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429,010 | 3,079,504 | 317,219 | 4 | Worst Pixar feature is a slow dull retread of movies you've seen before | I've seen Cars twice now I didn't like it either time . For me this tale of a jerk who makes good is a technical tour de force as the Pixar animators push the envelope as far as one can in rendering a realistic world in an animated film . I'm not sure if thats a good thing since the cartoonish nature of the cars grates... |
428,762 | 3,079,504 | 772,193 | 4 | Un focused thriller isn't sure its about the crocodile or the warlords and ends up being about neither | News Team goes to Africa to find and capture a killer crocodile . As they begin their hunt they run afoul of a warlord and have their lives put deeper into peril . Unfocused " horror " film had its release moved up three months for no good reason . Actually I suspect it was to simply kill the suspense and have the film... |
427,809 | 3,079,504 | 1,135,933 | 4 | Thanks to performances that all seem to be in different movies this doesn't amount to much | Remake of Fright Night of sorts with a werewolf instead of a vampire . Amusing in a direct to TV sort of way but best viewed at 3am on SCIFI when you're too tired to actually take any of this seriously . Its does have some good performances ( The two antagonists for example , deserve better ) though they some times run... |
429,109 | 3,079,504 | 910,993 | 4 | Poor performances and poor direction sink what might have been an okay film | Non-actor Andre Lima stars in a story that mirrors his own story as a fighter who has to return to the ring when his daughter develops a brain tumor and he has get the money some how . The non-acting and unimaginative direction ( its as rudimentary as you can imagine ) kills this film pretty quickly . Its simply too di... |
428,900 | 3,079,504 | 25,323 | 4 | Static | This version of the classic story should move like the wind at 62 minutes , instead its slow and talky and not very good . I'm not certain how much is the result of too much time having passed since this film was made , 70 odd years ago and counting , but this is a movie to a avoid simply because time has not been kind... |
426,960 | 3,079,504 | 67,135 | 4 | Well made revenge tale is severely hobbled in its short version by the loss of everything but the gun fights | A man returns home from the Civil War to find his wife and child have been murdered . He vows revenge and sets off to get it . Before he kills he sets in motion a small mechanical drummer that was one of his son's toys . As the body count increases the town where the killers reside gets nervous wondering who is next . ... |
428,439 | 3,079,504 | 253,474 | 4 | Over-rated story of survival | I don't know what to say about this move other than it really didn't movie me . Sure Adrian Brody is excellent as the Pianist of the title who hides out in Warsaw as the city is destroyed around him , but I never really connected to the story . I never really cared . I'm not sure if its poor film making or simply the f... |
427,012 | 3,079,504 | 844,666 | 4 | Take the stairs | Three people with places to be end up in an elevator in a blackout . The trouble is all of them have secrets one of which is that they are crazy . Really well made film , it has some dynamite visuals , is undone by uneven acting ( Amber Tamblyn is hot and cold ) and a plot that really makes no sense no matter which way... |
428,027 | 3,079,504 | 71,465 | 4 | Some weird images and not much sense | Weird exorcist inspired horror film from the man responsible for the Blind Dead films . The story has something about an old witch using the daughter of a politician to get revenge . . . and then something . It wasn't 100 % clear . Creepy at times because of the imagery rather than the story this is a lost little film ... |
427,917 | 3,079,504 | 417,148 | 4 | Bad special effects and a way too knowing attitude ruin what should have been a fun flight to disaster | Spoilers AheadBad . why'd have to be bad ? Since Indiana Jones wouldn't take the job they got Samuel L Jackson to do it . And he does it quite well in possibly the only real performance in the entire movie . Okay you know the story : Jackson is taking a witness to a murder from Hawaii to Los Angeles , however the king ... |
429,079 | 3,079,504 | 71,635 | 4 | Film about the monotony of a car assembly line is monotonous | A film about the monotony of building a car on an assembly line . This 72 minute film is a chore to get through , even at high speed . Sue me for giving in to the temptation to hit the fast forward button but I couldn't not do it . Even the mid point intermission where we see the Cintron cars at an auto show and watch ... |
429,118 | 3,079,504 | 924,129 | 4 | Crash like look at immigration in the USA collapses in what seems to be self serving film-making | Harrison Ford continues to make me wonder why anyone takes him seriously any more when he turns in another clueless performance in a film made to make those in Hollywood feel good about standing up for social issues . The intersecting tale of various immigrants ( both legal and illegal ) in and around Los Angeles is an... |
