 80s horror films , the story is as thin and tasteless as tissue paper , and the killings are nothing memorabl... |
544,583 | 562,732 | 372,588 | 6 | At least they didn't take sides ? | In a time when the political world in America is so divided that almost no one can talk about politics without praising one side unconditionally and damning the other side unconditionally , it's nice to see a political parody that is daring enough to bash both sides . Unfortunately , it's not nearly as funny as it shou... |
544,767 | 562,732 | 734,593 | 7 | Gimmicky fun . . . | Serling starts out this cute but not exactly clever episode with the bizarre claim that the neighborhood bar is a " uniquely American institution . " Really ? Had he ever been out of the country at that time ? I can't imagine he had never travelled before , which is why that's so confusing . Then again , his before and... |
544,133 | 562,732 | 734,596 | 7 | Very nice atmosphere . . . | While Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room is not exactly one of the most interesting episodes I've seen of the show , the stifling atmosphere of the tiny room comes across very well . I almost felt claustrophobic at parts of it , not the least reason for which is the heat that accompanies the tight space . Joe Mantell st... |
544,408 | 562,732 | 480,249 | 7 | It seems zombie dogs will be around after we're all gone ? | What is the deal with Will Smith ? Every movie he comes out with is almost invariably going to be the best thing in theaters . I don't think he has come out with anything less than a hit since Wild Wild West , which itself was a hit but wasn't good . I've read that it's Smith's one regret , that the movie did so well d... |
544,012 | 562,732 | 89,927 | 7 | USA vs . Russia at the heart of the cold war ? | Rocky 4 strikes me as a combination between a traditional Rocky film and an over the top 80s action movie . It seems that the Soviet Union has finally officially entered the world of professional wrestling , entering a contestant in the form of Ivan Drago , a stolid mass of scientifically trained punching machinery , p... |
544,274 | 562,732 | 4,395 | 7 | Please do not eat peanuts and throw shucks upon the floor , it is both annoying and unclean ? | As Chaplin's earliest films continue to evolve you can see more and more of the sight gags that would become very common in his later films , such as kicking his cigarette when he throws it away , various kicking and falling routines , and one which would be used again in The Immigrant a few years later , holding a man... |
543,949 | 562,732 | 105,112 | 7 | Popcorn political thrills . . . | First of all , I'm not a Tom Clancy fan , only because for whatever reason I've never gotten around to reading any of his books . I would say it's because so many of them are so huge , but I've always been a voracious reader . I've read almost all of Stephen King's novels , which are also pretty huge , and I'm usually ... |
544,130 | 562,732 | 734,654 | 7 | A Thing About Machines . . . | The first thing that will strike you about this episode of the twilight zone is the way it was shot , on video , as another reviewer has already noted . It looks totally different than other episodes because of this format , but I think it's mostly the uneven panning and tilting of the camera that gives the show a feel... |
544,722 | 562,732 | 288,477 | 7 | Much better than I expected . . . | The beginning of Ghost Ship is immediately interesting in way that reminds me of the beginning of movies like Sphere or Event Horizon , or even the recent 30 Days of Night . The crew on board a salvage ship ( this is convenient for the plot ) comes across a massive passenger ship in an advanced state of disrepair float... |
544,616 | 562,732 | 453,451 | 7 | Bean goes to the beach ? | I have read that this is likely to be Rowan Atkinson's last adventure as Mr . Bean , and while I did enjoy the movie and I love Bean to death , I can't say that I would be hugely disappointed if that was true . I would be sad to see Bean retire , but I think it is better to do that now , at a high point in his career ,... |
544,434 | 562,732 | 734,662 | 7 | Hell is other people . . . | I can't remember where I heard that quote , but it's from some famous old author like Hemingway or Faulkner or , given the cynical hilarity of it , Mark Twain . At any rate , it is exactly this conviction that haunts poor Archibald Beechcroft , a man who can only be described , as one other IMDb user has called him , a... |
544,433 | 562,732 | 734,677 | 7 | Ah the follies of social classes . . . | The Silence , like many Twilight Zone episodes , has a good twist at the end that lands it solidly in the realm of the supernatural , but unfortunately ( and also like a lot of other twilight zone episodes ) , that supernaturalness is reached more because of the main character's astonishing stupidity than anything real... |
544,447 | 562,732 | 120,484 | 7 | Yes , it's foolish and campy , but that's exactly what it's supposed to be . | In Adam Sandler's tremendously successful 1998 comedy , The Waterboy , he plays the part of intellectually stunted Bobby Boucher . Bobby is a waterboy for various footballs teams , from whom he receives and seems to expect no respect whatsoever . This is obviously not the kind of movie that is meant to win any awards (... |
