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468,759 | 1,532,177 | 277,027 | 6 | Highly Manipulative Despite The Very Strong Lead Performance | I can't say I've ever been a fan of Sean Penn an actor some critics have labeled " The greatest actor of his generation " . I've followed his career for twenty years ever since he married you know who . I found him okay in WE'RE NO ANGELS while his performance in CASUALTIES OF WAR was so OTT he was in danger of going i... |
469,185 | 1,532,177 | 65,462 | 6 | Slightly Strange Sequel | ! ! ! ! ! POSSIBLE SPOILER ! ! ! ! ! There's two possible reasons you can criticise BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES for . First of all by playing it safe and have Brent go through the same sort of plot that happened to Taylor in the first movie then ( Second possible criticism ) have the film mutate ( Geddit ? ) into so... |
468,421 | 1,532,177 | 52,365 | 6 | Has A Lot In Common With A Later And Better Movie | After recently seen SPARTACUS I was reminded of THE VIKINGS a movie I re watched several weeks earlier and they're both movies that have a lot in common . In fact I saw them both for the first time on television within days of each other circa 1974 . There's other more obvious and impersonal connections like they both ... |
469,103 | 1,532,177 | 264,464 | 6 | A Dishonest Movie | ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! Much hyped as a true story on its release CATCH ME IF YOU CAN tells the tale of con artist extrodanaire Frank Abagnale Jr and FBI agent Carl Hanratty's attempt to catch him but the cold facts are this is not a true story - It's a Hollywood story inspired by real events and therefore the audi... |
469,317 | 1,532,177 | 83,722 | 6 | Very 1980s | The thing to strike me about this remake of the 1942 movie CAT PEOPLE is how 1980s everything is . Everything is image and soundtrack . Unfortunately I mean that literally , there's little in the way of substance , there's little in the way of great acting , there's little in the way of inspired directing , everything ... |
468,619 | 1,532,177 | 225,340 | 6 | Fair Enough Documentary | I saw this yesterday when UK Gold dedicated a whole weekend to the 40th anniversary of DOCTOR WHO . It's by no means the greatest documentary made for the show but it's by no means the worst either . My only real complaint is that the K-1 robot ( Which only appeared in one story and is completely forgotten ) has far to... |
468,427 | 1,532,177 | 195,471 | 6 | Disappontingly Silly | This got off to a fairly good start and was willing to overlook the silly plot device of having the heroine putting the passengers into suspended animation . The scenes as the survivors gradually thaw out and search through the devestated landscape of Britain are well done , but as the series progress we have bigger an... |
469,873 | 1,532,177 | 105,323 | 6 | Drags A Bit . . . | . . . Or perhaps I should say drags a big bit The problem I have with SCENT OF A WOMEN is that it resembles a few other feel good movies at the time . Following on from the success of DEAD POETS SOCIETY studio producers only seemed to be interested in making movies that were in danger of giving audiences diabetes , tha... |
469,159 | 1,532,177 | 87,469 | 6 | Sequelitis | If THE TEMPLE OF DOOM suffers from anything then it suffers from a condition called " Sequelitis " . It's a condition that is in no way serious but does show that in order to infect the host ( Aka the cinema audience ) the carrier ( Aka Mr Hollywood producer ) gets into a stupor of not doing anything , instead the carr... |
468,743 | 1,532,177 | 118,041 | 6 | Victim Culture ? | John Ritter plays a car salesman ! Don't know about the States but over here in the UK car salesmen are treated as a bit of a joke so a TVM starring a TV sitcom actor as a car salesman has got to be a comedy right ? No . UNFORGIVABLE is about a car salesman who likes to beat up womenTo be honest Ritter doesn't make a v... |
469,539 | 1,532,177 | 260,666 | 6 | I Demand A Recount | TV Viewers in Britain were invited to phone the channel 4 studios and vote on what they thought was the worst moment in the history of television . The countdown was as much as you'd expect , former Northern Ireland minister Dr Mo Mowlam fettering about with a sex aid on SO GRAHAM NORTON , those pesky middle class kids... |
469,651 | 1,532,177 | 221,838 | 6 | True ? | I was sitting in front of the TV flicking through the film channels trying to find a film I haven't seen before : " Seen that . Watched that , that's total crap " and grew more and more frustrated at trying to find a film I'd never seen before . The only reason I started watching BORSTAL BOY was it was the only movie o... |
468,752 | 1,532,177 | 171,685 | 6 | Explains The Scottish Mentality Very Well | I was expecting to hate this movie with a vengeance . I saw Lynne Ramsey's later film MORVERN CALLAR and thought it was the biggest waste of celluloid it had been my displeasure to see so I wasn't expecting anything better with RATCATCHER However I was surprised by Ramsey's feature length debut . Let's be blunt this is... |
