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544,618 | 562,732 | 230,512 | 9 | Interesting story of a guy who became an accidental rock star . | I remember listening to Rodney Bingenheimer's radio show on KROQ when I was in high school . I knew nothing of him at the time and only know what I know now because of what I learned from this movie , but regardless of how popular Rodney became with the rock stars and celebrities and regardless of how well his show eve... |
543,931 | 562,732 | 942,385 | 9 | Never go full-retard ! | Like many movies these days , Tropic Thunder starts with a few previews . One is an advertisement for an energy drink called " Booty Sweat , " another is for a belligerent action movie called Scorcher ( so good that it commanded five sequels ) , then there's a low-brow comedy about hugely fat people that communicate en... |
544,758 | 562,732 | 148,364 | 9 | They must have made a lot of improvements ! | I've noticed that a lot of the negative reviews of the ride seem to be justified but mostly were written years ago . I rode the ride for the first time around early 2007 and I LOVED it . I was at Universal Studios with my girlfriend at the time , and she's terrified of roller coasters and water rides but somehow I was ... |
544,684 | 562,732 | 284,327 | 9 | That mailbox is classic ! | As always , Bean gets into some situations that are unimaginable in real life but absolutely hilarious on screen . His deadpan delivery of the funniest moments reminds me of the great emotionless comedy of Buster Keaton . Two of Bean's funniest times are when he is trying to act casual and when he is truly frightened ,... |
544,503 | 562,732 | 369,179 | 9 | One of only a few consistently outstanding sitcoms I've ever seen ! | Two and a Half Men is definitely a surprise because it is such a simple and formulaic premise ? two polarly opposite brothers are stuck living together with one of their sons , while one tries to be a good father and mentor while the other tries to be a good womanizer ? and mentor . The amazing thing is that even thoug... |
544,467 | 562,732 | 179,626 | 9 | One of the best thrillers released in years ? | 15 Minutes has the interesting distinction of poking fun at it's own medium , while not necessarily doing it in a fun way . The old 15 minutes of fame adage is taken to a rather disturbing extent in this film , in which a couple of men , Emil and Oleg ( who sound like characters from some sort of prehistoric Far Side c... |
544,425 | 562,732 | 910,936 | 9 | Terrible date movie , as it should be . . . | I saw Pineapple Express the same day that I saw Step Brothers and The Mummy 3 and it's better than both of those movies combined . It is a genuine stoner movie in every way , there is so much weed in the movie that you might start feeling stoned just watching it , but it soon becomes a strange combination of an action ... |
544,754 | 562,732 | 120,274 | 9 | An excellent and inspiring symbolic film . | Tango deals with the different ways that people deal with the ending of romantic relationships . It shows that there is always something worth living for and that life goes on even though it may seem at times that there is nothing left to live for . ( spoilers ) This film was all one man's story of how he dealt with ha... |
544,316 | 562,732 | 92,099 | 9 | Top Gun may have been blown a little bit out of proportion , but the performances are so good that it doesn't matter . | Top Gun is a fighter pilot training facility designed to pick out the best fighter pilots and turn them into The Best Of The Best - in particular , to teach them to ' dogfight , ' a skill which seems to have been largely lost due to the convenience of missiles and locking mechanisms . It is clearly a formula film in th... |
544,796 | 562,732 | 18,328 | 9 | One of Hitchcock's best early films . | I sometimes grow weary of reading reviews of some of Hitchcock's lesser known films , because almost every single one starts out with someone saying this film is grossly overlooked or this is a hidden Hitchcock gem or a true Hitchcock great or some other generic if - only - people - would - watch - this - they - would ... |
544,222 | 562,732 | 996,996 | 9 | Unbelievable . | First of all , I had no idea there was this kind of obsession with Rubik's cubes . I knew that there was sort of a whole sub-culture revolving around this peculiar little toy , but I thought that was back in the 80s and maybe early 90s . What is amazing to me is not that the Rubik's obsession is alive and well or even ... |
543,968 | 562,732 | 76,666 | 9 | This one was something of a shock to me . | Every time I take a film class , I see five or six films that I would otherwise probably never have watched , and Saturday Night Fever was one of the films that I saw for a class I'm taking about Italian Cinema , and I was surprised at how good it is ! To me , this movie never evoked any interest because I don't find a... |
544,041 | 562,732 | 454,921 | 9 | It's becoming harder and harder to think of things that Will Smith can't do ? | To see Will Smith , one of America's most famous and most highly paid Hollywood movie stars , give such a convincing portrayal of a desperately poor black man struggling to achieve a professional career is a memorable experience indeed . But something comes out of Smith when he really believes in a role he's playing , ... |
