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468,761 | 1,532,177 | 420,471 | 4 | Might Have Been Good . . . | . . . If I knew what was happening SPOILERS This gets off to a gripping though disturbing start . The computer system at a British maximum security prison breaks down releasing the prisoners who take their frustrations out on the prison officers - cue some distressing violence and it's down to Max Raines to find out wh... |
468,425 | 1,532,177 | 101,316 | 4 | Sex Sells | The director of L'AMANT or THE LOVER as it's known in Britain was directed Jean Jacques Annaud who would later go on to make ENEMY AT THE GATES a pretty good war film that suffers from having a sex scene that seems out of place . The problem with his earlier movie is that everything else feels out of place except the s... |
468,373 | 1,532,177 | 112,740 | 4 | Unconvincing | If asked how I would define the word " Shallow " I would reply " Watch a Jerry Bruckheimer production " . If asked how I would define the phrase " Wasted potential " I would reply " Watch a Jerry Bruckheimer production " . Bruckheimer productions are nearly always sure fire hits at the box office but nearly always rece... |
469,833 | 1,532,177 | 126,344 | 4 | Not As Good As It Could Have Been . . . . | . . . . But not as bad as it could have been either I had a problem with the title of this movie . What does " I Went Down " conjure up to you ? I thought thought we'd be seeing a bio-pic on Monica Lewinsky I seriously did but instead found myself watching a black comedy road movie This is a co-production between the B... |
470,040 | 1,532,177 | 91,187 | 4 | Lacks Realism | Clint Eastwood is very highly regarded in Hollywood via his performances in films like THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY and DIRTY HARRY . He's also well regarded as a director with films like PLAY MISTY FOR ME and UNFORGIVEN , but what a lot of people forget is Eastwood has starred in or directed plenty of poor films like... |
468,794 | 1,532,177 | 91,178 | 4 | A Weak Horror Comedy | If you watch the opening title sequence you can easily understand the problem with the rest of the movie : A transvestite falls dying against a window consciously telling the audience " It's not what you think , it's not what you think " . Seconds later something stirs in the bushes back to camera , the figure turns an... |
469,676 | 1,532,177 | 65,184 | 4 | Not Much Of A Tribute | Peter Ustinov died a few days ago and is traditional with stars dying the BBC showed a film as a hasty tribute , and what film did we get as a tribute ? SPARTACUS where Ustinov gives a show stopping performance as a slave trader ? Nope . Another Oscar performance this time from TOKAPI ? Nope . What about ASHANTI ? , it... |
470,167 | 1,532,177 | 225,537 | 4 | Probably The Worst Years Tape | If I remember correctly only FIVE of Patrick Troughton's stories remain their entirety in the BBC archive and this is quite disgraceful considering the quality of the eraJon Pertwee ( He is The Doctor as far as I'm concerned ) introduces the episodes and like the other years tapes the written linking material is very p... |
469,354 | 1,532,177 | 83,511 | 4 | A Buddy Movie | Buddy movies were very popular in the 1980s , less popular in the 1990s and non existent at the turn of the century . I think the reason they're non existent these days is that it's a genre that is very , very limited as anyone who has seen more than a very small handful of buddy movies can testify . It all comes down ... |
470,067 | 1,532,177 | 485,617 | 4 | Tonight Matthew I Shall Be Ripping Off Famous Thrillers | This was well publicised due to the fact it featured STARS IN THEIR EYES presenter Matthew Kelly in a straight acting role as a convicted serial killer . No don't laugh , Mr Kelly has appeared in several sitcoms and spends Christmas time acting in family pantomimes and I hear he's very good at playing Captain Hook in P... |
469,334 | 1,532,177 | 206,036 | 4 | Hardly HBO's Greatest Moment | HBO were credited as producing this TVM the same company that produced critically acclaimed hard hitting dramas like OZ and THE SOPRANOS so right away I was expecting some in your face intense drama along with explicit scenes of lesbian love making . Unfortunately I was very disappointed on both counts in this antholog... |
470,111 | 1,532,177 | 78,220 | 4 | Perhaps Too Objective In Places . . . . | . . . . And not objective enough in other places . This docu-drama concerning the Bermuda triangle can't make up its mind if it's trying to be sceptical or not . Take the case of Flight 19 for example . It tells us flight leader Lt Charles Taylor was experienced but not how experienced . It also tells us he had a stran... |
