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469,783 | 1,532,177 | 105,112 | 5 | Oh Good , A Film Where The IRA Are Bad Guys . . . . | . . . . . . Oh hold on they're not the peace loving pacifists of the provisional IRA they're a mad mental IRA splinter group that this film is at pains to point out have nothing to do with the " nice terrorists " who murdered over 1800 people in the 70s 80s and 90s . To be fair to the film adaption of PATRIOT GAMES the... |
470,172 | 1,532,177 | 66,064 | 5 | Didn't Think Much Of It . . . | First time I saw it and didn't think much of it now I first saw this in the mid 1970s as a child . I was from the last generation of British children who had a common interest in the second world war . I used to like buying war comics like Battle and Commando and used to love watching all those B & W war movies , but I... |
468,571 | 1,532,177 | 35,244 | 5 | I wasn't Blown Away | When you mention the name Cecil B . DeMille you realise right away you're not going to watching social realism you're going to be watching action , adventure and above all spectacle , and REAP THE WILD WIND gets off to everything you're expecting , a shipwreck in glorious technicolor . Okay there's an anachronism or tw... |
468,784 | 1,532,177 | 126,250 | 5 | Perhaps Too Cluttered With Too Many Characters | I have to be honest and confess that I'm not a Robert Altman fan . His movies suffer from being cluttered with too many characters having their own sub stories which detract from the narrative COOKIE'S FORTUNE can be used as a good example . For the first half hour of the movie we're introduced to the characters of a s... |
470,290 | 1,532,177 | 35,262 | 5 | Post Modernism In The 1940s ! ! ! | What shocked me about THE ROAD TO MOROCCO is the self referential post modernism , ie the characters know they're in a film . Bob and Bing sing a song about meeting Dorothy Lamour while later Bing turns to Bob and says " Hey if we were tied up how did we get out of the sacks ? " to which Bob replies " If I told you the... |
469,148 | 1,532,177 | 248,667 | 5 | I Agree With Most Of The Critics | As always the problem of getting someone to play Muhammed Ali is that they don't have the charisma to play the great man , hell not even Ali could play himself convincingly in THE GREATEST so I didn't think Will Smith star of weak Summer blockbusters like WILD WILD WEST or the MIB films was going to be much cop in the ... |
469,491 | 1,532,177 | 118,583 | 5 | Flogging A Cloned Horse | A lot of people were bitterly disappointed by ALIEN 3 because there wasn't enough action . Personally I liked that movie though not as much as I liked ALIENS and seeing as ALIEN 3 performed badly with cinema goers and critics the studio has decided that RESURRECTION will be an action fest similar to ALIENS . Unfortunat... |
469,705 | 1,532,177 | 295,178 | 5 | Time To Say Goodbye Baby | Despite enjoying the sequel more than the original I thought GOLDMEMBER was the weakest in the Austin Powers trilogy possibly due to the air of entire self indulgence that runs throughout the movie . This is personified by the appearance of Michael Caine as Nigel Powers . You can just imagine Caine picking up the scrip... |
468,524 | 1,532,177 | 241,114 | 5 | Doesn't Go Far Enough | You want to know about rabies ? Try this : One time I was abroad and was unfortunate to be bitten by a stray cat . I didn't think too much of it at the time . I traveled back to the capital city to catch my plane back to Britain and I got into a conversation with the night porter at my hostel who had spent his national... |
469,949 | 1,532,177 | 56,347 | 5 | Less Opera Please - We're British | I haven't seen the classic 1925 version or the 1943 version , in fact the only version I've seen of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is this 1962 very British film . I say " very British " because not only is the action transferred to London but their seems to be a little Englander mentality of sticking two fingers up at the prete... |
468,647 | 1,532,177 | 118,528 | 5 | Not Too Impressed . Know What I Mean ? | After reading all the glowing praise about this remake of 12 ANGRY MEN I sat down hoping to see a reinterpretation of a classic film , but it's more or less the same script filmed in colour with a different cast . No doubt one way of looking at it is that the original Reginald Rose script hasn't been destroyed by radic... |
469,239 | 1,532,177 | 118,778 | 5 | Hardly A Classic But Not Awful Either | Pop Svengali Marty Starr is in a little bit of trouble with shady American Bruce whose son has ambitions to be a pop star so Marty decides the best way to keep his kneecaps is to come up with a get rich quick scheme BRING ME THE HEAD OF MAVIS DAVIS has few fans and while it's not exactly consistently laugh out loud it'... |
