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543,991 | 562,732 | 94,027 | 10 | A truly inspiring film about one of the most important things that you can ever have ? an education . | Stand And Deliver deals with a lot of inner city kids who have grown up in a bad neighborhood and who all have dismal outlooks for the future . Edward James Olmos delivers the performance of his career as Jaime Esclante , the math teacher who comes to this school determined to teach these kids calculus and have them su... |
544,401 | 562,732 | 6,684 | 10 | Maybe Chaplin's best early comedy ? | The Fireman soon strikes me as a perfect example of just how good Chaplin's earliest films could be . So many of the Keystone and Essanay comedies are rough and simple comedies with a lot of comical punching and kicking and not much else . This one has a developed story , multiple sets , location shooting , a nice love... |
543,732 | 562,732 | 95,765 | 10 | A celebration of what the movies were , are , and hopefully can be again . | From beginning to end , Cinema Paradiso is , of course , about various forms of love , but my favorite element of the story is not just the way movies are portrayed , but the way old movies are portrayed . I have a particular fondness of older films ( and a particular distaste for the shallow , exploitative and unimagi... |
544,580 | 562,732 | 420,286 | 10 | SUPPORT THE TROOPS , NOT THE WAR . | My brother's girlfriend has a sticker on the back of her car which reads ' If you're not completely appalled , you haven't been paying attention . ' This is a movie for those people who are not completely appalled , because if you've been paying attention then you already know most of what this movie has to say . Or ma... |
544,894 | 562,732 | 47,478 | 10 | Better than The Gammage Cup , Wolves of the Calla , and A Bug's Life combined ! ! | Akira Kurosawa's ambitious Seven Samurai is a film that has been emulated and duplicated and imitated in almost every medium you can think of , probably most in books and movies , as in the cases above . It is a classic story of protection and thinly disguised revenge that has tremendous satisfactory power , but Kurosa... |
543,815 | 562,732 | 299,977 | 10 | Better than the hype would have you believe . | There are times when movies are released amidst enormous publicity and excitement and turn out to be average or even below average movies , and there are times when movies are released almost completely unnoticed and turn out to be milestones , and most rarely , there are movies that are released surrounded by great ex... |
544,666 | 562,732 | 102,798 | 10 | Kevin Costner's best film ever . And Morgan Freeman's . And Christian Slater's . And Sean Connery's . . . | While it's true that each of these actors has starred in films that easily rival Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves ( for example , Field of Dreams , The Shawshank Redemption , Interview With The Vampire , and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , respectively ) , this is definitely one of the best adaptations of the classi... |
544,000 | 562,732 | 317,219 | 10 | Try turning right to go left ! | With as many phenomenal films on their resume as Pixar has , it is hard to believe that they can keep up the level of quality one film after another , and if you are waiting to see what will be the film that will be the first stumble from them , keep waiting because Cars is not it . Just when you think they must be run... |
544,161 | 562,732 | 133,093 | 10 | HELL YEAH ! ! ! | Finally a science fiction film that cannot be immediately dismissed as either unreal or impossible . How can anyone say that this isn't exactly the way that reality is ? To try and disprove this view of reality would be like trying to disprove the existence of God . Maybe he's there , maybe he isn't , but no one can po... |
544,664 | 562,732 | 92,005 | 10 | One of the best adaptations of a Stephen King story ever . | Stand By Me is yet another one of the stories made into a movie from the author who has had more stories made into movies than any other author in history , Stephen King . Clearly , the central character here is Gordie Lachance , from whose point of view the story is told and who obviously symbolizes King himself , giv... |
544,068 | 562,732 | 115,736 | 10 | The Wachowski brothers showed their talents long before The Matrix , but hardly anyone noticed because Bound is nearly direct-to-video material . | Any way you look at it , Bound is a sex thriller . The story is very engaging and the direction is absolutely incredible , but the whole lesbian thing really overshadows all of that , which severely limits the impact that this movie could have had . Gina Gershon stars as a tough woman who falls in love with Jennifer Ti... |
543,753 | 562,732 | 47,396 | 10 | One of Hitchcock's best . Nearly as great as Psycho . | Rear Window is Alfred Hitchcock's comment on the voyeuristic quality of society ( ' We've become a race of peeping toms ? ' ) . It is the story of a man bound to a wheelchair by a broken leg who sees what he believes to be a murder being covered up in an apartment across the courtyard from him . James Stewart delivers ... |