428,370 | 3,079,504 | 74,942 | 4 | Much agonizing over past deeds leads to murder and worse | Low budget tale of a Viet Nam vet who goes on a trip to kill his old army buddies who forced him to commit the atrocities he can't live with . This short ( 73 minutes ) film is very talky as everyone agonizes of their past deeds . Well done at times , a rape is particularly unpleasant , it still didn't add up to much f... |
428,211 | 3,079,504 | 39,987 | 4 | If you like bad movies , here's one to treasure | How cheaply can you make a movie ? Take a couple of actors , have them shoot a few scenes , then splice them in to scenes lifted from a silent film and you've saved a fortune . Such is the case of this story of a jungle expedition gone wrong . Told mostly in flashback by a survivor of the ill fated trip this is a movie... |
427,278 | 3,079,504 | 1,053,859 | 4 | Every curse needs to to know when to hang it up and go home | Okay but passionless tale of attempts to end the curse by a Japanese woman who goes from Japan to Chicago where the curse has situated itself in an apartment building . Much too by the numbers to really be considered anything ( you could have called this anything and it wouldn't have mattered ) , this is a film where i... |
427,629 | 3,079,504 | 74,958 | 4 | One of the Most Over Rated Movies in the Last 30 Years | I've seen this movie probably ten times since its been released and I have yet to understand what is so wonderful about it . Its not a matter of looking at it now and wondering if time has over taken it , it never worked for me . For me the film simply was " shocking " to seem clever even though it never really was . C... |
428,623 | 3,079,504 | 236,124 | 4 | Just okay film probably would play best at a drive-in with a second car chase feature | A man on parole , in love with his bosses married daughter , robs a bank and then runs off to Mexico with the daughter in tow . If you've ever wondered what Southern drive-in fare was like in the early 1970's , look no farther . This is the sort of low budget movie that played all along the South during the boom days o... |
427,525 | 3,079,504 | 465,676 | 4 | Unevenly paced film ends up being great eye candy and tedious to endure | Zhang Ziyi stars in a tale inspired by Hamlet . When the emperor marries his sons lover the son flees into the country . The Emperor is murdered by his brother who has designs on the wife and wants the son dead . Failing to fall victim to his uncles plot , the son returns to the palace and the family's bickering goes i... |
428,489 | 3,079,504 | 49,060 | 4 | slow and dull | Slow , unremarkable story about a guy working for a big company looking for oil in the Lebanese desert stumbling upon uranium instead . There's lots of crosses and double crosses and the like but it's played more as soap opera then adventure as a couple of women are thrown into the mix . I watched this for a good half ... |
427,561 | 3,079,504 | 443,527 | 4 | Not as clever mix of drama and horror with a thing in the basement | Just okay horror film about a nice suburban family dealing with the death of their parents and the " thing " in the basement that they keep feeding people they pick up off the street . Of course there is more to it then that but to say more would be telling . For me this just didn't come together as it tries to have it... |
427,515 | 3,079,504 | 906,108 | 4 | Tyler Perry misses the mark this time out | Tyler Perry's tale of four couples who go off every year to explore their relationships only to find that this year things are not as ducky as they seemed . Perry , a force Hollywood doesn't understand , is rapidly becoming a name to reckon with at the box office . Aside from his Daddy's little Girls , his films have a... |
428,474 | 3,079,504 | 335,563 | 4 | Why should we care ? | Having sat through the movie Wonderland I am at a loss to explain what its about . I think its about John Holmes ' involvement in the murders that occurred on a street called Wonderland , but I'm not sure . Actually thats exactly what its about , the problem is that the film is so convoluted with a bad Rashamon style o... |
427,831 | 3,079,504 | 461,703 | 4 | Bland werewolf movie is more action film than monster movie and really should have gone straight to TV | ( I'm going to pick on the movie - its an okay film that doesn't need to be seen on the big screen - wait for cable . I say this up front because I'm rather mean in what follows owing to the fact this should have been so much better ) Stan Winston produces a rather weak effects movie about werewolves , well I think the... |
427,481 | 3,079,504 | 814,019 | 4 | Try to see the full performance of Monster , not this abbreviated version | Never having seen Dylan Moran perform live I had the misfortune of going to see a taping of Monster for BBC America . The taping was short confused and felt like the series of punchlines to longer jokes . Walking out of the taping with some friends we figured that there had to be some reason that Moran had a hit TV sho... |
427,058 | 3,079,504 | 756,350 | 4 | Modern attempt at Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is an okay knowing comedy but where Plaid was mostly old footage , this is mostly new | I had a bit of hope for this hour long film made up of footage from old Poverty Row movies . Certainly it had the possibility to seem like more than a home video mass marketed to the world . Unfortunately while funny this movie still feels like a home movie , but with stock footage spliced in . The plot concerns the pl... |