468,764 | 1,532,177 | 286,152 | 4 | Who Was This Film Made For ? . . . | . . . Probably that guy from MEMENTO who had an attention span of sixty seconds or someone who thinks MTV is one of the movie channels ! STARK RAVING MAD starts with a sequence of a guy in the African veldt who gives the middle finger to a lion . No doubt this film takes its title from this scene because it has absolut... |
468,497 | 1,532,177 | 156,639 | 4 | Better Than I Expected . . . . | . . . . But I have to warn you that since I find Craig Ferguson a simply awful comedian I wasn't expecting anything less than an awful movie . THE BIG TEASE is far from an awful movie but is unfortunately far from being a great one too . The premise isn't bad and involves a Scottish hairdresser going to LA to take part... |
470,322 | 1,532,177 | 83,943 | 4 | Boring And Generic | Imagine a film made and set towards the end of the second world war where the Nazis have developed a new secret weapon which will stem the tide of the allied advances in the East and West and it's up to John Wayne or Clark Gable to steal the Nazi weapon and bring it back to the good old US of A . Sounds pretty ( Yawn )... |
469,388 | 1,532,177 | 175,771 | 4 | I Guess It Could Have Been Good | INFERNO starts off with a fairly impressive for a TVM starscape effect . We're also introduced to a scientist who's called Heller . Don't you get it ? Heller , Hell-er , Inferno . So I guess someone on the production had some intelligence . However it does become more and more obvious as the TVM progresses that intelli... |
468,452 | 1,532,177 | 225,481 | 4 | Not So Much Scream . . . . | . . . As a yawn - a very big yawn I must be getting old because I have trouble watching two horror films in a row . I'd previously just seen SEVERED which is also known to this reviewer as 28 BADLY DIRECTED TRIFFIDS LATER and had difficulty in staying awake watching THE DEAD HATE THE LIVING . This probably sums up the ... |
468,688 | 1,532,177 | 83,907 | 4 | It's Not That Good | It might seem rather morbid now but a prolific topic of conversation in 1983 were video nasties . I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and NIGHT OF THE DEMON in particular came up in conversation with colleagues and friends on a regular basis but perhaps the most talked about video nasty was THE EVIL DEAD , especially the scenes featu... |
469,055 | 1,532,177 | 70,190 | 4 | Inept Horror Movie | A lot of people seem to be under the impression that this film is a deliberate attempt at doing a blackly comical horror movie and I guess the opening dialogue of " Look at that faggot . He thinks he's Greta Garbo but he looks like a lemon meringue pie " does give the impression that HORROR HOSPITAL is tongue in cheek ... |
469,115 | 1,532,177 | 122,633 | 4 | I Managed To Work Out The Ending | ! ! ! ! ! SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! NO MAN'S LAND is a curious political thriller . It's set in the near future , or rather is set in the late 1990s where Russia is collapsing due to civil war amongst different ethnic groups leading to a massive influx of refugees into the newly reunified Germany . A policeman called Fisher i... |
470,005 | 1,532,177 | 113,040 | 4 | Unlikely And Predictable | Reading the back of the DVD case of HIGH LONESOME as it's known in Britain I knew how everything was going to work out in the end , but I didn't realise how unlikely it was all going to be . Walter Osgood is the only black man in the county ! I do know there was a lot of racism in the deep south , but the only black ma... |
468,716 | 1,532,177 | 83,862 | 4 | What Happened To Ian McKellen ? | DYING DAY is another story from ITV's ARMCHAIR THRILLER series . It revolves around a gentleman called Anthony Skipling ( Played by Ian McKellen - No I don't know what became of his acting career either ) who befriends a man on a train . This man is a total anorak who likes to record sounds of nature " Badgers farting ... |
469,722 | 1,532,177 | 83,866 | 4 | It's Not That Good | In terms of box office bucks this was the most successful film ever . It might have made even more if it wasn't for the fact that a lot of people including myself hadn't watched it on pirate video in 1983 . In truth I don't think it deserved to set the universe alight because of its premise ET starts with a spaceship l... |
470,200 | 1,532,177 | 66,492 | 4 | Wild Thing - I Don't Think I Love You | I thought this was going to be one of those " So bad that it's good " type movies , an optimism that was built on the DOCTOR WHO standard of cave sets ( To be honest the cave sets from DOCTOR WHO are far better ) not to mention Trog's make up or his method of killing people by throwing paper maiche boulders at them . U... |
468,854 | 1,532,177 | 427,157 | 4 | Sums Up What's Wrong With BBC Drama These Days | Anyone remember the docudrama THREADS ? It's a drama documentary which shocked Britain in September 1984 . Whilst not exactly wholly entertained by Mick Jackson's nuclear holocaust horror film I could respect it . Unfortunately I can't respect this docudrama broadcast 20 years later which deals with terrorists letting ... |
