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544,005 | 562,732 | 110,216 | 8 | A surprisingly clever and heart-warming family comedy . | Hey here's something interesting . If you type " Junior " in to Google , the first hit is this movie , but if you type it in to the IMDb , the first hit is George W . Bush . I just thought that was funny . So by 1994 , Schwarzenegger had just done a series of pretty hardcore action movies ? Terminator 2 , Last Action H... |
544,795 | 562,732 | 21,165 | 8 | Art imitating life imitating art . | In an early depiction of Hitchcock's fear and mistrust of the police and the legal system , we have a very legal thriller about a murder and it's subsequent trial . We are given the facts of the case , even a sort of a limited view of the murder itself taking place , followed by the prosecution and defense presenting t... |
544,768 | 562,732 | 429,487 | 9 | We still love you , Martin ! | I was a little concerned during parts of the show that it was going to be swept up by The Aviator , it seemed like just about every category was going to something from that movie . It is understandable since it is such a great film , but the competition for awards this year included an unusually high number of great f... |
544,388 | 562,732 | 112,864 | 9 | The return of John McTiernan ! ! | I was pretty thoroughly disappointed with Die Hard 2 , but that might have made watching Die Hard 3 even better , because it was so good to see such an immediate and clear improvement over the first sequel . The movie begins in Harlem , where a terrorist has forced John McClane to go wearing a huge sign with a slogan o... |
544,793 | 562,732 | 116,704 | 9 | Chan ? Jackie Chan . | It has been so many years since I have seen a Jackie Chan film , but after finally watching First Strike for the first time since something like 1998 I am completely hooked again . Te fight scenes are astonishing and even though the sets are bad and some of the fight situations ( underwater with sharks ) are cartoonish... |
544,431 | 562,732 | 734,618 | 9 | Philosophy 101 - Serling style . | There are times when I start thinking about strange possibilities and different experiences of existence , such as whether people with different eye colors see the world exactly the same way . Really , if blue eyed people experienced colors one way and brown eyed people experienced them another way , we would really ha... |
543,768 | 562,732 | 106,833 | 9 | A satisfactorily uncomfortable adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel . | Ethan Frome is one of those stories that is meant to be uncomfortable and unattractive , so if you were put off by either the novel or the movie , it just shows that they succeeded in what they set out to do . Personally , I am slightly ashamed to admit that the novel bored me nearly to tears , but this film version no... |
544,808 | 562,732 | 101,290 | 9 | Attention Parents ! ! | Butterfly Wings is a heavily symbolic film that focuses on one family as representative of the society in which they live . The film opens with a hospital scene in which a clearly frustrated grandfather receives the news that he has a new granddaughter , not a grandson . His daughter in law has yet again been unable to... |
544,194 | 562,732 | 109,040 | 9 | Sure , this is cheeseball comedy , but Jim Carrey makes it memorable . | Ace Ventura is the kind of comedy that stems directly from a TV show , and in this case , that show was probably In Living Color , where Carrey got most of his publicity before he became famous as a movie actor . A quick look through Carrey's filmography will prove that Ace Ventura is the film that really acted as a sp... |
544,254 | 562,732 | 842,906 | 9 | Making the food channel cool again . | Not that it was cool at the time , but I was a huge fan of the cooking channel , as it was called then , when I was a kid , but for years and years and years I completely lost interest , but have noticed recently that the Food Network is literally overflowing with surprisingly fascinating shows , one of my favorite of ... |
544,127 | 562,732 | 734,645 | 9 | Honest men make unconvincing liars . . . | A man gets caught in a rain storm while on a " walking trip " in Europe , and he knocks on the first door he comes across , looking for food and shelter but finds instead , as Serling love to say , the outer edges of the twilight zone . It's interesting that the man isn't perturbed at all by the fact that the people in... |
544,663 | 562,732 | 83,658 | 9 | Dated , but still a classic . | Blade Runner is one of Ridley Scott's earlier films , which , being science fiction , takes place in the future and deals with the common theme of man vs . machine . It seems that there are cyborgs ( called ' replicants ' ) mixed in with society that resemble humans in every way ( they are , in fact , ' more human than... |
544,457 | 562,732 | 734,668 | 9 | Houston , we have a problem . . . | In one of the simplest and yet most effective twilight zones , a passenger jet full of people unexpectedly accelerates to unheard of speeds and suddenly finds itself transported into the distant past . Time travel is one of the few endlessly entertaining storytelling premises , and although this story is presented almo... |
