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468,947 | 1,532,177 | 47,889 | 3 | Too Right Wing For My Taste . . . . | . . . . Though that's only to be expected . It's not like anyone is going to confuse John Wayne with Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton are they ? , so when you have a movie about the Duke escorting a bunch of refugees downriver from Red China you know what to expect ie all Chinese who aren't commies are brave and noble and ... |
469,039 | 1,532,177 | 43,547 | 3 | Too Old Fashioned | It wasn't until the 1970s that unapologetic anti-war sentiment appeared in war movies on a regular basis . My humble opinion on this is that it's a wonderful thing . Honesty , angst and intelligence come together to make some of the greatest films of the late 20th century which include CROSS OF IRON , APOCALYPSE NOW , ... |
470,299 | 1,532,177 | 108,580 | 3 | Dreary True Life TVM | In Britain we have a show called 999 where real life disasters are reconstructed on screen . I don't know if there is an equivalent show in the US but watching WITHOUT WARNING made me think I was watching a feature length episode of 999 because this TVM is filmed entirely on video tape so it can be intercut with real l... |
469,182 | 1,532,177 | 202,381 | 3 | Let There Be Light | Apart from the fact that this film was made ( I suppose it seemed a good idea at the time considering BOTTOM was so popular ) the one thing that puzzled me about GUEST HOUSE PARADISO was what happened to the lighting ? There is absolutely no artificial lighting used in this film whatsoever , and I watched it on network... |
468,385 | 1,532,177 | 282,163 | 3 | Shred It Untill It's Dead | Coming up with a generic plot is often compared to shuffling a pack of cards in order to come up with a slightly different plot each time . Unfortunately by the end of the 20th century the pack of cards entitled " Bunch of teenagers get stalked and killed " had been shuffled to death and what the post modernist humour ... |
470,286 | 1,532,177 | 109,551 | 3 | The BBC Announcer Didn't Really Spoil It For Me | I'm taking no chances - POSSIBLE SPOILER - just in case " A mutant rodent terrorises a graveyard in our late film now " said the BBC announcer as THE DARK started which may have ruined the film for me , but to be honest there isn't enough of a film here to ruin because as the announcer said this film is more or less su... |
468,629 | 1,532,177 | 272,575 | 3 | Very Disappointing | SPOILERS I really enjoyed SHE CREATURE from the creature features series so I was looking forward to this instalment but I was so very disappointed with it . This is more or less a remake of XTRO . Okay maybe it's not as bad as the British video nasty since it does make some sense but it's still a cliched tale of a mis... |
468,691 | 1,532,177 | 137,051 | 3 | Totally Confusing | I heard that Scottish stadium rock gods Simple Minds were doing the music to this show which pricked my interest . Don't laugh but Simple Minds were a great rock band in the 1980s even though they shot themselves in the foot a decade later by continually bringing out the same album ala Status Quo and Oasis every altern... |
468,985 | 1,532,177 | 74,286 | 3 | Possibly The Worst In The Series | I don't know if the CARRY ON series was past its sell by date in 1976 but you get the impression that no one is even trying to make a funny comedy here . It lacks many of the regulars like Jim Dale and Kenneth Williams and sees them replaced by the likes of Patrick Mower who lack the essential comic timing the regulars... |
470,207 | 1,532,177 | 109,456 | 3 | Rhymes With The Word Night | This involves Bruce Willis playing a shrink whose patients are getting bumped off one by one . The shrink is also having a sexual relationship with someone young enough to be his daughter and the film goes like this . . . . Cut to group therapy session with actors you've seen in ALIENS and THE TWO TOWERSCut to shrink h... |
469,233 | 1,532,177 | 179,443 | 3 | It's Rancid Alright | This is a film that had a lot to live down to . on the year of its release legendary film critic Barry Norman considered it the worst film of the year and I'd heard nothing but bad things about it especially a plot that was criticised for being too complicated To be honest the plot is something of a red herring and the... |
469,035 | 1,532,177 | 126,810 | 3 | Elrond Kisses Men ! ! ! ! ! | Let's get one thing straight ( Geddit ? ) BEDROOMS AND HALLWAYS is a film that will appeal to no one regardless of their sexuality . Gays will hate it because of the portrayal of gay men as being camp neurotics while straights will hate it because there is zero entertainment to be found in men snogging each other sense... |
468,383 | 1,532,177 | 217,370 | 3 | Avoid | THE TOM BAKER YEARS differs very much from the previous three YEARS tapes , all of Baker's episodes existed in the BBC archives unlike the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton eras ( Which was the original idea behind the Hartnell and Troughton YEARS tapes ) so here we see Tom Baker commenting on a clip from every st... |
