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427,027 | 3,079,504 | 780,607 | 7 | Disturbing | Disturbing horror film about a weird signal that has disrupted all phone , TV and radio service . It changes your mind so that you become rationally homicidal . There is a rhyme and a reason to what you do , it just involves well thought out murder . There is something about the film that gets under your skin since its... |
429,080 | 3,079,504 | 52,611 | 7 | Better than I remembered it | Giant Behemoth surprised me . Catching the film really from the first frame for the first time in years I was shocked by just how damn good the movie is . Owing more to the British thrillers such as the Quatermass films and the stark black and white horror films of Hammer ( X The Unknown ) or things like the Day the Ea... |
429,000 | 3,079,504 | 52,609 | 7 | Gangsters and Monsters collide in a drive-in classic | Drive-in classic is the first time cult director Monte Hellman made a feature . Here its the story of a bunch of gangsters on the run after a robbery who hide out in a cabin in the mountains . Adding to the complications is a monster lurking in a near by cave . As the gangsters try to figure out how to get away from th... |
427,175 | 3,079,504 | 35,165 | 7 | Solid western serial hits all the right notes | Solid western serial stars Lon Chaney and Noah Beery Jr as trouble shooters hired by the military to find out who is trying to stop the mail from going through . Filled with breezy action and good characters this is everything you typically think of as a serial , actually to the point that it seems formulaic . Don't le... |
427,911 | 3,079,504 | 56,492 | 7 | Epic production about the first Emperor of China is one of the best looking films ever made . Its also a bit too talky and soapy for its own good . | Shintaro Katsu , best known for playing Zatoichi , plays the first Chinese Emperor , Qin . This is essentially the story of Qin from the founding of " China " by his unifying the various provinces , through the building of the great wall on to close to his death . Its a huge epic production thats been compared to weste... |
426,928 | 3,079,504 | 286,204 | 7 | disturbing | German made thriller about a killer with connections to Tattoos . When a body turns up burned and mutilated , with a chunk of skin missing , a senior cop blackmails a younger cop into helping him try and find the killer , as well as another missing girl gone two years . The investigation leads to several other bodies a... |
429,101 | 3,079,504 | 1,029,120 | 7 | Sometimes life gets in the way | Luke Wilson is a man who wants to live a life of quiet desperation and drown his sorrows in as much alcohol as possible . However when the house he buys develops a water stain in the stucco in the back which a neighbor takes to be the face of God , he's forced to interact with the people around him . Amusing little tal... |
427,492 | 3,079,504 | 352,248 | 7 | Painfully slow first hour weakens a very good Depression era drama | This is the story of Jim Braddock a " washed up " fighter and one time championship contender who manages to turn a fluke chance into something more . Its a rousing story about a man who although appears to have hit bottom manages to pull himself up again for the sake of his family . Word has this as an early contender... |
427,670 | 3,079,504 | 780,571 | 7 | Costner and Hurt Sshine in this tale of a serial killer | Kevin Costner is a great guy and man of the year sort of fellow who has a dark side-he's a serial killer . On one of the biggest nights of his life Brooks gives in to the voice in his head ( played by William Hurt ) and begins to kill again . Unfortunately he's spotted by Dane Cook who wants to go out with him on the n... |
428,081 | 3,079,504 | 806,008 | 7 | Disturbing horror film may haunt you if you click with it | 6 beautiful women end up in a house by the country where they are help captive by a crazy person who has strict rules they must follow . Odd , occasionally , disturbing horror film from Argentina . Its a film that works because it plays with the rules of horror films in such away that at times you don't know what to fe... |
427,350 | 3,079,504 | 1,029,167 | 7 | Good little thriller | Cole Hauser is an under cover FBI agent deep in a criminal organization . Told to torture an accountant by his boss , the unseen Ziggy , to find out where several million dollars in missing money went , Cole starts to realize that things are not as they seem . Good little B movie that probably should have gotten some s... |
428,498 | 3,079,504 | 167,190 | 7 | They Got Everything Right But the Pacing | Having been a Hellboy fan for years I've been looking forward to the movie since it was announced . Now that I've seen it I'm of mixed minds . First off its one of the most faithful adaptations of a comic ever put on the screen where everything looks and feels right . The trouble is that the term leadenly paced doesn't... |
427,130 | 3,079,504 | 372,937 | 7 | Good . Better than the American remake | I watched this because I saw the American remake earlier in the day ( Mirrors ) . Its nice to see that the remake isn't an exact mashing of the original film . Here an ex-cop goes to work for his uncle's department as a security guard . The store is reopening after a fire and everything is going fine until a series of ... |
