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469,871 | 1,532,177 | 82,085 | 5 | Spoiled By My Over Familarity Of The Director's Work | I'm rather sad at having to give BLOW OUT . I'm sure that if I'd seen this many years ago my vote would have been much higher . The problem with watching in 2005 is that I've become too over familiar with the work of Brian De Palma , I'm sorry to say this but he's a film maker lacking in much variety and BLOW OUT featu... |
468,500 | 1,532,177 | 86,508 | 5 | Good Start Ruined By Commercial Interests | On the surface this is basically an action adventure movie featuring a load of Americans with guns , but it gets off to a very powerful start as a former Korean war hero finds that his son who has been captured by Vietnamese forces in 1972 hasn't been returned home . This is very touching helped in no small measure by ... |
469,548 | 1,532,177 | 55,894 | 5 | A Case Of The Bland Leading The Blind | For the benefit of those of you who haven't read John Wyndham's classic SF novel THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS I should point out that the triffids are rather peripheral in the book and the central plot revolves around a meteorite shower that has blinded nearly the entire population of Earth and of the survivors who can see ... |
468,995 | 1,532,177 | 117,060 | 5 | Glossy Empty Thriller | Despite its title this isn't really a film version of the series . There's no Rollin Hand , Paris , Cinnamon Carter , or Daniel Briggs . Worse there's no absurd but clever plotlines that the original series was famous for , this MISSION IMPOSSIBLE is just a generic spy thriller with a confusing unexplained plot . If yo... |
469,567 | 1,532,177 | 63,522 | 5 | Very Slow With A Silly Ending | This is a highly regarded supernatural thriller possibly down to the fact how credible it all seems . Young couple Rosemary and David Woodhouse buy an apartment in New York City then Rosemary receives the happy news that she's pregnant . Being a caring community everyone in the apartment block makes sure she's getting ... |
470,203 | 1,532,177 | 114,411 | 5 | Drop The Pilot | Anyone remember an American sitcom called NOBODY'S PERFECT ? This starred Ron Moody as Inspector Hart of Scotland Yard ( I'm sure it was retitled HART OF THE YARD in the UK ) who's an innocent abroad when it comes to American customs and police procedures . THE SHAMROCK CONSPIRACY feels very similar in many ways to the... |
469,495 | 1,532,177 | 48,347 | 5 | A Bit Too Dated And Melodramatic | It's now impossible to mention cinema featuring junkies without speaking of TRAINSPOTTING the cult Brit flick from the mid 1990s . Before Danny Boyle's film came along I guess people thought of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM when they spoke of the abstract misery of drug addiction Obviously you can't compare the two since... |
468,369 | 1,532,177 | 120,903 | 5 | As I Expected | I've never been all that keen on comic strips , the only exception being the strips that appeared in the issues of the Doctor Who Weekly by Marvel comics from over 20 years ago that featured early work from legends like Dave Gibbons , Paul Nearey and Alan Moore , but apart from that I have no interest in what some peop... |
470,374 | 1,532,177 | 425,267 | 5 | I Think I Know What It's About | I see Bob The Moo was genuinely chilled by this little shocker and I defy anyone not to feel a little shaken by MONSTERS . But I feel many , many people ( Bob included ) may have misunderstood what writer / director Robert Morgan is trying to say . I personally believe that Mr Morgan is pointing out the link between ch... |
470,061 | 1,532,177 | 417,684 | 5 | Much Too Domestic For My Liking | This starts with Jonathon the husband masturbating in the shower , something his wife Grace makes a joke about . Having never been married I was puzzled as to how this reaction sums up a married relationship . Is it a good sign or a bad sign of a marriage ? Nevertheless Jack and Grace seem to have problems in their rel... |
468,930 | 1,532,177 | 86,383 | 5 | Showing Signs Of Wear | The DIRTY HARRY franchise is a good example of the laws of diminishing returns . The original was a classic thriller down to a tight script and an outstanding performance from Andrew Robinson as a absolute nut case . The sequels MAGNUM FORCE and THE ENFORCER had their moments but were lesser films though both of them a... |
468,560 | 1,532,177 | 86,393 | 5 | Wasn't Well Written Was It ? | It's obvious as soon as SUPERMAN 3 starts that not a lot of thought has gone into the screenplay of this movie , I mean the opening sequence is taken up by an unlikely sketch of someone paying attention to a sexy blond , not looking where they're going then BANG all sorts of mayhem ensues . It's like watching a very ti... |
