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468,928 | 1,532,177 | 69,976 | 7 | Inaccurate But Still A Good Movie | Reputation is a strange thing . Take John Dillinger for example . He was public enemy number one during the fledgling FBI's war against organized crime gangs . He was a nasty piece of work who committed the murder of a Chicago policeman called O'Malley but that why he wasn't public enemy number one , he was public enem... |
470,022 | 1,532,177 | 57,076 | 7 | Intelligent And Complex . Perhaps Too Much So ! | This is an early Bond movie that is very intelligent and complex . After being defeated by Bond in DR NO , the criminal organisation SPECTRE devise a plan to bump off Bond while at the same time humiliating the British and Soviet intelligence agencies . The " problem " with this Bond film is that because it is so compl... |
470,276 | 1,532,177 | 113,277 | 7 | Good But Overlong | The thing to strike me about HEAT is that it's overlong . I don't know if I've been watching too much MTV but a major problem I've had with a great number of movies coming out of Hollywood studios since the early 1990s is that they're too long for their own good and I wish to add HEAT to this list since its running tim... |
469,414 | 1,532,177 | 60,893 | 7 | Atmospheric | I'm not much of a horror film fan and have always found much of Hammer's output mediocre ( Especially their FRANKENSTIEN and DRACULA stuff ) but I do believe THE REPTILE is one of best films to have come out of the studio . It does contain some stilted performances and dialogue , some obvious day for night filming , an... |
469,177 | 1,532,177 | 113,189 | 7 | The Irony Is Enjoyable | Say what you like about the Bond franchise ( And in my opinion I don't have a lot of good things to say ) but the series never came out with the old cliche of having those nasty pinko commies as the bad guys . Bond's enemies where always the fictional SPECTRE or mad scientist types , not that this was always successful... |
469,660 | 1,532,177 | 96,098 | 7 | One Of The Better Thrillers Of The Decade | The phrase " Thriller from the 1980s " usually conjures up images of explosions , car chases , and a very high body count , not to mention catchphrases like " I'll be back " , but DEADLY PURSUIT ( As it's known in the UK ) is a far more intelligent thriller . Part buddy movie with a slightly redneck tracker teamed up w... |
468,463 | 1,532,177 | 313,162 | 7 | The Shadow Of Hangs Over It | The events of the 11th of September 2001 cast its shadow on this Oscar award ceremony with a one minute silence before the in memoriam montage and there was little in the way of the all singing all dancing comedy extravaganza that we'd come to expect of this award show but this was by no means a bad thing . Entertainme... |
470,123 | 1,532,177 | 57,197 | 7 | Great Fantasy Film | This is how a sword and sorcery film should be made . Write a script featuring a bunch of heroes going on a quest , employ a string of British character actors like Pat Troughton in supporting roles , make sure you have a FX wizard who knows what he's doing , and don't skip on location filming . JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS... |
469,046 | 1,532,177 | 29,923 | 7 | Possibly The Last Great L & H Picture | BLOCK-HEADS is set up with an idea which must have seemed totally ridiculous in 1938 but when you stop to consider that Japanese soldiers were being found on remote Pacific islands 30 years after the second world war ended the idea stops being ridiculous and becomes shockingly propheticThis is possibly the last of the ... |
469,836 | 1,532,177 | 104,952 | 7 | Obstacles | A couple of Yankee youths take a trip to the deep south and find themselves being charged for murder . Thankfully one of the youths has a cousin who's a lawyer Did I say thankfully ? I'm not a big fan of comedies since the premise usually over stays it's welcome by at least half an hour , but screenwriter Dale Launer h... |
468,840 | 1,532,177 | 57,115 | 7 | Overrated But Entertaining American Movie | This came third in Channel 4's recent 100 GREATEST WAR MOVIES poll a few months ago which did rather surprise me since I've always found it somewhat overrated but it does remain a fairly entertaining American movie Yes THE GREAT ESCAPE is an American movie and I'm glad that the IMDb classes it so . It's directed by an ... |
468,724 | 1,532,177 | 320,661 | 7 | Sometimes Wonderful . Often Irritating | I'd heard a lot about KINGDOM OF HEAVEN when it was released in 2005 . Most of the reviews were rather uncomplimentary so I made a point of missing it until it was broadcast on Channel 4 last night and as I write this review I remember a lot of beautiful things about this movie . Unfortunately I can remember far more t... |
