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427,210 | 3,079,504 | 1,001,508 | 5 | Not my cup of tea | A collection of vapid 20 somethings and 30 somethings find that their whole world and self definition in relationships with other people . Well done but so not in the place I'm in film about romance ( a vile thing if there ever was one ) that I had to give up on it a half way in or so . I just can't relate to the notio... |
427,040 | 3,079,504 | 435,625 | 5 | Good movie thriller ruined by a need to throw in a cliché twist every ten minutes | I'm not sure how to write about this movie without talking about spoilers , so I'm just going to plow ahead and mention that THIS REVIEW IS FULL OF SPOILERS , so if you don't want to to know , don't read any further . This movie is the story of a group of friends who decide to go exploring caves . One of their number h... |
427,081 | 3,079,504 | 122,033 | 5 | Bland and dull | I think the plot goes something like this , though I can't be sure since its really not that involving : Archaeologists go to Thailand to look for some artifacts . When they get to the village where they are going to do their work they run into the beautiful daughter of the head of the town who takes a fancy to one of ... |
428,125 | 3,079,504 | 155,704 | 5 | Graphic violence remains shocking in a less than shocking film about CIA misdeeds | This film is a recreation of the trouble the CIA has caused over the years around the world . Its done in a mondo style with recreations for most of the first hour before settling on the insanity on Central and South America . I'm not what to think of this film . Certainly its graphic in its violence and tough to take ... |
427,557 | 3,079,504 | 25,711 | 5 | Suffering from lack of music which deadens the pace , this train based drama gains points for putting you in the cab . A must if you love trains | Young boy , named Jimmy , who idealizes Casey Jones is devastated when Jones is killed in a train wreck . On the eve of World War One Jimmy has grown up to be an engineer like his hero . However once war is declared Jimmy is forced to stay home since his mother is too sick to be left at home alone , leading many to thi... |
428,775 | 3,079,504 | 25,699 | 5 | If you can get through the slow stretches this is a good little western | John Wayne rides into a saloon and finds the player piano running and everyone in the place dead . The safe has been broken into as well . As Wayne investigates the scene the sheriff and posse arrive and promptly arrest Wayne vowing to get his gang as well . Breaking out of the jail with the help of the saloon owner be... |
426,997 | 3,079,504 | 276,830 | 5 | Long , slow western set in a man's mind is one of the most beautiful films in years even if it ' s almost dramatically inert | This is an odd duck of a movie . I became interested since I'm a fan of Eddie Izzard who plays a mad Prussian lusting for gold . I knew it would be intriguing since its based on a Moebius comic strip , but I wasn't really expecting what I got . The movie tells the story of Mike Blueberry , a US Marshall in the old west... |
427,283 | 3,079,504 | 39,815 | 5 | Jokey tone makes this a film thats going to play better if you haven't seen the story before | Sixth or seven go round for the " classic " tale from the pen of the creator of Charlie Chan about a writer who goes to a deserted inn to write a story in 24 hours ( on a bet ) only to have interruption after interruption as people show up , guns are fired , secret doors open and bodies fall . It was a creaky tale ( Ge... |
428,265 | 3,079,504 | 462,246 | 5 | It left me feeling sad | ) Documentary on a role playing universe called Darkon . Think Dungeon and Dragons but in the real world . The people go away for a weekend and and live an alternate feudal life where anything they can imagine is possible . The film examines the game and the people who play . I found the film to be very good at portray... |
427,330 | 3,079,504 | 252,223 | 5 | Almost a good movie , yet not really a bad one . | Matt LeBlanc leads a commando squad into Nazi Germany to steal a copy of the enigma machine . Co-starring Eddie " I'm an action transvestite " Izzard this was a long time coming to the US . I have no idea if it ever got a theatrical release , but I'm sure it it did it lost money . this isn't to say the movie is bad , i... |
427,342 | 3,079,504 | 765,487 | 5 | Updating and complicating of the Herchell Gordon Lewis film kind of works thanks to its style | Updating and complicating of the Herschel Gordon Lewis gore classic about Montag the Magnificent a magician who performs gory stage tricks on young women . The women later turn up dead in the same manner of the tricks on stage . It was in Lewis's hand an excuse for bad acting and some gory effects . Here the film has b... |
429,073 | 3,079,504 | 206,634 | 5 | Not one of the best films | An explanation of why I don't think this is a great a film as some have said : Unremarkable film for people who don't have much imagination . Its well made and well acted but the script is not very good , either they explain too much or not enough and almost everything is geared to driving the plot . I felt like I was ... |