469,946 | 1,532,177 | 420,785 | 4 | Not That Good | I really do have to worry about Jade Carmen . This is the second short I saw from Jade today , the other being PIGGY BANK and both seem to have an unhealthy appetite for crime MR FIRECUL ( Is that an anagram for Lucifer ? ) starts with a young man called Jason throwing a brick through a car window in a very well direct... |
468,837 | 1,532,177 | 206,314 | 4 | Unoriginal And Dumb | A couple of brothers Lewis and Fuller decide to have a laugh with their CB radio and try to seduce a truck driver which leads to some very serious and violent trouble Sorry guys but I didn't think much of this movie . It's totally unoriginal and most of the fun derived from it is playing " Name that source " . I manage... |
470,339 | 1,532,177 | 66,549 | 4 | A Complete Mess | This has got to be one of the worst directed epics I have ever seen . Moments into the movie we see an almost sublime jump cut close up of Napoleon's eye as he talks to his right hand men . I've no idea what this was to signify . I guess that perhaps director Sergei Bondarchuk was a fan of spaghetti westerns And as the... |
469,584 | 1,532,177 | 91,499 | 4 | A Ridiculous Movie | MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE takes stupidity to new depths . How dumb is this movie ? On a scale of one to ten it gets that's how dumb it isThe central plot revolves around the idea that an alien influence is possessing machines in order to rid the world of humanity . Yeah so it's not documentary material but there's worse ideas ... |
470,054 | 1,532,177 | 74,157 | 4 | Rubbish Fantasy Adventure | Doug McClure has starred in a few of these British produced genre adventures and this one has got to be the worst of the lot . I know THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT has its critics but please at least that movie featured location filming and relatively good production values . That's the problem with this movie - The produc... |
470,251 | 1,532,177 | 70,379 | 4 | There's Such A Thing As Being Too Realistic | This might sound ridiculous but it wasn't until 1991 that I got into De Niro , Keitel and Scorsese in a big way . I'd just seen the classic TAXI DRIVER and eagerly got my dad to tape MEAN STREETS off Sky television . Unfortunately I thought I'd either given my dad a bad tape or the video hadn't been tuned into the TV s... |
469,378 | 1,532,177 | 78,675 | 4 | Not Very Memorable | The one reason I remember this is that it was shown the week after Nigel Kneale's brilliant QUATERMASS serial was broadcast . The trailers made heavy emphasis that the main character had a mutilated arm which had me hoping he'd be like Victor Caroon from THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT stalking the streets of London . No suc... |
468,753 | 1,532,177 | 329,954 | 4 | Effective Enough Soft Core Flick | With a title like 13 EROTIC GHOSTS I was under no illusion what sort of film I'd be watching - A rather threadbare plot revolves around a bunch of supernatural investigators finding out about ghostly happenings after a girls school is struck by lightening and burns down in a special effects sequence that wouldn't look ... |
468,486 | 1,532,177 | 286,499 | 4 | I Wasn't Very Impressed | Like THE FULL MONTY this movie wasn't expected to set the box office alight but like THE FULL MONTY it became a massive international sleeper hit . BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM is rather flawed and the flaws are very similar as the ones seen in THE FULL MONTY . First up is the amount of politics involved , concepts like sexism... |
469,500 | 1,532,177 | 294,238 | 4 | I'm Getting fed Up With These Shows | I doubt if there's ever been 100 shows marketed exclusively for kids so this Channel 4 list cheats somewhat by including family shows . The winner at number one in the list was THE SIMPSONS but is this actually a show that's specifically produced for children ? I mean it started off as a spot on THE TRACEY ULLMAN SHOW ... |
468,702 | 1,532,177 | 186,894 | 4 | Spoiled By The leading Man | This is a love story featuring themes like guilt and redemption : Buddy Amaral swaps plane tickets with someone out of the goodness of his heart but the plane Buddy should have been on crashes killing the man . Grief stricken Buddy hits the bottleAs you can guess Buddy is an intense role to play . It takes a certain ty... |
469,860 | 1,532,177 | 144,715 | 4 | Tiresome Satire | After appearing in TITANIC Kate Winslet had the world at her feet so just to prove she was a versatile flexible actress she decided to become typecast as a hippy chick . In the space of one year she appeared in HOLY SMOKE where she plays a free spirit who seeks seclusion with drugs in India and another film ( Oh dear I... |