469,683 | 1,532,177 | 1,061,123 | 7 | Fair Enough Story Which Will be Remembered For The Stunt Casting Rather Than The Plot | It seems that DOCTOR WHO has now become part of Christmas and I for one am glad of that . I always used to receive a DOCTOR WHO annual without for my Christmas as a youngster . Ironically enough a few minutes after seeing this Christmas I caught a snippet of CORONATION STREET where a child character was trying out thei... |
469,771 | 1,532,177 | 100,603 | 7 | Very Unbiased | I had thought right away that because SHOOT TO KILL had the name Peter Kominsky in the credits I'd be watching an entirely biased , speculative infactual docudrama that portrayed Northern Ireland policeman as SS troopers while armed terrorists were going to be shown as being either fiesty freedom fighters or peace lovi... |
469,874 | 1,532,177 | 369,339 | 7 | Good Film Though The Michael Mann Flaw Strikes Again | As thrillers go COLLATERAL is outstanding for the most part . Michael Mann visual approach is beautiful , tense and very well paced . Tom Cruise , an actor who I've never been too keen on gives his best performance for many a year as Vince a ruthless hit-man but is overshadowed in the acting stakes by Jaime Foxx as Max... |
469,466 | 1,532,177 | 25,873 | 7 | A Memorable Musical Ditty | Stan and Ollie hire a trailer and go for a camping trip to the remote countryside , get accidentally drunk ( It can happen you know ) and that's basically it as far as the threadbare plot goes . However the film feels more cohesive than some of the other L & H shorts which are sometimes a series of set piece prat falls... |
468,756 | 1,532,177 | 22,100 | 7 | A Documentary More Than Anything Else | If we're going to talk about hyper realistic film making let's forget about the likes of Peter Watkin's , Mike leigh Ken Loach etc and talk about Frizt lang's M . I kept forgetting this was a feature film and consciously thought I was watching a 1931 German documentary featuring a serial child killer . Seriously I did ... |
468,933 | 1,532,177 | 133,093 | 7 | Good First Time You See It | THE MATRIX is a good film , without doubt the greatest film featuring the sub genre of cyberpunk , but it's film whose reputation is mainly built upon having a very clever premise more than anything else . I remember being absolutely stunned at the revelation of the plot , but when I saw it for a second time at the wee... |
468,877 | 1,532,177 | 100,403 | 7 | Certainly Better Than Its Ill Deserved Reputation | PREDATOR 2 is a strange type of sequel . It doesn't feature any of the characters from the original movie which probably explains its box office failure . You can just imagine an audience squealing with delight when the studio let it be known there was going to be a follow up to the first film , only for the audience t... |
470,153 | 1,532,177 | 69,762 | 7 | A Not Unimpressive Amoral Film | While the end credits were rolling I noticed an on screen disclaimer along the lines of " All the characters and situations are fictional and any relation between the events depicted in this film is entirely coincidental " which had me scratching my head because whenever I read about Terence Malik's BADLANDS I'm told t... |
470,104 | 1,532,177 | 330,093 | 7 | I Laughed Out Loud | This BRASS EYE special PAEDO-GEDDON was swamped by complaints ( More on that later ) when it was broadcast in 2001 following a national debate around a possible " Sarah's law " following the abduction and murder of school girl Sarah Payne . In fact it's scheduling was delayed while Phil Collins took legal advice after ... |
469,486 | 1,532,177 | 78,492 | 7 | A Very Good Action Film | When I was in my early teens you could judge how good a film was because my classmates would discuss it after seeing it on telly , ah yes those were the days when there was only three TV channels and hardly anyone owned what was known as a VCR . When THE WILD GEESE was first broadcast on television my peers and I were ... |
469,492 | 1,532,177 | 100,419 | 7 | This Is Funny | I'm not a fan of comedies but any movie that starts with a scene of school children writing to their penpals with the following dialogue : " Dear Queen Elizabeth . How is England ? " " Dear Bishop Tutu . How are you ? " " Dear bow tie serial killer . I have all your newspaper articles " has something going for it , and... |
469,078 | 1,532,177 | 113,421 | 7 | Perhaps I May Need More Convincing | The Mcmartin / Buckey allegations even made news reports in Britain such was the scandal of over 300 children being molested . So does this TVM give the definitive account ? In my humble opinion - No The problem I have with INDICTMENT is despite often using transcripts from the actual trial there is no real attempt by ... |
469,529 | 1,532,177 | 69,865 | 7 | I'm Sure Quentin Tarantino Has Seen This | Did someone say this was written for Clint Eastwood in the title role rather than Walter Matthau ? This would explain how Charley has a couple of sidekicks half his age and how he has a distasteful scene of going to bed with someone young enough to be his daughter . Hey wait a minute if Eastwood had been cast would the... |