428,848 | 3,079,504 | 205,284 | 4 | Points for being different , though for not much else | In the wilds of Canada about the goings on in a small town near a mine . Its a tale of two groups living uneasily and the poor dumb kids who want to marry and the Dukabor troublemaker who has a hold over the boys father and much of the town . Its a messy affair that really doesn't make a great deal of sense . Its not a... |
427,653 | 3,079,504 | 395,585 | 4 | Foirgettable | big brother meets survivor as nine people are locked in a house and told only one will live to collect the five million dollar prize . This is a been there and done that in the extreme , with riffs from other better movies stolen . Whats worse then the fact that the film is so derivative is the fact that it changes the... |
428,681 | 3,079,504 | 1,210,117 | 4 | Uneven and not too bad kids film | On the English language DVD I saw this is called Impy's Wonderland . German made animated film isn't bad , nor is it very good . Its about a year old dragon ( or dinosaur with wings ) living on a island with other talking animals and people who is tempted away from his island by a millionaire who needs monsters for his... |
427,441 | 3,079,504 | 362,120 | 4 | Funnier than usual send up of recent horror films | One of the funnier entries in the Scary Movie series has dead on spoofs of War of the Worlds , Japanese Horror films , the Village and other recent horror and non horror films . Amazingly most of the jokes work , something that couldn't be said about the first three films . The problem here is that each joke seems to h... |
427,622 | 3,079,504 | 362,227 | 4 | Not Quite but Almost | This is the story of one man stranded in an airline terminal when his country goes through political upheaval while he was in transit . I'm told its based on a true story , but any connection between this movie and reality is a mistake . Steven Spielberg is a good filmmaker . For years he's cranked out film classics . ... |
426,966 | 3,079,504 | 51,402 | 4 | A rigidly stiff cast make this tough going . | Michael Rennie stars as a block of wood . . . er as a stoic member of the Polish Resistance who along with a compatriot get themselves captured with the hopes of getting sent to a German labor camp where they can spy on the new wonder weapon the V-1 . Based on a true story and supposedly close to what actually happened... |
428,101 | 3,079,504 | 269,401 | 4 | Disappointing remake / rethink of a 1960 semi-classic | Not quite as good tale of a girl granted visions of hell in the hopes that she will warn people into being good . Similar to the 1960 film Jigoku ( Hell ) this film shows us what happens to various bad people once they get to hell . Watch a cult leader kill hundreds , watch a child molester kill young girls then watch ... |
428,361 | 3,079,504 | 48,992 | 4 | Old school monster on the loose tale is one of Willis O'Beiens worst efforts | The problem with High Def TVs and old films is perfectly shown by BEAST FROM HOLLOW MOUNTAIN , this was , I think , Willis O'Brien's last film . An old school movie that predates Harryhausen's Valley or Gwangi , its about a T-Rex loose in Mexico . Painfully dull until the monster begins the rampage ( I mean PAINFUL ) t... |
428,832 | 3,079,504 | 346,179 | 4 | Despite an intriguing title character this is a confused comic based movie | I was drawn in by the sight of the title character in pictures . He's a tall bald guy with a snake on either shoulder ( or is it a two headed snake wrapped around his shoulders ? ) Sometimes I should just not be so curious . The plot has some people discovering a buried pyramid . A group of them go into explore . A wom... |
428,029 | 3,079,504 | 125,806 | 4 | Tale of two girls , robbery and torture | Two young girls travel the country side and spend some time in a secluded and seemingly unoccupied house . When some people show up they get mixed up with some torture and stolen jewels . Odd film seems to be a porno film with the sex cut out . Reasonably well acted with a good looking cast this is an off beat little "... |
428,859 | 3,079,504 | 48,256 | 4 | Classic bad movie is still tough going | A new Planet is found and a rocket is sent off to investigate it . Once it arrives the planet is found to be full of giant animals and dinosaurs . El-cheapo production from Bert I Gordon is so full of stock footage one wonders why they bothered to shoot any new footage at all . Watching this again last night I was shoc... |
427,826 | 3,079,504 | 395,932 | 4 | You'll notice the artifice more than the art | Story of the life and times of Abel Edwards , or more to the point his clone . The original Edwards was a Walt Disney like film maker / business man who died on the eve of the opening of his Florida theme park . decades later , after mankind has moved into space when a deadly virus reduced human population by 90 % the ... |
428,854 | 3,079,504 | 413,267 | 4 | More clever than funny , this movie is almost devoid of laughs despite some game tries by the cast | Shrek's father in-law dies and Shrek and Fiona are next in line . . Shrek , having been standing in for the king knows this is not the life for him so he goes off to find Artie , a kid also in line for the throne . If you've seen anything on this you've probably seen most of what passes for the jokes . This is not a fu... |
