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468,700 | 1,532,177 | 44,419 | 6 | Slightly Disappointing | I'd heard very good things about Howard Hawks THE BIG SKY and the synopsis in TV guides made it sound good - A fur trapper makes a dangerous voyage into the American wilderness and battles Indians . Sounds good doesn't it so I was hoping to see the type of colourful fast paced adventure that Hollywood does best As soon... |
468,479 | 1,532,177 | 63,592 | 6 | Not That Bad | SHALAKO is a movie that often appears in peoples least favourite western lists and looking at this page many people have said how much they dislike it but as someone who doesn't like the genre all that much I can't say it's all that bad First of all the premise is fairly simple without being threadbare which while not ... |
469,198 | 1,532,177 | 79,652 | 6 | Could Have Done With A Bigger Budget | I first saw THE ODD ANGRY SHOT in the early 1980s when my knowledge of the Vietnam war was very little and my knowledge of Australian involvement was zero . It also has the distinction of being - Apart from THE GREEN BERETS so that doesn't count - the first feature film I saw to be set around the conflict of the Vietna... |
469,227 | 1,532,177 | 82,136 | 6 | Very Daft But Not Unentertaining | Never mind about pens being sharpened I had the knives out for THE CANNONBALL RUN and when I read that it was directed by Hal Needham the same director of SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT the knives were getting extra sharp . I mean we've got a movie full of stars ( A film full of stars is usually the sign of a not very good film... |
468,679 | 1,532,177 | 24,706 | 6 | Not Really Twice The Fun | I'm in two minds about this Stan & Ollie short . While it's far less episodic than some of their other stuff like THICKER THAN WATER - And watching these shorts many many years after I last saw them I found their episodic feel is a major problem to today's audience - it's not all that funny compared to most of their ot... |
469,649 | 1,532,177 | 105,636 | 6 | Entertaining Enough | I found TRESPASS an entertaining enough thriller . Okay it's not PC but so what ? If you want political correctness go and watch EASTENDERS or some other right on crap . Off the top of my head it's one of the few films I can name where a bunch of homeboys are all the same colour , normally they'd be more cosmopolitan t... |
469,234 | 1,532,177 | 252,963 | 6 | Could Have Been Better | I heard about THE BUNKER as soon as it came out ( Being a British movie it would have received far more publicity here than it did in America ) and it seemed to split the critics right down the middle . Some people thought it was a great and atmospheric horror movie while others thought it was a confused cross genre st... |
469,861 | 1,532,177 | 117,107 | 6 | Different From What I Expected | Despite being released a year before LA CONFIDENTIAL this movie instantly reminded me off the acclaimed film noir classic . A bunch of LA cops working just outside the law strut their stuff and break the rules for a higher morality . They don't take any crap especially from crims So far so good . MULHOLLAND FALLS while... |
468,744 | 1,532,177 | 170,691 | 6 | Good Or Bad ? | The opening scenes of TIGERLAND with army recruits being screamed at by NCOs are very reminiscent of FULL METAL JACKET . In fact the more TIGERLAND goes on the more you'll be reminded of PLATOON , SPR , SOUTHERN COMFORT etc . This is by no means an original film . That said TIGERLAND does have some impressive aspects l... |
470,018 | 1,532,177 | 117,090 | 6 | Bad Enough To Remain Very Watchable | I didn't think THE HAUNTED HEART ( As this movie is known in the UK ) was going to be up to much and it wasn't but this didn't stop me from enjoying it immensely . As ElviraVixen pointed out it's awful but will hold your interest for most of its running time . The plot itself revolves around Olivia Hendrix a rather sad... |
468,394 | 1,532,177 | 95,159 | 6 | Too Trans-Atlantic | I was going to take issue with the IMDB classing this as an American movie but perhaps I shouldn't . It is financed by American money , distributed by MGM and has both eyes on an American market , two of the main protagonists are played by Americans while the two main British characters are played by John Cleese and Mi... |
470,217 | 1,532,177 | 90,756 | 6 | Why Is David Lynch So Popular ? . . . . | . . . . Because he's easy to analyze . Look at the opening sequence to BLUE VELVET - A montage of shots of suburban America followed by a slow pan into the grass where insects crawl from the ground . Don't you get it ? Like the ground there's something ugly trying to break through the calm reassuring surface of suburba... |
468,927 | 1,532,177 | 66,765 | 6 | I Laughed | I've read some of the comments on these pages and I'm slightly surprised as to what people were expecting from AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT . I guess some people are more familiar with the atypical movies THE HOLY GRAIL and THE LIFE OF BRIAN rather than the ground breaking comedy sketch show . I do admit ... |
