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544,687 | 562,732 | 292,291 | 7 | Painfully funny ! | Bean's hilariously complex alarm clock ( which he still manages to shut off in his sleep ) and his changing clothes in the car on the way to the dentist are classic Bean moments ( they remind me of the scene in the Bean movie where he makes a cup of coffee in his mouth ) , especially when he brushes his teeth and rinse... |
544,265 | 562,732 | 116,213 | 7 | Who's the tree trunk ? | By this point in Arnold's career he had long since surpassed the low-budget , bad action movie phase , although there are certainly some elements of that phase that he never quite left behind . Eraser is a polished , fast-paced action film that reminds me of some of the highlights of Michael Bay's or Jerry Bruckheimer'... |
543,737 | 562,732 | 431,724 | 7 | At the beginning William H . Macy says that there's nowhere that you can't be reached anymore . Obviously he's never tried making a cell-phone call from my apartment . | Larry Cohen tells an interesting story at the beginning of this documentary about conversations that he had with Alfred Hitchcock about the screenplay for Phone Booth , which gives you an idea of how long he's been kicking that idea around . Also , the theme of extraordinary things happening in ordinary places probably... |
543,762 | 562,732 | 1,027,862 | 7 | Every vote counts , as long as you're the last one ? | I'm going to go ahead and assume that it's not an easy task to make a crowd-pleasing movie centered on politics that goes to such strenuous efforts to be non-partisan and maybe chalk up my dissatisfaction with the movie to that . Then again , it might also have something to do with a critical decision that they made in... |
543,984 | 562,732 | 37,515 | 7 | Never trust a woman . . . | I have been known to succumb to the temptation to get all uppity and self-righteous when I see a movie based on a book that I happen to have read . I can't promise I won't recommend the book , but I'll try to stay off the high horse . Agatha Christie's story is brilliant , although in the book as well as the film it su... |
543,847 | 562,732 | 113,243 | 7 | The computer geek's dream . . . | More than a decade has passed since Hackers was released and movies about computers do not stand the test of time very well ( at least as far as the technology in the films is concerned ) , but I think Hackers has stood the test of time relatively well , more than likely because it has such great characters and it's ju... |
543,875 | 562,732 | 62,512 | 7 | Good action , as well as one of the better stories in the Bond series . | What you have in You Only Live Twice is Sean Connery back as James Bond , and he is basically trying to prevent the outbreak of World War III , which later becomes a very common theme in Bond films . It seems that there is some sort of mysterious space craft in the Earth's atmosphere that swallows up orbiting , manned ... |
544,027 | 562,732 | 190,934 | 7 | Not much for unexpectedness , but entertaining enough ? | I live in the middle of China so I don't get to see shows like this very often except when I'm back in the states visiting family , like now , but I've had a soft spot for these amazing videos shows ever since I first noticed how captivating live coverage of police chases in my native Los Angeles was , and then discove... |
544,676 | 562,732 | 450,920 | 7 | Okay , but how does this all work ? | I just caught an episode about Brad , the crack cocaine addict who turned to a drug addicted life on the streets after his bicycle racing career went to shambles as fast as it started . I have to say that the story about his biking career was more heart-breaking than his drug addiction . Here's this young guy who is wi... |
544,277 | 562,732 | 160,009 | 7 | It wasn't THAT bad ? | I've read some seriously negative reviews of The Art of War . There are IMDb users out there who hated this movie to no end , which leads me to wonder why I rented it in the first place , having read many of these reviews already , and why it was seen as so much worse than anything Wesley Snipes has done up to this poi... |
544,321 | 562,732 | 162,222 | 7 | Even the great Tom Hanks can't make Cast Away live up to its expectations . | Yes , Cast Away is a good movie , but it is not nearly as good as it was expected to be , especially with such big names as Tom Hanks , Helen Hunt , and Robert Zemeckis , director of excellent films like Romancing the Stone , Forrest Gump , and the great Back to the Future trilogy . However , the problem doesn't have a... |
544,153 | 562,732 | 78,753 | 7 | A much needed update that still needs updating . . . | It is strange that a made-for-TV-remake ( and yes , this is definitely a remake ) of the Best Picture winner from 1930 should be so easily as good , and probably better , than the original . This is a special situation because most of what needed improvement in the original was not things that required special effects ... |
544,888 | 562,732 | 408,790 | 7 | Little Girl Julia . | Flightplan is a taut psychological thriller that very nearly earns its description as Hitchcockian , there are plenty of similarities and even specific shots that are very Hitchcockian ( the shot of the crows flying away at the beginning of the film , for example ) , but there are times when the movie almost falls apar... |