469,150 | 1,532,177 | 282,178 | 6 | You've Got To Admire The Cheek | A geek gets bitten by a modified spider and develops superhuman powers . Hey wasn't there a recent blockbuster based on the same premise ? Yes there was and you can't help thinking that the producers of EARTH VS THE SPIDER are going out of their way to deconstruct everything flawed about Peter Parker . " People like ni... |
468,726 | 1,532,177 | 64,699 | 6 | Familiar Story With Familiar Scenes | Sometimes when you're watching an obscure late night movie on cable that stars Treat Williams you may notice scenes from another much more famous film edited into the scenario . If I remember correctly CRITICAL MASS and a couple of other movies do this and I'd previously thought this was a recent concept . Apparently n... |
469,853 | 1,532,177 | 70,078 | 6 | Another British Horror Anthology | R Chetwynd Hayes is a good horror writer with a dark sense of humour . His stories are scary fun but don't translate to the screen very well , THE MONSTER CLUB was very patchy and this film suffers from the same problem SLIGHT SPOILERS Story one : This involves a serial killer . I know they do exist but has anyone been... |
470,093 | 1,532,177 | 78,801 | 6 | Watchable Enough Though It's Easy To See That Caine Dislikes It | ASHANTI is a somewhat typical movie from the late 70s / early 80s starring Michael Caine . It's certainly watchable in an undemanding way but no more than that but neither is it bad enough to be virtually disowned by its star . The story itself is intriguing an Afro-American doctor working for the UN is kidnapped by sl... |
468,417 | 1,532,177 | 74,452 | 6 | Worth Watching But Only Because Of The Fine Cast | Jack Higgins ? Surely one the most clichéd commercial writers there has ever been . Maybe he's not the worst writer to make millionaire status since there's a lot of competition for that tag like Harold Robbins , Jackie Collins or even that dreadful hack called Rowling who has conned a lot of children out of their pock... |
468,466 | 1,532,177 | 87,365 | 6 | I Guess It Must Have Stuck To The Book | I confess to having never read Edgar Rice Burroughs novel that GREYSTOKE : THE LEGEND OF TARZAN LORD OF THE APES is based upon but I got the impression it stuck to the original very closely . Too closely perhaps since much of the first half of the film is taken up with Lord Jack Clayton relating events in a diary and t... |
468,423 | 1,532,177 | 109,374 | 6 | Interesting Chick Flick But Suffers From A Weak Ending | Anyone remember Julia Ormond ? She was a British actress touted as the next big thing in Hollywood and starred in the female friendly movies LEGENDS OF THE FALL and SABRINA . CAPTIVES is another chick flick movie starring Ormond and to be honest I think it's her best starring roleOrmond plays Rachel Clifford a newly qu... |
468,976 | 1,532,177 | 70,123 | 6 | Somewhat Dated But Still Amusing | I had given up on ever seeing an episode of THE GOODIES ever being broadcast on British network TV . Apparently much of their humour would today be classed " racist " and I have seen clips where the cast use variations of the N word which would no longer be allowed on British television nowadays so it was something of ... |
470,019 | 1,532,177 | 113,158 | 6 | Perhaps Too Character Driven For Its Own Good | This is an independent drama featuring two sisters : Georgia a successful C & W singer and her younger sister Sadie who is a grunge rock chick and that's the story . When I say " story " I don't mean " plot " because unfortunately GEORGIA doesn't have a plot which is a shame since this movie falls short because of its ... |
469,016 | 1,532,177 | 64,757 | 6 | The Other Fellow Should Have Been Cast | Some people consider OHMSS to be the worst Bond movie made . It's not ( That's either MOONRAKER or A VIEW TO A KILL ) but it's not the best either though it had all the potential to be the best Bond movie ever made . It's totally serious apart from the post modernist opening , it contains some very good lines like " Ga... |
468,672 | 1,532,177 | 78,748 | 6 | Overrated | Nice to see that a few all too rare reviewers agree that Ridley Scott's ALIEN is a rather overrated film , yes I agree with everyone that the set design is fantastic but the film suffers from 2001 : A SPACE ODYSSEY syndrome in that it has a very slow sterile atmosphere which makes it difficult to connect with the chara... |
468,767 | 1,532,177 | 435,625 | 6 | Perhaps Too Grim To Be A Total Success | I really enjoyed Neil Marshall's DOG SOLDIERS and knew right away that here was a genre director to keep an eye on . For some strange reason it wasn't until tonight that I got round to seeing THE DESCENT and felt disappointed with it . If you're after a film that delivers buckets of gore and has you jumping out of your... |
