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544,207 | 562,732 | 110,632 | 10 | A stylistic masterpiece ! | I remember being blown away when Natural Born Killers was first released , not because it was so good ( I was in high school at the time and didn't really have a good grasp on what " good " really was in a movie ) , but just by how COOL it was . As I mentioned , I was in high school at the time , so anything that glori... |
544,455 | 562,732 | 734,685 | 10 | Citizen Kane in black and white ! | In one of the best episodes of the entire series , Barbara Nichols plays Liz Powell , a stripper hospitalized because of nervous fatigue , and now suffering from a horrific recurring nightmare . She is having trouble differentiating between dream and reality and , worst of all , getting anyone to believe her . A lot ha... |
543,910 | 562,732 | 284,138 | 10 | Another brilliant performance from the greatest stand-up comedian of all time . | I was able to see a performance by Gallagher at his nearly catastrophic show in Sacramento on February 8th , 2003 , and I would just like to say that Gallagher has gotten the Sledge-O-Matic down to an art . Watching these old videos really shows me how much better he has gotten at it over the years . He had a whole arr... |
544,536 | 562,732 | 284,139 | 10 | One of Gallagher's best . | Gallagher starts off this video talking about the differences between the 60s and the 80s , and it is some of the funniest comedy in any of his videos . He talks about how it seems that in the 70s they were trying to ' re-do the 60s but it just ain't comin ' out right , is it ? ' ' The 60s were so exciting , what's hap... |
544,556 | 562,732 | 50,613 | 10 | Another ambitious film from Akira Kurosawa . | Throne of Blood is , in fact , ambitious as a film as well as in its meaning . It suggests that ambition , when based on whimsical motivation , can sometimes lead to the destruction of very close relationships , and even one's own ruination . Throne of Blood begins with a series of messengers bringing news to their dai... |
543,979 | 562,732 | 365,109 | 10 | Astounding . | I studied marine biology for a couple years in college , and this movie has some of the most amazing underwater footage I've ever seen . It's a fascinating journey into the ocean , particularly the parts that most of us will never see , like the arctic regions and the deepest reaches of the deep ocean . Some of the sho... |
544,769 | 562,732 | 405,159 | 10 | One of the most moving films I've ever seen . | I am writing this review on the afternoon of February 27th , a couple hours before the Academy Awards begin , and I really think that the Best Picture category is going to be mostly a contest between The Aviator and Million Dollar Baby , both of which are spectacular films , as are the rest of the nominees ( Finding Ne... |
544,073 | 562,732 | 208,092 | 10 | Better than Pulp Fiction ? | Okay , Snatch may not be better than Pulp Fiction , that's like saying ' bigger than Jesus . ' But Snatch was a pretty big surprise that kind of came out of nowhere . Besides the first rate performances , this film had some incredibly innovative photography ( second only to The Matrix ? ) , as well as some brilliant ed... |
544,483 | 562,732 | 41,959 | 10 | Carol Reed molds a great mystery that unfolds more and more throughout the course of the film . Wonderfully photographed , acted , written , and directed . | Orson Welles is excellent as Harry Lime , a man who invites his friend Holly Martins to visit him in Vienna from his home in the United States . When Holly arrives , he learns that Harry has been killed in a car accident . When he tries to find out more about the accident that killed his friend , Holly encounters surpr... |
543,862 | 562,732 | 266,697 | 10 | This is not revenge . it's punishment ! ! | Spoiler Alert ! Sorry , wrong movie . Anyway , after watching Kill Bill Volume I , Quentin Tarantino's latest smashing entrance into the otherwise relatively boring modern cineplexes , I've decided on a new paint job for my truck . And by that , of course , I mean I don't own a car OR a truck , but if I did I would cer... |
544,283 | 562,732 | 167,261 | 10 | It's not quite the same earthquaking cinematic experience of the original Lord of the Rings film , but The Two Towers still comes across as one of the most powerful and entertaining fantasy action films this | The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the greatest adventure films ever made , so it's really no surprise that its successor , The Two Towers , falls just slightly short of achieving the same powerful cinematic experience , but it is certainly a worthy installment in what is growing to be a tremendously well-made trilog... |
544,773 | 562,732 | 390,221 | 10 | Everything my father tells me about Colombia seems to be true . | I spent some time in Spain last summer , making a documentary for the University of California , and my father came and traveled with me for part of the time . I told him he owed it to me for never teaching me to speak Spanish . While we were there I asked him if he ever thought about going back to Colombia to visit th... |