469,938 | 1,532,177 | 59,800 | 5 | Disappointing | After the classic GOLDFINGER it's somewhat disappointing to see THUNDERBALL a film that's easily the weakest of the 60s Bond films starring Sean Connery . The problem I have with it is the same problem I have with many of the later Bond films - It's overlong and badly paced with much of the story held up as the audienc... |
469,756 | 1,532,177 | 66,894 | 5 | Got To Disagree | You know what to expect with a CARRY ON film : A repertory of comedy actors , nudge nudge wink wink humour involving double entrendes and a few laughs too . Unfortunately I've got to disagree with most of the comments here and say I don't rate CARRY ON HENRY as one of the better films in the series and after the very f... |
469,425 | 1,532,177 | 1,205,439 | 5 | A Misnomer | This was an episode all the fans were eagerly anticipating in 2008 . With a title like The Doctor's Daughter it's a episode heading that leaps up and grabs you . The BBC hype machine also went in to overdrive showing us a clip where Jenny the daughter in question sees the Doctor for the first time and comments " Hello ... |
469,936 | 1,532,177 | 94,933 | 5 | Sunk By The Script | When I found out the two credited directors were responsible for MAX HEADROOM I was expecting some MTV over directed nightmare but the artistic style was nowhere as bad as I was expecting . Okay it is a somewhat 1980s type film with an intrusive pop soundtrack in places but a great many ( Too many ) films from that per... |
470,062 | 1,532,177 | 426,586 | 5 | Morality ? | The concept behind STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS seems to be something of a redemption plot whereby the lead characters find out that if you play with fire you get burnt and I have very mixed feelings whilst watching this since Amnesty International published a survey result earlier this week that showed that one third of peopl... |
468,576 | 1,532,177 | 82,351 | 5 | Would It Really Appeal To Women ? | I agree with the commentator who described this as a chick flick because my gut instinct is that the second half of the movie takes on the quality of a bizarre love story . However any female sitting through this would have to endure a story of a ruthless Nazi spy slaughtering anyone who stands in the way of his missio... |
469,786 | 1,532,177 | 82,377 | 5 | Killer Monks ! | Wow what a great idea for a movie getting a bunch of tooled up monks to bump off the anti-christ , you could start a whole franchise on that idea . Alas this idea is relegated to a mere subplot . There's also a subplot of the anti-christ recruiting an elite band of killer boy scouts and nannies which is almost as cleve... |
470,031 | 1,532,177 | 59,418 | 5 | A Maverick Movie ? | After seeing MAJOR DUNDEE I was in something of a state of shock . It's not often I have seen a movie that suffers from such structural and contextual madness as this . I came to this site and noticed that people claim that the truth behind this movie is all down to director Sam Peckinpah making things up as he went al... |
469,110 | 1,532,177 | 110,308 | 5 | Not That Good | This is one of these movies that many critics describe as " Unforgettable " while I wonder if I'm watching the same movie . THE LAST SEDUCTION may work as a memorable modern day film noir but can you name any other modern day film noirs from the 1990s ? So there's little to compare this movie amongst equals meaning it ... |
468,543 | 1,532,177 | 116,828 | 5 | Good Straight To Video Film | THE LAST DAYS OF FRANKIE THE FLY is an entertaining film . It's by no means a classic but everyone plays their parts well enough especially Michael Madsen and I'm somewhat surprised as to why it went straight to video . Think about it for a moment if Martin Scorsese had directed this instead of Peter Markle it'd be cal... |
469,957 | 1,532,177 | 110,322 | 5 | Too Sprawling And Shapeless | I think director Edward Zwick has a massive inferiority complex . Primarily a maker of TV shows he sets out to make LEGENDS OF THE FALL the biggest cinematic epic the world had seen for many years and it goes without saying he fails SPOILERS The story starts in 1914 in Montana where one of three Ludlow brothers - Samue... |
468,591 | 1,532,177 | 160,797 | 5 | I'm Confused At The Lack Of Logic | Round about the same time as this film was produced there was a new international court of law set up as to how wars are conducted which led me to believe that RULES OF ENGAGEMENT would point out the ( Im ) practicalities and ( A ) moralities and possible hypocrisy of such an international court but all these important... |
468,414 | 1,532,177 | 86,058 | 5 | Good Cast . Not A Good Film | What a good cast . Burt Lancaster , Dennis Hopper , John Hurt who is probably Britain's greatest living actor - why hasn't he been knighted ? and Rutger Hauer before he became known as Rutger " straight to video " Hauer , but the cast never seem to be able to rise above this silly twisty turney cold war thriller . The ... |
