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429,054 | 3,079,504 | 338,095 | 6 | Why has this attracted so much attention when ultimately it isn't that great | A French entry in the slasher genre , Haute Tension or High Tension , tells the story of friends who travel from Paris to the familial home . Once there a crazed man shows up and begins to slaughter everyone . I've been reading about this movie for a while and it seems that people either love it or hate it . The debate... |
427,289 | 3,079,504 | 39,067 | 6 | Last of the I Love a Mystery Films is more Southern Gothic drama than mystery | Last of the I Love a Mystery series is an odd duck film . In someways its the least of the series , yet in other ways the film has some great elements ripped from the pages of the radio show and so is closer to the series than the preceding Devil's Mask . The plot has Jack and Doc going to the Southern mansion with a y... |
426,932 | 3,079,504 | 889,588 | 6 | Good but not great story of a man saving children in time of war | Film version of the life of George Hogg . Hogg was a British national who went to China during the Rape of Nanking as a reporter and ended up taking care of a bunch of orphans in the face of Japanese barbarity on the Chinese people . The version I saw was dubbed completely in Chinese and had English subtitles . As it s... |
427,380 | 3,079,504 | 132,184 | 6 | Retro regional horror is okay of taken on its own terms | Five people stay over night in Hanley House , a supposed Haunted Mansion that has been left sitting unoccupied since the Hanley's abruptly up and left years before , leaving all of their things behind . Good little horror film that was the sort of thing to play on the bottom of a drive-in multiple feature this is a mov... |
426,946 | 3,079,504 | 431,197 | 6 | Good set pieces are hurt by the weaker bits that connect them | When a terrorist group sets off an series of bombs in Saudi Arabia , the FBI's crack investigators are forbidden to go investigate . When one of their number pulls some strings and resorts to blackmail to get his team on site they suddenly find themselves in an alien world and have now become targets for various groups... |
428,861 | 3,079,504 | 281,724 | 6 | A look at those who obsess about movies and must see their films projected | Cinemania is a documentary about a bunch of crazy people in NYC who spend their lives watching films ( in theaters ) . Either on disability or independently wealthy or working dead end jobs , they exist to just go to the movies . . . several times a day ( and its go to the movies not watch videos ) . Yea I know they ar... |
428,421 | 3,079,504 | 26,333 | 6 | Off beat comedy is bit too cynical to be wholly enjoyable | A just fired girl chasing her paycheck meets a broke drunk millionaire on a bridge . He thinks shes going to jump , like he had been intending . She takes him home to his house where they get to talking . Its decided that he will get money together , teacher her to be a lady and then set her out to his rich friends to ... |
428,636 | 3,079,504 | 286,112 | 6 | Good but not great | You either accept this movie as it is or you don't . This is a very silly movie about a group of brothers who form a soccer team and find self respect in doing so . Its basically a kung fu movie done as a soccer film . As I said , its very silly , for example the villain's soccer team is called Team Evil . The film is ... |
428,682 | 3,079,504 | 38,974 | 6 | Good but nothing special | In name only sequel to the film Sherlock Holmes movie Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman . The plot here has a young woman staying at a house with a strange woman named Zenobia ( played by Gale Sondergaard from the Holmes film ) as a house keeper / companion . Unknown to the young woman is the fact that Zenobia is dr... |
427,522 | 3,079,504 | 462,338 | 6 | A bit too light hearted to be taken seriously | Richard Gere stars in the story of Clifford Irving and his attempt to sell the the Howard Hughes autobiography . This humorous telling of the tale either will work for you or it won't for me it just sort of missed . The problem for me was that the same story was told with the actual people in Orson Welles great film F ... |
428,222 | 3,079,504 | 1,066,329 | 6 | Its okay , but I'm not sure its Oscar material | This is the story of a priest trying to save the soul of a miserly gentleman by giving him a glimpse of the next life . From a technical aspect this is great film . The detail is wonderful , look at all of the nick knacks in the small cottage , the dreaminess of heaven , and watch how the car races down the road and ar... |
428,947 | 3,079,504 | 497,323 | 6 | Good set up wobbles and falls flat in the final reel | Willem Dafoe is a troubled detective who is now teaching at the police academy . Years earlier he helped solve a series of murders that were laid out like works of art . . . especially when seen from a specific location . When a frisky couple knock into a door in their building they unknowingly step into a crime scene ... |