544,419 | 562,732 | 54,443 | 9 | A great classic thriller , unfortunately overshadowed by the spectacular psychological thriller released the same year - Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho . | Village of the Damned is a very well-made thriller that seems to have been overlooked because of the sheer magnitude of its competition - Psycho . Both of these films are testaments to the idea that low budgets are very capable of producing great films . It is not the size of the budget that matters , it is the skill o... |
544,129 | 562,732 | 734,680 | 9 | I don't like what you're become . . . | In what is one of the best episodes of the Twilight Zone that I've seen so far , Brian Aherne stars as Booth Templeton , an aging Broadway play actor unhappy with what his life has become . One day , after witnessing his trophy wife flagrantly galavanting with an attractive lodger half Templeton's age , he beings lamen... |
544,518 | 562,732 | 290,334 | 9 | Well , they're definitely united ? | The original X-Men was a cool action movie with great special effects , excellent characters , awesome fight scenes , and , my personal favorite , some highly effective comic relief . Consider , for example , some of the stuff in the first film , such as the scene where Wolverine proves to Cyclops that he's really hims... |
544,004 | 562,732 | 466,909 | 9 | Excellent remake ! | So I briefly browsed through the postings for The Omen on the IMDb and noticed that someone had started a line of postings about strange occurrences on / 06 . I have one for you , although mine is more disappointing than strange . I go to the Marina Cinema in Marina del Rey , right by where I live , and I arrive minute... |
544,197 | 562,732 | 433,387 | 9 | Possibly Christian Bale's most genuinely disturbed character ever ? | It's gotta be great to have a past like Christian Bale's , man . He has the perfect past for an actor , and he has the talent to put it together into something useful . He was born in England but was raised in England , Portugal , and California . I don't know how long or at what points in his life he lived in any of t... |
543,953 | 562,732 | 72,684 | 9 | So different , and yet so much the same . . . | The first thing that struck me as I started watching Barry Lyndon ( which I'll admit that I knew almost nothing about when I put it on ) was that it's a period film , something that I have definitely not come to expect from Kubrick . Granted , I'm a little behind in my detailed look at his filmography , given that more... |
544,560 | 562,732 | 332,605 | 9 | NOT the Russian One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a great movie that was based on an even greater book , but I wish people wouldn't compare this movie to that one so often . Yes , the similarities are extensive and impossible to miss , but House of Fools , as the title translates into English , is a different film that has it's own w... |
544,816 | 562,732 | 97,607 | 9 | A very different kind of war movie . | Jacknife is a war movie that is just about as far removed from the war as war movies get . It can hardly be classified as a war film , because the only way that any war has an effect on the story or the characters is in their memories of it , and even these we are hardly ever shown . It poses very interesting questions... |
544,428 | 562,732 | 493,464 | 9 | Hey wait a minute , what HAVE I done lately ? | I wasn't excited to see Wanted . I'm back in America for the summer and I was going to the movies with a friend , and she has what can only be called an unhealthy obsession with Angelina Jolie , so of course this was at the top of the list of movies to see . Personally I don't understand a lot of the hype about her as ... |
544,116 | 562,732 | 4,518 | 9 | More complex than it looks . | Chaplin's early short films are common targets for complaints about their simplicity and lack of real story or plot , but I think it is important to remember that the films were made at time when huge audiences wanted to see films exactly like this . Chaplin had no great directors of the past to look to for inspiration... |
544,753 | 562,732 | 118,749 | 9 | Confessions of a porn industry ? | Boogie Nights is a surprisingly good drama that deals with one man's rise and fall in the adult film industry . Mark Wahlberg delivers one of the best performances of his career as Eddie Adams , the young man who is spotted at his job as a busboy by porn filmmaker Jack Horner ( Burt Reynolds ) , and who changes his nam... |
544,499 | 562,732 | 472,550 | 9 | Like Dianne's , this one really adds to the story . | Of the three short plot hole videos included on the Shaun of the Dead DVD , Dianne's and Ed's add something new and unexpected to the story , while Shaun's simply illustrates what we already knew , while at the same time coming off as amusing and fun . Nick Frost narrates the brief and believable story of how he manage... |
544,500 | 562,732 | 472,552 | 9 | Contrary to recent theories , the living dead are actually very slow moving ? | This is the first time I've ever seen a movie make an effort like this to clear up so-called plot holes in the story . The plot holes here are really not plot holes at all , but strike me instead as just being some things that they wanted to tell a little more about , probably because they had such a good time making t... |