469,617 | 1,532,177 | 66,767 | 6 | I Couldn't Believe The TV Guides . . . | . . . Gave THE ANDERSON TAPES a bad write up . Seriously this was a very well regarded heist movie when it was released but for some reason when it was broadcast very late on Channel 4 the other night all the TV guides said Sean Connery was wasting his time appearing in this turkey . I know Connery has appeared in more... |
470,116 | 1,532,177 | 195,714 | 6 | I Was Expecting THE X-FILES | Seeing as FINAL DESTINATION was written , directed and produced by people heavily associated with THE X-FILES I was expecting something very similar to the classic American show but in the early stages the movie reminded me of that episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE where William Shatner is on a plane and Fozzie Bear from TH... |
469,745 | 1,532,177 | 59,894 | 6 | Suffers From Its Political Viewpoint | THE WAR GAME comes with a heavy reputation and was shown for the very first time on British television in 1985 , twenty years after it was first filmed - and banned - by the BBC . As a docu-drama it carries a punch perhaps not a strong a punch as THREADS but still a killer knockout punch with deeply disturbing imagesTh... |
468,438 | 1,532,177 | 59,896 | 6 | The Fight Scenes Are Good | Oh dear , take a look at the production values in the opening scene of THE WAR LORD . We see location long shots of the characters with their backs to camera so we can't see their faces then cut to a medium shot of Charlton Heston and co standing against back projection . This happens throughout the movie with shots of... |
468,469 | 1,532,177 | 191,996 | 6 | Gritty British Thriller | Like a great many reviewers on this page I liked ESSEX BOYS . Okay maybe it's not a classic like GET CARTER or THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY but it's good to see a British gangster film that owes absolutely nothing to Guy Ritchie . Best thing about the film is Sean Bean's performance as the psycotic bad guy . It's probably the ... |
468,909 | 1,532,177 | 24,593 | 6 | Takes Too Long To Reach Its Destination | I decided to tape this one afternoon and after about an hour I switched onto see if it had finished . Not quite , but I did see some sort of Muppet who I take was King Kong's offspring and a dinosaur that resembled something a five year old child could have made at school . Hey I thought to myself I think I'll enjoy th... |
469,108 | 1,532,177 | 285,587 | 6 | Interesting Short Film | I'm not much of an expert of short films and I'm even less of an expert on Danish humour or indeed even if Danes have a sense of humour ( It's geographically close to Germany ) but GRAVEJR known in English as ANOTHER BLUE DAY is typical of a lot of short films . It has a small cast ( Two speaking parts ) and an offbeat... |
469,714 | 1,532,177 | 114,287 | 6 | A Standard Western | In my review of ULZANA'S RAID I made the point that Alan Sharp had written a Vietnam war movie and had located it back a hundred years to the wild west . Here Sharp has written a western and transferred it to the Glens of 18th century bonnie Scotland . I mean think about the plot for a moment , a greedy cattle baron st... |
468,635 | 1,532,177 | 101,666 | 6 | A Word Of Warning | I saw this on DVD ; " Another breathtaking performance from the Oscar winning star of American Beauty . Kevin Spacey is Darrow " screamed the DVD cover . Turning the case over Kevin Spacey's resume is the most prominent feature pointing out all he films he's won awards for . Ironically for a true life film about truth ... |
469,702 | 1,532,177 | 59,825 | 6 | Art Lovers Will Prefer This To Casual Viewers | John Frankenheimer's THE TRAIN is well regarded by many people but I can't say I was too impressed with it . I think my reservations may stem from the fact that I'm something of a philistine when it comes to art and in order to enjoy the maximum potential of this film it's vital you understand the importance of art I d... |
470,381 | 1,532,177 | 1,205,436 | 6 | Good Enough Character Driven Story But With Several Serious Flaws | It's painfully obvious that Russell T Davies produced Who doesn't start reaching its stride until late in the season and he continues the trend here . It's also obvious that he's more than capable of writing a good opening hook and a good ending but what comes inbetween is extremely variable . Turn Left continues the t... |
469,230 | 1,532,177 | 116,743 | 6 | Very Well Cast | I do confess that I have read the Kama Sutra and there's an awful lot of misconceptions about it . It is NOT some hot porn manual that will get your juices flowing , it's a very thick book about the art of love . If you've bought a copy simply to use as masturbation fuel then you've certainly wasted your money . Likewi... |