426,907 | 3,079,504 | 294,870 | 6 | Even though I cried like a baby I can't whole heartedly recommend this film adaptation | The film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's stage musical thats been playing for almost ten years on Broadway is the story of a group of friends who live in New York's Alphabet City over the course of a year . By now everyone's heard the tale of how Larson died before the show opened and how it went on to win all sorts of... |
427,209 | 3,079,504 | 409,459 | 6 | Good not great film is too faithful to be truly wonderful on its own terms | n an alternate 1985 , when Richard Nixon is working on his fifth term , someone throws former superhero The Comedian out of his high rise window . One of his former allies , a masked crusader name Rorschach smells a rat and he begins to contact his old cronies because he fears that some one is going after former superh... |
427,478 | 3,079,504 | 337,961 | 6 | Good but other than disturbing you I don't see the point | Dark film about a woman who becomes fascinated with her skin and self mutilation after an accident leaves her with a wound . Graphic and tough to sit through the film raises the spotlight on an extreme form of behavior that in milder forms can lead to people cutting themselves . What makes things more disturbing is the... |
428,824 | 3,079,504 | 337,978 | 6 | Poor plot almost does in some great action set pieces | ( Spoiler alert-This comment has numerous spoilers ) If this were titled like the last one I'd say this was " Die Hard without a Plot " Disappointing go round for John McClane has good performances , spectacular action and a plot that makes no real sense . The plot has someone hacking into the US government computers .... |
428,009 | 3,079,504 | 424,958 | 6 | Not for kids animated spoof is very good until the plot and the bathroom jokes overwhelm the fun | Robot Chicken like film that spoofs Armageddon and other big screen scifi and disaster films . Full of sex and violence and nudity and poop jokes this film had me in stitches for the first half of its running time as it played like Robot Chicken with a potty mouth . The problem is that just before the half hour mark th... |
429,121 | 3,079,504 | 43,831 | 6 | Too many plot lines and too many characters | Columbia takes the Jules Verne classic and brings it to the big screen for the second time in a cliffhanging story that now includes aliens thrown into the American Civil War period tale . As 1950's Columbia serials go this is pretty good . The story , which in some ways is the closet to the novel isn't bad , dealing w... |
428,500 | 3,079,504 | 338,013 | 6 | I can't be objective | I'm at a loss here to be objective about this movie set in a persons mind simply because as good as it is , I can't get past reality . It begins on a railway platform with commuters waiting to go to work on Valentines Day 2004 , which would be nice , except it was a Saturday . While due to circumstances of the plot thi... |
429,006 | 3,079,504 | 26,177 | 6 | With a villain named Zamboni it has to be good . | Short crime / newspaper story centered in Chinatown . The story concerns two warring Chinese families , the Lings and the Wongs . The daughter of one loves the son of the other . When a marriage is agreed upon a valuable jade necklace is to be passed to the couple as a means of sealing the new friendship . However when... |
428,550 | 3,079,504 | 991,169 | 6 | Good but not great look at the making of a New York Noir gem . | Expansion of a 1990 documentary about the making of Blast of Silence , a late in the game film noir thriller that was filmed on the streets of New York City to great effect . The original version was made after the film was rediscovered at a German film festival and a TV film crew went and followed director and star Al... |
428,013 | 3,079,504 | 56,674 | 6 | Brother Against Brother | Two brothers battle it out for the love of a slave girl in ancient Babylon . Its got Hammurabi and Zoroaster thrown into the mix of a familial relationship gone sour . It ends with one hell of a flood and a raging fire . ( Look for the burning candle that falls on a drowning woman's face . ) A perfectly forgettable tim... |
427,410 | 3,079,504 | 455,590 | 6 | Good but unremarkable portrait of Amin fails to stand out from pretty much any other portrait of the dictator | Idealist young man becomes a doctor and instead of following in his dads footsteps goes to Uganda to do some good . His arrival coincides with the coup that placed Idi Amin in power . At first enthralled by the new President he slowly begins to realize that all is not well as he journeys from country doctor to physicia... |
428,519 | 3,079,504 | 405,469 | 6 | Its really all about Nigel | Similar to Madagascar but not the same this is the story of a zoo lion and his friends who race off to save the lion's son who has been shipped back to the wild . The movie is the race to find the son before he gets to the wild and what happens once they get there . I have to start by saying the voice cast is top notch... |
427,390 | 3,079,504 | 1,204,979 | 6 | Prequel to a solid thriller is a formula for endless copying | Prequel tale about the men who ran the motel ( where they filmed the torture and rap of the guests ) in the first film and some of their first guests at a different motel . Better than it should be , but not as good as the first film which did what it did and knew when to get off . The problem is that any thing special... |