544,191 | 562,732 | 6,414 | 9 | Excellent short comedy in which Charlie Chaplin satirizes his own craft . | Chaplin plays the part of David , the lowly assistant to the oafish stage hand Goliath , and as is to be expected , everything goes wrong in the most hilarious ways . Being an early short Chaplin comedy , a good portion of the comedy is slapstick , with such elaborately acted scenes as the one with the stage pillar pro... |
544,693 | 562,732 | 386,423 | 9 | Dana Brown brings to the screen another adventure that so many would otherwise never see . | Dana Brown follows up his spectacular surfing documentary Step Into Liquid with the spectacular race documentary Dust to Glory . I just read the unemployed critic's review in which he asserts that Dana Brown had some kind of ulterior motive in imposing meaning onto the race itself which was never there to begin with an... |
543,854 | 562,732 | 321,353 | 9 | I should have watched this a long time ago . | It was Quentin Tarantino's famous interest in the old 1970s blaxploitation films , as well as Pam Grier , that first got me interested in the genre , but not knowing what the genre was really about , or at least not knowing the history behind it's formation , its themes , even its actors , made me not enjoy the first h... |
544,763 | 562,732 | 734,541 | 9 | Ah , to have had penicillin in the old west . . . | A family traveling west in hopes of striking it rich in a mysterious paradise that they've heard about called California suffers more and more every day , until they can think of nothing but the heat and thirst and sickness that they deal with on a daily basis . Serling gives us a pretty obvious story where he imagines... |
543,980 | 562,732 | 39,017 | 9 | The lady vanishes . . . | I'm not sure if , at the time this movie takes place , it would have been as pointless to steal one of the world's great treasures as it would be today ( what are they going to do , put it up for sale in the London Times ? ) , but whatever the case , this classic Sherlock Holmes case keeps you guessing even though you ... |
544,462 | 562,732 | 734,564 | 9 | Serling gets serious . . . | Dust is one of the episodes of the twilight zone that deals with the very real and very scary subject of a person taking another life while operating a vehicle while drunk . It takes place in the interesting setting of the old west , rather than modern , early 1960s America ( when , incidentally , Dick Cheney was first... |
544,508 | 562,732 | 93,409 | 9 | This is the classic action film that introduces one of the best action duos ever to come to the big screen . | Lethal Weapon is a nearly perfectly structured action movie . The acting , the story , the script , the directing , even the IDEA of the movie all combine to make up a fascinating and thrill-packed police film . The cross-cutting at the beginning of the film was particularly effective , in my opinion , as Martin Riggs ... |
544,299 | 562,732 | 106,918 | 9 | An excellent legal thriller . One of Tom Cruise's best performances . | In The Firm , Tom Cruise plays an extremely intelligent young lawyer who takes a job with a tremendous firm , having been seduced by their huge financial offerings . " The Firm " begins to sound very creepy very early in the film , when it becomes known that ' the firm ' has never had a divorce , ' the firm ' encourage... |
544,568 | 562,732 | 258,100 | 9 | Brilliant ! The funniest comedy since Dumb & Dumber ! | Run , Ronnie , Run is a comedy with the rare distinction of having an excellently written script , especially since it was meant to sound dumb . Ronnie Dobbs is your typical beer guzzling redneck who can't seem to avoid getting himself arrested , and who always seems to have his elaborate arrests caught on film and bro... |
543,952 | 562,732 | 112,641 | 9 | One of Scorsese's best and most disturbing films ever . . . | I just watched Casino again for the first time since around 1998 . The thing that I remember most vividly from seeing it that last time is being thoroughly upset by the scene in the cornfield at the end of the film . Most of the rest of the movie was overshadowed by the memory of that one scene , so I wanted to watch i... |
544,215 | 562,732 | 780,571 | 9 | I'm just trying ' to be a better person . My name is Earl . . . | I have a feeling that Mr . Brooks is going to be difficult for the more narrow-minded moviegoers to accept . Sadly , Kevin Costner is one of those actors who carries an iconography that makes it difficult for a great many people to accept him in certain roles , similar to people like John Travolta or even Leonardo DiCa... |
544,657 | 562,732 | 212,338 | 9 | Ben Stiller in a good movie ? ! There's a first time for everything . | Meet The Parents is an excellent comedy , despite the fact that the casting director was not the most brilliant person in the world . A lot of the material in the film was clichéd or simply not creative , such as the fact that Greg's ( Stiller ) luggage obviously got lost , but the film as a whole is an excellent and v... |
