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Take the Express and Get Away Fast
A complete lack of continuity best describes " The Station Agent . " When his friend suddenly dies , a dwarf inherits his home by a train depot . He moves there to be alone only to meet up with 2 fellow losers-a hot dog vendor whose watching the place for his ailing father and a woman ( Patricia Clarkson in a thankless...
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This " Invasion " Needs to Be Conquered
Who wrote this junk ? Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig star in this mysterious trash dealing with a virus that comes to earth and causes people to be almost monster-like . They become like zombies and then resort to violence to get others to join them . At first there is a nuclear disaster which brings about the epidemic...
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Things to Come-If this Be True , Stop the World I Want to Get Off
Dreadful film of things to come . I still have nightmares after viewing this master mess of a film . True , the story tells us of the devastation of war and its aftermath . True , the sets are good and appropriate for what the film is trying to show . However , the writing is very bad and the acting even worse . As the...
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The Big Mouth Proves that Empty Barrels Make A Lot of Noise
Positively ridiculous Jerry Lewis 1967 vehicle where he becomes involved with diamond smugglers after encountering a dying person on the beach while fishing . The big joke is that the guy he encounters belongs to a smuggling ring and resembles Lewis . There are two groups after the diamonds and Lewis acts as he did in ...
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In Brutal Bruges - Enjoy Belgian Waffles But Not this Stinker
After they make a hit in England , 2 killers flee to Bruges , Belgium where the violence really begins . This picture really makes absolutely no sense and eventually becomes nothing more than a blood bath . When Colin Farrell is ordered to kill a priest a young innocent also takes a bullet and for the rest of the film ...
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Ice Harvest It's Not Even for the ( Snow ) Birds !
Ridiculous nonsense involving an attorney ( John Cusack ) and his pal ( Billy Bob Thornton ) who steal $2 . 1 million from the mob in Kansas City . Robert Benton , the screenwriter for this nonsense , never bothers to explain to us how they were able to pull this caper off . Perhaps , that might have made for better en...
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Sing Me A Murder Puts Me to Sleep
Wow , was this ever a very dull film . The gentleman who portrayed Philby is the definition of boring . He needed some kind of chemical to wake him up . The red-headed singer goes through almost anything here-admitting to murder , then denying it and that story of having a child with another guy is too much to bear . T...
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End of the Affair-Boring Time for All
Imagine me saying that a Van Johnson , Deborah Kerr film was awful . It's true folks . This was one miserable film . In war ravaged England the two of them begin an affair only for Ms . Kerr to end it in thanks to the Lord when Maurice ( Johnson ) survives a bombing . The two of them engage in absolute endless talk . T...
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40 Year Old Virgin : Sexless , Moronic and Hopeless
Hollywood reached a new low with this idiotic farce about a 40 year old nice looking guy who works in an electronic store . His weekends include fussing over egg-salad . Somehow , his co-workers at the store find out about his virginity and that's when the picture deteriorates quickly into ridiculous situations , stupi...
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Put out the Fire , Please
Terrible film with Angelina Jolie starting off her career . She comes into a school and goes around unchallenged by a security guard . Walking into a biology class , she sees that the teacher is harassing a student for refusing to cut up a frog . It turns out that the teacher has been doing more than just that to his f...
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Sky High Hits Record Low
You wonder why Kurt Russell would accept anything like this . Playing a Superman-like character , Goldie Hawn's long-time lover , must be super fool . Sky High refers to a high school over the rainbow . The kids go there and there is anything but academics . You prove how cool you are by showing your strength . Our her...
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I'm Not There-Wish I Weren't for This One
Positively dreadful film . Probably must be ranked as one of the all-time worst viewed by yours truly . The film depicts the life of Bob Dylan at various stages of his life . The film is terribly uneven with different characters just made to bounce around makes for a totally uninteresting affect . Yes , Cate Blanchett ...