544,451 | 562,732 | 118,715 | 10 | What in God's holy name are you blathering about ? ! | There's really only one good part of The Big Lebowski , but it's a REALLY good part . It's one of those scenes that you see in a movie and you tell your friends about it for years , you constantly spout off hilarious quotes from that scene that you remember laughing so hard about , you develop inside jokes about the sc... |
544,072 | 562,732 | 202,677 | 10 | HELL YEAH ! ! | I normally don't like Ryan Philippe . I hated I Know What You Did Last Summer , he struck me as totally pretentious in the otherwise entertaining Cruel Intentions , and I have yet to watch Little Boy Blue , but needless to say , my expectations are fairly low . I decided to take the time to watch The Way of the Gun mai... |
543,776 | 562,732 | 120,324 | 10 | One of the best thrillers in years . | ( spoilers ) A Simple Plan , while the foundation of the plot seemed rather unoriginal , was surprisingly realistic and convincing . The overall meaning of this movie deals with the consequences of a few regular people running into a very large amount of money , especially when they have to bend the law in order to kee... |
544,603 | 562,732 | 295,297 | 10 | The Harry Potter series returns with a powerful sequel that adds to the depth of the story introduced in the original film and even throws in a few new characters , all of whom fit perfectly into the Harry Po | The second installment in what is proposed to be the seven-part Harry Potter series delivers the same intensely imaginative and visually stunning wonders of the original , and is widely considered to be much darker , literally and figuratively , than the original . It is refreshing to see that this sequel did not take ... |
544,435 | 562,732 | 112,691 | 10 | Caught bang to rights , you were ! | You can't really go wrong with Wallace and Gromit , and A Close Shave is no exception . The hilariously traditional Yorkshire duo are running a window-washing business that one day leads them to a wool shop run by a bizarre-looking British woman who immediately wins Wallace's heart , despite a deep sadness behind her e... |
543,856 | 562,732 | 338,013 | 10 | Life is but a memory . | One of the things that has really surprised me about the movies that are coming out at the time of this writing is which ones are turning out to be good and which ones are turning out to be not so great . I haven't seen all of them yet , but it's pretty odd to me that the latest movie starring Jim Carrey - an actor who... |
544,755 | 562,732 | 120,382 | 10 | With what is definitely one of Jim Carrey's best performance , The Truman Show presents a fascinating story , told from numerous perspectives . | The Truman Show is a television show about the real life of Truman Burbank , who has lived his entire life in a giant soundstage and who has no idea that his life has been broadcast to the world since his birth . Clearly , this is not a realist film , but if the production of something like The Truman Show were possibl... |
544,126 | 562,732 | 734,568 | 10 | One of the best and most recognizable episodes of the series . | It was not long ago that I started watching the original Twilight Zone series on DVD . Before that I had nothing more than a basic , passing knowledge of it , but this episode must have been one that I saw when I was really young , because I recognized the characters instantly . The story , of course , is based on the ... |
543,965 | 562,732 | 61,402 | 10 | Rather disturbing short from director Martin Scorsese that acquires new meaning if you look closely . | There's no dialogue in The Big Shave , and the entire film takes place in a bathroom . Even short films don't get much simpler than this , but Scorsese's skillful direction is able to give this extremely simple story some meaning besides what is seen as you just watch it . Some white guy ( and this is noteworthy becaus... |
544,187 | 562,732 | 4,546 | 10 | Pity the weak women . . . | Chaplin once again plays a drunk , but this time the result is much better because he plays alongside Fatty Arbuckle , another , ah , giant of the silent comedy . Charlie plays a drunk guy who goes home drunk to his wife , his life's " big mistake . " At the same time , Charlie's neighbor across the hall goes home drun... |
544,453 | 562,732 | 248,808 | 10 | Yes , yes , it's all true ! | For The Birds is the side-splittingly hilarious short animated film that preceded the rather unimpressive Monsters , Inc , and all this hype that you may have read about For The Birds in the comments index here on the IMDb is pretty accurate , with the exception of the occasional grump who calls it forgettable or just ... |
544,765 | 562,732 | 734,587 | 10 | These are the days of miracle and wonder , this is the long distance call . . . | At the time of this writing there is only one other IMDb reviewer who has commented on this episode , and he makes a lot of good points about how strangely effective this episode is in approaching very deep and emotionally powerful elements of human life . The show is mostly about the relationship between a young boy a... |
544,347 | 562,732 | 30,341 | 10 | One of the best of Hitchcock's earlier thrillers . | The Lady Vanishes is the last of a string of six thrillers that Hitchcock released in the 1930 , associating him with the thriller genre for the rest of his career . The film starts off with a panning shot of a less than convincing model of a town , portraying the avalanche that has trapped a whole train full of passen... |