469,667 | 1,532,177 | 65,207 | 5 | Very Cliched And Dated | As a child I used to love all those old war movies set during the second world war but as I grew older I grew to dislike them . The majority of WW2 war films are American of course with a subjectively American point of view ie the Yanks won the war single handed . Not surprisingly two WW2 war films I still love today a... |
470,353 | 1,532,177 | 167,215 | 5 | It's Not That Bad | ! ! ! ! ! SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! Yeah okay INTERCEPTORS isn't a great film , but I don't think it's as bad as many of the people on this page are saying . Yes it's highly derivative with some severe gaps in logic but it's also fairly entertaining in a dumb sort of way . Check out the opening scene with Sean Lambert ( Stran... |
469,268 | 1,532,177 | 221,218 | 5 | Kill That Glass Scumbag | If THE GLASS HOUSE had concentrated on the angst of Ruby Baker a sixteen year old girl orphaned in a car crash this might have been a better film , but the themes of parental loss and being an outsider aren't as intensively explored as they could have been , instead we're treated to a ludicurous thriller that feels ext... |
469,736 | 1,532,177 | 91,203 | 5 | I Liked It The First Time . But . . . | I saw this movie when it came out on video many years ago and enjoyed it immensely , so immensely I looked forward to seeing it again which I did a couple of years later . However I didn't enjoy it so much the second time and every subsequent time I saw it I enjoyed it less and less . I've now seen it 7 or 8 times and ... |
470,161 | 1,532,177 | 122,541 | 5 | Not Really What I Expected | I've got to be honest and say I know very little about Oscar Wilde . I just know he was an Irish born playwrite , was a master at the bitchy putdown and was imprisoned for homosexual activity which left me with the impression I was going to be watching a movie featuring a married man who is cheating on his loving trust... |
468,512 | 1,532,177 | 61,387 | 5 | British And Not Very Proud Of It | This a British film attempting to pretend to everyone and fooling no one that it's a big budget Hollywood movie . It starts with a couple of Las Vegas cops with laughably bad American accents getting a report of a disturbance . Cut to some stock footage of Vegas with the cop car stopping beside a sidewalk that was obvi... |
469,708 | 1,532,177 | 352,247 | 5 | Where's Dave ? | I didn't have any idea what THE CICERONES was going to be about before watching it but after seeing it I can only describe this short film as " LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN Go To A Slavonic Country " An English art lover travels abroad during the inter-war years and visits a cathedral that is inhabited by an assortment of weird... |
468,430 | 1,532,177 | 83,941 | 5 | Where's Doyle ? | This film claims to be about the SAS but is nothing more than a boring generic action adventure / thriller that's inferior to THE PROFESSIONALS . If you haven't seen THE PROFESSIONALS let me explain it was an excellent late 70s British adventure series about a government organisation called CI5 taking on terrorists and... |
469,497 | 1,532,177 | 427,042 | 5 | The Cult Of Russell T Davies | I see that Russell T Davies is fast becoming the TV scriptwriting icon of the 21st century with shows like QUEER AS FOLK , DOCTOR WHO and this version of CASANOVA on his resume and being a massive fan of DOCTOR WHO this is the reason I watched . Don't you know that David Tennant is playing the legendary timelord on tel... |
469,238 | 1,532,177 | 160,484 | 5 | Cinematography Doesn't Equal A Great Film | Director Janusz Kaminski is best known as being Spielberg's favourite cinematographer and has won cinematography Oscars for SCHINDLER'S LIST and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN . This no doubt explains why in Kaminski's LOST SOULS the cinematography seems to be the most important aspect of the production . Things like narrative dr... |
469,204 | 1,532,177 | 221,633 | 5 | Too Effective | I hate bug movies . I saw that one from the mid 70s with the fire raising roaches starring Bradford Dillman and that was enough to put me off the genre for life , and the only reason I watched THEY NEST is because there was absolutely nothing else on . The film starts off very well with a hook that may have come from t... |
469,253 | 1,532,177 | 281,919 | 5 | I've Seen Better | I caught this on channel 4 very late , or very early considering how you think of 2 . 40 am and discovered that it was another Creature Feature movie production . I knew what to expect - Slightly corny and old fashioned B movie values but one that at the very least would be watchable , and I did enjoy the previous effo... |
469,532 | 1,532,177 | 273,300 | 5 | Try This At Home . It's Perfect | ! ! ! ! POSSIBLE SPOILER ! ! ! ! ! I do concede there is a market for romantic comedies , quirky road movies and independant features and I admit that I can take or leave any of these genres but I wasn't too impressed with JUMP TOMORROW which iis an amalgam of all three genres . I did give it a chance and was slightly ... |