544,814 | 562,732 | 92,086 | 7 | Classic comedy , but not for all tastes . | The Three Amigos is one of those movies that can be hugely entertaining and amusing but only if you keep in mind that it is not a serious film . Chevy Chase , Martin Short , and Steve Martin , some of the funniest men ever to work in comedy , all team up here as The Three Amigos , a group of out of work actors in early... |
544,824 | 562,732 | 330,181 | 7 | One of America's most notorious serial killers used to be just the guy next door . Who knew of the horrors that were hidden within his crawl space ? | Hey , how about all those neighbors that were always wondering what that awful smell was that was coming from under his house ? Gacy as the unenviable distinction of being one of the few serial killers to rival the depravity of fellow psychopath Ed Gein , whose antisocial antics led to the inspiration of The Texas Chai... |
544,788 | 562,732 | 10,747 | 7 | Chaplin experimenting . | Sunnyside reminds me of some of the early films in Alfred Hitchcock's career , like Rich & Strange or The Skin Game , which are curiosity pieces both because they come from such massive directors and are still so empty and disappointing . Like some of Hitch's early films , Sunnyside for Charlie Chaplin represents to me... |
543,926 | 562,732 | 452,608 | 7 | Was this the video game or the movie ? | So Jason Statham is by now one of the biggest action stars in the world . He reminds me of a young Bruce Willis , although he's had his share of hits and misses . Death Race is what I would call a critical disaster , because it has nothing but action and carnage . This thing is thin on everything - plot , story , actin... |
543,800 | 562,732 | 95,963 | 7 | Arnold and James's Lethal Weapon / Tango & Cash / Tough Guys / Rush Hour , etc . | Or one of those odd couple cop movies , anyway . I remember seeing Red Heat when I was a kid and I didn't really like it , but I think I was just too young to appreciate a movie where Arnold plays anything other than the Terminator or Douglas Quaid . In Red Heat , he stars alongside James Belushi , who is so small , ic... |
544,323 | 562,732 | 122,151 | 7 | The fourth installment in the now huge Lethal Weapon series has no shortage of action , but it just doesn't have the high quality of the last three . | By this point in the series , it seems that they just aren't trying as hard with these films , which is kind of a shame . The Lethal Weapon series is really a good group of action films , but part 4 doesn't really seem to take itself seriously . It clearly had the biggest budget and probably some of the most elaborate ... |
544,273 | 562,732 | 4,693 | 7 | The Tramp rough-housing with style . | In The Rival Mashers , Chaplin is in full Tramp form and with plenty of kicking and punching and yanking people around with his cane , although I have to say that there are at least a few things that make this film stand out among the huge number that he was churning out for Keystone in 1914 . First of all , it contain... |
544,407 | 562,732 | 109,190 | 7 | Away from home alone . . . | This is not at all the kind of movie that I would normally watch . There are children's movies and then there are family movies , and the good family movies are the ones that can really be enjoyed by people of all ages . This movie does not at all strike me as a movie that could be enjoyed by people of all ages , mostl... |
544,156 | 562,732 | 120,201 | 7 | An excellent sci-fi war film with an absolutely awful ending . | For the first hour , Starship Troopers is just amazing . The film is set up extremely well , the story is very well-told , and the military training scenes in particular are especially effective in communicating the situation of the human race as it is portrayed in the film . However , the film had what I like to call ... |
543,969 | 562,732 | 150,377 | 7 | Thanks God for Tommy Lee Jones . | Double Jeopardy is an interesting enough thriller , but it just isn't as satisfying as you would expect a movie with this premise to be . Ashley Judd is just annoying for the first hour or so of the film , and it isn't until the fugitive style chase begins that the movie gets really interesting . And this , of course ,... |
544,109 | 562,732 | 320,691 | 7 | Your incompetence is becoming most taxing ? | Kate Beckinsale in Underworld is a clear inspiration taken from recent vampire / goth / sci fi movies , particularly the Blade and Matrix series , and the audience will surely be making comparisons , even subconsciously . She embodies the sleek , ass-kicking skills of Trinity from The Matrix but her vampire element rem... |
543,868 | 562,732 | 39,694 | 7 | Slow and plodding . | I would say that at least the full first half of this film is almost intolerably boring , but the second and third acts more than make up for the slow outset . One of Hitchcock's few legal thrillers , The Paradine Case mixes the suspected wrong man theme so typical of his work to rear it's head , along with the film no... |
