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544,424 | 562,732 | 125,971 | 8 | Outside Providence does not seem like much from the preview , but it turns out to be a surprisingly good comedy . | Outside Providence seems like just another low budget , goofy high school comedy from the preview , but it is really a good movie . Timothy Dunphy is the lovable high school screw-up whose father sends him off to boarding school after he is involved in an accident with a parked police cruiser while smoking pot with his... |
543,806 | 562,732 | 497,465 | 8 | What happens in Europe stays in Europe . . . | One thing I've noticed about nearly all of Woody Allen's movies is that , regardless of how good the rest of the movie is , the dialogue is generally written and performed with a nearly flawless realism that pushes the surprisingly intricate stories along at a pretty fast pace , often leaving me with the feeling that t... |
543,836 | 562,732 | 113,133 | 8 | A comedy that is very well thought out and very intelligent . This is often difficult to watch , but it works because it has heart . | Funny Bones is not a traditional comedy . It starts off being deliberately unamusing , yet it later becomes evident that this was done not only to establish reason for the events that occur during the rest of the movie , but also to create good character development . Oliver Platt proves that he is not only a great com... |
544,710 | 562,732 | 240,772 | 8 | Hell yes . | The remake of Ocean's 11 is a tremendously entertaining movie . I personally find Brad Pitt and George Clooney to be among the most watchable actors working today , so I found the movie to be hugely appealing despite numerous plot holes , an almost nonstop barrage of clichés , a ridiculous ending , and Don Cheadle . Be... |
544,724 | 562,732 | 338,348 | 8 | The true meaning of Christmas is in your heart ? | I read a review by another IMDb user who compared the look of the film to illustrations in old children's books , the ones that , for certain generations , bring back warm and much - cherished memories , and while The Polar Express didn't exactly knock my socks off like I expected it would , this is exactly what it loo... |
544,639 | 562,732 | 120,710 | 8 | What is insanity truly like ? Watch In Dreams and you'll find out . | The color red is very significant in In Dreams , in everything from the apples that seem to represent Claire's ( Annette Bening ) fears to the red dress that she is dressed in the numerous times that she ' dies ' to the weird red color of Vivian's ( Robert Downey Jr . ) hair towards the end of the film . The color red ... |
544,268 | 562,732 | 4,210 | 8 | A cross section of Chaplin's first year in film-making . | It is no secret that Charlie Chaplin spent most of his first year in film-making churning out simple short comedies for Keystone Studios , in which he spent most of his time either kicking , punching , and throwing bricks at people or planting kisses on uncomfortable women . Laffing Gas is kind of a cross section of Ch... |
544,085 | 562,732 | 258,463 | 8 | The Bourne Identity is a taut psychological thriller that explores the genre from a variety of new standpoints , but doesn't quite manage to be as great as it could have and should have been . | In one of the more anticipated thrillers released this year , Matt Damon takes on the role of a CIA assassin who has failed an assassination mission only to wake up and find himself on a strange fishing boat with no memory of who or where he is or how he even got there . It starts off under this immediately interesting... |
544,513 | 562,732 | 65,377 | 8 | Eventually , Airport presents a very interesting and intricate story . | I had never heard of this movie when I watched it recently , and I actually thought that it was a spoof of Airplane , and not the other way around , until I noticed that it was made a decade earlier . Although Airport starts off with nearly 45 minutes of mind-numbing boredom , it builds up a number of separate stories ... |
543,849 | 562,732 | 8,975 | 8 | Keaton steals the show . | I may be biased toward Buster Keaton since I have seen so many more of his films than of Fatty Arbuckle's , but I think that he was a far better physical comedian than Fatty was . Arbuckle performs some astonishing tricks as the cook , flipping pancakes behind his back and tossing utensils and such , and he should be r... |
544,550 | 562,732 | 86,006 | 8 | A quality re-make , but still not nearly as good as Thunderball . | I'm sick and tired of people complaining that Never Say Never Again is just a weak remake of Thunderball . Yes , that movie's influence is unmistakable , but the tremendous and almost universal inferiority of re-made films is reserved for such thoughtless and unintelligent films like the 1998 re-make of Psycho . While ... |
544,414 | 562,732 | 277,027 | 8 | Genuinely heartwarming but truly unrealistic . . . | The overarching tendency that I noticed in I Am Sam is that it is so good at making the audience root for Sam and his daughter Lucy to be able to stay together , but the better it is at that , the further it gets from reality . Very little is revealed about Lucy's conception beyond the fact that she was born from a hom... |