469,504 | 1,532,177 | 155,833 | 4 | Overplayed | Angela Beale a famous actress is charged with murdering her violent husband . The problem with this premise is that the very first scene sees Angela acting all strange as she bangs on doors telling everyone she killed her husband , though maybe that's not accurate . Maybe I should be saying the actress playing Angela -... |
468,841 | 1,532,177 | 64,622 | 4 | Painfully Dated | This was shown earlier tonight on BBC 2 as a " Paul Merton shows us his favourite comedy moments " themed night and similar to those MOVIEDROME segments from many years ago Merton introduced the movie and its background . Apparently on its release the critics hated it while everyone who went to watch it in the cinema (... |
469,753 | 1,532,177 | 118,024 | 4 | How True Is It ? | Why is it whenever a serial killer is sentenced TV companies decide to make a TVM about the case ? This is a bad idea on both grounds of taste and artistic licence . UNABOMBER : THE TRUE STORY is no better than most of these true crime TVMs . In fact it's probably worse because much of the storyline descends into soap ... |
468,387 | 1,532,177 | 91,859 | 4 | Crude British Sex Comedy | This is a strange sex comedy because there's very little comedy but a whole lot of sex , most of which takes place in the back of a car and is so graphic it makes BASIC INSTINCT look like an edition of TELETUBBIES . I kid you not , the sex in this film is so in your face it might just choke you , especially if you're w... |
469,878 | 1,532,177 | 295,701 | 4 | Bond Deconstruction | This starts with a man wearing a tux getting killed by some Slavic gangsters at a Nu-Metal gig . It's never mentioned on screen but the implication is that the dead man is Bond , James Bond and throughout the movie where treated to an alternative universe where the world is no longer saved by sophisticated suave secret... |
468,534 | 1,532,177 | 269,232 | 4 | Cheap And Formuliac TVM | I was looking forward to seeing this ( Believe me I hardly ever look forward to watching a TVM ) simply because the director is Nick Gomez a semi regular director of the ultra gritty HBO prison classic OZ . The story starts off with a rather explict scene ( For a TV movie ) of someone being shot dead then a prosecuting... |
468,730 | 1,532,177 | 53,220 | 4 | What's The Plot ? | Before I go any further may I just point I don't like the western genre . I thought I'd mention this because it's obvious from this page that the other reviewers love these movies and I have the instinct that they would have loved to have lived west of the Missouri river one hundred and thirty years ago and who can bla... |
468,507 | 1,532,177 | 100,619 | 4 | Bleak And Arty | SILENT SCREAM is a biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters . However not content with making a standard prison film the director David Hayman throws a massive spanner in the works by making the movie an art house picture with fractured time lines . We know that Winters served in the army , that he murdered a bar ... |
469,987 | 1,532,177 | 126,886 | 4 | Something Of A Misnomer | This movie is called ELECTION and right from the outset I had it in my head that this movie might actually be about an election . It is to an extent premisewise featuring a little miss know all perfect running as school president but it's also a black comedy and as legendary film school guru is fond of telling his stud... |
469,521 | 1,532,177 | 70,047 | 4 | I Couldn't Stop Laughing | I remember when THE EXORCIST was first released in Britain , I was 7 years old at the time and living in Edinburgh and a neighbour called Ann Lyon was just back from the cinema telling my parents how the movie lived up to the hype and what a truly shocking , gut wrenching experience THE EXORCIST was . My parents went t... |
468,765 | 1,532,177 | 78,836 | 4 | The More Thrills It Sets Up The More Silly It Becomes | I found BEAR ISLAND listed in today's page of the TV guide so popped onto this page to find out if it was any good or not . Obviously I also read the plot summary which told me Nazi gold could be the key to the mystery so right away I realised Nazis wanted to their hands on some gold . I'm not criticising anyone for le... |
468,769 | 1,532,177 | 381,966 | 4 | I'm Sure Its Original Title Was " Cliché " ! | ! ! ! ! ! OF COURSE THERE'S SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! I'm sure this project started off as a screen writing workshop on avoiding clichés in horror movies : Female protagonist - Check Bad things happen to drug takers - Check Heorine knocks out villain - Check Heroine doesn't notice villain recovering unconsciousness - Check Fr... |
468,729 | 1,532,177 | 118,172 | 4 | Some Serious Flaws | Does anyone remember that television series from the mid 1980s featuring the characters from WIND IN THE WILLOWS ? That's the series featuring fine actors like Michael Hordern and David Jason voicing the characters who are represented as puppets . It was a superb series according to my memory and this cynical reviewer ... |