428,654 | 3,079,504 | 386,032 | 4 | Stating the obvious in a scandalous manner | Forgive me but I find it well meaning trash . But it is trash . Of course I feel for everyone and yes its clear the health care system is broken but ultimately this movie is more manipulation than anything . Yes its nice and all but it doesn't do anything . Slanted to a fault ( how could it not be ) its Moore telling y... |
427,666 | 3,079,504 | 235,751 | 4 | For Milligan fans only | Dysfunctional family goes home for the holidays and murder and mayhem result . Violent sexy Milligan at his most home made . Little better than a home movie ( as much of Milligans films are ) this is a trip into depravity 1960's style . Notable for the copious nudity and sex this film is neither sexy nor gruesome , pla... |
427,411 | 3,079,504 | 1,227,181 | 4 | This could have worked if it didn't seem like every other independent film out there | Independent urban drama about a guy wondering if there is more to life then hanging out with his friends in the gang . As an opportunity to advance comes along he has to decided which way to go since his girlfriend gives him an ultimatum . Well made independent film that looks like a hundred other independent films . G... |
428,691 | 3,079,504 | 36,731 | 4 | Excellent pieces make a less than good thriller | In the house where Marie Latour , a woman supposedly a werewolf , once lived a museum dedicated to the occult is set up . Latour had disappeared years before after killing her husband who discovered her secret . Years later the daughter of Latour returns and takes steps to make sure that her mother's grave and the secr... |
427,443 | 3,079,504 | 66,802 | 4 | Mickey Rooney gives a tour de force performance in a weird little horror film that is difficult to watch because he's so out there | Mickey Rooney lets loose in a strange little film . Rooney plays a deranged makeup man who kidnaps a young woman and then holds her in an old warehouse full of props , forcing her to act in his movie while he drifts in and out of reality . To say that this two person film is strange is an understatement . Its clear why... |
427,408 | 3,079,504 | 426,883 | 4 | not very interesting story of kids behaving badly | Based on a true story movie is less interesting than the controversy surrounding it - the murder case is due to go to trial at any moment and people are afraid the movie would taint the jury pool . The ads say based on the story of the youngest person on the FBI most wanted list . Truth is its a lot of young guns behav... |
428,033 | 3,079,504 | 330,842 | 4 | Poor shot on video horror film | Shot on video tale of a member of a film crew taking a haunted object home from a shoot and having her life turned upside down . Poorly acted and adequately shot this is an on the cheap straight to video from Hong Kong thats like many films like this a bit too knowing for its own good . Certainly its not quite like a T... |
428,717 | 3,079,504 | 430,770 | 4 | The cast is there , the scenes work but it never comes together | Updating of the Clare Booth Luce play and the 1939 movie is a major disappointment . The cast of women is excellent , most of the individual scenes work but nothing hangs together . There is no connection from scene to scene almost as if the film was crafted in parts and then assembled in a vacuum . Granted the story o... |
428,904 | 3,079,504 | 430,779 | 4 | Beautifully animated film is let down by a weak script | The plot of this film concerns the son of a janitor at Yankee Stadium named Yankee Irving , who has to go off to rescue the stolen bat of Babe Ruth . The bat was stolen by a pitcher on the Chicago Cubs who would only be allowed to pitch if he retrieved the bat so the Babe wouldn't be able to hit in the World Series . I... |
428,223 | 3,079,504 | 28,956 | 4 | Good cast and great photography are done in by a script that doesn't have enough action | Rene Ray is a young girl who goes to London to find a job . Unfortunately she runs into Robert Newton who is being hunted by a gang of gamblers he double crossed . Newton had been stabbed and dies in Ray's hotel room leading the police to think she killed him . Ray goes to find Newton's brother , played by John Mills ,... |
428,972 | 3,079,504 | 66,893 | 4 | good if you like grade Z entertainment | Set in Coney Island this is the story of a psycho killing people on the midway . I'll leave the actual plot for you to work out when you see this . This is one of those so bad its good movies , one where your jaw hangs open in disbelief at whats going on . Take for example the music . Its folk music . Why ? I have no i... |
427,745 | 3,079,504 | 385,700 | 4 | Visually awesome this film will be little more than eye candy if you haven't played the game . I haven't played it and found it a painful experience | I'm bound to be disliked by the legion of of Final Fantasy fans who have rated this film highly but I have to disagree and say that the film , for anyone other than some one familiar with the games , is going to be a long dull haul . Let me go on record as saying that this is one of those eye popping jaw dropping visua... |