470,278 | 1,532,177 | 79,550 | 5 | When You've Seen One Meteor Movie . . . | The one thing I dislike about Sean Connery is his inability to pick a decent script , I mean just think of all the substandard movies he's starred in . I imagine though when big Sean saw the script for METEOR he thought he might be onto a winner seeing as it was a sci-fi disaster movie and these two genres were all the... |
469,349 | 1,532,177 | 44,121 | 5 | One Serious Production Flaw | THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD is credited as being the very first cold war analogy science fiction movie . This is summed up by Scotty's radio broadcast at the end of the movie where he states that a handful of brave Americans have saved the day and to " Watch the skies " . What he really means that only Americans shoul... |
469,468 | 1,532,177 | 66,963 | 5 | Just As The TV Series | This is just like the classic TV comedy , in fact it's exactly like the classic TV comedy and your opinion of this film version all comes down to what you thought of the show . My own opinion is that it's a little bit too gentle for my taste , but unlike many film spin offs from TV shows at least it's recognisable with... |
469,546 | 1,532,177 | 66,995 | 5 | Connery's Worst Bond Outing | For many people James Bond is Sean Connery but that doesn't mean a Bond film is an instant classic because Connery is in it . DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER is barely watchable enough , just think how bad it could have been without Big Sean SPOILERS What I hate about this film is there is no internal continuity with OHMSS . Blof... |
469,961 | 1,532,177 | 165,243 | 5 | I Remember the Strange Circumstances In Which I Saw This | From 1987-88 I used to attend the James Watt College in Greenock . I got there by by traveling on a ferry from Rothesay to Wemyss Bay and then catching a bus from Wemyss bay to Greenock . Unfortunately one day I returned from Greenock to Wemyss Bay there was a gusty wind which meant the ferry to Rothesay was cancelled ... |
469,778 | 1,532,177 | 200,412 | 5 | Disappointing | AFTERMATH is the final edited BBC video release from BLAKES 7 comprising three episodes , all of which are from series 3 Aftermath : The Terran Federation battle an alien invasion fleet from Andromeda . The crew of the Liberator evacuate the shipPowerplay : Avon teleports back to the Liberator only to find it's been ta... |
468,932 | 1,532,177 | 106,856 | 5 | Not All That Good But Not All That Bad Either | Urban alienation , lousy service in shops and worst of all the absolute apathy from society , boy as an angry not so young man I should be able to connect with FALLING DOWN in the same way I connected with TAXI DRIVER but somehow failed to I'm not the only person who failed to connect with FALLING DOWN . I remember whe... |
469,427 | 1,532,177 | 275,285 | 5 | Come On Chaps It's Not That Bad | I couldn't fail to notice the very harsh comments CURSE OF THE TALISMAN is getting on this page . Okay I admit a film featuring stone gargoyles from ye olde England turning up in Australia with murder on their mind isn't going to be a classic movie but there were two things I should point out to everyone 1 ) The lack o... |
470,346 | 1,532,177 | 116,643 | 5 | Has A Bizarre Feel | Harold Guppy leaves the navy and lodges with the Beasley family . Before he's unpacked his case he's bonking the middle aged Majorie Beasley and before he knows it the daughter , the thirteen year old Joyce Beasley is wanting a shot Does this sound like a movie with a lot of potential of laughs ? I didn't think so eith... |
469,549 | 1,532,177 | 75,909 | 5 | I Guess The Premise Was Good | minor spoilers Without doubt the best scene in DAMNATION ALLEY is the one set in the control room as the airforce men stand in stunned silence as the major cities of the USA are nuked . I don't think as some critics have said that this scene is bland , it's because the people in the control room are shocked that world ... |
469,502 | 1,532,177 | 453,469 | 5 | There's Such A Thing As Too Much Publicity | DOCTOR WHO : A NEW DIMENSION was produced and broadcast to tie in with the new series of DOCTOR WHO , a show that is a British television legend . The publicity afforded to this revolutionary reinvention of a TV classic was unprecedented . For several weeks before transmission we saw trailers galore , Billboards all ov... |
470,195 | 1,532,177 | 99,253 | 5 | Rather Mediocre Sequel | Did someone say Universal Studios bought the rights to CHILD'S PLAY from MGM ? If so I'd say it was MGM who showed business savvy . The original - which I haven't seen in years - does contain instinctively fond memories but I'm not sure to give much credence to my memories . I should also point out there's a very 80s s... |
470,037 | 1,532,177 | 75,860 | 5 | Spielberg Directs Star Bores | This came close to breaking box office records when it was released in 1977 but for the life of me I have no idea why . I disliked this movie upon seeing on its British television premiere one Christmas ( In those days the only time you'd get to see a good movie on television was at Christmas or Easter ) in the early 1... |