469,711 | 1,532,177 | 140,770 | 7 | A Good Series , But Ten Episodes ? | In the mid 1980s The Vietnam War was very much a part of pop culture . Movie like PLATOON , FULL METAL JACKET and HAMBURGER HILL were making money at the cinema while book stores were full of publications dealing with accounts of the conflict and there was even a top five hit in the British pop charts by a singer calle... |
469,828 | 1,532,177 | 364,930 | 7 | Michael Moore Would Learn Something From This Documentary | This is a documentary dealing with the appeal of Aileen Wuornos murder convictions . Don't worry I have no idea who she was either and it's only when I'm told that Charlize Theron played her in MONSTER that I discovered who she was . Try asking someone who Aileen Wuornos was and they'll give a similar blank response , ... |
470,197 | 1,532,177 | 94,716 | 7 | Profound And Obscure Anti-War Film | Columbia Pictures does deserve some credit for producing this . A Red Army tank crew versus mujahedeen in Afghanistan which wasn't a common story idea in 1980s Hollywood . This was a period where Chuck , Sly and Arnie were slaughtering commies in their millions and the world was holding their breath that it wasn't givi... |
468,561 | 1,532,177 | 67,140 | 7 | Entertaining Study Of Marxist Ideals | It's no secret but Sergio Leone was a supporter of Marxism . All his work has a socialist ideal running through it and A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE is the most obvious example . Look at the opening sequence as Rod Stieger's is given a lift on the bourgeois coach . Oh what decadent pigs they are , the imperilist American , the... |
469,805 | 1,532,177 | 178,868 | 7 | It's Very Difficult To Comment On This . . . . | . . . . simply because I saw the Hollywood version a couple of weeks ago and it's still fresh in my mind . I hadn't noticed this until I saw RINGU but what director Gore Verbinski and screenwriter Ethren Kruger have done with the remake is copy it almost scene for scene and in the process made a bit of mess with it . T... |
470,128 | 1,532,177 | 71,455 | 7 | Sleazy Fun | The only thing I didn't like about EARTHQUAKE was the fake blood superimposed on the camera lens during the elevator scene . Apart from that I liked the rest of the film and positively loved some of it . What sets EARTHQUAKE apart from other disaster pics is its hard edged sleaziness . We have Sgt Jody of the national ... |
468,575 | 1,532,177 | 67,116 | 7 | Gritty And Hard Hitting At The Time . . . | . . . But perhaps a little bit dated now This must have shocked audiences at the time . Anti hero cop Popeye Doyle doesn't bend rules because he doesn't understand the concept of rules , catching scumbags is all that matters and if that means beating information out of a small time scumbag so be it . Hackman is really ... |
468,465 | 1,532,177 | 74,860 | 7 | Classic Thriller | MARATHON MAN starts off with a blackly comical scene of a fatal car crash and just gets better . William Goldman is a legendary screenwriter and seeing his script play out it's easy to see why . It's not often we're treated to a screenplay this intelligent anymore . But the best thing about MARATHON MAN is Laurence Oli... |
469,962 | 1,532,177 | 60,177 | 7 | I Still Like It | This seemed a very strange choice to broadcast on Remembrance Sunday . If you're foreign let me explain Remembrance Sunday is a day in the British calender where people lay wreaths at their local war memorial and hold a two minute silence in honour of the British war dead who died in the First World War and in conflict... |
469,002 | 1,532,177 | 60,390 | 7 | Interesting Premise But Flawed | A society where books are banned ! It's not a fantasy . Consider the likes of Nazi Germany , Stalin's Russia , Mao's China etc , but the flaw with FAHRENHEIT 451 lies in the idea that not certain books are banned but ALL books are banned . Think about that for a moment then ask yourself this question : How would a soci... |
468,403 | 1,532,177 | 60,397 | 7 | Colourful Though Flawed Fantasy Adventure | To enjoy this movie one must turn off their brain as soon as the theme tune of 20th Century Fox starts . The whole set up is very hard to swallow - A scientist who know the secret of miniaturization is injured by commie assassins and now lies in a coma due to a blood clot on the brain and only by miniaturizing a submar... |
469,248 | 1,532,177 | 71,663 | 7 | Clever Movie With A Stand Out Character Played By Harry Andrews | I'm amazed that THE INTERNECINE PROJECT has received less than 100 votes . I saw it a couple of times in the early 1980s and despite not seeing it for almost 25 years it's still lodged in my mind as being a clever thriller . Perhaps I shall never watch it in case it's not as good as I remember . The plot centres around... |