470,379 | 1,532,177 | 1,205,438 | 6 | Popular Doesn't Always Equal Good | The previous episode The Stolen Earth was a legend in itself , an episode that contained the greatest cliffhanger in the programme's 45 year history Not only that but it was number two in that week's TV charts . Would Journey's End deliver the goods and top the TV charts for that week ? It did . Did it deliver the good... |
470,275 | 1,532,177 | 66,907 | 6 | Fairly Good For A Winner Film | CHATO'S LAND was shown alongside DEATH WISH on BBC1 tonight as a tribute to the late Charles Bronson . To be honest this isn't much of a tribute down to the simple fact that Bronson has very little dialogue and only a few scenes in a film that concentrates more on the posse than their pray . A far better tribute would ... |
468,565 | 1,532,177 | 178,642 | 6 | Just About Works | This received its British network television premiere at 3 . 20 am on Channel 4 . Believe me this is never the sign of a good movie since in the last few weeks we've had to endure garbage like THIS FILTHY EARTH and DEAD BABIES also being given their premieres at an ungodly hour and boy did they deserve not to be seen I... |
469,922 | 1,532,177 | 101,587 | 6 | Different From What I Expected | Remember when this was released in the cinemas ? Remember what two scenes they played in the trailers ? " Apologise " " No " Out with the throwing knife " AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH . I APOLOGISE ! " and " We're going into the wilderness with a lunatic . He's behind me , isn't he ? " Which led me to believe we'd be watching a fi... |
469,441 | 1,532,177 | 59,504 | 6 | Strange Mix Of Good And Bad | THE NIGHT CALLER is a very uneven movie in that it's sometimes excellent and sometimes awful . For the most part it's very atmospheric and downbeat sci-fi film noir where most of the scenes are filmed during night and resembles the classic QUATERMASS BBC serials of the 1950s where scientists team up with the military a... |
468,589 | 1,532,177 | 346,468 | 6 | Don't Mention The War | Like a great number of other people I had mixed feelings whether the Oscars should be going ahead or not , it's almost impossible to justify an extravaganza like the academy awards while there's a war going on , but to their credit the producers kept it fairly low key with no massive self congratulation that we often s... |
470,069 | 1,532,177 | 75,627 | 6 | Heavy Handed Anti-War Film | First of all I feel I've got to point out the two flaws of ACES HIGH1 ) The film starts with the commonly held erroneous view that young men of whatever nation joined the army because they'd been brainwashed by glorious tales of derring do and had no idea of the horror awaiting them in the trenches . Not so in Britain ... |
468,925 | 1,532,177 | 343,687 | 6 | Maybe I Expected Too Much | It was a fellow board member of this site who told me about this Kiwi short and taking his advice I watched it . Normally I wouldn't have bothered my behind to set the video because I have very little interest in short films but I'd heard positive things about THE FRENCH DOORS . Alas I was slightly disappointed by it ,... |
468,437 | 1,532,177 | 66,819 | 6 | Despite Everything THE BEGUILED Works Very Well | THE BEGUILED is indeed a memorable movie , but when you think about it in any great detail this should have been a disaster of a movie1 ) There are no likable characters . Think about it , Eastwood's anti hero is a bush-wacker while the girls - Some of whom are serious jail bait - are hypocrits . Who are we supposed to... |
469,809 | 1,532,177 | 66,817 | 6 | A Film That Cheats The Memory | I had very good memories of this 1970s Disney classic ( The early 70s being when the rot really set in for the studio ) and sat down to happily watch it again this afternoon . I did find a serious problem with the first half and that was the yawn inducing character introduction and a plot that goes more or less nowhere... |
470,386 | 1,532,177 | 417,397 | 6 | The Irony Is That It Feels Like A Hollywood Movie | I was looking forward to seeing 9TH COMPANY , a film that broke all records at the Russian box office and that caused veterans of the red army to leave the cinema in tears . With hindsight this sounds like the same reactions from 20 years earlier when veterans from the Vietnam war left American cinemas after watching P... |
468,615 | 1,532,177 | 86,250 | 6 | A Good Film In Parts But One With Serious Flaws | Some reviewers point out that when you remember a movie from several years ago your memory blocks out all the bad things leaving only good memories of it . I mainly disagree with this view point . With the exception of some DOCTOR WHO stories everything I remember , either good or bad , about a film or TV show from yes... |
469,693 | 1,532,177 | 82,398 | 6 | Forgettable | FOR YOUR EYES ONLY is not particualy bad but nor is it all that good . It's certainly a vast improvement on the truly abysmal MOONRAKER but the puns are still awful ( " Stinging in the rain " ) as is the muzak soundtrack which sometimes sounds like it belongs in a European porn flick , and Julian Glover one of Britain'... |
