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442,366 | 819,382 | 124,102 | 1 | Why don't they button their lips ? | It may be that enjoying this movie requires a couple of conditions be met . One is that you really ought to be young . So young that " hip hop " means a lot to you . Enough so that you're willing to sit through excerpts of it . You must be young enough too so that torture and death are things that only happen in the mo... |
442,224 | 819,382 | 858,437 | 1 | Ugly Movie . | The title tells it all - - Ed Gein , the butcher of Plainfield . It's not a zappy action-filled slasher movie made for teens high on energy drinks . That would fit it into a well-established genre , the kind that some people find entertaining , something along the lines of " Halloween " or " The Texas Chain Saw Massacr... |
442,285 | 819,382 | 58,606 | 1 | Pathetic , utterly . | It would take a ton and a half of psychedelic mushrooms to get past this thing . I frankly admire - - no , I mean it ! - - anyone who can get through it . It takes will power and self discipline of an almost supernal quality . Boy , does this stink . By this time in his life poor Lon Chaney was a hopeless lush . Mantan... |
442,206 | 819,382 | 439,709 | 1 | Who Is The Intended Audience ? | I couldn't get past the first twenty minutes of this blurry , black-and-white , overdone spoof of wartime matinée thrillers . The Nazis , having captured an American flier , put him through experiments involving bee venom . It backfires and he escapes to become " Yellowjacket , " scourge of Nazi spies , saboteurs , slo... |
442,892 | 819,382 | 369,360 | 1 | Ego trip . | Sometimes TV movies seem to do a first-rate job of dealing with social problems . " And the Band Played On " comes to mind , along with others . But this isn't a very good example . AIDS is undeniably there , as is child abuse , while internet predators are problematic . The movie is not badly done . Potts has a winsom... |
442,072 | 819,382 | 404,456 | 1 | Beyond Description | There is a fine movie about the serial murderer Charlie Starkweather and his hostage / girl friend Karil Ann Fugate out there . Its title is " Badlands . " There is also a very good TV movie on the subject , starring Tim Roth . This thing is so bad that no words can describe it . Everything about it is less than poor .... |
441,745 | 819,382 | 104,236 | 1 | Poor Me | Shelley Long is a delight to watch , with that oddly appealing Midwestern freshness , and Helen Shaver is reliable , as always . Neither of them can salvage this movie . It's just plain awful . It's based on a true story , also available in a fat true-crime paperback , " Once Upon a Memory , " mainly dealing with the "... |
442,423 | 819,382 | 163,983 | 1 | Meretritious Garbage . | Unbearable schlock . Kim Basinger adopts her sister's child , a little girl who turns out to be the Second Coming or something . Jimmy Smits is the FBI investigator called in on the case when the girl is kidnapped by Rufus Sewell and his gang of thugs . They run an outfit called The New Dawn . It poses as a self-help p... |
441,895 | 819,382 | 118,571 | 2 | Breathtaking compendium of clichés | The plane is damaged , one of his engines is out , and he's leaking fuel . How can he make it ? Something like that anyway . The clichés came so thick and fast I couldn't remember them all . I couldn't even GRASP them all quickly enough , piled as they were , one atop the other , like a pile of Leggos . I don't reall... |
442,117 | 819,382 | 50,622 | 2 | Slightly Revolting | A helicopter with three Navy officers , led by Jock Mahoney , and the requisite woman reporter aboard , Shawn Smith , gets caught in bad weather over Antarctica and must land through a heavy cloud layer to find they are at the bottom of a volcanic valley . But wait a minute . This is not just ANY hot , steamy tropical ... |
442,866 | 819,382 | 439,815 | 2 | Conquering Worms . | In this one , poor Michael Rooker , the perennial heavy , wears a pair of square eyeglasses , has his head shaved , and is apparently sprayed with WD40 to make him look greasy . One might hope at first that this revolting figure is compensated for , at least a little , by the fact that all the principal women in the fi... |
442,299 | 819,382 | 78,087 | 2 | Horrifying and Horrible . | Jaws came out in 1975 and was a blockbuster . This rip-off came out three years later and is , in part , a deliberate and self-conscious copy . Viewers are supposed to recognize it for what it is and enjoy it on that level . Okay . I get it . Even the cover is a rip-off . What I don't get is why someone would want to w... |
443,608 | 819,382 | 89,907 | 2 | Avoid it | Every human being faces eventual dissolution . Our most monumental curse is that we know it in a way , that say , a dog does not . The funerary practices of our own civilization can be seen as attempts to build a cocoon around the dead to shield them from the living . Even when we get to see the corpses they are coyly ... |