544,481 | 562,732 | 210,616 | 7 | A surprisingly good drama about the hardships of professional ballet dancing , but unfortunately brought down a bit by a routine romance between the main characters . | Center Stage is a very well thought out film that follows a group of dancers through their trials in a prestigious dancing academy . The acting and directing are both very good , but the film as a whole suffers from the un-creative insertion of a done-to-death love story . The exact same love triangle seen in Center St... |
544,250 | 562,732 | 69,792 | 7 | So accurate it's almost like a time capsule . | Now , when I speak of the accuracy of this movie I am , of course , speaking either prophetically , I guess , or hypocritically , because I am neither black nor old enough to have been alive when it was made . Nonetheless , having had bad experiences with blaxploitation films ( such as the astonishingly bad Sweet Sweet... |
544,354 | 562,732 | 322,802 | 7 | I can't wait for The Version You Couldn't See In Theaters ! ! ! | I saw Jackass : The Movie on its opening night . I don't know why . Maybe because I'm a college student and have lots of friends who are still into goofy high school movies like this . I think I saw Half Baked on opening night for the same reason , although that time I had the excuse of really being in high school . I ... |
544,510 | 562,732 | 104,714 | 7 | The third installment in the Lethal Weapon series is yet another surprisingly good action film . These are pure action films for the pure action fan , and this is one of the rare series ' that just never seem t | Roger Murtaugh and Martin Riggs are back again as the now inseparable team , out again to get bad guys . Yes , this is the same traditional Lethal Weapon foundation , but I think that what keeps these movies so good is the fact that they keep coming up with cool new bad guys and interesting stories to keep the audience... |
544,219 | 562,732 | 416,449 | 7 | Wow , I gotta start working out . . . | I remember I almost fell out of my chair when I first saw the preview for 300 , although it's taken me over a year since I bought the DVD to get around to watching it . Maybe because the bad reviews started trickling in . It's an adaptation of a graphic novel that I haven't read , but I'm told that that novel portrays ... |
543,883 | 562,732 | 266,915 | 7 | More of the same ? | Rush Hour 2 is pretty much a continuation of the first Rush Hour , which is not entirely a bad thing . Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan are back in Chan's latest east meets west action comedy , which is another goofball comedy interspersed with what is meant to be a relatively serious crime story . Structurally , Rush Hour... |
544,001 | 562,732 | 383,574 | 7 | In the oily sea , the killing ground ? | When I left the theater after having seen the first Pirates sequel , I overheard two guys behind me talking about the movie , one of whom importantly summed up the movie with the words , " It was like , all action no story . " I didn't look , but I'm sure he puffed out his chest as he said it , too . While I'm sure tha... |
543,987 | 562,732 | 259,288 | 7 | A successful attempt at creating a love-struck dramatic thriller , but Dragonfly goes a little too far with the supernatural element at some points . | Dragonfly is the story of Joe Darrow ( Kevin Costner ) who suddenly loses his wife , and his reaction is to work even harder at the hospital , ' to prevent anyone else from joining her . ' While working virtually nonstop at the hospital , strange things begin to happen with some of the kids who have near death experien... |
544,160 | 562,732 | 111,742 | 7 | Wasn't the werewolf theme used up by the early 80's at the latest ? Apparently not . | I didn't expect much from this film . Actually , the only reason that I watched it was because I am a huge Jack Nicholson fan , and I was surprised at how well-done the movie was . Jack Nicholson plays an editor named William Randall who kind of lets people walk all over him , and when he gets bitten by a wolf on a lon... |
543,845 | 562,732 | 34,050 | 7 | Gee that's tough , all I got is one scent . . . get it ? | Porky's Preview , like another short oddity called Lions For Sale , is inexplicably included as an extra feature on the Sergeant York DVD , and while neither short film has any discernible reason for being found here , they are both clever little bits of short film-making worth checking out . In this one , a series of ... |
543,947 | 562,732 | 46,672 | 7 | We're getting there . . . | After watching the 1916 adaptation and then the 1954 adaptation of Verne's brilliant novel , I am coming to feel that this is a movie that is ripe for a real , high-budget , modern remake . I should note that I would hate to see it cheapened and turned into some goofy nautical clunker like Poseidon , but with the right... |
544,334 | 562,732 | 406,375 | 7 | Jumanji 2000 ? | The similarities between Zathura and its 1995 counterpart , Jumanji , are so extensive that you will probably end up having exactly the same opinion of the new one as you did of the original . But Zathura is not really a sequel to Jumanji , it's more of a remake . Strange that a remake would come along so soon after th... |
543,939 | 562,732 | 115,665 | 7 | Very stylish , but I still think the Japanese are better at horror than action . | The description of Beyond Hypothermia really sounded a lot more interesting on the back of the movie box than the movie turned out to be . It is a very stylish thriller about a deadly assassin who constantly dreams of having a normal life with a husband and children , but it really doesn't do anything new in the genre ... |