428,142 | 3,079,504 | 1,010,048 | 6 | I liked it I didn't love it | Probable Oscar nominee didn't float my boat . Its a good film but I don't know whether too many people have told me how great it is or is it not that great and people are simply reacting to the exotic nature of the film , either way it didn't blow my skirt up . This is the story of Jamal who is on the verge of winning ... |
427,952 | 3,079,504 | 95,373 | 6 | See one of the other two versions instead . | Weakest of the three versions of the story of the Scopes Trial this version suffers from shortening , rewriting and worst of all commercials . This isn't to say its bad , its not . The problem is that compared to the original Spencer Tracy film this film comes off as a good summer stock to the originals Broadway show c... |
427,850 | 3,079,504 | 780,503 | 6 | Good but not great adaptation of an Osamu Tezuka comic . May play better once the sequels arrive | Film adaption of Osamu Tezuka's comic about a swordsman who's father sold 48 of his body parts to various demons for help in taking over the country and the world . As the swordsman kills the various demons he gets the parts back . He travels with a young thief named Dororo whom he picks up along the way . As the story... |
429,042 | 3,079,504 | 285,823 | 6 | Editing by the Blender in the Corner | While I really like the work of Robert Rodriguez I really must wonder why this movie was made . I'm still not completely certain of what happens or why despite seeing this two times . The lack of coherent plotting make this a tough film to fully enjoy . Characters come and go with little reason and there is often the s... |
427,789 | 3,079,504 | 308,055 | 6 | Too many characters sink the ship | Intersecting lives at the Ambassador Hotel on the day Bobby Kennedy was shot . Emilio Estevez has made an extremely well acted film which suffers from a weak script that tries too hard . It tries to get too many details right ( too many movie references and the time ) that the we notice the details but not the bigger s... |
427,192 | 3,079,504 | 26,599 | 6 | Reginald Denny plays detective in a good mystery | Reginald Denny stars a a detective who gets involved with the murder of an antique dealer . For the most part this is a by the book murder mystery with several interesting twists in it . The plot basically is that a wealthy antique dealer is suspicious that his wife is having an affair . People are watching the house a... |
426,823 | 3,079,504 | 1,032,755 | 6 | Well made and well done-but I've seen this before | ( This review will probably not help anyone ) The new Guy Richie movie is like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels , Snatch and Layer Cake only more so . Its hip , its happening and very well made . For the life of me I couldn't tell you what happens in it or why you should care to see it other than its not bad for what... |
427,364 | 3,079,504 | 56,601 | 6 | unremarkable remake | Freddy Francis directs another retelling of Donovan's Brain . This is the story of a rich SOB industrialist who is killed , however his brain is saved . As scientists try to study the still living organ the personality of the " dead " man begins to exert itself on those around the brain tank . Good , with expressive bl... |
428,585 | 3,079,504 | 451,079 | 6 | Some of the best animated madness is mixed with some of the blandest | Beautifully animated retelling of the Dr Suess tale of Horton the elephant finding the speck of dust where Whoville resides and then having to protect it from danger . As good as the film looks its an uneven affair . Brilliant set pieces ( anime homage ) and jokes ( monkeys stuffing bananas in their mouths ) are follow... |
427,024 | 3,079,504 | 897,287 | 6 | Epic look tries to conceal a small scale story | Three friends from the sticks go to Shanghai and become gangsters in around the Paradise club . As time goes on and they climb up the ladder they find their relationships tested . Replace Shanghai with Chicago or New York and you'd have an Oscar nominated film for the art direction and costuming . This is a great looki... |
426,857 | 3,079,504 | 122,779 | 6 | Not a bad movie | Ursus is a farmer with a past that he won't tell his little brother . When a Princess he knows is attacked on the way to her wedding Ursus , with little brother in tow , head off to protect the fair maiden . Of course there are plots within plots so the simple drop off the princess trip becomes something else entirely ... |
429,007 | 3,079,504 | 348,150 | 6 | Way too long and predictable | Superman is back . Its been almost 20 years in the real world , but its been five in the movie world . He's been off to find krypton and now he's returned just as Lex has set his evil plan in motion . Lois is engaged and has a son and . . . Long and predictable this film can be an endurance test . Its not a bad movie b... |
427,664 | 3,079,504 | 65,483 | 6 | a good Andy Milligan film | One of The better Milligan films that actually sort of works if you give it a a few allowances . One of Milligans English films , this movie actually is a good . . . okay . . . just . . . story of a vampires and such trying to get new blood into their family . ( that maybe giving too much away , or not since the movie ... |