470,119 | 1,532,177 | 126,973 | 3 | Spare Us The Lovey Dovey Stuff | This despite its title is a love story rather than a biopic of James Dean . The film starts with a voice over from Pier Angeli and the first 40 minutes revolves around her romance with James Dean which is a severe disappointment if you're watching this expecting to learn much about the legend that was James Dean . The ... |
469,785 | 1,532,177 | 197,770 | 3 | Not Much Of A Pleasure | Interesting to note that the reviewers have commented at some length on the beauty of the actresses involved . Yes they certainly are attractive but even in soft core terms ( And we're speaking very soft core here ) the acting is very wooden . Not only that but it features probably the most unconvincing love making sce... |
470,230 | 1,532,177 | 113,540 | 3 | More Controversy For Controversy's Sake | Larry Clark might think he's made a movie that will get people all over the world talking . It got me talking . It made me say " More controversy for the sake of it " YAAAAWWWNNN . But to be fair to Clark there's no such thing as bad publicity so any movie that sickens an audience with AIDS , rape , drug taking and vio... |
470,298 | 1,532,177 | 282,483 | 3 | Not Much Yuck For Your Buck | If there's one good thing about genetic engineering it is that it allows film makers to have a ready made plot to kick start a movie . Alas many film makers use genetic engineering to kick start not very good movies . I could have put the boot into FANGS , in fact I could have kicked its teeth in , but I often get too ... |
469,620 | 1,532,177 | 69,715 | 3 | I Didn't Scream But Boy Did I Yawn | A pair of newly weds move into the family mansion in the late 18th century but unfortunately new bride Catherine keeps seeing ghostly apparitions and the bad news for her husband is that it usually happens just before she consumates the marriage . This is why sex before marriage is essential nowadays chaps you don't wa... |
468,644 | 1,532,177 | 117,958 | 3 | Too Low Concept | TREES LOUNGE is a film about Tommy Basilio , an unemployed mechanic who spend most of his time drinking in a bar or snorting drugs . " What's so compelling about this movie ? " you ask , well I think you've hit the nail on the head with that question because there's nothing really compelling about TREES LOUNGE . It's a... |
469,247 | 1,532,177 | 87,130 | 3 | Badly Made Survivalist Shocker | I haven't seen DEF-CON 4 for several years and if it's as bad as I remember it I hope to never see it again . The story is grim and lacks credibility . A space station witnesses the third world war and a trio of survivors wait for the radiation levels to drop so they can return to Earth , and when they return they find... |
469,484 | 1,532,177 | 155,975 | 3 | Not A Remake | Don't be fooled into thinking that this is a remake as in this years remake of THE TIME MACHINE is based on an earlier film . It's not because this is a pointless re - film . That is the director has used the original camera script shot for shot similar to the " remake " of THE GET AWAY from a few years ago . The scene... |
470,127 | 1,532,177 | 113,425 | 3 | ZZZZZZZZZZZ | This got shown on BBC 1 just before midnight so I was expecting another American TVM . But as it started I was slightly surprised to find THE INNOCENT SLEEP was a British thriller , unfortunately it's not a very good one The problem is that it's not just run of the mill but also treats the characters as stereotypes . A... |
468,554 | 1,532,177 | 159,752 | 3 | Dire Post Apocalypse Thriller | Planet Earth has suffered a terrible environmental disaster so humanity now survives underground split in to different religious cults . What caused the catastrophe ? I have no idea ? why is humanity split in to different ecclesiastical factions ? I have no idea . Since the surface of the Earth can no longer support hu... |
469,659 | 1,532,177 | 133,046 | 3 | Maybe I'm Too Old For This | I was very disappointed with TEACHING MRS TINGLE because as it was written and directed by Kevin Williamson I was expecting a smart post modernist black comedy deconstructing other movies with kidnapping as a theme but this doesn't really happen , in short there's little idiosyncratic style from the man who wrote the s... |
468,496 | 1,532,177 | 140,743 | 3 | Truly Awful | This starts out with an alien spaceship being found during the blizt , a homage to QUATERMASS AND THE PIT no doubt but as the series progresses it comes more as an insult than a homage . I rate Nigel Kneale as television's greatest ever writer and QUATERMASS AND THE PIT as the greatest drama ever to have been transmitt... |