468,551 | 1,532,177 | 348,031 | 5 | Very Familiar Horror / SF Story | One reason horror movies aren't well regarded amongst critics is down to the fact that in order for the plot to work the characters have to do stupid things like wander around a dark woodland knowing fine well that people have disappeared in that location . In other words logic flies out the window . One other reason f... |
469,123 | 1,532,177 | 359,484 | 5 | Let Down By Near The Knuckle Humour | ZOG is an acronym for the ultra right wing theory that all the governments in the world are being manipulated by a Jewish conspiracy . ZOG itself stands for Zionist Occupation Government so when the aliens in this animated short were from the planet Zog the name stuck in my mind , and when the first humans to be taken ... |
469,404 | 1,532,177 | 160,393 | 5 | Left Me Cold | ! ! ! ! CONTAINS POSSIBLE SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! ! Though I'm not much of a SF fan I really like the speculative fiction genre where an ecological disaster befalls humanity , a great example being John Christopher's haunting 1956 novel THE DEATH OF GRASS which was turned into the 1970 film NO BLADE OF GRASS . ICE however i... |
468,557 | 1,532,177 | 160,399 | 5 | Very Over Directed and Disappointing Over All | IMPOSTER is based on a short story by Philip K Dick whose stories have been used for the rather underrated TOTAL RECALL and the rather overrated BLADE RUNNER amongst others so hopefully we'd have if not a classic movie then a memorable and thought provoking one . And the story does get off to a good start as Earth is a... |
470,202 | 1,532,177 | 105,226 | 5 | The Most Unlikely Coincidences Ever Seen On Film | SPOILERS - AND NO I'M NOT MAKING THEM UP Michael , a drifter , comes across someone who thinks he's a hitman and pays Michael a large sum of money to murder his wife's lover , but Michael decides he's going to take the money and run . So Michael's driving away from town and accidentally runs a man down . It's at this p... |
470,405 | 1,532,177 | 108,633 | 5 | Don't Believe The Hype | When THE YOUNG AMERICANS was released it was marketed as a cool , tough British thriller . But after watching it the reality is that it's average at best and is disappointing in many ways , especially its casting , Harvey Keitel as a tough NY cop , Keith Allen as a violent London gangster , wow get ready for some on sc... |
469,966 | 1,532,177 | 95,271 | 5 | Watchable Enough . . . | . . . But the plot is wearing thin Since HALLOWEEN 3 : SEASON OF THE WITCH has absolutely nothing to do with the franchise this is regarded as the second sequel of the franchise started by John Carpenter's 1978 movie . To be honest there's not much milage to make a franchise since the plot of every film revolves around... |
469,360 | 1,532,177 | 160,338 | 5 | Slow Burning Bore | The plot to GUINEVERE is as follows : Harper Sloane a young woman aged twenty embarks on a sexual relationship with photographer Con Fitzpatrick a man old enough to be her father There that's the entire plot summed up in a few words . Notice how the plot is cogently summed up in a few words ? This means the story is ra... |
470,038 | 1,532,177 | 43,461 | 5 | Rather Mythical And Disappointing Biography | Even today the name Erwin Rommel conjures up visions of a superlative soldier and a complex man . In short Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was an enigma , a member of the Nazi party and an admirer of Hitler but who fought the cleanest campaign of the war in North Africa . Compare the conduct of both sides in that particular... |
469,627 | 1,532,177 | 113,394 | 5 | A Precursor To OCEAN'S ELEVEN ? . . . . | . . . . Well that's what I thought THE IMMORTALS was going to be like in the opening scene with Eric Roberts character telling his cohorts that he wants them to take part in a heist . Roberts is certainly cool enough to have easily fitted into the recent remake of the rat pack movie , but unfortunately he's best known ... |
470,168 | 1,532,177 | 236,784 | 5 | I Had A Problem With The Casting | The thing you have to realise with John Le Carre is that he's not Ian Fleming , he's a writer similar in many ways to Graham Greene , his novels are human dramas dressed up as spy stories in order push forward the idea that people will always be caught up in circumstances beyond their control . If you go into a Le Carr... |
468,409 | 1,532,177 | 113,293 | 5 | Is It A True Story ? | Hey get this , a FATAL ATTRACTION clone ! How original . No doubt if us men watch enough of these films we'll empathise with women who've been stalked in real life . I don't think so . This is how HER DEADLY RIVAL plays for the most part . Hunky married man keeps getting horny phone calls from a secret admirer then whe... |