427,553 | 3,079,504 | 30,277 | 6 | Great little mystery | Boris Karloff stars in a strange stage based mystery set on a military base that has to do with the death of a weapons researcher . The film is set in motion when a bunch of soldiers on leave pile into a boat and head back to the island base . One of the men is smuggling his new wife over in the hope of a nice quiet we... |
427,028 | 3,079,504 | 478,087 | 6 | Good but clichéd telling of MIT students breaking Las Vegas | Story of an MIT student who needs quick cash who joins the legendary group of students and teachers who set about taking on the Vegas casinos . Well acted , with a showy performance by Kevin Spacey in a showy role . the cast shines in what is really a bunch of clichéd characters . Forgive me for saying it but Hollywood... |
428,332 | 3,079,504 | 478,134 | 6 | Great story of a family dealing with a tragedy gets lost in a government cover-up | This review contains a potential spoiler . Paul Haggis's bloated tale about one man's search for his missing son , a soldier who'd just returned from Iraq . Well acted by Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon as the soldier's parents this is an occasionally touching film that makes the mistake of trying to be about someth... |
427,945 | 3,079,504 | 400,497 | 6 | An okay kids movie that should have gone straight to cable | The newest addition to the Herbie the Love Bug series stars Lindsay Lohan as the new owner of the much traveled VW . The plot mostly concerns Lohan's rivalry with the evil Matt Dillon , a professional stock car racer who wants to know what make Herbie so special . Forgive me for not telling more of the plot but the fil... |
426,859 | 3,079,504 | 351,977 | 6 | A seventy minute movie | This is the story of a man who comes home from the army and finds his hometown not as he left it . Its been taken over by vice brought in by a rich boyhood friend who wants to get even richer . Eventually there's a new sheriff in town and it all comes to an action packed conclusion in roughly 70 minutes minus end credi... |
427,171 | 3,079,504 | 34,930 | 6 | Far from great but enjoyable on its own terms | Third of three serials made by a variation of the Dead End Kids , East Side Kids , Little Tough Guys and Bowery Boys is the best . More care was shown for this third outing and while merely adequate by serial standards it is probably the one a non-serial fan ( or fan of the stars ) would like . Here the adventures are ... |
428,638 | 3,079,504 | 348,124 | 6 | While good in pieces this is not a movie by any stretch of the imagination , its just some episodes from the TV show | First a couple of things : 1 . Despite what the box says the movie is only one hour long , a scant number of seconds over 60 minutes . 2 . Only two of experiments actually show up prior to the last two minutes of the movie . 3 . This is a rip off if you BUY the film since its nothing more than what should have been the... |
428,776 | 3,079,504 | 462,703 | 6 | Great looking and well acted film is a disappointing thriller can't make up it mind as to what it wants to be and so ends up as not much of anything | Six men set out to reach the point of inaccessibility in Antarctica . They have 60 days of sun light to travel to the most remote place on the continent by foot , something that has only happened one time before . Along the way they find the journal from a 1922 British expedition that appears to have gone horribly wron... |
427,194 | 3,079,504 | 65,531 | 6 | AFter a great first hour it sort of peters out | A French Caper film who's recently restored version has been making the festival and art house circuit . The plot involves a man released from prison on the same day another man escapes from police custody on a moving train . Their lives intersect and robbery is committed . . . . The reviews for this re-release were gl... |
427,433 | 3,079,504 | 56,916 | 6 | A culture clash drama with a couple of action scenes in it , this is worth a look for those who want something thats not run of the mill . | 1902 in the Philippines , a group of American Calvary soldiers are dispatched to a small town to make friends and to put down the local uprising . Slowly they begin to win over the people in the town , however one of the rebels refuses to give up even though he sees the changes being made in the town . More drama than ... |
429,127 | 3,079,504 | 30,133 | 6 | Good but not great serial has everything a serial should be but never quite puts it all together | Two marines take on the evil Lightning who travels around the world in a giant wing . The lightning uses his " electrical thunderbolt " to kill those who stand in the way of world domination . Well acted despite being full of serial character clichés , this is a good , but not particularly great tale . I know many peop... |
428,466 | 3,079,504 | 74,356 | 6 | Story of a Bigfoot like monster on the loose is best watched at night with the lights out | Two college students from Chicago decide to investigate the stories of a Bigfoot-like creature in the area around Black Lake Louisiana . Once there they find that no one wants to talk to them about the creature . However they begin to make friends who open up with tales of the creature . They end up in a battle for the... |