442,924 | 819,382 | 460,435 | 2 | Spoiled rotten . | I don't know why they had to tap Henry James ' novel , " The Turn of the Screw " , to get this plot together . The writers could have knocked off a one - or two-sentence treatment : " Mad woman hires out as nanny and harasses her two young charges to death . " James ' story , and Jack Clayton's adaptation of it in 1963... |
443,365 | 819,382 | 462,338 | 2 | Big Joke | The received wisdom is that if you lie , you must stick as closely to the truth as practical , in order to make the lie believable . That , basically , is what Clifford Irving did with his fabricated " autobiography " of Howard Hughes , the secretive and eccentric billionaire . The problem is that everyone is already f... |
442,104 | 819,382 | 268,586 | 2 | I think we've decompressed . | Maybe someone else can find something other than clichés in this movie but I couldn't . I generally enjoy airplanes-in-trouble movies . By their very nature they're pregnant with suspense and raise all sorts of questions , like , " What the hell are we doing up here at 37 , 000 feet ? ? ? " This is the kind of movie th... |
442,555 | 819,382 | 50,465 | 2 | Man finds himself with help of a good woman . | Don't watch this . Honest , you'll be bored . I saw it because the description of the plot on my guide grabbed me by the lapels and shook me awake . Something like , " A thief is shot by his partner who runs off with the loot . Saved by a Mexican girl , he sets out for revenge . " " Gun Battle in Monterey " ? It sounde... |
442,080 | 819,382 | 106,582 | 2 | Let it go . | Approached this in the mood for a good action movie but it was overall pretty disappointing . Good Lord . How much suspension of disbelief can you demand of one human being ? The story involves a handful of thieves and murderers taking four innocent Mountain Rescue Team hostages and forcing them to lead the way to thre... |
443,326 | 819,382 | 116,434 | 2 | Do You Know What Your Children Are Doing ? | A Chicago couple , Dillon and Dougherty , are falsely accused of killing their daughter . People begin to wonder if they did it . The police investigate and find suspicious evidence . The couple are maligned by the public and accused in the press . The cops speculate that they are Satanists and have ritually murdered t... |
443,094 | 819,382 | 106,527 | 2 | Narcissists | A depressing tale of a middle-aged man and teen-aged girl who have an affair , presumably , after which the girl shoots the guy's wife in the head , so that the girl and the guy can get married , or at least live together , happily ever after . It's based on the real events surrounding Aimee Fisher and Joey Buttafuco .... |
442,874 | 819,382 | 97,469 | 2 | Higher authority . . . | This movie is a longie and I must confess I nodded out from time to time . The fact that it is also surprisingly boring didn't help much . I watched it chiefly because I was curious to see what sort of spin it would put on Ollie North's political shenanigans . I really didn't expect a Jimmy-Stewart-type hero to emerge ... |
443,079 | 819,382 | 76,150 | 2 | Utter schlock , even by slasher standards . | It's a murder mystery cum slasher movie built around the goings-on at a Catholic church . The little girls are lined up backstage for their appearance at their first holy communion . Brooke Shields , the last in line , is strangled and her body stuffed into a window seat and set afire . That's the good part . The audie... |
443,434 | 819,382 | 409,182 | 2 | Down Into the Sea in Ships . | In the original " Poseidon Aventure , " ( 1972 ) we saw something original - - a handful of survivors exploring an upside-down ship , searching for an exit through the exposed bottom . There was something eerie and unsettling about seeing familiar surroundings vertically reversed . The men's urinals and the toilets hun... |
443,584 | 819,382 | 120,619 | 2 | Okay if you're into S & M . | Bridget Fonda is the sexually satisfied wife of handsome Hart Bochner . One afternoon she comes home , calls him " honey " , and quietly fixes him a drink , only to find that he's sulking . Minutes go by while she compliantly puts up with his frowning silence . Suddenly , he bursts into a rage , accusing her of infidel... |
442,686 | 819,382 | 100,934 | 2 | That's it ! Engorge the feijoada ! | The first time Carrie Otis appears on screen , she is a newly minted international lawyer at a job interview . She's breathless , anxious , and sounds fake . I thought she was doing the character , but in reality that was it . That's all she has for the entire movie . And Mickey Rourke ? Did someone whisper to him that... |