470,043 | 1,532,177 | 104,692 | 5 | Extremely Dated FX | This film isn't up to much . The central plot involves a village idiot who is used in a medical experiment which increases his intelligence and gives him psychic powers which he uses for revenge . The most annoying thing about THE LAWNMOWER MAN is the really crap FX which probably weren't all that good in 1992 but are ... |
469,445 | 1,532,177 | 462,071 | 5 | What Was Missing Is More Important Than What Was Included | I have to worry about these channel 4 list shows . They seem to be produced at an alarming rate while there doesn't seem to be any genre left for a 100 GREATEST list show anymore . Can we please now bury these schedule fillers ? As with all the other 100 GREATEST shows I found myself agreeing with some of the listings ... |
469,812 | 1,532,177 | 60,801 | 5 | Is Harlan Ellison Being Ironic ? | If the name Harlan Ellison doesn't mean anything to you let me point out that he is one of the most respected science fiction authors of the 20th century . Ellison also wrote a couple of episodes of the original OUTER LIMITS series in the early 60s which James Cameron seemed to have borrowed for THE TERMINATOR . In fac... |
469,487 | 1,532,177 | 60,862 | 5 | Generic Action Movie Done As A Western . Perhaps | I don't know if you can describe the plot of THE PROFESSIONALS as versatile but it can certainly be described as generic . Someone's wife is kidnapped by bad guys so the husband pays four tough gringos to get her back . This plot could easily have been set in the 21st century with the heroes traveling to the Central Am... |
468,901 | 1,532,177 | 113,161 | 5 | Too Tarantino | When GET SHORTY was released in 1995 all the critics were expecting the movie to clean up at that years Oscar ceremony and there was a collective gasp when the film didn't recieve a single nod . After seeing the film for the first time tonight I'm somewhat suprised what all the fuss was in the first placeGET SHORTY is ... |
470,045 | 1,532,177 | 82,971 | 5 | This Is Family Entertainment ? | In script terms this is just a big budget cliffhanger serial from the 1930s except for one important difference - Sadistic violence . Villains are burned , shot , crushed , melted and blown up . Okay so most of them are comic book Nazis so that makes it okay I guess . Even so I do think the violence is way over the top... |
469,568 | 1,532,177 | 264,761 | 5 | My Tall Slim Jewish Lesbian Wedding | Guys I've got to confess that my motivation for watching this movie was not for the purest of reasons . I'd seen the photo of Jennifer Westfeldt on her IMDb profile page and thought she was very pretty . So pretty in fact that I was looking forward to seeing her take part in some girl on girl action in KISSING JESSICA ... |
469,220 | 1,532,177 | 252,127 | 5 | Doesn't Work | The best type of television cop is the fascist but fair cop . Jack Regan from THE SWEENEY and Frank Burnside from THE BILL are the personification of the fascist but fair cops as seen on British television , yes they beat confessions out of guilty men and occasionally blow away a bad guy but the bad guys were guilty in... |
470,342 | 1,532,177 | 187,078 | 5 | Bruckheimer Steps On The Gas | i can imagine a slightly bored Jerry Bruckheimer was sitting in his LA office one day listening to a CD collection of happening funky tunes " hmmm " jerry says to himself " These tunes are kind of funky . So funky in fact I think I'll produce a movie around some sounds " . Next thing Jerry does is get on the phone to t... |
470,360 | 1,532,177 | 52,805 | 5 | Silly B Movie Without A Shred Of Logic | It's not just Hollywood that is interested in making a fast buck , even the British aren't immune . FIRST MAN INTO SPACE is a rather cynical excersise in remaking a superior story , namely THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT , while pretending that it's an American film by casting a couple of American actors while cutting to a s... |
469,205 | 1,532,177 | 100,530 | 5 | Cold War Drama That Left Me Cold | THE RUSSIA HOUSE is a very well acted film with a good though electic cast . Connery is fairly good in his role but he could have played the part with a little more laid back attitude , Pfeiffer is great as is Klaus Marie Brandauer but whose idea was it to cast Ken Russell and Martin Clunes ? The problem I had with THE... |
468,405 | 1,532,177 | 117,765 | 5 | Guys It's Not Meant To Be Serious | Some people take both life and cinema far too seriously . Look at STRIPTEASE for example . The opening scene takes place in a court where Erin Grant is fighting for custody of her child against her husband Darell who has a serious problem with drugs . The judge decides that because Erin is unemployed pill popping Darel... |
468,461 | 1,532,177 | 113,552 | 5 | Good Cast In Very Average Film | Nicolas Cage , Helen Hunt and Samuel L Jackson in a film from the 1990s ! Must be good I thought . Well actually KISS OF DEATH is not all that good , it's by no means bad it's just that the three afore mentioned stars were well known at the time but weren't stars yet . The film was made around the same time as David Ca... |