469,367 | 1,532,177 | 70,679 | 6 | Yo This Momma Is One Hot Cat | Is this a racist film ? Let's examine the evidence where the black hero dude is a funky sex machine ( Notice how the soundtrack sounds exactly like porno muzak ? ) and where the hero says brother , cat and baby a lot as in " Yo brother " , " she's a hot cat " and " Start talking baby or I'll break your other arm " , an... |
469,355 | 1,532,177 | 114,660 | 6 | Tarantino Anyone ? | I've just seen THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD and liked it a lot . However I've got a suspicion that 24 hours from now I'll like it a lot less than I do at this very moment . Indeed as I sit here writing this review my mind is increasingly filling up with the aspects I didn't like , things like . . . The rathe... |
469,952 | 1,532,177 | 101,453 | 6 | Came Out At The Wrong Time | BILLY BATHGATE isn't a bad film , and takes the trouble to show us the young and impressionable title character attraction towards the criminal underworld , a world where money and molls come easily to hand . It's also slightly old fashioned and you can imagine Edward G Robinson or James Cagney playing the part of Dutc... |
469,719 | 1,532,177 | 67,023 | 6 | Effective Thriller With A Few Minor Problems And One Major One | As made for television movies go DUEL is an absolute legend . It's possibly a little overrated in my opinion but thank goodness it doesn't revolve around Jane Seymour or Victoria Principal nursing a sick child . It is of course the movie that kick started the career of Steven Spielberg and you do wonder slightly if thi... |
469,122 | 1,532,177 | 105,813 | 6 | Show , Don't Tell | A man has apparently committed suicide in he New Mexico desert and beside his body is a bag containing $500 , 000 so local sheriff Ray Dolezal decides to keep the dead man's rendezvous to unravel the mystery A lot of people have complained about WHITE SANDS being implausiable , contrived or over plotted . My complaint ... |
468,411 | 1,532,177 | 86,034 | 6 | Had potential | Plotwise OCTOPUSSY had the potential as being one of the very best Bond films , the idea of a rogue Soviet general exploding a hidden nuclear bomb inside a NATO base in order to win the cold war is something out of the very best Frederick Forsyth novel , but why oh why did the producers decide to ruin this almost credi... |
470,109 | 1,532,177 | 56,234 | 6 | Thanks Yank | Post Battle Of Britain there were two campaigns of the second world war that were almost exclusively British led and British fought . One was the North African campaign and the other was the Burma campaign , and unlike the inaccurate American flag waver OBJECTIVE BURMA the production team of MERRIL'S MARAUDERS have tak... |
468,710 | 1,532,177 | 94,737 | 6 | Hanks Fans Will Love It | I had received a free DVD of BIG via a Sunday newspaper promotion but had put off watching it for a very long time for two reasons1 ) I've never been keen on Tom Hanks who I've found to be one of the most overrated movie stars of the last 15 years 2 ) Comedies ( A genre I don't like at the best of times ) from the 1980... |
469,401 | 1,532,177 | 82,247 | 6 | CHATO'S LAND - The Remake | Thank you to all the reviewers who came on to point out the truth behind the story . Whenever you watch a film " Based on a true story " everyone is under the impression that the primary word is " True " but it's not it's " Based " and watching DEATH HUNT I knew I had to take this " based on a true story " not so much ... |
468,875 | 1,532,177 | 257,756 | 6 | Over Plotted But Strangely Entertaining | A USMC officer finds himself standing trial for the murder of civilians in Central America several years ago and his lawyer wife defends him . That's the plot of HIGH CRIMES a legal thriller that's a bit like John Grisham meets RULES OF ENGAGEMENT plus A FEW GOOD MEN . Hardly original but there's enough there to make a... |
468,701 | 1,532,177 | 101,393 | 6 | Contains Too Many Elements Tobe a Total Success | I was really looking forward to seeing BACKDRAFT when it was released . I'd actually spent a couple of days training with the fire brigade up in Aberdeen as part of my North sea survival certificate ( To work off shore on the rigs you must pass the course ) and had an inkling as to the courage and dangers of fire fight... |
470,077 | 1,532,177 | 114,558 | 6 | Cameron Vs Bigelow | ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! I can imagine Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron marching into the excutive offices with a movie idea . One of them pitches an ideas driven movie about virtual reality while the other pitches an old fashioned character driven thriller about a couple of corrupt cops wanting to get hands on e... |
