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468,581 | 1,532,177 | 280,744 | 4 | I'm Not Scared | I was up watching BBC1 round about midnight so guess what was on ? That's right an American TVM which was called LIVING IN FEAR and amazingly didn't star Jane Seymour or Victoria Principal in a disease of the week plot . But that didn't stop this TVM from being formuliac . As in all these type of films it starts with a... |
470,305 | 1,532,177 | 71,613 | 4 | Dirty Old Men | The problem this film has is the same problem the TV series had and that's the laddish Stan and Jack . There's nothing wrong with laddish characters but Stan and Jack are played by actors who seem to be in their late 40s / early 50s ! And there's something objectionable - not to mention crediblity defying - as they cop... |
469,608 | 1,532,177 | 51,706 | 4 | Hardly A Gripping Thriller | When you see a film title like GRIP OF THE STRANGLER that stars Boris Karloff you're not expecting a romantic musical . Bizarrely there's long segments in this film where the film does indeed resemble a romantic musical . We're introduced to Karloff's character James Rankin whose daughter has fallen in love with a youn... |
468,622 | 1,532,177 | 208,988 | 4 | Not As Bad As I Expected . . . . | . . . . But that's probably because I was expecting the worst movie ever made . This remake of the classic Brit thriller is far from being the worst movie ever made but it is rather substandard . Director Stephen Kay seems to have been influenced by MTV and this shows up in his directing , a funeral scenes is accompani... |
468,377 | 1,532,177 | 157,583 | 4 | Good Books Don't Make For Good Movies | I've never read Robert Harris's book ENIGMA so I don't know how it compares to the very highly regarded FATHERLAND , and also having never read the book I obviously have no idea how it compares to this film version but I cant help thinking the book is being close to unfilmable . No doubt Harris burnt a very large amoun... |
468,793 | 1,532,177 | 67,445 | 4 | Yawn . Yawn . Yawn | The opening of MORTE A VENEZIA resembles a Duran Duran music video with classical music and this is the highlight of the movie " In terms of what Theo ? " In terms of everything , but especially excitement . I doubt if there's ever been a more sluggish slower moving movie than this one . Yeah okay it's a European art h... |
469,324 | 1,532,177 | 114,084 | 4 | This Is A True Story Is It ? | I'd never heard of the movie PANTHER until it was shown on Channel 4 tonight . I was under the impression that this was going to be a true story about the rise of the Black Panther movement but right from the opening titles the doubt was sown in my mind as the words " Screenplay by Melvin Van Pebbles based on his novel... |
468,566 | 1,532,177 | 125,034 | 4 | Just Another TVM | I've been hearing a lot of this new bird flu that has killed dozens of people in South East Asia over the last three years . Apparently it's on the thresh hold of mutating into something very contagious and millions upon millions of people are going to be wiped out in a global pandemic . Just thought I'd mention this i... |
468,951 | 1,532,177 | 129,332 | 4 | I Can't Believe The High Ratings For This | I missed the first few minutes of RAVENOUS which worried me that I might have had my enjoyment of the movie spoiled . Alas if I catched the opening it wouldn't have made any difference whatsoever since this is a totally confused movie that changes mood from scene to scene and has a very underdeveloped script ! ! ! ! ! ... |
469,318 | 1,532,177 | 381,851 | 4 | Very Boring And Unfunny | Last years academy awards was a classic year because . . . A ) Steve Martin was a brilliant host and B ) There were some shock winners This year's awards were very boring because . . . A ) Billy Crystal wasn't as good as Steve Martin and B ) There were no shock winners Before everyone writes an angry private message to... |
468,869 | 1,532,177 | 106,408 | 4 | Too Many Issues - Not Enough Comedy | When I was a film student in London I was the only Scot in class which led to the inevitable question " Do you set your screenplays in Scotland Theo ? " I replied I didn't because setting a story in a specific geographical location lessens the marketability of a script because the parochial nature only appeals to a spe... |
470,175 | 1,532,177 | 236,493 | 4 | Big Names Aren't Always Enough | On the surface this might appear to be a relatively entertaining film since it stars two big names , but stop to consider the careers of both Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt . Roberts was unbelievably lucky to have won the Oscar for ERIN BROCKOVICH while Pitt is obviously a film star due to his sexy boy looks . You're righ... |