544,473 | 562,732 | 120,363 | 9 | A strong follow-up to the tremendous 1995 hit , Toy Story , but the sequel is not quite up to the same standards as the original . | First of all , it should be noted that when I say that Toy Story 2 is not up to the standards of its predecessor , I do not mean the computer animation , which is just as spectacular as it was in 1995 , if not better . One of the things that the 1995 version really tried to do ( to some extent ) was to avoid actually s... |
544,253 | 562,732 | 330,267 | 9 | A phenomenal piece of historical film-making . | It will be hard for some viewers to look past assumptions that this is a documentary made by a Hollywood director trying to cash in on the success of Titanic by making documentaries like Expeidition : Bismarck , Ghosts of the Abyss , and Aliens of the Deep , but from his past as the director of Titanic and Thhe Abyss ,... |
543,779 | 562,732 | 120,780 | 9 | The interesting story and the quality performances ( mostly from George Clooney and Ving Rhames ) save Out of Sight from being a run-of-the-mill action film . | ( SPOILERS ) In an excellent opening sequence , George Clooney walks out of a large building , roughly yanks his tie off , and throws it to the ground with all his might in a way that only George can . This guy is one of the best actors working right now , and his characteristic performance in Out of Sight is clearly n... |
543,767 | 562,732 | 101,025 | 9 | Heavily symbolic film about Spain's struggle to escape from the oppressive regime of Franco . | ( spoilers ) One of the things that I really like about this film is that its message can be delivered whether you know the situation in Spain at the time or not . The nationalists win violently at the end of the film , and you know the meaning of this without even having to know many historical details about the oppre... |
543,907 | 562,732 | 87,751 | 9 | True , it's a true story , but HOW true ? | I can't say that I am entirely familiar with the events portrayed in Mrs . Soffel beyond what I read about it in William Coles ' novel , ' Another Kind of Monday ' ( except that it was based on a book called ' The Biddle Boys and Mrs . Soffel , ' by a man named Arthur Forrest , who wrote for small , trashy magazines ar... |
544,411 | 562,732 | 219,699 | 9 | Much creepier than I expected ! | The Gift comes on the heels of The Watcher , another relatively lesser known thriller in which Keanu Reeves plays a bad guy surprisingly well . The Gift is the much better of the two , and for obvious reasons , given the astonishing level of talent involved . Everyone is in this movie ! Cate Blanchette , Giovanni Ribis... |
544,757 | 562,732 | 128,445 | 9 | This is weird ? a school comedy with some thought put into it . | ( spoilers ) The film Rushmore had a lot to say about relationships and loyalty . It dealt both with romantic relationships as well as friendships , and the importance of honesty in those relationships . Even more than that however , the film was about the depths that people will sink to when they feel cheated out of a... |
544,641 | 562,732 | 120,815 | 9 | Absolutely among the greatest war films ever made , with just a few unforgivable mistakes . | As a die-hard Steven Spielberg fan , I find it difficult to give such a tremendously powerful film like Saving Private Ryan anything less than a 10 , but there were a couple of things in the film that caused huge problems for me , mainly because they could have been avoided so easily . For example , whose brilliant ide... |
544,740 | 562,732 | 83,907 | 9 | A modern horror milestone . | We have a tendency to look back and glorify the old , great horror films , like The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby and Night of the Living Dead , etc , automatically hailing them and lamenting the depressing thought that films like that will probably never be made again . Rob Zombie recently eased that fear a little bit ... |
544,264 | 562,732 | 87,800 | 9 | Oh , you KNOW they're gonna make a sequel ! | For the first third or so of the original Nightmare of Elm Street , I was trying to figure out exactly what Freddy Krueger's motive was , since he seemed to just be some boogeyman that was haunting the dreams of a few high school kids , and later on it turns out that his motive is to get revenge against the people ( an... |
544,858 | 562,732 | 227,445 | 9 | The Score takes the age-old one-last-heist premise and makes it good again . | Edward Norton is one of the best actors working today , and Robert DeNiro and Marlon Brando are among the best film actors in history , so it is to be expected that a good film would result from a combined effort from all three of them . DeNiro plays Nick , a veteran break-in artist who is forced to do one last score b... |
544,021 | 562,732 | 209,958 | 9 | Every once in a while a film comes along that stands apart from all others made in years . The Matrix did it last year , and The Cell has done it in 2000 . | The last film that provided a vivid and disturbing look at what insanity is probably like was In Dreams . In that movie , you didn't see insanity , you were THERE . Now The Cell comes along with an updated and much more disturbing portrayal of the inside of the mind of a psychotic killer . The opening scene takes you i... |