544,729 | 562,732 | 89,218 | 10 | Steven Spielberg exercises the farthest reached of his imagination in this unforgettable tale of childhood adventures . | Every kid has imagined what it would be like to go on great and glorious adventures . Pirate ships , police chases , treasure chests full of gold and surrounded by human skeletons with patches over the eyes , the inherent excitement in the possibility of a cavernous wonder world beneath the very streets where they live... |
543,923 | 562,732 | 783,233 | 10 | Brilliant . | It took me a long time to get interested in watching Atonement , even after it was so well received at the Oscars . Recently I watched the first 20 minutes or so and was immediately put off by the atmosphere and the characters ( " I've been going completely doolally up here ! " ) , for exactly the same reason that I am... |
544,231 | 562,732 | 66,043 | 10 | And now for something completely different ? | A few days ago I watched the making-of documentary about the Flight of the Phoenix remake and was surprised at how much profanity it contained . There were several times when Director John Moore would literally scream at the top of his lungs , unleashing streams of profanity at his cast and crew ( mostly his crew , I t... |
544,225 | 562,732 | 373,873 | 10 | Shot While Trying to Escape . | This documentary spends some time talking about what really happened , as it pertains to how things were different in the movie , but I like that it spends more time telling more of the story than the movie was able to , even in its lengthy running time . When the news of the mass escape reaches Hitler , the documentar... |
544,520 | 562,732 | 183,649 | 10 | Can you hear me now ? Goooooood . | The first thing that interested me about Phone Booth was the fact that the whole movie took place on such a limited physical area . A lot of people that I had talked to about it before having seen it said that they thought it would be boring because of that , but on the contrary , a limited set like the one in the movi... |
544,208 | 562,732 | 107,822 | 10 | Sleepy and brilliant . | There is a scene in The Piano where three women are walking through the woods discussing the bizarre behavior of Ada ( Holly Hunter ) , and her incessant piano playing . Just as I was getting a little irritated that Director Jane Campion would have the sound effect of the woman peeing , a decidedly distasteful sound , ... |
544,128 | 562,732 | 81,398 | 10 | Brought to you by PBR ! | Frank McCourt claims that no one in America admits that they drink Pabst . I don't know that that's true , but it does seem to have been relegated to what we called " frat beer " when I was in college . In 1941 , however , when Raging Bull takes place , it seems to have been a much bigger brand , at least that's the im... |
544,463 | 562,732 | 96,563 | 10 | The show that started it all ! | The first time I ever saw COPS years and years ago I was immediately and absolutely mesmerized . It is such a simple but incredibly brilliant idea , to bring a camera crew along with the police as they go about their daily duties . The cost of making a show like this is next to nothing , compared to the massive interes... |
544,844 | 562,732 | 103,939 | 10 | A spectacular portrayal of the unseen life of Charlie Chaplin . | Robert Downey Jr . , first of all , portrays Chaplin with amazing accuracy . Some parts of this performance are particularly memorable , such as his invention of the famous tramp's walk just after having feverishly picked out the outfit , the astonishingly accurate depiction of Charlie as an old man , and of course , t... |
544,025 | 562,732 | 408,368 | 10 | These people do good work ! | I would say that we can never have too many shows like this , but that's not really true . If we have a show like this in every city it would start to look like TV networks just cashing in on the latest trend , and I think the work that the people are doing on the show is far too important to be trivialized like that .... |
544,244 | 562,732 | 280,778 | 10 | If one doesn't have words how does one think ? | Iris is one of those dramas that is so startlingly well acted and accurate to reality that you truly see the people on screen suffering through the story rather than the actors portraying them . And in a film that stars Judi Dench , that is a remarkable achievement . Dench and Kate Winslet are made to look so similar t... |
543,959 | 562,732 | 285,131 | 10 | Sure , it's almost 20 years old , but this is still some of the best stand up comedy I've ever seen . | In one of his earlier stand-up videos , Gallagher solidifies himself as one of the funniest and zaniest comedians in the world . His genius use of props as well as his trade-mark of smashing miscellaneous produce in front of the crowd with his Sledge-O-Matic ( ' . . . it is not a slicer , it is not a dicer , it is not ... |
544,756 | 562,732 | 125,439 | 10 | The most shocking film in years . | By shocking , of course , I mean shockingly GOOD . Hugh Grant is one of those actors that I have never been able to tolerate , and I have never been a huge Julia Roberts fan either ( although I was truly impressed with Runaway Bride ) , but Notting Hill is one of the best romantic comedies that I have seen in years , e... |