469,890 | 1,532,177 | 87,051 | 3 | Doesn't Hold Up To Repeat Viewing | I remember first seeing this in 1980 as part of THE HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR series and everyone was talking about it at school on Monday . I saw it for a second time last night and to be honest it's not much cop . It's just another predictable story of a newly wed couple getting lost and spending the night at a creepy m... |
469,925 | 1,532,177 | 243,904 | 3 | Another Waste Of Lottery Funds | The opening credits of THE FINAL CURTAIN rolled and the very first credit stated that this was a film produced by Universal Studios in conjunction with DNA films . I missed the rest of the credits because I was through the kitchen making a cup of tea but when I came back I was struck as to how the film played out becau... |
469,206 | 1,532,177 | 113,855 | 3 | Computer Games Should Not Be Made Into Movies | I know there's a ready made market for films based on computer games but shouldn't film makers also cater for people who have never played the game ? Why not make a film based on a video game with an involving storyline , and decent acting and half decent fight scenes with real martial arts stars ? , at least that way ... |
469,647 | 1,532,177 | 71,424 | 3 | Disappointed After Seeing It Again | I had very fond memories of DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY after seeing it many years ago . The ending is very memorable and featured in the title sequence of the popular Lee Majors show THE FALL GUY and every teenage boy can can remember a Susan George movie I saw the movie again a few nights ago and I was very disappointed w... |
470,196 | 1,532,177 | 395,443 | 3 | The Title Sums It Up | Many years ago there was a contributer to this website called Tim Cox who wrote countless reviews which never seem to be composed of much more than three lines . I noticed the director of ALIEN LOCKDOWN is also called Tim Cox and I wonder if they're both the one and the same since one's respective reviews are as thread... |
469,757 | 1,532,177 | 117,608 | 3 | Bad Idea | When I say " Doctor Who " you might conjure up an image of Tom Baker , or Jon Pertwee or maybe Peter Davison . When I say " James Bond " you'll almost certainly conjure up an image of Sean Connery while a small handful of people may think of Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan . But when I say " Sgt Bilko " absolutely everyo... |
469,935 | 1,532,177 | 243,885 | 3 | Not Among The Elite Of Action Movies | MILD SPOILERS The title sequence of ELITE features some very obvious exposition ( Just like THE A TEAM ) telling the story of how an elite business cartel are killed in a terrorist attack and how the victims children are brought by a shadowy government department to be trained as an anti terrorist unit , an elite anti ... |
468,905 | 1,532,177 | 308,798 | 3 | Doesn't Work | Wow an American version of the BBC comedy classic DAD'S ARMY ! What a masterstroke of stupidity , it's a bit like making an American version of FAWLTY TOWERS or a British version of MARRIED WITH CHILDREN who in their right minds would do that ? Oh hold on somebody has on both the latter countsThere's two things you sho... |
469,661 | 1,532,177 | 117,690 | 3 | Infactual , Polemical , But What'd You Expect ? | SOME MOTHER'S SON starts with some archive video of Magaret Thatcher making a speech after winning the 1979 British general election followed by a sequence of British government officials getting together with one of them saying " The rules < On Northern Ireland and terrorism have changed > have changed , the policy is... |
468,617 | 1,532,177 | 74,881 | 3 | Seen It All Before | I can imagine the pitch at the TV execs office went something like this " You know what everyone watches at the cinema these days ? Disaster movies , so let's get everyone out of the cinema back into the home with a disaster movie for TV " " Great idea . We'll get a well known TV actor and some Oscar winning actor ever... |
468,686 | 1,532,177 | 64,253 | 3 | Not Very Interesting | What this film has is its realism , you really do get the feeling screenwriter James Slater has been doing his homework on the subject of downhill skiing while director Michael Ritchie shoots the movie in a fly on the wall documentary style . However the problem is unless you're a big fan of the sport there's not a lot... |
469,215 | 1,532,177 | 196,229 | 3 | What Is This Crap About ? | I normally like Ben Stiller but I think with ZOOLANDER he has too many irons in too many fires . Directed by , written by and starring Ben Stiller proves you can have too much of a good thing . Stiller works best when he's playing it straight in a comic situation like THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY and MEET THE PARENTS ,... |
469,361 | 1,532,177 | 174,856 | 3 | This Is Not A True Story Or An Accurate Bio-Pic | The problem with this movie is summed up in the very first scene where Rubin " Hurricane " Carter fights Emile Griffith for the world welterweight championship in 1963 . You might be surprised when I point out that Carter never fought Griffith for a world championship in 1963 though he did fight for the middlewight cha... |