442,539 | 819,382 | 369,441 | 2 | Corrupt at Every Level . | No need to go on at any length about this frenetic remake of what was originally an only mildly diverting situation comedy in the first place . Guilding the lily ? Maybe - - but guilding the Queen Anne's Lace ? The action here is ratcheted up to almost unbearable levels as is everything else about the movie . The origi... |
443,302 | 819,382 | 175,526 | 2 | Virgins , Look Out . | This piece of meretricious trash is hardly worth reviewing but having sat through half of it , the voices that have just taken over my mind compel me to say a few words so here goes . A mysterious slasher in a small town is killing all the virgin high school students - - boys and girls alike , but mostly girls - - by d... |
442,815 | 819,382 | 963,794 | 2 | Ruins is right . | I don't know . What happens when a film like this is produced ? Do they start OUT to make another meretricious horror flick , making sure they hit all the necessary marks - - innocent kids partying , high hinks in isolated location , mysterious threat , resentful autochthones , exploding head , half-naked woman , somet... |
442,537 | 819,382 | 272,575 | 2 | For specialized tastes . Very specialized . | Nastassja Kinsky is easy to look at , and the performances aren't bad , and that's about it . Now , if you're going to make a science fiction movie about some weird stuff going on in town , some conspiracy or secret , there are a couple of ways of approaching it . You always begin with a normal person , as this movie d... |
443,037 | 819,382 | 74,329 | 2 | All at Sea . | The milieu here is the family and friends of the Commodore ( John Dehner ) , very rich folks . The Commodore is murdered and just as we think Columbo has the killer ( Robert Vaughan ) cornered , he's murdered too . Columbo assembles all the possible suspects in a room at the end and goes through a Charlie Chan or Hercu... |
443,090 | 819,382 | 454,841 | 2 | Nice idea . Movie : One long execution . | Great location shooting - - a windswept old model town , right out of a Twilight Zone episode , that was used as an atomic testing site . I love it when naive characters wander around in a deserted little settlement , discovering the mannequins and other left-overs from the era of atomic testing . There's a certain thr... |
442,473 | 819,382 | 804,461 | 2 | There is Nothing New Under the Gun . | I guess someone reckoned it was time to resuscitate the " Death Wish " movies that began in 1974 , but the similarly title " Death Sentence " had to be updated , and for good reason . This is not the late 60s or early 70s when urban crime rates were triple what they'd been just a few years earlier . The dangers of urba... |
442,421 | 819,382 | 140,352 | 2 | Warning : Movie May Cause Boredom | Whether the defendant is a squealer or a whistle blower depends on which side of the social border the judge sits on . If the informant betrays secrets about an organization we support , then he's a squealer or a spy . If we hate the organization , then he's a civic-minded whistle blower . It's kind of like being a " t... |
442,014 | 819,382 | 140,447 | 2 | Gloomy Soap Opera . | The movie begins with the success of " The Fountainhead " by Ayn Rand ( Helen Mirrin ) and covers the next fifteen or so years of her rise to the top of a collective movement known as " objectivism , " which became a kind of cult with Rand as the golden-gowned Inca empress . What a dull movie . Let's see . Mirrin is ma... |
443,450 | 819,382 | 47,559 | 2 | Magnificently lousy . | Four people ( Denning , Crowley , Grey , and Reeves ) meet by accident on the streets of a city that has been emptied overnight of people , except for a few dead bodies . They learn from a newspaper that the city has been invaded and evacuated by everyone else . The cars have been disabled , so the four refugees hole u... |
442,859 | 819,382 | 880,578 | 2 | Interesting Idea Rendered Into Horror Fest . | Somebody - - some techie wizard out there - - is able to shuffle his electronic impulses around the world , making it impossible to trace his personal address . He takes to executing kidnap victims in ingenious ways . And he has things rigged so that the deaths appear live on his web site . What exterminations they are... |
441,673 | 819,382 | 452,702 | 2 | Low-level thrills . | A bickering couple ( Luke Wilson , Kate Beckinsale ) are forced to register at an isolated motel when their car breaks down . They shortly discover a pile of VHS tapes in their room . They play the tapes and find that they are snuff films ( for want of a better word ) that were shot by secreted cameras in the very room... |
443,040 | 819,382 | 429,573 | 2 | Made for Thrill Junkies . | This inexpensive and unimaginative imitation of " The Exorcist " is going to enthrall anyone who doesn't care about where their thrills come from . It begins as the story of Donald Sutherland as a 1820s Tennessee patriarch who has charged too much interest on the lease of some of his land . He's chastised in court but ... |