544,043 | 562,732 | 362,590 | 9 | I got a plan , and it's just as good as God's ? | I have to admit that after about 20 minutes of this movie I was this close to just turning it off and moving on to The Grudge , which I watched right afterwards . Man , I'm glad I didn't , though , because this movie goes from pretty boring to not so bad to pretty good to VERY good . It's odd that this film has been so... |
544,324 | 562,732 | 120,188 | 9 | An excellent post-war film , Three Kings has great performances from everyone involved , a great story , unique photography , and a solid message about humanity . | It's almost impossible to go wrong with George Clooney , and he proves himself yet again with his spectacular performance in Three Kings . Clooney , Mark Wahlberg , and Ice Cube are three soldiers in the Middle East just after the end of the 1991 Gulf War . Clooney leads them as they make an attempt to steal a huge amo... |
543,941 | 562,732 | 397,101 | 9 | Hoodoo voodoo we do ! ! | VGS fans will get that , but for everyone else I recommend just checking out this movie . I rented The Skeleton Key mostly because for the last few months I have been trying to watch every movie that comes out . Netflix has provided me with the opportunity of just adding all the new movies to my queue and not having to... |
544,404 | 562,732 | 6,689 | 9 | The first escalator ever used in a film ? | So evidently the floorwalker is the guy that walks around the store making sure no one is shoplifting , which provides a wonderful situation for a little mixed identity . Chaplin plays an obnoxious browser , testing all of the products in the store and generally making a big mess without buying anything ( this may be o... |
543,742 | 562,732 | 234,886 | 9 | Fascinating documentary about a milestone film . | The only thing I didn't like about this documentary was that I wish there was more of it . It starts out telling us a lot of things we already know just from watching the movie , such as that Forrest retains some of his childhood innocence into adulthood because he's not very smart , how we are able to watch a tapestry... |
544,359 | 562,732 | 117,918 | 9 | Excellent movie , especially for a movie that revolves around golf , the most boring sport on the planet ( followed closely by fishing , which is barely a sport but at least is fun while you're doing it , however | Kevin Costner plays Roy McAvoy , and ex-golf pro who runs a driving range in the middle of nowhere ( 520 miles from anything , to be exact ) . The film opens with a horrible song , which is followed by a goofy country soundtrack that was , unfortunately , written for the movie . Why is it that music that was written sp... |
544,635 | 562,732 | 113,409 | 9 | A huge success from John Carpenter ! | In the Mouth of Madness is one of those horror movies that blurs the line between reality and fantasy in order to create a horror film that creeps more than it shocks . There are several instances in the film where sudden shocks are delivered by things jumping onscreen with a nice shrieking sound , but these are really... |
544,294 | 562,732 | 58,461 | 9 | When a man's got money in his pocket he begins to appreciate peace . | I can't even count how many years I have been wandering the videos stores and repeatedly pausing at the old Clint Eastwood classics before reluctantly moving on . But now that I live in China and can openly buy the entire Man with No Name trilogy for the equivalent of about $1 . 20 , I decided to finally check them out... |
544,522 | 562,732 | 35,423 | 9 | I had heard a lot of bad things about Kate & Leopold , but I must say that I was impressed . | I can understand why people would be put off by a movie like Kate & Leopold , even if only because it's a little TOO cute . Consider , for example , the scene early in the film , just after Stuart ( Liev Schreiber ) has accidentally brought Leopold ( in a wonderful performance by Hugh Jackman ) to the present day , and... |
543,727 | 562,732 | 432,348 | 9 | Once you're in hell , only the devil can help you out . | I came into Saw II with pretty low expectations , since the first film was so good , but only on the first viewing , and movies these days tend to go precipitously downhill with every sequel , especially horror films . The opening sequence in Saw II is some of the most brutal stuff I have seen in a horror film in years... |
544,686 | 562,732 | 291,721 | 9 | The world meets Mr . Bean ! | My understanding is that this is the first Bean material , and he really started off strong . One of the most charming things about his character is his childishness , such as his fear of authority , as in one of the scenes in this episode where he is trying to cheat on an exam off the person next to him . First he has... |
544,377 | 562,732 | 395,479 | 9 | Just Be Yourself and such ? | I hesitate to summarize Boundin ' with the massive cliché that is Just Be Yourself , so I'll try to throw a little spin on it and say that it is more about being confident in who you are rather than your appearance . Clearly , since the short film starts with the story of a sheep that is so happy and content that it co... |