469,209 | 1,532,177 | 96,073 | 4 | It Started Off Well | THE SEVENTH SIGN has a great opening hook as the Israeli defence force come across a terrorist base . This is the type of hook that is a must when writing a script , it grabs the reader / audience and the introduction of David Bannon as he rents a room from Abby and Russell Quinnn telegraphs the point that this is a ma... |
468,670 | 1,532,177 | 118,158 | 4 | What's The Plot ? | MILD SPOILER Made during Ridley Scott's career doldrum between THELMA AND LOUISE and GLADIATOR , WHITE SQUALL is a rather shapeless story . It first starts off as a sort of DEAD POET'S SOCIETY on the high seas then becomes a disaster movie where several characters die during a shipwreck and becomes a courtroom drama at... |
469,685 | 1,532,177 | 486,099 | 4 | Rather Lame Sci - Fi Fodder | I've never read JAWS by Peter Benchley but have of course seen the movie andJAWS is considered to be one of the few films that improves greatly onthe book . Much of this I'm told is to do with a large number of subplots being jettisoned in the adaptation , leaving only the main plot of a man eating shark and of the pro... |
470,219 | 1,532,177 | 276,816 | 4 | Seen It All Before | I've never understood the cross genre concept of mixing a horror movie into a war film . I did like THE KEEP mainly due to the art house flourishes ( One of the things people detested about Michael Mann's adaptation ) but have so far missed out on seeing THE BUNKER and DEATHWATCH . I guess the appeal to film makers is ... |
469,628 | 1,532,177 | 190,865 | 4 | Poor FX And A Poor Script | ! ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! This movie was spoiled for me right at the very start with some laughably bad back projection , even though I was hypnotised by Annie Garrets cleavage I couldn't help noticing how fake it looked ( The rock face not the cleavage - Boy was that real ) which killed any potential tension b... |
469,368 | 1,532,177 | 117,826 | 4 | At Least It Didn't Take Itself Seriously | I've never seen an edition from TALES FROM THE CRYPT so I can only judge BORDELLO OF BLOOD by its own merits and I'm afraid I don't have much opinion one way or the other . It's a camp horror movie featuring a brothel that's a front for vampires and instantly reminded me of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN but is slightly more enjo... |
469,457 | 1,532,177 | 100,507 | 4 | Didn't Knock Me Out | After a recap of the most unlikely world heavyweight boxing contest in history ( One fighter is American , one is Russian and both are white ) ROCKY V actually gets off to a good start as we're introduced to a fast talking opportunist Don King clone called George Washington Duke , and we then find out that Rocky and hi... |
469,723 | 1,532,177 | 60,476 | 4 | Updating The Series Hasn't Improved It | In my review of PURE HELL OF ST TRINIANS I mentioned that the comedy is very much dated when watched today . I guess the idea with THE GREAT ST TRINIANS TRAIN ROBBERY was to update it to the 1960s : It references the great train robbery of 1964 ( Interesting to note the connection with THUNDERBALL ) , it mentions " a n... |
468,733 | 1,532,177 | 87,262 | 4 | Disturbing - And Not In A Good Way | I've only seen FIRESTARTER once and that was about 18 months ago on the Sci-fi channel . It's mainly a forgettable movie with a plot that's been reused a few times on THE X-FILES . It wasn't until I was flicking through this site killing time that I remembered seeing it and would have totally forgotten seeing the movie... |
469,604 | 1,532,177 | 827,573 | 4 | Hardly A Special Story | After Catherine Tate appeared in the final episode of Doomsday fandom went in to meltdown as to her casting and led to the first murmurings that Russell T Davies should step down as executive producer . These rumblings were ridiculous and I was going to wait until after I saw her in the role of Donna Noble before passi... |
469,892 | 1,532,177 | 117,774 | 4 | Very Silly | Anyone remember Tom Berenger ? He was quite a prolific actor in the late 1980s fresh from his success as the bad guy in PLATOON , and was in my humble opinion one of the more convincing tough actors of that era , but for some inexplicable reason soon find himself starring in more and more low budget , low quality proje... |
468,891 | 1,532,177 | 78,350 | 4 | A Guilty Pleasure | Yeah fair enough , this is reckoned to be the worst disaster movie ever . Agreed there's some really terrible acting involved with Michael Caine either OTT or totally wooden from scene to scene with the kid playing Paul giving a " I'm really terrified because I'm waving my head from side to side and saying no , no , no... |
468,994 | 1,532,177 | 95,985 | 4 | Too Cliched | A sequel to BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI seems like a bad idea but RETURN FROM THE RIVER KWAI is unrelated to the David Lean classic apart from the title . This film does unlike the other Kwai film give us a realistic portrayal of Japanese P . O . W camps with amputations carried out on fully conscious patients and summary... |