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Last of Sheila - No Wonder They Did Her In
A monumental misery of a film . It is so awful that you really don't care who did anything . You have to wonder who wrote this colossal mess . Norma Desmond thought that she was playing the scene when she blew William Holden away . What are these characters thinking in this constantly confusing piece of garbage ? The t...
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Keeping Mum - Keep it Quiet But Good
Whether this is considered black comedy or dark comedy , the film is absolutely awful and an insult to anyone's intelligence . When Maggie Smith leaves prison after 40 years for the murder of her husband and his lover , she goes to work for a vicar and his wife that are having problems . The vicar is an absolute bore ,...
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How I Got into College-Beyond Stupidity
Utterly ridiculous movie which makes fun of the college admission process . While it is true that the SAT's is not everything in evaluating a student for admission to college , what the movie talks about is utterly ridiculous and not worth repeating nor viewing . College admissions officials are made to look like stupi...
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This Matador is Full of Bull
Absolutely terrible film dealing with a burned out assassin ( Julian ) , played by a hard drinking , heavy smoking Pierce Brosnan and his chance meeting with a conventional business person Danny ( Greg Kinnear ) The two become friends as Julian tells Danny that he is burned out . He can get out of this deal by doing on...
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I Know Who Killed Me - How About Who Killed this Film ?
Absolute trash starring Lindsay Lohan . The girl has to be quite desperate to sign on to such rubbish . After giving up her promising piano career to pursue writing , Lohan is viciously attacked and loses limbs in the process . She is found and regains consciousness only to claim that she is someone else . What follows...
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I Was Up in Arms After Seeing this Picture
A colossal Danny Kaye bomb . It's amazing that Danny's film career went anywhere after a film as miserable as this . This was not the film to showcase his talents . Dana Andrews was not for musicals . It was as simple as that . He played his sidekick in this and was Jeanne Crain's love interest in " State Fair . " Andr...
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For Your Consideration-How Dumb Can You Get ?
A truly awful film depicting what goes on during the making of a film as well as Oscar time . We've seen ideas like this before with Maggie Smith in " California Suite " and Stephen Boyd in 1966's " The Oscar . " However , these films were far superior to this nonsense . That stupid film " Home for Purim " is so obnoxi...
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The Great Sinner - Sin To Make This Awful Film
A top cast in a top flop movie . Gregory Peck in a totally miserable film dealing with a man who wants to write about gambling and becomes a compulsive gambler himself . We had the same idea in the fabulous " Gentleman's Agreement , " best picture Oscar winner of 2 years ago . That film had substance and heart . This i...
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Ocean's 13 - Drown It
Even an all-star cast can't save this misery of a movie . Danny Ocean is back with his pack ready for another caper . The original Ocean's 11 was lousy and believe me , this one is no better . I love Al Pacino's flaming red hair . At the beginning , I actually thought that Pacino's character would rival that in the won...
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Take to the Junk Yard-Prairie Home Companion
Noted director , Robert Altman , went out with a sour bang in this miserable 2006 production . Meryl Streep singing country music ? You have to be kidding . Miss Streep and a very old looking Lili Tomlin are just too old for the Johnson sisters . The songs are ridiculous and the story line isn't much better as the thea...
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang-Kiss this One Good Bye
Absolutely dreadful film . At the end of the film , you will definitely ask yourself what this film is all about . You will not be able to answer this as well . I realize that Robert Downey Jr . has had a tough life doing drugs . Must he submit to scripts such as this one ? It's enough for him to revert back to his old...
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No Country for Old Men-No Picture for Anyone
I was terribly disappointed after seeing this Oscar winning film for 2007 . Why did this picture win the best picture Oscar ? It is absolutely horrendous . The Coen brothers seem to have a very warped view of life as we saw in FARGO and O BROTHER , WHERE ART THOU ? If I were Javier Bardem , I would have been embarrasse...
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Had to Be You - Shouldn't Be Yours to See
Total stinker involving Ginger Rogers who says no to 3 guys during her wedding ceremonies . She finally meets up with Cornel Wilde , dressed as an Indian , at a station . Wilde is supposed to be some guardian angel . The film is an absolutely stupid series of events where Wilde emerges as a fireman , the only true love...