469,243 | 1,532,177 | 113,957 | 4 | Mediocre | Computing . Can there be anything more boring ? Sitting in front of a computer all day typing away at some keys all day every day , tap tap tapping . That's much of the problem with this movie , the heroine sits in front of a computer VDU tapping the keys and no matter how many looks of agitation she gives , or how muc... |
470,079 | 1,532,177 | 64,473 | 4 | Confused Anthology Tale | It's difficult to believe now but at one time Rod Steiger was as highly regarded as Marlon Brando . I say it's difficult to believe because instead of being remembered for great performances in ON THE WATERFRONT and IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT spent most of the 1980s appearing in horror B movies and when you stop to think... |
468,555 | 1,532,177 | 756,446 | 4 | Very Dull | This is considered to be the weakest story of series two and it's not very difficult to see why . Coming after a couple of stories , one of which is considered to be a modern classic ( The Impossible Planat / Satan Pit ) while the other ( Love And Monsters ) is one of the most radical pieces of television produced Fear... |
470,176 | 1,532,177 | 404,305 | 4 | Someone Is Confused | To me science fiction is about the exploration of the human condition , it's a sweeping genre replete with allegory , analogy and subtext . It would appear that Nicholas Brooks and Laura Kelly haven't grasped this concept since their short film OZONE doesn't easily fit into the science fiction category per se and seems... |
470,024 | 1,532,177 | 55,746 | 4 | Nothing To Do With Sea Food | The title sequence is phemomenally literal . We see an animated prawn wooing a mate and the sequence finishes with the mummy and daddy prawns herding their off spring away from camera . You can imagine the sequence designer being told the title of the movie by the producer and nothing else so you can't blame the guy fo... |
468,406 | 1,532,177 | 94,208 | 4 | Plot less Love Story | For the life of me I have no idea what type of movie director Diane Kurys was trying to make here . It centres around the relationship between American director Steve Elliot and English actress Jane Steiner . It contains long - Too long - scenes of romantic European cities with romantic music in the background but at t... |
469,621 | 1,532,177 | 86,625 | 4 | Globus And Golan At Full Throttle | If you're not old enough to remember Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan here's the rundown : They're a couple of film producers and finaciers from Israel who set up the Cannon film company in the early 1980s . The only Israeli to get a worse press than these two was Menachim Begin . Begin probably deserved the bad press bu... |
469,296 | 1,532,177 | 347,014 | 4 | Oh Look , It's Britney ! | As everyone else has mentioned it makes a nice change watching a soft core porn film that seems silicone free , but as with all these type of movies there's not much of a story involvedThe only outstanding thing about FORBIDDEN is the presence of Renee Rea . It sounds really weird but Ms Rea face wise resembles a sligh... |
469,850 | 1,532,177 | 82,776 | 4 | Is There An Explanation ? | MILD SPOILERS _ BUT YOU PROBABLY KNOW THE PLOT Woman gets raped and decides to take out her rage on all of mankind . Oh did I mention the rape victim was mute ? That's the problem with MS 45 , Thana the rape victim decides she's going to kill men but is there any logical explanation to any of this ? Surely the whole fi... |
469,244 | 1,532,177 | 117,011 | 4 | Seen It All Before | Jean Claude Van Damme's movie career seems to have gone to hell in a handcart so how ironic to see him playing a character who meets the same fate in a literal manner at the very start of the movie ! It's also interesting to note how very , very similar the plots of his movies play out regardless of who the producer , ... |
470,375 | 1,532,177 | 117,007 | 4 | I Do Hope This is A Spoof | Some people can't get enough of these " stalker from hell " type movies right ? We've had SINGLE WHITE FEMALE , UNLAWFUL ENTRY etc and there was nowhere for the genre left to go . Enter MATERNAL INSTINCTS which spoofs this type of thriller Tracy Horton wants a baby . She goes into hospital and it's found she's sufferin... |
469,027 | 1,532,177 | 116,999 | 4 | Over Produced Tear Jerker | What a great cast , Meryl Streep , Robert DeNiro , Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio . This is a certain sure fire box office hit . So what's it about ? A single mother whos sister is dying from Leukaemia ! AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH Let's be honest , no one is going to watch a plot that is basically TVM material no matter... |
470,312 | 1,532,177 | 400,369 | 4 | It's Not Chocolate | I can remember basically all of the ARMCHAIR THRILLER shows produced , some more than others though I often can't remember plot details . Perhaps that less than five people have voted on A DOG'S RANSOM and I am the first person to comment on it shows how unregarded it is ! ! ! ! SPOILERS ! ! ! ! This starts with someon... |