544,809 | 562,732 | 285,742 | 10 | Yeah Puff ! | Wow , I never thought I'd say that . Puff Daddy should have gone straight to acting in the first place and saved himself the embarrassment of his rap career . He does a wonderful job in this wonderful movie portraying a death row inmate named Tyrell Musgrove , the husband of Leticia , played by Halle Berry . The film s... |
544,505 | 562,732 | 21,749 | 10 | You can't go wrong with Charlie Chaplin , but City Lights is even better than Chaplin's films usually are . | Chaplin takes himself a little more seriously in City Lights , and the results are spectacular . The musical score which Chaplin composed for the film was one of the many highlights , and even though Charlie's performance is much more dramatic than usual in some scenes , the hilarious comedy for which he is known and l... |
544,535 | 562,732 | 281,875 | 10 | Gallagher is back with yet another masterpiece of stand-up comedy . | While The Bookkeeper doesn't quite meet the standards of The Maddest ( let's face it , Gallagher's portrayal of the discovery of America in The Maddest is not likely to ever be surpassed ) , this is still a very worthy addition to Gallagher's unfortunately short list of excellent videos . In all of Gallagher's videos ,... |
544,634 | 562,732 | 110,912 | 10 | Another shockingly good film from Quentin Tarantino . | SPOILERSTarantino has one of the most recognizable styles of any director working today , and Pulp Fiction is considered by many to be his greatest work yet . It is a conglomeration of Tarantino's own infatuation with the movies , as it is more about movie life than real life . One of the few little factoids that I kno... |
543,811 | 562,732 | 1,010,048 | 10 | Mumbai Teen Amazed to Discover Corrupt TV Show . | There are two completely different story-lines taking place in Slumdog Millionaire , and they take place simultaneously and involve mostly all of the same people . Director Danny Boyle Has woven the stories together with such precision , such seamless skill that it presents an almost impossibly clear picture of this ki... |
544,649 | 562,732 | 134,618 | 10 | Wow ! It really IS the Rocky of hockey ! | Mystery , Alaska is kind of like The Mighty Ducks , except that it's intended for an older , more intelligent audience . The characterization as well as the narrative structure is much more mature , and the players , thankfully , are not little kids but people with a wide range of ages that have played hockey their ent... |
544,282 | 562,732 | 85,809 | 10 | Kind of like 2001 : A Space Odyssey , but without the constant barrage of dialogue . . . | Koyaanisqatis is an extremely unusual film , and by far one of the most unusual I have ever seen . It takes on the daunting task of portraying the history of the world until modern times ( or the early 80s , at least ) entirely without dialogue . It is a documentary of sorts , in that it is amazingly informative , but ... |
544,360 | 562,732 | 126,029 | 10 | In my past life , I was a fat btard ! | SPOILERS SPOILERS Shrek sure did exceed the expectations . I was expecting some immature comedy that vainly tried to re-capture the stunning success of Toy Story , but it was much more than that . The computer animation is breath taking , I would even say that it is better than Toy Story's , at least in some elements .... |
544,245 | 562,732 | 418,753 | 10 | A surprisingly informative and professional look at pornography as a cultural issue . | The movie's poster does absolutely nothing for it as far as presenting it as a legitimate documentary about a real part of the American culture , but Inside Deep Throat is a well-made and highly informative look at the release of Deep Throat in the early 1970s and the tremendous impact that it had on American society ,... |
543,728 | 562,732 | 427,132 | 10 | Incredible trip back . | Having recently seen Romero's new Land of the Dead I decided to go back and check out some of the extra features included on the massive Ultimate DVD collection of Dawn of the Dead , which I didn't like . I remember being amazed at the sickness of Dawn of the Dead , which I consider to be by far the goriest of the tril... |
544,369 | 562,732 | 120,737 | 10 | Relax ! ! It's a trilogy ! | ( spoilers ) I was pretty surprised to see the end credits of The Lord of the Rings start as soon as Frodo and Sam walked up on those rocks and got their first look at Mordor ( although I was still chuckling at the thought that that may have been the point when they began to wish they had brought shoes ! ) . For a seco... |
544,122 | 562,732 | 4,189 | 10 | Chaplin introduces himself to the world . | There is some disagreement over whether or not this is really the first film in which Chaplin performed as the beloved Tramp , since apparently Mabel's Strange Predicament was filmed a month earlier ( although released two days later ) , but the interest of the film as the first time that audiences saw his famous chara... |
544,077 | 562,732 | 105,236 | 10 | Quentin Tarantino begins his directing career with the first of several chronologically mixed , disturbingly violent , and incredibly powerful films . | Reservoir Dogs is a testament to the idea that " less is more . " This doesn't apply to the violence , the film is extremely violent from beginning to end , but the details of the botched diamond heist , which the entire film is based on , are conveyed only in the dialogue , except for one scene where Mr . Pink ( Steve... |