470,155 | 1,532,177 | 116,605 | 5 | Not Sure What To Make Of This TVM | IF LOOKS COULD KILL is a strange TVM . Based on a true story the central premise is fascinating . A bisexual hustler talks his sugar daddy lover into carrying out a life insurance scam in which a real body needs to be produced and so begins a compelling story . The problem is that being a TVM we're treated to umpteen f... |
469,161 | 1,532,177 | 336,052 | 5 | A Lapse In Logic | ! ! ! ! ! ! SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! Bob has described the plot of this short film very well - On some rural island in Ireland a son decides to treat his mother to a trip on the mainland but things don't go according to planThis deals with tragedy when when the tractor carrying the son and mother breaks down so the son goes ... |
468,881 | 1,532,177 | 340,376 | 5 | Cor Blimey Guv , It's French Nazis | France in the early 1940s was hell on earth . Nazis would round up Jews and execute them in cold blood . We know this because this is how THE STATEMENT begins . What we didn't know was that London geezers participated in the cruel murders . It's so obvious you can't ignore it because the victims are told to stand again... |
468,624 | 1,532,177 | 103,074 | 5 | Has Its Moments . . . . | . . . . But at the end of the day THELMA AND LOUISE is a chick flick road movie that strikes a chord with women so it's difficult for a man , especially a cynical hetrosexist one like myself to empathise with . I couldn't help noticing how routinely Ridley Scott directs this movie , it's not badly directed and unlike a... |
469,740 | 1,532,177 | 120,338 | 5 | A Film So Bad It's Obscene | TITANIC is actually two films . The first film is a very unlikely love story so syrupy it can cause diabetes . Then it suddenly mutates into a James Bond film where - wait for this - Bond is played by Kate Winslet . Maybe this isn't entirely accurate because James is total fantasy , but never becomes as unbelievable as... |
469,715 | 1,532,177 | 103,128 | 5 | Far Better Than I Expected | Lenny Henry is a comedian I have a lot of time for , everytime I see him on the telly I say to myself " Time for a bath " or " Time to mow the lawn " or " Time to go to bed " In short he's one of the most unfunny men ever to have his own BBC show so I was expecting TRUE IDENTITY to be a major road accident involving a ... |
468,404 | 1,532,177 | 120,321 | 5 | I Have Some Reservations With This Movie | This was broadcast on channel 4 at the unlikely time of 2 . 30 am and since this is the type of time slot that TV guides under report I visited this site to find out what the movie was about and what sort of reception it received . It got fair critical acclaim from the views on this page so I sat back to watch it expec... |
470,377 | 1,532,177 | 475,709 | 5 | A Somewhat Uninvolving Short | ROGER ROCKET BOY is a short film that follows the life of the title character who reads themed comic books involving rockets going to the moon . I can relate to this because the first book I ever read at school was about astronauts going to the moon though as I got slightly older I realised that rockets were outmoded a... |
469,816 | 1,532,177 | 106,936 | 5 | Putting Words Into Other Peoples Mouths | FONG SAI YUK is known as THE LEGEND in Britain and was broadcast on BBC 1 earlier tonight probably because it ties in with the release of Jet Li's up coming HERO and since we're also treated to an athletics contest very early into the film I guess someone thought it might have been a good idea to broadcast it after the... |
468,515 | 1,532,177 | 177,971 | 5 | I Expected Too Much | Having the director of DAS BOOT adapt a true story of man versus the cruel sea is a brilliant idea on paper but celluloid it disappoints . I was going to blame the studio for making a film unapologetically commercial with its marketable pop song soundtrack , and its hunky male stars cast to appeal to a female audience ... |
469,245 | 1,532,177 | 120,768 | 5 | A Rather Unconvincing Thriller | Lt Danny Roman is a police negotiator who finds himself accused of murdering a colleague . He believes he's been set up and walks into his local station and takes hostages in order to uncover the truth ! ! ! ! SPOILERS ! ! ! ! I have a serious problem with this premise since it erases any type of internal logic . I can... |
469,721 | 1,532,177 | 120,804 | 5 | Another Disappointing Movie With Zombies | What is it about zombie movies ? The Romero movies had good scripts but were let down by the technical aspects while LIFEFORCE and 28 DAYS LATER were brilliantly directed but had woeful scripts . I thought after watching the first ten minutes of RESIDENT EVIL someone had got the balance right with the opening hook feat... |