544,681 | 562,732 | 120,587 | 8 | Smarter than A Bug's Life but not quite as fun . | I always love a good animated film or TV show that can entertain both children and adults , like Toy Story or Shrek or The Simpsons , and while Antz is definitely aimed at pleasing both its older and younger audience members , there is something about it that is not quite as fun as its animated counterpart . There were... |
544,570 | 562,732 | 120,596 | 8 | A surprisingly delightful romantic comedy about the horrors of marriage ! | SPOILERS I was remarkably uninterested in this movie when I first heard about it . I just can't say that a romantic comedy starring Chris O'Donnell held any appeal for me , and to be perfectly honest , I can't even remember why I decided to watch it . Whatever led me to watch this film , I'm glad , because it was surpr... |
543,935 | 562,732 | 11,071 | 8 | Not bad . . . | I've seen better Buster Keaton short films , but this one still manages to portray the rather dreary fate of a man who finds himself in prison because an escaped convict switched clothes with him after he knocked himself unconscious with a golf ball . His is ultimately to be hung , and I think the film deserves respect... |
544,515 | 562,732 | 130,529 | 8 | The Cane Mutiny ! ! | The unnatural history of the introduction of cane toads into Australia is a hilarious documentary about what is certainly one of the most foolish of history's human attempts at changing their environment for their own advantage . It is almost sickening to consider the sheer numbers of these hideous creatures that were ... |
544,542 | 562,732 | 289,879 | 8 | Note to self : Don't write anything down . Wait , maybe I better not write this ? | The Butterfly Effect , unfortunately marketed as most notable because of a turn from idiot comedy to strong dramatic performance by Ashton Kutcher , begins with a title explaining one of the tenets of Chaos Theory , specifically that a butterfly flapping its wings starts a chain reaction of events that can result in a ... |
544,241 | 562,732 | 264,935 | 8 | Objection ! ! Leading ! | I almost didn't watch Murder By Numbers , for two reasons . First , I'm not the biggest Sandra Bullock fan , but second and more importantly , the trailer does not do the movie justice at all . In fact , I would advise against watching the trailer , because it will almost destroy all interest in watching the movie , li... |
544,861 | 562,732 | 89,424 | 8 | Excellent story , but a little slow and boring at some points . | Kiss of the Spider Woman takes the classic man undercover story and throws just about every twist into it that you can think of . William Hurt plays Luis Molina , a homosexual who is being held in a South American prison peppered with political prisoners , and is sharing a cell with Valentin Arregui , who happens to be... |
544,251 | 562,732 | 437,696 | 8 | Morgan Spurlock continues the 30 days theme , with spotty success . | Given the sheer brilliance and immediate importance of Super Size Me , I was eager to see Morgan Spurlock's next project , the unscripted documentary series " 30 Days . " Within a few minutes into the first episode , it becomes clear that he is going to use the same structure as he used in his feature documentary , but... |
544,371 | 562,732 | 124,819 | 8 | You can't hold the cheesiness against it . | Orgazmo is the kind of movie that is cheesy to the point that it's obviously meant to be that way . You can't watch a movie like this and think even for a second that it is meant to be taken seriously , or even that it takes itself seriously . And all of this is clear just from looking at the cover box , so you know fr... |
544,910 | 562,732 | 93,773 | 8 | Welcome to the jungle , baby ? | Consider that so many of the roles that Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on are so similar , including Predator , and yet this film is so much better than most of the others . I enjoy watching his movies just because he's such a watch-able guy , even in his bad movies ( which are many ) , but I think the thing that really m... |
544,689 | 562,732 | 60,794 | 8 | Faster , pussycat . . . | This is a surprisingly effective horror film , since I got it on a collection of 10 old horror movies for $15 . I have three or four other ten horror movie collections and have only seen one or two films from them . I wonder how many more are actually worth watching ? I have a love of really old and even really bad hor... |
544,055 | 562,732 | 290,003 | 8 | That nativity scene is too much for me ! | In a lot of ways I am surprised at the sheer simplicity of these old Bean TV shows , but that nativity scene was one of the funniest things I have ever seen in one of his shows . It reminds me of Chaplin's dance of the dinner rolls . It is so simple , but clearly a stroke of true genius . Recently I watched all of Chap... |
544,370 | 562,732 | 93,870 | 8 | Classic action ? | Paul Verhoeven's ambitious action masterpiece was a huge success at the time of its release in 1987 , but I tend to think that it would not be nearly a successful if a film like it had been released today . Action and science fiction movies have come a long way since the 80's , and it's also no secret that the success ... |