544,609 | 562,732 | 110,005 | 9 | Only the best people fight against all obstacles in the pursuit of happiness . | Besides being , to me , a fascinating although eccentric look at an example of every day life in 1950s New Zealand ( one of only two or three places in the world that I have wanted to visit all my life ) , Heavenly Creatures is also the first movie that really shows that talent of Peter Jackson , which may have been ov... |
544,178 | 562,732 | 86,960 | 9 | Funniest combination of bananas and tail pipes in cinematic history . . . ! | Beverly Hills Cop is by far Eddie Murphy's most popular role , and the movie that officially launched his career as a genuine movie star . It was one of those movies that my dad would let my brother and I watch on weekends , after my mom made him promise not to show us any rated R movies , and over the years it's easy ... |
544,607 | 562,732 | 181,689 | 9 | In the world of the blind , the one-eyed man is king ? | This is spoken in Minority Report by a drug-dealer on the streets with no eyes at all , so I suppose its free advice for John Anderton , our hero , or a bit of wise-sounding advice meant to get across to the audience but with no other good place for it to fit in the film . This is fine with me , too , because Minority ... |
544,439 | 562,732 | 1,125,849 | 9 | ' The Wrestler ' - A Wrestling Movie That's Totally About Wrestling | Oddly enough , when I think of professional wrestling , I think of the old slapstick comedies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton . A lot of their earliest comedies were hilarious but remarkably violent . But like pro wrestling , it's all staged , right ? In the extra features on the DVD of Benny & Joon , in which Joh... |
544,165 | 562,732 | 447,722 | 9 | Proof of what short films can become . | I thought that the original 6 minute short film was the story we saw in the feature film told in six minutes , so I was surprised when we were still aboard the Hindenburg III almost halfway through the film . Interestingly , almost every shot in the short film is in the feature film , almost identically , and this shor... |
543,960 | 562,732 | 146,309 | 9 | Excellent political thriller that goes to amazing efforts to stay true to reality . | One of the most important things about movies that deal with true historical events is that they take as few liberties as possible with the facts , and Thirteen Days stays amazingly close to what really happened . The 1960s are re-created with almost the same skill and precision as we saw in the great Apollo 13 , and t... |
544,314 | 562,732 | 111,686 | 9 | The best reason for a sequel so far ? | One of my biggest pet peeves ( besides that phrase ) is when sequels come out and do nothing but plod through the same crappy plots as their predecessors or simply cash in on the success of an earlier film . Wes Craven's New Nightmare is a complete overhaul of the Nightmare on Elm Street formula , transferring it from ... |
544,441 | 562,732 | 978,759 | 9 | Illegal Immigrants Coming In From The North , Too ? ' Frozen River ' Review ? | Frozen River has all the makings of a sleeper hit . It has an interesting location presented so clearly you can almost feel the snow leaking into the tips of your shoes , it has characters with unique and interesting personalities that are wonderfully performed and never unrealistic for a split second , and it has a st... |
544,497 | 562,732 | 443,680 | 9 | The old west was a complicated time ? | I am willing to bet that the end of the movie is given away in the title in large part because the relationship between Jesse James and the coward Robert Ford is so complex , and James himself so unpredictable , that there is still tension on the way to an ending that we know is coming . Then again , it's also true tha... |
544,162 | 562,732 | 141,926 | 9 | This was an awesome an amazingly intense war film . | U-571 took a great story , excellent acting , and an extremely tense setting and molded it all into a great World War II film . Matthew McConaughey was perfect as the lieutenant of a group of Americans trapped aboard a crippled German submarine in hostile waters . Their efforts to get through safely , while avoiding nu... |
544,009 | 562,732 | 803,057 | 9 | We're all just here trying to get some food . Sometimes we bump into each other . | Having recently watched the amazingly disappointing Step Brothers with John C . Reilly and Will Farrell , I was not expecting much when I watched Reilly star alongside Seann William Scott in what looked to me like your standard rivalry comedy . But it's my job to watch movies so I was forced to sit through it , and I m... |
543,839 | 562,732 | 174,856 | 9 | This is the best boxing film that's not really a boxing film since Rocky . | There is no role that Denzel Washington fits more perfectly in than the kind he played in racially charged atmosphere in The Hurricane . When he and that poor kid John Artis were pulled over and the officer said that they were looking for two negroes in a white car , no actor could have been better than Denzel when he ... |
544,704 | 562,732 | 364,385 | 9 | Slow moving a creepy as hell , just like you like it . | Well , I assume you like it like that . I could be wrong . Anyway , Ju-on didn't exactly meet my expectations , but was a hugely effective thriller , especially given it's financial limitations . Clearly shot on a shoestring budget , Director Takashi Shimizu gets as much as humanly possible out of what was available to... |