469,231 | 1,532,177 | 152,930 | 7 | Entertaining Comedy Thriller | I knew TAXI was a French film with a screenplay by Luc Besson but that was all I knew about it . I speculated that since it was written by Besson we'd be seeing a very violent thriller but that's not what TAXI turned out to be since it's an entertaining comedy Pizza delivery boy Daniel Morales drives his own unlicensed... |
469,104 | 1,532,177 | 395,320 | 7 | Effective Short Film | Three people sit around a dinner table and right away the audience jump to the wrong conclusion as to who is who and how they all fit into each other's lives . one of the characters then decides she's not been getting enough sex and decides to do something about it but sex like love and career never EVER goes according... |
468,914 | 1,532,177 | 131,325 | 7 | Entertaining Comedy | was actually surprised that BOWFINGER got a mere average rating of 6 . 4 on this site because the IMDb is full of wannabe film makers who are gonna love a movie satirizing the Hollywood studios , a film both cruel and amusing in turn and it would be very interesting to see how the votes panned out . I'm sort of guessin... |
468,967 | 1,532,177 | 75,005 | 7 | Much Better Than THE EXORCIST | This movie appears in the book 50 Worst Movies Of All Time alongside such fare as ROBOT MONSTER . This is completely undeserved because i rate THE OMEN as one of the best horror movies from the 1970s , if not all time . The book in question makes a big deal of how young Damien's parents experience some ghastly going on... |
469,943 | 1,532,177 | 358,435 | 7 | Enjoyable Enough Animated Short | THE DARK hits a nerve as it starts with a couple of bogeymen standing at the stairs of a young child's bedroom one night . I think I speak for everyone who's seen QUATERMASS , DOCTOR WHO or THE X-FILES as a child when I say the scariest place in the world is a bedroom coupled with an overactive imagination . Nostalgia ... |
469,930 | 1,532,177 | 25,591 | 7 | A Very Dark Comedy | This was made in 1934 ! One thing I hadn't realised untill I saw this film again on BBC 2 a couple of days ago was that a lonely hearts column is used to kick start the plot , a lonely hearts column in 1934 ? Here's me thinking sad anoraks and wall flowers sending off ads to publications in order to meet equally desper... |
469,458 | 1,532,177 | 102,138 | 7 | Dynamic Piece Of Speculative Fantasy | Seen the cast list for JFK ? Tommy Lee Jones , Gary Oldman , Sissy Spacek , Kevin Bacon , Jack Lemmon , Walter Matthau , Donald Sutherland and John Candy in one movie . Even if you're not keen on some of the aforementioned actors you'll be impressed by all of their performances and for this reason alone JFK is essentia... |
468,620 | 1,532,177 | 106,489 | 7 | Good Drama | Are there two Robert De Niros ? Just curious because there's one who appeared in classic movies like TAXI DRIVER , RAGING BULL , KING OF COMEDY and ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA and there's another one who seems to parody the aforementioned actor in CAPE FEAR , MEN OF HONOR and umpteen other films whose titles I've forgo... |
470,227 | 1,532,177 | 75,066 | 7 | Probably The Best In The Series | THE PINK PANTHER movies ? Started off well but then soon outlived their welcome in my opinion , I mean a French policeman with a silly accent , just how much milage can you get out of that ? But this 1976 offering is probably the best in the series simply down to the fact the best laughs are darkly comical rather than ... |
468,564 | 1,532,177 | 125,042 | 7 | Impressive Animation | This a very short film lasting five minutes and if it was filmed with actors playing characters it would have failed since it has little plot and is composed of an irritating mother taking her son to a reptile house while giving him her life story while asking him the occasional question as to what's happening with his... |
468,639 | 1,532,177 | 20,708 | 7 | Politically Incorrect Viewed Today | This is certainly the best of the shorts where Stan and Oliver play dual roles . Fair enough Stan plays Stan the child in much the same way as he plays Stan the adult but Oliver plays his child role in a slightly different way ( Almost like the kid at school who loves getting his fellow pupils into trouble off the teac... |
469,143 | 1,532,177 | 374,029 | 7 | Amusing Short Film | A very amusing short film that's set up when the parents of a teenager receive a note saying : I can no longer tolerate you as parents so have decided to become a badger What makes MARTIN a stand out short is the crackling dialogue . Upon reading the note the father exclaims " I can no longer tolerate you as parents so... |
468,391 | 1,532,177 | 183,505 | 7 | Very Funny Film | This is an unPC very funny film from the Farrelly brothers which gets off to a very funny start with ethnocentric gags about a black midget called Shonte and then keeps up the pace . As you'd expect from a film like this cruelty to animals and physical handicap feature highly on the laugh list . Perhaps the most surpri... |