544,224 | 562,732 | 4,194 | 9 | Vertigo's got nothing on this rooftop sequence ! ! | That's not really true , of course , but the level of action and the quality and style of editing in this film is leaps and bounds above a lot of the kinds of films that were coming out at the time , even the ones that Chaplin himself was directing . The first 15 minutes of the film , the build-up to the boxing match ,... |
544,566 | 562,732 | 120,716 | 9 | Robin Williams should really stick to more serious roles like this . | I was completely stunned at how well Robin Williams pulled off more serious dramatic roles , since he's much more well-known for high-energy comedy . But his roles as the bad guy in movies like Insomnia or , even better , One Hour Photo display the extent of his acting abilities , since he is able to pull off such diff... |
544,790 | 562,732 | 9,018 | 9 | The Little Tramp as a little tramp . | A Dog's Life has more layers than the usual Chaplin films , taking the character slightly more literally than he usually does . The overall appeal of Chaplin's Little Fellow is that he is such an everyman that he can be thrust into an almost endless multitude of situations , and Chaplin uses his limitless talent to mol... |
544,621 | 562,732 | 340,071 | 9 | Sorry , I thought I was someone else . | It's a little difficult to say exactly what This Charming Man is about , if only because there is so clearly so much going on beneath the surface . On the surface it is a charming romantic comedy , but there are times where the very serious issue of racism is brought up in a very serious way , but the movie has a remar... |
544,296 | 562,732 | 120,738 | 9 | HELL yeah . This is some excellent sci-fi . | Contains spoilers Lost In Space is a tremendously upgraded adaptation of the old campy TV show , in which the Robinson family is , of course , lost in space . The film has an excellent opening battle sequence that nearly rivals anything that George Lucas has ever done and comes close to being as exciting as the opening... |
544,331 | 562,732 | 479,884 | 9 | Don't try this at home , kids ! | It's no accident that Crank is named after a hardcore narcotic , and while I don't happen to have any personal experience with it myself , I imagine that if the experience were made into a cinematic version it would look something like this movie . It feels like a fast-paced action movie boiled down to it's basest elem... |
544,760 | 562,732 | 409,221 | 9 | Outstanding ! | I rode this ride on my first visit to Universal Studios Hollywood in about 15 years , so I had no idea what to expect . When we all loaded onto the giant 16-passenger jeeps I expected it was going to just be one of those tour type rides that just drive you around and show you a cool set , which is probably part of the ... |
544,653 | 562,732 | 151,804 | 9 | As is sure to be the saying by now , anyone who has ever worked in an office should get a pretty good kick out of this one . | Every aggravating thing about working in an office , from the traffic on the way to work to that damn copier , is in this movie , and dealt with in ways that we've all wanted to , at some point or another . Well , except for the traffic , of course . The traffic remains undefeated . Besides telling a highly amusing sto... |
544,881 | 562,732 | 887,320 | 9 | One of the very few looks below the surface . . . | ( spoiler ! ) So we learned right at the end of season 6 that Sara and Gil were living together ( or sleeping together ) , as she walked into the room in a bathrobe at the end of the season finale . I've always noticed from the beginning of the series that occasionally there are very brief hints into their personal liv... |
544,752 | 562,732 | 118,301 | 9 | Don't pass this one up just because Mark-Paul Gosselaar is in it ! | Ironically enough , Mark-Paul Gosselaar gave a hilarious performance in Dead Man On Campus ! This is strange not because he is necessarily a bad actor , but because the only seemingly out of work TV actor who is less likely to make a comeback than Gosselaar is Rick Schroeder ? I didn't expect to ever see either of them... |
544,562 | 562,732 | 334,405 | 9 | Outstanding , O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G , outstanding . | Spellbound tells the story of the national spelling bee , showing things that you don't really think of when you think of a contest like that , if you ever do at all . A lot of people think of spelling bees as contests for nerdy introverts with little to no friends and who spend entirely too much time with a dictionary... |
544,721 | 562,732 | 6,177 | 9 | Maybe Chaplin's most famous early short comedy . | Of course , Chaplin's early career is over-flowing with famous short comedies , but The Tramp is probably one of the most well-known of the early two-reelers , especially since it is one of the most direct studies of the famous character after whom the film is named . A lot of the Keystone and Essanay films have dated ... |
544,172 | 562,732 | 349,710 | 9 | Not just another Backdraft . | I only mention Backdraft because the reason I never saw Ladder 49 in the theater was because Backdraft was one of those movies that I absolutely loved as a kid and I didn't think , that there was anything that a firefighting movie could do beyond that . If you think about it , there are not a lot of plot structures tha... |