468,579 | 1,532,177 | 105,690 | 4 | Not A Classic | Steven Seagal sets the screen alight in the all action classic - UNDER SIEGE said the BBC announcer before the transmission . I beg to differ Mr Announcer . UNDER SIEGE isn't the worst action film ever made but its no classic either . It can best be described as an ultra violent episode of MACGUYVER with the hero liv... |
469,998 | 1,532,177 | 170,637 | 4 | The Personification Of The TVM | Why do do TV companies insist on churning out these fem friendly disease of the week TVMs ? It's easily explained . Imagine a fourty something woman zapping through the channels trying to find something to watch after a hard days work . What's on ? HAMBURGER HILL - A Vietnam war film . PLATOON - A Vietnam war film . FU... |
469,201 | 1,532,177 | 196,723 | 4 | Unfocused | ! ! ! ! ! POSSIBLE MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! ALONG FOR THE RIDE ( As I know it - I've never heard of it called FOREVER LULU ) has an opening very similar to film noir , then becomes a road movie then tricks the audience into thinking they'll be watching a thriller about a " disturbed mental patient going on rampage " but... |
469,557 | 1,532,177 | 285,462 | 4 | Too Incredible To Be Funny | BOAT TRIP is the kind of movie that has a good premise but remains under developed . A couple of horny young men sign up for a sex cruise but since they've annoyed the travel agent he gets his revenge by putting them on a gay cruise . Be honest there's all types of laugh out loud opportunities with this kind of plot bu... |
469,275 | 1,532,177 | 105,608 | 4 | There's A Killer On The Loose | ! ! ! ! ! SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! Someone's going around bumping off cops and you really can't him since the cops . . . 1 ) Beat up suspects . Though to be fair they'll beat up anyone regardless of skin colour so at least they're not racist cops 2 ) Swear a lot 3 ) Spout terrible dialogue 4 ) Get drunk in bars and decide to... |
469,533 | 1,532,177 | 288,886 | 4 | Spare Me The Self-Pity | There were two things I hated about WASTED : The directing and the script . I know I'm opening myself up to ridicule but Stephen T Kay's direction is too much like a . . . . like a . . . . well like a MTV pop video . It's shot ( I think ) on digital video against an intrusive soundtrack , often out of focus and often w... |
469,301 | 1,532,177 | 117,117 | 4 | Almost Ruined By Its Post Modern Art House Values | As I said in my review of LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL I am not a fan of holocaust movies and find them to be consistently over rewarded at film festivals . I also find them to be a poor subject for a movie for several reasons not least because how can you successfully translate so much human suffering into a movie ? The answer i... |
469,358 | 1,532,177 | 120,900 | 4 | Really Strange Direction | This is a family movie that was broadcast on my local ITV station at 1 . 00 am a couple of nights ago . This might be a strange decision on the part of the schedulers but THE REAL HOWARD SPITZ is a rather strange film , strange in the way it doesn't want to upset its audience . Come on there's nothing kids like more th... |
469,541 | 1,532,177 | 120,912 | 4 | Instantly Forgettable | ! ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! ! I saw MIB 2 a couple of hours ago and it wasn't untill I typed this review that I suddenly realised I can hardly remember a thing about it ! Now let's see I remember special effects . . . . . well CGI which is so common nowadays I'm not sure if it's classed as a special effect anymor... |
468,613 | 1,532,177 | 66,593 | 4 | They Don't Make ' Em Like This Nowadays | My instant reaction on watching this in 2003 is the portrayal of the Muslim faith . Without giving too much away the plot centres around protecting a Muslim icon , while Muslims who are not exacatly treated with total reverance aren't shown as being blood thirsty killers calling for jihad against westerners either . Co... |
469,801 | 1,532,177 | 218,553 | 4 | I missed The First Five Minutes . . . . | . . . . So I don't know if this is a factor of not being able to make head nor tail of this sequel . To my mind it plays out entirely different from what I was expecting , where the original movie ended led me to believe this sequel would involve the most dangerous pyramid scheme in human history - and unless you've se... |
468,916 | 1,532,177 | 281,322 | 4 | Directed By Walter Hill ? | As soon as this prison movie starts you realise it was directed by a young inexperienced director who has been influenced by rap videos on the MTV channel and multiple viewings of OZ . As soon as a character is introduced BOOM a rap track starts and we see a caption giving the characters name , their crime and date of ... |