470,072 | 1,532,177 | 25,413 | 7 | Follows The Formula Very Well | Watching THE LIVE GHOST I was reminded of how this short resembles very many other L & H shorts . This isn't meant as a criticism in any way but it's remarkable how many other films feature Stan and Ollie fishing , we see them do the same in BONNIE SCOTLAND and MURDER CASE and a few other of their laugh fests . Does an... |
469,678 | 1,532,177 | 48,966 | 7 | Impressive War Drama | Anyone remember a 1965 war movie called BATTLE OF THE BULGE ? That's the movie supposedly set during the Ardennes campaign in Belguim but instead of seeing snow shrouded forests we're led to believe the conflict took place on dusty desert plains . Unfortunately with ATTACK director Robert Aldrich makes a similar error ... |
469,135 | 1,532,177 | 157,505 | 7 | Superb Short Film | I've never been a fan of short films . Never have been never will be , but the technical aspects of THE DANCE OF THE SHIVA are superb like the scene where the Indian NCO braves shell fire to save a British officer . In fact I could spend a lot of time praising the technical aspects of this short but I won't bother , I'... |
469,854 | 1,532,177 | 79,082 | 7 | I Can Certainly Relate To This . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . But before everyone phones the police to have me locked up in an asylum let me please explain that I had the " Neighbours from hell " living below me for over three years . Music would be turned on FULL BLAST below my bedroom at any time of the day or night . The music might get turned on at three in ... |
469,606 | 1,532,177 | 756,449 | 7 | Aspects Both Good And Bad | The second series of the DOCTOR WHO revival will surely be remembered as being very inconsistent . The Satan Planet was an instant classic while Girl In The Fireplace and Love And Monsters split the fans in to love it or hate it camps while few had anything good to say about Fear Her and one wondered at the time how RT... |
469,605 | 1,532,177 | 756,450 | 7 | Sometimes Awful . Sometimes Brilliant | Boy oh boy . Daleks versus Cybermen . Has there ever been a fan who hasn't dreamed about this battle royal ? I don't think so either but watching this episode it becomes rather obvious why previous producers haven't come up with this before and that is you've got to sacrifice plot . Even so there's much to dislike bout... |
469,061 | 1,532,177 | 105,699 | 7 | One Of The Better Films From The Sub-Genre | It's interesting to note how forgotten the sub-genre of " People from hell " films are today . In the early 1990s every major studio would bring out a nanny from hell , a lodger from hell , a fan from hell , a client from hell etc etc . Perhaps the reason they're forgotten is down to the fact that the movies weren't ve... |
469,346 | 1,532,177 | 90,863 | 7 | The Problem Lies In The Uncinematic Story | There seems to be some surprise that THE COLOR OF MONEY has only achieved an average vote of 6 . 8 ( I rounded my vote up to 7 ) since it has a legendary Hollywood actor reprising a role that made him famous with an up and coming Hollywood legend in a supporting role , in a movie that has yet another legend as director... |
469,726 | 1,532,177 | 51,994 | 7 | Better Than The Cameron Version | Everyone knows what happened to the Titanic ( So no spoiler alerts needed ) and the opening credits alone are far bleaker than the entire James Cameron epic of 1997 . In fact you can't help thinking Cameron based much of his overrated romantic fantasy on this far superior movie . In A NIGHT TO REMEMBER we see the littl... |
469,738 | 1,532,177 | 120,863 | 7 | Is Terrance Malik In Greenpeace ? . . . . | . . . . Is what I asked as THE THIN RED LINE started . I mean who but a die hard greenie would have the sheer audacity to open a war movie with a crocodile walking into a swamp and spend the next hour showing us what beautiful things nature and communal pre-industrial life is ? Actually this is the problem with THE THI... |
468,668 | 1,532,177 | 79,665 | 7 | Smoking Can Damage Your Health | The main plot of ON THE YARD revolves around inmate Juleson borrowing a couple of packs of cigarettes from prison Mr Fix-it Chilly , but Juleson finds himself unable to pay back Chilly which means intrest on the debt and Chilly is a man who doesn't like non payment . If the entire movie revolved around its central plot... |
468,882 | 1,532,177 | 335,345 | 7 | A Biblical Story With Extreme Violence | The problem Christianity has in western civilization is that it lacks any sort of street wise credibility . By this I mean that the impression I have of the average Christian minister is some happy clappy vicar with a permanent gormless grin , an effete voice and mannerism , and whose idea of excitement is flower arran... |
468,776 | 1,532,177 | 945,314 | 7 | Well Made Short | Sometimes the problem with a short film that has two separate individuals as writer and director is that the two people involved are at odds with each other artistically . One instinctively feels that neither understands what the other is trying to do which means the short suffers With AMELIA AND MICHAEL Stephen Betts ... |