469,515 | 1,532,177 | 53,168 | 6 | Difficult To Understand The High Rating | Robert Bresson's PICKPOCKET has an average rating higher than some of the movies in the top 250 movies on this site but I'm somewhat dismayed as to why it's so highly regarded . I suppose if you're a fan of Bresson and you want to see him do a movie in the new wave sense then you'll probably enjoy it but if you're unaw... |
470,206 | 1,532,177 | 104,892 | 6 | It's Not BATMAN 3 That's For Sure | The info button described MISTRESS as thus " An earnest screenwriter sees his dream mangled in the Hollywood movie machine . Robert DeNiro is a crass moneyman demanding a role for his talentless mistress " Great I thought , this is going to be like THE KING OF COMEDY except it's set in Hollyloot . Twenty minutes later ... |
468,477 | 1,532,177 | 100,502 | 6 | Not Bad | A lot of people really hated ROBOCOP 2 when it was released in the Summer of 1990 : " Oh it's not as good as the first one , oh it's too violent , etc , etc " If they thought the sequel was violent did they actually sit down to see the original ? One can't help thinking the critics of this had only seen the TV version ... |
470,269 | 1,532,177 | 104,850 | 6 | Entertaining Enough | The problem with a film featuring an invisible man is that once you've seen one scenario you've seen them all , but MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN is better than most . It is somewhat flawed in having David Jenkins motives for catching Nick Halloway rather vague and I'm having trouble trying to remember what Jenkins is go... |
470,385 | 1,532,177 | 206,634 | 6 | Despite Its Strengths And Awards And Critical Praise This Is An Often Mediocre Movie | I was really looking forward to this movie . I do like British dystopian / apocalyptic movies which have been in vogue for the last few years , think 28 DAYS / WEEKS LATER , V FOR VENDETTA etc and CHILDREN OF MEN was very well regarded by the critics even picking up a couple of Bafta awards and three Oscar nominations ... |
469,977 | 1,532,177 | 47,577 | 6 | I Used To Like This Movie | I first saw THIS ISLAND EARTH in the mid 1970s when I was about 10 years old and could remember liking it very much much as a colourful epic adventure complete with mutant monsters but after seeing it again tonight I was severly disappointed SPOILERS The problem mainly lies with a totally illogical plot . Scientists ( ... |
469,972 | 1,532,177 | 65,854 | 6 | Has Its Moments | I remember seeing this one Friday night round about 1978-79 when I was twelve years old . In those days we only had three TV channels in Britain and ITV used to show horror films frequently on Friday nights and you could judge how good they were by the way they cropped up in conversation amongst my classmates on the Mo... |
469,250 | 1,532,177 | 423,980 | 6 | Too Complicated And Contains A Very Distressing Scene | I can remember CHILDREN OF THE NORTH from its one and only transmission on BBC 2 in 1991 and being totally frustrated by the plot . The first episode revolves around an attempted assassination of MI5 agent Colonel Mailer in which his chauffuer is killed by the provisional IRA but then the story slips and slides into um... |
469,428 | 1,532,177 | 95,956 | 6 | Better Than The Second But Very Uneven | Believe me RAMBO FIRST BLOOD PART 2 took some swallowing but the opening ten minutes of RAMBO 3 caused me to fall out of my chair in shock . John Rambo does prize fighting to earn his keep in a Buddhist commune ! I mean that's a bit like having a film where the hero's an environmentalist who goes around blowing oil rig... |
468,907 | 1,532,177 | 325,055 | 6 | Better Than I Was Expecting | As soon as the opening credits started I started to have serious reservations about SYLVIA . The company credits read that this was a BBC film funded by the arts council which could only mean one thing - It's of little interest to anyone who didn't work on the movie , but to be fair I was pleasantly surprised as to how... |
468,567 | 1,532,177 | 95,963 | 6 | Good For What It Is | RED HEAT is yet another of those buddy movies from the 1980s . Cops set up a sting , the bad guy kills a cop during an escape , turns out that the dead cop is the hero's best buddy and he's going to stop at nothing to get the bad guy with all this happening in the first 15 minutes of the movie . If all this sounds simi... |
469,286 | 1,532,177 | 122,151 | 6 | Like Most Franchise Movies It Lacks Substance | The problem I had about trailers in the late 1990s is that they seemed to show all the best bits of movies and LW4 is a great example where either Sgt Murtaugh is running around in his underwear clucking like a chicken or Sgt Riggs is zooming up the freeway hanging on for dear life . These two set pieces are memorable ... |