443,289 | 819,382 | 330,099 | 2 | Male narcissism . | Why bother ? Vincent Gallo , a motorcycle racer , is so magnetic that waitresses throw off their jobs and leave farewell notes at a hint . ( He produced the movie . ) He's not particularly good looking but he's sympathetic because he acts depressed all the time and women want to cuddle him . Montgomery Clift could pull... |
442,558 | 819,382 | 155,975 | 2 | A Crime of Profit , Not Passion . | This is , per se , an above average film but why in the name of Bog was it made ? It's impossible to treat it as a thing unto itself because it is an almost shot-for-shot remake of an Alfred Hitchcock classic of 1960 . You can't watch it without the 1960 film nudging into your consciousness . What does the word " credi... |
442,401 | 819,382 | 424,136 | 2 | First fifteen minutes , yeah ! Then a nosedive into torture . | Patrick Wilson plays a 32-year-old professional photographer who we first see flirting with a 14-year-old girl , Ellen Page , on the internet . They meet at a cafe and , after he takes her on a little shopping trip , she more or less eagerly agrees to go to his apartment . So far , so good . The movie could easily have... |
442,480 | 819,382 | 440,963 | 2 | The Dregs . | Great cast - - Matt Damon , Scott Glenn , Joan Allen , David Strathairn - - wasted in this commercial piece of egregious offal . The original in this franchise , " The Bourne Identity " , was a fascinating and brutal action movie with a genuine engine behind the plot . Just who IS Jason Bourne ? Well , as it turns out ... |
443,242 | 819,382 | 115,611 | 2 | The Weaker Sex | This is really written by the numbers . A single mother ( Michelle Greene ) takes a job as a deputy sheriff in a Northwestern town . Her boss is Harry Hamlin . He seems like a nice enough guy , but then , married though he is , he makes some rather brusque moves on her . She finds this offensive . She also finds it off... |
442,779 | 819,382 | 87,022 | 2 | Washout | I watched this because I had a hunch it might be pretty good . Sometimes TV movies have a certain zinginess to them , a sort of " what the hell " quality that's generated , I've always suspected , by the unusually low budgets , That is , if your investment is small enough , you don't have to worry so much about produci... |
442,587 | 819,382 | 178,781 | 2 | Bubble Bathos . | Plot : Dennis Cromwell ( Sam Bottoms ) is a prosperous banker with a wife and new baby girl in Marin County . He's friends with his roofer , Enrique ( Marco Rodrigues ) whose teen-aged daughter is Bottoms ' baby sitter . The perky daughter ( Yeniffer Behrens ) develops a crush on Bottoms and they begin an affair . She'... |
443,193 | 819,382 | 255,233 | 2 | Biotech in spades . | I know what the story is supposed to be because I've read about it . But although I knew the frame , I couldn't identify any part of the contents . I gather that this was intended as a serious attempt at art . For those of you who associate Japanese art with articulated paper cranes , polished lacquer bowls , finely ma... |
442,332 | 819,382 | 141,926 | 2 | Silly Fictional Submarine Fare . | There really isn't much to be said about this hokey story of an event that never happened during World War II . The movie involves ratty German U-boat sailors , scared but brave and religious American sailors , the capture of a German coding device called Enigma that we already had , impossible triple somersaults in th... |
443,313 | 819,382 | 404,032 | 2 | Read a book instead . | Laura Linney has the even features usually sought in Hollywood actresses , in her case adorned with sexily plump cheeks . She cool , tall , blonde , blue eyed . She is a competent and professional performer who does particularly well as a semi-elegant urban type . But what is she doing in a piece of junk like this ? I ... |
443,231 | 819,382 | 185,371 | 2 | Malevolent Spirits . | What is this , after all ? A remake in color of a schlock 45-year-old Vincent Price horror movie ( not very good to begin with ) featuring a cavalcade of special effects . A rich amusement park owner ( Geoffrey Rush ) and his cynical - - and very tall - - wife ( Famke Jannsen ) invite half a dozen friends to spend the ... |
443,577 | 819,382 | 49,516 | 2 | The Bottom of the Pits | This is one shoddy piece of work . Not hateful , because it doesn't actively promote antisocial behavior , and not bad enough to be unintentionally amusing either . It's a straightforward attempt to cobble together a cheap movie , while putting no time or effort into it , and drawing in enough patrons to make a profit ... |