468,539 | 1,532,177 | 55,928 | 7 | If Only All Bond Films Were This Good | Watching DR NO after all these years the first thing to strike me is how gritty it all is . The villains are cruel and not below shooting unarmed women in the back so who better to take them on than an equally cold hearted killer namely James Bond 007 . Bond must have shocked cinema audiences in the 1960s , no one desc... |
469,616 | 1,532,177 | 66,769 | 7 | Effective Chiller But Drags At Points | I remember seeing THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN as a child and being terrified by it mainly down to the opening scenes of a USAF unit going into a deserted village to retrieve a crashed satellite and finding . . . . You'll have to watch the movie to find out what . But after re-seeing the movie again as an adult I can still say... |
469,369 | 1,532,177 | 174,454 | 7 | Interesting True Life Story | What an achievement - Someone took the time and bother to make a TVM I enjoyed , this is probably down to someone coming up the shattering , radical idea of bringing an interesting involving story and making it into a feature length television movie ! ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! Aldrich " Rick " Ames decides he's n... |
469,333 | 1,532,177 | 161,081 | 7 | Unoriginal But Effective Enough On A Dark Night | ! ! ! ! ! MILD SPOILERS ! ! ! ! ! Robert Zemeckis directs Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer . If this had been released three or four years earlier it would have been a massive blockbuster since all three were at the height of their box office pulling power . In 2000 all three were slowly but surely sliding down the ... |
468,721 | 1,532,177 | 59,895 | 7 | Memorable B Movie | From what I know about screen writing the more credited writers a film has the worse the narrative is supposed to be . I genuinely think this is nonsense and perhaps CITY UNDER THE SEA is proof of this . It's a movie that has three people involved in he screenplay but is far more entertaining and involving than a great... |
468,850 | 1,532,177 | 403,576 | 7 | At Least The Female Lead Is Attractive | SUPERVIRILITY came about through the success of THE LOVERS GUIDE which allowed people to go into High St stores and buy what is to all intents soft core porn without feeling guilty . I emphasise " soft core " because this isn't one of these videos that has a lot of very explict sex scenes looking for a plot - It's an e... |
469,634 | 1,532,177 | 407,887 | 7 | Scorsese Should Have Made His Own Movie | I had massive expectations for THE DEPARTED , a violent mob drama directed by Martin Scorsese the greatest film maker in the world today . After seeing it I did have a slight of feeling of something I have experienced throughout my life - Disappointment SPOILERS The film starts in typical Scorsese style of a sweeping f... |
470,210 | 1,532,177 | 129,686 | 7 | Great Production Values . Great Entertainment | I remember watching one of these HORNBLOWER productions when it was first broadcast in the late 1990s but wasn't too taken by it , so when ITV decided to repeat the series the only reason I watched The Even Chance was because there was nothing else on . When the end credits rolled I found myself asking how on earth I d... |
469,173 | 1,532,177 | 95,016 | 7 | How An Action Movie Should Be Made | 1988 and the undisputed number one action star was that Austrian body builder with the funny name with that monosylabic guy from ROCKY in second place . The thing I hated about Arnie and Sly is that their action movies were uninvolving with over blown battle scenes where the good guys never seemed to be in danger of dy... |
469,119 | 1,532,177 | 308,376 | 7 | Who Wants Children ? | Other reviewers have described HOME ROAD MOVIES as " bitter-sweet " and that's a correct description but despite the story being told from the point of view of one of the father's children all my sympathy was firmly with the dad . He's fought in the war ( And lets everyone know it ! ) and because he wants to give his c... |
470,380 | 1,532,177 | 1,205,437 | 7 | Greatest Cliffhanger Ever In A Very Variable Self Indulgent Episode | Just to remind you how popular Nu-Who is I overheard a conversation between a couple of schoolgirls at a bus stop the week before this episode was broadcast " Dae ya ken what's happening on Saturday ? " " What ? " " Sarah Jane's coming back and Mickey and Rose's mum " Hey I thought to myself . Teenage girls think DOCTO... |
468,826 | 1,532,177 | 304,207 | 7 | Should Have Stayed A One Off | IT'LL BE ALRIGHT ON THE NIGHT was heavily hyped in the weeks leading up to its broadcast by ITV in 1977 . This was common in Britain at the time because we only had three channels in those days : BBC 1 , BBC 2 and ITV and no one ever watched BBC 2 so ITV and BBC 1 were at war in order to get ratings The show itself is ... |