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State of the Disunion
Not even great special effects can save this film . It's simply awful . A special elite force is brought into Washington . Ice Cube has got such anger in him . His bitterness usurps his part . Yes , he was unjustly put in jail , but get a life already . Willem DaFoe is up to his old tricks in the role of the villain . ...
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One Hell of A Guy-Far from Down to Earth
What a loser this 1998 film is . It's a shame that Signe Hasso , a great actress so many years ago , allowed herself to get into this productive mess . I want to remember Signe Hasso for " The House on 92nd Street , " not this mess of a film . For Rob Lowe , the film is perfect . He lacks talent and this picture allows...
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This Film is Awful Big Time Don't Confuse With Oscar Winner
One of the worst films I have seen in recent memory . The automobile association and others should be up-in-arms with this trash . We are seeing the glorification of automobile accidents . This is outrageous . A group of people are aiming for Jayne Mansfield and James Dean like fatal accidents . What an awful plot ! Wi...
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Below For This Awful Movie
If this is what movie making has come to , count me out . This is one of the worst pictures ever made . It's even worse that 200l : A Space Odyssey , 5 Card Stud , etc . What a stupid plot ! Women are no longer pregnant . What would the church say about this ? This isn't even about abortion . The very talented Clive Ow...
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Don't Appear for this
He claims that it was road rage and then they stabbed him . They claim something else . The fact remains that this is one big muddled mess of a movie . The stabbed guy comes into a diner and recounts his story . The worker is actually the owner . At night , she runs to a broken down motel that her father left her . She...
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The Woman in White-Fade to Black Quickly
Miserable film showcasing 2 excellent acting performances . John Emery , as Percival , a nervous wreck is simply marvelous here . He can't take any noise and I wonder how he could have taken any of this miserably crafted and written film . Sydney Greenstreet is so good here because the part of being so sinister was mad...
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Stranger than Fiction-Beyond Comprehension
Absolutely dreadful film of a character in a book who is really a person . Since the character at the end of the book dies , the writer ( a totally screwed up Emma Thompson ) wants that the person also depart . Our hero here is Will Ferrell and the problem with this stinker is that the plot makes no sense . When Ferrel...
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Kremlin Letter - Writing to Nowhere
This has to rate as one of the worst films ever despite an all-star cast . The plot is extremely muddled . What's with this letter ? What is the contents of this ? Can you just imagine George Sanders knitting and in drag ? No wonder he killed himself 2 years later . This film is living proof that no matter who the cast...
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Plenty of Skeletons in this Closet-Keep the Door Shut .
Dreadful film . Kate Burton and Gena Rowlands deserved far better than this . A woman takes a job caring for a dying stroke victim . Much more than this is involved in this dreadful film . Seems that the wife , Rowlands , would like to get rid of the old boy . How could a supposed stroke victim survive a fall out the a...
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Get Rid of that Fever , Please
Robert Montgomery-Myrna Loy farce about Loy ( Irene ) and her fiancé , played by Reginald Owen , stranded in Labrador when their plane crashes . ( That's really what should have happened to this highly predictable film . ) Montgomery lives there while he is waiting for his fiancé . Surprise ! Montgomery and Loy are soo...
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Devil Commands 11th Commandment : Avoid This
Miserable Boris Karloff horror movie . He is the head of the science department doing experiments on brain waves . When his wife dies in a tragic auto accident , this leads our scientist to his usual madness and mayhem proceeds . He is doing experiments with all sorts of bodies aided by an Igor type who introduces him ...
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Smokin ' Aces Should Burn Up .
Positively an awful movie dealing with a plot that is revealed with about 10 minutes or less to go in this terrible , miserable , outrageous film . You know that a picture is in trouble when Ben Affleck is shot to death in the first half hour of the film . At that point , the studio should have shut this entire mess do...
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Mark Ruffalo has proved himself to be a fine actor . What an engrossing mess this miserable film is . The story could have been told in about a half hour or so . Hippie guy meets girl , they split and meet some years later . He is in another relationship and she is also involved . Naturally , sparks fly between them an...