469,586 | 1,532,177 | 70,791 | 6 | The Memory Cheats | The late John Nathan Turner , the most controversial producer of DOCTOR WHO came up with the expression " The memory cheats " . What he meant by that is memory can play tricks on you , a fondly remembered DOCTOR WHO story with the production values of LORD OF THE RINGS ( Or so it seemed at the time ) can be severely di... |
469,580 | 1,532,177 | 162,661 | 6 | Probably Burton's Best Movie | This opens with a great hook , maybe not as great as some of the very best hooks seen in DOCTOR WHO and THE X-FILES but still very effective as to pulling the audience into the story . The screenwriters have also written a very well paced script that gives a background story featuring a German mercenary during the Amer... |
469,698 | 1,532,177 | 89,941 | 6 | You're Reading Too Much Into It | I think people reviewing this film are getting too hung up on subtext , so what if Andrei Konchalovsky was born in the USSR ? he also made the pretty dire TANGO AND CASH and I fail to see how anyone can interpret that as a dig on the Stalinist system , so to compare RUNAWAY TRAIN with the complete works of Aleksandr So... |
469,008 | 1,532,177 | 59,319 | 6 | Not A James Bond Film | In many ways the James Bond franchise was the personification of 1960s pop culture , no one had seen anything like it before in the movie industry and everyone in the industry tried to emulate the style of the Bond movies . Looking back on these Bond clones they're laughably dated and even embarrasing and I bet the pro... |
469,380 | 1,532,177 | 97,579 | 6 | Clichéd , Contrived , But Watchable Enough | Making a film set in an American prison is sort of like making a horror film . When making the latter all you have to do is keep the lighting low , hold the camera close up on a characters face , have scary sounds out of view and there you have something that will effectively scare an audience . With the former all you... |
468,441 | 1,532,177 | 89,882 | 6 | Perhaps The Characterisation Should Have Been Changed | This TVM features rape as the dramatic centre point but there's a difference in that the victim is a middle aged streetwise cop who is MALE . The crime itself is thankfully understated ( This is a TVM after all ) and the teleplay revolves around the victim Richard Beck struggling to come to terms with his rape as he fi... |
469,733 | 1,532,177 | 75,913 | 6 | Garbage But Entertaining Garbage | SPOILERS So if there's a hole in the ozone layer the increased levels of radation will cause animals of all ilks to attack humans . Hmmm . There is actually a hole in the ozone layer but I don't think even Greenpeace are claiming this will cause us to be attacked by fluffy animals and feathered friendsBut DAY OF THE AN... |
470,186 | 1,532,177 | 266,555 | 6 | A Few Flaws In The Plot But Not A Dead Loss | ! ! ! ! ! SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! A woman is raped by three men then five years later one of the rapists runs into the victim and wants to use her as a sex slave I had a problem with this premise right away - What's the chances of a rapist running into his victim like that ? And why use a former victim as a sex slave ? The ... |
470,252 | 1,532,177 | 120,461 | 6 | Mick Jackson's Antithesis to THREADS | I find it's impossible to write a review of a Mick Jackson movie without pointing out that in 1984 he shocked the nation of Britain with his nuclear holocaust docu-drama THREADS . Anyone who saw that on its BBC broadcast will never forget the grim , bleak , depressing and powerful depiction of the end of humanity . See... |
470,068 | 1,532,177 | 487,890 | 6 | Depends On What You Think A Curse Is | THE CURSE OF THE OMEN is not without interest . It revolves around the supposed curse of Richard Donner's 1976 movie THE OMEN . Bad things happened before during and after the production . However many of the bad things that happened can surely be put down to coincidence and many of these terrible things have a tenuous... |
468,803 | 1,532,177 | 208,092 | 6 | Diamonds Are Composed Of Carbon . . . . . | . . . . so it's fitting that a film that centers around the theft of a diamond is a carbon copy of Guy Ritchie's debut hit LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS . We have the same basic plot featuring much of the same cast playing the same characters directed in the same style as LSATSB . The only real difference is SNATC... |
469,439 | 1,532,177 | 207,907 | 6 | Flawed Documentary | I first saw THE Nazis : A WARNING FROM HISTORY when it was originally broadcast on BBC 2 in 1997 but wasn't too struck by it . I found it somewhat dry and academic and unlike several documentaries dealing with the holocaust ( Most notably the episode from THE WORLD AT WAR ) it didn't leave much of an impact with me . I... |
469,481 | 1,532,177 | 103,064 | 6 | Over Produced and Over Rated Sequel | That's typical . Hollywood decides to make lots of money by making a sequel to a classic genre film while ignoring the elements that made the original so brilliant . Take the script for example , THE TERMINATOR had one of the most tightly written scripts I can think of . The sequel is very flabby and mechanical especia... |