468,846 | 1,532,177 | 83,336 | 5 | Very Pretentious And Disappointing If You've Read The Book | I read Whitley Striber's novel THE WOLFEN in the early 1980s and though not being much of a horror fan was mildly impressed with it and found out a couple of years later that a movie version starring Albert Finney had been released and I tried to find the movie on video but with no luck and it was several years later u... |
469,758 | 1,532,177 | 64,840 | 5 | The Problem I Had With This . . . . | . . . . is the same problem I have with DEAD POET'S SOCIETY or any other film set around school - I couldn't relate to it . I've always found teachers to be crypto-fascists and yet as at least one other reviewer pointed out the idea of Miss Brodie being an admirer of Franco and Il Duce just doesn't ring true . In fact ... |
468,420 | 1,532,177 | 109,156 | 5 | Bizarre And Not Helped By The Lack Of Credibility | You know not to expect too much if you know if a film playing late on BBC 1 is a TVM but AS GOOD AS DEAD did at least have actors who have appeared in relatively successful mainstream movies , and even if you don't class Traci Lords as a mainstream actress at least you've got an opportunity to see what she looks like w... |
469,550 | 1,532,177 | 113,492 | 5 | The Jury Is Still Out On This One | Can't really say I was much of a fan of the JUDGE DREDD . My favourite 2OOO AD strip was INVASION ( That's the one where Britain is is invaded and occupied by a bunch of commies from the central Volgan Republic ) so I wasn't going to judge ( Geddit ? ) the film version as some sort of comic book geek , but even so I fo... |
468,398 | 1,532,177 | 465,966 | 5 | Bizarre | This is a four minute short where the world is introduced to Eugene Hicks and for a male audience many of us feel we shouldn't have been introduced : " I have what every woman wants . trust me " Trust must be earned Eugene " I'm extremely intelligent and incredibly well paid " Ah that's where the trust must be earned E... |
470,254 | 1,532,177 | 117,998 | 5 | I Feel Slightly Cheated | TWISTER is one of those Summer blockbuster pop corn movies so I shouldn't be too hard on it but I kept getting the impression it was nothing more than an overblown TVM like NIGHT OF THE TWISTERS OR ATOMIC TWISTER . There's a lot in common style wise with these latter TVMs featuring a lethal column of wind . The heroes ... |
468,838 | 1,532,177 | 60,588 | 5 | Men With Funny Voices Do A Lot Of Talking | This is a movie that has a great opening sequence where we see a British led division of ten thousand men ( There's a bit of emphasis that despite being British led most of the troops are natives so you know how they got stuffed ) trek through the arid plains of The Sudan as they search for the Islamic trouble maker ca... |
468,999 | 1,532,177 | 117,894 | 5 | It's Not Too Bad | Like some of the reviews on this site , all the TV guides put the boot into THINNER but I don't see what the problem is . Okay it's by no means a great movie but it's by no means as bad as I was expecting . The only things I disliked intensely was at the start of the film when the fat slobbish Billy was a little too ha... |
469,393 | 1,532,177 | 52,902 | 5 | Just Another John Wayne Movie | THE HORSE SOLDIERS is directed by John Ford and stars John Wayne but anyone expecting something along the lines of THE SEARCHERS ( Not the master work it's claimed to be ) is going to be very disappointed since the plot is very simple . Set during the civil war Col John Marlowe must lead an Union force to attack a conf... |
469,894 | 1,532,177 | 83,232 | 5 | Too Slow For Some Tastes . . . . | . . . . Including mine I stayed up late to watch TRUE CONFESSIONS down to the simple reason it contained performances by De Niro and Duvall . Neither performance disappointed ( Remember this was made in 1981 when DeNiro was a God when it came to acting . How times change ) but the rest of the film did . I was under the... |
468,748 | 1,532,177 | 274,166 | 5 | Not The Worst Brit Comedy You Will See | The critics were unkind to this and I got the impression it was down to two reasons : 1 ) The character Johnny English is based on a character that appeared on credit card adverts in the early 1990s . you get the gut instinct that character development isn't something that applies to characters appearing in adverts 2 )... |
469,072 | 1,532,177 | 60,278 | 5 | Lacks Any Gritty Realism | I do admit to being a DR WHO fan , it's my all time fave show . I've followed this highly entertaining series since I can remember when Jon Pertwee played the role But in the late 70s camp humour came more and more into the programme which killed it in the mid 80s . Camp humour also spoiled this film adaption . The TV ... |