441,664 | 819,382 | 119,395 | 2 | Hyena | It's hard to believe this thing received so many positive comments from viewers . The performances struck me as adequate , but that was the only decent thing about it . The story sports more lacunae than a round of Emmenthaler cheese and has so many pointless asides that the narrative is almost impossible to follow and... |
442,920 | 819,382 | 84,777 | 2 | Schlagfest | Dario Argento has been described as the new Hitchcock . God help us . Never mind the plot for the moment . Let's just address the technique . The only shot that remotely resembled something Hitchcock might have done was a long and involved movement of the camera up one side of a roof and down the other , lingering over... |
443,351 | 819,382 | 56,417 | 3 | Sad Finale . | Same writer , producer , and director . Same two leads and a cameo by the third . Same whimsy and ipsative jokes . It no longer works . The first impression a viewer gets is that the photography is too GOOD . It's in nice , crisp black and white , whereas it ought to be in fuzzy 1940s gray . And the boys now ride aroun... |
442,054 | 819,382 | 73,802 | 3 | Paranoia , the psychiatric kind | I cannot get past the message of this movie . It's laid out much too clearly to ignore , and it is obscene because it has lost its sense of what it's about . I haven't read the novel , but Pollack's film opens with a scene at a CIA-front organization in New York , which is broken into by two professional assassins , he... |
442,598 | 819,382 | 52,587 | 3 | Take her down . | There's not much to be said about " Atomic Submarine . " It's an inexpensive SF thriller about a nuclear-powered submarine that's sent to the North Pole to find out why ships have been disappearing so often in northern latitudes . The Tiger Shark , with Dick Foran as the commanding officer and Arthur Franz as his exec ... |
442,591 | 819,382 | 152,015 | 3 | Writer's Block . | I wish Depardieu had been able to finish his book and see it become a dazzling success . At least he'd have wound up with something . The film struck me as pointless , rambling , and very stylish , like some other recent French films . Not to knock it . Most recent American films are pointless and rambling and have no ... |
443,032 | 819,382 | 75,921 | 3 | Women Can Be As Sloppy As Men ! | A text prologue warns us that we should not allow evil to enter our house , but I think the more apt word is " entropy . " Good grief , what slobs these two babes are ! George ( Seymour Cassell ) is alone in his San Francisco office and his monstrously expensive home in Tiburon while his wife and child are away in San ... |
442,484 | 819,382 | 444,682 | 3 | Confused and Confusing . | Hilary Swank is a professor at Louisiana State University and she and her former teaching assistant are called away to a remote town in the swamp to investigate what seems to be a recurrence of the ten Biblical plagues of Egypt . The minute I saw that her assistant was a good-natured black guy , I worried for his healt... |
441,783 | 819,382 | 45,607 | 3 | Weak Script Sinks Golden Fleece | This really should have been better . In 1953 British studios were pounding out comic hits one after another , but , alas , this wasn't one of them . I saw it years ago and remember being vaguely disappointed . Seeing it again hasn't changed my opinion . There's nothing wrong with the acting , except perhaps that Yvonn... |
443,237 | 819,382 | 50,610 | 3 | Inexpensive tale of energy wars . | Jeff Morrow is Leslie Gaskell , Barbara Laurence is Vera Hunter , and John Emory is Hubbel Eliot . Along with some ancillary Air Force personnel and a comic geek , they are in charge of a super-secret underground laboratory on the West Coast . Morrow is thrilled when he discovers a meteor passing through the atmosphere... |
442,626 | 819,382 | 160,652 | 3 | COD : Terminal Stupidity . | As these things go , it's not too bad - - about average maybe . It's a revenge story in which an evil and psychotic man , Caulfield , insinuates himself into a normal household . He is the perfect tenant , occupying the guest house in the rear . Like most tenants , or rather like most people , he isn't everything he se... |
441,780 | 819,382 | 56,331 | 3 | A Slapdash Doomsday . | Good premise , the temporary suspension of civilized values after a nuclear attack , an idea around which a good and gripping film might have been built . Instead we have a poor script and below-par acting in a meandering and disjointed tale . The Baldwin family load their car and trailer at four in the morning ( broad... |
442,678 | 819,382 | 43,882 | 3 | Kaye Impersonates Celebrity Aviator . | I'm afraid I couldn't get with the program here . Danny Kaye is responsible for some of the funnier movies ever made , but this plot is a weak comedy of manners . It has Kaye as Jack Martin , a nightclub impersonator , being called on to pretend he's a celebrated , aristocratic French aviator . There is a mix up with t... |