544,862 | 562,732 | 137,523 | 10 | One of the best films of 1999 . | Edward Norton returns after his earth quaking performance in American History X to play the part of Jack ( who has no last name for a reason ) , a typical white-collar guy who works in an office , makes a good salary , and spends his time trying to find that perfect furniture set or that set of the ideal matching dishe... |
544,637 | 562,732 | 82,432 | 10 | One of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made becomes even more powerful more than two decades after it was made . | The thing that I really admire about war films is the way they manage to stand the test of time so well . Granted , there are counterexamples , it IS possible to make a bad war film , but for the most part , they deal with a subject that will never be far from the minds of the people in this world and especially this c... |
544,674 | 562,732 | 344,651 | 10 | Best cooking show ever ! | I credit Good Eats with my immediate addiction to the Food Network . Alton Brown manages to present a wonderful combination of cooking instruction and entertainment . I realize that there is a lot of research put into each show , but he still manages to come across as an amazingly well informed chef , which just puts y... |
544,096 | 562,732 | 439,022 | 10 | The best of the three documentaries included with the Troy DVD . | Since Troy is a film that is marketed on its battle scenes , it is important that they be well made , especially since vast looks at thousands of men fighting is fast becoming a cliché . The individual fight scenes , however , are so good that it makes up for the lengthy epic battle scenes where we sit through a lot of... |
544,368 | 562,732 | 259,165 | 10 | One of the best short films I have ever seen . | 405 is an extremely short action thriller that takes you on a wild adventure ride and then drops you off almost before you even realize that you've gone anywhere . The film is barely three minutes long , placing it on the level of extremely short short films , yet there is still so much accomplished in it that it is ab... |
543,822 | 562,732 | 16,220 | 10 | The darkness behind the scenes at the playhouse ? | The 1925 Phantom of the Opera , widely regarded as the best film adaptation of the story ever , starts off with the explanation that the Paris Opera House rises nobly over torture chambers and hidden dungeons , which is a great way to start a story about a disfigured man living in the torture chambers and hidden dungeo... |
544,260 | 562,732 | 234,215 | 10 | Upgrades ! | The thing that really strikes me about The Matrix Reloaded is that the increase in quality , if it can be said that there actually is one , from the first movie is more the result of an increased budget than anything else . I loved the new movie , but the talent was there in the first one , you can just tell that in th... |
544,624 | 562,732 | 351,167 | 10 | A brilliant look into the world of Gothic science fiction . | Cathedral is such a simple film that it is even more amazing how powerful it is . There is not a word of dialogue and almost no plot , but there is just enough going on so that you can insert your own meaning onto it , it means whatever is most important to you . The animation is spectacular , it reminds me of Final Fa... |
544,218 | 562,732 | 1,156,320 | 10 | What WOULD Dieter do ? | After watching this documentary I have discovered that Werner Herzog is among the best directors working today . Unfortunately , I still haven't seen Grizzly Man , which I've heard only glowing things about . When I bought Rescue Dawn , I didn't recognize his name , and I even thought he was one of those famously bad d... |
544,694 | 562,732 | 267,721 | 10 | Excellent look back . | Clearly , the most difficult thing about making supplemental documentaries about movies that were made as long ago as Bridge on the River Kwai is that there is so little to work with . With DVDs and even home video in the distant future , on set interviews were much more rare than they are today , but Director Laurent ... |
544,802 | 562,732 | 959,337 | 10 | No wonder no one says " swell " anymore ! | My grandparents still consider the 1950's to be the golden age of pure , unblemished Americanism . A time when teenagers were respectful , parents were bright , smiling examples of friendly authority , sex was post-marital and marriage was a time of apple pies and cheerful strolls down the charming neighborhood lane . ... |
544,378 | 562,732 | 259,182 | 10 | Call me the American nightmare / Call me the American dream / Call me your soul corrupted / Call me everything you need . . . | You know , you really see movies differently when you hear the directors talking about what the movie meant to them or what they were trying to do with it . I really should watch more of those featurettes that come on the DVDs . I don't think I'll ever have the patience for audio commentaries , but the extra features o... |
544,917 | 562,732 | 90,605 | 10 | Aliens have returned in spectacular fashion ! | Aliens avoids the all-too common fate of sequels , to live forever in the shadow of their predecessors , and usually for good reason . It is especially common for sequels of enormously successful movies to fall flat , particularly in the horror and science fiction genres ( remember The Exorcist II ? ) . The first seque... |