427,242 | 3,079,504 | 60,984 | 7 | Impossible to rate correctly | This is the film portion of a sculpture that had images projected on it . Its basically abstract people getting sick and throwing up . Sort of . As I said its all abstract so the figures are only reasonably human . The image runs about a minute and then is repeated several times , which was then looped into endless ill... |
427,691 | 3,079,504 | 373,051 | 7 | Just okay in 2D , in 3D its a great thrill ride | I must not decide to see 3D movies in 2D simply because I can't see Hellboy2 Okay ( in 2D ) retelling of the Jules Verne classic has Brendon Fraser as a geologist who's brother has been missing for ten years . As the university Fraser is teaching at is getting ready to close down his lab , his nephew turns up to spend ... |
427,407 | 3,079,504 | 478,024 | 7 | Action sequences make this movie a must see | Watched the dubbed version of SPL , which the Weinstein's have retitled KillZone , thus assuring that anyone who knew of the original title couldn't find the American DVD . Hell I had to do a double take when I found it in the bargain bin at a local video store for five bucks . ( granted it rang up as an early 90's fil... |
427,902 | 3,079,504 | 74,083 | 7 | Hard edged thriller is compelling even when it gets silly . It also has one of the best unsung chase scenes in movie history | Stuart Whitman is a police Captain who's sister ( played by Tisha Farrow who looks more like his daughter ) dies under mysterious circumstances . Whitman suspects murder and begins to investigate leading him down the road to violence and unwanted revelations . An odd mix of hardcore police action and gaillo thrillers t... |
428,203 | 3,079,504 | 1,037,146 | 7 | Charming and amusing romantic comedy from Tsui Hark is his best film in a decade | This is a comedy about three women trying to find , well deal with , love , and the transformations that take place as a result . One is a scientist who ends up experimenting with pheromones , one is a young rock singer who's best friend is an imaginary version of a big rock star and the third is the head of a huge cor... |
428,364 | 3,079,504 | 48,127 | 7 | Forget the American Version , the Japanese one is so much better | Picked up the remastered version recently released . It has the Japanese and American versions of the film . I watched the longer Japanese version which is oh so much better . Gone is the stupid narration . The voices actually match the characters and don't come off dopey . There are also scenes with silences , somethi... |
428,209 | 3,079,504 | 836,683 | 7 | Breaking conventions this is a film that must be seen from start to finish and on its own terms | Mystery with supernatural overtones about a brother and sister who go to sign off on the impending death of their father in a hospital . Complications almost instantly arise ( " We were only suppose to sign papers , not see him " balks the girl ) . While traveling after signing the papers they discover discover an old ... |
427,421 | 3,079,504 | 56,622 | 7 | Interesting time capsule look at anti-communist propaganda . Its a political argument and warning in documentary form and not drama in the conventional sense | How do you rate this movie correctly ? I don't know if its possible since this is not really a real movie so much as anti-communist anti-atheist propaganda of a most extreme nature . Basil Rathbone is one of two " few " survivors . He is lecturing to Mary Murphy about the history and evils of communism . Set in an neth... |
428,542 | 3,079,504 | 960,144 | 7 | Amusing | Amusing Adam Sandler movie is a shift away from the serious films he's done of late back to the silliness of old . Actually not completely since the film is essentially a plea for everyone to get along . Zohan is an Israeli counter terrorist that is above all others . Tired of killing people he want to come to America ... |
427,415 | 3,079,504 | 56,630 | 7 | Good but it plays like an Edgar Wallace greatest hits film . | A priest arriving by train to London collapses while having an orange soda . A doctor appears and says that the man is in having a heart attack and gives him a shot before trying to lift a key , which the police confiscate . The priest dies and the doctor disappears . It transpires that the doctor was carrying one of t... |
427,376 | 3,079,504 | 56,633 | 7 | Better than the title " Playgirls and the Vampire " | Five show girls , their manager and his assistant end up at a secluded castle when they are forced to take a detour when the road is washed out . At the castle they are warned to stay in their rooms during the night , but one of the girls wanders out and falls to her death . Meanwhile one of the other other girls , who... |
428,828 | 3,079,504 | 382,932 | 7 | Good but not that good comedy doesn't hit its stride until the last half hour | The story of Remy a rat with a unique sense of taste and smell who wants nothing more than to cook . Ending up in Paris at the restaurant run by his idol Remy links up with a garbage boy named Linguini in the quest for culinary greatness . Sue me I'm not in love with this film . Certainly the voice cast is great with a... |