544,530 | 562,732 | 58,150 | 9 | Excellent Bond film . Possibly even better than the great From Russia With Love . | Never mind the fact that the opening song of Goldfinger rivals that of The Man With The Golden Gun as the worst theme song of the entire series , Goldfinger has one of the best and most interesting stories of all of the Bond films . Goldfinger , the villain , by the way , proves late in the film the HE is the man with ... |
544,417 | 562,732 | 129,167 | 9 | A startlingly good animated film that seemed to come out of nowhere . Amazingly well done . | The Iron Giant is an animated film that probably did not get the attention that it deserves because it was not made by Disney . When I saw this movie , I did not know anything about it and I didn't expect much from it , and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it . The story involves a young boy who discovers a crash ... |
544,070 | 562,732 | 190,332 | 9 | Bad-ass martial arts in zero gravity ! | This is definitely a very unique film , but it clearly went a little too far in some elements . Is the martial art genre so done to death that the only thing left to do is come up with martial artists who are not subject to the laws of gravity ? The whole flying thing was just too much . But on the other , hand , Crouc... |
544,836 | 562,732 | 133,189 | 9 | A smartly written and startlingly accurate look at the lives of dedicated punks . | First of all , I can't believe the review that I just read of SLC Punk . Wow , some people just completely missed the boat on this one . SLC Punk is one of the most accurate and unflinching documentary style films to come along in years . It's a film about the lives of anarchist punks , who most people don't know anyth... |
544,797 | 562,732 | 48,750 | 9 | One of Hitchcock's talkiest murder mysteries . | Hitchcock tries out his hand at comedy , one of his least traveled paths . The Trouble With Harry will at first glance appear to be Hitchcock kind of taking a break from " serious " films , the thrillers and suspense films that he is best known for , and relaxing a bit with a light comedy , but there is much more going... |
544,736 | 562,732 | 137,363 | 9 | Definitely one of the best thrillers in years , Arlington Road grabs at the opening scene and whips the audience through a continuous montage of high speed action until the spectacular and morbidly satisfying | Arlington Road has the rare quality of being a thriller with no slow moments at all . Even the thorough character development does not take time away from the mind-blowing action that flows seamlessly from beginning to end . The opening scene , in which Michael Faraday ( Jeff Bridges ) comes upon a bleeding boy in the ... |
543,996 | 562,732 | 813,999 | 9 | Fascinating short film . | It is easy to see Neill Blomkamp's directorial skills in this short film , which runs kind of like a news broadcast documentary that gives a peek into the frightening situation in a South African town after some not so pleasant aliens have set up permanent residence there . It is a kind of journalistically objective lo... |
544,286 | 562,732 | 408,236 | 9 | You'll drip rubies . . . . | I have a definite problem with musicals . I have always had a hard time accepting characters suddenly bursting into song in movies , particularly in sad or glum situations which are not exactly very conducive to singing . Tim Burton achieved astonishing success in this area , even with non-musical fans like myself , wi... |
544,488 | 562,732 | 389,557 | 9 | Smart war thriller from an international action veteran ? | OK , so anytime I hear the name Paul Verhoeven I always immediately think of Robocop , which I saw for the first time when I was about ten years old and I never quite recovered from that scene where Murphy gets all shot up by the bad guys . It was a movie moment at a formative point in my life where I really learned th... |
544,648 | 562,732 | 131,369 | 9 | Oh shut up , you liked it . | EdTV undeservedly acquired a less than enviable reputation for no other reason that the fact that it followed so closely on the heels of The Truman Show , an entirely different movie that had a similar plot foundation . So needless to say , there will be plenty of cynical but superficial comparisons of the two films , ... |
543,869 | 562,732 | 51,207 | 9 | Bare bones Hitchcock . | I think pretty much every lesser known Hitchcock film has a whole society of people who call it " one of Hitchcock's great unsung masterpieces , " and The Wrong Man is no different . The wrong man theme is one of Hitchcock's favorites and he has used it a great many times to create some of his most suspenseful films , ... |
544,444 | 562,732 | 824,747 | 9 | Boy , Interrupted ? ' Changeling ' Review ? | During John Malkovich's first speech as Reverend Gustav Briegleb near the beginning of Changeling , his vicious indictment of the Los Angeles Police Department in front of his church congregation made me feel that the movie was going to be something of a scathing criticism of the LAPD , which is not exactly what I expe... |