469,658 | 1,532,177 | 68,498 | 5 | Sub-Standard Film Version | Whenever the BBC has a SF hit on its hands it decides not only to hand out film rights but to hand out film rights where their series will be remade as inferior products like the films based on the QUATERMASS serials or the first two DOCTOR WHO stories to have featured the Daleks , or most disappointingly of all an ori... |
469,471 | 1,532,177 | 256,380 | 6 | I Was Expecting something Else | Did the Farrelly brothers really make this ? They were the guys who made DUMB AND DUMBER , KINGPIN , ME MYSELF AND IRENE and who made the fantastic THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY , so I was expecting another movie involving cruelty to animals and other offensive topics , but I was rather disappointed . Don't get me wrong... |
469,175 | 1,532,177 | 130,089 | 6 | At Least The Female Cast Are Hot | Thankfully the only dodgy thing about LOLITA 2000 is the title . Come to think of it it's a really stupid title for a soft core porn movie which may turn off a potential audience , but take it from me that the cast are well above the age of consent . I should know because watched this movie over and over again , made a... |
469,026 | 1,532,177 | 112,894 | 6 | I Liked It | ! ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! The BBC were going to broadcast WAG THE DOG tonight but recent events in Iraq prevented this ( I really do wonder what planet these schedulers live on . Don't they ever watch the news ? ) so instead the beeb showed DOWN OUT AND DANGEROUS instead . I had no idea what it was going to be ... |
469,817 | 1,532,177 | 126,218 | 6 | CORONATION STREET Viewers Will Love This | It's often a dangerous sign when a Brit flick opens with a scene featuring an actor who's famous for a role in a soap opera . Does anyone remember that gawd awful movie THE WEDDING TACKLE that had Leslie Grantham from EASTENDERS in it ? Boy that was a really rank movie , so when BOB'S WEEKEND opening scene had Bruce Jo... |
468,717 | 1,532,177 | 52,587 | 6 | John Wyndham Meets Ed Wood | I knew very little about THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE as the opening credits rolled . I was led to believe it was grade z rubbish with a cult following and it's very easy to see how this reputation came about The film starts in the recognisable future where atomic submarines are used as vehicles of commerce and we're shown via... |
470,181 | 1,532,177 | 112,851 | 6 | Oh Salma . You're So Beautiful | This is an extremely violent film with some absolutely ridiculous acts of violence in it . It's also an extremely silly film too with Quentin Taratino camping it up in a cameo . If it wasn't for a saving grace I would have hated it , hated , hated , hated it The saving grace ? Salma Hayek - She is sooooooooo beautiful ... |
468,596 | 1,532,177 | 118,594 | 6 | Reasons For Watching | A soft core erotic thrillerReasons for watching : Caroline Ambrose and Jennifer Hammon are both young and very fit and they both enjoy a long sequence of lesbian love making . Very erotic , and fairly graphic for a soft core film . Reasons for not watching : The production values are very low , the sets are cheap and I... |
470,015 | 1,532,177 | 462,520 | 6 | Watchable But Entirely Daft Thriller | SECRET SMILE is a thriller that was sold to the TV public of having David Tennant as bad guy Brendan Block and to be totally honest I probably wouldn't have watched this if Tennant hadn't been cast as the tenth actor to play the title character in DOCTOR WHO so I was very interested in seeing how he'd play a villain In... |
468,680 | 1,532,177 | 109,034 | 6 | Clever Thriller | It's a poignant fact that only days after this film was released Christopher Reeve suffered a tragic accident and the headlines were about his last role as a paralysed cop which means it's impossible to watch ABOVE SUSPICION without being reminded of Reeve's real life situation so I'll try and review this movie on its ... |
470,351 | 1,532,177 | 73,835 | 6 | The Sadism Made It Enjoyable | This would have been improved greatly if the scenario had been developed more . The world has been devestated by a plague / famine sort of apocalypse and the survivors have to kill to keep on living . In many ways it's the sort of premise seen in the works of John Christopher especially THE DEATH OF GRASS and PENDULUM ... |
468,640 | 1,532,177 | 26,362 | 6 | One Of The Lesser Shorts | Sorry if I'm hurting anyone's feelings but this is one of the weakest of the L & H shorts . My problem with it is not so much a threadbare plot but the set-up and the coincidence of the husband arriving home at that precise point . Like science fiction comedy relies on sincere credibilty for it to work and sincere cred... |