544,284 | 562,732 | 264,796 | 8 | No wonder Hayden Christensen got that role in Episode II ? | Life As A House tells the story of an aging man diagnosed with terminal cancer who makes one of those deathbed conversions from a hopeless slob and absentee father into someone who wants to reunite himself with his son and rebuild the shack that he has been living in for most of his life , much of which was spent with ... |
543,748 | 562,732 | 60,834 | 8 | Amusing short Pink Panther cartoon . | The Pink Blueprint involves the Pink Panther's efforts to replace a construction workers boring blueprints with one of his own , which would result in the construction of a crazy looking futuristic house . He and the worker get into a funny competition of sorts , each trying to use the same construction site to build t... |
544,350 | 562,732 | 289,941 | 8 | Mr . Bean stumbles belligerently through a series of routine daily events , each one going horribly wrong and treating the audience to another dose of unintentional hilarity as only Bean can . | This is the first time I have seen any of the old Bean TV shows that aired in the UK before the movie was released here in the states in 1997 . I was reminded of some of Roberto Benigni's older films , such as Johnny Stecchino , which I watched because I was endlessly impressed with Life Is Beautiful . As in Benigni's ... |
544,146 | 562,732 | 4,637 | 8 | One of the better plots . . . | For about the first two thirds of The Landlady's Pet ( that's the real title , by the way - The Star Boarder was the former title , but ultimately it was changed ) it seems that it is going to come across as three distinctly separate parts - the first third , where Charlie is the " star boarder , " the landlady's favor... |
543,893 | 562,732 | 76,752 | 8 | 007 entering the computerized age ? | The Spy Who Loved Me starts off slow with a less than impressive opening scene but ultimately is one of the better films in the series . It's about a supervillain named Karl Stromberg who has isolated himself from society in a massive underwater lair that reminds me of the Nautilus from Jules Verne's " 20 , 000 Leagues... |
544,257 | 562,732 | 274,546 | 8 | In a time when horror movies have become direct-to-video crap or cheesy first-run crap , how is it that the Hellraiser movies are among the least noticed and yet probably the most clever and impressive sequel | The beginning of the fifth Hellraiser sequel raises something of a moral dilemma , which is extremely rare for a horror movie . After the car crash , Trevor , our hero , escapes from the car after it sinks to the bottom of the river and he rushes to the surface to get air , then returns to attempt to save his wife . At... |
543,807 | 562,732 | 441,773 | 8 | Second best animated feature of the year ! ! | The evolution of the martial arts genre has been of particular interest to me lately , as I recently bought a Bruce Lee collection and have been watching a few of his old classics and comparing them to the newer species of movies like Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon and Shaolin Soccer . I wasn't all that excited about ... |
543,919 | 562,732 | 91,949 | 8 | So cutesy but so good ! ! | I haven't seen Short Circuit for some time now , but it is such a huge milestone in my childhood that I have to say something about it . Maturer audiences will have a hard time overlooking some of the childish nuances of the movie , but it is such a fun and entertaining family film that all of those things can be easil... |
544,228 | 562,732 | 83,284 | 8 | Stallone's take on the Great Escape . | So I'm no expert on World War II , but the idea of some German prison officers being even remotely interested in a game of soccer between themselves and their prisoners seems pretty ludicrous to me . Nonetheless , this movie does a good job of justifying that idea , presenting it as a huge propaganda event , something ... |
544,860 | 562,732 | 265,029 | 8 | An entertaining look behind the scenes of the movie star romances . | Normally , who is married to / engaged to / dating who in the movie world is something that I couldn't possibly care less about , and I still don't care , but America's Sweethearts manages to make that very subject amusing and entertaining . John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones play Eddie Thomas and Gwen Harrison , two... |
544,384 | 562,732 | 331,952 | 8 | Great chronology ! | ( spoilers ) I had spotted a spectacular editing failure when I noticed that Wayne Hayes ( Robert Redford ) and his captor Arnold ( Willem Dafoe ) remained in the same day while his wife and family and team of investigators passed through several days . The story switches back and forth between Wayne and Arnold and the... |
544,723 | 562,732 | 128,853 | 8 | Deceptively cute . . . | I'm reminded of the shallow complaints that I heard about Runaway Bride , since it starred Richard Gere and Julia Roberts , who had already starred in the astronomically successful Pretty Woman together . Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are teamed up again in a nice little romantic comedy and the producers no doubt hope that pe... |
544,256 | 562,732 | 76,578 | 8 | Based on the BOOK ! | Maybe that declaration in the opening credits just struck me as funny because a documentary like this seems to ham-handed and primal to me that it's hard to imagine the movie having been based on a book version of it , as though they translated the plotline of a book about body-building to a movie . At any rate , now t... |