429,139 | 3,079,504 | 57,193 | 5 | Big bloated and somewhat funny | Talk about over done . . . . Every comedian in the world , or so it seems , criss-crosses through this story of greed and unpleasant people . The plot is simple - when a man dies in an auto accident he tells of a buried fortune which those that stopped to help him go off and try to find . Its broad comedy of the slapst... |
426,944 | 3,079,504 | 831,884 | 5 | Unremarkable | Story of what happens in the aftermath of a hit and run as the family of the boy killed looks for closure and the man who hit him tries to see if he can live with himself . Well acted and good looking , I was disappointed in that its very much by the numbers . To be certain there are a couple of twists in the story but... |
428,957 | 3,079,504 | 65,852 | 5 | weird patchwork film is interesting to lovers of the strange | What do you get if you take a black and white Filipino caveman film and add new color scenes explaining that the caveman stuff is actually on a far off planet ? You get this movie a wild and weird scifi film about vampires from space . Another patchwork job by Al Adamson for Sam Sherman , this film kind of works in its... |
427,545 | 3,079,504 | 187,238 | 5 | Great action action sequences make the long travel footage worth enduring | When Ghostly Face ( a good guy who wears a monster mask ) kills a woman's father and steals his sword , she sets off for revenge . She is unaware that Ghostly Face isn't the killer , but has been set up a a band of pirates . Along the way the woman rescues a girl who was taken by the pirates and the pair set off togeth... |
428,279 | 3,079,504 | 65,917 | 5 | Absolutely beautiful vampire movie is a mess of confused tones and pretensions | This a weird retelling of the Dracula story reconfigured as to be some sort of anti-fascist film . Its a beautiful film to look at but more than a bit strange in execution . The plot , if I picked it up correctly , has to do with a town that has been held in the grip of a band of vampires who all dress in what reminds ... |
428,642 | 3,079,504 | 113,492 | 5 | Over produced | This comic adaption has some great things in it . Max von Sydow for example , some of the photography in some sequences , but it has too much wrong with it to be anything other than okay . Stallone of over the top , Rob Schneider is too silly , a misreading of the characters and a bloatedness that only too much money c... |
429,076 | 3,079,504 | 454,921 | 5 | By the numbers feel good movie is a bit too by the numbers | Well made , well intentioned movie about a man who gets custody of his son as his life implodes and he takes an unpaid internship in the hope that it leads to something greater . So sweet it hurts . So manipulative you get whip lash . So obvious you wonder why you're watching . Its a good movie but I felt manipulated .... |
427,379 | 3,079,504 | 57,302 | 5 | Big on atmosphere , low on plot , your interest may wane before the plot really kicks in | Good looking but rather dull and nonsensical story of a man taking his daughter to a village near a deserted castle in the hopes of curing her nightmares . She is of course the spitting image of the Countess who disappeared years before , and of course there is a one eyed hunchback killing anyone who goes the castle pr... |
427,803 | 3,079,504 | 486,321 | 5 | If it wasn't for the 3D this wouldn't have been released to theaters | The movie is about three flies that hitch a ride to the moon with Apollo 11 . Its a thirty to forty five minute idea thats stretched to ninety . We get side trips about gramps birthday , Russian flies trying to ruin the mission and one or two other brief asides . Its amusing in fits in starts but it mostly just sort of... |
427,544 | 3,079,504 | 435,396 | 5 | Beautifully made mess of a film thats only for those willing to put up with its intentional strangeness | I'm not sure what this film is really about . I'm not sure I want to know . I think its got something to do with being an examination of the relation ship between Jackie Kennedy , John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe , but set somewhere else . I think it begins with John and Jackie going to Mexico and then it sort of lost m... |
428,641 | 3,079,504 | 95,776 | 5 | Bad 80's Animation Disney Style | Still several years from the second golden age of Disney animation of Little Mermaid , Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin this is a movie from the transition period , from the first time before Disney animation was barely alive . Listing nine people to retell the story of Oliver Twist this is a movie in need of a clue . ... |
427,104 | 3,079,504 | 416,449 | 5 | Great visuals almost hide a a lack of story and connection to reality | Wildly historically inaccurate story of the battle of Thermopylae , I'll let other people pick on it for its tenuous connection to reality . How is it as a movie ? Its tough to say accurately . Bear with me this is hard to explain . The film is for the most part hysterically funny with its over the top , over cooked di... |
427,013 | 3,079,504 | 906,734 | 5 | I'm not sure what I think | One of this years 8 Films to Die For concerns a woman who sees herself driving by on a city street and goes to investigate . What transpires after that point is what makes up the movie . Despite being reminiscent of I don't know how many other films I kept having a sense that I've seen this film before r at least part ... |