468,498 | 1,532,177 | 92,099 | 4 | Perhaps The Most Typical Bruckheimer Production | You can just imagine Jerry Bruckheimer sitting at the studio offices in a totally disinterested mood as his colleagues discuss the pre planning stages of TOP GUN . Dismissing anything that vaguely resembles a good idea Jerry turns to them and says " Forget about complicated plots and great stories . Hire me a couple of... |
470,118 | 1,532,177 | 260,866 | 4 | There's No Honour Amongst Thieves . . . . | . . . . Is what DON'T SAY A WORD screamed at me in the opening heist sequence . This is very true to life , thieves stab each other in the back and once they're caught it's a race to turn stool pigeon and make a deal with the DA . However after the opening robbery we're treated to the domestic life of hero shrink Natha... |
469,287 | 1,532,177 | 95,774 | 4 | Running On Empty | It's obvious that by 1988 the Vietnam war film had nothing more to say . From the pondering self pity of THE DEER HUNTER to the cruel humour of FULL METAL JACKET the sub genre had burnt itself out in a similar manner as napalm had burnt out the jungles of South East Asia . SAIGON ( As it's known in Britain ) doesn't ma... |
469,625 | 1,532,177 | 74,751 | 4 | What Terrible Acting | There's a few things that caused me to dislike this film , namely that director John Guillerman fails to bring any excitement or other worldliness to " Kong Island " , compare the locations used here which resemble Hawaii ( You'll never guess where the location filming took place ) with the original movie . Oh and the ... |
469,246 | 1,532,177 | 282,552 | 4 | Shallow Doesn't Even Begin To Describe It | In order to enjoy STEAL ( As it's known in the UK ) there's several things you must do 1 ) Switch off your brain 2 ) Develop an interest in extreme sports 3 ) Be aged between twelve and seventeen I have a problem with all of the above especially the third one which meant I couldn't enjoy this movie and I'm sure anyone ... |
469,887 | 1,532,177 | 83,284 | 4 | Highly Unlikely Sports Drama | Perhaps the above summary isn't really a criticism since ESCAPE TO VICTORY isn't a film that is to be taken seriously . Well I hope it isn't because to have the then 48 year old Michael Caine to be playing a English international footballer who was world famous in the 30s must have meant he was at the height of his foo... |
470,149 | 1,532,177 | 261,066 | 4 | Disappointing | Poets ? They're a bit gay aren't they ? Usually they're middle class and middle aged and they get ripped off by scam merchants who post adverts saying " Send us your poetry submissions for our best selling anthology book of erotic poetry and don't forget to enclose $30 for administration costs " In short there's nothin... |
470,259 | 1,532,177 | 87,100 | 4 | Like A Brian DePalma Movie | Ken Russell directed this weird ( Not very ) erotic thriller and if I hadn't known that I would have staked my life that the director was Brian DePalma . Absolutely everything about CRIMES OF PASSION screams DePalma , from the gaudy cinematography that is lit a little too brightly , to the domestic storyline that turns... |
468,444 | 1,532,177 | 117,918 | 4 | I Was Bored Because . . . | . . . There's two things ( Amongst others ) I find boring . One is the sport of golf where boring ( OMG are golfers boring ) men with absolutely no dress sense strut around whacking a ball into a hole a few hundred yards away . The second is a Kevin Costner performance . Can there be a less charismatic leading man from... |
469,825 | 1,532,177 | 47,417 | 4 | Rather Disappointing | I'm a massive fan of prison dramas which is reflected in OZ being my all time favourite American TV show . I guess the appeal lies in a type of smug voyeurism of wanting to see bad things happen to bad mens ' bottoms , but I found Don Siegel's RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 to be rather disappointing . Okay I knew since it was ... |
469,202 | 1,532,177 | 232,500 | 4 | I'm Too Old For This | I guess being born 36 years ago I'm too old to enjoy THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS by about . . . . oh twenty years ? It would be flippant to criticise something that was produced solely for MTV addicts so I won't mention that Rob Cohen's direction is just a feature length music video where the chicks are too fit to be true... |
469,391 | 1,532,177 | 144,622 | 4 | I Wonder How Many Complaints It Got ? | ALL FOR LOVE ( as it titled when it was broadcast at the weekend ) is a romantic period drama featuring Captain Saint Ives a French officer in Napoleon's army who is captured by the British and imprisoned in Scotland where he meets and falls in love with a young maiden who visits the prison . There's also a storyline i... |