469,249 | 1,532,177 | 153,441 | 4 | As You'd Expect From A TVM | This is a sequel to a previous made for television movie ? What you mean producers of TVMs are trying to beat Hollywood at its own game by making sequels ? I fail to see the logic in this since franchise movies are entirely down to money . Having said that it would explain why I felt that AN UNEXPECTED LIFE was underde... |
469,759 | 1,532,177 | 117,128 | 4 | Fans Might Like It . I Didn't | I had heard of the cult TV sci-fi comedy MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 but had never seen an episode . I also knew what the show involved and its premise hadn't exactly struck me as ground breaking ( Though possibly this might have influenced DVD commentary tracks ) but after seeing the praise showered upon by commentat... |
469,315 | 1,532,177 | 71,110 | 4 | A Fairly Poor Disaster Movie | This is an incredibly mediocre disaster movie . So mediocre and ill thought out that you can be forgiven to thinking it's a spoof if it wasn't for the fact that AIRPORT 75 isn't even bad enough to be good . Say what you like about AIRPORT 77 and AIRPORT 80 : THE CONCORDE at least those flying accidents were entertainin... |
469,352 | 1,532,177 | 114,210 | 4 | Didn't Set My Heart Alight | ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! The premise goes like this : A store gets burnt down and assistant Sergio is asked by the father of the man who started the fire to take the wrap to which Sergio agrees . So far so good , but there's a fair lapse of logic involved Sergio agrees to do this for the sum of 25 , 000 dollars bu... |
470,340 | 1,532,177 | 66,815 | 4 | Rather Boring | One thing I have noticed about British horror movies from the 1970s is that they don't hold up to repeated viewing THEATRE OF BLOOD is a case in point as are all those Amicus anthology movies . Add THE BEAST IN THE CELLAR to the list Much of the drama of this movie revolves around the build up of a plot revelation at t... |
469,019 | 1,532,177 | 71,118 | 4 | Not As Good As The TV Show | This film version of James Herriot's series of novels isn't much cop compared to the television show of the same . This movie is the prior piece but there's nothing very memorable about . The plot is more or less composed of " Will young James get married to his girlfriend or not ? " , hardly the most original or compe... |
469,038 | 1,532,177 | 75,406 | 4 | Too Much Of A Long Voyage | This has all the feeling of a 1980s disaster movie with its big name all star cast . Alas British audiences will be distracted by the opening sequence where a cruel Nazi is played by the legendary Leonard Rossiter . These type of casting choices can sometimes ruin a movie and iut's not helped by having cameos by megast... |
468,533 | 1,532,177 | 426,911 | 4 | Disappointing Thriller | With the exception of the new series of DOCTOR WHO , this has got to be the most publicised BBC serial of the year , and with good reason I guess since Robert Harris is a popular and acclaimed novelist whose books make very informative reading ! ! ! ! SPOILERS ! ! ! ! However watching ARCHANGEL it becomes very obvious ... |
468,608 | 1,532,177 | 346,293 | 4 | Badly Written | I watched this hoping to find out something I didn't know about modern history's most infamous man and couldn't help thinking that history has been rewritten in HITLER : THE RISE OF EVIL . Hitler was so obsessed with his niece that he threatened to have one of her admirer's shot . Hitler turned up with a gun in his han... |
469,429 | 1,532,177 | 139,414 | 4 | I Forgot That I Watched This | Normally when I watch a movie that I'm planning to review for this site I scribble down a few notes while watching it . Today's Wednesday and I found a piece of paper in my pocket that contained a few notes on LAKE PLACID . If I hadn't found that piece of paper I would have had absolutely no recollection that I saw thi... |
470,313 | 1,532,177 | 63,850 | 4 | A Product Of Its Era | Lindsay Anderson was very much a European film maker , whereas the likes of David Lean , Ridley Scott and Alan Parker make spectacular movies involving visuel scope Anderson's movie are more about social commentary and subtext , so much so that the message often ends up taking over the entire film whose primary functio... |
469,278 | 1,532,177 | 157,111 | 4 | Very Average | This is yet another female friendly TVM though one that stars a relatively well known movie actress in the shape of Anne Archer who plays Theresa Sullivan whose husband is a cop killed in the line of duty . Seeing as it's a chick flick there's several angles the storyline can take Widow whose husband was killed finds s... |
469,307 | 1,532,177 | 101,595 | 4 | Yuck | This involves two people Richard and Natalie embarking on an illicit affair . Bad enough that Natalie has just got married but the relationship goes beyond adultery since Richard is Natalie's brother . Yup you read that right . If you thought the incest plot from BROOKSIDE was bad you ain't seen nothing yet Stephen Pol... |