428,366 | 3,079,504 | 57,238 | 5 | We're all basically bad aren't we ? | Great looking , but ultimately rambling story of two thugs and a prostitute who get out of prison an continue their wanton ways , while taking revenge on , and repeatedly crossing paths with , the people who put them there . Playing like a Japanese Breathless or Rebel Without a Cause , this is wonderful looking movie .... |
429,085 | 3,079,504 | 420,294 | 5 | Great looking film is just another trip to the charnel house that really wasn't necessary | If a movie could exist on imagery alone this movie would be Tops of the Pops . But most films must have some semblance of a narrative thread and this is where the film falls down . Literally beginning with the birth of Leatherface this movie tries to explain what happened that lead up to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre . I... |
429,013 | 3,079,504 | 420,291 | 5 | Magnificent central performance is the reason to see this disturbing film about a man looking for family | ( Possible spoilers ahead ) It begins with William Keane frantically searching the Port Authority Bus terminal for his lost daughter and then becomes as in your face look at a man on the edge as your likely to see . Keane isn't a well man . There is something wrong with him . It quickly becomes apparent that there may ... |
428,700 | 3,079,504 | 40,162 | 5 | Okay but I don't need to see it again | Some boys are caught robbing a sporting goods store for basketball equipment . They were stealing because none of the gyms near them would let them play . Sponsored on probation by a newspaper editor they form a team and slowly begin to change their lives , however the bad guys won't let them go and they being to lean ... |
428,631 | 3,079,504 | 71,535 | 5 | Its just sort of there | Legend says a Lorelei lives in a cave near a river . Every full moon she takes the shape of a monster and comes out to kill , removing the hearts from her victims . Fearing her girls might be next a schoolmaster hires a hunter to keep her girls safe . Rubber suited monster movie from the director of the Blind Dead film... |
429,021 | 3,079,504 | 60,226 | 5 | Mexican Wrestler takes on spiders from space in a much too talky wrestling sci-fi film | I'm not a huge Mexican wrestler movie fan I've seen several Santo movies that were badly dubbed into English as well as titles that sported other wrestlers as leads . Most were over the top time killers that scored on the inventiveness scale if nothing else . Here the hero is the Blue Demon and he takes on evil spiders... |
428,156 | 3,079,504 | 16,545 | 5 | You'll remember the photography more then the plot | Beautiful silent film set in a wilderness logging camp . I really wish that I had seen this on a big screen in a good print instead of on video with a lousy video source . The title comes from a man who gets a transfusion of wolf blood and begins to think he's a wolf . Its not a wolf man story despite what the material... |
427,036 | 3,079,504 | 377,818 | 5 | Dead middle section ruins an otherwise enjoyable mindless guilty pleasure film | The movie starts off with a bang , as Bo and Luke are delivering moonshine , and end up getting chased for Luke's amorous side trip . Its light , its breezy and you hate yourself for laughing . There's also a road rally coming up which Bo hopes to win , even though the home town favorite , now turned pro racer , has re... |
426,950 | 3,079,504 | 25,263 | 5 | A very mixed affair thats more curiosity than anything else | Big budget movie concerning Jimmy Durante throwing a party so that Baron Munchhausen will let him use his killer lions in an up coming entry in his Schnarzan series . Various stars show up and sing and dance . Scatter-shot - and I do mean scatter-shot musical comedy showcasing many of MGM's lesser stars . Its a good se... |
427,187 | 3,079,504 | 178,864 | 5 | Better than you think it should be | A nudie western , sort of . Yes the Indians are all topless women but they are barely , no pun intended , in it . Its about a group of people who go off to find gold in Indian territory and being picked off one by one . Its pretty much a straight forward western for much of its running time . Actually its a good , but ... |
428,253 | 3,079,504 | 377,770 | 5 | A unfinished treasure that should have remained unfinished | The idea of Disney and Dali working together seems as weird as one of Dali's paintings . A play off Broadway several seasons ago imagined Dali's effect on the Disney Studio and Alice in Wonderland which was in production at the same time and was quite funny . The reality of situation was something else and ended after ... |
427,752 | 3,079,504 | 29,578 | 5 | Okay exploitation film who's time has come and gone is still amusing in the right frame of mind | 1930's exploitation film about the evils of a prostitution ring . The plot concerns how the failed attempt at kidnapping a girl off the street for a prostitution ring ends up leading to the rings down fall . Made on the cheap with a little bit of talent this would be a complete over done pot boiler were it not for some... |