470,245 | 1,532,177 | 289,043 | 7 | Very Good In Places But Ultimately Unconvincing | Long before I watched 28 DAYS LATER I had an online conversation with a couple of my cyber friends Jeremy and Riquez . Jeremy praised the movie thinking it was one of the best film releases in several years . I did point out to him the ridiculous idea that a virus with an incubation period of 20 seconds wouldn't be abl... |
469,091 | 1,532,177 | 316,356 | 7 | One Of Costner's Best Films | It's probably well known that Kevin Costner once had Republican party sympathies , something that wasn't to fashionable in the Hollywood of the late 80s / early 90s . What might not be so well known is that he switched his allegiance to the environmentalists / greens at the turn of the millennium . This perhaps isn't s... |
469,197 | 1,532,177 | 70,735 | 7 | Entertaining | THE STING can't be described as a masterwork of cinema but that's not really its intention . It's sole agenda is to entertain and it succeeds . Director George Roy Hill brings a heavily stylised almost comic book form to the movie . Scott Joplin ragtime score is extremely memorable but the best aspect to the film is th... |
468,675 | 1,532,177 | 70,723 | 7 | The Best Environmental Film Of Its Era | As with all environmentally aware films from the 1970s SOYLENT GREEN has a rather cheesy view of what ecological meltdown is . Overpopulation means there's too many people to feed ? I was under the impression that famines were caused by either war or failed economic policies . Stalin's policy in the Soviet Union in the... |
470,051 | 1,532,177 | 308,514 | 7 | Certainly Interesting | LOST IN LA MANCHA may not be in the same league as HEARTS OF DARKNESS ( The documentary that gives the inside story of the making of APOCALYPSE NOW ) but it's certainly entertaining and stands as a very good example of how not to produce a movie . I may make myself unpopular for saying this but didn't the people involv... |
468,722 | 1,532,177 | 101,540 | 7 | Entertaining But Rather Flawed And Slightly Dated | When it was released in 1991 GMTV film reviewer Paul Gambacini described Scorsese's CAPE FEAR as " being ham directed " . This is yet more evidence that if you want to be a film reviewer it's not what you know , it's who you know . CAPE FEAR isn't a film that suffers from " ham directing " , it's a film that is rather ... |
468,922 | 1,532,177 | 70,909 | 7 | Get Off Your Horse And Watch This Film | I often criticise westerns because they bare no reality on what really happened in the wild west . Unlike the Hollywood version most gunslingers met their end after getting shot in the back , they never stood in the middle of the street telling their opponent to draw , this is a myth that only happened in Hollywood mov... |
470,121 | 1,532,177 | 21,054 | 7 | It Made Me Laugh | The only problem I have with the Laurel and Hardy shorts is that the memory cheats a little , that is watching many many years after I first saw them as a child they're not as funny as I first remembered due to the technical aspects of film making of the time . The shorts are rather stagey , slightly stilted . But if y... |
468,986 | 1,532,177 | 114,474 | 7 | One Of The Better Films To Have Been Produced In Scotland | SMALL FACES is a Scottish film set in Glasgow during the late 1960s and follows the lives of three brothers from the Maclean family : Bobby a member of the Glen Gang , Alan who has ambitions of going to art school and Lex a thirteen year old boy and like the character of Taylor in PLATOON where the main character finds... |
469,862 | 1,532,177 | 125,659 | 7 | I Won't Mention That Other Movie . . . | . . . You know the one I'm talking about , the one with Tom Cruise OMG this review is impossible without mentioning VANILLA SKY , I mean not only is it a remake of ABRE LOS OJO but it's almost scene for scene the exact same movie , in fact since it's got Penelope Cruz in the exact same role as the original you can't ev... |
470,332 | 1,532,177 | 75,765 | 7 | Perceptions Change | Despite being set in the 1970s I couldn't help noticing that Robert Shaw's Mossad agent Kabakov is shown as being a violent ruthless cold blooded killer who's almost as bad as the terrorists he's hunting . This goes slightly against the common perception in much of the world at the time of Israelis being heroic and plu... |
469,796 | 1,532,177 | 59,575 | 7 | Some Very Good Acting Makes The Film Compelling | The career of Rod Steiger can be used as a warning that quantity is inferior to quality . He might have appeared in ON THE WATERFRONT , DR ZHIVAGO , and THE SERGEANT but he also appeared in some awful crap like THE AMITYVILLE HORROR , THE KINDRED , MODERN VAMPIRES and THE LAST PRODUCER . In fact the only other actor I ... |
469,701 | 1,532,177 | 40,746 | 7 | Strange Drama Inspired By A True Life Case | ROPE is possibly the strangest film made by Alfred Hitchcock . Inspired by the real life case of Leopold and Loeb the film is shot in real time and gives the impression that it was shot in one continuous take , but I'm not sure if it's one of the director's best films . The problem is that ROPE is a stage play and is i... |