469,097 | 1,532,177 | 469,948 | 4 | Is That It ? | The main selling point to this short film is that the score uses the music of Matt Johnson ( AKA The The ) as its soundtrack one of the most under rated British musicians of the late 20th Century . If you want doom , gloom and articulate adjectives on alienation The The is the soundtrack for you , music that makes Pink... |
468,993 | 1,532,177 | 94,963 | 4 | Deadly Dull | As soon as the electronic title music starts you know you're going to be watching a deadly dull 80s film and this is a deadly dull 80s film . Worse it's a deadly dull 80s film with a 70s screen icon ! . I'm unable to emphasise just how much transporting Dirty Harry Callahan to the 1980s fails to work . Pony tailed punk... |
469,121 | 1,532,177 | 114,604 | 4 | Yet Another Stalker Thriller - Yawn | The plot of this TVM revolves around Jeffrey Quint who visits a bar and lets himself get talked into a game of liar's dice by a man called Neil Jones who he has just met and I think the producers might have a problem in getting the audience involved because this set up is difficult to relate to unless you play liar's d... |
469,010 | 1,532,177 | 114,592 | 4 | Something I Noticed . . . | . . . About SWEET NOTHING is that all the comments on this page have praised it while 174 voters have only given the movie an average rating of 5 . 0My own opinion is that this is a very flawed movie . Take the opening sequence when we're shown the fate of Angel . Think about that for a moment , as soon as the opening ... |
468,481 | 1,532,177 | 240,380 | 4 | It's Not That Bad | This gets an average of 2 . 3 from IMDb users ! I will be be honest and say I didn't think much of BLOODY MURDER but it's by no means the worst horror movie I've seen either hence I didn't make any smart ass comments about the movie's title like BLOODY MURDER TO SIT THRUStrangely enough I thought I'd be watching a self... |
469,815 | 1,532,177 | 86,265 | 4 | An Inferior Role Reversal Of SCUM | As everyone seems to have noted SCRUBBERS seems to be nothing more than SCUM made for a female audience . The structures are very similar ( Hardly surprising since SCUM author Roy Minton co-wrote this ) with a relatively thread bare plot getting in the road of episodic incidents . Even the fact that we see British TV s... |
469,336 | 1,532,177 | 253,200 | 4 | Good Casts Don't Always = Good Movies | LAST ORDERS involves some of Britain's greatest actors playing characters who are taking the ashes of their late friend to be sprinkled off Margate Pier , their friend in question being played by British acting legend Michael Caine Impressed ? I wasn't because there's very little in the way of plot , with much of the s... |
469,210 | 1,532,177 | 101,524 | 4 | Who Is Eric Roberts ? | Once upon a time in the mid 1990s I used to write for DOCTOR WHO fanzines and the whole of fandom was holding its breathe about the new American produced DOCTOR WHO TVM . As soon as it was announced that the Doctor's arch enemy the Master was going to be played by Eric Roberts everyone scratched their heads and exclaim... |
470,148 | 1,532,177 | 161,010 | 4 | I Did Have Reservations At The Start . . . . | . . . . because the opening title sequence is very bland . Compare it to the shocking title sequence of the 1960s BBC documentary THE GREAT WAR . As the film goes on we're introduced to the characters and I couldn't help noticing that one is Southern English , a couple are Northern English , a couple are Jocks , a coup... |
470,263 | 1,532,177 | 161,023 | 4 | Story Story Story | Janet Mcteer is from the North east of England . I feel I should point this out because the people there talk with a very recognisable brogue that is in many cases totally unintelligible to the human ear . So the fact that an actress from that region of Britain was Oscar nominated in a role as a trailer trash mom calle... |
470,139 | 1,532,177 | 289,213 | 4 | Chaotic Movie ( Geddit ? ) | Is it possible that screenwriters can get so bored typing away at a keyboard they decide to write another movie while they're one third way through a screenplay ? This is the impression I got from watching director / writer John Terlesky's GUARDIAN MILD SPOILERS This starts off with a USMC recon mission to Iraq during ... |
469,436 | 1,532,177 | 296,685 | 4 | Very Intrusive Direction | This Canadian TVM is based on a real life case where the mounties couldn't get their man due to foul ups and red tape and this led to a child rapist and murderer to carry on with his obscene crimes . This is a TVM with a lot of potential but the script and performances aren't as well developed as they should have been ... |
468,627 | 1,532,177 | 82,250 | 4 | Pointless | ! ! ! ! SPOILERS ! ! ! ! The original DEATH WISH was fairly good but soon found itself surpassed in intellect by TAXI DRIVER and entertainment value by THE EXTERMINATOR so it seems somewhat pointless making a sequel to the groundbreaking vigilante drama . The problem with the sequel is that it asks us to suspend our di... |