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The Lord's of Flatbush - Where's the Beef ?
Absolutely inane film dealing with a bunch of street hooligans who show their immaturity and lack of respect . The only good thing about this farce is that there is no violence . Perry King , who has gone on to become the king of television movies , plays Chico , riding around on his motorcycle and going nowhere quickl...
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Importance of Being Earnest is Much Ado About Nothing
Simply awful version of the Oscar Wilde tale . Only Dame Judi Bench's performance gives a drop of light to this hopeless story . It's a story of conventional manners and goings on in England . Rupert Everett and Colin Firth are given writing material and a story which isn't worth much . It centers around 2 guys searchi...
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Another Woman , Another Stinker
Marion is the head of the Philosophy Department at a college who takes a leave of absence to write a book . As far as I'm concerned , she ( Gena Rowlands ) should have taken a leave from this terrible film . Marion , as in the case with too many of Woody's characters , has emotional hangups . Writing a book , the woman...
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Kinsey : Let's Return to Decent Moral Standards in Film Making
I'm not a prude but " Kinsey " goes way beyond the top . It was utterly disgusting to see a grown man showing how many times he could ejaculate in a given time . Is it any wonder that our wayward youth of today goes awry when they seen such things depicted on the screen ? A case could be made that Prof . Kinsey was som...
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A Rage in Hell is More Like this
What was Robert Montgomery thinking about ? Was it Night Must Fall ? In a Rage in Heaven , he is diabolical again but this time the film a colossal mess . When he returns home , he finds his usual Hollywood mother , Lucille Watson , who like Anne Revere , was so busy in the 1940s portraying everyone's mom , ill and hav...
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Please Believe Me-Believe Me It's A Real Stinker
Just goes to show you when people are under contract . A stellar cast of Deborah Kerr , Robert Walker , Peter Lawford , and Mark Stevens are put into this absolute classic stinker . Seems that during World War 11 , Kerr met an old U . S . soldier who leaves her farmland that's an absolute piece of junk-just like this m...
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Give COLD MOUNTAIN the Cold Shoulder
What a lousy , boring picture . Jude Law was horribly miscast in this civil war yarn . Nicole Kidman pulls out all the stops to emulate Scarlett O'Hara but does not and Renee Zellwegger gives a performance that I quite did not understand . The best supporting actress winner spoke like she had marbles in her mouth . Tha...
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Negatives at the End Highlight this Stinker
Very poor Amanda Peet-Ashton Kutcher film regarding love over a 7 year period . What was the author of this mess trying to convey ? The movie quickly deteriorates to our two people spitting at each other in a Japanese restaurant and taking off their clothing at a national monument . It is never clear what Oliver ( Kutc...
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Demote Promotion : Dumb and Dumber at their Dumbest
Ludicrous . Outrageously stupid film with 2 basic losers vying for a store manager's position that is opening in a new branch store being opened . How any member of personnel could even think of choosing these 2 jerks is beyond me . The jokes are corny but there is plenty of racism here and it's real stupidity depicted...
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That Uncertain Feeling is A Certain Stinker
A really good film to doze off by . This is far better than taking sleeping tablets . When her friends persuade her to go to a psychoanalyst for her hiccups , Merle Oberon complies and finds analyst Alan Mowbray blaming her marriage to Melvyn Douglas as the culprit . It's also there that she meets off-the-wall patient ...
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Blades of Glory is Idiotic
Horrendous film about 2 skaters who are suspended for life for fighting while on stage . They get around the law by skating in pairs . They run up against a vicious brother and sister team who use another system like Cinderella . The skating leaps are fun but the story line is inane . The brother-sister team will do an...
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Horse Feathers-Manure Bound
Utterly , stupid , inane , outrageous Marx Brothers film . It made no sense . No comparison to Marx hits such as " The Department Store , Night at the Opera or Day at the Races . " The boys here are in college or at least they give a foolish attempt to be in one . Groucho becomes the head of the school . Brother Zeppo ...