468,931 | 1,532,177 | 100,475 | 4 | THE NAKED GUN was better | I loved THE NAKED GUN films but waited till REPOSSESSED turned up on television before seeing it . A lot of people were conned in the 1990s by companies tricking people into thinking they'd be watching something similar to THE NAKED GUN by casting Leslie Nielson and releasing the video cover as something similar in sty... |
468,872 | 1,532,177 | 113,451 | 4 | Didn't Joe Eszterhas Write A Similar Script ? | I'm the sort of guy who stays behind to read the closing credits of a movie . I'm also the sort of guy who makes a note of who the producer , director and screenwriter is . I guess that's the difference between the average IMDb user and the average movie watcher . The movie watcher is only interested in the genre of th... |
468,402 | 1,532,177 | 104,779 | 4 | Man Brags About Sex Life | This story is about an English couple , Nigel and Fiona Dobson on a cruise ship where they meet a crippled American called Oscar who tells them of his relationship with the love of his life a young French woman called Mimi Is there anything less compelling than someone discussing their sex life ? I know a lot of people... |
470,100 | 1,532,177 | 47,376 | 4 | Rather Simple Story With Effective Moments | THE PURPLE PLAIN is a British war film which means it's rather understated when compared to its American counterparts . There's not a massive budget involved which means little in the way of spectacle and if truth be told the special effects involving a RAF fighter-bomber coming under attack from Japanese flak is somew... |
469,724 | 1,532,177 | 55,342 | 4 | Badly Dated And Plot less | I can't claim to be an expert on THE ST TRINIAN series . I have some vague notion that it's about some hellcat girl pupils which in today's political climate would probably never been considered as a film seriesStrangely enough the film starts with a liberal agenda after the pupils have burnt down their school and are ... |
469,506 | 1,532,177 | 67,176 | 4 | Moving Towards The End Of Hammer | By 1971 it was becoming more and more obvious that Hammer film studios were on the way out . HANDS OF THE RIPPER is a case in point where even the idea smacks of desperation - The spirit of Jack The Ripper posses his own daughter ! Yeah okay no one was expecting a documentary but this plot seems to be scraping the bott... |
468,523 | 1,532,177 | 166,276 | 4 | Who Was This Marketed For ? | MONKEYBONE is a movie with a bizarre title ( I thought perhaps this might have been a sequel to Michael Jackson's MOONWALKER ! ) which would crop up quite often on Sky Movies . Strangely it would usually be broadcast about 10pm at night and after finally seeing the movie I'm still perplexed as to what audience the movi... |
469,675 | 1,532,177 | 153,080 | 4 | Enjoyable For All The Wrong Reasons | I heard that Tiger Woods got his name after his father's life was saved by a comrade in ' Nam . This led to visions of the heroic cliche of someone running onto the battlefield slinging a wounded buddy over their shoulder and dashing hundreds of metres dodging machine gun fire and exploding shells . According to this b... |
469,576 | 1,532,177 | 94,678 | 4 | Annoying Little Man In An Annoying Little Film | There's an early scene in ARTHUR 2 ON THE ROCKS that sums up this movie . It's the scene where Arthur taps on a fellow millionaires car window to be told " You're an annoying little man " . Couldn't have said it better myself sir . Annoying , that's the word and that's the whole film - Annoying Some people may say that... |
470,000 | 1,532,177 | 117,628 | 4 | Not One I'd Watch | Some people have criticised the way this film is directed but my own complaint is the way it's produced and it's probably not a valid complaint because it's produced unreservedly for a female audience , though strangely enough male voters on this site have awarded it a slightly higher mark than females Apart from being... |
469,085 | 1,532,177 | 94,638 | 4 | Another Crap TVM | Another TVM that's a waste of time . The plot revolves around a ballsy police captain - And yes she's a woman - trying to weed out poor practice and corruption in her department . Apart from the usual twee faults of a TVM production there were several things that irritated me about this film . 1 ) Suzanne Pleshettes's ... |
470,002 | 1,532,177 | 249,624 | 4 | Billy Angel | I almost made a fool of myself when I was going to start this review by saying " This movie reminded me of BILLY ELLIOT " but then I looked up the resume of screenwriter Lee Hall only to find out that he was the guy who wrote BILLY ELLIOT so it's Mr Hall who's making a fool of himself not me Am I being a bit cruel on h... |
469,827 | 1,532,177 | 36,241 | 4 | Take Out Jane Russell And You're Left With A Crap Movie | OMG has there been a movie icon hotter than Jane Russell in THE OUTLAW ? I don't think so either . Her smouldering sexuality is the yardstick in which to judge all woman on Earth and the likes of Monroe are second best when compared to this definitive sex goddess . And to think some people describe the likes of Jay-Lo ... |