470,158 | 1,532,177 | 243,736 | 3 | Is There A Difference Between a Romantic Comedy And A Sex Comedy ? | Matt Sullivan has just suffered a break up from the love of his life so has decided to give up sex for lent . Unfortunately he then meets the real love of his life called Erica . When I say " Unfortunately " I meant unfortunately for Matt and his vow of celibacy . Unfortunately for me I decided to watch this film becau... |
469,382 | 1,532,177 | 74,977 | 3 | Budget ? What Budget ? | This has got to be one of the lowest budget films ever produced in Britain , and considering it's a British film that is indeed saying a lot . In fact it's somewhat insulting to consider NOT NOW COMRADE a " film " since as one contributer mentioned it's a stage play . It's like someone has gone into the local theartre ... |
468,944 | 1,532,177 | 179,183 | 3 | I Can Hardly Remember The Original . . . . | . . . . But don't worry if you can't remember the original FORTRESS because you'll still find the sequel crap . Strangely enough there might have been some potential with this film . Oh I don't mean it would have been great or even good but we could have seen something along the lines of DEMOLITION MAN , a slightly che... |
469,704 | 1,532,177 | 253,798 | 3 | Something Of A Guilty Pleasure . . . | . . . Except there's no pleasure involved and I'd feel kind of guilty not warning you this is a very unfunny comedy I guess the producers were trying to dig into the market of the American Pie demographics or possibly of the SCARY MOVIE fans and in many ways it does seem to try to emulate the near the knuckle humour of... |
469,181 | 1,532,177 | 131,352 | 3 | If This Isn't Unoriginal I Don't Know What Is | Something is missing whines John Larkin . I quite agree , an original script is missing , not to mention a big name star , a director who has made more than just TVMs , and a big budget . For the first ten minute of the film - oooopps sorry I mean TVM . There is a difference - the plot involves an everyman type suffe... |
469,322 | 1,532,177 | 265,666 | 3 | How Not To Write An Interesting Script | I can't believe so many people have written so many positive comments on THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS , personally I absolutely hated this movie due to the simple reason it has a ridiculous script structure . If you've never seen the movie let me point out that the audience are subjected a very lengthy pre title sequence featu... |
469,528 | 1,532,177 | 304,680 | 3 | Greenies Set Out To Destroy The World Again | If I have a problem with the modern environmental movement it's with their pacifism at all costs stance . You see the modern environmental movement was founded by quakers who's ethos of non violence is the primary idealogy of the green movement . This is to critical free thinkers a flawed ideal , after all how you goin... |
469,793 | 1,532,177 | 257,106 | 3 | Too Crude To Be Successful | A couple find their daughter has been possessed by Satan so call in Father McFeely : " Our daughter won't let us near her Father " " Well I find giving them candy helps " There you go I've just given away the only halfway funny joke in the whole movie and I was totally puzzled why someone of James Woods stature was doi... |
470,205 | 1,532,177 | 358,569 | 3 | Don't Confuse Opinion With Fact | There's a saying that " If you don't read newspapers you're uninformed . If you do read newspapers you're misinformed " and that's the problem I had with LIVE FOREVER , if you're uninformed about Britpop you'll be misinformed if you use this as your starting point , dangerously misinformed . The very first caption is f... |
468,542 | 1,532,177 | 86,610 | 3 | Was It Made By Film Students ? . . . . . | . . . . because it doesn't look like it was made by professional film makers . XTRO has a really cheap and cheerless no budget production feel to it and is usual in these type of productions the make up and FX are totally unconvincing while the cast look like they're ashamed to be in a film like this . Even so there's ... |
469,664 | 1,532,177 | 278,035 | 3 | I Wonder If The Budget Reached Four Figures ? | I had a gut feeling as this started that I wasn't going to like it much . A couple of dudes open the trunk of an automobile , pull out several guns and start discussing the merchandise . Is this a Scorsese picture ? Is it a Tarantino picture ? No , it's a Brit flick and it's one with a totally underdeveloped script I c... |
469,005 | 1,532,177 | 293,166 | 3 | Very Dumb Thriller | I really do get the feeling that the producers of FROGMEN OPERATION STORMBRINGER haven't been doing their current affairs home work . A navy SEALS team is sent to capture Casper " The world's most dangerous terrorist " . First of all what self respecting terrorist calls himself " Casper " ? It conjures up images of a f... |