544,243 | 562,732 | 251,821 | 10 | Finally a making of documentary that deserves to be seen with the movie that it's based on ! | The thing that I loved about The Making of Jaws was not the fact that the Special Edition DVD featured a shorter version of the documentary than the Special Edition VHS ( both of which I own because I'm just a geek like that ) but the fact that it covers every aspect of production from Peter Benchley's original concept... |
544,339 | 562,732 | 368,597 | 10 | Who wants to believe that life is a tale told by an idiot ? | Between Two Worlds gives the impression of being a documentary about the history of supernatural experiences and about the validity of the more compelling ghost sightings that have been reported , but is more of a psychological examination of what may very well be an actual need that humans have to believe in ghosts . ... |
544,033 | 562,732 | 469,494 | 10 | Violence begets violence ? | In watching There Will Be Blood , I was a little worried to consider the old saying , like begets like , because it makes me realize that violence has always been too much of a prevalent part of American history . I am sad to realize that we might be one of the most violent countries in the world , in a way , at least ... |
544,064 | 562,732 | 18,773 | 10 | Bring on the funny man ! | I've been spending a lot of time lately going through and watching all of Chaplin's oldest short comedies that he made for Keystone and Essanay , and with only a few left before I get into the 1920s I decided to jump ahead and watch this one , which is reportedly the last true silent film that Chaplin made , since ther... |
544,452 | 562,732 | 131,409 | 10 | Yet another classic short film from Pixar . | Pixar , especially now that Monsters , Inc . ( preceded by the endlessly amusing For The Birds ) has been released , is quickly becoming more and more famous for the tremendous quality of the short short animated films that precede their feature films . Geri's Game , which can be seen before A Bug's Life , is one of my... |
544,679 | 562,732 | 49,406 | 10 | Ain't fair . Ain't fair . | The first thing that struck me about The Killing is that the narration really doesn't seem to fit , which explains why Kubrick was so unhappy about being obliged to include it . My initial reaction upon learning this was to wonder why Kubrick would put up with someone forcing him to do something in one of his films tha... |
544,319 | 562,732 | 119,567 | 10 | What did you expect , BETTER than Jurassic Park ? | Okay fine , it's not as great as Jurassic Park , but The Lost World still came out as a quality dinosaur film . Keep in mind that the special effects and computer graphics are still virtually unparalleled in this kind of film , and I think that they did a good job presenting the story . Luckily , Stephen Spielberg agre... |
544,385 | 562,732 | 75,148 | 10 | The Forrest Gump of the 1970s . | In watching Rocky I'm reminded that every once in a while a movie comes along that just seems to fit together so perfectly that it seems perfectly natural that someone had to have made exactly that movie at some point . Other times I am pleasantly surprised at how good a movie is , or irritated at how bad , or just ama... |
544,598 | 562,732 | 331,560 | 10 | Hilarious ! | I've read some pretty bad reviews of this little parody , mostly from people who thought it was simply bad taste . But Lord of the Piercing is not the title that you give to something that you expect to be entered into the Short Film Hall of Fame . Sure , it was mostly childish humor , but if there is a place for bad h... |
543,823 | 562,732 | 293,508 | 10 | The Phantom was a lot uglier in 1925 ? | Speaking of 1925 , I'm curious about the statement on the movie's poster , which claims that the classic musical is being brought to the big screen for the first time . I'm wondering who authored that statement and what is different about this time the classic musical is brought to the big screen and the times that it ... |
544,061 | 562,732 | 7,264 | 10 | The amorous waiter of the rink ? | The Rink , one of Chaplin's most charming early short comedies , starts out with the little tramp working as a waiter , and there is a hilarious short scene where a customer calls him over for his check , and Charlie comes over and writes up the bill based on the food that the guy has spilled all over himself . It seem... |
544,155 | 562,732 | 117,381 | 10 | This is an absolutely amazing film . However , it is also tragically underrated . | Primal Fear is one the best films that I have seen in years . Richard Gere portrays a glamorous attorney handling a case that has horrified the public and which seems to be a slam-dunk . He seems to be the only person who believes that young Aaron Stampler did not murder Archbishop Richard Rushman , a grisly crime whic... |
544,446 | 562,732 | 209,144 | 10 | Memento is the most creatively made and brilliantly engaging film of at least the last decade . | SPOILER ALERT First of all , I would like to point out that I am a huge fan of Roger Ebert . His reviews are well written and enlightening about the movies that they focus on and often a lot of obscure movies that are related to the one in question , but his review of Memento is one of the most ignorant and just flat-o... |