427,025 | 3,079,504 | 481,797 | 7 | A head trip pulp science fiction film about ideas-its not what you think it is | Francis Ford Coppola returns to completing his own films for the first time in 10 years ( he's been working on Megalopolis which he's more or less abandoned and done some re-shoots for friends ) . He's made a film that is probably best described as philosophical pulp . Its based on a deeply philosophical Romanian novel... |
427,431 | 3,079,504 | 30,442 | 7 | Charming screwball comedy suffers only in that it has too much going on | Screwball comedy directed by Norman Z McLeod the man behind several Marx Brothers and WC Fields films is pure silliness . The plot has a family of semi-crazies taking on a man they think is a hobo to be their chauffeur . He is actually a writer of some renowned . As he navigates the waters of the familial home romance ... |
428,096 | 3,079,504 | 470,402 | 7 | bloody comedy is a great deal of fun if you can stand the gore and click into its goofy wavelength | Thai comedy can be painfully funny . There is often a sense that anything goes so long as it gets a laugh , the result is wild crazy out of left field quality that is totally endearing . A perfect example of this is this movie . The plot has a mutation of the Sars virus that turns people into flesh eating zombies getti... |
428,032 | 3,079,504 | 386,130 | 7 | What would happen if the dead did come back | This is NOT a horror film . When a decades long missing boy returns to his mother a ministry official is sent to investigate . Soon more dead people begin to return to their loved ones . What is the nature of longing , of human needs and of mourning . What would you do if that person you've missed finally came back ? T... |
428,790 | 3,079,504 | 17,739 | 7 | Grandfather of all horror comedies | This is the stereotypical old dark house movie , all the relatives come to and old dark house and some one begins to kill them , or tries to . This has been remade several times , each version having its flaws and its strengths . This is the first version , and while I would like to say its the best , I can't since the... |
428,273 | 3,079,504 | 74,201 | 7 | Euro-sleaze film is much better than its should be ( though I doubt you'll ever find it in English ) | In these " enlightened times " I'm hard pressed to know if one should admit to having seen this movie , but considering that its actually a pretty good erotic sleaze film , I'll happily say I saw it . The plot is told mostly in flashback . It begins with a young girl seeing her mom have ( simulated ) sex with a dog . D... |
427,771 | 3,079,504 | 1,174,954 | 7 | Very good horror animated film who's only flaw is some of the animation isn't up to snuff | Animated Resident Evil story set at an airport in Harvardville after the destruction of Raccoon City . As politician s argue with big business about chemicals that turned people into zombies , the dead return and begin to eat people . Very good animated horror film suffers from its video game style animation . Yes this... |
428,804 | 3,079,504 | 74,211 | 7 | Good but Not Great | I had heard that this film and its in name only prequel were suppose to be some of the best of the of the Hong Kong Horror films . I very much liked the first film in a goofy gory sort of way , while this one just didn't grab me . I mean that almost literally since after about the first five or ten minutes I became dis... |
428,533 | 3,079,504 | 39,193 | 7 | Seemingly forgotten serial is better than it should be thanks to neat gadgets and a go for it attitude | Someone is killing off industrialists with a poison that is similar to the poison of a black widow . The person behind it is the evil Sombra , a woman who is using her fortune telling business as a front for blackmail and espionage . The Clarion Newspaper assigns one of its reporters to follow a well known mystery writ... |
427,017 | 3,079,504 | 282,039 | 7 | The story of the men who fought in the Huertgen Forest . | Very good documentary hosted by both Tom Brokaw and Walter Cronkite about the coming together of soldiers , both American and German who fought against each other in the Huertgen Forest . Watching the men try to catch up after 50 years and try to explain and make sense of what happened is both touching and sad . The fi... |
428,046 | 3,079,504 | 65,456 | 7 | Direct sequel to Mad Doctor of Blood Island is much better if seen as part of a double feature program with the first film | This the direct sequel to Mad Doctor of Blood Island . Its the fourth ( or third if you don't count the unrelated Terror is a Man ) in the Blood Island saga . Literally picking up hours after the first film , the film begins on the boat sailing away from Blood Island . As John Ashley waxes poetic about his time on the ... |
427,495 | 3,079,504 | 368,855 | 7 | Excellent action film thats a bit too tied to Japanese history for Western eyes | This is the story of a Christian martyr who is killed when the uprising he is leading is put down . Vowing vengeance he returns from the dead and with the help of other unhappy souls he tries to destroy the shogun responsible for his death . Opposing him is swordsman Jubei , who has to fight his way through the undead ... |
426,795 | 3,079,504 | 74,113 | 7 | Adults only retelling of the Lewis Carroll tale is a great deal of fun | Adult version of the classic Lewis Carroll tale is much better than you might expect . Here Alice is a virginal librarian who falls down the rabbit hole and learns to love sex and her own self image . Made at the time when adult films were creative endeavors with plots instead of just a series of sex scenes , this is a... |