427,645 | 3,079,504 | 858,479 | 6 | What an annoying bunch of jerks . | Cranky family learns to love and have a good time . Dennis Quaid is a super intelligent but miserable professor with a son who doesn't care for him , a daughter-Ellen Page playing a Juno variation - who is equally smart and miserable as her dad , an adopted brother , Thomas Haden Church who is a loafer , and a doctor h... |
426,882 | 3,079,504 | 276,919 | 6 | You'll Either Love It or Hate It | The story of what happens when Nichole Kidman arrives in Dogville is either going to thrill you or strike you as one of the worst films of all time . There is no set to speak of , only lines on the ground so the film comes off as nothing more than a filmed stage play . And while John Hurt's narration adds a dimension o... |
427,222 | 3,079,504 | 827,782 | 6 | better than it has a right to be | Direct to video sequel ( to the 1999 Geoffrey Rush film ) isn't bad for the early going as a journalist is forced to go back to said house in order to help the art thieves who killed her sister ( a survivor of the original film ) find a demonic statue thats also being sought by a professor of ancient art . The early go... |
426,826 | 3,079,504 | 303,361 | 6 | Disturbing but . . . | Before bed last night I watched May , the disturbing film about a girl who solves her friend problem in a unique way . I'm of mixed minds about this movie . It certainly is a disturbing and unsettling film , but I'm not sure its very good . Why its not very good is that its almost too much in its own little world , and... |
428,547 | 3,079,504 | 167,820 | 6 | There are two versions of this - a short Chritopher Lee narrated one and a 26 part series | The short two hour look at a couple of Scifi subjects via film clips ( from trailers ) is a companion piece to the similar One Hundred Years of Horror . This is a history of science fiction told through a few interviews as well as with clips from various movies culled from movie trailers which are in the public domain ... |
429,024 | 3,079,504 | 360,717 | 6 | Bloated remake is good but twice as long as it needs to be . | I don't hate the latest version of the Kong story , I just wish it wasn't so damn long and bloated . This is a long explanation of why I don't think its great film and CONTAINS NUMEROUS POTENTIAL SPOILERS . I know many will think I'm crazy , already one friend has threatened not to speak to me , but I must insist that ... |
427,583 | 3,079,504 | 39,645 | 6 | Stereotypical Hope Madness | This film is the best representation of what a Bob Hope movie is , a cowardly schnook operating with false bravado who gets in way over his head . With few exceptions this was the pattern that a good chunk of all of Hope's films would follow , some times it worked and sometime it didn't . Here the formula mostly works ... |
426,790 | 3,079,504 | 35,790 | 6 | Short Version : Dated recreation of the bombing of Pearl Harbor is best viewed in context of its time | I saw the short , 34 minute , version of this film and I'm intrigued by the notion of what constitutes a documentary since so much of this film has been recreated . Essentially the story of what happened on that morning this is brief retelling of what happened , mixed with a rousing warning to the Japanese that the des... |
428,091 | 3,079,504 | 30,159 | 6 | Great cast lifts up a run of the mill western adventure | The first third if this film takes place at the close of the American Civil War as Wild Bill Hickock goes once more behind enemy lines to get information which will end the war quickly . He shot but saved by the framed picture of the sister of his friend Steve . After the war Steve has relocated to the West where he ha... |
427,709 | 3,079,504 | 486,028 | 6 | Good but should have been better . I'm very ambivalent about it | Cops and an insurance investigator try to stop a serial bomber who torments with riddles and has now set his sight on a college student . Odd story with style that lacks and real characters you can care about . Its not a bad movie , far from it but this could have and should have been a great film , all that would have... |
427,002 | 3,079,504 | 260,838 | 6 | Despite not speaking the language I enjoyed this Bollywood attempt at a horror movie | I have to say at the outset that my impressions of this film are filtered through two limiting factors . First I saw this with out subtitles so other than the odd snatches of dialog in English I had no idea what was being said . Second I had never , until now , seen a Bollywood film from start to finish . The main plot... |
427,869 | 3,079,504 | 53,228 | 6 | Good but unremarkable Wallace thriller | Another in the German Wallace cycle involving multiple murders and blackmail as the result of an execution that went wrong seven years earlier . Good but not great this film never really added up to much more than people moving around trying to figure out who the villain was and to stay far enough on his good side that... |
427,033 | 3,079,504 | 871,426 | 6 | Tina Fey is way better than the material | Tina Fey is a successful professional who has missed out on the baby wagon . All her friends have families and she has promotions . Desperate for a child she tries a sperm bank but it fails when she is told that she is infertile . In desperation she takes on a surrogate who turns her life upside down . Clearly Tina Fey... |