543,920 | 562,732 | 465,602 | 9 | What do you think of the Second Amendment now ? | I think there are two ways that a movie with a title and cover box like Shoot Em Up has . It could try to be a hard boiled , gritty action movie and come off as something horribly clichéd and trite , like a cheesy Van Damme or Seagal b-movie ( which have their own style of charm because of the actors involved ) , or it... |
544,629 | 562,732 | 298,203 | 9 | An interesting film about America's latest success story . | Even people who are not familiar with Eminem and his music ( and , quite possibly , people who can't stand either of them ) can enjoy 8 Mile because even though it is obviously a film based closely on his own life , it does not require any previous knowledge about him or his life or his music in order to understand and... |
543,833 | 562,732 | 317,740 | 9 | Follows the formula , but at least does it with style and creativity . | Contains spoiler The first thing I heard about The Italian Job was that it had a car chase in it that was supposed to be better than the one in The Matrix Reloaded . I'm not sure I would go that far , but there is no denying that there is some great action in this movie . It is , admittedly , an hour and forty minute M... |
543,785 | 562,732 | 329,575 | 9 | Predictable but hugely entertaining . | I use the term predictable above , as you'll soon see , in the most respectable and positive way , of course . Seabiscuit is a film based on a novel and is a true story . You know pretty much how the movie is going to end , if only simply because of the fact that it is a story about which a book was published AND a maj... |
544,804 | 562,732 | 758,774 | 9 | Those to whom evil is done do evil in return . | Body of Lies is a fast-paced action thriller laced with a healthy dose of some of the more dangerous of modern political and military realities . It is , however , also laced with over-the - top action sequences and just a little too much Rambo-style superhuman stunts , although not exactly of the action variety . It h... |
544,590 | 562,732 | 381,851 | 9 | I don't wanna hear another word about The Lord of the Rings ! | Seemingly endless repetition can make things grow rather tiresome , like when you hear a great song on the radio a few hundred times , you start to hate it . I still love all of the Lord of the Rings movies and remain immensely impressed by them , but I have to admit that by the end of the 76th Academy Awards , I was g... |
543,985 | 562,732 | 117,318 | 9 | A lot better than you might expect . | The People vs . Larry Flynt is one of those movies that you just expect to be full of tasteless and unnecessary nudity , but that turns out to take itself a lot more serious than that and ends up being a lot more respectable in the end , kind of like Boogie Nights and not like the Howard Stern movie . Of course , Howar... |
544,667 | 562,732 | 104,389 | 9 | Excellent thriller . One of Rebecca DeMornay's best roles . | This is the kind of film that you usually expect to have some goofy premise that leads to one person or family being terrorized and ultimately have some wholly predictable ending . But thanks to some excellent performances and a very interesting and original story , The Hand That Rocks The Cradle definitely stands apar... |
544,309 | 562,732 | 144,120 | 9 | I'll be back . I always come back ! | In the world of horror movie sequels , movie monsters having children is one of the biggest clichés in the book . But movie monsters having brides ? THAT'S never been done before ! ! Oh , wait . Yes it has . Luckily , the Child's Play films reside on this odd plane of existence that separates them from other horror mov... |
544,345 | 562,732 | 25,452 | 9 | Early thriller foreshadows many of the things that would later become trademarks of Hitchcock's films . | The Man Who Knew Too Much is the first in a string of six thrillers released by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1930s that would go on to associate him with the thriller genre for the rest of his career , whether he liked it or not , in many cases . We see the origins of many Hitchcock staples such as his fascination with trai... |
543,852 | 562,732 | 443,453 | 9 | Funniest movie of the year ? Quite possibly . Funniest movie ever ? Not even close . | I had heard countless glowing reviews of the Borat movie in newspapers and on TV and on the radio for weeks before I saw it , and almost every single review I heard or saw or read praised the sheer comedic genius of the movie , claiming that it was not only the best movie of the year , but the best movie ever made . Ne... |
544,069 | 562,732 | 189,998 | 9 | Not for all tastes , but for anyone who is into classic horror films , or filmmaking in general , this is a must see . | ( spoilers ) John Malkovich delivers an excellent performance as F . W . Murnau , the director of the classic vampire film Nosferatu . The most impressive thing about this film , in my opinion , is the way that that vampire was brought back to life . Willem Dafoe played , with nearly flawless accuracy , Max Schreck , t... |
544,523 | 562,732 | 107,692 | 9 | Not bad for animation ? | I'd like to start off by saying that I am not a fan of anime , I actually only watched this movie because a friend recommended it to me and I remember it being really popular with computer geeks when I was in high school . The reason I never really got into anime was mainly because I was never able to take seriously so... |