468,671 | 1,532,177 | 78,351 | 6 | Has Its Moments | In my review of the television series I mentioned that THE SWEENEY has its episodes split between " comedy " episodes and " violent " episodes and after seeing the two film versions of the show this theory certainly holds up . The first SWEENEY film was a gritty political thriller with a high body count while the secon... |
469,090 | 1,532,177 | 268,978 | 6 | Well Made But Lacks Integrity | ! ! ! ! ! SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! ! Ron Howard's A BEAUTIFUL MIND shares something in common with SLEEPERS , PAPILLION and THE EXCORCISM OF EMILY ROSE in that it claims to be a true story but when you stop to examine the truth you realise that it's not really a true story at all . Perhaps I'm being unfair in comparing it to... |
469,589 | 1,532,177 | 286,306 | 6 | Good Directing . Bad Screenplay | Anyone remember William Boyd's movie THE TRENCH ? It was made in 1999 and was set on the eve of the battle of the Somme , a battle that saw the British army lose 20 , 000 soldiers on the first day of battle . It was fairly unconvincing not helped by the fact that the eponymous trench looked like a film set . Not so wit... |
469,308 | 1,532,177 | 117,965 | 6 | Like Everyone Else Has Said | A power blackout sweeps across America leading to fear which slowly manifests itself into suspicion : Who will you be able to trust if the lights don't come back on ? That's the idea behind THE TRIGGER EFFECT , a film that on the surface resembles the plot of a novel by John Wyndham or John Christopher but as so very ,... |
468,792 | 1,532,177 | 65,938 | 6 | Sutherland Is The Saving Grace | Watching KELLY'S HEROES is a deeply irritating experience if you go in with the mindset that it's a war movie . Look at the cast for example where we see forty something actors playing front line combat troops , it's almost as bad as the John Wayne laugh fest THE GREEN BERETS and despite the screenplay being written by... |
470,333 | 1,532,177 | 117,995 | 6 | Better Than A Lot Of TVMs I've Seen | TWISTED DESIRE isn't oscar material but it's better than most TVMs I've endured . Based on a " true story " the script is far better and involving than something like MURDER BETWEEN FRIENDS as Jennifer Stanton manipulates boyfriend Nick Ryan into murdering her parents . I honestly felt sorry for Nick . Anyone know when... |
469,563 | 1,532,177 | 47,396 | 6 | Sorry But I fail To See Why It's So Regarded | I was really looking forward to seeing to seeing Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW because of the massive acclaim it's had from film critics , and when I say " film critics " I mean everyone from the professional journalists who have their own columns in broadsheets to people with real jobs who contribute their own amateu... |
468,558 | 1,532,177 | 78,474 | 6 | Entertaining Despite The Flaws | ! ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! In my review of AT THE EARTH'S core I said that the best of these Doug McClure gets attacked by rubber monsters in a 1970s British movie was THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT . If this holds true - And it's been years since I saw that movie - then WARLORDS OF ATLANTIS is certainly the second b... |
468,768 | 1,532,177 | 57,244 | 6 | Not Really The Film You've Read About | This is a rather obscure film that is rarely shown on television . Interestingly if THE LEATHER BOYS does turn up on television it usually is described as " A newly married bridegroom becomes besotted with a charismatic homosexual " which isn't really explaining the plot properly and also misses out on an important sub... |
468,958 | 1,532,177 | 95,863 | 6 | I Never Saw The Original . . . | . . . . But did this stop me enjoying the sequel ? No not really , I have to admit I didn't have a clue what was going on but the bizarre happenings probably added to the fun The story starts with Reggie a bald middle aged man with a pony tail ( ! ) rescuing his teenage friend Mike from the midget monks that appeared i... |
468,659 | 1,532,177 | 473,503 | 6 | Amusing Enough | This is a mockumentary featuring Gary who was we are led to believe the last child to be born in the 1960s . Strange that this would make Gary 35 years old because he appears considerably older , in fact he looks more like 45 ! But this is probably down to him being an underachiever . As Beck once said I'm a loser baby... |
469,527 | 1,532,177 | 265,349 | 6 | Not Bad | I remember when this film was first released there was a lot of marketing hype about how this was " based on a true story " , but what wasn't pointed out was how this " true story " took place in the 1960s and for some inexplicable reason the producers updated it to the year 2000 or there abouts to the detriment of the... |
470,224 | 1,532,177 | 253,556 | 6 | An Uneasy Mix Of Two Genres | Watching REIGN OF FIRE I was left with the impression that the script was originally written as a bleak post apocalyptic drama in the tradition of John Wyndham and John Christopher , where a Hollywood studio decided the script wasn't marketable enough so a studio executive decided to introduce dragons into the screenpl... |