544,678 | 562,732 | 120,663 | 10 | So ? shall we ? | I have a feeling that Kubrick's stunningly masterful visual exploration of human sexuality will be overshadowed by the major amount of nudity in it , and the graphic sex scenes . It seems that the movie is more well-known because Nicole Kidman is fully nude in it ( and Tom Cruise , conspicuously , is heavily covered , ... |
543,744 | 562,732 | 373,169 | 10 | The Sixth Sense could not have been made without storyboarding . | M . Night Shyamalan reveals that storyboarding is his favorite part of the film-making process because of the level of control that he has while storyboarding , which is interesting because so many directors hate it . It's one of the processes that I've always almost feared because I want to pursue a career in film-mak... |
544,748 | 562,732 | 105,265 | 10 | Historical accuracy is one of the things that makes this such a good drama . | ( spoilers ) A River Runs Through It is an excellent story of the lives of one family , from the time the two sons were young boys to the time when one of them is an old man , and everyone else has died . Brad Pitt delivers yet another great performance as the younger and wilder son Paul , and the unappealing looking C... |
544,022 | 562,732 | 439 | 10 | Historic action / crime thriller . A must-see for all film buffs . | The Great Train Robbery was filmed only a couple of years into the 20th century , and when you watch it , its age is quite obvious . However , when you watch movies like this , you need to transport yourself back to the time period in which it was created and kind of watch the film through eyes that haven't been subjec... |
544,577 | 562,732 | 91,455 | 10 | Definitely one of Pixar's greatest short animated films . | Because I am so loathe to put one over the other , I just want to say that Geri's Game , For The Birds , and Luxo Jr . are the three greatest short animated films that have come from Pixar so far . What you have here is an extremely well made film that creates live characters without the use of dialogue or facial expre... |
544,525 | 562,732 | 120,689 | 10 | The Green Mile proved that Stephen King can create amazing stories beyond the graphic horror he is so well-known for . | If you are a true Stephen King fan , and read the book before you saw the movie , I feel that it is safe to say that you are one of the 44 . 4 % ( at the time of this review , anyway ) of voters who gave the Green Mile 10 stars . I have seen virtually every single one of Stephen King's films and have read roughly 30 of... |
544,220 | 562,732 | 996,463 | 10 | Inspiring . | I feel like any movie based on someone's life story should have a short video like this included on the DVD . It starts with scenes from the set where Will Smith celebrated his birthday and introduced the real Chris Gardner , the truly remarkable man on whom the film is based . It tells a lot about his involvement in t... |
544,221 | 562,732 | 996,461 | 10 | Better than most . . . | This is an unusually informative and unique documentary about the making of The Pursuit of Happiness . Most of it centers on the experiences of Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino as he directs one of America's biggest movie stars in a film about the American dream . There is tons of great behind the scenes footage and ... |
544,823 | 562,732 | 180,073 | 10 | The first rule of politics : The man who orders the execution NEVER DROPS THE BLADE . | Quills is the modernized story of the Marquis de Sade , whose steamy writings whipped France into a sexual fury in the late 18th Century . And by modernized I mean that it has been told through the experiences of a lot of French people who speak English and with British accents . But no matter , I'm willing to accept t... |
543,844 | 562,732 | 120,586 | 10 | Edward Norton delivers a staggering performance as an extremely intelligent white supremacist who realizes the wrongness of his views and must then try to prevent his younger brother form going down the same | American History X is one of the most powerful movies released in years . Not since Schindler's List has the subject of racism been so potently presented . The use of black and white cinematography to portray painful flashbacks is amazing , and the settings , while not necessarily pretty , fit the story flawlessly . De... |
543,876 | 562,732 | 68,473 | 10 | ' Whar you goin ' , city boy ! ' | SPOILERS SPOILERS Packed with memorable moments ( such as the quote above , immortalized by Primus ) , Deliverance tells the story of four guys who take a trip to the wild woods to go white water rafting and get away from the big city for a while only to find that their fun soon takes a bad turn . This is not a Hollywo... |
544,247 | 562,732 | 108,550 | 10 | A change of pace for almost everyone involved results in spectacular success . | I recently stumbled upon the last half of one of those Top 50 Child Stars TV shows , which had a segment on Leonardo DiCaprio , showing interviews with him when he first started acting and would make jokes about how famous and rich he was , having had no way of knowing how astronomically rich and famous he would go on ... |