544,376 | 562,732 | 120,661 | 9 | It's not the whole story , but that wasn't its job . | A lot of times I browse through other reviews when contemplating what I want to say about a movie , and never have I been more disturbed than by reading people's reviews of this film . One IMDb reviewer placed a post on the page for Everest ( 2005 ) in which he attacked Jon Krakauer , author of the spectacular novel In... |
544,732 | 562,732 | 120,660 | 9 | One of the fastest moving action films to come out in years , Enemy of the State grabs the audience and holds on until the end . | Enemy of the State is the unlikely story of Robert Clayton Dean ( Will Smith ) who is the unknowing recipient of a tape showing the politically motivated murder of an uncooperative Senator . Even though the premise is a little bit farfetched , the movie as a whole is so relentlessly entertaining an fun that it is possi... |
544,741 | 562,732 | 367,478 | 9 | No fluff , just revenge ! | All too often in Van Damme movies ( or any action movie , for that matter ) , the action is dumbed down or spread out along a goofy story that is clearly only an excuse for gunfights and car chases . Wake of Death has a moderately clever story and is moderately delivered , but much more emphasis is put on the action . ... |
543,792 | 562,732 | 268,380 | 9 | A great film for children and adults , but they needed more of that squirrel ! | Ice Age is a visually stunning animated feature that takes after Shrek in that it is wisely aimed toward adults just as much as children - an important detail the oversight of which just about single-handedly caused the failure of Cats & Dogs . It is structured unfortunately like a birthday cake , in that the candy fro... |
544,631 | 562,732 | 264,464 | 9 | Note to self : Make a lot of fake checks , buy James Bond suit , work for FBI . | The latest film from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks is much more than a vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio , who is granted the most screen time by far , it is a massively entertaining film about the true life adventures ( and I should think that the word ? adventures ' should apply here in all possible meanings ) of Frank ... |
544,495 | 562,732 | 89,755 | 9 | When the Gods want to punish you , they answer your prayers . | Barbara Kingsolver's astonishingly vivid Poisonwood Bible was my first and remains my most detailed image of Africa . It is not a pleasant atmosphere that is presented in the book , but the beauty of that unique natural environment is presented in Out of Africa more in than in it's dangerous potential . Of course , som... |
543,864 | 562,732 | 63,350 | 9 | The one that started it all , etc , etc , etc ? . | It was interesting to see Night of the Living Dead turn into such a cult classic , and I think that one of the biggest reasons that that happened was because of its simplicity . You might notice a trend in the horror genre , the less extravagant they are the better , and this is a perfect example of the less extravagan... |
544,123 | 562,732 | 4,288 | 9 | Chaplin bursts onto the scene ! | I have read a lot of negative reviews of Chaplin's first screen appearance , written by people who can't seem to get past the fact that the Tramp has not been discovered yet and Chaplin plays a character wildly different from the one that we know and love and with whom he is most associated with . It is a curious look ... |
544,229 | 562,732 | 321,032 | 9 | Cool supplemental documentary that gives insight into a great movie . | This quick documentary gives some pretty interesting insights into the making of Bullitt , which I found to be especially interesting because so much of the film was shot not only on location , but on very difficult locations . Steve McQueen is something of a stuntman in real life , given his extensive interests in mot... |
544,683 | 562,732 | 120,623 | 9 | Another wonderful family adventure from Pixar ! | Lately I have been watching a lot of Tom Hanks films and old Chaplin films and even some of Rowan Atkinson's early Bean performances , and it seems that all of them have their own unique charm that permeates throughout their work , something that allows them to identify with audience members of all ages , in a way that... |
544,882 | 562,732 | 852,755 | 9 | CSI gets religious AND political ! | There is a point early in this episode where it seems that it's going to be painfully predictable , but luckily it's not nearly as predictable as you might think . A girl is killed and crucified inside a Catholic church , of all places , and her twin sister is shot and killed in an otherwise apparently unrelated killin... |
544,186 | 562,732 | 4,311 | 9 | Well well . . . | In The Masquerader , Chaplin sort of breaks the fourth wall , in that he appears in the film as himself , sort of , and then changes into the costume of the Tramp a few minutes into the movie . Similar to his work in Film Johnnie , Caplin creates mayhem on set during shooting and promptly gets himself fired . Just befo... |