469,665 | 1,532,177 | 64,116 | 5 | Top 50 ! Yeah Right | As I write this ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST is ranked number 50 in the IMDB top 250 movies . I can't help thinking a lot of people have confused this with ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA The problem I had is that it's massively overlong and it crawls along at a snails pace , most of this is caused by someone walking into ... |
468,408 | 1,532,177 | 90,264 | 5 | Extremely Boring | A VIEW TO A KILL is a substandard Bond film with a rambling and boring plot involving a villain trying to create a microchip monopoly . Tanya Roberts is almost certainly the worst Bond girl ever , and we get to see the worst back projection in the series . The only thing that stops it being a serious contender for the ... |
469,844 | 1,532,177 | 86,984 | 5 | Too Bizarre | I suppose BODY DOUBLE has some merit as a spoof on the porn industry and as a homage to Hitchcock but there's two things I found annoying and one thing that ruined the whole film for me The first annoying thing was Holly Body . Melanie Griffith plays the part of a porn star bimbo very well , but her name Holly Body ! I... |
470,215 | 1,532,177 | 209,163 | 5 | A Film Shouldn't Revolve Around CGI | The problem I had with the original film was that the script seemed to be written around the special effects , especially the CGI . Well the bad news about the sequel is that it suffers from the same problem multiplied by ten . Witness the opening prologue of massed armies fighting , an oasis appearing from nowhere and... |
469,443 | 1,532,177 | 51,525 | 5 | A Ridiculous Melodrama That Has Dated Very Badly | I had never seen THE DEFIANT ONES and I sat down to watch it a couple of days ago in eager anticipation since this was regarded as a classic American movie from the 1950s , I mean we're talking about the movie with " the white convict and the black convict handcuffed and on the run " . After seeing it I thought perhaps... |
470,362 | 1,532,177 | 417,148 | 5 | I'm Confused How This Was Considered To Make A Lot Of Money | Once upon a time people were looking forward to this cinematic event and you can't really blame them . SNAKES ON A PLANE ! a great title for a movie and right away you know what the premise is about . It also sounds like it's the type of movie that a family would enjoyUnfortunately for reasons known only to the the pro... |
468,604 | 1,532,177 | 64,045 | 5 | I Agree With Many OF You . That's Why I Disliked It | Many , many years ago I remember seeing a film that had The Master from DOCTOR WHO in it ( In fact many of the characters looked like The Master to me ) and the climax took place upon a zeppelin but I had no idea what the film was called untill today when BBC 2 showed THE ASSASSINATION BUREAUWell yes THE ASSASSINATION ... |
468,815 | 1,532,177 | 79,191 | 5 | Disjointed | GAME FOR VULTURES is a rather confused story about a freedom fighter / terrorist , an illegal arms dealer and an illegal shipment of helicopters to Rhodesia , but the story strands never really gel . Instead of a coherent plot we get a battle scene followed by sentenious speeches followed by a scene that doesn't add an... |
469,939 | 1,532,177 | 48,662 | 5 | Deja Vu | One Sunday afternoon in 1982 BBC 1 broadcast STORM OVER THE NILE . Nothing remarkable in itself with this scheduling but later that evening the ITV channel broadcast THE FOUR FEATHERS remake from the late 1970s ! Two different versions of the same story broadcast a few hours within each other on the two network channel... |
470,033 | 1,532,177 | 67,302 | 5 | Could Have Done With A lot More Action | The BBC broadcast an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's KIDNAPPED a couple of months ago ( I really must get round to reviewing that sometime ) so I found myself comparing it with this version and unfortunately this is very much inferior The problem lies in that the movie has very little in the way of action . Ther... |
468,955 | 1,532,177 | 90,180 | 5 | MAIMI VICE Meets Fatboy Slim | TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA is a fair enough thriller but there is a bit of a problem watching it in 2004 and is that it's very dated . Check out the fashions of having cops wearing their padded shoulder jackets with their sleeves rolled up . Very 1980s . Also check out the directing style of orange sunlight casting its glow... |
469,582 | 1,532,177 | 60,355 | 5 | Not As Good As I Heard | After reading some of the comments on this page I was expecting more . I sat down to watch DUEL AT DIABLO thinking I'd be watching something similar to ULZANA'S RAID or SOLDIER BLUE , but they're both Vietnam allegories or rather anti Vietnam war allegories from the early 1970s while this movie was made in 1966 when th... |
469,802 | 1,532,177 | 285,112 | 5 | Lynda La Plante Is Overated | I've never been a subscriber to the the train of thought that Lynda La Plante is one of the greatest writers in the history of British television . Her success his mainly down down to other people especially to producers like Verity Lambert who has produced much of La Plante's output . Don't believe me ? Watch this ver... |