544,111 | 562,732 | 1,068,680 | 8 | The most powerful three-letter word in the English language ! | OK , I have to tell you a true story , you're not gonna believe this . I tried this " yes " thing a couple years ago , in late 2006 . The first thing I did was accept an offer to teach English in China ( I'm still here ) , then I was invited into dozens of Chinese homes , I agreed to an idea to ride a bicycle from my c... |
544,490 | 562,732 | 1,175,491 | 8 | The American people want revenge . They liked Afghanistan and they want more . ? Karl Rove . | The first decade of the 21st Century is undeniably characterized first and foremost in America , possibly even more than the lengthy wars that we have become involved in , by the atmosphere of sheer political tension . George W . Bush has been called many names , from " visionary " to " the worst President in American ... |
544,619 | 562,732 | 303,350 | 8 | The poor kid would have dealt with the ordeal with the dog a lot better had he read Call of the Wild . | Then again , of course , the whole point was that he was a poor black kid , pretty much a slave to the rich white man who doesn't exactly prepare him for the University . I just couldn't help remember how vicious the beatings were that the sled dogs suffered in that book . The story focuses initially on a rich white ma... |
544,597 | 562,732 | 327,056 | 8 | The most impressive thing was the cast . | Before I go on , I should mention that Mystic River is an outstandingly well-made movie . I saw it months after it was released , after it had been acclaimed one of the best movies of the year , and after it had officially been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar . So I guess I just expected more , especially from Clint... |
544,261 | 562,732 | 280,387 | 8 | Yeah , Steve ! | You know what I love about the Academy Awards ceremonies ? They provide insight into the personalities of so many of our favorite Hollywood stars . There was a great , although short , interview with Anthony Hopkins in the pre-show event , where an obviously star-struck reporter asked him how he did what he did and wha... |
544,065 | 562,732 | 67,185 | 8 | An entertaining but very strange black comedy . Almost too strange . | Bud Cort plays the part of Harold , a young man who seems to feel that his mother does not pay enough attention to him . After not receiving much of a reaction from her after having staged numerous extremely elaborate suicide scenes , he soon loses interest , especially after meeting Maude , an eccentric 80-year-old wo... |
544,719 | 562,732 | 5,489 | 8 | Charlie struggling to get a job in the movies ? | There is something uniquely charming about the short comedies that Chaplin made that poke fun at his art form or that show us a little bit of the mechanics of how these movies are made . The most notable example other than His New Job is the charming and fun Behind the Screen , although this film is a lot of fun , too ... |
544,864 | 562,732 | 230,169 | 8 | A boy's best friend is his mother . . . | This strangely titled film is something that should have been presented to the horror genre years ago . Normally , you would say that this is a blatant rip off of such classics as Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs , but as the tagline says , this is a true story that took place in the ... |
544,479 | 562,732 | 90,305 | 8 | Is Weird Science a piece of cinematic cheese ? Yes , undeniably . Is it a must-see ? Hell yeah ! | Sure , Weird Science is not a spectacular film . It will never be mentioned in a history of film class , and watching it fifteen years after its release shows that time has not been kind to it at all . But as a good , fun comedy , it lives on forever . Just as computers were really beginning to make a big impression on... |
544,427 | 562,732 | 298,408 | 8 | I'd much rather be in here than out there in that cold world . . . | It has taken me years to get around to watching Laurel Canyon , even after having lived in Los Angeles and worked in West Hollywood for a year and a half . There is more about the southern California lifestyle to dislike than can ever be explained in less than 1 , 000 words , and this movie takes on really just a tiny ... |
543,818 | 562,732 | 354,351 | 8 | If you didn't love Caddyshack ( like I didn't ) , watch this documentary and maybe you will . | I didn't love Caddyshack before or after I watched this documentary , but I liked the movie more afterwards . I prefer making-of documentaries that have more recent interviews with the cast and crew , as this one did . I think there are better insights provided by people looking back at the making of the movie and thei... |
544,402 | 562,732 | 113,819 | 8 | Isn't life ironic ? | I've never been a big fan of Woody Allen , although I have seen few of his films . Mostly I feel like his performances get a little old for me , since he can only really play himself , in all his awkward , stuttering glory . He has a peculiarly dry style of humor that , to me , seems to get a little routine . He sort o... |