429,029 | 3,079,504 | 71,448 | 5 | Strange Swedish children's film may be cherished by some and bend the minds of others | I have no idea what to say about this film except that it struck me as really strange . Dunderklumpen , a lonely hobo breaks into a families home and brings several toys to life then carries them off so he won't be alone . The young boy of the house pursues the animated Klumpen into the wilds of Sweden . His father see... |
427,698 | 3,079,504 | 74,907 | 5 | Awkward Herzog short film | Werner Herzog short film about how there is no bad kids only bad parents . The premise of the film is that a young boy is kept segregated by the rest of his classmates who refuse to have anything to do with them . One day he ends up making friends with a girl in his class and we see what was behind all of the dislike o... |
427,381 | 3,079,504 | 756,618 | 5 | Gove it points for trying something different , but take some away for a well worn plot and over length | Ex-cop , now drug dealer and addict tries to redeem himself by finding a missing kid with the aid of a hooker . Low budget film that strives to be more than a run of the mill story of a man reaching for redemption . Shot in a variety of different color schemes and styles the film makes the effort to be more than it wel... |
427,015 | 3,079,504 | 399,704 | 5 | yes it is | Just over an hour long documentary on stupidity , how to define it and why we are it . Amusing to a point , but ultimately pointless film prattles on for its running time not saying much . To be certain its nice to know that idiot , imbecile and moron are all readings from the IQ test ( Idiot is an IQ of 0-25 or a ment... |
426,931 | 3,079,504 | 882,978 | 5 | Epic story is reduced to showing big battles and simply using dialog to link them | Andy Lau stars as a general who started as a foot soldier and worked his way up through the ranks after several acts of heroism . Thirty years on he's forced to fight one last battle against the daughter of an old enemy . Apparently based on the same source material ( The Romance of the Three Kingdoms ) that John Woo i... |
427,212 | 3,079,504 | 311,618 | 5 | A Beautiful Vanity Project | This is one of the best looking anime features I've run across . The animation is glorious , the design and the world created are rich in images and wonders to see . The trouble is that the movie is a snail paced retelling of Pinocchio that even at two hours and sixteen minutes doesn't tell the whole story , there are ... |
428,703 | 3,079,504 | 55,428 | 5 | Important , but dated look at the end of the world . | This is a story about the end of the world . It takes two hours to get there but when it comes its quite spectacular . This is the story of two superpowers speeding toward war . In the middle are the Japanese and the people who live in Japan . We watch as the impending doom affects the lives of several regular Japanese... |
427,702 | 3,079,504 | 289,408 | 5 | Why was this movie set to theaters , its just a TV episode | Thoughts from after I saw this in the theaters after its original release : In all the talk about why the Powerpuff Girls Movie failed , they have mentioned almost every excuse from too many animated films to the fact most theatres were not showing it past dinner time , to over saturation of the market , to the " fact ... |
428,150 | 3,079,504 | 39,986 | 5 | its okay | Female reporter investigates odd goings on in Montreal . Convoluted plot line about deaths that are really murder , suicide that is made to look like murder and numerous other twists and turns require a great deal of attention to help unknot it . I tried to watch this the night before last must too late at night and be... |
428,834 | 3,079,504 | 404,032 | 5 | Okay horror story left me feeling used and abused | This is more a record of my feeling than a review . Based on a case in Germany Emily Rose tells the story of a priest charged with the death of a young girl during a exorcism . Its well acted and has some genuinely creepy moments . Unfortunately the film made me feel used and abused by the end . There is something abou... |
428,193 | 3,079,504 | 1,192,613 | 5 | Better then most girl in a bikini killing zombies movies you're likely to see | Girl in a cowboy hat , knee boots bikini and a feathered boa who is armed with two samurai swords tries to reverse a plague of zombies . Over the top action film is better than the similar films I've seen - the Swimteam VS the Undead one for example , but it some how has limited spark and zest with most of the effects ... |
428,135 | 3,079,504 | 373,908 | 5 | Just okay update of the classic TV series | First off I am not a fan of the original TV series . I never liked it when I was a kid and I was never a fan as an adult . If I run across the show I tend to change the channel . The fact I dislike the series so much makes it rather odd that I would watch the big screen update willingly , but stranger things have happe... |
426,922 | 3,079,504 | 20,828 | 5 | Early musical is an okay film thats better in parts than as a whole . | Wheeler and Woolsey musical comedy set in the pre-Civil War South is a mixed bag . The comedy duo are not the " stars " of the picture , rather that is Bebe Daniels . Wheeler and Woolsey are instead the comic relief and they do a good job of creating laughs . The plot concerns the pair attempting to make sure that the ... |