544,396 | 562,732 | 339,135 | 7 | Note to self : Stay out of prison ? | In Hell starts off pretty well and then goes almost immediately wrong , but is somehow still a fun ride . Van Damme plays an all-American guy named Kyle with a loving wife at home growing increasingly impatient with all of the international traveling involved in his job as a steel worker ( don't ask ) . At the moment ,... |
543,971 | 562,732 | 185,431 | 7 | Yeah , Ozzy ! ! | Why do I say Yeah , Ozzy ? Because Ozzy Osbourne made this film . I don't care who wrote it , I don't care who starred in it , and I don't care who directed it , if Ozzy hadn't been in Little Nicky , there would be absolutely no reason to watch it . Even the great Harvey Keitel , who obviously makes an excellent Satan ... |
544,059 | 562,732 | 458,471 | 7 | Surprisingly good , even with that classic b-movie title ! | The title of this movie at once reminds me of those instantly forgettable direct-to-video movies that seem to come out by the hundreds , but soon you realize that it is the perfect title for this story . The story takes place in a country called Moldavia , where there is much internal strife over an alleged order that ... |
544,363 | 562,732 | 205,000 | 7 | Not as cheesy as it looks . | Sure , Deuce Bigalow is not exactly a landmark cinematic accomplishment . It's full of dirty jokes and childish humor , but underneath all of the goofball comedy , it actually comes through with a very healthy message , which is virtually non-existent in these dumb comedies . Deuce Bigalow is a lowly fish tank cleaner ... |
544,074 | 562,732 | 218,967 | 7 | Nicholas Cage is back in one of his goofy romantic roles , but luckily there was plenty of room for him to operate at his smart-ass best . | Yeah , Nicolas Cage is back in another romantic comedy , and the result is about the same , actually . He plays a guy who left his girlfriend from college and went off to school in Europe , a choice which led him to a high-level job , a Ferrari , and an apartment in a high-rise building in New York . Along comes , I do... |
544,290 | 562,732 | 445,934 | 7 | Not too bad . | I expected little from Blades of Glory , as I usually do when I see a comedy on DVD that I've never heard of . On the other hand , I live in central eastern China now and everything here is pirated , so it's no surprise that I know little about what is going on in American theaters . At first glance it seemed like an e... |
544,180 | 562,732 | 100,258 | 7 | A worthy installment . | The script is pretty weak and at least as many bad things as good things were brought over from the original for this remake , but the 1990 version of George Romero's classic horror film has its heart in the right place , I guess you could say . The movie wastes no time , starting out in a cemetery where a bickering br... |
543,751 | 562,732 | 131,325 | 7 | A comedy about an aging , out of work screenwriter , written by an aging , out of work screenwriter . | Okay , ACTOR . At any rate , Steve Martin hasn't exactly been cranking out the movies Jackie-Chan-style lately . In Bowfinger , Martin plays the part of Bowfinger , a film producer / director with ridiculous taste in movies and who is hard up for material . And it's no wonder why he can't get his films financed , anyon... |
544,825 | 562,732 | 181,536 | 7 | Nothing great ? | I remember when Finding Forrester was released there was all this buzz about how great it was , just like there was about Almost Famous , another movie , like Finding Forrester , generally about getting the respect that you deserve , although neither movie deserves the respect that they get . The plot is an exercise in... |
543,752 | 562,732 | 164,334 | 7 | Ten million dollars in diamonds are forever . | Okay , that didn't really have much to do with this movie , but hey , neither did the first 15 minutes of it . Along Came A Spider is a very entertaining thriller , but as soon as it ends , you realize that it is little more than a rehash of things that have been seen in countless thrillers of the same kind before . Th... |
543,846 | 562,732 | 345,066 | 7 | A puzzling addition to the Sergeant York DVD . . . | I'm completely at a loss to explain why this short video is included as an extra feature on the Sergeant York DVD , but it is at least an interesting look at some of the techniques used in training lions . I imagine maybe it has something to do with the training of soldiers , although the two types of training don't ha... |
544,594 | 562,732 | 350,811 | 7 | A necessary prequel to a not so great miniseries . | I saw Rose Red not too long ago , and not too long after having read the book . I went to Spain in the Summer of 2003 for a few weeks . I was traveling on my own , making a documentary for the University of California , and literally on my last day in Spain , I noticed a book called My Life at Rose Red , by Stephen Kin... |
544,285 | 562,732 | 99,892 | 7 | Early Tom Hanks charmer . | Joe Versus the Volcano is a bizarre little romantic comedy that is about as unexpected as you can imagine . By now , early 2008 , we have come to expect great things from him , and even here , in this outlandish little black sheep of a film , he shows us that early Hanks charm for which he is so known and loved . The s... |