468,687 | 1,532,177 | 120,847 | 3 | Seen It All Before | Hey a tough mercenary goes undercover as a teacher to gain revenge on a tough gang who are running drugs ! Where have I seen that movie before ? Hey I saw the exact same plot in a movie called THE SUBSTITUTE with Tom Berenger going into a tough inner school to wipe out a drugs gang . In fact both plots feature the new ... |
470,273 | 1,532,177 | 191,754 | 3 | Basically A TVM For Women | Ah yes the demon drink , something I'm not too familiar with these days since I decided to give it up several years ago after drinking on top of an empty head a few too many times . Man you can seriously ruin your life by drinking to excess and you'll have absolutely no one to blame except yourselfThat's the problem I ... |
470,209 | 1,532,177 | 120,834 | 3 | I Almost Fell Asleep | An American man is found dead and the question is was he murdered by a white man or was his death an accident ? But maybe a better question would been how can anyone make such a dire film ? Okay dire is maybe too strong a word but SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS is a very boring film badly structured . The victim's body is foun... |
468,979 | 1,532,177 | 131,646 | 3 | I've Never Played The Game But . . . | . . . I imagine it must be a hundred times more entertaining than this sorry excuse of a movie and I make no apologies for pointing out what a terrible piece of film making it is . An alien invasion force launches an attack on the human race and proceeds towards planet Earth and it's up to some fighter pilots to stop t... |
469,518 | 1,532,177 | 66,561 | 3 | When Britain Made Some Crap Movies | I remember watching this aged about eleven and not thinking much of it then and when I watched it on Sky movies a couple of weeks ago I liked it even less . What's wrong with the movie can be summed up with the opening scene where a bunch of bikini clad blondes are going to be sacraficed . If the time period is set " w... |
468,942 | 1,532,177 | 265,944 | 3 | Name That Source | One minute into THE UNTOLD and it's already ripped off techniques from THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and PREDATOR . Does this mean we'll be seeing lots of trees ? We sure will . Will we be seeing an Austrian bodybuilder blowing things up ? Well this film has the budget of a TVM so the answer is a resounding no . Does anyone ... |
468,653 | 1,532,177 | 319,970 | 3 | It Started Off Okay | I've never read Stephen King's CARRIE ( If truth be told NEEDFUL THINGS is the only King novel I've read ) so I've no idea how well this miniseries adapatation holds up compared to the source novel . For the most part it's adaquate enough for the viewer but what brings it crashing down is the climax at the school prom ... |
468,545 | 1,532,177 | 120,915 | 3 | The Farcical Menace More Like | Never been a STAR WARS fan and I fail to see what the fuss was about with the original trilogy , but I'm shocked as to how even the most die hard fan could have enjoyed this movie . In fact I'll be even more blunt - I'm surprised as to how the film company allowed George Lucas to release this movie ! First of all there... |
469,839 | 1,532,177 | 153,464 | 3 | Very Boring | UP AT THE VILLA fooled me into thinking I'd be watching something similar to GOSFORD PARK . The film opens at a ballroom in 1930s Italy which is populated by vulgar Americans and uptight upper class Brits , but in truth UP AT THE VILLA plays out far more like a Merchant - Ivory production which is very bad news because... |
469,843 | 1,532,177 | 79,753 | 3 | Unimpressive | I'm not very familiar with THE PRISONER OF ZENDA . I know it's a novel by Anthony Hope that involves an English commoner who so resembles the King of Rurtinia so much that he becomes a stand in , I know that Robert Donat starred in a well regarded film version , and that the 1978 DOCTOR WHO story The Andriods Of Tara w... |
468,587 | 1,532,177 | 117,181 | 3 | Not A Great Thriller | MILD SPOILERS In the mid 1990s the BBC broadcast a competition for scriptwriting hopefuls called " Double Exposure " where five BBC regions would each pick a winning script and get a first time director to film it . This was the winning script from BBC Scotland which I wasn't too impressed with , and before anyone accu... |
468,992 | 1,532,177 | 117,179 | 3 | Night Of The Tedious | For some strange reason the film world is driven by fashion . Someone makes a film about a killer shark then all of a sudden the film world's oceans are awash with giant Squids , killer octopusses and sea monsters of every ilk . A man is stalked by an erstwhile lover from hell then every film character is stalked by a ... |