427,352 | 3,079,504 | 102,157 | 5 | Not bad , slightly atypical mix of culture horror comedy is fine for a night when you want something not taxing | Chinese doctor has his car break down in England . he wanders into a castle where vampires congregate . After having sex with a Chinese vampire he leaves , however his blood is so sweet the Chinese vampire is sent to Hong Kong bring him back . While in Hong Kong he begins to show signs of vampirism and his friends have... |
427,774 | 3,079,504 | 959,337 | 5 | Mannered dress up tale of a crumbling marriage didn't work for me | Sam Mendes is back in crumbling family territory with this adaptation of a Richard Yates novel about the implosion of a family in early 1960's American suburbia . Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet play the Wheelers . We see how they meet at a party and then we flash forward to Kate performing in a not very good local ... |
427,665 | 3,079,504 | 64,369 | 5 | Just bad enough to be good | Milligan period piece about murders for an inheritance . Shot in that tight Milligan style where people seem to hug each other so they remain in frame ( due to his camera being beyond poor ) . This is a dreadful movie that has a certain amount of brain dead charm . Its a bad movie in the I can't believe they actually r... |
427,155 | 3,079,504 | 389,605 | 5 | Wait for a rerun | Four stories of varying quality concerning four dinosaurs and their struggles to survive . Because its a Discovery Channel Production , the place where the landmark series Walking with Dinosaurs played in the US and because Discovery played up the similarities one will have to make a comparison . In my eyes Walking Wit... |
426,836 | 3,079,504 | 1,179,773 | 5 | Okay film about a boy who awakens a river spirit is at times in need of some editing as sequences go on much too long | A young boy finds a strange rock near a river . After he takes it home and washes it off he finds the water has awakened a small Gappa , or river spirit , named Coo , who moves in with the family . After a couple of adventures they realize that Coo can't stay with the family , and after trip to find a place for him to ... |
428,860 | 3,079,504 | 44,778 | 5 | Slow pacing is the draw back to this journey to stop wild animal attacks in the Indian jungle | With her father out of the country receiving medical treatments , the daughter of a rajah returns home to handle a crisis in he country . It seems that some form of wild animals are destroying villages . Hooking up with a great white hunter who was the only survivor of a hunting party sent to end the menace , the princ... |
427,526 | 3,079,504 | 482,930 | 5 | Great action is the draw in an okay comic book adaptation | Comic book based martial arts film about two brothers who reunite and with the help of a friend battle evil in a city . Spectacular but over the top wire work sequences are the main draw in what is a purely by the book affair . Certainly for fans the action is all that is needed here but its comic book over the topness... |
426,792 | 3,079,504 | 244,109 | 5 | Preachy and heavy handed look at the trials of the Nazi leaders | Soviet produced look at the trials that followed the fall of Germany . Deadly serious , this film is almost too somber to be taken with a straight face since the narration often comes across as rather preachy and purple . Its pure propaganda in the " we were right to try these people " sort of way and is clearly biased... |
428,732 | 3,079,504 | 75,113 | 5 | Better than the 1976 remake of King Kong | This gender bent spoof of King Kong was hard to see until the advent of DVD . Thats a shame because its better than the film that producers of the remake of King Kong unleashed on the unsuspecting world . Having not pretense at being anything other than a send up this film lets it all go in what is mostly a good but re... |
428,616 | 3,079,504 | 814,022 | 5 | Dull | I'm a Nick Cage fan . I'm A fan of the Pang Brothers . I fell asleep on this English remake of their first / second ( depends upon which brother ) film . The film has Cage as a hit-man known as Joe go to Bangkok for one last hit , or rather series of hits , there are four targets all in Bangkok which will allow for a l... |
428,782 | 3,079,504 | 296,042 | 5 | What am I watching ? | I've only watched a couple of Takashi Miike's films and I'm not sure what to make of them . They are technically well made but rather haphazard in most other areas . I tend to walk out wondering what it was all about . Ichi is about a missing crime boss and the money that went with him . The story centers on the search... |
427,669 | 3,079,504 | 413,099 | 5 | Too much money was spent for too few laughs | I'm not a Steve Carell fan . He's okay but nothing special . Completely unremarkable tale of Carell going off to congress and being asked to build an ark by God . Its okay , but 200 million bucks on this ? WHY ? The animals and one big effects sequence doesn't justify it , there are too few laughs . the only real reaso... |
428,051 | 3,079,504 | 293,508 | 5 | Your mileage may vary | Its big . . . Its opulent . . . Its high camp . I found this version of the classic story of the Phantom of the Opera to be very silly . Big and beautiful and so over done that I came very close to laughing at it . Don't get me wrong its not bad , its just so over blown , over the top , over done that its very hard to ... |