469,362 | 1,532,177 | 118,549 | 6 | I Did Not Sexually Harass That Women | American politics ? Very strange concept since Bill Clinton seems to have got up to all sorts of naughty stuff while he was in The White House and nobody it seemed could care less , then during the 2004 Presidential election between Kerry and Dubya the number one issue for voters was " morals " . Is there anything more... |
468,871 | 1,532,177 | 365,109 | 6 | Will Certainly Appeal To Abstract Nature Lovers | I've always been slightly surprised by the popularity of nature documentaries , it seems to be the new soccer . You go into a really rough pub that makes Al Swearengen's place in DEADWOOD look like a tea room and hear from the toughest hardest men in there how much they've been enjoying the National Geographic channel ... |
468,490 | 1,532,177 | 70,511 | 6 | Good Story . . . . | . . . . . But that's all it is , a story . Having watched several documentries on Devil's Island there is some debate on weather Henri Charriere had even been an inmate at the penal colony , or if the claimed incidents happened but they all agree on one thing - none of these incidents actually happened to Charriere , o... |
469,826 | 1,532,177 | 268,696 | 6 | Complex Or Unfocused ? | The TV guide described TIME OF FAVOUR as thus : " A rabbi's daughter must choose between the man she loves and the man her father wants her to marry " So I sat down to watch a movie that I expected to be a romantic drama , and being an Israeli film I also expected to see some secular Vs religious politics . But this is... |
468,374 | 1,532,177 | 244,981 | 6 | VH1 Produced This Drama | I can't say I'm a fan of the VH1 music channel . MTV2 is more my scene though I've gone off it since they scrapped the viewers request hours . I was very surprised to see that VH1 produced this movie , I knew MTV did but since VH1 is " MTV on mogadon " I wasn't expecting much , but at any early stage AT ANY COST shows ... |
470,140 | 1,532,177 | 56,568 | 6 | Rather Dated And Melodramatic In Places | What's the problem film critics have with Laurence Olivier ? One of the greatest actors who has ever lived has the reputation as one of the worst film actors of all time ! Okay I don't think playing Jews ( As in THE JAZZ SINGER and BOYS FROM BRAZIL ) was his forte but look at his performances in WUTHERING HEIGHTS and S... |
469,893 | 1,532,177 | 65,182 | 6 | Judge It For What It Is | I remember first seeing this as a ten year old in the mid 1970s and being very confused , you see I was under the impression that this was going to be a war film , but was disappointed there wasn't much fighting in it . I was also utterly confused by the tone of the film as there was bits that I took to be funny but di... |
469,927 | 1,532,177 | 66,214 | 6 | Bizarre Enough To Remain Watchable | Oh what a strange film PERFORMANCE is . It often gets praised to the high heavens but much of this praise is unworthy . It certainly deserves its reputation as a strange avant gard movie but believe me it's no masterpiece . James Fox plays London gangster Chas and it's a hoot seeing Fox trying to play some tough workin... |
468,890 | 1,532,177 | 26,126 | 6 | Forgivable | As a Scot I really do resent how American movies portray us . We all have incomprehensible accents ( I can't understand a word Scottie from STAR TREK says and I'm Scottish . Perhaps they should have employed a Scottish actor ? ) , we all have funny names like Gregor McGregor ( Randell Wallace is an American with a Scot... |
468,535 | 1,532,177 | 95,497 | 6 | Irritating Mixture Of Good And Bad | THE LAST TEMPTATION OF Christ is a very irritating mixture of both good and bad . When I say this I don't mean a sophisticated subtext of both good and bad being in the souls of man , I mean good film making and bad film making The Good : Scorsese is a master craftsman and he's trying to make a film that is different f... |
468,649 | 1,532,177 | 126,388 | 6 | Turn Your Brain Off And You Might Enjoy It | Ah yes the French foreign legion , something every schoolboy with a sense of adventure has thought about joining , and something film makers have dedicated a lot of celluloid to . Jean Claude Van Damme made a previous film set against the background of the legion : AWOL ( Aka LIONHEART ) but this is far superior . In f... |
469,394 | 1,532,177 | 87,928 | 6 | Hard To Believe But This Is Rather Amusing | It's amazing the number of film franchises there's been in the 1980s and 90s where a relatively good film has been turned into a long running franchise , so long running that the franchise has dirtied the name of the original movie . Take HELLRAISER for example which is a twisted morbid love story which has the iconic ... |
470,050 | 1,532,177 | 112,722 | 6 | Much Darker Than I Expected | Don't ask me how but I was under the impression that this was going to be a chick flick , a sort of THELMA & LOUISE with police cars and a few light hearted moments but within a few minutes my world was shattered with some graphic on screen violence . Yeah okay I also knew that this was a thriller involving a serial ki... |