468,816 | 1,532,177 | 64,072 | 6 | Over Produced | The problem with this film is that it has so many big name stars that the story fails to do justice to the characters involved . Having said that the film does have its moments and does try to present the Luftwaffe crews as being no different from their opponents in the RAF . But after seeing CROSS OF IRON the previous... |
469,112 | 1,532,177 | 79,116 | 6 | Could Have Been So Much Better | This is based on a true story of how Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers escaped from Alcatraz prison . The story occasionally crops up on The History Channel and it's an interesting story more than an exciting one and to his credit director Don Siegel does preserve some integrity by making the story interesting rathe... |
470,246 | 1,532,177 | 36,342 | 6 | Persuasive But Maybe Not A Classic | For a movie made in 1943 SHADOW OF A DOUBT seems to lack period detail . The second world war was at its height with American troops landing in North Africa and leading the fight against the Japanese in the Pacific . Strangely these events are ignored in the narrative and unless I'm greatly mistaken I don't even think ... |
468,983 | 1,532,177 | 196,216 | 6 | Did Anyone Else Think The Plot Went In The Wrong Direction ? | ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! A Woody Allen comedy featuring a scam where his character Ray Winkler and his wife Frenchie buy a florist shop next to a bank so they can tunnel through the wall into the vault and steal the money . Not actually a bad premise and I had everything nailed down as to how the plot would develo... |
468,485 | 1,532,177 | 60,214 | 6 | Entertaining Without Being A Classic Comedy Horror | I had often thought this was the best movie in the CARRY ON series , an opinion brought about by the fact that there's a couple of DOCTOR WHO references and that it combines the genres of comedy and horror . After seeing it recently I would say that both CARRY ON CLEO and CARRY ON UP THE KYHBER are better movies But CA... |
470,331 | 1,532,177 | 44,997 | 6 | Fairly Good Korean War Film | Unlike a great many films dealing with the Korean war ONE MINUTE TO ZERO does try to bring a sense of time and place to the proceedings . We see planes from Australia strafing North Korean troops while another scene scene shows British troops marching off to war behind a Scottish pipe band , and the most memorable sequ... |
468,900 | 1,532,177 | 102,288 | 6 | Despite The Do-Gooder Agenda A Searing Example Of Injustice | ! ! ! ! SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW THE CASE ! ! ! ! Forget the examples of " Innocent " Irishman from republican ghettoes who just happened to be visiting England during IRA bombing campaigns during the mid 1970s and being " falsely accussed of crimes they didn't commit " . The most glaring example of injustice ... |
470,169 | 1,532,177 | 74,853 | 6 | Musical Dictator | There seems to be an inferiority complex about this version of THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK but why ? Mike Newall is a competent director and he's assembled a fine cast in something that doesn't resemble a made for television movie . The story itself is based upon a Dumas swashbuckling classic but there's a fly in the oint... |
469,073 | 1,532,177 | 183,790 | 6 | Entertaining But Not Much Else | A KNIGHT'S TALE is an old fashioned tale about a likeable trio of losers trying to get ahead in life , except it's set in ye days of olde ! . I remember when it was released the trailers featured the scene where everyone dances to David Bowie's ' Golden Years ' which led me to think it's some silly post modernist music... |
468,820 | 1,532,177 | 25,185 | 6 | What A Coincidence ! | GOING BYE BYE is a Laurel and Hardy short that is possibly best remembered for its grotesque final scene . I use the word grotesque but you don't have to be The Masked Magician to work out how the physical trick is achieved . Oh hold on I'm starting at the end . The story gets off to a good start as Stan shows that des... |
469,610 | 1,532,177 | 205,000 | 6 | Very Low Brow But I Liked It | Duece Bigalow cleans fish tanks for a living and by a contrived set of circumstances finds himself looking after the home of male gigolo Antoine Laconte who is very house proud and a bit of a psycho . What's the odds of Laconte coming home to find his house a bit of a mess ? There you go a very simple predictable premi... |
470,281 | 1,532,177 | 71,566 | 6 | Cliched | GOLD centres around a shadey conspiracy involving a South African gold mine . Since it's set in South Africa you can expect all the nausating cliches and stereotypes like the sadistic white racist who likes to beat up the " Feelthy blecks " , the noble black , the macho but anti racist white man etc . In fact much of t... |