544,338 | 562,732 | 179,011 | 10 | An animated short whose brilliant animation takes second billing . | Sometimes I read reviews by other users on the IMDb as I write my own and I made the mistake of doing that for this film . Only about 15 people have written reviews at the time I am writing this , but as is generally the case , I was astounded at some of the things that people had to say about this brilliant film . Jus... |
544,159 | 562,732 | 88,763 | 10 | How could anything be more fun than this ? | Back To The Future is such an inventive and exciting piece of filmmaking that it is impossible to forget about it . The casting of every character involved was absolutely perfect , and the performances were spectacular . I first saw this film when I was six years old , and it is the only movie that I know of that I don... |
544,278 | 562,732 | 86,567 | 10 | A classic computer film that has stood the test of time remarkably well , considering the fact that it's a computer thriller . | Wargames is one of those young adult films that manages to span just about all ages of movie fans with its sense of adventure mixed with a chilling sense of reality . Kind of like The Goonies , it is a movie that finds a young kid in an extraordinary situation , except that rather than the Indiana Jones type adventure ... |
544,872 | 562,732 | 163,988 | 10 | This is vintage Martin Scorsese in the tradition of the great Taxi Driver . Not easy to swallow , but sure to be loved by film fans . | Nicholas Cage plays an ambulance medic who develops a wide variety of personal problems as a result of a feeling of incompetence at his job , which is , of course , to save peoples ' lives . He begins to feel a personal connection to the people that die on him , whether or not it is a fault of his . This happens especi... |
543,730 | 562,732 | 121,766 | 10 | No woman no cry , man . I'm tellin ' you . | ( spoilers ) I'll be the first to admit that I'm no Star Wars expert . I love the movies and I've seen them all , but I have friends who have such detailed knowledge about the mechanics and structure of the films and their interconnected stories that they make me feel like I've never seen any of them . That being said ... |
544,850 | 562,732 | 362,227 | 10 | America is closed . | When I first saw the theatrical trailer for The Terminal recently , I was initially worried about the fact that Tom Hanks takes on such a heavy accent , since his character is from Krakozia ( sp ? ) and speaks only a few words of English . This is not , in my opinion , necessarily one of the hardest things for an actor... |
544,818 | 562,732 | 27,529 | 10 | No parrots were sprayed with a firehose during the making of this film . | The Three Stooges are here the primary witnesses in a trial in which someone's life is at stake . What a great premise , put the Three Stooges in the middle of a life and death situation and try to get them to act normal ! Needless to say , there is plenty of room for their classic slapstick comedy routines , and they ... |
544,730 | 562,732 | 109,686 | 10 | By far Jim Carrey's funniest movie , Dumb & Dumber delivers the best laughs to come to the silver screen in years . | From beginning to end , Dumb & Dumber is sheer hilarity . There is not a slow moment in the adventures of Harry and LLoyd , two great but incredibly unintelligent friends who decide to move to Aspen , Colorado to get out of their dead-end lives in Providence , Rhode Island . Jim Carrey delivers a side-splitting perform... |
543,877 | 562,732 | 80,979 | 10 | Another spectacular samurai film from Akira Kurosawa . | Kagemusha is one of Kurosawa's later films , in which he deals with such themes as vicarious existence and other personal illusions . One of the main ideas in the film is that if you deny your own personality as an individual and take on the superficial appearance of someone else , you may experience gain and even happ... |
543,781 | 562,732 | 8,133 | 10 | Is there anything that Charlie Chaplin can't do ? | The Immigrant is one of Chaplin's early short films , with a very simple story but Chaplin makes it work . The thing that makes this early short film work so well is Chaplin's skill at slapstick comedy , it's so much fun to watch him try to deal with these endless predicaments that he gets into that you don't even pay ... |
544,660 | 562,732 | 75,314 | 10 | Excellent film by Martin Scorsese that foreshadows the great Bringing Out The Dead , which he directed on almost the same subject over two decades later . | Taxi Driver deals with the perils of big city life , and the film works so well because it adds a touch of mental instability to this otherwise tired theme . It focuses on the life of a lower middle class man who lives in a city that he finds filthy and that is full of people who disgust him . Everyone has impulses to ... |
544,062 | 562,732 | 50,083 | 10 | Prejudice always obscures the truth . | It seems that the message of 12 Angry Men ( above ) comes across as the film's only weakness . It starts with the very close of a trial that we never see and convenes immediately into the jury room , where we spend the rest of the movie . It seems an open and shut case , and by a show of hands , there are 11 jury membe... |