469,340 | 1,532,177 | 102,116 | 5 | NHK Only Have Themselves To Blame | THE Indian RUNNER grossed the measly sum of 191 , 125 dollars at the American box office , a total so paltry that the Japanese company NHK stopped investing in movies . If they managed to lose a massive amount on their investment they only have themselves to blame . Think about it Sean Penn ( Probably best still known ... |
470,011 | 1,532,177 | 131,369 | 5 | Not Nearly As Prophetic As It Might Have Been | When EDTV was released in 1999 we didn't have much in the way of reality television , attempts had been tried like THE LIVING SOAP from the mid 1990s which did not catch on and it wasn't until the Dutch produced BIG BROTHER in 1999 that the reality show exploded and since then we've had too many of these type of progra... |
468,586 | 1,532,177 | 114,069 | 5 | Boring And Disappointing | Get the producer of PLATOON and the director of DAS BOOT to cast Hoffman , Freeman , Sutherland , Gooding Jnr and Spacey in a thriller about a killer virus and you'll have a sure fire blockbuster hit . And OUTBREAK was a major hit at the box office but does this make it a good film ? In my opinion - no . Despite having... |
468,448 | 1,532,177 | 681,764 | 5 | Was Once Seared In To My Memory But My Memory Cheated | DUI was without any doubt my all time favourite episode of QUINCY . It's a story I first saw in 1982 or 83 and even a few years later when someone mentioned the show this would be the episode that they'd remember , the one where a man commits murder with a car then gulps down lots of vodka before the police arrive to b... |
469,727 | 1,532,177 | 49,117 | 5 | Romantic Melodrama With An American Bias | It's rather strange watching D DAY THE SIXTH OF JUNE in 2005 because what strikes you is that it's a war movie made with a female audience in mind . Maybe it wasn't so strange at the time because a large proportion of the female population in Britain at the time could probably relate to having both a British boyfriend ... |
469,075 | 1,532,177 | 249,371 | 5 | Cultural Barrier | It was the video cover of ASOKA that attracted me to the film . It claims to be as spectacular as GLADIATOR , a really good epic film I'd seen a couple of days previously . The video cover tells us it's about the Emperor Asoka of the 3rd Century BC though it doesn't claim to be historically accurate . Well BRAVEHEART w... |
469,811 | 1,532,177 | 117,324 | 5 | MAIMI VICE Meets Tarantino | A problem with thrillers from the mid 1990s is how much they try to emulate the stylised film noir of Tarantino . PERSONS UNKNOWN is a case in point . Disgraced cop Jim Holland works as a security expert , has a one night stand with a woman he literally bumps into , realises he may have been stitched up then tracks her... |
470,013 | 1,532,177 | 274,309 | 5 | Good Job I Enjoyed The Joy Division Soundtrack | So Alan Partridge was based upon Tony Wilson ? I always genuinely believed that Coogan's legendary comedy character was based on Richard Madeley but watching the real Tony Wilson's pretentious egotistical and painfully insincere conversations on television I suppose there is a bit of Wilson in Partridge - Or is the fac... |
469,781 | 1,532,177 | 67,333 | 5 | Violent Cliched Western | A lawman rides into town and tells the local sheffif he's taking in a bunch of bad guys dead or alive . How many times have we seen this in a film ? LAWMAN is just another B western despite having a cast that includes Lancaster , Ryan and Duvall . Another obvious fault is the fact that it's very violent which jars with... |
469,211 | 1,532,177 | 113,972 | 5 | Shoot Itself In The Foot | NICK OF TIME has a fairly good premise , okay it's not the most original thriller ever made but it had potential but by about half through it becomes more and more contrived and ridiculous . I won't give away any spoilers but there's a scene when it looks like Gene is going to die for certain at the hands of the bad gu... |
469,040 | 1,532,177 | 86,567 | 5 | Great Premise . Not A Great Movie | Remember the mid 1980s ? This was the era of hair , shoulder pads and rather crap music which a lot of people are still trying to forget . What everyone seems to have forgotten is the nuclear paranoia of the time , how can anyone forget 99 Red Balloon's by Nina I ask you ? . This was the era of THE DAY AFTER , TESTAMEN... |
469,106 | 1,532,177 | 25,423 | 5 | Has Dated Poorly | If there was ever a movie whose dated production values let down its very effective premise THE LOST PATROL is it . Philip McDonald's story of a British Army patrol being picked off one by one by Arabs in 1917 Mesopotiamia is compelling enough and no doubt works very well on the written page but this 1934 adaptation ha... |
469,299 | 1,532,177 | 144,084 | 5 | Another Movie Trying To Be Too Clever | I'd heard a lot about the original novel though I'd never read it , possibly because it sounded like product placement with the anti hero giving long winded descriptions of what beauty products he uses and what designer suits he wears . This is translated into the start of the movie as Patrick Bateman washes , shaves ,... |