544,366 | 562,732 | 21,884 | 7 | ' Crazy , am I ? We'll see whether I'm crazy or not ! ' | James Whale's Frankenstein is a VERY loose adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel . The spirit of the film is preserved in its most basic sense , but the vast majority of the story has been entirely left out , which is unfortunate . The monster , for example , who possesses tremendous intellect in the novel and who go... |
544,652 | 562,732 | 149,691 | 7 | Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman saved this movie . | Anywhere But Here is not exactly anything new , but the excellent performances by both of the main actresses made it worth watching . Sarandon and Portman are a mother and daughter who move from rural Wisconsin to sunny Beverly Hills , California , in search of a better life . The main conflict comes from the fact that... |
544,140 | 562,732 | 99,253 | 7 | Not much more than a continuation , but still a worthy sequel . | I think I liked Child's Play 2 more than most people , given the reviews that I've read and the movie's low voter rating on the IMDb . A cute kid's doll is once again the unlikely home of Charles Lee Ray , notorious serial killer , again feeding off of the surrealism created by seeing a kid's doll screw it's face into ... |
543,958 | 562,732 | 271,027 | 7 | Slightly better than I expected . | Kiss of the Dragon is exactly what it appears to be , the latest martial arts movie starring Jet Li . It is barely a step up from the old Van Damme movies , except that Jet Li is such a better martial artist than Van Damme . In this movie , Li plays the part of Liu Jian , a cop from Hong Kong who is sent to investigate... |
544,205 | 562,732 | 369,060 | 7 | Not quite the same but a worthy follow-up . | There is an unusual relationship between Infernal Affairs and Infernal Affairs II , which is the first sequel but is also a prequel and may even be better viewed before the first film . One of my Chinese friends , who suggested the trilogy to me , gave me part II first and said I could watch that before the original fi... |
544,131 | 562,732 | 734,551 | 7 | One of sci-fi's most overused themes . . . | I should explain that when I say " overused , " I don't quite mean that it has been done to death , because even though there have been countless examples of sci fi TV show and movies about machines coming to life , they are not necessarily all the same or rip-offs of each other . Besides , if any TV show ever had the ... |
544,456 | 562,732 | 734,546 | 7 | Why the relief ? ? | You know , I have a real problem with these kind of super hero stories . You may notice yourself imagining yourself with the super powers presented on screen whenever you see a super hero movie or TV show . I'm not the only one , am I ? Didn't you ever imagine swinging from buildings while watching Spiderman ? Or didn'... |
544,901 | 562,732 | 97,770 | 7 | Cool little Stallone flick ? | Lock Up is a pretty good movie for Stallone fans , although it could easily have been much better had he not been basically a saint behind bars . Stallone plays Frank Leone , who faces multiple prison terms total , beginning with an 18-month sentence he was given for avenging the vicious beating of an old man who took ... |
544,485 | 562,732 | 388,482 | 7 | Jason Statham ? Jet Ski Pilot . Jason Statham ? Jet Ski Pilot . | The first sequel in the Transporter franchise obeys all of the rules of sequels ? bigger budget , bigger death count , more gloss , and at least one more lingerie-clad hottie with two hand-held machine guns . It's otherwise exactly the same movie as the original , with a few negligible plot modifications . What isn't c... |
544,132 | 562,732 | 734,584 | 7 | The Twilight Zone's take on war . . . | Kind Nine Will Not Return is one of the Twilight episodes of the genuinely paranormal variety , where something happens which seems that it can't possibly have a rational explanation . Bob Cummings plays Cpt . James Embry , a World War II pilot who awakens in the desert next to the crashed remains of his plane , and hi... |
544,426 | 562,732 | 373,051 | 7 | Mostly for kids , but the best version of Verne'e story ever . . . | In an effort to prove the potential truth of his long-missing brother's research and theories ( and to get along with his smart-ass nephew ) , Anderson sets off on this quest to penetrate the earth's crust through a volcano in Iceland . What follows is a remarkably faithful presentation of Verne's story , which doesn't... |
543,978 | 562,732 | 45,888 | 7 | A man has to be a little nuts to be a good showman ? | One of the few things that I really didn't like about the wax film that preceded this one , The Mystery of the House of Wax , was the way Ivan Igor's partner rushed to burn down the museum minutes after an art critic informed Igor that he was going to make his work famous and him a rich man , because he had just receiv... |
544,223 | 562,732 | 6,309 | 7 | Let's rest our soles and exercise our eyes ! | A Woman is one of the most sexually charged Chaplin films I've ever seen , and not only because Charlie spends a lot of it dressed as a woman . From the very opening of the film ( " Charlie Chaplin in A Woman " ) to the scene where he's having tea and bagels . He takes a long , phallic knife and skewers the bagels , al... |