544,395 | 562,732 | 67,341 | 7 | What a title ! | When I started watching Let's Scare Jessica to Death , with a title like that , I was expecting it to be one of those old , gritty horror movies from the 70s that looks like it was made on a nearly non-existent budget but still has plenty of genuinely disturbing moments . There's one that I can't remember the name of t... |
544,124 | 562,732 | 10,057 | 7 | Chaplin on his way out of the short comedy . | I have heard that Chaplin rushed to produce A Day's Pleasure because the studio was demanding product while he was working on The Kid , but I have to disagree that it is a below-average comedy . It is a little different from the fare that we have come to expect from him in his short comedies , but I think this is as mu... |
544,201 | 562,732 | 758,746 | 7 | Jason Voorhees Still Mad About His Mom - ' Friday the 13th ' Review . . . | There comes a time in every overly long horror movie franchise when it's no longer necessary to add numbers at the end of the titles of the horizonless stream of sequels . This happened in the Friday the 13th series for the first time in part 4 , The Final Chapter , which incidentally is also the first time they put a ... |
544,445 | 562,732 | 96,273 | 7 | One of the earlier , but definitely not one of the best , Pixar animation shorts . | It's wonderful to watch a short animated film like Tin Toy and then watch one like Geri's Game or For The Birds , because you can really see how far Pixar has come over the years . In Toy Story , one of the things that they never got quite right was the look of human faces , but it is clear after watching Tin Toy that ... |
544,304 | 562,732 | 183,505 | 7 | This is definitely the slapstick comedy that it was made out to be , but Jim Carrey , the master of modern slapstick comedy , makes it work . | I had high hopes for Me , Myself , and Irene , but mostly because I am a huge Jim Carrey fan . Clearly , the story of the film did not strike me as something truly ingenious , but it provided huge possibilities for Carrey to work his hilarious magic . While not nearly as good as some of his comedy classics , such as Du... |
543,763 | 562,732 | 92,644 | 7 | Axel Foley gets the Tony Scott / Jerry Bruckheimer / Don Simpson treatment ? | At the time of its release Beverly Hills Cop was the highest grossing comedy of all time , so it works out perfectly that its first sequel would be directed and produced by the juggernaut Hollywood crowd-pleasers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer ( and directed by none less than Tony Scott ) . The formula is exactly th... |
544,743 | 562,732 | 105,698 | 7 | Super Soldiers of the future ? set in far off 1993 ! ! | Universal Soldier starts out in 1968 with Van Damme playing the good guy , standing up for some innocent Vietnamese people in a village during the war . Dolph Lundgren plays an embittered American soldier , consumed with anger about his fellow soldiers who have been killed in the war , and intent on taking it out on an... |
544,150 | 562,732 | 374,339 | 7 | Men are changed by events , not events by men . | The last installment in the Infernal Affairs trilogy is surprisingly slow moving , but still has the high production values and intricate story of the first two , although as a whole it is slightly less engaging than the preceding films . There have been a lot of comparisons between this trilogy and The Godfather films... |
544,636 | 562,732 | 251,075 | 7 | A worthwhile comedy thanks to Orlando Jones . | We all know Orlando Jones as the endlessly amusing 7-Up guy , but in Evolution he is given a full-length role and the opportunity to show the world how funny he can be . Here is an enormously underrated actor who steals the show even when he's not onscreen , so we can only hope to see a lot more of him in the future . ... |
544,794 | 562,732 | 17,075 | 7 | Hitch's first film ? | ( possible spoilers ) In what Alfred Hitchcock considers to be his first true film , he presents the story of a man who is suspected of being Jack the Ripper . It is almost a polar opposite of what was to become one of his favorite themes , the wrong man theme , in the sense that it is the populace ( and the audience )... |
544,904 | 562,732 | 120,832 | 7 | Mission : Implausible . . . | A quick glance back at my Oscars archives will reveal that Snake Eyes wasn't even nominated for a Best Editing Academy Award in 1998 , which is a sad , ridiculous omission . This might be because the ending is famously bad , but for all of the film's many faults , the mystery portion of the movie is crafted together wi... |
544,494 | 562,732 | 1,007,028 | 7 | Sex still more offensive than violence ? | If Kevin Smith can't do anything new with the romantic comedy genre I think it's pretty safe to assume that it's never going to happen . The first 45 minutes or so of Zack and Miri Make A Porno have some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a movie since Pineapple Express ( which was written by fellow funnyman Judd Apato... |