470,095 | 1,532,177 | 124,185 | 6 | A Star Is Born | After the death of her mother Iris Kelly embarks on a drunken promiscuous lifestyle to numb the pain There that's the plot ( For want of a better word ) to UNDER THE SKIN a typically British film from the mid 1990s . It's rather low budget and character driven and certainly isn't the type of film that would have appear... |
470,027 | 1,532,177 | 246,578 | 6 | Don't Be Ashamed To Say It's Not A Masterpiece | I've heard so much about this " Wonderful , mind blowing masterpiece " . Interestingly enough most of the rave reviews of DONNIE DARKO came via this very website which goes against the grain of other reviewers . Roger Ebert only gave the movie two and a half stars while many other websites dedicated to film reviews cla... |
469,799 | 1,532,177 | 235,198 | 6 | Made My Eyes Water | I've often thought of the Japanese as being the most sadistic people on Earth . This goes beyond events of the 20th century like the rape of Nangkin , the Burma railway and the Bataan death march , but with that crazy contest show ENDURANCE where volunteers suffer great pain , possible maiming and even the outside chan... |
470,173 | 1,532,177 | 75,801 | 6 | Low Brow But Amusing | I saw this when I was sixteen years old and perhaps this was the reason I found this sketch based film so very amusing and I can still remember some of the sketches more than half a lifetime ago Man in nudist colony with back to camera hands two female nudists two cups " Coffee ? " " Thank you " " Donuts ? " " Thank yo... |
470,372 | 1,532,177 | 120,382 | 6 | Not That Original Or Groundbreaking | Let's not delude ourselves that THE TRUMAN SHOW is all that iconoclastic , prophetic or mind blowing original . In the late 1960s Nigel Kneale wrote a BBC teleplay called THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS where very similar ideas are explored so the central plot of a man having his whole life manipulated and broadcast to bi... |
469,544 | 1,532,177 | 167,404 | 7 | I Knew The Ending Before I Saw The Film . . . . . | . . . . but strangely enough that didn't stop me from enjoying it . This even more surprising because I found the start of the film slightly tedious with its shots of city streets and the close ups of characters faces which kept reminding me of the work of Stanley Kubrick , a director I'm not at all keen on . But THE S... |
468,758 | 1,532,177 | 416,090 | 7 | A Warning To Us All | Steve and Robert do the night shift in a 24 hour store in the year 2057 and right away I had this mapped out as a self referential post modernist Sci-Fi story down to the reason that the first words to come out of the characters mouths are to do with these old science fiction movies and how modern everything would look... |
469,463 | 1,532,177 | 95,631 | 7 | One Of The Better Buddy Movies | Bounty hunter Jack Walsh apprehends bail jumper Jonathan Mardukas and attempts to take him to the other side of America unaware a rival bounty hunter , the mob and the feds are on their tales The above premise is all there is to the plot as Jack and Johnathan escape their rivals and that's to the movies benefit , no on... |
469,645 | 1,532,177 | 411,715 | 7 | Kneel Before The Twisted Humour Of Robert Hammond | There's something so very poetic about this Pyramids Of Mars DVD extra . Sutekh , despite only appearing one DOCTOR WHO story is one of the all time great villains from the show while actor / writer Robert Hammond is one of the most remarkable characters from DOCTOR WHO fandom I do have a problem in discussing this ske... |
468,370 | 1,532,177 | 268,695 | 7 | Pretty Good Remake | I was interested in seeing this remake simply to find out if it was as bad as a myriad of critics have suggested it to be . I did love the 1960 version and I am not keen on people remaking my favourite movies , but surely last year's remake of HG Wells romantic fantasy wasn't going to be as bad as painted was it ? Herb... |
469,953 | 1,532,177 | 112,744 | 7 | Too Liberal And Certainly Confused | I don't think much of Sean Penn as an actor , his OTT performance in CASUALTIES OF WAR almost ruined the entire film for me and it wasn't only that film that Penn yanked my chain , but despite this I can't help noticing that he does have some talent behind the camera . He's not flawless of course and his flaws are plai... |
469,859 | 1,532,177 | 118,771 | 7 | Impressive Thriller | When this was released in 1997 there was talk of writer / director Johnathan Mostow being the new Spielberg . I have to confess if you want to compare him to anyone then James Cameron would be the best comparison . Cameron is a director who works best with tight scripts and small budgets and ironically Mostow went on t... |