427,578 | 3,079,504 | 455,538 | 7 | I liked it I can't say more than that | Simon Pegg plays a rude crude and often out of control celebrity journalist who is brought from England to work for a big American magazine . Of course his winning ways create all sorts of complications . Amusing fact based comedy that co stars Kristen Dunst ( looking rather grown up ) , Danny Huston , and Jeff Bridges... |
428,501 | 3,079,504 | 1,032,846 | 7 | Good but not as good as the hype | Much hyped winner of Cannes , and center of a firestorm concerning the wonky way the Oscars pick their foreign language nominees , this film was carrying a great deal of baggage with it when I sat down to watch it on IFC in Theaters on demand service on cable . The story of the film is simple , two young women , one of... |
427,727 | 3,079,504 | 182,503 | 7 | So much better than you think it is | The advantage to having seen every episode of the original Star Trek series is that when some one lifts the plot of three or four of the episodes and turns them into a Turkish comedy it becomes very easy to follow . For those without a running knowledge of episode titles this mainly the salt monster episode redone as a... |
428,827 | 3,079,504 | 260,492 | 7 | First film by a grind house superstar is possibly better than everything else that followed simply because it was closest to his heart | Milligan's first film is possibly his best . Certainly its one of the few where the technical limitations of his equipment didn't hurt the film ( Andy used basically one camera with one lens which could make things cramped ) The plot has the meeting of two men in a gay bath house and talking . Very little happens other... |
428,024 | 3,079,504 | 70,393 | 7 | Good crime drama | Dirty Harry like cop investigates the murder of a fellow cop and beats up and kills a good number of bad guys in the process . Violent police drama keeps your attention focused thanks to an almost constant stream of beatings and shootings . Not the best film and certainly far from the worst , this is just a good solid ... |
428,230 | 3,079,504 | 30,312 | 7 | Good Edgar Wallace adaption is more " romantic mystery " than straight mystery with a bit of suspense getting lost in the verbal sparring of the leads | Inspector Pemberton is called to a Lord's house in order to investigate a missing cigarette case . There he meets the Lord's secretary named Kate who the Lord's daughter thinks stole the case . Smitten , Pemberton ponders how he can meet her again , only to find out that she is actually Kate Westhanger , the leader of ... |
429,051 | 3,079,504 | 368,891 | 7 | Good Popcorn Movie | Completely unbelievable but fun romp around the world looking for treasure . . . it won't win any awards but its a good two hours at the movies . The plot to trying to find a lost treasure a clue to which is on the back of the Declaration of Independence is so beyond belief that its best to simply begin by throwing up ... |
426,905 | 3,079,504 | 39,232 | 7 | Good Late Late Show movie about pilots in the Great White North is the type of thing you'd stumble across and stay up all night watching | Red is a freight pilot somewhere in the North of Canada . He makes his living hauling freight by air all over the wilderness . He's a stand up guy in love with the local school teacher named Hillary . When Red's no good brother Paul comes North he starts up a competing business and tries moving in on Red's girl . Thing... |
427,493 | 3,079,504 | 361,089 | 7 | British send up of WW2 films is a tad slow to start but is a funny feel good movie | Oh boy , Disney has their hands full with this one . . . a British animated and voiced film about World War Two with death , destruction and rude jokes . Oh , lets hope they don't cut the living hell out of this thing . This is the story of Valiant , a smaller than normal pigeon , who wants to join up with the Royal Ca... |
427,571 | 3,079,504 | 35,753 | 7 | For get the reputation and overtones to the Occupation , this is just a good thriller | Henri-Georges Clouzot's tale of the trouble an unending series of poison pen letters causes in a small village is a solid little thriller . The tale of letters signed Le Corbeau revealing all the well hidden secrets of a country village has been hailed as a great classic , I'm not sure I would go that far , but it is a... |
429,112 | 3,079,504 | 858,486 | 7 | In 3D this is a trip to a place you've never been and worth seeing ( in 2D its not quite that ) | The plot is a simple one . On an alien world an alien invasion force comes and tries to take over . The aliens are humans who need to terraform the planet for it to be of any use to us . One alien with an incredible ability to build things ends up rescuing a downed human pilot and a bond is begrudgingly formed , that i... |
427,827 | 3,079,504 | 60,701 | 7 | One of the Jess Franco films | Proof Jess Franco can make a movie . I shouldn't say it like that since I'm a fan , of sorts , and Franco can make a good film usually after a long run of ones that make you scream otherwise ( One need look at most of his recent shot on video stuff to wonder how he keeps getting money to make movies ) . Beautifully sho... |