470,052 | 1,532,177 | 82,533 | 6 | Will Probably Appeal To Werewolf Fans MoreThan Casual Viewers | This is a highly regarded movie amongst werewolf fans but I've never been overly impressed by it . I was disappointed by THE HOWLING after seeing it on video in the early 1980s and the fact that I saw AN American WEREWOLF IN London shortly before seeing this does the movie little favour either I think the problem lies ... |
470,124 | 1,532,177 | 64,133 | 6 | Not High Art But Very Funny | This certainly one of the better CARRY ON films which had me laughing out loud at the scene where the farmer is lecturing his pregnant daughter " You don't know what his name was ? Couldn't you have asked to whom do I owe the pleasure ? " The door is knocked and the farmer answers it to a man wanting some milk : " Oh h... |
470,170 | 1,532,177 | 109,903 | 6 | Very Watchable | A film doesn't have to be good to be entertaining and GIRLS IN PRISON is a case in point . The intelligence of the script starts and ends with a discussion of The Korean War " It's supposed to be a police action " " Yeah ? Then why the hell didn't they send cops " Which is dialogue that will be forever synonymous with ... |
469,974 | 1,532,177 | 366,331 | 6 | Could Have Been Much Better | The first thing to strike about this video release was the absolutely awful packaging - It comes in a shocking pink video cover . Would the Cybermen wish to be associated with such a garish cover ? I don't think so eitherThe clips used are more numerous than the number used in the previous YEARS tapes of the first thre... |
469,822 | 1,532,177 | 117,705 | 6 | I Was Entertained | I notice a lot of people have very few kind words to say about SPACE JAM . I must admit that being a Scot I have little interest in basketball and know very little of the career of Michael Jordan ( Who's Michael Jordan ? ) but I still found this movie to be fair entertainment . I guess a lot of people dislike this movi... |
468,484 | 1,532,177 | 106,455 | 6 | It's Not That Bad | I'm slightly puzzled as to some of the harsher comments featuring BOILING POINT . I will confess that it's not a thriller classic but I will defend it against the accusation that it's a terrible movie Red ( Dennis Hopper ) is released from prison and owes some mafia types money and so is given a seven day ultimatum . J... |
468,745 | 1,532,177 | 106,452 | 6 | Somewhat Unnecessary | Everyone knows the plot of THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS because they'd already been two adaptations before the 1993 remake . The same basic plot had also been done in the 1955 television serial QUATERMASS 2 which was also remade by Hammer films in the late 1950s and we've seen DOCTOR WHO stories like Spearhead Fr... |
469,965 | 1,532,177 | 55,608 | 6 | I Thought The Premise Was Good . . . . | . . . . And the execution bad I first saw this aged about eleven years old and thought perhaps I might be watching a cold war thriller similar to ICE STATION ZEBRA . You can see where I am coming from since both films feature a submarine traveling to one of the poles " We're getting bombarded with a metorite shower " w... |
469,187 | 1,532,177 | 274,428 | 6 | Many People Are Missing The Point | I remember seeing a clip from this film which involved Palestinians at a roadblock having to endure humiliation from the Israeli soldiers manning it . The scene then cuts to the Palestinian protagonist stopping his car beside a Jewish settler . I was expecting something to happen at this point but nothing did and decid... |
468,805 | 1,532,177 | 205,177 | 6 | The Joke Wears Thin | Though I find HARRY ENFIELD AND CHUMS a very funny show I wasn't really expecting much from KEVIN AND PERRY GO LARGE and I was right . The problem is that Kevin and Perry were created and written for a comedy sketch show where sketches are tightly written and last for a couple of minutes so to stick them in a feature f... |
469,180 | 1,532,177 | 82,817 | 6 | It's Not Meant To Be Serious | This is one of Stallone's best films which isn't saying much I know , but still NIGHTHAWKS is an entertaining very dumb thriller . Absolutely nothing in this film is meant to be taken seriously least of all its portrayal of terrorism . Wulfgar is very obviously based on infamous playboy terrorist ' Carlos the Jackal ' ... |
469,867 | 1,532,177 | 249,462 | 6 | Typical British Fare | This is a movie very similar to a large number of British movies produced from 1995 to 2000 . Notice how it falls into a formula ? 1 ) The protagonist is trying to pursue a dream in spite of adversity 2 ) It's set in the North of England 3 ) There's a blossoming romance involving the main protagonist and a supporting c... |
469,140 | 1,532,177 | 439,161 | 6 | Surreal Short | A woman returns from the shops and decides to open a carton of eggs which then defy the laws of physics and splatter all her over kitchen ceiling ! That's not something that happens everyday . She then decides to have a nice cool drink , goes to the fridge and takes out some ice cubes from the ice box . Strangely despi... |