469,737 | 1,532,177 | 118,760 | 7 | Could Have Been A Lot Worse | The only real problem Jim Sheridan has with THE BOXER is that he seems to be unable to inject much kinetic energy into the proceedings unlike IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER . Mind I'm not sure if that should be classed as criticism since ITNOTF played hard and loose with facts and was overly sensational , and do I have to r... |
470,234 | 1,532,177 | 66,206 | 7 | A Strange Combinition Of Good And Bad | I saw this the same night I saw THE HURRICANE a movie that claims to be a bio-pic on Rubin Carter but which is nothing more than total fabrication . PATTON is an entirely different kettle of fish and while not being entirely accurate ( I'll come to that later ) does at least have many accurate points Undoubtedly the be... |
470,091 | 1,532,177 | 286,106 | 7 | Moody , Atmospheric But Far From A Masterpiece | ! ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! There's a lot to commend M Night Shyamalan's SIGNS for . It's not often we see such a moody atmospheric thriller about an alien invasion and I will praise this movie later . However Shyamalan shots himself in the foot by the way the story is told Crop circles appear outside the home of... |
469,748 | 1,532,177 | 70,634 | 7 | Not As Bad As Is Made Out | The only problem I can see with this film is that it's very far removed from the horror franchise that started with the original Hammer Dracula in the late 50's , in fact I can't help thinking that it was conceived as a violent thriller that didn't feature Dracula or Van Helsing . That might explain the slightly lame e... |
468,367 | 1,532,177 | 61,405 | 7 | Not All That Far Fetched | BILLON DOLLAR BRAIN features a rabid anti communist meglomaniac in the role of villain General Midwinter and it's up to British agent Harry Palmer to stop his lunatic scheme I wonder how many people at the time realised the irony of rabid right winger Midwinter being portrayed as a looney villain ? In 1967 President Jo... |
470,352 | 1,532,177 | 122,718 | 7 | Far Better Than I Expected | Ah yes a Hollywood family film in the same vein as TOY STORY , so expect some highly patronizing , derivative drivel , or rather don't because I found SMALL SOLDIERS to be a far better film than I expected . Much of this was down to the fact that the movie doesn't talk down to its audience and the fact I didn't have to... |
469,590 | 1,532,177 | 455,590 | 7 | It's Whitaker's Movie | Never before has a film in modern history been dominated by a performance from its lead actor . That actor is Forest Whitaker who picked up EVERY best actor award for this film . Whitaker gives an absolutely towering performance and the only other chilling and dominating performance I can think of that comes close to i... |
468,550 | 1,532,177 | 290,673 | 7 | A Film Of Two Halves Which Will Polarise The Audience | I came in to this film knowing all about the hype that surrounded it . " Truly stomach churning . . . I had to walk out of the theater . . . I've never seen anything like it in my life " . It's impossible to view this film for the first time with an open mind . Interestingly enough everyone comments on the violence whi... |
468,984 | 1,532,177 | 245,171 | 7 | A Very Interesting Film Despite A Rather Serious Flaw | A film broadcast at 2am on channel 4 and starring Tim Roth ! I remember the last movie broadcast on channel 4 with Tim Roth in the credits which was THE WAR ZONE , one of the few movies I've regretted watching due to the depressing content and since INVINCIBLE centres around the birth of Nazism I wasn't expecting too m... |
469,283 | 1,532,177 | 66,390 | 7 | One Of The Most Bizarre Movies To Be Made By An American Studio | I recall sometime in the late 1970s a film called SOLDIER BLUE being broadcast on ITV . It was on past my bedtime so unfortunately I never saw it but I distinctly remember my parents discussing it the next day and how shaken they were by the amount of violence the movie used in showing a massacre against the Indians at... |
468,642 | 1,532,177 | 210,065 | 7 | Somewhat Uneven Thriller | What I remember most about GANGSTER NO 1 on its initial release was the critics mentioning the amount of violence shown ( Channel 4 also pointed out the " disturbing " content before the broadcast last night ) but I don't really see what the problem is . I agree it's a violent picture but at least the subject matter is... |
470,288 | 1,532,177 | 56,800 | 7 | Not A Racist Film | Watching this film in a PC era like today you may find allegations of racism being made against it , but you have to remember that 55 DAYS AT PEKING was made in 1963 . The war in the Pacific had ended less than 20 years earlier and the horrors of the Burma railway and the Bataan death march were still fresh in the memo... |
470,370 | 1,532,177 | 39,286 | 7 | You Can Read Between The Lines | I referenced CROSSFIRE at the IMDb before watching it on television a couple of days ago and what I found very interesting is that the original source novel featured the murder victim being a homosexual and not a Jew . This is very interesting not to mention helpful because it makes the story much easier to understand ... |