429,086 | 3,079,504 | 454,824 | 7 | Clichéd but often spectacular tale of pilots during the First World War | A good but unremarkable story of the Lafayette Escadrille in World War One . This is the story of a bunch of men who volunteered to fly for the French prior to the American entry into the war . Its the usual cross section of guys , most on the run from something who learn to come together in the skies of France . What ... |
428,927 | 3,079,504 | 757,061 | 7 | Disturbing tale of a man looking for his lost love is good , but very graphic horror tale that will shock some sensibilities | An American looking for a lost love in Japan ends up on an island full of whores . Unable to find his love he spends the night with a woman who begins to tell him of her life , and of his lost love . ( I'm going to leave it at that since the way the story is told and its structure as a series of retold tales , or as a ... |
427,548 | 3,079,504 | 64,627 | 7 | Strange off shoot of Laugh-in is sporadically funny | This is essentially an updated Abbott and Costello film for 1969 with Rowan and Martin standing in for Bud and Lou . The plot has the boys wandering around a " haunted " house looking for hidden jewels while trying to remain alive and avoid " werewolves " and " vampires " . Its a weird mix of comedy horror and mystery ... |
428,202 | 3,079,504 | 986,233 | 7 | The story of Bobby Sands is well made but a bit distanced | Steve McQueen's film of the events around the hunger strike that took the life of Bobby Sands and others . Well made and harrowing this is a film I admired more than I liked . A film you have to watch , most of the film seems to be visual , you watch the characters in their cell , with friends who visit , being beaten ... |
427,386 | 3,079,504 | 65,649 | 7 | The pieces are better than the whole in the first film in color ( and in some ways key to all films that follow ) by Akira Kurasowa | The title is the sound that one of the characters makes as he drives his imaginary trolley across the garbage dump where the characters live . The film is based on a series of stories by Shugoro Yamamoto and tells the story of a group of people who effectively live in ramshackle homes on the edge of the dump . It's a m... |
428,578 | 3,079,504 | 35,784 | 7 | Dark thriller is a bit creaky but the perfect thing for a dark and stormy night | George Zucco plays two brothers , one good , one evil . One is dead and one is undead . Good brother George killed bad brother George because he was in league with the devil . The problem is that evil henchman Dwight Frye knows what happens and he resurrected the evil brother in the form of a vampire to take revenge . ... |
429,138 | 3,079,504 | 96,244 | 7 | Some of the best dialog ever written | This story of an ex-drug smuggler who's life is turned upside down by the police and the return of his partner , both of whom are looking for his stash of money would be a pretty run of the mill and unremarkable movie if it wasn't for some of the best written dialog I've ever heard . The words breath life in to what is... |
428,485 | 3,079,504 | 820,111 | 7 | For lovers of gore and blood by the gallon this is a neat little film-for anyone else this is going to be something to avoid | Deranged and graphically gory Japanese film about little beings taking people over and turning them into necroborg-zombie like machines - which beat and hack each other apart so that the winner can eat the loser . In the middle of this a pair of lovers become infected . Technically superb horror comedy ( ? ) is only fo... |
427,299 | 3,079,504 | 83,034 | 7 | Its aged a bit , but this is still a better than average film about a family trapped by some lions | I'm one of 8 people who saw this in the theater when it played 20 plus years ago . Based on true events of how droughts in Africa were causing the lions to attack people this is the story of one family that ends up trapped in their house with lions outside . Starring Tom Skeritt and Michelle Phillips the film is a smal... |
428,984 | 3,079,504 | 25,644 | 7 | After four great chapters this settles in a routine rhythm that diminishes its greatness to just goodness | Early Universal serial concerns the quest for the two halves of a sacred disc on which is written a formula of great value . Beginning in China during a revolution the the adventure shifts to various locations around the world . To be honest the first four episodes of the this serial are four of the best in serial hist... |
426,977 | 3,079,504 | 35,613 | 7 | Not the best serial ever made but entertaining and compulsively watchable | Group of young men at a private flying school are angling toward a career in the army as fliers ( Its during WW2 ) . Into the mix comes the Black Hangman a Nazi agent who is killing industrialists and looking for the map to Ankaban a lost city in Africa . Moving from the airfield to the jungle this is a neat little mov... |
428,996 | 3,079,504 | 91,651 | 7 | Rethink of the vampire legend is brooding and atmospheric and recommended for those who don't need a another run of the mill vampire film | Christopher Plummer goes to Venice to investigate the last known appearance of Nosferatu during the Carnival of 1786 . Plummer seems to think that the vampire is searching for a means to put an end to his torment and actually be dead . He stays with a family who legend says , has the vampire trapped in a tomb in the ba... |