428,355 | 3,079,504 | 57,049 | 6 | Great to look at swashbuckler filmed in Venice | Costumed actioner set in the city and benefiting from being filmed in and around the canals . the plot has to do with intrigue concerning the titled character and the inquisition . Its a costumed swashbuckler of the sort they don't make any more and rarely did they ever look this good or have such a great sense of plac... |
427,086 | 3,079,504 | 796,829 | 6 | Self Portrait of Werner Herzog is best seen by those who already know something of the man and his life | Odd rambling self portrait by Werner Herzog on himself . Mixing brief biographical information with clips from his movies this is more a sketch than a real portrait , and even then its incomplete since he only touches a handful of films and never really gives full biographical details . The problem here is much of this... |
427,868 | 3,079,504 | 22,352 | 6 | Why didn't Alan Hale Sr get more leads in sound films ? | Alan Hale ( Father of the Skipper on Gilligan Island ) stars as a Captain of a ship during WW1 . When a sub sinks a passenger liner near him he pauses in his pursuit of the sub to check for survivors . A Naval board of inquiry finds he disobeyed orders and removes him from service . Years later as Captain of his own sh... |
428,705 | 3,079,504 | 64,674 | 6 | Interesting film that goes more wrong the longer it runs | This satire on the American persona starts off as a biting attack on the jingoistic way we Americans force ourselves on others onto and treat other people at home , and mostly abroad . Mr Freedom , a boneheaded superhero is sent to rid France of communist infiltration . As he attempts to swing France back into American... |
427,655 | 3,079,504 | 396,857 | 6 | Surprising and surprisingly good | Cuba Gooding Jr and Helen Mirren are hit men lovers who fail to kill a pregnant woman and so take it on the lamb . Good but unremarkable noirish tale isn't worth much beyond being a time killer . Its clear why Mirren took the role which contrasts with her recent award winning ones . What works in the film is that it ki... |
426,806 | 3,079,504 | 381,966 | 6 | Good story of a woman trapped in the London underground after closing is done in by gaps in logic | This is the story of a girl who ends up trapped in a London subway station after hours , and who , as a result ends up coming face to face with a " creep " living in the tunnels and disused subway stations . I had read about this film awhile back and heard that it was pretty good . I stumbled upon it at a local video s... |
428,911 | 3,079,504 | 948,547 | 6 | Good but it tries to do too much with too many for too short a running time | Film about the aftermath of a shooting in a diner on the lives of the survivors , including the doctor who treats some of them and who just missed being part of the tragedy . Good multi-character story doesn't quite soar like the titled characters . There are too many characters for its brief running time ( Man feeling... |
428,310 | 3,079,504 | 137,146 | 6 | Worth a look if you run across it | Rob Lowe stars in the story of a decent guy who gets mixed up with some spoiled rich kids who decide to mess with him because they can ( They are rich with parents who are connected to keep them out of trouble and too young to have serious consequences . ) As Lowe's life spirals out of control and things fall apart he ... |
428,651 | 3,079,504 | 781,084 | 6 | unremarkable tale with some good action scenes | I picked this up in Chinatown as an import with no subtitles because the box art looked cool . I didn't know its out here on DVD in two weeks . Then again what I paid for it is better than the 27 buck list price . Okay , managa / anime sourced film about a tough young girl in New York returned to Japan when they find o... |
428,285 | 3,079,504 | 427,969 | 6 | Great cast , including a potential Oscar winning performance from Ben Affleck , shine in a story thats only half worth telling | Okay the answer to the Ben Affleck question is yes , he's on the fast track to another Oscar . Simply put he is that good , so good that this may end up his signature role which may forever be associated . As for the rest of the movie , yea well thats another story . This is the story of George Reeves . Beginning just ... |
428,494 | 3,079,504 | 241,527 | 6 | What I say doesn't matter | I'm not a fan of the books . The ones I read seem like Roald Dahl wannabes . To me the books were young adult fiction that seems like young adult fiction . This the , film version of the first book is actually pretty good , but suffers painfully from the fact that it attempts to get everything in the book on the screen... |
427,244 | 3,079,504 | 65,794 | 6 | And ? | I don't know if I was bored by this film because it isn't very good or because the images were stolen by later films . This film reminds me of other films like Forbidden Zone , Begotten and Lynch's own Eraserhead , all of which play better than this story of a boy who grows a Grandmother . How do you really critique th... |
427,473 | 3,079,504 | 470,994 | 6 | Repeated and questionable visuals make the stories told hard to believe | I've seen dozens of UFO documentaries and this one is decidedly middle of the pack . Set up as an interview with Dan Aykroyd about UFO's this is often wanders off from Dan to other people such as Gordon Cooper who also tell their stories about UFO's . The spoken material presented is for the most part pretty good and i... |