468,682 | 1,532,177 | 139,654 | 7 | Very Good In Places , Rather Poor In Other Places | Jake Hoyt teams up with Alonzo Harris . Hoyt is a newbie plains clothes undercover cop while Harris has been in the job for years and both men are chalk and cheese where personality is concerned . We've seen this sort of scenario umpteen times in other buddy movies , only thing is this usually only happens in comedy dr... |
469,585 | 1,532,177 | 340,258 | 7 | I laughed Out Loud . . . | . . . But then I do have a highly developed sense of humour . Did I tell you about the time when I was sitting at the breakfast table of the 2002 Greenpeace national skillshare conferance and the conversation got around to gay policemen ? Maybe some other time It probably won't come as much of a surprise that the peopl... |
469,818 | 1,532,177 | 173,840 | 7 | Entertaining Despite The Novelty And Standard Script | The thing that struck me about FINAL FANTASY is how unoriginal the script is : A female scientist is saved from an alien menace by a mixed sex multi ethnic military team . There's a couple of close scrapes followed by some techno babble and obvious exposition about saving Planet Earth with a blatant baddie on the human... |
469,364 | 1,532,177 | 97,576 | 7 | Entertaining But Badly Paced | I've never been a massive fan of the Indiana Jones movies so forgive me when I say I don't believe this movie really belongs in the mid section of the IMDb top 250 movies because it's no masterpiece of cinema As good old fashioned entertainment it certainly succeeds but as a great movie it's flawed . Despite an attempt... |
469,435 | 1,532,177 | 23,858 | 7 | The One Set In The Sawmill | One thing that puzzles me is how many of these L & H shorts feature absolutely no plot but I never seem to notice this because I'm too busy laughing . BUSY BODIES is set in a sawmill but that's it , there's no central plot , just a series of incidents which show the genius of Stan and Ollie . This is certainly one of t... |
469,694 | 1,532,177 | 89,904 | 7 | Good For The Most Part | This has got to be one the most funny and entertaining films ever to have been set in Scotland . My only gripes are the accents are obviously West of Scotland when it's set in Edinburgh , a pedantic point but I come from Edinburgh originally but have spent most of my life in the West of Scotland so the erroneous accent... |
470,156 | 1,532,177 | 116,629 | 7 | I Enjoyed It First Time But It Doesn't Hold Up To Repeated Viewing | When ID4 was released I certainly didn't think it was a movie I'd be going out of my way to see due to its reputation as being overly jingoistic along with being a shallow story with no substance so I waited to catch it on network TV and when I did I was fairly blown away by its quality . The first half of the movie is... |
468,809 | 1,532,177 | 80,180 | 7 | Works Better As A history Lesson Than A Film | ZULU DAWN lives in the shadow of ZULU . That's hardly surprising because ZULU is the much better film , however unlike the 1964 film DAWN does stick to historical accuracy . The British are portrayed rightly as being overconfident , arrogant and foppish and it's this hubristic attitude that has lost wars when a superpo... |
469,555 | 1,532,177 | 215,750 | 7 | Good Film But No Classic Epic | I liked ENEMY AT THE GATES , but its flaws are very obvious . First of all is Rachel Weisz who makes a very unconvincing Soviet heroine with a very distracting upper class English accent , I guess this is to make the film more marketable to a potential female audience along with the inclusion of a love triangle which i... |
469,099 | 1,532,177 | 258,068 | 7 | Well Made But Too Complex To Be Entirely Cinematic | The story starts with the body of American Adrien Pyle , a medical specialist , being found in a river in Saigon . He has been stabbed to death and London Times journalist Thomas Fowler recounts to the authorities how he knew the man TQE is a very strange film to comment on simply because I get the feeling that it is b... |
470,338 | 1,532,177 | 120,347 | 7 | Fairly Good Bond Romp | I've noticed that a lot of Bond fans dislike TOMORROW NEVER DIES but I don't really see what the problem is . The plot often borders on the realistic which not something you can say about most Bond films . A media mogul conspiring to cause a war between Britain and China in order to get high news ratings ! Face it , it... |
469,897 | 1,532,177 | 75,784 | 7 | Good Account Despite The Monty Bashing | I loved THE LONGEST DAY when I saw it as a child in the mid 1970s but have gone off it over the years because the characters are more like carichtures rather than real people and the dialogue sounds more like thought processes rather than spoken speech . I guess this is down to Cornelius Ryan not understanding the diff... |
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