469,080 | 1,532,177 | 339,542 | 3 | Tries To Be Two Things At Once And Fails | I problem I have with this documentary is that it can't decide to be about viruses or about the making of 28 DAYS LATER so it tries to be both and considering it lasts for 20 minutes it fails on both attempts . The making of 28 DAYS LATER segments are very predictable composed mainly of actors telling us how they got i... |
469,663 | 1,532,177 | 110,443 | 3 | MAJOR PAIN More Like | Did anyone stop to realise what sort of movie they were producing here ? Now let's a former marine officer becomes assinged to a group of kids at a cadet school so this should be a family comedy right ? Wrong . This is just a gross comedy aimed at teenagers with many bad taste moments . It might have been watchable in ... |
468,757 | 1,532,177 | 110,419 | 3 | Some People Might Like It | This starts with Angus MacGyver and his old college professor Fat Shouting Actor Atticus going on a little jaunt to the Balkans to pick up some artifacts . You think being educated men Angus and Atticus would have picked up the artifacts before or after everyone in the region started killing one another but if they did... |
470,076 | 1,532,177 | 101,577 | 3 | I Vaguely Remember This | SPOILERS CHIMERA came out round about the same time as the BBC drama FIRST BORN which also dealt with the concept of genetically engineered apes , though to be honest they're not really compatible since FIRST BORN was more of an emotional drama while CHIMERA is a straight up and down horror / SF thrillerThe plot goes s... |
469,020 | 1,532,177 | 91,129 | 3 | A Bigger Mess Than A Golden Shower | I remember when THE GOLDEN CHILD was released in 1986 it was universally panned by the critics , and I'm talking panned so badly that it more or less ended the glittering career of Eddie Murphy so I guess this movie has something going for itIt gets off to a bad start where Buddist monks kneel in front of a child with ... |
470,055 | 1,532,177 | 444,082 | 3 | Why Does Anyone Bother ? | Oh yes European culture and the Eurovision Song Contest which is like Adolph Hitler and racial harmony appearing in the same sentence . Actually this years contest was far worse than usual because the tunes seemed confused . Croatia's song started off with some bagpipe music while the entries from Greece and the United... |
469,994 | 1,532,177 | 114,663 | 3 | Too Much Cheese . Too Much Boredom | THREE WISHES revolves around the story of Jeanne a widow whose husband is believed killed during the Korean war . One day she runs down and injures derelict drifter Jack and is so guilt stricken she invites him home to look after him That's the story set up and as you can tell it's not the most credible premise you'll ... |
468,989 | 1,532,177 | 114,458 | 3 | Another Dumb TVM | Imagine you stole someone's identity and the in laws of that person invited you stay with them , how long would you be able to keep up the pretense ? Probably indefinitely if the in laws are as stupid as the ones here . You'd think they'd ask some searching questions to their daughter in law about their son wouldn't yo... |
468,536 | 1,532,177 | 114,436 | 3 | Unentertaining | SHOWGIRLS opens with Nomi Malone hitching a lift to Las Vegas where in a short series of unlikely events finds herself all alone in the big bad city . After kicking a car the owner pulls her up about her behaviour and then decides to let her become her best friend . Gosh isn't that friendly and isn't that just so reali... |
468,968 | 1,532,177 | 75,696 | 3 | Even More Dated Than The TV Series | This is a film spin off to a sit-com more memorable for its characters at Grace Bros clothing store than its jokes : Mr Humphries ( A camp homosexual ) Ms Brahms ( A slutty single girl ) Mr Harman ( a sleazy janitor ) Mr Lucas ( A jack the lad ) Captain Peacock ( An uptight former military man ) and of course Mrs Sloco... |
469,392 | 1,532,177 | 170,801 | 3 | Something Of An Ordeal To Sit Through | WHAT WE DID THAT NIGHT opens with four poor little rich boy students digging a hole and putting a teenage girl in the ground . Actually the scriptwriter has also dug himself into a hole since the audience are fully aware of what's happened and what the story is about . It's a good opening hook to be fair but it also se... |
470,349 | 1,532,177 | 323,849 | 3 | I Didn't Learn Anything | September the 11th 2001 was a day when I was ill with a really bad chest inflammation . I was having a cup of tea watching the end credits of NEIGHBOURS when a BBC newsflash came up . I instantly thought The Queen Mother had died untill the newsreader said two planes had crashed into each of the twin towers of the WTC ... |
468,799 | 1,532,177 | 334,874 | 3 | Ultimate Farce More Like . . . . | . . . . Well maybe that's just a little cruel but ULTIMATE FORCE is just a general Brit action series in the same vein as THE PROFESSIONALS and BODYGUARDS . There's no real reason why this should really feature the SAS no matter how much the writers producers and directors try to convince you otherwise because despite ... |