427,811 | 3,079,504 | 863,037 | 6 | While I'm still doubtful of much of the 911 conspiracy plot this film does raise raise some intriguing questions about the use of terror to control a population | Film by Alex Jones who runs the Prison Planet website about the use of terror to control the population . It particularly looks at the London subway bombings and of course 911 . Intriguing up to a point ( and once you get past the history lesson that starts the film ) this film raises a good number of questions about t... |
429,062 | 3,079,504 | 299,854 | 6 | Standard revenge tale enlivened by a great cast | A pilots pregnant wife is killed by a band of thugs who break into their home . The gang is caught and sent off to prison . Wanting to see that " justice " is done the pilot stages his own death and then gets himself arrested so he can hunt the killers in the prisons into which they have been sent . To be honest the st... |
428,535 | 3,079,504 | 39,849 | 6 | More western then Zorro this is too mechanical to be great | Hero returns from the Civil War and finds his home county over run by crooked politicians who are taxing everyone out of existence . Run of the mill western is pretty good but what is Zorro doing in all of this ? Clearly it was time to crank out the old cliffhangers and use them again . Give Republic points for turning... |
427,365 | 3,079,504 | 57,207 | 6 | Good but unremarkable crime tale | French remake of a 1914 serial involving a " crime fighter " who uses masks and deception to right wrongs and such . Similar in someways to a more real batman . This remake has Judex-the Latin for judge - going after a banker who swindled people by telling him that if he didn't repay the money he would die . And die he... |
428,850 | 3,079,504 | 140,551 | 6 | One of the better death ray knocks planes out of the sky films | Refusing to marry the count that her uncle has found for her a young lady flees her wedding and is pursued by her uncle and fiancé . Making her way to the airport she climbs in to a mail plane unaware that its a decoy for bunch of bandits who are using some unknown means to crash the planes so they can steal the mail .... |
428,891 | 3,079,504 | 22,265 | 6 | Creaky Beyond Words | A prisoner named the Phantom is moments away from going to the chair when he climbs over the wall , jumps on top of a passing train and makes a get away when a plane flies down and picks him up . He then threatens the DA , even though he's not the DA who sent him up the river . . . and then things get complicated . Thi... |
427,509 | 3,079,504 | 386,741 | 6 | Visual promise is let down by a " by the numbers " film noir plot | Researcher for the Avalon mega-corporation has gone missing and a police investigator is called into find out what happened and why . It quickly transpires that the researcher was on the trail of immortality and what she knows could be worth a great deal of money in the right hands . Animated using some of the best mot... |
427,129 | 3,079,504 | 83,347 | 6 | Twisted Hong Kong Horror | Unemployed man who's wife is expecting takes a job as a security guard in what turns out to be a haunted building . Warned that he is susceptible to the ghostly goings on he takes precautions to keep himself safe until weird things begin happening around his wife . Dark Twisted Hong Kong Horror film is one of the dark ... |
426,926 | 3,079,504 | 117,797 | 6 | You'll either love it or hate it | Love it or loath it tale of a young girl in Yentown who's mother dies and she is taken in by a collection of oddball characters . Polyglot film is a mix of languages and styles with a drive to be about something . It didn't work for me and after about a quarter of its two and a half hour running time I had to give up ,... |
427,901 | 3,079,504 | 1,266,149 | 6 | Good , but far from great martial arts film is throw back to films of the 1980's | In 1935 LA four " problem solvers " are hired by a woman to kill her sister in China and given 100 grand each to do it . Complications arise when one of them falls in love with the woman . Good throw back to a 1980's American martial arts film that manages to keep you interested thanks to some good performances , good ... |
426,796 | 3,079,504 | 424,095 | 6 | A dull central character hurts a film filled with great asides and one liners | Beautiful pieces never hang together in this tale of a family pet who ends up in the sewer when a rat from the street turns the tables on him and flushes him down the toilet . This is the first Aardman piece that I really don't care for . Certainly I will watch it again to see if I'm wrong , but for the most part this ... |
426,887 | 3,079,504 | 416,496 | 6 | mindless fun | Caught this on one of the multitudinous HBO channels . When a bad American played by Dwight Yokum forcibly takes control of various property in early 20th century Mexico for the building of a railway , Penelope Cruz and Selma Hayek band together and begin robbing banks to get the money to fight the bad guy . Its a bit ... |