442,914 | 819,382 | 103,074 | 3 | All Men Are Brutes | Susan Sarandon is a delight as always , with her exopthalmia and perky nose . Geena Davis , in her first big role since her appearance in " The Accidental Tourist " is also good , and yummy in a toothy sort of way . The movie is fun to watch but it's silly in a desperate kind of way , slapping each other's palms and go... |
443,279 | 819,382 | 337,978 | 3 | The DNA is degraded . | The original " Die Hard " was a crudely entertaining action movie with comic villains and a couple of humorous exchanges in addition to the usual violent sequences that had Bruce Willis as Officer John McClane running barefoot through a sea of broken glass . The next episode in the franchise , " Die Harder , " switched... |
442,375 | 819,382 | 422,720 | 3 | Boy , Did They Eat Cake . | The film has a fine cast and there are some original touches . The American actors speak unaccented English , without as much as a nod to any alien phones , for instance , despite the late 18th-century French setting . And there may be snatches of rococo music but most of the score is electronically amplified rock with... |
441,837 | 819,382 | 223,384 | 3 | Disappoints | People couldn't wait for Rizzo to be elected mayor of Philadelphia . He was a popular , inarticulate , authoritarian Chief of Police . ( He's the chief that Sidney Poitier talks to on the phone in " In The Heat of the Night . " ) The city had become positively dangerous by the early 1970s . I lived there at the time an... |
443,435 | 819,382 | 66,407 | 3 | Pretty irritating , Miller or not . | I don't know about this one . The point , if there was one , seemed to get by me . Multiple references to the film's source , Henry Miller's eponymous novel , don't help much . Much of Miller's appeal comes not just from his go-to-hell attitude towards life and art but from the way he expresses his sentiments on the pa... |
442,832 | 819,382 | 103,258 | 3 | Please , don't get up . Ah'm jess passin ' through . | Generally when somebody screws up , they go through three sets of filters in the course of attempts at correction . The first order of social control is usually the family . When Dad spots a roach clip on his son's dresser , well , they sit down and have a good talk about it . Mom may ground her daughter for not doing ... |
442,487 | 819,382 | 30,418 | 3 | Tumbrils Amid the Soap . | One hundred and fifty-seven minutes of lavish romance , intrigue , and politics , dished up by MGM's superb spectacle factory . There's an " entre act " and everything . The problem , for me anyway , is that the thing is so exquisitely dull . The first half - - before the entre act , that is - - is a kind of late 18th-... |
442,231 | 819,382 | 65,377 | 3 | Everything you could want in an airplane spoof . | We can't call this " the grandfather of all airplane movies " because that honor belongs to " The High and the Mighty , " released around 1954 . But this one is obviously the source of all the sequels , television series , and spoofs that followed its release . Maybe " The High and the Mighty " was the most original an... |
443,463 | 819,382 | 99,005 | 3 | Right Up There in the First Rank of the Second Rate . | Skilled professionals live it up in an exotic and dangerous location . They get drunk every night . They smuggle opium . They drop pigs in parachutes . They fly under impossibly hazardous conditions . They dress weird and act weirder . They're iconoclastic , outrageous . They violate every rule of command and have cont... |
442,743 | 819,382 | 390,521 | 3 | Super Sized Ego | The startling conclusion of this documentary is that if you stuff yourself with nothing but junk food and take no exercise for 30 days you'll get fat , and your body chemistry will be so banged up that on paper you'll look more like a flashlight battery than a human being . . Spurlock must be an interesting guy . The f... |
443,433 | 819,382 | 72,260 | 3 | Very hot stuff in 1974 . | Saw it in a drive-in in San Mateo , CA . Here's how it goes . There's this delicious teacher , Angel Tompkins who must have one of the most cartoonishly beautiful faces on film and a figure to match , is separated from her husband and develops a case of oestrus , the object of her intentions being a former student of h... |
442,011 | 819,382 | 116,259 | 3 | The difference between God and a doctor . | SPOILERS . It's an old joke . What's the difference between God and a doctor ? God doesn't think he's a doctor . That's Dr . Gene Hackman's problem in this film - - he gets the two identities mixed up . He loses what sociologists call " role distance . " He begins to believe that because he can delay death , he can giv... |