468,602 | 1,532,177 | 266,000 | 3 | It's Not High Concept | Roberta , a Hollywood director bangs her head and finds herself in Sherwood Forest in ye days of olde where everyone she knows in Hollywood is duplicated . This plotline instantly reminded me of the 1970 DOCTOR WHO story Inferno where the Doctor finds himself in an alternative universe where everyone he knows back on E... |
469,696 | 1,532,177 | 79,574 | 3 | Flogging A Dead Horse | Jaws in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME was a brilliant Bond baddie so on paper bringing him back for MOONRAKER must have seemed a good idea . However he should have been killed off in the pre credits sequence because the more he's used in the film the more and more ludicrous he becomes in very mechanical set pieces which climax ... |
469,430 | 1,532,177 | 66,958 | 3 | Don't Know About Terror But It Is Terrible | A cheaply made British film from the early 1970s is what CRUCIBLE OF TERROR is , but you'll never believe how bad it is untill you actually watch it . The plot is just basically a whodunnit where it's so obvious that you know straight from the first murder who's behind the killings , except at the very end there's a pl... |
470,297 | 1,532,177 | 218,126 | 3 | If You Can't Make Your Own Movie Then Don't Bother | This opens at the cyberdyne factory but it isn't TERMINATOR 2 . It also involves a German leader leading his terrorist gang but it's not DIE HARD . Oh hold on the plot more or less is DIE HARD , and do you know what's worse ? THE WHOLE OPENING SEQUENCE IS TERMINATOR 2 ! ! ! ! . You read that right , the opening sequenc... |
468,442 | 1,532,177 | 183,979 | 3 | Soft Core . . . | . . . And boy is it soft I saw this on cable channel Bravo one Saturday night and here in Britain we often have these dire " Erotic " soft core movies turning up late at night on Bravo . This one follows a WEIRD SCIENCE type plot of a couple of college geeks building a virtual reality headset that makes you have sexual... |
469,326 | 1,532,177 | 124,298 | 3 | I Know It's A Comedy . . . . | . . . . But couldn't the central idea of having naive people from the early 1960s finding themselves in the cynical 1990s have been better thought out ? They thought there was going to be a nuclear war so they hid in a nuke proof bunker for decades ? Does anyone see a flaw in this ? The film does try and explain how th... |
469,438 | 1,532,177 | 120,531 | 3 | Dire Ethnic Sex Comedy With little Redeeming Features | The premise of WOO centers around a mismatched couple who meet via a blind date . The eponymous Woo turns up at the flat of Tim who is a bit of nerd and a complete contrast to Woo . Right away you realise that this isn't a groundbreaking sex comedy and perhaps needed something to set it apart from other movies in the s... |
469,043 | 1,532,177 | 68,285 | 3 | Oh Dear | I can't remember much about the original TV sitcom of BLESS THIS HOUSE except that it starred Sid James as a naughty man called Sid ( With the exception of Hammer's QUATERMASS 2 has there ever been anything James has appeared in where he doesn't play a character called Sid ? ) who's a very similar character he plays in... |
469,030 | 1,532,177 | 120,521 | 3 | Don't Give Up The Day Job Al | As an actor Alan Rickman is able to pick a good script when he sees one , but as a director he fails with THE WINTER GUEST . This is a totally tedious film with no plot and consists entirely of actors standing around bedrooms or in streets or on windswept shores or sitting on buses talking about things of absolutely no... |
468,674 | 1,532,177 | 110,695 | 3 | No Reason To Watch | Oh a vaguely once famous actress in a film where she plays a mother to a child . It's being shown on BBC 1 at half past midnight , I wonder if . . . yup it's a TVM You've got to hand it to TVM producers , not content on making one mediocre movie , they usually give us two mediocre movies where two themes are mixed toge... |
468,605 | 1,532,177 | 116,723 | 3 | Guilty Of Being Utter Crap | It's funny how instinct warns you of something . For example as soon as the company credits read Nu Image I knew instinctively I'd seen a really crap film by them somewhere before but couldn't remember where . Nevertheless I just knew JUDGE AND JURY was going to be crap and it was . Maybe I'm psychic ? ! ! ! ! MILD SPO... |
468,573 | 1,532,177 | 208,003 | 3 | Very Lazy Comedy | The premise for BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE is something we've seen in countless other movies : A bad ass criminal escapes from jail , the cops have a rough idea where he's going to a couple of cops have to trap him . We've seen this type of plot in 48 HOURS , STAKEOUT and countless other films . I'm afraid I have to point out t... |
469,933 | 1,532,177 | 89,880 | 3 | Somewhat Offensive | The Vietnam war was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century . It was almost certainly the most needless conflict of the 20th century with America confusing Vietnamese nationalism with Soviet inspired communism . America lost the conflict along with 58 , 000 of it's servicemen with another two million human b... |