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History / World Part 1 - History Was Never Worse than this
You would think that after Mel Brooks made " The Producers " with its offensive " Springtime for Hitler , " that he would have had enough . Unfortunately , not so . He continues his nonsense with this 1981 offensive film . I didn't enjoy his song of The Inquisition . This was utterly stupid and insulting to all people ...
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Don't Take A Walk in the Sun
Outrageously disappointing film dealing with American soldiers attempting to liberate a barn in World War 11 war-torn Italy . The film is simply miserable as there is entirely too much talking and very little action . The first half-hour or so is unbelievably boring . Even the great acting cast can't pull this one out ...
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The Stalk Should Have Come Down With the Writing for this One
Absolutely inane film starring Abbott and Costello . Even our young children would become increasingly annoyed with this complete mess of a film . Abbott as Dinklepuss . What a look he had on his face . Sure , he had to be part of this dreadful film . Did anyone notice that Costello's mother in the film sounded and loo...
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Michael Miserable Clayton
The plot in this very hard film to follow or comprehend is just beyond belief . The only redeeming quality here is a genuine terrific performance by Tom Wilkinson in a supporting role as a lawyer with a mental problem . Otherwise , you can totally forget this awful production . Clooney and Sydney Pollack have never bee...
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Louisiana Purchase - And I Thought it Was About Napoleon
Dreadful , stupidly inane film dealing with corruption at the Louisiana Purchase Lumber Company . Everyone in the state of Louisiana seems to be corrupt and inept . A member of the college's English Department can only sign his name with an X . When it appears that a straight laced Senator ( Victor Moore ) is coming to...
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Borat : Bring Back Censorship
After viewing this very poor imitation of a movie , I really believe that censorship needs to be enforced more so than ever in the motion picture industry . This film is a disgusting , vulgar attempt at comedy . It fails miserably . This picture is highly insulting to Jewish people . Other groups are made to look like ...
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Ambassador's Daughter-Get Diplomatic Immunity from this One
Simply miserable film starring Olivia de Havilland as the daughter of the American ambassador to France . The trouble is that Edward Arnold , the ambassador , and the visiting senator Adolphe Menjou have very little to do in this hopeless film . It's basically the story of an engaged woman who meets a soldier by chance...
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Kim A Real Stinkeroo " 0 Stars
By 1950 Hollywood gave Dean Stockwell a lead role in a Rudyard Kipling story . Stockwell was a young teenager and after such films as " Gentleman's Agreement , " and " Keys of the Kingdom , " he deserved far better . The picture was a slow pacing film about a boy spying for the English , who anticipate a Russian invasi...
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If this is New , Give Me the Old World
Very boring film which is conducive for sleeping . You will not need the sleeping pills after seeing this one . The story could have been told in about 20 minutes about colonization in Jamestown in 1607 . The stereotyping is there as the natives are with painted faces , aggressive behavior and the women are practically...
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On the Downlow is Really Low-Down
A drop better than awful describes this film . Enough already with the gay lovers in motion pictures . You have more than made your point . Even Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger would shake their heads with this one . Two members of a gang are committed to their gang membership but are engaging in a homosexual...
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Prince of Foxes Horribly Out-Foxed
This is historically beautiful ? This is melodrama at its miserable-best . Tyrone Power stars in this awful picture about a man sent out to do the work for the evil Cesare Borgia , only to find love and turn on him . The script is quite weak here and some of the acting , particularly by Wanda Hendrix , as his true love...
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Lady in Cement Needs or Should Have Been Plastered
Terrible film with Frank Sinatra as Tony Rome . Here , he gets involved with a dead woman below the sea . Rome is soon hired to find out what happened to a woman . Naturally , it's the woman below the sea . Her room mate , Lainie Kazan , soon winds up dead on the floor . An aging Richard Conte plays a police officer an...