469,969 | 1,532,177 | 67,367 | 6 | Must Have Been Quite Erotic At The Time | In many ways this movie is little different from other Hammer horror films produced at the time . It has an inn that doesn't take too kindly to strangers especially ones that don't believe in vampires , it's obvious that the " night " scenes were filmed during the day by sticking a blue filter over the camera lens and ... |
469,926 | 1,532,177 | 78,966 | 6 | Bias Gets In The Way Of Drama | Many people have stated how much this film terrified them when they saw it at cinemas in the late 1970s and I do agree that this could have been one of the most realistic and chilling films of the 20th century where doomsday is concerned . . . . . . But . . . The producers of the movie went and shot themselves in the f... |
470,194 | 1,532,177 | 71,229 | 6 | Rather Flat Thriller | Roger Ebert amongst others expressed their disappointment at THE BLACK WINDMILL on its release . Much of this disappointment is down to the director being Don Siegel who directed many famous thrillers including INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS , DIRTY HARRY and CHARLEY VARRICK . He is a director well suited to high conce... |
469,929 | 1,532,177 | 20,698 | 6 | Funny Despite The Weak Material | Oliver and Stan steal a bottle of booze from Stan's wife and depart to a speak easy . There that's the plot . No seriously that's the entire plot and it should have been awful but I spent most of the film with an amused grin on my face because it's a show case for the infectious mirth making slapstick of the greatest c... |
469,226 | 1,532,177 | 129,290 | 6 | Too Much Artistic Licence I Feel | Hunter " Patch " Adams signs himself into a mental hospital suffering from suicidal tendancies and within five minutes he's cured a fellow patient of his psycotic delusions of squirrels , and then decides to go to medical school in order to cure the sick . It's at this point that I should mention Adams is played by Rob... |
469,899 | 1,532,177 | 71,207 | 6 | Perhaps Not The Best | Benny Hill is Britain's greatest ever TV comedian but this TVM compilation of his television show isn't perhaps the best tribute . My complaint isn't so much with what's included but more with what's not . For example what about the oft used sight gag of someone doing an intricate martial arts move only to have Benny p... |
469,752 | 1,532,177 | 117,331 | 6 | Okay Movie | I'd never heard of the comic book character this film is based on , so right away you have the problem of bringing a little known superhero to a mainstream audience . THE ROCKETEER flopped at the box office while 2002's biggest box office hit was SPIDERMAN - The point being if you're going to make a blockbuster based o... |
469,365 | 1,532,177 | 192,145 | 6 | I Was Expecting Slightly More | This short film revolves around a couple of characters who are bored and want something to do . How about a game of chess ? Unfortunately one of the characters has eaten the pieces so that's that idea extinguished . How about a game of shadow puppets ? Oh a great idea as we get some abstract shapes against a wall . Wha... |
469,045 | 1,532,177 | 75,147 | 6 | Good But Not Great | Check this out for a cast : Sean Connery - Scotland's greatest ever movie star Audrey Hepburn - An iconic actress Nicol Williamson - Many critics choice as Scotland's greatest ever actorRobert Shaw - Perhaps one of cinema's most overlooked actors when it comes to playing convincing bad guys Richard Harris - Another scr... |
469,240 | 1,532,177 | 60,153 | 6 | Not As Good As I Remembered | I first saw this movie in the mid 1970s and didn't think much of it possibly down to the fact that the much hyped exploding octopus didn't make an on screen appearance . I then saw it again in 1982 when I was a teenager and vaguely remembered enjoying it as highly entertaining camp nonsense so when I read it was going ... |
469,797 | 1,532,177 | 71,360 | 6 | An Ironic Title | Harry Caul is a surveillence expert who records a conversation that places himself as a witness to a murder plan . I thought I'd point this out because watching THE CONVERSATION it's obvious within seconds as to what Harry is but any possible plot development involving a possible murder plan doesn't take place until ab... |
470,103 | 1,532,177 | 102,004 | 6 | Lightweight But Entertaining | THE HARD WAY was made at the tail end of the buddy flick phenomena . It uses the formula fairly well of having a street smart hardened cop who has seen everything and pairs him up with a partner who is the complete opposite . These type of movies aren't so hit and miss but you do get the feeling that when you've seen o... |
468,709 | 1,532,177 | 94,291 | 6 | It's Confused And Dated | I can remember much of the 1980s and would have remembered much more if I didn't insist on drinking too much at that time . I remember it as the decade of of political ideologies clashing in the third world , of political boycotts of the Olympics and the threat of the cold war turning into a very hot conflict called Wo... |