544,115 | 562,732 | 4,101 | 7 | Entertaining enough , but doesn't stand out from the rest . | In His New Profession , Chaplin again reverts into drunken slapstick , what I think is his weakest effect , although I am sure it was very popular back in 1914 . A man in a park is clearly very annoyed at having to care for his uncle , who is confined to a wheelchair , so he asks the Tramp to " push him around for a bi... |
544,147 | 562,732 | 4,100 | 7 | The little tramp as a piano mover ! | His Musical Career , or Musical Tramps , reminds me of my days as a furniture mover in Los Angeles . The company I worked for did work for interior designers , so most of our time was spent delivering astonishingly expensive designer furniture for the rich an famous . I remember one day we had to move a piano across a ... |
543,888 | 562,732 | 246,460 | 7 | The high-flying , outlandish variety of vintage Bond style . | After re-watching Casino Royale yesterday , I'm really struck by the wildness of the action , the villains , and the overall plot of Die Another Day . In Pierce Brosnan's last outing as 007 , we get the kind of super-villains and super-villainous plot that can only possibly exist in a Bond movie . The movie starts in N... |
543,982 | 562,732 | 499,595 | 7 | Interesting supplement . . . | Although this documentary strikes me as a being a bit too similar to those UFO sightings documentaries to a certain extent , it also makes it very clear that remote viewing is something that may very well have some merit , although not necessarily just because it was used by the military during the cold war . I like th... |
544,506 | 562,732 | 83,929 | 7 | While Fast Times At Ridgemont High is not the side-splittingly hilarious classic comedy that it has come to be known as , it very accurately captures a picture of the eighties , and it is still quality enterta | Fast Times At Ridgemont High has dated pretty badly , but it still has it great moments . Sean Penn stole the show without question , and it is a shame that he did not have a larger part than he did . However , I think that this was intentional , because Amy Heckerling seems to make a conscious effort to ensure that no... |
544,110 | 562,732 | 1,114,740 | 7 | Fun for security guards and civilians alike ! | Shortly into Paul Blart : Mall Cop , I was struck by a sudden realization that I wasn't sure if the movie was making fun of all security guards or just the ones that take their jobs too seriously . In pondering that question , I realized that the fun-poking that the movie does could wreak devastating havoc on the rent-... |
544,291 | 562,732 | 382,932 | 7 | Cute . | I think Ratatouille is going to be most enjoyed by the kids and adults who are into cooking . I'm into cooking myself , but I mean SERIOUSLY into cooking , like people who are more interested in the kitchen of a fancy restaurant than in the food . The premise is pretty silly , a rat living in the sewers under the stree... |
544,698 | 562,732 | 312,549 | 7 | Not as good as the story it's based on . | I say that Veronica Guerin is not as good as the story that it is based on because it is based on an extremely powerful story of bravery and meaning that the real Veronica Guerin deserved a better movie than this . The movie walks a fine line in portraying Guerin as a reporter determined to expose the dangerous drug tr... |
543,929 | 562,732 | 790,686 | 7 | Objects in Mirrors are closer than they appear . . . | Alexadre Aja , the man behind the intensely creepy 2003 film High Tension and the intensely crappy 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes has now brought us something in between . Kiefer Sutherland adds credibility to the otherwise unoriginal horror film Mirrors , about an exiled New York City cop who soon finds himself ba... |
544,640 | 562,732 | 120,755 | 7 | M : I 2 definitely delivers as far as hard-core action , but some elements were excessive to the point of being cartoonish . | Ethan Hunt is back with another theoretically impossible mission . Tom Cruise once again delivered at least a satisfactory performance , along with all other actors involved , but John Woo's direction was a little bit excessive at some points . I fail to see what made it necessary for Hunt to be riding his motorcycle o... |
544,311 | 562,732 | 210,070 | 7 | Ginger snaps , Brigitte broods . | Ginger Snaps is kind of strange because it is , by definition , a teen horror movie , a genre which I have come to find is made up of almost exclusively awful movies . These are generally the stupid teen horror / sex comedies cranked out by Hollywood , but Ginger Snaps is able to escape that , with no help from the spe... |
544,716 | 562,732 | 386,129 | 7 | Interestingly , Julie Ng presents herself as a giddy first time filmmaker while at the same time giving a remarkable look behind the scenes of one of 2003's most underrated films . | As a making-of documentary , I loved how much time was spent showing the actors and director actually on set rehearsing scenes , even practicing certain lines and actions in various ways to see which one looks the best . I hate when behind the scenes documentaries are nothing but interviews with the cast and crew with ... |
544,145 | 562,732 | 4,282 | 7 | Charlie the ineffective husband . | In one of the most effective and thorough characterizations in any of Chaplin's films up until that time , in Mabel's Married Life Charlie plays Mabel's husband , an feeble drunk incapable of deflecting the oafish advances of a huge man in the park , who hits on Charlie's wife right in front of him . Starting these fil... |
