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428,806 | 3,079,504 | 420,549 | 8 | Very Good But Not Long Enough | This documentary from IFC is a very good over view of Hong Kong martial arts cinema , unfortunately its much too short to really give you anything but a taste of the wonders of the genre . Don't get me wrong this is very good , and you should see it , you'll just find the end credits rolling wanting to know and see mor... |
428,785 | 3,079,504 | 118,694 | 8 | A Beautiful Looking Love Story | This movie is one of the most technically perfect films ever made . Its sense of time and place oozes off the screen . We are there watching the lives of two neighbors . The performances by everyone are dead nuts perfect and in an age of over or under acting by most of the acting community the two leads stand out as sh... |
428,012 | 3,079,504 | 56,472 | 8 | Perfect Rainy Day Movie | Darius , son of of the king of Sparta is thrown into the arena for allowing five gladiators to escape . Fighting and winning a huge victory he is freed . Returning home he finds his father dead , supposedly a suicide , but really murdered by the new King . Rounding up the gladiators he helped escape he fights to get ba... |
428,574 | 3,079,504 | 435,776 | 8 | Beautiful documentary that engages you despite being dramatically false | I am a huge Werner Herzog fan . His early films filled me with a wonderful sense of what movies could do and so hooked me at a young age on the most powerful of all drugs , celluloid . More than his fiction films I am a fan of Herzog's documentaries . There is something about the way he sees a subject that opens your e... |
428,457 | 3,079,504 | 34,968 | 8 | The Natives are Restless and a Lot of Fun | Stranded at a jungle outpost a singer tries to make her way home . Through circumstances beyond her control she ends up in the jungle on the run from Nazi's and the police who think she maybe connected to a murder . Reluctantly coming to her aid is a scientist with Mantan Moreland as an aide de camp . Back lot bound wi... |
426,917 | 3,079,504 | 365,376 | 8 | Un-nerving and unsettling film about a family trying to come back together after one returns from hospital | What can I say about this film that won't give you any preconceived notions when you see it ? Very little . The plot has to do with the return from hospital of a teenage girl after she broke down . What follows after that is the movie . It is one of the creepiest most mind blowing films of the past several years . Ever... |
429,111 | 3,079,504 | 95,475 | 8 | taken on its own terms ( and not necessarily the directors ) this is a haunting piece of film-making ( then again it might bore you to tears ) | Bela Tarr's mediation on interpersonal relationships ( and perhaps , the end of the world ) . In a small town a man is obsessed with a singer in a night club . She's married but doesn't completely deflect his advances . Dark brooding tale filled with long takes seems to be taking place in another world or another time ... |
427,588 | 3,079,504 | 70,246 | 8 | Great Tale of No Honor Among Thieves | Based on a true story Battles Without Honor is a kick ass trip through the rise of the yakuza in post war Japan . Beginning in 1945 and traveling through the next 12 or so years this is the tale of a group of friends who come together in order to survive the cruelties of post-war , and post-bomb Japan and then spend th... |
427,305 | 3,079,504 | 405,325 | 8 | Great Comic Book Superhero Movie | Teenaged superhero angst in a friendly Disney sort of way . . . and whats wrong with that ? Will Stronghold is going off to the first day of high school . Since Mom and dad are the world's greatest superheroes he's off to Sky High for the kids of superheroes . The trouble is he has no powers , a fact he hasn't told dad... |
427,884 | 3,079,504 | 206,216 | 8 | a Beautiful and touching film that transcends cliché | Ken Takakura gives a heart felt magical performance as an aging railroad station master closing out his time on the job looking back on his life around the anniversary of the death of his young daughter . Magical little story had me tearing up at the end as this beautiful film came to a close . Takakura is wonderful as... |
428,055 | 3,079,504 | 386,064 | 8 | Damning indictment of the cost of war | When North Korea invades the South , two brothers are forcibly drafted into the army . The older of the two , hoping to win a medal and ticket home for his younger brother , begins going on every suicide mission offered . This , however , puts a strain on his relationship with his brother and those in the platoon . Wor... |
428,908 | 3,079,504 | 386,065 | 8 | Trippy murder mystery about the nature of reality | I'm a fan of director Oshii's animated works but for the most part I'm left scratching my head by his live action works . For the most part I find his live action films interesting doodles that don't add up to very much . Then again he surprised me with Talking Head , a very existential and surreal look at not only fil... |
428,002 | 3,079,504 | 1,119,194 | 8 | Wonderful | Shuhei Amamiya son of a famous concert pianist transfers with his mother to a school in the country so his mom can take care of his grandmother . He wants nothing better than to become a famous pianist like his dad . When he's threatened by some of the other boys to play a broken piano in the forest thats said to be pl... |
427,359 | 3,079,504 | 1,032,854 | 8 | This portrait of a man who defends the " indefensible " and his complex web of a life is a film to ponder long after watching | Barbet Schroeder's portrait of French attorney Jacques Vergès . You've seen him defending people like Klaus Barbie , Carlos the Jackal , Pol Pot as well as other dictators and terrorists . This is a complex story of a complex man and it essentially tells the tale of the man from World War 2 until today . ( And even at ... |
428,948 | 3,079,504 | 1,010,012 | 8 | Really good throw back to the Hong Kong black magic films of the 1970's and 80's | Nasty category three ( adults only ) horror film about a cop who's life is complicated by some killings that have ties to black magic and which are very much directed at ruining his life . Bloody , unpleasant and creepy this is one of the better Hong Kong horror films I've seen in the last few months . Give it a couple... |