428,298 | 3,079,504 | 496,806 | 7 | A nice distraction | Follow up to the two earlier films ( yes there are references to both ) is better and more together than the second film but not as good as the first . Its more of the same with a plot ( getting revenge on Pacino for screwing over Elliot Gould ) thats a movie and not an excuse to party off screen . A bit too leisurely ... |
427,562 | 3,079,504 | 435,653 | 7 | Once the ghosts show up this film is a great ride | Three friends who are saluting a dead friend dance in a cemetery and across the grave of three people who's spirits come to haunt them . . . and try to kill them . It takes a while for things to get going but once the monsters show up this movie suddenly starts to fire on all cylinders thanks to some really good effect... |
427,593 | 3,079,504 | 364,725 | 7 | Funny comedy with a few bumps | I delayed for a long time in watching Dodgeball because I despise Ben Stiller with an unnatural passion . While I think he's fine as a regular actor I find any and all of his attempts at comedic acting unbearable . I have to say that this was a major loss on my part because this is a funny funny movie . This is the typ... |
428,669 | 3,079,504 | 810,823 | 7 | Really good horror film ( it will help if you know as little as possible ) | Hey wait a minute a low budget horror film thats actually pretty good . Despite bumpy start this is a good film about a guy who is being killed again and again , each time jumping into a new life . I don't want to say more since the film is solving the puzzle as to what's going on . This is a good story that seems like... |
428,561 | 3,079,504 | 307,431 | 7 | Trippy examination of a historian looking for the Holy Grail and ended up in bed with the Nazis | Richard Stanley had been hired by Britain's Channel Four to do a film on the real Raiders of the Lost Ark about the Nazi search for the Ark of the Covenant , however it quickly became clear that there was no such story to tell . Instead he found the story of Otto Rahn and his quest for the Holy Grail . Channel Four was... |
428,771 | 3,079,504 | 435,638 | 7 | Enjoyable , but not great look at one of the movies ' great , but unknown , directors | Documentary portrait of the King of the B's . Ulmer worked primarily in the poverty row studios in America , after a starting in Europe in the 1920's . The work he turned out usually was looked better and played better than the rest of the films that the studios he worked for turned out . This is the man who gave us De... |
427,767 | 3,079,504 | 382,077 | 7 | Good program thriller by an A-list cast | The story of what happens when a father and daughter move to the country after the death of the mother is a creepy little thriller . I have to say that I wasn't expecting much , and talk of multiple endings made me think that this was a troubled film that wasn't going to be very good . I was surprised to find that desp... |
426,890 | 3,079,504 | 477,348 | 7 | I like it , but I think its been over praised and over hyped | I'm going to have to think about this film a while . I watched the new Cohen Brothers film because of all the best picture nods its gotten in the last couple of days . Clearly my thoughts on the film have been colored by the high esteem the film has . I like it I don't don't love it . Deeply Philosophical and existenti... |
428,745 | 3,079,504 | 936,501 | 7 | Liam Neeson becomes an action hero | Luc Besson produces a slam bang action thriller starring Liam Neeson . Neeson is a divorced dad who adores his daughter , but can't provide for her like her new step dad since his security gig doesn't pay all that well . When his daughter goes to France things take a turn for the worst as she ends up kidnapped . This i... |
427,106 | 3,079,504 | 53,121 | 7 | black comedy about the horrors of war | The title is a reference to the destruction of the remnants of a harvest , like rice husks , by farmers who burn them creating fires on the plains . This is a bleak tale of the destruction of the Japanese soldier . The story is set in the closing days of the Philippines campaign as a soldier with TB who returns from a ... |
428,987 | 3,079,504 | 25,712 | 7 | Good , but slowly paced independent serial , is worth a look if for no other reason then a rare good guy role for Bela Lugosi | Bela Lugosi gets to play one of his rare good guy roles in a serial based upon the long running radio hit ( which was also the source of a feature film where Lugosi played the villain . ) Lugosi cuts a fine dashing figure and its sad that he didn't get more roles where he could be the guy in command in a good way . Her... |
428,564 | 3,079,504 | 53,137 | 7 | Sure its powerful and a story that should be told , but do we have to watch it ? | Bleak , black and thoroughly depressing this film has to go on the list of all time downers . This is the story of the end of the world via radiation as survivors try to find a safe place and other people still alive , but instead find only the abyss . Stanley Kramer's powerful look at what nuclear war may bring is a m... |
428,531 | 3,079,504 | 910,970 | 7 | Good but not great , despite some wonderful pieces | This is the story of Wall-E a robot who is alone working on earth cleaning up the polluted planet . One day he finds a plant and takes it home . When one day a space ship lands Wall-E meets EVE who has been left on the planet for some reason . The reason is to find signs that plants are returning , so when Wall-E shows... |