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Mr . Imperium-Imperial Nonsense
Simply miserable Lana Turner-Ezio Pinza vehicle . Pinza had a beautiful voice but he rarely uses it in a film that reminded me of " The Student Prince " with adults . Pinza is no leading man either . He looks like an elderly man ready to collect social security and go fishing . The plot is extremely thin and the suppor...
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Heaven & Hell A Major Disappointment
After the outstanding North and South Books 1 and 2 , we got a terrible sequel . What happened John Jakes ? Did you have a senile moment ? Stanley and Isabel were supposed to go to prison for selling bad ammunition to the north during the war . By book 3 , Stanley is suddenly head of the Freedman's Bureau . What happen...
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Heaven's Prisoners - Don't Take Any Hostages Here
Disappointing film where an ex-alcoholic police officer leaves the force and begins life anew with his wife . Unfortunately , they witness a plane crash and rescue a small Spanish girl , the lone survivor . Go know that the pilot , along with flying in illegals , is also in the drug business . We don't know really why ...
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Accepted Should Be Rejected
Inane , awful farce basically about a young man who refuses to conform or better uses non-conformity to attain his objectives-fool his parents into thinking that he is attending a college . Truth is that this jerk has been rejected by every school he has applied to . After viewing this junk , you will see why . What a ...
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Hustle Your Way Out of this Filth
While Terrence Howard as Dee Jay , gives a strong Oscar nominated performance in this film , his riveting depiction of a ghetto youth's attempt to make it into rap music is hurt by the continuous vile language in the film . In short , you can't go a minute without the f word being used . It's utterly disgusting . The p...
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Great ? Gives You A Lousy Feeling-It's A Great Feeling
Dreadful 1949 film . I guess that even Doris Day had to be in a stinker once in a while so as to come down to earth . Fortunately , her career took a much more of a positive turn after this loony film . With Doris as a waitress in Hollywood looking to break into pictures , the film becomes very silly , especially with ...
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Say Never to Never Say Never Again
Sean Connery looked like he was ready to collect social security in this flick . 007 , forget it . He was extremely too old for the part . His lady friends in the movies looked like they could easily be his daughters . In this one Scepter , has taken over 2 missiles and threatening to use them - unless they get plenty ...
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The Perfect Man is Far From It
Really ridiculous film where a mother , constantly being dumped by men , moves with her daughters . I thought I would be in for another " The Goodbye Girl , " but unfortunately it was not to be . The highlight of this inane nonsense is at an orientation for parents when our mom stands up and asks if there is time devot...
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The Uninvited-Don't Bother to Knock
One step beyond awful describes this supposedly eerie film . Teaching in an urban school setting is far more scarier than this film which is really quite a stinker . Amazing that Ray Milland's following film earned him an Oscar . Goes to show you how versatile some of these actors are . The only good thing about this m...
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Don't Jump in the Lake House
Absolutely dismal story of a current occupant and past one of a lake home . They meet by mail and must find a way for a more meaningful relationship until it's too late . As far as I'm concerned , it was already too late . The film is quite dull and Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock both appear to be totally frustrated w...
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Grumpier Old Men Too Sedate
While Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau were an excellent team , they bombed in this film but good . What's so grumpy about Lemmon in this film ? The prequel was much better . Ann Guilbert , as Sophia Loren's mother , is given little to do . Remember her as the grandmother to " The Nanny ? " Sophia Loren , other than marr...
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Thank You for Smoking : Don't Start With this Picture
The only good thing about this glum film is that there is no smoking done by the characters in it . That is an automatic plus . Otherwise , this picture is ridiculous as Aaron Eckhart looks like a dumb Robert Redford type caught up as a tobacco lobbyist . You want him to break out of this part but he really never does ...
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The Forbidden Street . - Brittania Mews-Avoid ; Needs Urban Renewal
Dreadful film . Dana Andrews takes a double role here . In his first part , he tries to do an imitation of Ronald Colman . Where did he ever dream up that accent ? It was awful . This was Dana's biggest bomb in pictures . Even in 1945's " State Fair , " he was far superior here . The best performance by far here is by ...