544,685 | 562,732 | 291,751 | 8 | A fun look back . | Several years after the introduction of the hilarious Bean show , it is only natural that there should be a Best Of episode . We get a look back at some of his old classic bits , and probably the only thing disappointing is that there is no way that they could fit all of the worthy skits into one episode . My favorite ... |
543,894 | 562,732 | 90,264 | 8 | 007 entering the computerized age ? | Dr . No , the original 007 film , was basically a murder mystery , so whenever I see a Bond film like A View to A Kill , I am always struck by how far the series has come and how much bigger the stories get . In this installment , we get a truly evil , classic Bond-style villain with Max Zorin ( played by a wonderfully... |
544,612 | 562,732 | 267,626 | 8 | It's frightening how close we came . . . | K-19 has a massive cast , especially in the two lead characters of Mikhail Polenin ( Liam Neeson ) and Alexei Vostrikov ( Harrison Ford ) . My understanding is that Ford wanted to take on a role different than ones he had taken in the past to prevent type-casting , and while he does a good job in his role ( as does jus... |
544,193 | 562,732 | 115,697 | 8 | Quite possibly the late Chris Farley's funniest movie . | Black Sheep is one of the two films in which Chris Farley stars alongside the constant sarcasm of David Spade ( the other being Tommy Boy , which is almost as funny ) , and the results are childish but endlessly amusing . Farley plays Mike Donnelly , the younger and nuttier brother of Al Donnelly , who is campaigning t... |
544,078 | 562,732 | 187,393 | 8 | The Patriot truly was an epic film , but the effects of Hollywood were much more heavily felt than in the movie's 1995 counterpart , Braveheart . | The Patriot is a beautifully made film . It has a very engaging story and it is very well acted and directed , but it was also heavily influenced by Hollywood . Normally , the effects of Hollywood are not inherently damaging to movies in general ( although they rarely add to a film's cinematic value ) , but in the case... |
544,013 | 562,732 | 84,602 | 8 | Why so serious ? | Like Part 2 , Rocky 3 starts off where the last movie left off , but things are totally different now . Rocky has the feel of a real person with a real , three dimensional life by now , but he's come a long way from the Rocky we knew in the first two movies . Most notably , he's RICH now . He has a genuine career going... |
544,026 | 562,732 | 88,944 | 8 | The ultimate action b-classic ! | When I was a kid I may have been the biggest Commando fan ever . I think I must have watched it at least 30 times or so , I used to watch it every day after school . It is totally cheesy and Arnold is basically a superhero not far removed from Rambo other than by the fact that he has more honorable intentions . Rambo w... |
544,731 | 562,732 | 119,528 | 8 | Jim Carrey is back in yet another great comedy , although it doesn't quite live up to the spectacular Dumb & Dumber . | Liar Liar is about a boy who , after being stood up by his big-shot lawyer father one too many times , wishes that for just one day his dad couldn't lie . This wreaks havoc on his personal life and even more on his professional life as a lawyer who makes a living putting criminals back on the streets . Carrey is immedi... |
544,356 | 562,732 | 58,213 | 8 | A classic thriller that deserves another look . | Hush . . . Hush , Sweet Charlotte has , over the years , deteriorated into the type of film that was clearly a tremendous experience in 1964 , but is fairly tame by today's standards . The thrill is unmistakable , but the film can hardly be called a horror film anymore , especially when we now have been subjected to fi... |
544,399 | 562,732 | 7,507 | 8 | Rover , wanderer , nomad , vagabond , call me what you will ? | Chaplin starts out The Vagabond playing in a bar , basically as a street performer , but soon finds himself run out by the more fully developed band who is unhappy that he's stealing their customers . Soon he wanders out into the woods and almost aimlessly stumbles across a group of backwards country people . There is ... |
544,098 | 562,732 | 439,020 | 8 | A special effects movie like Troy deserved more than 11 minutes about the special effects . | This is one of three other production documentaries included on the two-disc DVD of Troy , and it tells some interesting footage about how some of the special effects were done and how they were edited together . My favorite is how they talk about how a shot of the Greek soldiers storming across the beach toward Troy w... |
544,097 | 562,732 | 439,021 | 8 | An excellent look at the history of the real Troy . | At the risk of revealing the sheer extent of my ignorance of Greek history , I must admit that before I saw this documentary I wasn't sure if Troy was a real place or if it was mythical , like Atlantis . I know that there is some debate as to whether Achilles ever lived , but this documentary gives great insight into w... |
544,813 | 562,732 | 71,577 | 8 | A worthy adaptation of Fitzgerald's novel , with only the really necessary drawbacks . | The Great Gatsby is a book that is very much expected to be made into a movie , and has been adapted several times before this one . It is an intricate story that entails an enormous amount of meaning and significance to society , but the literary version is not one that is capable of being adapted into a film that can... |