469,689 | 1,532,177 | 114,508 | 4 | Deadly Dull And Cliched | CONTAINS SPOILERS SPECIES is an extremely dumb and derivative SF horror film . Not only that it's extremely predictable The plot is this : human egg is mixed with alien DNA which leads to the creation of an alien girl , alien girl escapes and a bunch of spook types have to hunt her down because the future of humanity i... |
468,650 | 1,532,177 | 90,887 | 4 | The 80s Have Dated | Watching this reminded me of how bad everything was in the mid 1980s . It was bad enough that the cold war was still on when any moment WW3 could have broken out , but to have crap music , crap hairstyles and crap fashion is just too much . Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if someone had dropped the bomb because then... |
468,522 | 1,532,177 | 56,307 | 4 | Almost Bearable For Non Wisdom Fans | How could anyone hate the comedy capers of Norman Wisdom ? Me for a start . Just how much mileage is there in a man with an ill fitting suit falling over while screeching " Mr Grimsdale " in a silly voice ? I wouldn't say it was mileage I would say it was inch-age . You have to forgive the unsophisticated slapstick app... |
468,694 | 1,532,177 | 429,487 | 4 | What's Going On ? | I firmly believe that the best Oscar ceremony in recent years was in 2003 for two reasons : 1 ) Host Steve Martin was at his most wittiest : " I saw the teamsters help Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo " and " I'll better not mention the gay mafia in case I wake up with a poodle's head in my bed " 2 ) Surprise w... |
468,755 | 1,532,177 | 85,608 | 4 | Too Serious To Be A Family Film | I see Mindy has given an in depth synopsis of THE GOLDEN SEAL which revolves around a young kid called Eric trying to save a mythical golden seal from greedy hunters . I won't reiterate the plot except to point out how uncomfortable the serious tone of the movie made me feel and there's scenes that shouldn't have been ... |
470,388 | 1,532,177 | 480,249 | 4 | Clumsy Adaptation Of An Unfilmable Novel | The problem with filming Matheson's I AM LEGEND is that the original novel is so difficult to adapt for the silver screen . The novel deals with the last man alive - Neville - who is surrounded by vampires . There's little spoken dialogue and perhaps most problamatic of all is the fact that Neville is effectively the v... |
469,298 | 1,532,177 | 138,704 | 4 | Love It Or Hate It Indie Art House Flick | Maths genius Max Cohen finds himself being pressured by a a corporate gang who want to make profits on the stock market and a bunch of kabbala Jews who want to contact god There that's the premise of PI . One that on the surface seems both entertaining and slightly bizarre , but I have to warn you that this is one of t... |
469,931 | 1,532,177 | 116,731 | 4 | I'm Guilty | Seeing as THE JUROR revolves round a plot of someone trying to convince a jury to find a man accused of murder innocent I was expecting something along the lines of 12 ANGRY MEN and you do not believe how foolish I feel writing this paragraph . I wish to throw myself at the mercy of anyone reading this and beg their fo... |
469,037 | 1,532,177 | 89,927 | 4 | Very 1980s | I don't believe the original ROCKY should have won the Oscar for best picture but in themselves the franchise is fairly inoffensive with my favourite one being ROCKY 2 and by far my least favourite being ROCKY 5 . ROCKY IV is very strange because more than any other movie in the series it's the one that has dated the m... |
468,715 | 1,532,177 | 328,302 | 4 | Contains One Memorable Scene | It wouldn't be obvious at the time but the heroine of QUIET AS A NUN is Jemima Shore a character who had her own series in the the early 1980s and was played by Patricia Hodge , whilst here Shore is played by Marie Aitken ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! This ARMCHAIR THRILLER is slightly more memorable than most because ... |
470,025 | 1,532,177 | 50,629 | 4 | These Boots Were Made For Walking | A lot of people have complained about Timothy Hines version of WAR OF THE WORLDS . Apparently much of the running time is taken up with the lead character walking around England's green and pleasant land during a Martian invasion . Think yourself bloody lucky if you saw that film because it does at least feature an ali... |
470,102 | 1,532,177 | 68,230 | 4 | Nowhere Near The Best Anthology Movie | A lot of people have been praising ASYLUM as one of the best horror anthology horror movies they've seen . I must disagree with this popular point of view . It's by no means the worst anthology movie ( The contenders for that accolade are far too many to speak of here ) ever made but it's by no means the best when you ... |