543,865 | 562,732 | 42,650 | 9 | A fascinating journey . | I happened to borrow this movie from a friend knowing nothing about it , and it turned out to be an outstanding documentary about a journey on an ancient vessel across vast expanses of the ocean . Thor Heyerdahl had developed a theory that the ancient Incas in Peru managed to travel thousands of miles across the ocean ... |
544,751 | 562,732 | 117,477 | 9 | An excellent period film . | Ridicule deals with the consequences of a monarch or ruler running his empire according to his own personal interests , rather than concern for the greater good of the people . There were also a couple of underlying themes , such as the distribution of social classes overall and the ignorance of the upper classes , as ... |
543,725 | 562,732 | 109,642 | 9 | A Stephen King drama before he was really writing dramas . | It was so many years ago that I read Dolores Claiborne that I don't remember how closely the movie follows the book , but I've found that Stephen King movies in general are pretty faithful to the original material , and I'm sure that this one is no exception . Released at a time when a drama , even a dramatic thriller ... |
544,558 | 562,732 | 311,320 | 9 | Fascinating . | Traudl Junge , one of Hitler's personal secretaries , finally decides to come out and tell the story of working for Hitler during one of the most catastrophic and studied times in German history . You sort of have to get past the fact that the movie is literally nothing more than a camera pointed at her while she tells... |
543,778 | 562,732 | 150,915 | 9 | Hillary and Jackie deals with the negative affects of fame and stardom , especially when you have been driven relentlessly to that stardom . | The movie starts off with a few shots of Hillary and Jackie , the two sisters after whom the film has been named , playing on the beach as young girls , which demonstrates the closeness that was felt between the two sisters . This is also a myth that is demonstrated throughout the film ; that siblings are extremely lov... |
544,604 | 562,732 | 119,654 | 9 | One of the best science fiction comedies in years . | Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are the two most aptly named actors ( Mr . Jones and Mr . Smith ) to play the intensely secretive secret agents J and K , of the Men In Black , a secret organization that protects humankind from the threat of aliens , which are a lot closer to us than we realize . The premise of the film ... |
544,811 | 562,732 | 188,030 | 9 | A powerful anti-war film . | This movie reminds me in a lot of ways of a few other films that I've seen that have similar content and similar messages . For the first half , after little Moncho becomes friends with his wonderful teacher , Don Gregorio , who takes him out into the wilderness and shows him a new amazing thing about nature every time... |
544,708 | 562,732 | 300,555 | 9 | Outstanding addition to the film | One of the things that I really love about the topic of time travel is the possibilities that it entails for stories . The 1960 version of the Time Machine ended with the suggestion that George traveled back into the distant future to continue to try to help the Eloi escape the oppression of the Morlocks . In this docu... |
544,712 | 562,732 | 312,293 | 9 | Quick and to the point . | At a mere 17 minutes , it's obvious that this short making-of documentary doesn't go into great detail about the making of Halloween IV , but it does have some excellent interviews , such as the one with George Wilbur , who played Michael Meyers in the film . I wasn't that impressed with Wilbur's performance , he just ... |
544,056 | 562,732 | 1,060,277 | 9 | Watch that last shot again ? | I awaited Cloverfield with almost wild anticipation . Sadly , it was released in theaters about two days before I had to go back to China ( I was home in California visiting family for the winter holidays ) , and I didn't have time to see it before I had to leave . It would have been nice to see it on the big screen ( ... |
544,142 | 562,732 | 68,833 | 9 | How did Wes Craven go from this to the Nightmare on Elm Street comedies ? ? | I watched The Last House on the Left having only recently gone back and watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre again and learning that I simply don't enjoy abrasive horror films like that . They are extremely well-made and very effective , but they are effective to the point that I don't find them all that fun to watch , ... |
544,053 | 562,732 | 44,453 | 9 | Similar to his film from the year before , Una Mujer sin Amor , Luis Bunuel presents a story not about a woman who gets into a relationship with a man who doesn't respect her , but a woman who gets into a relat | The film starts off with a rich landlord's attempt to evict a lot of poor people from a low-income apartment building that he owns , and they rebel against him , threatening him with violence should he go through with the eviction . There is a great scene where we see the landlord's wife showing him that in order to ca... |