427,987 | 3,079,504 | 990,361 | 6 | Weird , unpleasant and needing a second viewing | Weird unpleasant and unnerving murder mystery that I still haven't completely unraveled . It begins with two men hitting a pedestrian , stealing the money he was carrying and getting mixed up with a kidnapping . Meanwhile a young detective with two kids investigates a murder that seems to be related . Thats a poor atte... |
428,071 | 3,079,504 | 265,086 | 6 | As a look at men in modern battle this is very good . As a depiction of the actual event its fair | Prompted by listening to the book on CD going to and from work I finally sat down and watched Ridley Scott's film of the day everything went wrong in Mogadishu Somalia . The plan was to go in , secure a building where some of a wanted warlord's men were meeting and then get out . From the minute the soldiers started to... |
427,436 | 3,079,504 | 29,745 | 6 | Good adventure tale has too many songs and is a bit too meandering to really score , however as a late night time killer its worth a shot | Okay adventure film and set up for a series that never happened concerning the exploits of Wallaby Jim and his crew of sailors in the south seas . The story concerns Jim delaying filing his claim for a pearl rich island in order to bring the girl of the man keeping an eye on the island to see him . Trouble follows as J... |
427,043 | 3,079,504 | 397,101 | 6 | Badly paced Gothic horror story squanders great cast by only allowing an occasional chill | I'm not sure how much I should tell you about this Gothic swamp horror tale . The story is nominally the tale of Kate Hudson who goes to care for a dying man deep in the swamps near new Orleans . Once there she encounters some very strange things going on in and around the house . The cast is first rate with Kate Hudso... |
428,335 | 3,079,504 | 432,021 | 6 | Forget the plot ( the filmmakers did ) this is worth seeing for the action and monster sequences | Survivors of the virus that has ravaged the world , turning the dead into zombies and the world into a vast wasteland , have learned to keep moving least the zombies find them . Milla Jovovich returns as Alice , zombie killer number one . After some lone wanderings in the Desert she hooks up with a band of travelers an... |
429,009 | 3,079,504 | 74,715 | 6 | A numbers king pin tries to stay in business as the mafia and police close in around him . Its a below poverty production that is decent but deserving of a bigger budget | This is a low budget , made on the cheap film that does possess some charm . The problem is that it meanders all over the place and never picks up any real steam . The plot begins with a sit down between Pasha and his Italian gangster counter part Big Tony ( played by the top billed Frank DeKova aka Chief Wild Eagle fr... |
428,262 | 3,079,504 | 29,712 | 6 | Good and pretty much unknown adventure yarn | Conrad Veidt plays Gil De Berault , a duelist and rogue who occasionally helps Cardinal Richelieu ( Raymond Massey ) . Needing to have an opponent to the crown found and killed , Richelieu sends De Berault on a mission . However De Berault finds romance with his enemies sister and must find away to keep everyone , espe... |
429,129 | 3,079,504 | 22,028 | 6 | Good early serial is an odd mix of locations and situations . Interesting for no other reason then Boris Karloff is a villain | Robert Grant is an American in the east who bears an uncanny resemblance to a Raja . When the Raja is killed by a tiger he was hunting Grant is forced to take his place so that the Raja's cousin won't seize the throne before the rightful heir can ascend . Unfortunately for Grant his friend Harris sells him out to the e... |
426,835 | 3,079,504 | 364,970 | 6 | In desperate need of a directors cut to clarify things | Troubled science fiction dystopia tale shows signs of the greatness that once attracted the cast and crew to it but also shows signs of being tinkered with the the edge of utter failure . As it stands now ( in the US version ) its an okay tale in need of further explanations and clarifications . Vin Diesel is a soldier... |
427,230 | 3,079,504 | 307,681 | 6 | Cute but forgettable | The life of a group of kids and their parents as they try to survive the rigors of school and child rearing . Its a cute movie that doesn't completely translate to these western eyes . I don't understand the school system , though I do understand the conflicts between kids and parents as well the craziness of everyday ... |
426,927 | 3,079,504 | 225,831 | 6 | weird | Weird Japanese horror , monster movie about man who is infected by a demon that is snatched away when the demon comes out by a former carrier who likes to eat the beasties . Hard to describe film ( its not completely clear in some aspects ) is best described as a as what it is , a 1980's horror film with rubber monster... |
428,562 | 3,079,504 | 171,824 | 6 | Realistic account of the events in the big budget A Bridge Too Far is worth seeing simply because it shows the battle as it really was . | This is what we would now call a docudrama about the battle in and around Arnhem during the closing days of the Second World War . Mixing actual footage of the battle with new footage shot a year after the war in and around the ravaged city with many of the surviving soldiers playing themselves , this tells the same st... |
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