470,302 | 1,532,177 | 102,945 | 4 | Never Marry Herr Hitler | I couldn't help noticing that many people in the opening credits who made this film had Jewish sounding names . I didn't think too much of it at the time but as SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY progressed I couldn't fail to notice that the villain is softly spoken and is capable of as much charm as he is of flying into extreme ... |
469,295 | 1,532,177 | 279,750 | 4 | I'll Give You Anything You Want . . . | . . . Is the opening line of this movie with the reply being " Do we look like criminals ? " , but I wish the reply had been " A bigger budget please " because OUTTA TIME would certainly have benefited from it . The story while being no great shakes is engaging enough with twists and turns holding the interest but it's... |
468,480 | 1,532,177 | 85,549 | 4 | A Bad Way To Sell Records | This movie was Jerry Bruckheimer's idea to sell some records . No seriously it was . The thinking behind it is that if you made a film full of pop songs you could stick the tracks on a LP , sell it and make even more money for the studio . You could also release a few tracks as singles and intercut the promo video with... |
468,963 | 1,532,177 | 120,458 | 4 | Unoriginal And Unentertaining | How on Earth do I go about reviewing VIRUS ? I thought perhaps I might use some copy and paste reviews of DEEP RISING , THE X FILES and ALIENS but according to IMDb guidelines this isn't allowed so perhaps someone can tell me how screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer got away by stealing other peoples ' plots ? It's the screenpla... |
468,588 | 1,532,177 | 301,230 | 4 | I Never Eat In Cafes | It's often said that a short story is the most difficult thing to write . I agree that's true and that's probably the reason why I've never seen a short film that satisfies me , and I agree with the other reviewer who comments on the fact that DUMPING ELAINE is confused . Why do a young couple keep revisiting the cafe ... |
469,612 | 1,532,177 | 68,339 | 4 | Running On Empty | CARRY ON MATRON was released in 1972 and it's becoming clear that the series has reached a natural end with the best entries like CLEO , UP THE KYBER and SCREAMING being from the mid to late 60s In itself MATRON is by no means bad it's just that we've seen it all before with a thin plot ( A bunch of spivs trying to bre... |
469,156 | 1,532,177 | 93,286 | 4 | Very Enjoyable Unlike Where I Live | Someone once asked me " What's the inhabitants of the isle of mute called - Mutants ? " " No Corporal " I replied " It's the isle of Bute and they're called Brandanes " But come to think of it when I walk down the streets of Rothesay on the Isle of Bute and see the inbred lumpen underclass drinking on top of empty head... |
468,513 | 1,532,177 | 99,160 | 4 | Wasted Potential | Kathryn Bigelow directs this thriller in a somewhat cold detached manner similar to latter day Kubrick but you stop noticing the directing once you notice the subtext which is very anti-gun . I don't have a problem with that , but the more the story continues the more Oliver Stone ( I take it he was responsible ) decid... |
468,559 | 1,532,177 | 75,845 | 4 | What Went Wrong ? | On paper this should have been excellent . We have Robert Aldrich who made some very intelligent , cynical movies like ATTACK , THE DIRTY DOZEN , TOO LATE THE HERO and ULZANA'S RAID directing a novel by acclaimed author Joseph Wambaugh and featuring amongst others notable actors like Louis Gosset Jnr and James Woods be... |
468,790 | 1,532,177 | 158,423 | 4 | Netfarce More Like | When this TVM was made in 1999 I was still somewhat ignorant of the internet . Certainly I'd heard of it but being something of a Luddite I failed to see why more and more people were becoming interested in it and it wasn't until August 2001 that I become connected to the world wide web . One thing I did notice about N... |
470,348 | 1,532,177 | 116,601 | 4 | I'm Not Recommending It | Two old men sitting on a park bench . I don't really have a problem with this scene - Only problem is that it's not a scene it's the entire movieYup movies don't get anymore low concept than this . They also don't get anymore boring than this either , but there's worse to come because these two old men are chalk and ch... |
469,095 | 1,532,177 | 475,762 | 4 | Something Of A turn Off Because Of Its Content | too noticed a somewhat anti male subtext from Linda Carvalho's previous short film EVER AFTER and while it was somewhat flawed it was at least somewhat entertaining in my opinion . I'm afraid I can't really say the same about TOUCHED which deals with the very serious subject of domestic abuse Young lawyer Menna is assa... |
469,018 | 1,532,177 | 54,357 | 4 | Hardly A Disney Classic | Seeing as it's Easter the Tv companies in Britain have been showing several Disney films of which SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON is one . To be honest this far from being a Disney classic , yeah it's a family adventure ( Literally ) but doesn't have the impact of 20 , 000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA . This down mainly to two reasons ... |