544,537 | 562,732 | 3,758 | 7 | Entertaining short comedy by Charlie Chaplin that foreshadows a major theme of his later films . | Unfortunately , Caught In A Cabaret , being one of Chaplin's earliest films , has deteriorated pretty badly over the last nine decades or so , and this deterioration seems to have affected the film's continuity , making it look like the editing is botched . As is the case with most of Chaplin's films , the action in Ca... |
544,442 | 562,732 | 455,824 | 7 | All's Fair In Love And War Movies - ' Australia ' Review . . . | Australia has the old-fashioned feel of a classic war film ( I've even heard it compared to Gone With The Wind ) combined with a strange , polished futuristic feel of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow . It takes place during World War II . Hitler has invaded Poland and the Australians fear that the Japanese forces ... |
543,831 | 562,732 | 120,901 | 7 | Another classic from Leslie Nielsen ! | I read another reviewer's comments about Wrongfully Accused , and I am continually amazed at how many people judge movies like this as though they are meant to be serious cinematic endeavors . Leslie Nielsen's films , literally , are jokes , and if you can't take them that way then maybe it would be better if you didn'... |
544,082 | 562,732 | 120,903 | 7 | As far as action and special effects , X-Men was spectacular , but there were a few holes that were really difficult to overlook . | X-Men definitely delivered in the action and special effects departments . The acting , make-up , and cinematography were all excellent as well . In that sense , it was a great movie . However , the thing that I really had a problem with was the fact that there were a few holes left in the plot that could very easily h... |
544,782 | 562,732 | 195,685 | 7 | This is one of those films that makes up for its total lack of originality with some fairly respectable acting and a few good cleavage shots . | What was up with the low cut shirts , anyway ? Was there some specific reason why Erin Brockovich ( Julia Roberts ) had her push-up bra showing above the top of her low cut shirt in every single scene she was in ? In my opinion , if they are going to do something like that in a film , they better have a real good reaso... |
544,170 | 562,732 | 241,073 | 8 | Interesting Korean horror film with a nice touch of irony . | Having seen so many Asian horror films in recent months , I expected Whispering Corridors to be a lot scarier than it was , but I was still impressed with the consistently creepy mood that permeated the film . When it comes to movies , there are a few things that tend to be pretty effective in scaring me , like kids , ... |
544,837 | 562,732 | 118,655 | 8 | This should have been done years ago ! ! | In a time when we are almost constantly barraged with goofy spoof films , it's amazing that no one had come out with a spoof of the James Bond films until 1997 . Those movies have been coming out and just BEGGING to be spoofed since the early 60s , and Mike Meyers is the one who finally steps forward to do what simply ... |
544,766 | 562,732 | 734,622 | 8 | Radio is a world that has to be believed to be seen . . . | Static reminds me of a science fiction version of one of Charlie Chaplin's early short films , like Behind the Screen or Film Johnnie , where he pokes fun at his own craft of film-making . Similarly , in this episode , Rod Serling rails against the descent of civilized society , who used to be able to integrate radio e... |
544,464 | 562,732 | 734,666 | 8 | The twilight zone at Christmas time . . . | Night of the Meek is certainly a unique twilight zone episode , coming off more like a family Christmas classic than the typical stuff we have come to expect from Rod Serling , things about other worlds and aliens and mysterious happenings . There is , of course , a lot of that in this episode , but it's couched in a s... |
544,883 | 562,732 | 847,779 | 8 | Great episode except for the theatrics . . . | Like more than one other episode this season , this was a great show except for the whole theatrical element . Evidently there has been a mysterious gang of thugs brutally beating people all over the city for no apparent reason . Things get immediately interesting when Greg stumbles across the gang in the middle of one... |
544,429 | 562,732 | 734,667 | 8 | Obvious but meaningful . | The Obsolete Man makes quite an obvious comment on the role of government and certain ways in which powers can be abused or societies can go astray . The totalitarian state portrayed in the film gleefully broadcasts the executions of undesirables ( 1300 in 6 hours one time , if I remember correctly ) such as , in the c... |
544,706 | 562,732 | 89,885 | 8 | Tons of campy fun . | Ah , finally a horror camp classic that deserves to be called a horror camp classic . Re-Animator is one of those fun horror movies that is so over the top that it is just a lot of fun to watch , kind of like the spectacular Evil Dead films , although not quite to that same level of skillful horror / comedy mix . Ironi... |
544,034 | 562,732 | 118,583 | 8 | Was it everything you hoped for ? | Alien Resurrection was released about six months after I graduated from high school , and at the time I wasn't very familiar with the series . I took my first film class about six months later , at which point I learned to really appreciate the great films and filmmakers , and one of the first things I learned was that... |