544,806 | 562,732 | 108,598 | 9 | Hitchcock would have been proud . | I have to imagine that fellow-Brit Alfred Hitchcock would have been absolutely delighted by this little claymation comedy about a mysterious lodger . Hitchcock began his career with a film about a Lodger ( recently made into a Luke-warm remake ) , so surely he would have gotten a kick out of Wallace & Gromit's run-in w... |
544,382 | 562,732 | 93,748 | 9 | Everyone loves Thanksgiving ? | I watched this movie having heard it mentioned in a fascinating book called Metal Cowboy , which is essentially a sort of journal that this guy named Joe Kurmaskie wrote about his adventures as a touring cyclist . I've gotten very interested in the subject lately , as my increasingly long bicycle adventures have led to... |
543,795 | 562,732 | 217,505 | 9 | The earth turns but we don't feel it move ? | When I hear people talk about how America is the greatest country in the world , which is increasingly common from all political standpoints as we approach the 2004 election , it has always struck me how staggeringly wrong that statement is ( at least since I traveled in Europe and learned firsthand about other countri... |
544,206 | 562,732 | 338,564 | 9 | Some of the best of Chinese gangster cinema . | By now the story is famous , thanks in America to Scorsese's adaptation , The Departed . The premise is so simple and so effective that it's amazing that they haven't been making movies like this for years . Or maybe they have . But definitely none have been as well done as this . The story involves a brilliant mirror ... |
544,233 | 562,732 | 417,938 | 9 | If only it was longer ! | This quick documentary is about as good as a making0of documentary can be at a diminutive 7 minute running time , but even though it's barely the length of the Cyndi Lauper song that underlies it , it still gives some great insights into the making of the film , which is a gigantic milestone in my childhood , I must sa... |
544,322 | 562,732 | 146,882 | 9 | This one really shocked me . I don't even like John Cusack , but I loved High Fidelity . | Why was High Fidelity so good ? That's the question that has been going through my mind ever since I saw it . There really wasn't anyone spectacular involved with it . I mean , it's not like Tom Hanks was in it or Steven Spielberg directed it . But somehow , it ended up being just a great comedy . High Fidelity just ha... |
543,880 | 562,732 | 212,985 | 9 | Of COURSE it wasn't as good as the sequel , what did you expect ? | Obviously , as the sequel to a stunning Best Picture winner , Hannibal has a lot to live up to . In it's defense , the movie takes up that task with fervor and skill . Anthony Hopkins , as is to have been expecting , delivers another spectacular performance in one of his most memorable roles , Gary Oldman portrays Maso... |
544,310 | 562,732 | 107,302 | 9 | One of Brad Pitt's most memorable roles . | In the same vein as Natural Born Killers , another movie that was not so popular with critics because of its excessive violence but that I also loved , Kalifornia is a movie that clearly glamorizes violence , but I like to think that it turns that around in the final act . Kind of like how The Basketball Diaries glamor... |
544,006 | 562,732 | 100,802 | 9 | One of Arnie's genuine best performances ever . | I remember when I was about 12 years old I used to watch this movie a lot and it had a strange effect on me because it is so bizarre and so violent , but I couldn't tear my eyes away . Also , that woman with three boobs was enough for me to sit through the rest of the movie just to see again ! It takes place in a disma... |
543,746 | 562,732 | 4,936 | 9 | One of Chaplin's better short comedies , which again focuses on his common theme of the rich vs . the poor . | Once again as the loveable tramp , Chaplin again plays the part of the working man , which is particularly amusingly clarified in the opening scene . Charlie walks up to a huge vault door , twists knobs to open the combination locks , and after getting through several doors , he enters the impressive vault and comes ou... |
543,872 | 562,732 | 449,059 | 9 | Portrait of an American Family ? | For about the first three quarters of Little Miss Sunshine I expected that it was going to be another highly overrated sleeper like Almost Famous or The Royal Tenenbaums , but by the time the movie ended I was about ready to stand up and cheer . Steve Carell has a highly subdued role as a suicidal intellectual , and Gr... |
544,081 | 562,732 | 111,161 | 9 | Every once in a long while a truly inspiring film comes along that is a must see for virtually everyone . The Shawshank Redemption is one of these films . | Every single scene in The Shawshank Redemption , every bit of dialogue , everything that happens all beautifully serves the purpose of intensifying the impact of the story itself . The muted colors and the relaxed cinematography do a spectacular job of taking us back in time , and the message of the film is inspiring ,... |
543,780 | 562,732 | 96,244 | 9 | A modern day film noir . | Michelle Pfeiffer , Mel Gibson , and Kurt Russell are the three corners of the love triangle that makes up a significant part of the plot in this tense thriller . Gibson plays Mac , a legendary drug dealer who is trying to get out of the drug business but finds that no one wants him to leave , not even the police . Rus... |