543,898 | 562,732 | 105,690 | 9 | Yes , Steven Seagal actually came out with an action movie worth watching . | Sure , Seagal played the typical role that he always plays ? a cook on a marine vessel , in this case . Evidently the job requirements to hold his position on the ship were things like advanced culinary degrees in cooking and food preparation , as well as minors in knife-throwing , martial arts , and general ass-kickin... |
543,918 | 562,732 | 108,394 | 9 | Moody blues ? . | I had a hard time motivating myself to watch Bleu , which I have only ever heard glowing reviews about . People have been recommending the movie to me literally for several years , and I never got around to watching it until last night , after I recently purchased the trilogy for a whopping 30 yuan ( about $4 . 25 ) , ... |
543,773 | 562,732 | 101,775 | 9 | Don't let her turn you into one of them ! | Drop Dead Fred is a difficult film to review . I saw it for the first time when I was 13 years old or something , and I absolutely loved it because I was right in the middle of the age group at which the film is directed . I watched it again recently , and while the film's slapstick comedy did not hold quite the same m... |
544,750 | 562,732 | 117,060 | 9 | It's too bad the sequel sucked ? | Mission : Impossible is a great action film . Tom Cruise delivers a great performance as the famous Ethan Hunt , and the technological toys that he has in this film rival many of the toys seen in the James Bond films , very few of which are as good as this film . The story is very interesting , but is also hard to foll... |
544,036 | 562,732 | 238,380 | 9 | Equilibrium is really hard to type . | I bought Equilibrium just because Christian Bale is in it . To tell you the truth I was certain that it was going to be a goofy , direct-to-video sci-fi fiasco that most involved would just as soon forget . The cover box reminded me of Universal Soldier . As it turns out however , it's not a movie that those involved w... |
544,491 | 562,732 | 1,130,988 | 9 | Stop The Presses ! Van Damme Is An Actor ! | There's nothing worse than starting out a film review with a massive cliché like " Van Damme like we've never seen him before , " but that's exactly what happens in JCVD , his startlingly autobiographical new film in which he plays himself . With well-known movie stars ( or characters ) , one of the most interesting th... |
544,349 | 562,732 | 97,240 | 9 | Excellent story of a junkie who tries to straighten out his life , only to find out that things aren't much better than they were before . | Matt Dillon delivers one of the best performances of his career in Drugstore Cowboy , a gritty film about the real life of junkies . There is heavy drug content in this film , but in no way is the drug life glorified . We see the more realistic life of drugs on the streets , which is probably what makes this such an ae... |
544,468 | 562,732 | 203,009 | 9 | Moulin Rouge is a shockingly creative and fascinating film about an original love story . | A film like this could VERY easily have been great , or at least much greater than it was . Consider what would have happened had they put in the time to come up with an original score that fit with the astronomical level of creativity and imagination that saturates every other element of the film - it may very well ha... |
544,167 | 562,732 | 325,805 | 9 | Nicholas Cage proves himself yet again . | I know that Cage's last film , Adaptation , was not as warmly accepted by everyone as it was by me , but I feel that it was one of the most intelligent and creative films to be released in a long time , and with Matchstick Men , he assumes a role in another extremely well-made and well thought-out film . I remember see... |
544,320 | 562,732 | 139,462 | 9 | Despite obvious and almost crippling weaknesses , Message In A Bottle comes out on top . | Message In A Bottle is the interesting but extremely unlikely story of a woman who tries to find the author of a romantic message she found in a bottle that had washed up on a beach . Robin Wright plays the part of Theresa Osborne , who works for the Chicago Tribune . She is touched by the beautifully written note , an... |
543,977 | 562,732 | 374,512 | 9 | Bad luck sub . . . | I have of late been digesting massive amounts of books and documentaries concerning the German submarines in World War II , due to having recently read an astounding book called Shadow Divers , in which a group of deep shipwreck divers on the east coast discover a sunken U-boat off the coast of New Jersey that no gover... |
544,163 | 562,732 | 172,495 | 9 | Ridley Scott seems to have done it again . | What a great show this was . Gladiator was intense , and extremely well made . The casting was perfect , particularly on the parts of Russel Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix . Both were startlingly convincing in their roles , and the fighting scenes were absolutely jaw-dropping . There's nothing like brutal violence to make y... |
544,016 | 562,732 | 167,404 | 10 | The meaning of supernatural thriller is completely re-written by M . Night Shyamalan with the stunningly encompassing Sixth Sense . | M . Night Shyamalan returns to directing for his second effort after the disappointing Wide Awake , which he directed for release in 1998 . His second film , The Sixth Sense , was a staggering success that rocketed Shyamalan to the very top of the filmmaking world . Bruce Willis plays Malcolm Crowe , a child psychologi... |