544,337 | 562,732 | 365,079 | 8 | An interesting look at one of my least favorite producers . | I've been watching a lot of DVD extra features lately and one of the things that I have found that almost all of them have in common is that nearly all of them have distantly lower ratings on the IMDb than they deserve . Consider , for example , the three documentaries included on the Vista Series of The Sixth Sense , ... |
544,038 | 562,732 | 89,869 | 8 | Hasn't dated well , but still a good example of what good science fiction used to look like . | A scientist named Zac Hobson wakes up to discover what is probably either most people's worst nightmare or biggest fantasy , that he is that last man alive on earth . The emptiness of the post-apocalyptic world is the result of a top-secret energy project gone horribly wrong ( don't stories where everyone in the world ... |
544,669 | 562,732 | 734,692 | 8 | When was that set built , anyway ? | It's been a couple years since I first found the first season of the Twiilight Zone at my local library in Santa Monica . At the time I thought I would check it out because it's probably one of the most famous of the classic TV shows that I had never seen a single episode of , and as soon as I started watching " Where ... |
544,430 | 562,732 | 734,693 | 8 | Will the real martian please stand up . . . ? We're gonna have a problem here . . . | I love the twilight zone episodes that deal with extraterrestrial life and things like time travel and monsters and whatnot , although despite being highly entertaining , this is one of the weaker ones . It's a fun story and it flows smoothly , but is nevertheless rife with problems . A bus breaks down on a wintry Febr... |
544,092 | 562,732 | 134,273 | 8 | Dark and disturbing , yes , but it should also be clearly noted that 8MM avoids , for the most part , the almost always destructive influence of Hollywood . | 8MM is a dark , disturbing movie . It's literally dark due to the low lighting , it has a mesmerizing but undeniably creepy score , the performances from everyone involved are subdued and sinister , and the subject matter , above all , is not exactly uplifting . It is not surprising , then , that many people are going ... |
544,137 | 562,732 | 371,174 | 8 | Not necessarily better than the movie , but the movie sucks without it . | At the time of this writing , there are two other people who have reviewed The Saw is Family on the IMDb , and both claim that it's better than the movie itself . Initially I agreed with them because I was stupendously unimpressed with the movie . But since this documentary is focused mainly on allowing the cast and cr... |
543,738 | 562,732 | 337,921 | 8 | Can you hear me now ? Gooood . | In what could easily be called either a spin-off , if not a sequel , of the outstanding Phone Booth , Cellular comes along from the same writer , again making satisfying thriller about evil people on the other end of the line . The movie wastes no time as Jessica ( Kim Basinger ) is kidnapped suddenly and without warni... |
544,709 | 562,732 | 54,387 | 8 | Reality has taken a page from my book and set itself to outdo me . - H . G . Wells | Widely hailed as one of the greatest time travel movies ever made , George Pal's 1960 classic takes astonishing liberties with its source material , not only shortening the story but all but deleting the extensive social commentary in H . G . Wells ' novel . The arc of the story is exactly the same as it is in the book... |
544,498 | 562,732 | 472,551 | 8 | Adds more to the story than you expect . | In the movie , when Dianne runs out of the Winchester she is calling her boyfriend's name . Because we just saw him torn to pieces by the zombies ( and because Dianne is beating zombies with his severed leg ) it's reasonable to assume that she can't save him and is instead making an insane rush against his killers , so... |
544,745 | 562,732 | 126,388 | 8 | I don't think I want to hear any more whining about Van Damme . The man is the king . | It seems to be the popular thing to do to jump on the bandwagon and badmouth Van Damme for being a bad actor or for making one bad movie after another . I have always claimed to be a fan , but mostly just because when I was a kid I watched movies like Kickboxer and Bloodsport and Death Warrant over and over . To be hon... |
544,898 | 562,732 | 217,869 | 8 | Excellent follow up to The Sixth Sense . | I remember being unimpressed with Unbreakable when it was first released , I think mostly because they had the bizarre idea of casting Samuel L . Jackson , the Badass Motherf # % ker himself , as a man whose bones break so easily that he can hardly leave the house . The Sixth Sense is a hell of a debut film to follow u... |
544,216 | 562,732 | 87,928 | 8 | I'm trapped here ? " Oh yes , we all are ! " | There is a pretty good documentary included with the DVD collection in which it is revealed that producer Paul Maslansky got the idea for the whole premise of Police Academy when he was working on Hot Stuff in the late 1970s . Evidently there was a police force in charge of crowd control during the making of that movie... |
544,899 | 562,732 | 337,978 | 8 | Another day in paradise ? | Before I say anything about Die Hard 4 , I just want to remind everyone that anything that has anything to do with computers in the movie serves no purpose other than to drive the plot and to provide for some surprisingly effective comic relief . There is tons and tons of nonsense about hacking into this and hacking in... |