469,242 | 1,532,177 | 91,474 | 7 | Dated But Not Unimpressive | Comparisons between Michael Mann's MANHUNTER and the other films that followed the Hannibal Lectar franchise are inevitable but unnecessary . Stylistically and context wise MANHUNTER is an entirely different movie from its successors which makes it difficult to say whether it's a better or worse film As a stand alone m... |
469,483 | 1,532,177 | 74,156 | 7 | Excellent Low Budget Thriller | ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 is a wonderful example of what can be achieved with a talented director on a very low budget . My only criticisms are the plothole of having the gangs hiding so they aren't discovered by police patrol cars ( I thought that's what the gangs would have wanted - a toe to toe war with " the pigs " ) ... |
469,868 | 1,532,177 | 65,528 | 7 | It's Let Down By The Acting Style | I've just returned from the user comments page on DOCTOR WHO ( 2005 ) which is a comparable page with this one on the film adaptation of Heller's CATCH 22 . Some people detest everything about the new version of the sci-fi show while some people can forgive the flaws since it's not meant to be a carbon copy clone of th... |
469,596 | 1,532,177 | 289,879 | 7 | More Enjoyable Than That Other Similar Time Travelling Film | It seems that word of mouth has affected peoples ' enjoyment of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT with many comments reflecting bitter disappointment . In many ways these feelings sum up what happened when I saw DONNIE DARKO , a similar type of movie featuring teen angst and time travel . The main difference though was that I'd hea... |
468,396 | 1,532,177 | 100,746 | 7 | Is That Real Sex ? | LA TAREA is filmed in real time in a single room and features a total cast of two actors . This is not an epic film by any means . In fact I wouldn't have actually remembered its broadcast on Channel 4 if it hadn't been for the fact that the two characters Marcelo and Virginia indulge in a sex session , but what a sex ... |
468,621 | 1,532,177 | 83,190 | 7 | Better Than I Expected | As THIEF started I thought I'd be watching some sort of shallow art house debacle debut from Michael Mann . The first ten minutes only contains one line of dialogue with a terrible and annoying soundtrack from Tangerine Dream very similar to Mann's later horror flick THE KEEP . A ridiculous scene follows this musical i... |
468,751 | 1,532,177 | 217,505 | 7 | Not That Bad but It's Not A Classic Scorsese Picture | What did you think of Gangs Of New York ? I asked my father who is also a big Scorsese fan . " I thought it was a load of " ££$ % ^ ^ $ " £ £$ % " he replied " The actors looked like they were all going to burst out singing " I could see where he was coming from although I didn't disagree with him 100 % . GANGS OF NE... |
469,098 | 1,532,177 | 118,123 | 7 | Superb Animation | Not unlike THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER this is the story of a baby prince who is kidnapped by the thief in the night and ends up being adopted by a pig . If the plot sounds kind of silly don't worry because it's an animated claymation cartoon . If it was live action the whole thing would of course be ridiculous but you c... |
469,274 | 1,532,177 | 60,736 | 7 | Cultural Relativism | THE NAKED PREY is very similar in many ways to Cornel Wilde's later movie NO BLADE OF GRASS in that it deals with the theme of survival , is rather violent and features real life stock footage mixed in with the location footage , and while neither film is all that well directed they both have very thought provoking plo... |
469,688 | 1,532,177 | 360,717 | 7 | The Lack Of Embellishment Disappoints | You'd need a heart of stone not to be touched by Jackson's LORD OF THE RINGS , it is amongst the great masterworks of cinema and is a trilogy I love . However for some reason I failed to catch this at the cinema possibly down to my body needing frequent infusions of nicotine and caffeine , something that makes a three ... |
469,348 | 1,532,177 | 64,615 | 7 | This Movie Is 100 % Crazy | MACKENNA'S GOLD has got to be one of the craziest movies I've ever seen . Watching this I was very worried that someone had spiked my local water supply with LSD The opening title sequence alone sets off warning bells with the music being very similar to a sixties spy shows like THE MAN FROM UNCLE . After the bizarre t... |
469,571 | 1,532,177 | 100,814 | 7 | Affectionate Homage To 50s B Movies | Watching TREMORS is like watching one of those sci-fi / horror B movies from the 1950s , specifically one you enjoyed as a child and still watch as an adult . In short TREMORS is a very likable movie Set in the of Perfection in the isolated desert of Neveda the story is carried by two good ole ' American boys Valentine... |
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