428,764 | 3,079,504 | 365,830 | 4 | Some really clever bits are done in by an annoying Jack Black and limited vocabulary | The story of how Tenacious D came together . This is a movie I can admire more than I can like . I like the fact its got whole passages that are sung , I like the weird trips it takes , I like the craft of the film . In its way its a bastard sibling of Idlewild and its go for broke atmosphere . Unfortunately what its t... |
426,788 | 3,079,504 | 40,877 | 4 | Gothic drama set in post WW2 England tries too hard to me more than what it is and ends up seeming a bit too snobbish | When a mine collapses destroying the homes built on top of it , the three sisters of the the family that owned the mine promise to rebuild the homes . This doesn't sit well with their brother who now lives in the city and is the real source of money for the family . Returning home in order to straighten out the situati... |
428,139 | 3,079,504 | 299,109 | 5 | Unpleasant fact based tale of a life cut short in a most horrifying manner | Told in mostly in flashback this film is about the police investigation into the remains that are found in an apartment , and more to the point a Hello Kitty Mermaid which has been optically censored out of the film because Sanrio was unhappy . ( This is based on a true story and parts of the woman really were found in... |
427,291 | 3,079,504 | 83,661 | 5 | The sort of thing you'll watch once and never need to see again | Film that is for ever in the dollar rack has aged badly , I remember this playing so much better back in 1982 . James Earl Jones stars in a monster tale set in and around Greece . It has to do with an ancient monster lurking around and eating virgins . its the sort of thing you've seen a dozen times before both better ... |
427,281 | 3,079,504 | 26,341 | 5 | Enjoyment of this film will depend on how you take to Walter Connolly's titled character , I found him slighting annoying | Walter Connolly plays GK Chesterton's classic character is an okay adaptation of the stories . Following the basic plot used in the better Alec Guiness film Father Brown is attempting to stop the thief Flambeau ( Paul Lukas ) from stealing a diamond encrusted cross that is in the possession of his Parrish . Actually Br... |
427,555 | 3,079,504 | 30,666 | 5 | Neither the mystery nor the expose promised by either of the films titles . | A young rich woman named Martha , , who's mother died while she was off partying in Europe , is trying desperately to contact her mother on the other side . She is loved by a reporter who's chances with her are ruined when an editor turns a friendly puff piece on the girl into something more sinister . Martha meanwhile... |
426,961 | 3,079,504 | 112,750 | 5 | Unremarkable comic adaptation is good but ultimately forgettable time killer | I've read the manga and seen the anime . I've now seen the live action film and like the earlier versions of the story I was entertained but not overly so . The plot of the movie has a girl witnessing the assassin known as the Crying Freeman killing several targets . ( He's so named because he sheds a tear for each per... |
427,123 | 3,079,504 | 66,221 | 5 | Legendary road accident of a film is interesting in the " I can't believe this was actually made " sort of way | Odds are you have never seen The Phynx and for good reason . This is the deformed beast of a child that Hollywood wants to keep locked up in the attic . Its the hell-spawn of the youth movement and the old embalmed generation coming together to make . . . something . The basic plot concerns the SSA ( Super Secret Agenc... |
428,486 | 3,079,504 | 446,566 | 5 | Dull story in a technically well animated tale | This is a story set in Feudal Japan . Kintoki flees her uncle into the mountains and is rescued by Lord Raiko and his men who raise her to be a warrior . However her past comes calling . . . This is told with computer animation that mixed flat with 3D . The coloring is very deliberate and makes you swear that something... |
427,048 | 3,079,504 | 286,098 | 5 | Visual Masterpiece - Messy Story | This film looks fantastic . Its one of the most spectacular films I've ever seen . It seems as though Tsui Hark and crew suddenly were given away to truly unleash their imaginations for the first time with computer graphics and the went for it . This film is simply wonderful to look at . The problem is that the film fe... |
429,069 | 3,079,504 | 179,829 | 5 | animated re-imagining of the bible and history as an alien intervention story | The premise of this film is that GD , his son Red and a space ship load of other people end up on earth after they can no longer go home . GD had stocked the ship with genetic information in order to save his dying world and he now uses it to manipulate the creatures on earth for his own benefit . All the while he's ch... |
428,235 | 3,079,504 | 26,230 | 5 | Atmospheric little film that won't win any awards but is perfect as part of a horror fest on a dark and stormy night | Vampiresque tale of a madman loose in a small village in the middle of the 19th century . Someone is tearing the throats out of villagers after dark . Who could it be and how does it relate to the events years earlier when a shipwrecked pregnant woman was bitten on the neck by a vampire bat ? Well made melodrama with h... |