544,017 | 562,732 | 186,566 | 8 | Very entertaining space movie with a quirky twist that is surprisingly well presented . | I think that probably the biggest problem that the writers had with Space Cowboys was trying to come up with a good reason to justify sending a bunch of retirement age men into space , and in my opinion , they did that very well . The lifelong rivalry between Frank Corvin ( Clint Eastwood ) and Bob Gerson ( James Cromw... |
543,765 | 562,732 | 118,689 | 8 | Mr . Bean has a very distinctive and narrow brand of slapstick comedy so his target audience is not that huge , but people who are into his humor should LOVE this movie . | I had never seen any of Rowan Atkinson's performances as Mr . Bean when this movie came out in 1997 , so I knew nothing about it when I went to see it other than that it was about the zany adventures of this strange looking man on the movie poster . He strikes me as one of those comedians that you either completely lov... |
544,461 | 562,732 | 734,556 | 8 | Serling's social commentary . . . | Like a great many twilight zone episodes , one of my favorite parts of this one was the overt social commentary that Serling is making with the story . As was the case with a recent episode " The Howling Man , " I was reminded of my long standing suspicion that , for example , if Jesus were to come to earth to bring hi... |
544,573 | 562,732 | 116,483 | 8 | Adam Sandler has never been a real favorite of the critics , but Happy Gilmore is undeniably one of his most successfully hilarious comedies . | In Happy Gilmore , Sandler plays the part of a determined hockey player who doesn't make the team but soon inadvertently discovers that his hockey skills translate very nicely onto the golf green . Until the point in the film where Happy begins playing golf , most of the laughs come from his misfortune ( ' Happy Gilmor... |
544,620 | 562,732 | 281,850 | 8 | Entertaining and successful film rendition of an old punch-line . | This is just a wonderful , charming little film , despite also being dark and at times pretty creepy . I loved the performance of the little girl , not the least reason for which was because I have two sisters around her same age and their cuteness just floors me . It's odd that such a cute little girl would play such ... |
544,509 | 562,732 | 97,733 | 8 | Lethal Weapon II rekindles the excitement and action packed success generated by the original film two years earlier . Roger Murtaugh and Martin Riggs team up again for another great action film . | No time is wasted in the second installment in this now classic action series . Lethal Weapon II starts out immediately with a car chase , starting off what is to be a very entertaining film . Murtaugh and Riggs have the same personalities that they had before , and as is to be expected , they worked excellently on scr... |
544,200 | 562,732 | 167,190 | 8 | Even black magic can't save the Nazis ! | Strangely enough , Hellboy makes me think of Ron Perlman's performance in the slightly less impressive but underrated Alien Resurrection ( oh shut up , it wasn't that bad ) . In both movies he plays a character that approaches his work with a casual confidence that comes from long years of general badassedness . In bot... |
544,783 | 562,732 | 220,099 | 8 | Tigger is back , and the only difference is that he is now OFFICIALLY stealing the show . | Okay , it's been 23 years since there has been a full length Winnie the Pooh film released , and the original fans have all grown up by now . But if you have ever been a fan of the Pooh gang , check out this movie . Take me , for example , I'm a 21 year old horror movie fanatic , and I loved The Tigger Movie . The whol... |
544,551 | 562,732 | 97,742 | 8 | This is an excellent installment in the James Bond series , despite Timothy Dalton ? | Yeah , Dalton screwed up again , but luckily he didn't screw up the Bond character bad enough to take too much away from this excellent action film . The opening scene , in which the helicopter captures the airplane in mid-flight is very cool , except for the fact that there is at least one shot where Bond's hair is pe... |
544,054 | 562,732 | 61,395 | 8 | Considered by many to be Bunuel's greatest work , Belle de Jour is a prime example of Bunuel's affection for the juxtaposition of realism and surrealism , this time to present a picture of the unusual sexualit | Catherine Deneuve plays Séverine Serizy , an obviously unsatisfied wife of a man who does not mistreat her as much as he simply doesn't seem to interest her enough sexually . She is in a financially comfortable but otherwise largely uninteresting relationship with him . There are a lot of strange aberrant fantasies tha... |
544,217 | 562,732 | 6,313 | 8 | Chaplin is fully in character by now . | By this point in his career , Chaplin had almost fully developed the character of the little tramp , although he had not come close to perfecting the performances or truly refining his personality . But the character that the world soon came to know and love is clearly there by this point . This is one of the more comp... |
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