544,185 | 562,732 | 4,280 | 7 | A very short comedy in which Charlie Chaplin plays an uncharacteristic but still very recognizable role . | Mabel's Busy Day is a quick story of a vendor at a sporting event and the troubles that she encounters throughout her day . Chaplin actually plays the part of a more well-to-do individual , but he is still very recognizable , with the traditional look that Chaplin always seems to have . Also , he still manages to get i... |
544,713 | 562,732 | 95,271 | 7 | Michael Meyers going through the motions again ? | Halloween IV was marketed as the ten year anniversary of Meyers ' first killing spree at least as much as it is marketed as the return of Michael Meyers to the Halloween series , or the Halloween series ' return to itself , you might say . Halloween III was not so bad , but a lot of people were understandably put off b... |
544,571 | 562,732 | 123,964 | 7 | An entertaining comedy that deals very elusively with the uncomfortable material that forms the foundation of its plot . | ( spoilers ) Life is a perfect example of the type of film that attempts to force a smile onto unhappy material , because the movie is so eager to amuse the audience that it completely forgets the racism and hatred that led to the introduction of its conflict . By the end of the film , its true that we are happy to see... |
544,397 | 562,732 | 193,364 | 7 | Goofy but fun ! | When I was a kid I was a pretty die-hard Van Damme fan , but somewhere along the years I kind of drifted away from watching his movies and , more and more , as I saw the increasingly goofy looking cover boxes of his movies in the video stores , I felt that he had descended from a b-movie action / martial arts icon into... |
543,902 | 562,732 | 66,434 | 7 | George Lucas ' first film foreshadows , in many ways , the work that he would later do in the tremendously successful Star War films . | THX-1138 is the name of the character played by Robert Duvall who , in the film , lives in a futuristic world in which people are deprived of virtually every possible element of individuality , especially their emotions . They are created by the masses , for the masses , which , to me , means that they are created and ... |
543,885 | 562,732 | 437,857 | 7 | Never thought I'd see originality in a slasher movie again ! | Behind the Mask takes place in the parallel world where scary movies live , and a team of young filmmakers set out to make a real life documentary about a serial killer at work . Such is their dedication to capturing realism that they are willing to follow the killer around and allow the murders to happen so that they ... |
544,195 | 562,732 | 455,538 | 7 | The Dude finally cleans up ! | Simon Pegg plays the part of Sidney Young , a young entertainment writer who has begun the beginnings of a career writing for a grassroots magazine that specializes in badmouthing the shallowness and superficiality of the rich and famous . He is making a career out of lampooning celebrities , although he has a desperat... |
544,626 | 562,732 | 323,250 | 7 | Evidently new cars are BAD ! | This is a clever short film that strikes me as something of a deleted scene from Monsters , Inc , into which this short film would have fit quite nicely , especially clocking in at a whopping three and a half minutes ! It's an interesting illustration of the dangers of upgrading to these high tech new cars available to... |
544,281 | 562,732 | 120,616 | 7 | Actual quote - " Rescue the damsel in distress , kill the bad guy , save the world . " | This version of The Mummy ( one of the several titles within film lore that seems to have been made and remade for decades ) is pretty much exactly what you would expect from a modern adaptation of an old horror classic , especially given the types of films that are released these days . The action and special effects ... |
543,866 | 562,732 | 89,469 | 7 | Only dead meat waits for the stewpot ? | For me , Tom Cruise has two distinctly separate but equally encompassing personas ? the unstoppable , eternally cool flyboy that he became the year after this film was released , and the kooky scientologist nutcase that he has become . That being said , I find it difficult to fit a third personality onto his overflowin... |
544,517 | 562,732 | 98,068 | 7 | Not nearly as bad as you would think . | I worked in a video store a few years ago , and in 1998 and 1999 I was on this serious horror movie kick . I would rent them constantly and pretty much whenever a horror movie would go on sale at the store I would buy it . Parents was one of the more obscure horror movies that went on sale ( keep in mind that , in gene... |
543,895 | 562,732 | 165,710 | 7 | It's not exactly aimed toward the thinking public , but Detroit Rock City delivers more than its share of laughs . | To put it in Eddie Furlong's own words , there won't be any Academy Awards here . But who cares ? This isn't the kind of movie that makes a person expect a brilliant script or spectacular acting , so they can get away with a little cheesiness . The scene early in the film when ' Jam ' ( Sam Huntington ) gets tangled up... |
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