428,504 | 3,079,504 | 35,171 | 5 | Good , but awkward comedy mystery thriller | A milquetoast of a man is caught climbing out of a cemetery late one night . Its transpires that he had left 1000 dollars on a grave , in response to a letter sent to him warning of death if did not do so . When he and the copes return to the grave the money is gone . The cops haul the man in to the precinct for trespa... |
428,622 | 3,079,504 | 70,654 | 5 | Bad movie lovers rejoice , you've found another lost treasure | A young boy runs his dad over with a bulldozer , which then manages to run over his arm . The kid then goes off to the mental hospital for many years . When he gets out he find his mother has remarried and he kills his step dad . When mom objects he kills her too before heading off on the road to continue his murder sp... |
427,014 | 3,079,504 | 112,657 | 5 | spectacular footage mixes with a story you won't care about | Film about Charles Bedaux who came to the US from France and changed the way factories produced their products . In the process he became one of the wealthiest men in the world only to see it all begin to slip away as he fought to maintain ties with the axis powers during the Second World War and as the workers of the ... |
428,922 | 3,079,504 | 35,185 | 5 | Just okay remake of a good thriller removes all of the thrills for gags and an obvious solution . | Remake of the Linoel Atwill thriller the Sphinx has been rethought so its now a jokey romance between an Assistant District Attorney and a reporter . Its not bad , but where the original was a creepy thriller , this is too light to be truly gripping , especially if you've seen the original . The plot has ADA Dick Purce... |
428,407 | 3,079,504 | 61,394 | 5 | Mostly of interest for its director | A group of young men break into an old deserted castle and find some uniforms and become soldiers . On the soundtrack the narrator speaks of the history of the building and eventually talks of the necessity of war . Clever look at how boys playing war may end up taking it too far . Its a bit one note and is probably a ... |
428,946 | 3,079,504 | 141,083 | 5 | Good Lemmy Caution entry is too knowing to fully enjoy | Eddie Constantine is Lemmy Caution in his second or third go round at the character . Here caution is on the trail of a women who may or may not be mixed up in a blackmail scheme . Its a semi-complicated affair that Lemmy solves more with his fists then his brains . Its an okay Euro Noir that is a bit too knowing for m... |
428,912 | 3,079,504 | 1,114,677 | 5 | Better than it should be , its still full of plastic rich people trying to be humble | Prepackaged and completely fake big screen version of the hit TV series is a good film if you like the series or can stomach the plastic fakeness of it all . I mean that both as a slap and as praise since the film is much better than I thought it would be but at the same time I can't believe how incredibly fake it all ... |
427,722 | 3,079,504 | 427,038 | 5 | Frustrating sequel to a classic film - It should have been a radio play ( or had a better director ) | ( This is not an objective review but a personal rant about what might have been ) The plot of this movie follows the early days of Carlito , as he rises to power and prestige in the drug world . ( his later exploits were told in Brian DePalma's Carlito's Way ) This film disappointed me a great deal . Here's a reasonab... |
427,396 | 3,079,504 | 34,985 | 5 | Okay mystery | Nick Tryane is hired by a family to locate the missing patriarch , a rich banker . The banker suddenly turns up but seemingly in a fog with a " paralyzed brain " . With the missing man returned the question becomes who did this and whether he's responsible for the murder that happens in the garden . Enjoyment of this f... |
427,584 | 3,079,504 | 87,784 | 5 | Cinematic Dream Time or One of the Strangest Films Ever Made | Its taken several goes to get all the way through this film , but after two or three years I've finally done it . Granted the pace is slow , but this thing is so odd it hard to watch . The device that gets things moving is that Nemo , , his parents having gone off to the opera , asks his butler to tell him a story with... |
427,542 | 3,079,504 | 285,808 | 5 | Fantasy romance is a good introduction to Indonesian film | This is the story of the snake queen who is worshiped by many people . If you make sacrifices to her she may aid you in you endeavors . However she is very fickle and will often require that you sacrifice a loved one to her . One man has given over his wife and son in the name of wealth . The Queen has demanded that he... |
428,389 | 3,079,504 | 338,427 | 5 | Read the book , it'll take you just as long and is better all around | Shopgirl Steve Martin adapts his short novel about a shop girl who's wooed by an older rich man and an aimless young man . What worked on the page doesn't work on screen as we watch what amounts to the dull lives of three dull people . Martin is fine as the older man as is Jason Schwartzman as the younger suitor . The ... |
426,833 | 3,079,504 | 368,769 | 5 | One of the weirdest movies I've come across - but not in a good way | ( This comment may not make sense - but then again neither does the movie ) Su-hyeon Kim the star of Old Boy directs a very strange , very disjointed movie about people living in a tenement . Centering around a father and his sons , who have names the S @ # $head , Dognose and So-So . This movie rambles from one bit to... |