427,327 | 3,079,504 | 60,138 | 5 | A life of pain and cruelty | ( There are spoilers ) Robert Bresson's meditation of life and Christianity as seen in the life of a donkey and one of his owners a young girl named Marie . This film was recommended to me by a good friend I figured I would give the film a try since respect him and his opinion . What hooked me into trying the film was ... |
427,955 | 3,079,504 | 29,289 | 5 | Too Much Pancake Make-up | Tex Ritter tries to solve the mystery of a band of hooded horsemen running roughshod over the country side around the Four Star Mine . The movie is okay . The plot sort wanders about for the required running time before coming to an end with a chase and a shoot out . Those wishing to learn how not to film a movie chase... |
428,819 | 3,079,504 | 465,494 | 5 | Great action scenes are joined by a cliché filled plot and a lack of intensity in direction . Worth trying , but I'd wait for cable | Movie based on a video game series . Here Agent 47 , a hit man for a secret organization finds that a change in a hit has left him a target . Wanting to know why , and how his target is still alive he begins to search for answers while Interpol and the Russian police pursue him . The action sequences are good but the r... |
428,877 | 3,079,504 | 469,263 | 5 | Quirky tale of a civilian astronaut is too quirky for its own good , but still delivers a few good moments . | Billy Bob Thorton is a once upon a time astronaut who had to leave the program to work on his family farm . Never having lost his desire to go into space he builds his own rocket , much to the dismay of the government . Off beat story is good but never quite pulls it together . Its a little too forcibly off beat signal... |
426,999 | 3,079,504 | 71,315 | 5 | Over rated love letter to the noir of old | This is less a review than a personal statement I've seen Chinatown several times and I have yet to see what people rave about . Don't get me wrong , its far from a bad movie , however I don't think its anything classic . The movie is a very glossy version of the noir films of the late 1940's and early 1950's . In some... |
428,760 | 3,079,504 | 40,246 | 5 | Triumph of the filmmakers art left me cold | Deep brooding melding of numerous ideas and themes including riffs from Hitchcock , Beauty and the Beast , Val Lewton , Lewis Carrol , and on and on . Its the very Gothic tale of a woman who meets a man who may have loved her in the past . A triumph of the filmmakers art the story left me cold . I suspect that watching... |
428,743 | 3,079,504 | 75,230 | 5 | Better then the usual slavery exploitation film | Period set tale of the slave trade in Africa and how the nominal hero , Ron Ely goes from supporting it to instead helping to end it . Good melodramatic story is full of all of the exploitation hallmarks you'd expect - nudity , violence , general bad behavior - , but done less garishly and over the top in films like Ma... |
427,570 | 3,079,504 | 1,104,123 | 5 | Good action make this worth seeing on cable | Russell Mulcahy's sequel to the spin off of the Mummy Returns is the early days of the Rock's character involving the quest for vengeance for the death of his father and other the freeing of a repressed kingdom . Looking like a good TV movie this could have been interesting if the cast could actually have turned in bet... |
428,276 | 3,079,504 | 452,123 | 5 | A good primer on some of the questions concerning , but its really much too short to provide any meat . | This film is essentially 11 questions answered by various people who refuse ( rightly ) to accept all of the Bush Administrations pat answers concerning what happened on . The film takes questions like " Could this have been foreseen ? " , " Did the Government have any clue this was due to occur ? " and " Are there con... |
427,383 | 3,079,504 | 426,114 | 5 | Despite a good cast and great scenery the story never comes together | Norman Reedus plays a computer hacker who is brought from New York to Moscow by a Russian gangster in a plot involving 40 million dollars . Stand out performances and great location photography almost make up for a poorly written script . There is something about the plot that never rings true , which is a shame since ... |
427,612 | 3,079,504 | 1,065,060 | 5 | After a good start the film waders off and never really amounts to much , but its worth seeing late at night curled up on the couch | After a gallery robbery the crooks wait in a warehouse for the man who hired them to show up and pay them . The location was once used to make films of an unsettling nature . As the night wears on the ghosts of the past , a rat in the ranks and a hostage they grabbed all conspire to to dwindle the numbers of thieves . ... |
428,390 | 3,079,504 | 24,782 | 5 | You'll hate yourself for doing it but complications of the plot keep you watching an other wise dull movie | This isn't the clearest story ever plotted . I know what happens , but tying to explain it with out giving away too much is going to be rather difficult . Basically a woman takes a " vacation " from the radio program on which she is the star . Its not explained why , though her overly emoted good bye to her would be bo... |