544,263 | 562,732 | 315,327 | 9 | Wait , you mean all I have to do is become God to solve all my problems ? Why didn't I think of that before ? ? ? | Jim Carrey is back to much the same role that he played in The Mask , a timid guy who is trying to get ahead in the world but who seems to be plagued with bad luck . Even when he tries to help a homeless guy from being harassed by a bunch of hoodlums ( and of course they have to be Mexican , obviously ) , his good will... |
543,962 | 562,732 | 126,886 | 9 | Election is an excellent movie that amazingly avoids being just another stupid high school comedy . | ( spoilers ) While it was definitely a shame to see that Ferris Bueller has grown to be exactly the kind of person that he hated back in the good old days when he decided to take the day off , it was still good to see a refreshing version of the much-depreciated teen comedy . Matthew Broderick is strikingly effective a... |
544,188 | 562,732 | 5,044 | 9 | Very simple , obviously , but definitely one of Chaplin's more endearing short comedies . | By The Sea is one of Charlie Chaplin's very early short comedy skits , and while the plot is necessarily simple , the comedy is effective and the message is clear and fairly heartwarming . The film concerns some guy on the beach who gets into a hilarious scuffle with another guy on the beach ( Chaplin ) , because they ... |
544,529 | 562,732 | 57,076 | 9 | Another great Bond film from Sean Connery . | Connery succeeds the great film Dr . No with another exciting action epic with From Russia With Love . The now traditional opening scene consisted of a training exercise that is far superior to that in The Man With The Golden Gun , which also opened with a training exercise . The plot consists of SPECTRE's plan to stea... |
544,628 | 562,732 | 43,274 | 9 | A wonderful Disney adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic novels . | I was a little worried when I went to watch the film version of Alice In Wonderland , because I just read the novel and Disney has a tendency to dumb down the material that they make into their films with goofball romantic nonsense and cutesy talking animals . While I did get more than the traditional share of talking ... |
544,466 | 562,732 | 171,580 | 9 | A unique crime thriller interspersed with a woman's delusional fantasy come to life . | Renee Zellweger plays the part of Betty , a woman who lives an unexciting life stuck with a dirtbag husband , stuck in a monotonous day-to-day existence and with nothing really to look forward to or up to . When Charlie ( Morgan Freeman ) and Wesley ( Chris Rock ) show up to collect from her bonehead husband on a bad d... |
544,720 | 562,732 | 5,074 | 9 | Chaplin in a movie about punching people . What else do you need ? | It seems natural that at the very start of Chaplin's career he should make a movie in which he plays a grossly unqualified boxer who succeeds by sneaking horse shoes into his gloves . I only wonder why it didn't happen even earlier . He passes a sign saying that sparring partners are wanted , people who know how to tak... |
544,845 | 562,732 | 64,757 | 9 | The most unique Bond film of the entire series . | Why was George Lazenby only in one Bond film ? Sure , Lazenby is no Sean Connery ( yeah , but NONE of them are , remember ? ) , but he still did an excellent job in his only effort as the great James Bond . Of course , probably the main thing that made Lazenby so effective in the role is that he resembled Connery in so... |
544,725 | 562,732 | 5,077 | 9 | Ain't love grand ? | One of Chaplin's longest films up to that point , Burlesque on Carmen is a clever and surprisingly complex parody of what was then " Prosper Merimee's " well-known story about " Carmen . " I was a little confused about the difference between the IMDb's listing of the 1915 Burlesque on Carmen and the 1916 version . Base... |
543,814 | 562,732 | 102,614 | 9 | Seagal's best film ever ! | I just watched Out For Justice again for the first time in more than 15 years , and it's surprisingly different from how I remember it . I've seen a lot of Seagal's other work since then , mostly his more recent and more disappointing stuff , but mostly I'm struck by how much more abrasive and violent his character is ... |
544,553 | 562,732 | 113,189 | 9 | Yeah , Pierce ! ! | With the excellent performance that Pierce Brosnan puts into this excellent , excellent Bond film , it comes as a shock that he followed it up with two consecutive 007 crapfests . GoldenEye starts off with one of the best opening sequences of the entire Bond series . Who cares that the plane that he skydived after was ... |
544,262 | 562,732 | 286,716 | 9 | An excellent anti-war film laced with Apple computer commercials . We can only hope for sequels ! | Whatever your personal views are about the recent military actions taken by the United States , Hulk makes a strong comment on them , even if only indirectly ( and not very indirectly , at that ) . It's been years since I've seen the original TV show ( and I was a kid when I saw it , too ) , so I don't remember too muc... |
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