428,221 | 3,079,504 | 390,521 | 5 | much ado about the obvious | Morgan Spurlock decides to see what would happen if he ate nothing but fast food for a month . The results are predictable , he gains weight . I was truly amazed when the film came out and people fell all over themselves about how wonderful it was . To be certain the film is amusing and enjoyable , but its not really r... |
426,872 | 3,079,504 | 396,592 | 5 | Good and bad , and sort of neither | The story of what happens when Fat Albert and his gang cross into the real world is a mixed bag . Some of it works , some of it doesn't and some of it just sort of lays there and does nothing . Part of the problem is that Bill Cosby was allowed to write the script . Bill is a very funny man , is wonderful here playing ... |
427,232 | 3,079,504 | 34,854 | 5 | Mildly amusing sequel is better than what went before and perfect if you want something that won't tax you in anyway | This is the sequel to Private Snuffy Smith and is better than what went before . The story picks up with Snuffy still in the army and in a shooting contest with Sgt Gatling . Gatling wins because Snuffy isn't allowed to use his squirrel gun . Gatling is then ordered to take Snuffy and some other men to the backwoods in... |
427,388 | 3,079,504 | 1,037,218 | 5 | The actors are better than the material | Daniel Craig commands the screen in a cliché story about an actor on the way down who gets word that a childhood friend has died , which of course spins him off into remembering what used to be . Its a cliché tale thats been done before in one way or another . The film is a very well made and extremely well acted espec... |
428,330 | 3,079,504 | 485,851 | 5 | See it for the performances against type rather then the unremarkable plot . | Four interlocking stories about Passion , Love , sorrow and happiness . Its a tangled criminal web . I know why the cast took the parts since in many cases it allows them to be atypical in their roles . Its nice to see the actors in this film stretch but I really wish that the films central story was better ( perhaps t... |
428,137 | 3,079,504 | 217,680 | 5 | Beautiful but dull | Based on a Thai legend this is the story of a man who returns to his wife and child unaware that they are long dead . Its considered a great story of ever lasting love , I call it dull . Call me cultural heathen but this movie bored me . Certainly this is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen , the portrait of... |
427,165 | 3,079,504 | 330,501 | 5 | Only 45 minutes of new material | The first TV movie of Ju-on is one of the creepiest movies I've I've seen . This is considerably less so . This film begins with a half an hour of material from the first film . While its good , it slows the forward momentum of this film especially if you watched the previous film in close order . When the new material... |
428,412 | 3,079,504 | 273,244 | 5 | Fans Only Need Watch Or If You Don't Know Dick Now , You Still Won't | Rambling chatter about Philip K Dick , best known for the novels that became Minority Report , Blade Runner and Screamers . The chatter is loosely grouped together by subject but it drifts back and forth through many subjects . Its interesting to listen to but a bit tough to watch . The trouble is that this is nothing ... |
428,393 | 3,079,504 | 217,679 | 5 | Depraved Experiment Goes Horribly Wrong | A teen scientist spikes the medicine his mother is testing on young woman and the result is gruesome death , for the drug turns pain into the highest pleasure and it doesn't take a clever mind what happens next . This is a slow movie that takes a while to get going . The drug takes a while to react , and the once it do... |
427,455 | 3,079,504 | 35,758 | 5 | Meandering and unfocused | Based on a radio show this short ( an hour ) film is a bit of a meandering mess . the plot of the film has two gangs going to war and somehow in the middle of it all the daughter of an oil man is kidnapped . As the police try to solve the crime ( s ) , Cosmo Jones , a genius and amateur criminologist forces himself int... |
427,010 | 3,079,504 | 810,880 | 5 | Its all there except the script | Giancarlo Esposito directs and co stars in the story of a town with racial strife in its past thanks to the killing of a civil rights leader decades before . As the ghosts of the past are woken up and a new corporate threat comes to town the people in the town are forced to make some choices . Well made and well acted ... |
428,505 | 3,079,504 | 30,126 | 5 | Good but not great crime drama | Woman who's husband runs a successful trucking company , which seemingly is untouched by a recent rash of hijackings plaguing his competitors , ends up on the run when the police show up on her door looking for two hijackers . Fleeing with her husband and his men she must work to get herself out of murder rap caused by... |
428,629 | 3,079,504 | 454,841 | 5 | Okay remake . Given the choice , see the original for real fright . | This remake of the Wes Craven classic is nowhere near as good . Certainly it has some great moments and visual images and the idea of a " modern " family having to fight off a family of savages is a frightening one , but some where along the way it lost its teeth . Certainly the fact that the studio asked that some of ... |