427,891 | 3,079,504 | 389,790 | 5 | Once you click into the vibe you can pretty much guess the plot line and punchlines | Clever but not that well done animated film from Jerry Seinfeld . The premise is that Jerry is a bee who on his first day at work end up being saved by Renee Zellweger . Wanting to be polite he does what a bee should never do , he talks to her to say thank you . They become friends . When he sees jars of honey in the s... |
427,414 | 3,079,504 | 901,476 | 5 | For women only | Two women , friends since childhood and both wanting to be married at the Plaza , become enemies of a sort when both get engaged at the same time and angle for the same wedding at the same place . I'm clearly not the audience for this . I really can't say if its worth seeing as a result . I'm sure if I was a woman I pr... |
428,741 | 3,079,504 | 482,603 | 5 | Good pieces never come together | When a probe is sucked through a worm hole in space to an alien planet three chimps are sent to see what happened to it . In order to sell the mission to the public the grandson of Ham , the first chimp , now a circus performer , in space is sent as one of the astronauts . Wittily written , decently animated and reason... |
428,543 | 3,079,504 | 482,606 | 5 | Reaistic , disturbing to be sure ; but I'm not really sure why I was watching it | Well made and realistic portrait of a group of psychos terrorizing a couple who come home from a friends wedding . Thats as basic a plot as you can get without going into details . I'm not sure what I make of the whole affair . While its realism is a plus I really don't see the point . What do we get from seeing a stor... |
427,428 | 3,079,504 | 55,902 | 5 | Voodoo horror story that is okay but doesn't amount to much | Robert Alda plays a man haunted the vision of a beautiful blonde he sees in his dreams . He is restless and quits his job which put him in a bad way with his girlfriend . One night while out walking he finds a doll that is the image of the girl in his dreams . When he returns the next day with his girlfriend not only d... |
426,834 | 3,079,504 | 1,134,826 | 5 | If you like zombies and cute girls and nothing else this movie is for you | Shot on video film about a girls swim team that is forced to battle flesh eating zombies when a new " popular " virus that is spread by people who don't wash their hands begins running rampant in the school . This is nothing but zombies and cute Japanese girls in and out of swimsuits . There is a great deal of blood , ... |
427,520 | 3,079,504 | 434,541 | 5 | odd mix of the Bard and the Modern doesn't fully come together | Geoffrey Wright , who did Romper Stomper and brought Russell Crowe to the attention of the world , brings Shakespeare's Scottish play up to date by setting it in the under world of Melbourne ( or is it Sydney ? ) . the speeches are there and so is the flashy trash of Silk Stalkings or one of the other cable ( before ca... |
429,063 | 3,079,504 | 350,493 | 5 | Thai Horror comedy is okay despite being not really funny or scary | After several gruesome deaths at another school the members of the " daredevil's club " wonder what happened to kill all the kids . When a student from the affected school transfers to their school they learn that the victims all called a certain phone number which would grant your wish then kill you . Partly out of cu... |
427,910 | 3,079,504 | 478,303 | 5 | 5 uneven Tales From the Crypt style stories done cheaply by master directors makes for just okay viewing | Tales from the Crypt like anthology of a group of people on a studio tour who get trapped in a " psycho " like house and tell ghost stories to escape . Of interest mainly for the directors involved-Joe Dante , Ken Russel , Sean Cunningham , Monte Hellman the film itself is a mixed bag . One story has to do with an actr... |
427,293 | 3,079,504 | 1,262,969 | 5 | Worth a look ( as a rental ) for fans of the directors others need not apply | Two half hour stories based on a Japanese anthology series . of interest because of who the director of the second story is-Mamoru Oshii . The show is sort of an animated Twilight Zone . The first story is called reflection . Its about a girl snorkeling on vacation who finds a camera . The camera appears to have been u... |
427,047 | 3,079,504 | 86,308 | 5 | Hong Kong Milestone | This is a film that was the border of the old era in Hong Kong and the beginning of the new , effectively heralding Tsui Hark as the force of the future . The plot of a bunch of warriors taking on a great evil had been done before there was something about the way it was done here that made everyone sit up and take not... |
427,356 | 3,079,504 | 465,234 | 5 | Don't even think about thinking since this film makes no sense . Take it as being just clever action scenes and remarks strung together and you'll have a good time | It begins with the search to prove that Nicholas Cage's great grandfather wasn't part of the plot to kill Lincoln and ends up a quest for a city of gold . In between there is lots of chases and action sequences . What can I say ? How can I accurately or critically comment on this film . ? I don't think its possible . I... |