544,707 | 562,732 | 365,601 | 10 | Interesting look back . | I get the feeling that this retrospective documentary was made as a TV spot in response to the tremendous success of Terminator 2 , which was released the year before this documentary was made . As is almost always the case with these making-of or retrospective documentaries that often accompany movies on DVD , this on... |
544,066 | 562,732 | 73,195 | 10 | The shark looked fake . | But who cares ? ! Frankly , I'm sick and tired of hearing people complain about the shark looking fake . You didn't think the shark looked real , but you were still in suspense , weren't you ? The fake-looking shark is a testament to Steven Spielberg's directing skills , because he still made Jaws into an intense and t... |
544,361 | 562,732 | 99,685 | 10 | There is something that Martin Scorsese can't do . There has to be . But evidently , that thing doesn't have anything to do with movies . | Martin Scorsese's stunning gangster film Goodfellas is the true story of Henry Hill , a man that wanted to be a gangster for as long as he can remember , and who lived as a gangster for a significant portion of his life . Scorsese seems to suggest that his tendency toward a life of crime comes as a result of an unhappy... |
543,986 | 562,732 | 211,915 | 10 | An exercise in pure artistic creativity , Amelie is a beautifully made romantic comedy that succeeds hugely at the daunting task of being a freshly entertaining romantic comedy . | The dreamy atmosphere and truly creative romance of Amelie reminds me of the similarly captivating Chocolat of the year before . Both films are endlessly charming in their own original way , and both leave you with a huge smile on your face . The first fifteen minutes of Amelie consists of one of the most obscurely int... |
544,348 | 562,732 | 82,089 | 10 | Absolutely engrossing , in a sweaty kind of way ? | Body Heat is a resurrection of the film noir genre , which has been on some kind of back burner since the 1940s or so . This is one of the more distinct film genres , even more so than such genres as comedy or action or horror , which all have a tendency to blend into one another to some extent . Films noir are extreme... |
544,622 | 562,732 | 325,638 | 10 | This is absolutely brilliant . | I'll Wait for the Next One sets itself up as a cute little comedy skit , and it delivers on that premise but also surprises you with an incredibly moving finale . Four minute comedies are not supposed to be as moving as this film is , it's funny , charming , and heartbreaking all at the same time , showing you your emo... |
543,772 | 562,732 | 268,126 | 10 | Finally a movie with a tagline that has some meaning . | Adaptation has a rather lengthy tagline , but the thing that I like about it is that , with the exception of the last six words , it is a tagline that summarizes the movie rather than advertises it . This is a rare film that is about its own creation and all of the adaptation that goes on in the lives of the people inv... |
543,740 | 562,732 | 335,345 | 10 | This must have been tremendously difficult for Gibson to make . | Given how strong Mel Gibson has revealed his religious beliefs to be , it is astounding to me that he was able to make this film as graphically and powerfully as he did . " Okay , now this time when you whip him with the flog , the barbs are going to stick into his back , and then you rip it out and blood and skin will... |
544,512 | 562,732 | 36,775 | 10 | One of the best films noir ever , Double Indemnity communicates with amazing effectiveness the depths of depravity , greed , lust , and betrayal of the seemingly innocent and beautiful . | This is one of the best films of all time , not necessarily because of its story but because of the acting , direction , cinematography , lighting , and just the way that the story itself was told . At the time the film was released , the idea of revealing who the killer was in the opening scene was virtually unheard o... |
543,940 | 562,732 | 436,724 | 10 | Truly a wonder of nature , this urban predator , Tommy the Clown and many a story to tell . But it was a rare occasion , such as this , that he did ? | Primus fans , admittedly not exactly the target audience for this film , will immediately recognize the lyrics above and hopefully get a little kick out of it . People who don't know Primus , probably most of the people who would watch this documentary and read about it , will most likely send me angry e-mails . I am n... |
543,782 | 562,732 | 17,136 | 10 | Early science fiction story that presents a pessimistic prediction of a future society . | Who ever heard of an epic science fiction film ? Especially in the 1920s ? Sure , some science fiction movies are huge today , such as George Lucas ' latest goofy Star Wars movie , but in 1926 , Fritz Lang came out with a brilliant film about what the future would be like if people went on living the way they were livi... |
544,364 | 562,732 | 15,864 | 10 | Charlie Chaplin at his best . | The Gold Rush is one of Chaplin's best films , as well as one of his most famous . It has been said that it is the film that he most wanted to be remembered by , and it's not hard to see why . Chaplin plays the part of the lone prospector , a young miner during the gold rush . After getting caught in a storm , he hurri... |