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Eastern Promises - Goes South Rapidly
Remember David Cronenberg's NAKED LUNCH ? I should have known what I'd be in for after viewing this mess of a film . I must hand it to Viggo Mortensen , a fine actor , who comes up with a marvelous Russian accent . Otherwise , the story line is boring . A prostitute dies while emergency surgery is performed to deliver ...
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Say Sayonara to This
Extremely disappointing film based on the James Michener novel . What was even worse was Marlon Brando's performance . His southern drawl was ridiculous . I found myself laughing when he spoke as he sounded like an elderly southern lady coming home to roost . Brando , so great in previous films , was reduced here to a ...
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Adventures of Polo . . . . Mr . Deeds Goes to Chinatown ?
The above statement is what one critic referred to when the film came out in 1938 . It is simply an awful amateurish-like production by Samuel Goldwyn . Mr . Goldwyn produced an absolute bomb here in his depiction of Polo ( Gary Cooper ) going to China . By the way , with the exception of a map stating Cathay , ancient...
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Trapped in Paradise Should Stay that Way
Absolutely moronic film starring Nicolas Cage , with 2 absolutely stupid brothers who are constantly in trouble with the law and have just been released from prison . By some fluke of the imagination , Cage becomes involved with the brothers ( Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey ) in a bank robbery . The brothers , realizing th...
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Scary Wax
Remember the 3D glasses needed for this picture and others of the early 1950s ? The glasses gave me a headache as did the picture . As for being scary , I taught in the New York City school system for 32 years . Believe me , that's a much more scary experience . Vincent Price was his usual diabolical self . Otherwise ,...
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Paris When it Fizzles - This Sizzler A Dud
Other than having Bill Holden and Audrey Hepburn in this film , the only good thing about it is the last 10-15 minutes when reality sets in . If I remember correctly , Holden lost Hepburn to " brother " Humphrey Bogart in the 1954 marvelous film " Sabrina . " Was this supposed to be a consolation for Bill getting Audre...
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No Pitch for Stitch
You know the old story . So and so can help anyone except himself . We find it again in Hitch , a silly movie about basically silly characters . The best scene of this poor film is probably at Ellis Island . Will Smith is certainly no Dear Abby . His help almost backfires on him . The character Allegra , to me , was de...
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The Actress Just Isn't
Spencer Tracy , Jean Simmons and Teresa Wright starred in this colossal 1953 bomb-stinker . That's about the best I can call it . In 1913 , Boston , Simmons wants to be an actress . Her father , Tracy , wants her to finish school before taking the plunge to New York . He briefly talks of his background and is worried t...
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Night and the City - Dark Side Out
Even the acting talents of Richard Widmark can't help this 1950 stinker . Widmark , as always , is terrific . This time he is a conniving character whose plans go awry quite quickly . He plays an American hustler in London who is trying to get a foothold onto the wrestling industry . Trouble is that he goes about it in...
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Man Alive in Dead End Film
I knew that something was amiss . Pat O'Brien , in a leading role ? No gangsters ? Not a police officer . Really ! Here he stars in this pure stinker as a husband who loves his wife but forgets her birthday . The wife , played by Ellen Drew , looked so much like Eve Arden in many scenes . How coincidental that as he fo...
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That Night in Rio-Chica Boom Bomb !
I wholeheartedly disagree with the other viewers of this wretched film . The only reason why I didn't rate it 1 for awful was due to the great talent of Carmen Miranda . The beginning and end are the best parents due to her gifted singing and dancing . The problem is with the rest of the picture . Alice Faye comes off ...
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The Chairman is More Like the Chump
You have to ask yourself , what was Gregory Peck thinking when he signed on in this absolutely miserable film . Something is planted in Peck's head as he goes to China to retrieve some enzyme that the Chinese have that can alter food production . If Peck fails , the object will explode . The Americans have never bother...
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Sell Out is No Bargain
Oliver Reed looks like he is ready to continue his memorable turn of Bill Sykes in this so called thriller . Trouble is that he has been thrown into an absolutely muddled stinker along with Richard Widmark . Widmark is supposed to be Jewish here living in Israel as a retired CIA agent . The only things we can relate to...