469,069 | 1,532,177 | 63,035 | 4 | Interesting In One Aspect | Lets not kid ourselves , Big John Wayne didn't do this as a war film he did it as a western . Look at the actors here they're far too old to be elite combat troops , they're all Victor McLaglen wannabees but without the talent . If they'd cast totem poles they wouldn't have been as wooden as this cast . The dialogue is... |
469,656 | 1,532,177 | 284,028 | 4 | Pulls Its Punches | The thing that struck me about this TVM were the two leads . Delta Burke looks like Monica Lewinsky's older sister while Ryan Merriman looks like David Duchovny's kid brother . It's uncanny it really is . The problem I had with this issues based TVM is that it pulls its punches . Jack doesn't actually come across as th... |
469,613 | 1,532,177 | 103,129 | 4 | Not A Truly Good Film | Oh dear . I'm probably going to upset a lot of middle class middle aged woman by confessing I didn't like this movie at all for several reasons1 ) I have a very low tolerance level on middle class metropolitan characters in movies . I am by no means a Maoist but I find it difficult to relate to middle class women who h... |
469,087 | 1,532,177 | 97,770 | 4 | The Clichés Are Badly Executed - Snigger | A man who takes the law into his own hands after someone has committed an unforgivable crime against an innocent victim is a cliché and it's this cliché that Sly Stallone plays in LOCK UP . Does anyone know any different words for " cliché " ? because I'll be using that word an awful lot in this review . No ? Oh dear S... |
470,228 | 1,532,177 | 85,636 | 4 | Not Really A Nigel Kneale Script | I knew the studio politics before I saw SEASON OF THE WITCH . That is I knew that the producers had decided to release a film every year under the Halloween banner that had absolutely zero to do with Michael Myers so there was no disappointment on my part that this wasn't a stalk and slash sequel . What disappointed me... |
468,862 | 1,532,177 | 380,892 | 4 | Too Mythical | FAMILY revolves around the Cutlers , a family of gangsters from the mythical old school . Well it's not so much mythical but cliched as we're shown a mild mannered old geezer who runs the family and his two sons who want to move up in the business . It's somewhat strange watching ambitious criminals running protection ... |
470,039 | 1,532,177 | 212,338 | 4 | A Major Disappointment | You'd think black romantic comedy + Robert De Niro + Ben Stiller = great fun wouldn't you ? But MEET THE PARENTS is an extremely disappointing film . Some of my disappointment might be down to the trailers I'd seen ( Which basically contain all the amusing moments ) which led me to believe I'd be seeing a film similar ... |
469,141 | 1,532,177 | 460,520 | 4 | Somewhat Confused | Maryam arrives in the UK as an illegal immigrant then tries to claim asylum in this confused short film . I say confused because I have a large amount of difficulty in what it's trying to say to the audience . Certainly we are supposed to be on the side of Maryam and there's no way anyone is going to confuse this with ... |
469,160 | 1,532,177 | 116,508 | 4 | Is This A Drinks Commercial ? | Dave who is a former cop and former drunk takes his wife on a fishing trip and sees a plane crash and rescues a young girl from a watery grave which sets up the plot Did I mention Dave is a a former cop and former drunk ? Good because this might be important apart from Dave being a former drunk . In fact the director a... |
469,599 | 1,532,177 | 996,572 | 4 | A Pig's Ear | I wasn't expecting much from this conclusion to the two part Dalek story but even then this was a very disappointing episode . It get's off to a bad start with Tennant degenerating in to his overblown mockney voice . He's had a season and a half to perfect his performance and he's still bloody irritating But it's Rayno... |
469,359 | 1,532,177 | 262,490 | 4 | Not Depressing Or Disturbing But Oh So Pretentious | IN THE TIME OF ANGELS starts with a voice-over of a young woman lamenting the passing of time . This strikes a chord with the human psyche and can be summed up with Matt Johnson's song Another Boy Drowning . It's a topic that while being cathartic can also be unredeemable depressing . Luckily the rest of this short fil... |
468,572 | 1,532,177 | 118,655 | 5 | I Preferred The Sequel | I really enjoyed THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME . It was the first film in the series I saw which may possibly explain why I enjoyed the original a lot less . THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME cuts to the chase very quickly while AUSTIN POWERS : INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY is held by the very obvious and necessary need to explain who th... |
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