427,646 | 3,079,504 | 470,993 | 7 | Taken on its own terms this is a pretty creepy movie | Warning : There are spoilers ahead . Friends reunite for the funeral for one of their childhood group called " The Crazy Eights " . They are left a box and told to open it together . Inside the box is a map which leads them to a house where they find a trunk ? and more revelations as the group ends up at the ruins of a... |
428,794 | 3,079,504 | 52,829 | 7 | Good but the 1938 version is better | Updated version of a story that had been turned into the film in 1938 England ( Return of the Frog ) concerning the pursuit by the police of a master criminal known as the Frog because of the frog like get up ( bulging eyes etc ) he wears . One of the good Wallace films from the 1960's it's a solid little entertainment... |
428,576 | 3,079,504 | 22,254 | 7 | Funny funny precode film clearly shows what a good sound comedian Buster Keaton was | This is a great film that is very funny especially once it gets going . The premise is that an engaged couple wants to wed but can't do so until the girl's older sister does so ( they don't want her to appear to be an old maid ) . The sister is having a hard time finding anyone to marry because she insists her husband ... |
427,107 | 3,079,504 | 52,805 | 7 | Good 1950's scifi | 1959 movie about a test pilot who disobeys orders and ends up flying higher than he should - becoming the title in the process . He also returns to earth looking like the burnt casserole man . Filmed in England yet set in White Sands New Mexico this is a slow but decent little scifi thriller about an experiment that go... |
428,146 | 3,079,504 | 35,570 | 7 | Really good B mystery | The cop father of a private detective is killed when he stumbles on a criminal enterprise . The private detective decides to investigate the case in the three days left to him before he goes into the army . Much better then it sounds crime drama is a breezy little film , it runs under an hour . With nary a pause once t... |
426,894 | 3,079,504 | 910,905 | 7 | I was amused and entertained , I can't say more than that | Tommy Lee Jones stars in a murder mystery based on a novel by James Lee Burke . Its seems the bodies of young women are beginning to turn up all over the area . Meanwhile a big movie star discovers the skeletal remains of someone out in the bayou , an event which kicks up memories for cop Jones . This rambling tale is ... |
427,260 | 3,079,504 | 136,737 | 7 | Eddie Constantine is in fine form trying to save a friend and bring a criminal to justice | Almost twenty years after the close of the Second World War Charlie gets a call from a friend , he has found the man , a war criminal , that he has been chasing around the world for the previous two decades . Reluctantly Charlie leaves his horse farm in France and goes to Greece to meet his friend . Upon arrival he fin... |
427,451 | 3,079,504 | 140,659 | 7 | Good adventure yarn | A woman hires a boat captain to take her into the Amazon where her father has gone missing . Along the way the villains end up kidnapping her and its up to the Captain to to rescue her . Very good adventure yarn with some great action , some clever turns and one of the nastiest piranha attacks ever caught on film . ( I... |
428,264 | 3,079,504 | 29,942 | 7 | very good but very hokey | Nominally the founding of Boys Town by Father Flanagan and his push to prove that there are no bad boys . Its as syrupy and sweet as they come . I doubt very much that the film is very close to what happened since everything in Spencer Tracy's hands is bound to be okay . I have no idea why but I was moved to mistiness ... |
426,862 | 3,079,504 | 22,172 | 7 | A good little thriller | This is a good little thriller from the beginnings of sound . The only real problems it has are due to the era it was made , one when music wasn't a standard part of talkies , so the pace can seem a bit slow . The plot concerns a murder during an elaborate game of charades . The bullets fired aren't blanks and as a res... |
428,606 | 3,079,504 | 477,457 | 7 | Erotic pirate film plays well even when you remove the sex | Its a pirate porn movie thats actually plays as a decent little movie . Sue me I liked this film . I'm not sure I liked it because its better than most adult films or because its a good movie in its own right . Certainly the fact the film can have 40 minutes of sex removed and have it survive says a great deal ( The fu... |
427,397 | 3,079,504 | 57,138 | 7 | Really good thriller based on Bryan Edgar Wallace story that has mood and atmosphere to spare . It hooks you and drags you along . | A band of hooded men have formed a court and they are exacting justice upon the criminals who have escaped the reach of the law . The sentence they exact is death by hanging . Using the hangman's rope from the Scotland Yard Museum they leave their victims hanging from various locations with a file detailing the case ag... |