442,741 | 819,382 | 99,052 | 3 | By the numbers . | It follows the formula as if in a Marine boot camp . Strictly lockstep . A nice young doctor , his beautiful wife , and two lovely kiddies move out of the city and buy a ranch house in a small town . The house seems to have everything they want . It even has a large , well-stocked wine cellar . The cellar is always dar... |
443,275 | 819,382 | 43,545 | 3 | Come Fly With Me ! | It is said that there are some people out there who actually ADMIRE Monogram's movies . Well - - and why not ? Monogram Studios lived on a kind of Cost Plus basis ; cost , plus enough to pay the rent and buy a pizza and a bottle of robust muscatel every once in a while . Sure , they're cheap . But let's face it : they'... |
441,802 | 819,382 | 213,149 | 3 | Japs Interrupt Love Affair . | Well , it had a monstrous budget and professionally competent actors , but it's not worth much mention . I suppose it accomplished its goal , which was to use computer-generated effects and make money . Its chief utility may be to introduce kids to some elementary facts about World War II . It wasn't designed to do it ... |
442,738 | 819,382 | 33,611 | 3 | Hasty and Dated . | Richard Arlen is a happy-go-lucky pilot who , fired from his job , begins his own airline . It's a line between Los Angeles and Las Vegas , mainly for people who want to get married in America's playground . Trips may also be made between Los Angeles and Reno , for those for whom Las Vegas didn't work out . Arlen's ste... |
443,555 | 819,382 | 62,673 | 3 | Diluted and boring film a clef . | It's a not-entirely fictional story about the Ango-American landings at Anzio on Italy's west coast . It's diluted because the story behind those landings is far more interesting than what we see on the screen . Names , personalities , and motives are changed around so that hardly any echo of the real characters remain... |
443,251 | 819,382 | 70,046 | 3 | Perfunctory historical thriller . | This is an inexpensive , ill-written , carelessly directed spelling out of a highly improbable scenario resulting in the assassination of President John F . Kennedy in Dallas , Texas , in 1963 . Through the abundant exiguity we follow the machinations of some right-wing nuts who gather a team to shoot JFK and succeed ,... |
443,095 | 819,382 | 111,255 | 3 | Look , Ma - - I'm Inna Movies ! | When I was a teenager , a high-school freshman or sophomore , I recall having contests during gym classes with the other guys . We'd stand in front of the mirror with our arms folded across our chests in such a way that each hand was lodged under the biceps opposite , and then we'd nudge the muscles forward to see what... |
441,662 | 819,382 | 118,158 | 3 | Utter Hokum | The story , as I understand , is " based on real events . " That can be either good or bad , depending on what sort of license is taken with those real events and how they are rendered . In this case , the results are enough to gag a maggot . I wasn't expecting much going in - - anticipating a story of rich high-school... |
443,031 | 819,382 | 80,641 | 3 | God's in the details , but deeply asleep . | In this movie , the national airline in Zingaro has a great airplane , a two-engined Convair from the 1950s . They don't make ' em anymore . I mean the airplane , not the movie . They make movies like this all the time . A mega corporation wants the mineral rights in an African country ruled by a ruthless dictator . So... |
441,778 | 819,382 | 58,700 | 3 | Positively funereal . | I've never read Richard Matthieson's novel , I Am Legend , but know some of his short stories and his work on The Twilight Zone has been consistently admirable . This thing eludes me . The pace is slow , the exposition clotted , the acting below par , and the story depressing . It wasn't until the climax that I realize... |
442,501 | 819,382 | 366,598 | 3 | Small Town Floozie Fights Injustice . | I hate to sound unappreciative of any artistic endeavor , or unreceptive to stories of the weak being mistreated by the strong , but I can't help wondering how much longer they'll be grinding out scenarios that fit this template : Helpless young woman is raped ( or otherwise abused ) by a man ( or men ) of greater soci... |
442,172 | 819,382 | 41,378 | 3 | Unimaginative | I wish I could recommend this because it has potential and there is some talent involved - - Richard Fleischer , Anthony Mann , Jeff Corey . And - - William Lundigan ? When it comes to B movies this comes pretty close to a Platonic ideal . The script is weak and full of holes , the actors unexciting , and the direction... |
443,278 | 819,382 | 360,486 | 3 | Purgatorio | There is a scene in this movie in which a detective with supernatural powers uses a cat as a portal into Hell . I turned to my cat , Josefina , usually keen on the heuristics of these things , and asked if she found this in any way offensive . " Absolutely , " she replied , turning her eyes from the screen in disgust .... |