544,352 | 562,732 | 5 | 10 | One of the most curious of curiosity pieces . . . | It's always fascinating to watch movies that are this old because it's like looking a hundred years into the past . You get to see a glimpse of what the world was like a century ago , even though in this particular film all we see is three guys hammering on an anvil . Blacksmith Scene was the first film ever to be show... |
544,351 | 562,732 | 10 | 10 | A window into another time . | The appeal of ancient films like this one is that you get to see an actual moving image of life over 100 years ago . Here are a lot of people leaving a factory , all of them dead by now and none of them even remotely aware of the magnitude of the invention that they are walking before . I was shocked to read one review... |
544,317 | 562,732 | 102,926 | 10 | Definitely one of the best thrillers of all time . | I'm normally not one to spend much time concerning myself with who won what Oscar and who didn't win that Oscar , but if anyone but Anthony Hopkins had been awarded the Best Actor Oscar in 1991 I would have been bitterly disappointed . In my opinion , Hopkins ' performance as the deceptively charming Hannibal Lecter is... |
544,375 | 562,732 | 368,913 | 10 | The other kind of terrorism ? | In a time when the world is so focused on the conflict unfolding in Iraq , the thing that is most clear to me after watching this movie is the old saying that after thousands of years of wars fought in the name of religion , we are not a second closer to peace than we ever were . Osama looks at one of the many religiou... |
544,842 | 562,732 | 32,553 | 10 | This is what you get when you mix Charlie Chaplin , the Tramp , and a healthy dose of Hitler inspired Nazism . | Charlie Chaplin was still making silent films as late as 1936 because he began his career as a silent filmmaker and therefore that is where most of his talent seemed to lie . His tramp remains one of the most recognizable figures in cinematic history even almost 100 years after his introduction , but Chaplin knew at th... |
543,896 | 562,732 | 32,551 | 10 | John Ford's stark portrayal of a poor family in the depression remains one of the most moving films in history . | The Grapes of Wrath is the story of the Joad family , who are run off of their land in Oklahoma because of drought and poverty . I think that one of the most striking elements of this movie is the black and white cinematography . Obviously , there wasn't a lot of variation on this particular subject in 1940 , but espec... |
544,516 | 562,732 | 80,339 | 10 | The original spoof classic ! | Unfortunately , Airplane ! has been , for me , one of those comedies that I have seen so many times in the video store that its appeal has gradually worn down to almost nothing , resulting in a total absence of interest in renting it . I eventually watched it one day because I worked at the video store and could rent m... |
544,459 | 562,732 | 734,648 | 10 | Vintage Twilight Zone . . . | The Invaders is certainly the most classic and exemplar twilight zone episode that I've seen so far . It combines the paranormal with the unexplained and the mysterious in that fascinating way that only the twilight zone can , and gives us one of Serling's beloved and wonderful twists at the end , turning the entire st... |
544,023 | 562,732 | 2,208 | 10 | D . W . Griffith revolutionizes the filmmaking industry ( an industry for filmmaking did , in fact , exist by this time ) with a simple but groundbreaking film about a girl trying to protect herself and her money . | The Girl and Her Trust , like all films made in the early 1900s , is very simple and very short , but Griffith introduces a number of filmmaking techniques that remain widely in use to this day . Earlier films generally played like a stage play , with minimal cutting or editing , and each scene taking place in the same... |
544,475 | 562,732 | 99,088 | 10 | Just as incredible as the first two , Back To The Future III provides two hours of great fun . | Doc Brown and Marty McFly are back for another time travel adventure , and once again their exploits are great to watch . The film is well-written and directed , and all of the actors involved delivered spectacular performances once again . There could not have been a sharper contrast between the last Back To The Futur... |
544,032 | 562,732 | 316,654 | 10 | Spectacular comic book fun ! | It is well known that Peter Parker is probably most well liked because of his human weaknesses than for his superpowers . He's a comic book superhero who is presented as just a normal guy who suddenly finds himself in possession of amazing powers that he doesn't quite understand or know how best to use , just like any ... |
543,878 | 562,732 | 89,881 | 10 | Sometimes , given sufficient objectives , even the people who are closer to you than anyone else can turn against you . | In another lengthy samurai epic , Akira Kurosawa approaches the boundaries between family members and the damaging affects of one of his rather common themes - reckless ambition . This is very clearly a Kurosawa film , a respectable trait that is most clear in the cinematography , in which Kurosawa uses many extensive ... |
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