469,754 | 1,532,177 | 128,239 | 3 | Shouldn't This Be A Comedy ? | ! ! ! ! ! POSSIBLE SPOILER ! ! ! ! ! You'd think a story involving Archie Grey Owl - An Englishman posing as a red indian - would have a massive amount of humour involved . In fact I'd say the only way to treat a film like this where a remarkable man cons the gullible public is to treat it as a comedy . However Richard... |
469,237 | 1,532,177 | 110,620 | 3 | Dire Art House Crap | Derek Jarman meets David Lynch is how presenter Bill Bailey described NADJA . If I was a presenter I would have described as a big pile of art house crap but " Derek Jarman meets David Lynch " is the same difference . I've nothing against art house horror , I thought THE ADDICTION was okay while I loved the visual st... |
468,921 | 1,532,177 | 242,798 | 3 | Not What I Expected | Former brat pack actor and all round pretty boy Rob Lowe stars in a film set in a high security American prison . I had a gut feeling his character was going to be popular for all the wrong reasons like Tobias in the first series of OZ , but PROXIMITY isn't that kind of film , it's more like a " Man on the run " film l... |
469,356 | 1,532,177 | 73,812 | 4 | Oh It's A Musical | I remember the first time TOMMY was broadcast on British television on BBC 2 in the late Autumn of 1981 . For the first time ever Radio 1 did a simultaneous broadcast , the idea being you turn off the sound on your TV , turn up the sound on Radio 1 and you'll be able to watch TOMMY in stereophonic sound , bare in mind ... |
469,271 | 1,532,177 | 118,636 | 4 | Grotesque Psycho-Drama That Doesn't Quite Gel | The problem I had with APT PUPIL is that I found myself being unable to feel any sympathy for the two protagonists of the story , one of which is a Nazi war criminal who served in every major death camp during the war and a teenage boy who is blackmailing Herr Nazi war criminal for his own ends . Come to think of it wh... |
468,502 | 1,532,177 | 118,615 | 4 | Oh No , It's A Giant Draught Excluder | As several people have mentioned ANACONDA is a movie that has a very old fashioned feel to it . In some ways it feels like one of those old TARZAN movies where the lord of the apes has to save a bunch of white hunters from a legendary river monster , or it feels like one of those 50 B movies where a scientific expediti... |
470,083 | 1,532,177 | 277,434 | 4 | BRAVEHEART Meets THE GREEN BERETS | Does anyone remember BRAVEHEART ? It starred Mel Gibson who also directed and was scripted by Randall Wallace . The film contains over 200 errors . Does anyone remember THE GREEN BERETS ? That's the John Wayne western where the Duke saves a homestead called Vietnam from a bunch of injuns from the commie tribe . If you ... |
469,145 | 1,532,177 | 118,604 | 4 | Retrogade Werewolf Movie | I can't honestly believe that this is a sequel or follow up of John Landis classic comedy horror movie from 1981 . I suppose you can't really describe it as an original werewolf movie either since the bare bones of the story steal elements from the one set in London : An American tourist visits a famous European capita... |
469,241 | 1,532,177 | 87,951 | 4 | Predictable Star Vehicle | What does the " Executive producer " do in a movie . If I remember correctly it's the person who raised the financial backing to make the movie . You might notice in a great number of movies starring Sean Connery that he is also the executive producer which meant Connery himself raised the money since he is a major pla... |
468,961 | 1,532,177 | 205,936 | 4 | Reminds Me Of Other ( Poor ) British Comedy Thrillers | FIVE SECONDS TO SPARE is yet another British movie made at the turn of the century that can't decide want it wants to be and instantly reminded me of countless other British films that came out at the same time proving yet again that if you want to get your movie financied knowing people in the business is imperative w... |
469,128 | 1,532,177 | 382,668 | 4 | It Didn't Really Exceed My Expectations But It Tried | One of the problems I have with the BBC is how politically correct it is , political correctness being an inverted fascist philosophy I have no time for , I'm an adult and I can make up my own mind on issues without the BBC doing a long running story on EASTENDERS dealing with race issues or having to put up with agend... |
469,272 | 1,532,177 | 290,334 | 4 | Something's Wrong - Yeah The Script | SPOILERS I wasn't all that taken with the original X-MEN movie but since it was the introduction of a franchise I forgave the flaws like the underdeveloped themes of antagonism between the humans and mutants . X-2 has no such excuses however since the plot revolves around Magneto and a rogue human general trying to sta... |
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