544,308 | 562,732 | 387,575 | 8 | You've heard of dolls that bleed ? This one pees ! | Contains Spoilers So here's my synopsis , I liked Bride of Chucky as much as the original , a little more than part 2 , and MUCH more than part 3 . I really think that the move toward comedy and slightly away from horror , as well as our increasing familiarity with Chucky himself , has allowed the movies , and Chucky ,... |
544,602 | 562,732 | 104,257 | 8 | A Few Good Men takes a routine legal conflict , packages it in a formula film , and brilliantly makes it into a great legal thriller . | As is quite often the case with legal thrillers , A Few Good Men starts off by showing the act of violence that the rest of the movie tries to justify . It is a taut legal thriller that keeps you breathless from beginning to end as the case slowly unfolds , going into startling detail and even more surprisingly maintai... |
544,574 | 562,732 | 187,738 | 8 | Ahhh , MUCH better ! ! | Blade II is an exciting action film that takes the tired vampire story and adds a new twist by introducing an entirely new villain . Sure , there is sure to be some controversy ( at least among film fans and fans of the genre ) about whether or not it is right to introduce new characters in this way . Vampires are a ti... |
544,154 | 562,732 | 20,629 | 8 | Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori . | The irony of this quote ( " Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland ) is what All Quiet on the Western Front is all about . The movie paints a very clear , even blindly obvious , picture of the difference between the young recruit's expectation of battlefield glory and the battle weary veteran's knowledge of ... |
544,852 | 562,732 | 298,148 | 8 | Is this a spoof ? | While Shrek 2 was another great , confectionery romp like the first one , the homages to old fairy tales and other movies are approaching the area of campy spoofs . I was just waiting for Leslie Nielsen to pop up somewhere . Fiona pulls a layer of mud off of Shrek's face , kissing him upside down like Mary Jane Watson ... |
544,541 | 562,732 | 313,443 | 8 | Not just another Denzel movie ? | The more Denzel Washington movies that I watch , while he remains one of my favorite actors , the more apparent it becomes that he seems to play basic variations of the same character over and over . I think I was first put off when John Q came out , I saw it , and it occurred to me that he was playing yet another desp... |
544,565 | 562,732 | 96,256 | 8 | Quite possibly the scariest funny movie ever made . Or the funniest scary movie ever made . | They Live is one of those horror movies that is so scary and so good that it has become a comedy classic . Yes , comedy . There are maybe a total of five horror films that were made in the 80s that are or ever were even slightly frightening , the majority of them , particularly those which remain popular today , are po... |
544,409 | 562,732 | 1,103,965 | 8 | And the baby goes to ? | Coming on the heels of the great writer's strike in Hollywood , the 2007 Academy Awards ceremony began amidst wonder about what it would be like , after the Golden Globes , I think , was presented as a bare bones ceremony to which few people showed up . I didn't pay much attention to the writer's strike , partly becaus... |
544,900 | 562,732 | 458,525 | 8 | Looks like we're gonna need new sheets again , baby ? | It is perfectly fitting that the new X-Men movie should include " Wolverine " in the title , since none of the three previous movies explained the history of his mutation , although slightly less fitting that " X-Men " should be in the title , because it is more like a spin off for Wolverine , the franchise's most popu... |
544,576 | 562,732 | 236,493 | 8 | An entertaining twist on the traditional modern romance . | As has been the case with nearly every romantic comedy ever made , Jerry ( Brad Pitt ) and Samantha ( Julia Roberts ) are in a wonderful relationship that is nearly destroyed by a lot of stupidity . There is a horribly frustrating encounter between the two in which Samantha refuses to believe that Jerry is being forced... |
544,869 | 562,732 | 104,409 | 8 | Hellraiser III is by far the best of the series so far . It is the first one that has any decent acting ( although still not great ) , good direction , and even a fairly respectable story . | Pinhead has returned , and again he wants to destroy that pesky puzzle box , the door to Hell , so that he will never have to go back . His return to the world of the living is fascinatingly done with an updated version of that horrific rotating pillar that we're all so familiar with by this point . Kevin Bernhardt pla... |
544,593 | 562,732 | 313,542 | 8 | Very Bruckheimer-esque ? | John Grisham is famous for constructing tight , fascinating and tense legal thrillers , and Runaway Jury is really no exception , but unfortunately it doesn't really seem to take itself very seriously , which is bad for a movie that falls in a subgenre that should really be taken seriously . The movie's basic idea is t... |