469,437 | 1,532,177 | 186,566 | 6 | Entertaining Enough But Reminded Me Of Something Else | SPACE COWBOYS is a movie whose plot goes like this : An object is tumbling to Earth which means a rescue mission staffed by unlikely astronauts must go up in a space shuttle to save countless lives . " Where have I heard that plot before ? " you ask yourself . try a couple of years in the past where a bunch of oil rigg... |
469,405 | 1,532,177 | 105,046 | 6 | Competent Except For Malcovich | I've probably read OF MICE AND MEN more times than I've read any other novel , not because I like it but because for some reason the book is always used in O ' grade ( That's the elementary standard exam used in British schools and was replaced by the GCSE exam round about 1990 ) English learning . I read it many times... |
468,903 | 1,532,177 | 198,335 | 6 | A Bad Idea | BLAKE'S 7 is one of the greatest , most entertaining shows made under the telefantasy banner so what could be better than releasing the first 4 episodes on video ? 4 complete episodes maybe ? That's the problem with BLAKE'S 7 THE BEGINNING , the first full 4 episodes complete would have run to a total of 200 minutes bu... |
470,244 | 1,532,177 | 73,906 | 6 | This Is A True Story . . . | . . . Except that the Eden Pedecaris character was in reality a man who didn't have any children with him and that the battle at the end with the United States Marine Corp defeating a German force never happened . So in truth it's not actually a true story plot wise It's very arrogant of Hollywood in general and John M... |
468,593 | 1,532,177 | 66,258 | 6 | Bond Wannabe | Wow Paul Sherman is one badass secret agent . Look what he does to that man in the hotel bedroom , he's someone who takes no prisoners and makes James Bond look like a total wimp . But that's the problem with PUPPET ON A CHAIN , Sven Bertil Taube is no Sean Connery and lacks the presence needed to convincingly play a r... |
469,784 | 1,532,177 | 112,641 | 6 | An Inferior Reworking Of GOODFELLAS | CASINO is by no means a bad film but I'm left with with the distinct impression that I'd seen it all before , and it's not the first time director Martin Scorsese has done this , remember THE KING OF COMEDY is an inferior remake of TAXI DRIVER . Robert De Niro plays a very similar role as he did in GOODFELLAS , Joe Pes... |
468,919 | 1,532,177 | 118,671 | 6 | What Unlikable People | Let's see if I got this straight ? Nancy invites her former lover Matt and Kim his new partner to stay with her and her husband Wes . Excuse me but how many men would allow their wife to do this ? What you would ? But that's because you'd like to have a wife swap ! Well that's not what I meant , what I meant was . . . ... |
469,959 | 1,532,177 | 83,944 | 6 | Dubious Moral Stance | As a thriller similar to SOUTHERN COMFORT this movie works very well . Okay FIRST BLOOD is by no means a work of art but it's far better than its ridiculous right wing sequels which involve a thread bare plot of a killing machine getting sent to kill loads of reds . There are one or two technical problems with this ori... |
469,279 | 1,532,177 | 285,742 | 6 | Summed Up By Berry's Acceptance Speech | It's a well known fact that MONSTER'S BALL won Halle Berry an Oscar for best actress and led to one of the most bizarre sites in the history of the ceremony where Berry shrieked , wept and gnashed her teeth in an uncontrollable manner . She probably wasn't overcome with emotion - She was impersonating the average perso... |
470,126 | 1,532,177 | 91,538 | 6 | Very Well Acted | Without doubt Bob Hoskins is one of Britain's greatest living actors but does tend to shoot himself in the foot by appearing in supporting roles in Hollywood flops . Undoubtedly his two greatest performances are as Harold Shand in THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY and as George in MONA LISA . Hoskins is ably supported by his fellow... |
468,491 | 1,532,177 | 70,205 | 6 | Is This A Video Nasty ? | I saw this way back in 1983 when it was shown late one night on television , and I'm talking network televison in those days you didn't have satillite or cable at least not in Britain where we were confined to a total of 4 channels . And the most shocking thing was that it contained very strong language , back then ver... |
468,883 | 1,532,177 | 240,772 | 6 | Stardom Vs Narrative | When you've seen one heist film you have seen them all . The plot revolves around 1 ) Introducing the characters 2 ) Explaining how they're going to carry out the heist 3 ) Grab the money and . . . 4 ) Sometimes have a twist at the end What sets this film apart from many others from the same sub-genre is the cast . Oka... |
468,851 | 1,532,177 | 77,889 | 6 | Show Me The Dummy | Apologies for the above summary since it was too good to miss out on an awful pun . If I were to give an honest one word summary for MAGIC it would be " Bizarre " This a very bizarre film . I am somewhat puzzled by the IMDb classing it in the horror / thriller bracket because it's not really , it's more of a black come... |