543,915 | 562,732 | 34,583 | 10 | The ultimate classic ? | I believe it was Mark Twain that once lamented about his works being called classics , because in his opinion a classic is something that everyone respects but no one ever reads . Or watches , in the case of movies . To a certain extent I agree , because who other than English majors reads The Waste Lands or Heart of D... |
544,582 | 562,732 | 325,710 | 10 | After thousands of years of war , we are no closer to peace than we have ever been . | I remember being initially put off by a movie with ' Samurai ' in the title and starring Tom Cruise , but like Brad Pitt did in Troy recently , Cruise delivers a powerful performance as a Civil War veteran whose meaningless life takes a shocking turn after being sent on an assassination assignment . We meet Cruise sitt... |
543,887 | 562,732 | 381,061 | 10 | ( best bond ever ) | So the reason my summary line is lower case and in parentheses is because initially I had it all in capital letters followed by your everyday period , but the IMDb politely told me DO NOT SHOUT in your summary line . So it's a whisper . Happy now ? Anyway , when I say that Casino Royale is the best Bond ever , I mean t... |
544,235 | 562,732 | 389,869 | 10 | If I sing a song will you sing along ? | This is the first time I've seen any performance footage of the Blue Man Group , who I previously knew only from having seen them in commercials several years ago . They are such an entertaining act that they don't even need very innovative or even very good quality music , and yet the songs that they write are fantast... |
544,680 | 562,732 | 361,862 | 10 | Brilliant moody trip through a damaged mind . | This has to be one of Christian Bale's most memorable performances . I have read that he lost nearly 70 pounds for the role , which is an astonishing amount of weight and supposedly the most that any actor has deliberately lost for any role in a movie in film history . His appearance is frightening in itself , with his... |
544,379 | 562,732 | 365,748 | 10 | The mixture of British humor with Romero-style horror is indeed a winning combination . | I had Shaun of the Dead pegged as one of those straight-to-video movies that pops up every once in a while , featuring a clever lampooning of something popular in movies at the time . In the wake of a spectacular remake of Dawn of the Dead , it was not hard to come to this conclusion . But not only in Shaun of the Dead... |
543,948 | 562,732 | 40,522 | 10 | Why kill myself worrying when I'll end up just as dead anyway ? | Bicycle Thieves initially struck me as being much more famous than it deserves . I will admit that for a good portion of the film I found myself wondering why it is such a well known classic . Then again , I'm not exactly an expert on Italian Neorealism so that may have something to do with it . One thing that really c... |
544,531 | 562,732 | 97,216 | 10 | Fight da powah ! | Okay , time has reduced the music to an embarrassing joke , at least that of Public Enemy , but Do The Right Thing still retains its meaning . Luckily Bob Marley and Spike Lee's father contribute some quality music to the film . Do The Right Thing is a tremendous achievement from Spike Lee that boldly approaches the wh... |
544,121 | 562,732 | 3,679 | 10 | Charlie Chaplin meets the Tramp . | In Kid Auto Races at Venice , Chaplin first tried on the costume of the little Tramp , and was clearly unsure what to do with it . He wandered around and made himself seen , making it clear that he wanted to be noticed and had something to show the world , but he still wasn't sure what the personality of his character ... |
544,646 | 562,732 | 118,799 | 10 | Funny , entertaining , and amazingly intense and dramatic . | I find it sad that so many people are so narrow-minded that they will not watch a movie that is black and white or , in this case , is subtitled . I feel sorry for people who refuse to watch a movie like Life Is Beautiful just because it is a foreign film . They have no idea what a beautifully acted and directed film t... |
544,734 | 562,732 | 185,937 | 10 | Whether you love it or you hate it , you have to respect The Blair Witch Project for its uniqueness and its originality . | One of the many unique things about the Blair Witch Project is that no one liked it . Everyone who saw it either absolutely loved it or absolutely hated it , there was unusually little in between . It should be noted that no one has ever made a professional film like this before . People often joke about a movie being ... |
544,625 | 562,732 | 330,801 | 10 | THIS is an Oscar worthy animated short ! | Rocks is one of the best animated films I've ever seen . It not only starts off with a clever idea , but it alternates between real time and geologic time so simply but so effectively that it is almost like it is alternating between two different worlds . It gives a great idea of the difference between geologic time an... |
543,993 | 562,732 | 112,346 | 10 | A startlingly well made political love story , The American President succeeds hugely in the tremendously difficult task of being a good love story and a good political story at the same time . | Michael Douglas , who is most well known for his enormous skill in playing stolid villains or regular men who become desperate because they manage to get themselves in way over their head , puts off these characteristics to play the part of the President of the United States , and he delivers a towering performance in ... |