544,114 | 562,732 | 479,143 | 8 | Let's start building some hurting bombs ! | Another Rocky movie is definitely a long shot , to say the least . Stallone came out with a new Rocky movie and a new Rambo movie pretty close to each other , so it's pretty easy to assume that he's having career trouble and desperate for a couple of new hits . I haven't seen the new Rambo yet , but I just watched Rock... |
544,091 | 562,732 | 121,765 | 8 | . and the Star Wars saga makes a massive comeback ! ! | It was no small task for George Lucas to make up for that ridiculous mess that bore the title of Episode I . While Episode II : Attack of the Clones was far from unflawed , it is vastly superior to its predecessor , providing for some serious entertainment and a huge relief for Star Wars fans around the world . Sadly ,... |
544,834 | 562,732 | 144,084 | 8 | A dark look at the subconscious mind of the typical American male . | American Psycho seems to be concerned with what it is that Americans really think about , and puts forth a rather disturbing assertion . This movie reminds me of an old video I saw of Jim Carrey back when he was a stand-up comedian . I think this was even before his Saturday Night Live days . He was talking about how w... |
543,853 | 562,732 | 326,614 | 8 | That's it , I'm getting a job at a hotel . . . | Directed by Alfonso Cuaron's lesser known brother , Carlos , Wedding Night reveals a shared interest in sex and comedy between the two brothers , although with slightly less tragedy than Alfonso tends to portray . While Alfonso mixes sex and tragedy and gets comedy as a result , Carlos goes straight for sex and comedy ... |
544,610 | 562,732 | 42,707 | 8 | Much better than expected ! | As it is described in the collection in which it now appears , The Man Who Cheated Himself is definitely a classic piece of textbook film noir . I am embarrassed to say that I had never heard of Lee Cobb until I saw him in 12 Angry Men a couple months ago . He was an astonishingly busy actor between the 1930s and 1970s... |
543,832 | 562,732 | 220,506 | 8 | Hey , at least the series isn't sinking as precipitously as the Hellraiser series . Just kidding . This movie rocked . Seriously . You're hearing this from a dedicated Halloween fan . Resurrection deserves to be w | I read another reviewer's comments about Halloween : Resurrection , and one of the things that he said in his review is that hardcore Halloween fans will be disappointed . On the contrary , I think that hardcore Halloween fans , a brilliant group of movie buffs with whom I proudly associate myself , are among the few t... |
543,793 | 562,732 | 300,556 | 8 | Never underestimate the importance of release forms ! ! | Speaking of time travel , there is an interesting paradox that seems to surround movies that involve time travel ( The Time Machine ( namely the remake ) , Timeline , Time Cop ( for obvious reasons , admittedly ) , etc ) , in that no one seems to like them but they keep getting made . Well , maybe no one likes them but... |
544,095 | 562,732 | 48,281 | 8 | A classic crime comedy that evidently can't be updated . | The humor in this movie is not only British , which is notoriously misunderstood by American audiences ( and vice versa ) , which is odd because both the writer and director were American , but it is also now five decades old . Only the best American comedies have lasted anywhere near that long ( consider , for example... |
544,196 | 562,732 | 805,570 | 8 | Models and Boy Scouts advised to avoid riding subways alone after 2am ? | It is one of my unwritten principles about film criticism never to say things like " Such-and - such movie could only have come from the mind of so-and-so . " It's a self-congratulatory phrase that sell-out critics ( film critics and books critics alike ) use in efforts to get their names on movie or book covers , and ... |
544,232 | 562,732 | 438,323 | 8 | Pretty interesting look behind the scenes of the Flight of the Phoenix remake . | The first thing that really struck me about this documentary was how much of an , ah , emotional man John Moore is . There are some great looks behind the scenes of the making of the movie , which are almost always overshadowed by the occasional tempter tantrums the John Moore throws . Granted , he's in the middle of m... |
544,405 | 562,732 | 127,723 | 8 | A surprise classic ! | I just read a review of Can't Hardly Wait on the IMDb by a user who mentioned that he has walked by the movie in his local video store countless times before finally renting it . Personally , I saw it countless times when it was released because I worked at a video store at the time , but it is probably the one movie t... |
544,528 | 562,732 | 55,928 | 8 | It's too bad that Sean Connery foresaw the succession of awful movies that were to eventually follow , because he was by far the best James Bond ever . | Dr . No is the film that introduced the movie world to James Bond , the world's most famous ' secret ' agent . This is where we first see most of the things that have come to be traditional in 007 movies , such as Bond's indestructibility , his blatant but perpetually uneventful flirtatious exchanges with Moneypenny , ... |
543,848 | 562,732 | 120,915 | 8 | It begins . . . | The Phantom Menace is one of those movies that I have been meaning to review since I first saw it on opening day years and years ago . I have a little book where I make notes of movies I would like to review , and when I flipped back to the page for Episode I , I noticed that the last time I jotted down a couple of poi... |