468,447 | 1,532,177 | 1,114,725 | 6 | A Subtext In Need Of A Better Film | When someone mentions the phrase " anti war film " it sums up many images . Perhaps it may involve good Germans doing their duty for the nation state which has been hijacked by genocidal maniacs and both CROSS OF IRON and DAS BOOT spring instantly to mind . It may involve teenage GIs fighting and dying in the jungles o... |
468,915 | 1,532,177 | 95,484 | 6 | Patchey Ghost Story | On FILM 88 legendary British film critic Barry Norman reviewed two " horror " movies . One was HELLBOUND : HELLRAISER 2 and the other was LADY IN WHITE . Barry hated HELLBOUND which is unsurprising since he is notoriouslyintolerant of gore and violence but he did praise THE LADY IN WHITE but after finally seeing it I h... |
469,461 | 1,532,177 | 198,432 | 6 | Good Episodes . Bad Idea | DUEL is three episodes from season one of BLAKES 7 edited into a feature length video . BLAKES 7 is one of my all time favourite shows with the first season being the best . Unfortunately as a piece of merchandise the video itself isn't all that good because almost a third of the material is missing and should never ha... |
469,509 | 1,532,177 | 56,592 | 6 | Has Dated Poorly | It wasn't until last night that I actually got round to watching TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD . It's something of a legend and is reflected that it's in the IMDb top 250 movies at position 46 but i'm somewhat baffled as to why . Grogory Peck isn't bad but his performance as attorney Atticus Finch is disappointingly one note ... |
469,967 | 1,532,177 | 160,401 | 6 | Hardly Original But Watchable Enough | Originally tonight's late night movie on BBC 1 was going to be the pierce Brosnan thriller DEATH TRAIN but because of a terrible train crash down in England a few days ago the BBC must have changed their mind in a similar way to some US stations changing their mind about showing SAVING PRIVATE RYAN while there's a war ... |
470,398 | 1,532,177 | 334,405 | 6 | A Documentary Of Two Halves | This follows a bunch of teenage kids competing in the National Spelling Bee something that I didn't actually know existed . Hopefully we won't see a British equivalent because there's nothing we hate more in this country that clever kids . Seriously where I live if your daughter isn't pregnant by 14 and your son hasn't... |
468,847 | 1,532,177 | 70,294 | 6 | Sublime | I've always found THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE rather strange . I first saw it round about 1982 when it was broadcast on ITV and discussing it with my school mates the next day we all thought it was rubbish . However it still still stuck out in my mind for some reason and I still watch it when it's broadcast on television ... |
469,174 | 1,532,177 | 105,236 | 6 | Don't Believe The Hype - It's Not That Good | RESERVOIR DOGS exploded onto cinema screens in 1992 and I can still remember the shock waves it caused due to the excessive violence . If memory serves me right Glasgow Council came very close to banning it from cinema chains in the city and they weren't alone in trying to do this either as newspaper headlines and word... |
469,545 | 1,532,177 | 308,126 | 6 | Very Entertaining | COMBAT SHEEP tells the story of four protagonists , Commander Harris , Peaches , Moose and Cooper , who having served their country now find themselves struggleing to survive in a society that no longer cares about them . Did I mention they were sheep ? This is a very entertaining and amusing one off show . The sheep t... |
469,157 | 1,532,177 | 390,521 | 6 | Interesting But Misses Out On A Very Valid Point | Last year seemed to be a battle between FARENHEIT and SUPER SIZE ME for winner of the most controversial documentary award . I know Moore's style , I know Moore's agenda but knew nothing of Morgan Spurlock . Right from the opening scenes of Spurlock's documentary I was impressed by his style , he does engage the audien... |
468,879 | 1,532,177 | 478,207 | 6 | Not Too Hot But It Did Try | From the opening sequence I thought I had MELTDOWN nailed as a cross genre film which mixes DEEP IMPACT with a cop thriller . This seemed a strange idea , but that's not how the plot unravels . Apparently the near miss with the asteroid causes the Earth to spin off its axis which leads to the world's temperature rising... |
468,429 | 1,532,177 | 70,328 | 6 | One Of The Better Bond Films | LIVE AND LET DIE is an improvement over the two preceding Bond films . Humour is kept in its place , Guy Hamilton doesn't reach the artistic heights of GOLDFINGER but improves on DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER , the plot has a relatively realistic idea with Yaphet Kotto playing one of the better villains with the right mix of ch... |
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