544,173 | 562,732 | 213,847 | 10 | Hell hath no fury like relentless gossip . | Malena is a film that gives the impression that there are no innocent parties . The men are guilty of dirty , lustful thoughts ( and some of more than just thoughts ) , the women are guilty of gossip , violence and probably more than a little envy , and Malena is guilty of being a homewrecker . But in looking back at t... |
544,533 | 562,732 | 180,093 | 10 | Do not watch while under the influence of ANYTHING . | SPOILERSDrugs , alcohol , painkillers , don't even watch this if you've taken ASPIRIN within the last 24 hours . Requiem For A Dream is extremely moving and powerful and REAL and it could only bring out the worst of any type of mind-altering substance . I watched this film stone sober and in the middle of the night , a... |
543,821 | 562,732 | 12,945 | 10 | Some great sight gags that are very reminiscent of Chaplin's early works . | By the time The Blacksmith was released Chaplin was making the change from short comedies like this one to full length films , but his influence on Buster Keaton's work is unmistakable , as in this case . Keaton plays an apprentice to a blacksmith who ends up getting arrested after a fiasco involving a giant magnet pla... |
543,784 | 562,732 | 58,946 | 10 | The Birth of an Algerian Nation . | The Battle of Algiers is a very unique war film . It is a documentary-style depiction of an uprising in Algiers against the French , and has the rare distinction of being told partly from the point of view of the radicals who , in this case , were terrorists . The film is very informative because , unlike most war film... |
544,101 | 562,732 | 70,379 | 10 | A Scorsese original . | One of the things that I love the most about watching the old classics is when you can so clearly see the beginnings of what later became such trademarks of a director , actor , even a genre . Martin Scorsese begins a long line of films about the gangs of New York with Mean Streets , a gritty look at the underside of N... |
544,300 | 562,732 | 120,630 | 10 | Excellent claymation . | I was really surprised by Chicken Run . I was expecting some dumb kids movie that tried in vain to be as good as other animated classics like Toy Story , but this was a really good film . The story involves a bunch of heavily accented chickens who are trying desperately to learn how to fly so that they can escape the c... |
543,817 | 562,732 | 43,456 | 10 | Join us and live in peace or pursue your present course and face obliteration ? | It's odd to think that fifty years from now there may only be a handful of movies released in 2004 that will be remembered at all . I don't care to venture any guesses as to what they may be , but it's easy to see why The Day the Earth Stood Still is one of the ones from 1951 that remains a classic , while so many othe... |
544,432 | 562,732 | 468,569 | 10 | How about a magic trick ? | It's been a long time since I've been wildly excited about going to see a new movie in the theaters . I normally wait until the crowds die down , and see the big movies at least a week or two after they are released , if I don't just wait for the DVD . But the previews and reviews of The Dark Knight were so uniformly e... |
543,981 | 562,732 | 399,146 | 10 | You can't take it with you but you can't just walk away ? | I never saw this movie in the theaters because something about the title struck me as being more academic than something I would be interested in paying $9 to see . I made the same mistake about American History X ( and didn't learn from it , apparently ) back in 1998 , and while the movie is not about some sort of evo... |
544,044 | 562,732 | 85,075 | 10 | Ah , the memories ? | I should admit that I haven't seen Reading Rainbow for probably 15 years , but it is such a milestone in my development that I have to say something about it . I only stumbled on the series on the IMDb when I was looking up a mediocre thriller starring Hillary Swank , and even after all these years just the title of th... |
543,963 | 562,732 | 169,547 | 10 | Another example of an excellent but largely misunderstood movie . | American Beauty is another one of those movies that everyone seems to vote for as the Best Picture of the last ten years or so that did not deserve a Best Picture Oscar ( yeah , you've seen the polls ? ) . This is a perfect example of a widespread misunderstanding of the quality of the film . American Beauty is not a s... |
544,279 | 562,732 | 342,965 | 10 | Hilarious ! | Like many of it's animated colleagues , Ice Age starts off with a wonderful short film , this time one which was even better known than the rest of the film before it was released . You may remember seeing previews for Ice Age that were made up entirely of footage from Scrat's Missing Adventure , which is probably the ... |
544,658 | 562,732 | 62,622 | 10 | Stanley Kubrick's ambiguous science fiction epic continues to baffle audiences around the world , even more than three decades after it was filmed . | The obvious question that someone is going to ask after watching 2001 : A Space Odyssey is , ' What was the meaning of that damn monolith ? ' Well , as is the case with the majority of great movies , 2001 spawns thinking and discussion . A movie that answers all of its questions neatly and in a timely manner can rarely... |