544,779 | 562,732 | 163,187 | 8 | You know what ? Don't tell me anything about Pretty Woman , because I don't even want to hear it . | Runaway Bride is just a good romantic comedy . Yes , the director and the two big name stars are the same as the film's 1990 counterpart , but even though the two films have striking and almost offensive similarities , Runaway Bride has a good enough story that I refuse to believe that it relied on the success of its p... |
544,552 | 562,732 | 112,281 | 8 | A worthy sequel . | ( spoilers ) Ace Ventura : When Nature Calls is unmistakably a childish movie , but so is the first Ace Ventura , so what did you expect ? The opening sequence involving a raccoon suspended from a wire high up in the mountains ( in an amusing parody of Cliffhanger ) is a little too cheesy even by Ventura standards at s... |
544,341 | 562,732 | 283,461 | 8 | Great detail from cast and crew . | The Making of Sands of Iwo Jima goes into great detail about who starred in the movie and who some of the main crew members were , presumably because so little on set footage exists . A surprising number of the original cast appear in interviews in this short documentary to talk about their experiences making the movie... |
544,099 | 562,732 | 103,644 | 8 | Quality in this series didn't rise exponentially , like the titles , but this one is still worth seeing . | Just about everyone I talk to about the Alien movies always says the same thing , that you only need to watch the first two because the Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection are both terrible . Having just watched Alien 3 again recently for the first time in probably ten years , I'm surprised that people think it is such a te... |
543,820 | 562,732 | 310,357 | 8 | Goodnight , Clark ? | It's easy to see the elements of this movie that led to its Luke-warm at best public reception . As Julie Ng's wonderful making-of documentary included on the DVD explains , it quietly disappeared from theaters two weeks after its release . I can easily see people being put off by a movie about a guy who raises vast nu... |
544,726 | 562,732 | 339,542 | 8 | Interesting analysis . | The full first half of this supplemental documentary concentrates on what almost comes off as a conspiracy theory about the likelihood of a biological weapon being launched somewhere in the world , causing an epidemic of disease that wipes out a frightening number of the people on earth , similar to what happens in the... |
543,921 | 562,732 | 389,722 | 8 | Much better than I expected . | 30 Days of Night starts out with a fascinating introduction to its fascinating setting , Barrow , Alaska , the northernmost city in America . A quick look at Google earth with reveal this to be true ? Barrow is very near Barrow Point , the northern tip of North America . I have a strange fascination with places like th... |
544,014 | 562,732 | 79,817 | 8 | Apollo's mad ? | So when Apollo says at the end of the first film that there isn't going to be any rematch ( sorry , " ain't gonna be no rematch " ) , I'm thinking that it was probably because no one really knew how big the movie was going to be . I think the original film was meant to be a single movie that stood on its own , but a se... |
544,826 | 562,732 | 335,185 | 8 | A reminder that more racism is not the answer to racism . | In the movie , it is stated that the Bible says " An eye for an eye . " There is , first of all , the old saying that an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind , but I think a more important concern is that an eye for an eye being applied in this case would lead to three " death by dragging " convictions . That wo... |
543,913 | 562,732 | 108,071 | 8 | There is something to be said about the story of The Secret Garden when even such a skeletal film adaptation as this one can be so wildly entertaining . | This version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden takes the novel and eliminates all but the most crucial elements to make sure the story makes sense , but there is so much left out from the book that it takes away a lot of the magic . Rather than have the garden act as a magical entity in itself , it is more... |
543,805 | 562,732 | 397,892 | 8 | Lost Super-Puppy , Answers to the Name of Bolt . If Found , Please Contact The Incredibles . . . | I've read that Bolt is the first computer animated feature to come from Disney Studios since Pixar's John Lasseter took control of it , and it's easy to see the Pixar presence in the movie . John Travolta and Miley Cyrus provide the celebrity voice talent for the movie , about a dog who stars in a superhero TV show but... |
544,702 | 562,732 | 91,080 | 8 | Every installment gets worse than the last one . Except this one . | The movie starts off fairly well , relatively speaking . Tommy Jarvis has grown up into a young man and returns to Jason's grave , unable to go on living unless he can completely verify for himself that Jason is really dead . On the other hand , digging up Jason's grave and essentially freeing him ( since Tommy doesn't... |
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