543,743 | 562,732 | 372,529 | 10 | Evidently not a crowd favorite ? | At the time of this writing no one else has bothered to write anything on the IMDb about this short documentary that accompanies the Vista Series of The Sixth Sense , although fans have certainly found it in their hearts to give it a whopping 3 . 4 collective vote . Why people voted it so low I can't imagine , because ... |
544,595 | 562,732 | 185,906 | 10 | Absolutely compelling . | One of my favorite episodes was number five , particularly the subway scene and the scene where the men are getting ready for the final advance and see the enormous line of soldiers falling back , having been ambushed and their numbers decimated . The subway scene is one of the best ones in the entire series that illus... |
544,448 | 562,732 | 138,097 | 10 | Not even really a Shakespeare adaptation , but that's what's so good about it ! | There was quite a bit of understandable controversy over the Best Picture Oscar for 1998 , because Shakespeare in Love and Saving Private Ryan were both tremendously good films , and the audience was very divided between the two . There is a definite popular influence on the workings of the Academy Awards ( no matter h... |
544,227 | 562,732 | 28,950 | 10 | Outstandingly slow ! | I should clarify . In what is known as the first prison break film ever made , I was initially surprised at how similar Grand Illusion was to the 1963 film The Great Escape , which is to be expected , of course , since this film probably had such a profound impact on that one ( and any respectable break-out movie that ... |
544,302 | 562,732 | 127,536 | 10 | A startlingly realistic portrayal of the hardships that the great Queen Elizabeth struggled through in the early days of her reign . | It's too bad that they don't make more period films , because of they did , Joseph Fiennes might find more work . Joseph Fiennes was probably asked to play William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love because of his excellent performance in Elizabeth , and he was only one among a great many actors who gave incredible per... |
544,391 | 562,732 | 95,016 | 10 | Only John can drive somebody that crazy ! | In what has to have been the highlight of Bruce Willis's hardcore action movie career , Die hard is a nonstop adrenaline packed thrill ride that even manages to avoid the Rambo effect , where the single hero takes down the whole world around him . John McClane is just a regular cop , he's just really good at what he do... |
544,838 | 562,732 | 68,646 | 10 | Francis Ford Coppola takes a story written by Mario Puzo and makes it into one of the greatest films ever made . | Italian films have quite often come under some sort of controversy , in large part because of the fact that Italian immigrants have been given an undeserved reputation of being inherently violent and universally tied to some sort of organized crime . Mass media is one of the main reasons for this , which is why Francis... |
544,211 | 562,732 | 401,628 | 10 | Some interesting thoughts on a brilliant film . | It's really easy to mess up a making-of documentary . I haven't watched one for quite a while but probably the most common mistake that I see in them is when they have a few brief pieces of narration , thoughts on the movie from some of the cast and crew , but the vast majority of it is just clips from the film which ,... |
579,094 | 583,640 | 70,948 | 1 | Proof positive that even Sean Connery makes MISTAKES ! ! ! | I saw the movie Zardoz some twenty years ago at a university filmfest on a program including shorts , features , etc . I am a fairly patient soul who sits through just about anything and try not to judge a film too harshly early on . My expectations were not too high , but I figured that with Sean Connery in it . it wo... |
579,340 | 583,640 | 118,979 | 1 | If there's a film worse than this one , I don't want to see it | I happened to catch this on a premium channel a while back and I've got news for you : it makes Showgirls look like Casablanca or Gone With the Wind by comparison . I'm one who happens to believe that the merits of a film are to a degree relative ; you don't judge Bikini Carwash by comparing it to , say , Schindler's L... |
579,434 | 583,640 | 75,753 | 2 | Abandon all hope ( of being entertained ) ye who view this " movie " | It is not generally my practice to review movies that I dislike to any great degree . However , one or two times a year , I temporarily set aside my rule to only comment on things I like to give a word of warning . I find it more enjoyable to comment on something I like and boost it than I do shooting at bad movies . B... |
579,345 | 583,640 | 67,610 | 3 | If Rock Hudson ever regretted making a film , it was probably this one | As a rule , I don't like making comments about films that I don't really like . But occasionally , I'll make an exception . Actually , I can't say I dislike this film so much as that I was disappointed by it because with the cast , I expected a better movie . I'd read the book and enjoyed it and looked forward to the m... |
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