469,447 | 1,532,177 | 430,484 | 5 | Britain's Answer To Michael Moore's Conspiracy Fantasies | THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES is a heavily hyped documentary series by the BBC in three parts pointing out that America neo conservatives and Islamic terrorists are partners in arms with one needing the other in order to survive . It goes beyond shoehorning facts and ends up trying to out Moore the ridiculous style of Michae... |
469,851 | 1,532,177 | 64,393 | 5 | Would Have Worked Better As A DOCTOR WHO Story | This contains a really funky theme tune , but alas that's the only funky thing about THE GREEN SLIME . The movie has an unbelievably banal script with a laughably small budget . To say the production values are identical to a contempary DOCTOR WHO story would be an insult to DOCTOR WHOCome to think about it , THE GREEN... |
469,857 | 1,532,177 | 75,213 | 5 | Hardly A Great Tribute | I've never been a fan of John Wayne . His films in general and his westerns in particular drown in unrealistic American WASP-ish values and unrealistic history . Look at the opening sequence when Wayne's character protects himself from a would be mugger . In reality most gunfighters were poor shots , not to mention mos... |
469,081 | 1,532,177 | 75,214 | 5 | Not Too Impressive | Can't say I was too blown away by this movie . The main problem I have is with the main villain Fleischer . Being set long before 1933 he's not the goose stepping " ve haff vays of making you talk pig-dog " Nazi villain of WW2 war films but he's the next worst thing - A fat stupid slob who tries to shoot everyone while... |
468,458 | 1,532,177 | 109,642 | 5 | Too Depressing | It's not all that often that we get to see a Stephen King adaption with absolutely no supernatural or horror elements hit the big screen but DOLORES CLAIBORNE is far more disturbing than stuff like GRAVEYARD SHIFT , NEEDFULL THINGS or SALEMS LOT due to the subject matter . It involves trailer trash , unlawful killing ,... |
469,138 | 1,532,177 | 443,499 | 5 | I Fail To See What The Fuss Is About | EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY MUST has received a lot of critical acclaim amongst short film aficionados but I'm slightly puzzled as to why . I will confess that it's a very well made short film where things like cinematography , editing and acting are concerned but I'm trying to work out the subtext to what it means . Th... |
468,424 | 1,532,177 | 106,292 | 5 | It Wasn't Necessary To Make This Sequel | Talk about having friends in high places and merciful ones at that because what other excuse is there to make a belated sequel to STAKEOUT ? " Belated " is the operative word here because if it was made two years after the original movie I could understand this because that's the only reason the Hollywood industry exis... |
469,911 | 1,532,177 | 94,226 | 5 | I Wasn't Impressed | THE UNTOUCHABLES came out in an explosion of acclaim in 1987 with the critics hailing it as " a masterpiece " and " An instant classic " but after seeing the movie I was wondering if I'd been watching the same movie . My own theory as to why so many cynical movie critics liked it might have had something to do with the... |
468,867 | 1,532,177 | 253,827 | 5 | An Uneven Film | I didn't have hopes for this at all . Lee Evans is kind of like Jerry Lee Lewis cross bred with Norman Wisdom while Kathy Burke is a good actress but is type cast in roles as council estate scum so a film where they both appear as two down and out losers didn't strike me as a great film The opening scene opens with Mr ... |
469,407 | 1,532,177 | 116,996 | 5 | Too Silly | MARS ATTACKS ! gets off to a good start with a massive barbecue followed by a really good title sequence that will leave you thinking this is going to be a classic SF comedy but don't allow yourself to be fooled because after the opening credits we are introduced very clumsily to the characters , a retard president and... |
469,101 | 1,532,177 | 114,323 | 5 | A Bizarre Film | ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! The TV Guide described this movie as " A dark drama " while the TV page in the newspaper described it as " A thriller " and in the plot summary on this page director Todd Haynes describes it as " A horror movie of the soul " . I wouldn't class SAFE as any of those things ( Though " A dark ... |
469,707 | 1,532,177 | 330,929 | 5 | What's It About ? | This centres around a sectary working at a firm called Funtime Inc but that's about all I can tell you because the narrative didn't make much sense to me and it's as if director Miranda Bowen is trying to film a shampoo advert ! The phone rings , the sectary picks up the phone then we get surreal scenes where the secta... |
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