468,962 | 1,532,177 | 139,809 | 4 | A Lot Of People Have Complained About the Ending . . . | . . . But I'm afraid that the beginning and the middle isn't much better either ! This is a very strange film that doesn't seem to be able to decide what it's wanting to be . Is it a smart mind blowing technical thriller or is it film noir ? Whatever it is it fails on both counts since the techno thriller aspects are c... |
469,203 | 1,532,177 | 117,589 | 4 | Dreary Brit Flick | This is the sort of movie that the deluded British film industry loves and the average British film goer hates - A low concept drama about a woman trying to find her birth mother . It'd be a miracle if you could fill a telephone box with this premise never mind a cinema . There is of course an argument that the plot is... |
468,450 | 1,532,177 | 113,858 | 4 | Camp B Horror Movie | One wonders what the producers were thinking of when they set up the premise of " Mosquitos become infected by sucking the blood of an alien crew who have crashed in to the Deep South causing them to grow " . If you're gonna have aliens in a movie then surely giant mutating mosquitos are unnecessary to the plot ? Likew... |
469,228 | 1,532,177 | 87,032 | 4 | Very Dumb | Despite being a very silly film I did think the original CANNONBALL RUN did have several amusing moments . Unfortunately this sequel takes all the bad points of the original and modifies aspects of its own that make it a far lesser film One aspect is the whole feel of the movie . The original was produced as a straight... |
469,222 | 1,532,177 | 74,899 | 4 | A Snuff Movie | The title sequence is bad enough , a mixture of stock footage and back projection which is so unconvincing it reminded of the title sequence of THE NAKED GUN series . This a really badly made film but the most objectionable thing is its use of stock footage . Films are always made as entertainment , but any form of ent... |
469,251 | 1,532,177 | 196,267 | 4 | Seen This Before Somewhere | The plot for this straight to video production revolves around the teenage characters of Sebastian Valmont and Kathryan Merteuil who embark on a pact to manipulate all those around them . Their most favoured type of manipulation is seducing naive young virgins You're possibly scratching your head wondering where you've... |
469,474 | 1,532,177 | 109,830 | 4 | Only In America | I remember the BBC coverage of the Oscars in 1995 . Barry Norman was asking the Brits in Hollywood - Among them Tracey Ullman and Alan Parker - what they thought of the years nominations and the British view was unanimous that FORREST GUMP was nothing more than an overated mediocre movie . After seeing the film for mys... |
470,220 | 1,532,177 | 71,569 | 4 | Probably Harryhausen's Least Impressive Effort | Ray Harryhausen is a special FX god who knocks todays CGI wizards into a corked hat . Compare the skeleton scenes of JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS with many of today's movies and tell me what effect is more convincing ? No contest is it ? Unfortunately the problem with THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD is that the audience is sitt... |
469,875 | 1,532,177 | 439,039 | 4 | Good Idea Badly Executed | The good news is that this is a spoof documentary . The bad news is that it's not a very good one which is a shame because a great number of people who set their video recorders to tape this will no doubt empathise with Jamie Campbell and Joel Wilson with what it's like trying to build a successful movie career The pro... |
468,848 | 1,532,177 | 67,243 | 4 | Probably Doesn't Hold Up Today | In 1977 ITV had a " Late night adult movie season " on Monday nights . There's two things you have to consider 1 ) Late night in British TV terms in those days meant 10 . 30 pm . Up until the mid 1980s TV stations would close about 12 . 30 am 2 ) Adult movies shown on television were a world removed from the gore and e... |
469,654 | 1,532,177 | 117,723 | 4 | Not As Good As NAKED GUN | SPY HARD starts with an in joke of having Mr T pilot a helicopter and that's about as sophisticated as the film gets . It's a spy spoof with refferances to IN THE LINE OF FIRE , SPEED , PULP FICTION etc and even includes a sly nod to FELLOWSHIP OF THE THE RING years before that movie was filmed ! . Leslie Nielson does ... |
469,269 | 1,532,177 | 315,398 | 4 | The Rules Of Plagerism | To all you wannabe movie makers out there don't worry about plagerism because you can only be sued if you tear the top sheet containing the screenplay credits off and insert your new top sheet saying you're the author of the screenplay . That's the literal and legal meaning of plagerism , trust me I've been to film sch... |
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