443,074 | 819,382 | 454,970 | 3 | Treacherous swarthy foreigners chase rich white kids through jungle . | At least it can be said that this movie isn't as bad as the disease that is its namesake . For one thing , it's shot in the outback of Brazil , although it is no essay on the wilderness . For another , the chief villain is given a reason , however silly , for having his horde pursue these fun-loving kids through the ju... |
442,076 | 819,382 | 102,789 | 3 | The very definition of Routine Thriller . | Denzel Washington is a prosperous , respected , happily married DA . John Lithgow is a prisoner whom Washington sent up the river years ago . Lithgow and a friend escape , murdering everyone in their path . Lithgow fakes his own death . Everyone now believes him to be a harmless corpse , but ha ha , he moves around lit... |
442,585 | 819,382 | 315,110 | 3 | Life is like an empty road - - | It must have been a small-budget film and it shows . Sort of a travelogue with sex and violence , it meanders along the byways of Jumbo Rocks and Twentynine Palms , California . Impressive , dignified scenery , and that's about it . Katia plays Katia , who speaks only French . David plays David , who speaks English and... |
442,522 | 819,382 | 372,183 | 3 | Stillbirth . | Few sequels are as good as the original , but this one is really pretty bad , distilling out of the first version everything that was good and simply throwing it away , then adding some stuff that makes it almost impossible to watch . . Take the title . " The Bourne Identity " actually had meaning . There was a questio... |
442,808 | 819,382 | 144,214 | 3 | Disappointing Military Whodunnit . | All the ingredients seem to be there but the dish comes out flat . Nice cast , and they all do a journeyman job , but most of them are in minor roles and some of them contribute virtually nothing to the goings on . Madeleine Stowe for instance is radiant , as usual , with those crossed coal-black irises , but why is sh... |
442,841 | 819,382 | 100,133 | 3 | Exciting , didactic , pastiche . | This film has virtually nothing to do with the original " Memphis Belle " of 1944 , except I suppose that it involves the crew of a B-17 on their final mission . Maybe a few duplicate shots . That's about it . Two notably good things about it . One is that it gives us the feeling of what it's really like to be aboard a... |
442,781 | 819,382 | 86,984 | 3 | Deja View | I think I just had what they call an " epiphany . " It never occurred to me before , just as I'm sure it never occurred to anyone else , that there is a certain family resemblance between Brian DePalma's films and those of Alfred Hitchcock . Yes , it's true . For me , the dawn broke during the first half of this movie ... |
442,214 | 819,382 | 181,689 | 3 | Full of action and suspense , and still dull . | I'm afraid watching this thing , the images on the screen constantly in motion , the blurry images , the supersonic warp-speed editing , must have fused my synapses . I couldn't get through it . Oh , I enjoyed the score . Always liked Beethoven . But it was much easier to listen to with eyes closed . The performances w... |
442,031 | 819,382 | 60,186 | 3 | Aardvark . | I can't imagine why Bob Hope , a superb comedian in the 1940s , continued to grind out these rude lumps of deformity through the 1960s . It must have been the money . There were a couple of weaknesses consistent across this string of duds . One is that Bob Hope was simply not Bob Hope , and this one is a good demonstra... |
443,134 | 819,382 | 36,161 | 3 | Routine and Inexpensive . | This is a Pine-Thomas Production , which should tell you a lot . I described a similar P-T story to my brother who advised me not to expect too much , that there were thousands of these cheap flag-wavers made during the war . This is a cheap flag-waver about two sailors ( Richard Arlen and Russel Hayden ) who are rival... |
442,962 | 819,382 | 106,452 | 3 | Just Another Remake . . . | I don't know why Ferrara did it . I suppose just to add incremental touches to bring the story up to date . The original , directed by Don Siegel , was set in a small California town in which everyone knew everyone else and featured as its protagonist a doctor who was on familiar terms with his patients and made house ... |
441,952 | 819,382 | 119,709 | 3 | Ka-Poof ! | I guess I've about reached satiation on noisy and implausible action films . They have to have some sort of sheen in order to make any impression at all . " The Bourne Identity " was interesting because of the location shooting , the direction , and the performances by the leads and the support . It also had a cool nar... |
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