469,879 | 1,532,177 | 67,525 | 6 | Changes Are Justified | Many people most notably original author Richard Matheson have complained about the changes of this film adaption of I AM LEGEND , but I feel the changes are justified . The novel has few characters and little dialogue which doesn't make it an ideal candidate for film adaption , likewise the book's subtle subtext on de... |
469,512 | 1,532,177 | 385,077 | 6 | Rather Clichéd Melodrama | In its favour MAN DANCIN ' opening titles shows us exactly where it's set - On a rundown council estate in Glasgow which I'm fairly certain in the notorious Gorbals so director Norman Stone can be proud that he's brought a very strong sense of place to his film . Unfortunately Sergio Casci's screenplay then hits the au... |
470,214 | 1,532,177 | 166,013 | 6 | Slightly Flawed With Its Polemical Viewpoint | Journalists in films are cliches . They're always shown as crusaders setting the world to right whatever the cost to themselves . This is a totally cliched portrayal as some of the worst vermin breathing are journalists , many of whom are driven by greed and ego and will print absolutely anything to sell newspapers , t... |
469,280 | 1,532,177 | 48,971 | 6 | Informative To A Degree | AWAY ALL BOATS differs from a lot of war movies at the time . It's shot in colour ( Don't forget that many prestigious war movies from the mid 1950s were still being done in monochrome ) and doesn't suffer from the seriously deadpan pseudo intellectualism of many other war films of that period The setting for the story... |
469,577 | 1,532,177 | 106,246 | 6 | Difficult to relate to | ALIVE opens with a spectacular plane crash but ( No pun intended ) goes quickly downhill from there . ALIVE is based on actual events but is never as good as it should have been , though it's never as bad as it could have been either . The problem I had with the film was that I found it very difficult to relate to the ... |
469,142 | 1,532,177 | 385,090 | 6 | I'm On The Side Of The Robot | There's no dialogue in this animated short , only sound effects and a musical score that's probably best described as chamber music but Matthew Hood uses the storytelling rule of " Show don't tell " so the narrative is very easy to follow : A robot is made ill because of the rats that are now inhabitating his metallic ... |
469,540 | 1,532,177 | 284,837 | 6 | Better Than Socks | I used to love Sacha Baron Cohen's creation of Ali G on THE 11 0'CLOCK SHOW in the late 90s . I also liked the spin off show though it should be pointed out by then the joke was wearing thin and it was obvious his guests were in on the joke of having a white boy impersonating a black ghetto boy wannabe . When ALI G IND... |
469,058 | 1,532,177 | 756,451 | 6 | Slightly Disappointing | I remember looking forward to this since it was written by THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN'S Mark Gatiss who wrote the previous years story featuring Charles Dickens and gas zombies . But after seeing the episode I felt rather disappointed and it's down to one very simple reason . The entire plot is summed up in the pre title ... |
468,426 | 1,532,177 | 51,453 | 6 | I Doubt Very Few People Watching This In 2005 Will Understand It | In 1960 Britain was the first European country to scrap conscription . This is not to be confused by the American style draft system because with very few exceptions all able bodied men who turned 18 had to serve two years in the forces regardless of social and educational background . The scrapping of conscription was... |
469,901 | 1,532,177 | 109,686 | 6 | Could Have Been Even Better | I did enjoy parts of DUMB AND DUMBER , notably the blind boy with the parakeet , the cop tasting the beer and the manly love in the toilets , but I can't help thinking it could have been a whole lot better if the two main protagonists played by Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels had a little more depth . As it stands they're ... |
468,663 | 1,532,177 | 106,273 | 6 | Cameos And Political Correctness Get In The Way | This is a movie based upon the late Randy Shilts book AND THE BAND PLAYED ON , a book that I have never read but know has been critically acclaimed and praised for its readability since it is very similar in structure to a detective novel as scientists try to track down and identify a virus that is killing gay men . I ... |
468,528 | 1,532,177 | 67,483 | 6 | Fair Epic But Let Down By A Lack Of Narrative Drive | I'm still trying to decide if NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRIA is a good film or a bad film . Truth be told it's a bit of both . Unfortunately I'm going to have a problem deciding if the bad overwhelms the good or vice versa . This is epic film making by Sam Spiegal , but is far from being the best movie he's produced . I had a... |
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