544,896 | 562,732 | 360,717 | 10 | Peter Jackson proves himself for good . | There was a time when I thought that Peter Jackson may have been using the success of the Lord of the Rings trilogy to kind of throw any kind of movie he wanted out there , knowing that it would make money , and a remake of one of his childhood favorites did nothing to dispel these possibilities in my mind . But when I... |
544,544 | 562,732 | 319,061 | 10 | Story of the story of the year ! ! | Did I ever tell you about the time I went out and watched the Best Picture of 2003 ? Tim Burton , obviously very aware of the old saying , ' The older I get , the faster I was , ' has fashioned a masterpiece about his own craft , piecing together an intricate story of stories and oddly managing to remain true to his di... |
543,900 | 562,732 | 104,691 | 10 | A stunning war picture with amazing performances from all of the hundreds of actors involved , The Last of the Mohicans is a near flawless presentation of war-life in the 1700s . | The Last of the Mohicans is an epic portrayal of the conflicting interests of the French , the British , and the Native Americans in colonial America . The French and the Native Americans are allies , but the film throws in some completely unexpected and surprisingly effective plot twists toward the end , something tha... |
544,746 | 562,732 | 39,631 | 10 | Funny looking bird , isn't he ? | I seem to remember back when I was in college when I first started studying film I became very interested in Chaplin after seeing Modern Times and The Gold Rush , so I watched a documentary about him and his line " These things have to be done " in Monsieur Verdoux was the first time I had ever heard his voice , except... |
544,336 | 562,732 | 419,925 | 10 | Look man , I'm a huge Bill Murray fan . I really am . The guy's hilarious . But I liked Simon & Garfunkel's version better . | While it may at first seem that this is a careless documentary that was thrown together quickly because of its unpolished feel and lack of sit-down interviews , that is one of the things that I liked the most about it . As the title implies , this is an on location documentary , it's a look behind the scenes , not a do... |
544,650 | 562,732 | 140,352 | 10 | Excellent legal drama ? | In The Insider , Russell Crowe once again proves his versatility as an actor . It's amazing how different he looks in this film from his other roles , particularly Mystery , Alaska and Gladiator . Here , he plays the part of Jeffrey Wigand , a man who is torn between his responsibility to uphold his agreement to keep h... |
543,803 | 562,732 | 340,855 | 10 | ' I was raised in America , and America hates me for what I am . I am YOUR sh , you should be ashamed of what you have eaten . ' | My compliments to the musical tastes of anyone who can place that quote . Hey , you wanna know what I'm getting sick and tired of ? I'm sick and tired of hearing the phrase ' America's First Serial Killer , ' if only because it's generally a phrase used to promote Monster , the stunningly well-made and effective movie ... |
543,835 | 562,732 | 107,290 | 10 | Steven Spielberg comes forth with yet another classic . Jurassic Park will not be forgotten . | This is the best dinosaur movie that has ever been made . Maybe a better one will be released sometime in the future , but so far , Jurassic Park is unparalleled . The story involves the re-creation of actual living dinosaurs from their own DNA which was recovered from dinosaur blood remaining inside a prehistoric mosq... |
544,249 | 562,732 | 475,276 | 10 | Do we have any communication with the President at all ? | I have yet to see any of the films that have been coming out lately about the attacks , and I had deep reservations about this movie , simply because I had a hard time imagining how they could make a movie about what happened that day and really do justice to the events that took place and the people that were involved... |
543,990 | 562,732 | 93,779 | 10 | A great adventure film in somewhat the same style as other great fantasy adventures like The Neverending Story , The Princess Bride takes us on a wonderful trip along with fascinating and enormously amusing c | I'm not exactly sure what exactly it is that makes The Princess Bride such a spectacular film . Or , at the very least , I just can't pinpoint a single characteristic about it that really rises above all others as the main reason that no one should miss it . Indeed , it has a title that should prove to be remarkably un... |
543,917 | 562,732 | 804,522 | 10 | A much needed wake-up call ? | Extraordinary Rendition is a frightening practice authorized , surprisingly , under Clinton , that allows the U . S . government to seize and hold anyone suspected , seemingly for any reason , of being a terrorist against the United States . This is a touchy issue , especially after , because supporters of the practice... |
544,306 | 562,732 | 307,385 | 10 | Slowly fascinating . | I admit that for the first 20 minutes or so of this film I wasn't entirely sure I was going to sit through the whole thing . Like many other people , I found it pretty boring , and I wasn't entirely looking forward to an hour and a half of watching this guy bite icicles and stick them together . However , if you sit th... |