428,339 | 3,079,504 | 454,864 | 5 | Great acting and great film making make for a creepy first half but a lack of direction ruins the second | Eco horror film about the advance team from an oil company finding that the Alaskan wilderness is turning against it . Ten years earlier a test well had been drilled and what it found was kept secret . Now after years of negotiations and behind the scenes dealing the advance group from Northern Industries is preparing ... |
428,098 | 3,079,504 | 820,142 | 5 | Amusing dialog and great performances lift up a mess of a movie that's mostly stitched together from pieces seemingly stolen from other movies | The Reef ( aka Shark-bait ) is a ( n occasionally watchable ) mess of a movie . The plot of the film has Pi , a fish from Boston Harbor fleeing south to " The Reef " to find his aunt after his parents are scooped up in a fishing net . Once on the reef he falls for the most beautiful girl in the area and runs a foul of ... |
426,797 | 3,079,504 | 485,976 | 5 | Overlong comedy about three men and a baby | Latest Jackie Chan film is a wildly overly long ( well over 2 hours ) comedy action film about a trio of safe crackers who use the loot to fuel their addictions . When things take a turn for the worst the trio kidnaps a baby , the same one that they had saved earlier in the film . When one of the trio is hurt and throw... |
428,367 | 3,079,504 | 269,217 | 5 | Wild anything goes film-making | Parody / homage / pastiche / ( take your pick ) film thats a send up of romance movies and Italian westerns . so over the top you'll wonder if there ever was a top , this is one wild ride , even by Thai movie standards . With blood and gore and painted backgrounds mixing with real locations and a very deliberate sense ... |
427,374 | 3,079,504 | 65,660 | 5 | Okay movie may make you nod off | Jess Franco madness about Dracula , Frankenstein and a wolfman . Dracula is staked in his Coffin and left for dead . Frankenstein with the monster in tow shows up and brings both the monster and the vampire back to life . Somewhere in there a werewolf is brought in to help stop the two monsters . This is a good looking... |
427,320 | 3,079,504 | 252,028 | 5 | Funny , but ugly Christmas comedy | I will admit that much of this film is funny . There genuine laughs in this film of a man renting a family for Christmas , but there is such a mean nasty edge to much of it that I wanted to take a bath after seeing it . I have no idea why this well made film is so ugly but it it is . The opening montage of Christmas sc... |
428,874 | 3,079,504 | 435,705 | 5 | engaging enough to keep you watching even though the story makes no sense is pretty dumb | Nic Cage is a magician who can see two minutes into the future . After he stops a robbery at a casino the Feds zero in on his odd ability . They want to know his trick and if it can be pushed beyond two minutes because a nuclear bomb is somewhere in LA . Not very good chase film has its gee whiz moments as Cage steps t... |
428,591 | 3,079,504 | 22,358 | 5 | If you can get past the annoying Zasu Pitts this is an okay mystery with a neat solution | Rich slimeball Folsom refuses to marry his mistress because he is married . He refuses to divorce his wife because that would mean he had to marry his mistress . Not long after a complicated confrontation in his apartment with the wife , the bodyguard and the mistress ( who I think kills herself ) Folsom is killed . It... |
426,828 | 3,079,504 | 307,385 | 5 | Like watching a river flow | This documentary on the temporary art work Andy Goldsworthy is like watching one of the rivers he builds near , sometimes it enthralls you and other times it bores you depending on your mood . I've tried this film two or three times now and I can not get into it . While I find the film extremely beautiful and well made... |
428,039 | 3,079,504 | 435,670 | 5 | It will become invisible in your mind after you see it | High school kid goes missing . What no one knows is that he's hovering between worlds a victim of mistaken identity . Can he get someone to hear him before he dies ? Okay thriller is a bit too " teeny " for my taste . This has some good moments but it somehow never really comes together . The cast is really good , but ... |
427,137 | 3,079,504 | 210,844 | 5 | Just okay version of often filmed story seems to be missing something | One of , if not the first version of the novel L'ATLANTIDE , concerns the story of two French Legionnaires who stumble upon the remains of Atlantis under the Sahara desert . There they meet various people including the Queen , played here by Bridgette Helm ( Maria in Metropolis ) . There have been at least six versions... |
428,706 | 3,079,504 | 364,751 | 5 | Some laughs but its trying to be too many things lessens the effect | Three life long friends are rocked when a fourth member of the crew is killed in an accident . Moved by the dead friends fearless lifestyle the trio sets off to find the treasure of DB Cooper . Some laughs ensue . What is this film trying to be ? A comedy ? An early mid-life crisis film ? a buddy movie ? What ? Spoof o... |
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