428,319 | 3,079,504 | 29,918 | 7 | Decent , but goofy tale of murder in a small town that you'll forget soon after viewing | There is a liberal dose of humor in this movie where Edgar Kennedy , master of the slow burn , plays a sheriff investigating a murder in a small town . The point of the plot is the Black Doll of the title and a harbinger of death which appears and disappears through out the proceedings . Kennedy is " aided " by a newsp... |
427,726 | 3,079,504 | 182,882 | 7 | Good action movie is brought to you by the tobacco growers of turkey | I have never seen so much smoking in one movie in my life . Even having seen a good number of Turkish films where smoking seems to be a way of life this film takes the case , or the smoke . Geeze , find a dead body have a smoke . Look at a corpse have a smoke . Almost get beaten up by a man with chains on his hands , b... |
428,966 | 3,079,504 | 74,729 | 7 | Good example of Nazi exploitation cinema , if you like that sort of thing | One of Bruno Mattei's women in Nazi Prison camp sagas . It tells the story of a female doctor plucked from the ranks of prisoners to help with the Nazi experiments . Lurid , Vile and nasty this is 90 odd minutes of women being abused and debased and raped and ( fill in the blank ) Amusing for a while ( watching the tec... |
428,022 | 3,079,504 | 906,665 | 7 | Mostly brilliant merging of samurai and gunfighters as Takashi Miike takes back the genre Sergio Leone took to Italy | Takashi Miike makes a samurai movie as a western . The Japanese cast speaks in English , the music is eclectic with strong spaghetti western influences , and the material is referential and full of homage and send up . It begins with a Quentin Tarantino cameo , then switches to the story of two clans fighting over the ... |
429,133 | 3,079,504 | 338,751 | 7 | Good but not great Bio-pic | So what are we to make of the highly touted bio of Howard Hughes . Certainly this is one of the most lavish and spectacular films of the last few years . It looks great is fantastically put together and acted , but somehow something seems missing . As the film unspooled I was never bored but I didn't really care . I di... |
426,975 | 3,079,504 | 35,372 | 7 | One of the best serials Republic ever did | Probably considered a close second to The Adventures of Captain Marvel as the best of all serials . This too is a comic adaptation , but of a comic almost no one has seen in 60 years since it was a war related comic that died a painful death when the " enemy " went away and Spysmasher was forced to fight regular crimin... |
426,939 | 3,079,504 | 303,260 | 7 | Better than its low budget battle scenes | Told in flashback this is literally the story of the last days of World War Two in China . Days before the end the Soviets enter the Pacific war and begin attacking Japanese outposts in China . One raid saves a Chinese man from a firing squad and it isn't long before he's heading back to the Soviet base . A wrong turn ... |
428,558 | 3,079,504 | 360,169 | 7 | The True Story Behind Spielberg's the Terminal | The story of Merhan Nasseri was turned into a big budgeted movie by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks to mixed results ( I'm not a fan ) . To me the story of what actually happened is much more interesting , if much more darker than the Hollywood fluff piece . The short version of the story goes as follows : Merhan Nasser... |
427,127 | 3,079,504 | 845,046 | 7 | good not great | Story of two boys who make a sequel to Rambo using a video camera . Along the way their friendship and need to create has effects on everyone around them . This is a sweet little movie that is being over sold by some reviewers . Its a nice little tale , but I don't think its as great as some have said . Perhaps had I s... |
428,217 | 3,079,504 | 39,743 | 7 | One of the so bad its good flicks | A woman tries to locate her fiance who is missing somewhere in the jungle . This is a movie to make strong men go slack jawed and wide eyed . At least half its running time is stock footage only some of which matches the studio shot footage ( or even other bits of stock footage ) . The narration is so out of touch with... |
427,482 | 3,079,504 | 35,448 | 7 | Wild | Oh boy , what a wild movie this is . Any movie that begins with a nonchalant battle in a fancy dining room and goes from there has to be seen to be believed . The plot has something to do with a rich , but corrupt man killed for a valuable necklace ( it was the reason for the opening fight ) . Framed for the murder is ... |
427,607 | 3,079,504 | 404,777 | 7 | Comedic action film has plenty to recommend it , however the juggling of two many styles makes it less than the sum of its parts | This is the story of the Seven Masters who recruit a bumbling police officer into their group in order when its discovered that he possesses a high level of Chi . The timing is very fortuitous since an ancient enemy has awoken and is once more spreading evil in the world . I first read about this movie when several on-... |
427,062 | 3,079,504 | 282,599 | 7 | Story of two people who exchange letters across time is a very good romance even if you're not in a romantic mood | The plot of this movie goes something like this . . . . A young woman leaving a house called Il Mare because it stands on a pier in the sea leaves a note for the next occupant of the house . The idea is to greet the next occupant and to ask them to send her any mail addressed to her since she expecting some important l... |
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