543,903 | 562,732 | 70,047 | 10 | The Exorcist stands firmly among the greatest films ever made . | The Exorcist is widely regarded to be the scariest movie of all time . Personally , I would put it a little differently . Instead of calling it the scariest movie of all time , I think that it would be more accurate to say that it's the best horror movie of all time . These may be just two different ways of saying the ... |
544,747 | 562,732 | 14,624 | 10 | Time makes strangers of intimate friends ? | A Woman of Paris is probably best known , ironically , by the fact that it is a Chaplin film that Chaplin does not appear in . It opens with a title card in which Chaplin himself wishes to clear up any misunderstanding by mentioning that he does not appear in the film , but my understanding is that it was a popular and... |
544,240 | 562,732 | 82,971 | 10 | Even the MPAA ratings board loved it ? | I bring up the ratings board because , like the two films that followed it , Raiders of the Lost Ark seems to have been granted almost unprecedented leniency in the rating . People get shot , stabbed , poisoned , murdered , blended up by airplane propellers , a head explodes , another head has the skin melted off of it... |
544,315 | 562,732 | 91,763 | 10 | The Saving Private Ryan of the Vietnam War . | Similar in many ways to another quality war film , Casualties of War , Platoon is a story that takes place during the Vietnam War and is about a platoon torn basically between good and evil . Oliver Stone relies heavily on personal experience in the war in his writing of the film , in which the above-mentioned platoon ... |
543,797 | 562,732 | 78,748 | 10 | Whose idea was it to bring a cat in the first place ? | I'm a little confused as to why there was a cat on board in the first place . Needless to say , given that there was an entire crew on board the Nostromo , a merchant vessel carrying , if I remember correctly , something like 20 , 000 , 000 tons of mineral ore , there was hardly a lack of companionship . At any rate , ... |
543,860 | 562,732 | 378,194 | 10 | They must have used up all the fake blood in Volume 1 . | SPOILERS SPOILERS When you have a movie as hugely popular as Kill Bill Vol . 1 , it is to be expected that it's sequel , or in this case it's other half , generates a huge amount of expectation and attention , especially when it also involves a director as hugely ( and deservedly ) popular as Quentin Tarantino . Combin... |
544,087 | 562,732 | 241,527 | 10 | Lord of the Stone ! | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was released in close proximity to the great Lord of the Rings , and while this has happened many times before with the general result that one of the two films is widely , although not always correctly , considered inferior to the other ( Independence Day and The Arrival , Armaged... |
544,213 | 562,732 | 57,012 | 10 | Peace is Our Profession . | Dr . Strangelove is widely considered to be one of Stanley Kubrick's best films , if not THE best , and it's easy to see why . I remember watching it several years ago and not really getting into it , but as I rewatched it a couple nights ago I realized quickly what I had missed back then . It is a remarkably simple fi... |
544,887 | 562,732 | 534,695 | 10 | ( best episodes ever ) | I don't know why I first developed an intense love of CSI Las Vegas , given that so many of the episodes follow the same basic format , but this is the first time that that format has been completely thrown away and the show went in a completely different direction . We can thank Quentin Tarantino , of course , for tha... |
543,989 | 562,732 | 80,684 | 10 | Even though he wasn't at the director's helm this time , George Lucas has done it again . | In a film like The Empire Strikes Back , especially a few years on the heels of such a mind-bogglingly great film like the original Star Wars , there is something that comes immediately to mind that would at first seem to count against the film , but instead only winds up increasing the respect that it commands . In th... |
543,909 | 562,732 | 119,822 | 10 | Best Picture of 1997 . By far . | 1998 was one of the most controversial years ever as far as the Best Picture Oscar winner , but I think that this is only because Saving Private Ryan and Shakespeare in Love , the two front-runners for the award , were both such tremendously spectacular movies . There was a similar situation the year before , in 1997 ,... |
544,373 | 562,732 | 67,992 | 10 | Timeless . | Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a truly magnificent piece of filmmaking and remains one of the most fascinating and wonderful adventure films ever made . One of the things that makes this film so intriguing is that it could have been made at any time . I mean , just from watching it , you can't really tell whe... |
544,600 | 562,732 | 124,595 | 10 | Incredibly intense drama . | Return to Paradise is probably the most intense drama that I've ever seen . Three friends , Danny , Lewis , and Tony , travel to Malaysia for a vacation , taking a trip that will change all of their lives forever . When one of them decides to stay there at the end of the trip to help the wildlife , it starts a chain re... |