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Big Hangover Sleep this One Off
It's hard to believe that just 4 years after this ridiculous film , Johnson and Taylor costarred in the memorable " The Last Time I Saw Paris . " That was a picture . The problem with this film is that the sub-plot would have made the ideal plot . A Chinese doctor is refused admission into his apartment due to racism a...
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How to Be Very , Very Popular - Is Anything But
The film starts off as if I was seeing " Some Like it Hot " years before . Two strip-tease dancers witness the shooting death of a Chinese stripper on stage and are pursued by police and the killer alike . Sounds funny and promising but the film soon falls into a trap of utter stupidity . Bette Grable ( too old for the...
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This Pink Panther is Beyond Stupidity
Awful Steve Martin remake of the classic Peter Sellers series . The slapstick comedy is so predictable . Kevin Kline , in the part of Herbert Lom , can't cut it . Lom had that certain facial expression as he was duped by the famous Inspector Clouseau . Sadly , it's totally lacking in Kline's performance . Who killed th...
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Run from this Taking Money
Another Woody Allen farce . This time it details the life of a born loser who begins to lead a life of crime but can't seem to do anything right . His parents , while interviewed , wear masks since they're ashamed of his son . Allen and the entire cast should have taken their advice and worn them as well . This film is...
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No Need to Jump Over this Flash
Poorly scripted film where heroine Whoopi Goldberg works diligently on her computer at a bank only to get involved with spies when her computer connects with them . Carol Kane is totally wasted in a small role as an office worker . Miss Kane , who has the ability to be hilarious with that foolish Brooklyn accent , woul...
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Go Golf Young Man !
A Martin-Lewis silly farce about two losers who are great at golf . Trouble is that one ( Lewis ) can't shoot well in front of crowds so he becomes Martin's caddy and suffers many indignities along the way . Jerry Lewis does his usual shtick with great competence . His scene of destroying a department store is so simil...
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Get Back to the Thin Man - Love You Again A Clinker
William Powell and Myrna Loy , a great movie team starred in this 1940 farce about a man who gets clobbered by accident at sea and reverts back to a former life . William Powell gets clunked and so do we as we have to watch this nonsense . Frank McHugh is in this too and he is great in his drunkard scene , but once Pow...
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The Omen 2006-Enough With the Brat Already
The 1976 film was enough for me . " The Omen " has had several sequels . Why did they bother to make this film over again ? At least , the original had Gregory Peck and Lee Remick who brought some radiance to their doomed roles . In this version , Liev Schrieber and Julia Stiles are terribly miscast . Their chemistry i...
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The Undefeated - A Big Loser
Rock Hudson goes way overboard with his southern accent in this confusing 1969 film . Rather , it is John Wayne who carries the film because he allows himself to be John Wayne . The film is muddled as the Reb and Yankee join forces to eventually get guns to those opposing Emperor Maximilian . The violent scenes that yo...
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Brunettes Have More Fun in Favorite Blonde
78 minutes of comic waste best highlights this silly 1942 tale . Bob Hope again is caught up with Nazi spies as he is brought into this by British agent Madeleine Carroll . The jokes and punchlines are ridiculous at best . The scene with the boy who spits at him was absolutely ridiculous . Gale Sondergaard is along for...
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Rent-Break the Lease on this One
In a musical , the music is supposed to lead the story on . That is the major handicap with " Rent . " The plot is supposedly given to us in the first scene . So as to avoid an eviction , a group should discourage a demonstration . The story of renting in New York City with all its problems would have made for an inter...
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Strangers When We Meet-Keep it that Way
Kim Novak again proved what a miserable actress she could be . Other than " Jeanne Eagles " and " The Eddy Duchin Story , " Miss Novak just couldn't act . Kirk Douglas looked tired in this film . Is it any wonder , " Spartacus " was the same year ! The story is typical suburbia infidelity among the rich . The real surp...