428,094 | 3,079,504 | 455,760 | 5 | Just okay ventriloquist story sifts through most of the clichés and borrows some rifts from other horror films in a low rent and badly directed attempt at scares | Young couple finds a ventriloquist's dummy outside their door . When the man leaves to pick up dinner his wife is killed by the dummy . Investigating further he realizes that the dummy is connected to his past so the estranged son heads home to his fathers house where he hopes to unlock the secrets of what killed his w... |
428,575 | 3,079,504 | 365,737 | 5 | A movie of the head but not the heart | Its been several days since I saw this film and find that it not only is receding from my memory but that I also am less in love with the film ; so much so that I dropped my rating down two points in the interim . When this tale of the Middle East , oil and the people who try to control both was done I felt that I had ... |
427,423 | 3,079,504 | 24,679 | 5 | Good mystery ruined by two unfunny cops | A killer known as the Black Ace is on the loose . The Ace leaves a calling card with the time of his victims death on it . The Ace has killed several prominent people and a rich friend of some of the victims , Winters , is looking to put a stop to it . Chester Morris plays a mystery writer putting together a book on th... |
427,768 | 3,079,504 | 273,517 | 5 | Messily plotted horror film that should have been better | This film should have worked better but everything about it is just off . The cast is an international mish-mash none of whom seem related , the pacing seems to be random and there are plot points that seem to come from nowhere and go nowhere . Its unfortunate since the basic ideas in the movie are quite good and are t... |
427,598 | 3,079,504 | 114,241 | 5 | Not very good adaptation of a not very good play | Walking out of the current ( October 2004 ) revival of the Craig Lucas play I overheard a couple talking about the film version of the play and it suddenly came back to me why it all seemed familiar , I saw it on TV several years ago . The story of how a woman who's husband can't take her any more and hires a hit man t... |
426,970 | 3,079,504 | 40,472 | 5 | Well made but its got a story you've seen a dozen or more times before | Late in the game film revisiting of the classic radio anthology series . Several years prior to this Universal released a series of films starring Lon Chaney Jr based on the series . In that series Chaney played a different character in each supernatural tinged story . Here there are no big stars . The story begins on ... |
428,586 | 3,079,504 | 86,381 | 5 | Not great but , even after 20 years between viewings it stayed with me | One of the films in the Grindhouse Experience 2 is this Road Warrior wanna be rip off . Actually its one of many post apocalyptic action films made in the wake of Road Warrior . Its also a film I saw in the theaters when it came out . Okay , but unremarkable this is the story of a world where water is all but gone and ... |
429,066 | 3,079,504 | 377,107 | 5 | Proof is proof that Gwyneth was wrong for the part | This is the story of a young woman who's genius father has passed away . As she deals with the aftermath of his death she also has to come to terms with the possibility that she may have inherited not only his genius but his madness . The film is not the play . The play is a simple four character piece that takes place... |
428,602 | 3,079,504 | 40,497 | 5 | Okay film suffers unfairly when compared to Tati's later Hulot films | First Jacques Tati feature film . The film concerns a festival in a small town and the colorful postman ( Tati ) who serves it . Originally shot in both color and black and white , with the black and white to be used if something happened to the untried color film . As fate would have it the film remained only viewable... |
427,312 | 3,079,504 | 285,624 | 5 | Well acted story done in by so so film making | I saw this as Vendetta and was very disappointed . Its not that the acting or the story was bad , its just that the direction and everything about the film on a technical level comes across as unimaginative bad TV . Basically its the story of an Irish family in Boston where some end up as good guys and some as bad . Da... |
428,436 | 3,079,504 | 222,817 | 5 | Sex and Violence , lots of it | How do you review this objectively ? I don't think you can . You either enjoy this sort of thing or you don't . I've given the movie a 5 not because its either good or bad , it simply is and I can't try to rate it for that reason . After a soft-core photo shoot the photographers and the models go to a house in the moun... |
427,668 | 3,079,504 | 56,064 | 5 | a first film | Werner Herzog's first film . Its ten minutes of muscle men pumping iron and flexing while Jazz music plays . Every now and then a title asks if this Hercules will perform one of the labors and we then cut to what that might mean in the modern day . A curious beginning to Herzog's career . Considering the other films th... |
427,832 | 3,079,504 | 427,327 | 6 | Travolta's acting ruins any of the joy that this buoyant musical may have produced . | This is the film adaption of the musical based on the film by John Waters . I liked the Waters film but it was never more than a passing like . The musical never appealed to me , I never cared for the music so I never saw the show . Everyone in my office is raving about it and seeing it multiple times so I gave it a go... |
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