544,832 | 562,732 | 268,995 | 10 | Jim Carrey's best performance ever . | The Majestic is probably one of the most complex and satisfying romantic dramas to come along in years . It tells a very complex story that is fascinating from beginning to end , however unlikely it is in reality . Obviously , it's not likely that a man is going to stumble into a small town after an accident and be mis... |
544,079 | 562,732 | 24,184 | 10 | A true classic . This is a historic action thriller that is not to be missed . | What a great show this was . Claude Rains plays Jack Griffin , a scientist who discovers a formula with which he renders himself invisible . The only side effect of the drug is that it also slowly drives the subject insane . The special effects are terrible , in many cases it's laughably obvious how they were created ,... |
543,886 | 562,732 | 206,634 | 10 | Incredibly well-made and important futuristic action drama ? | London , 2027 . The world society has collapsed into widespread chaos , and as the news reports in England loudly proclaim , " Only Britain soldiers on ! " Needless to say , the British have sealed their borders and have begun forcefully exporting illegal immigrants and , for nearly two decades , no one on earth has be... |
544,088 | 562,732 | 76,759 | 10 | A true landmark in science fiction and filmmaking . | The problem with reviewing a film like Star Wars is that it has been scrutinized and analyzed and poked and prodded for decades , which leaves little left to be said about it that has not been said already ( and , consequently , probably means that virtually no one will read my review of it ! ) . The thing that allows ... |
544,346 | 562,732 | 26,029 | 10 | The second of Hitchcock's string of thrillers released in the early 1930s that went on to associate him with the thriller genre for the rest of his career . | The 39 Steps is one of Hitchcock's smartest thrillers , and it displays almost all of the characteristics that later became traditions in his films . The plot concerns an ordinary man who suddenly finds himself involved in an extraordinary situation , which is common in Hitchcock's thrillers , but in this case it is es... |
544,839 | 562,732 | 27,977 | 10 | Charlie Chaplin's own deeply impoverished past plays an extensive role in the theme of his film Modern Times , which is probably the most potent of his dozens of films that deal with the difficult lives of th | It is a testament to Chaplin's filmmaking skills that he is able to impose such significant meaning on what really boils down to little more than a series of comedy skits strung together on an apparently flimsy clothesline of a plot . Indeed , the cinematic value of Modern Times is unquestionable , but it is ironically... |
544,355 | 562,732 | 212,720 | 10 | A . I . is a perfect example of negative criticism born from expectations based on assumption or ignorance . | That's right , Steven Spielberg is back . He has taken it upon himself to helm the story started years and years ago by the late Stanley Kubrick , and Kubrick's influence is strikingly clear , especially late in the film . A lot of people were put off by A . I . , but this is because they expected a cute kids movie , s... |
544,688 | 562,732 | 57,115 | 10 | Heroes underground . | I imagine it was the lengthy running time that kept me for so many years from seeing The Great Escape , although that doesn't explain why I haven't seen hordes of other movies . But I've been going back and watching all the old classics and The Great Escape is one of the best ones I've seen so far . The movie is not on... |
544,057 | 562,732 | 12,349 | 10 | A picture with a smile ? and perhaps , a tear . | Charlie Chaplin's first full length feature film , and his biggest success up to that date , is a remarkably heartwarming story , which makes the surprising connection between slapstick comedy and dramatic tragedy . It begins with a woman who's " sin was motherhood , " who gives birth to a baby she can't support at a C... |
543,741 | 562,732 | 50,825 | 10 | Scary . | It really is a testament to the power of the story told by this film that it stars the French army and they all speak nothing but English , and yet it is still be incredibly moving and compelling . On the other hand , the movie is not really about war but about the soldiers , kind of like Full Metal Jacket . It is stru... |
544,030 | 562,732 | 871,924 | 10 | Fascinating ! | Recently I have been learning a lot about ancient Chinese history and am completely transfixed . I read a book about the treasure fleets of Zheng He , the Grand Eunuch during the Ming Dynasty who led , at the time ( the early 1420s ) , the world's largest armada on a series of great voyages around the world , basically... |
544,450 | 562,732 | 268,978 | 10 | Beautiful . A startlingly convincing portrayal of mental illness . | A Beautiful Mind is a difficult movie to review . I always think that the terrible movies are the most fun to review , because there's nothing better than slashing a movie like Scary Movie or Coyote Ugly that is obviously a belligerent mess , but it is the great films that allow for the presentation of some meaning in ... |
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