427,594 | 3,079,504 | 145,091 | 8 | One of the better mondo movies , Or if you must see one mondo movie before you die , this is it . | Before TV and video bringing us the strangeness of the world there was the travel film which brought the sites into local theaters . Then in the 1960's we had the travel film spawn the Mondo movie where all of the weird things in the world were brought to your local theater . Most of the films were an odd mix of real a... |
427,750 | 3,079,504 | 35,764 | 8 | Excellent Olsen and Johnson comedy is hampered by too many musical numbers which put the breaks on the comedic madness | I recently saw this film with Quentin Tarantino's introduction to this film on video tape from Trio . Quentin goes on about how Mel Brooks lifted a good chunk of the premise of this movie for Silent Movie . While the basic idea is the same , down on their luck film makers try to sign big stars for their up coming film ... |
426,929 | 3,079,504 | 963,794 | 8 | Creepy horror tale will stay with you | One of the better horror films of recent years , is creepy and scary and the sort of thing that makes your skin crawl . Its a simple story - several tourists go to a temple in the Mexican jungle that happens to be off the beaten path . There is of course something there and the locals are not happy about visitors . I w... |
428,294 | 3,079,504 | 390,849 | 8 | Good look at an off beat character | The life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki . Mostly known for his erotic or perhaps pornographic photos its clear from this film that there is more to the man than just dirty pictures . Coming a cross as a charming rogue its clear that Araki loves what he's doing , which is photographing everyone and ev... |
428,897 | 3,079,504 | 338,564 | 8 | Almost as Good as They Say | I had been hearing about this movie for a while and the word was nothing less then sterling . Expectations got even higher when rumors began to surface that Martin Scorsese was thinking of directing an English version . With almost too much baggage I sat down to watch the film that so many seem to think is the next big... |
428,449 | 3,079,504 | 83,100 | 8 | One of the best Holmes adaptations | Russian TV version of the story that was filmed as part of a series and then released elsewhere as a stand alone film . For the most part an excellent adaption of the story with a real genuine chemistry and warmth between Homes and Watson that would seem to predate the Jermey Brett series . This feels the way the stori... |
427,216 | 3,079,504 | 167,825 | 8 | Stupid Funny | A low low low brow spoof of everything with a Jurassic Park setting with chickens instead of dinosaurs , this is a movie to watch with a bunch of friends and loved ones who don't mind laughing at jokes so bad under normal circumstances you kill the person who told them to you ( Beer would also help ) . The key to enjoy... |
427,228 | 3,079,504 | 785,077 | 8 | Sue me I liked it | A really good ( no seriously its good ) story about a rapper who wants to join a country club but its snotty board ( headed by Jeffrey Jones ( Ferris Beuller's nemesis ) refuse to let him in . Buying a property close to the 17th hole he leverages it into membership and well what happens is the movie . Neither cartoony ... |
427,673 | 3,079,504 | 1,091,751 | 8 | Better than you think it will be | Ice Cube stars in the inspiring and very well done ( by Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit ? ) of the first girl to quarterback a team in the Pop Warner Championship game . Yes its by the numbers and yes you kind of almost ( though not quite ) know how its going to come out , but at he same time Ice Cube and the rest of the cas... |
427,447 | 3,079,504 | 18,054 | 8 | One of the best tellings of the life of Jesus still holds up even after almost a century | My first memory of this film was getting up at 5 or 6 am to see this on a local PBS station in the 1970's . I thought it was cool that they were showing an old silent film that had some color sequences . The film has always danced around my brain . When Criterion put out the double disc I picked it up mostly out of cur... |
428,491 | 3,079,504 | 56,888 | 8 | A much better than average sword and sandal film | Brennus of Gaul moves on Rome in 391 BC . Unfortunately the one man who can save the empire has been dismissed and wants nothing to do with the empire . Three brothers are dispatched to try to make peace and then . . . Brennus , a stone faced golem of a man was a real individual . Here , played by Gordon Mitchell he is... |
428,468 | 3,079,504 | 30,174 | 8 | Excellent Edgar Wallace adaption will keep you guessing until the end | Adaptation of Edgar Wallace's " The Ringer " is a nifty little thriller . Boasting not only a neat little mystery it also has a game cast that sells the story . The plot has a well known criminal lawyer is threatened by a master criminal known as the Ringer . The lawyer is not worried since the Ringer is believed to ha... |
427,730 | 3,079,504 | 360,752 | 8 | Big budget Chinese retelling of the Japanese invasion WWII is a grand war film of the sort they don't make any more | I stumbled up this by accident and decided to give it a go . I'm glad I did . This is the story of the Japanese invasion of China in the late 1930's . The film literally begins with the Japanese invasion , so as the opening credits roll we watch an excellent recreation of the bombing of Shanghai . From there the film r... |
428,014 | 3,079,504 | 57,038 | 8 | Stay away from English dubs | Another case of where the dubbing destroys a decent little movie . The subtitled version I saw under the title of Hero of Babylon is much better than the Beast of Babylon with English dubbing . For what ever reason it plays less silly . The plot is the typical muscle bound hero fights and wins the freedom of an oppress... |
426,851 | 3,079,504 | 53,234 | 8 | Great Unknown Suspense Story | A plane full of people encounters trouble in flight and is forced down in the Pacific . Thankfully they are near an island or not , since the island is due to have an atom bomb test go off in a very short time and they have no way of letting anyone know that they are there . It may sound corny and contrived but this fi... |
429,084 | 3,079,504 | 87,414 | 8 | Who's in charge here anyway ? | Two hit men go to Spain and pick up a fellow crook who went into hiding years before . They are suppose to drive him back to Paris , however as they hit the road , it quickly becomes clear that things are not what they seem and that the hit men are in for more than they ever bargained for . Tightly plotted and neat lit... |
426,919 | 3,079,504 | 70,136 | 8 | Werner Herzog - Fan Boy | After the madness of Aguirre the Wrath of God , Werner Herzog turned his attention to the greatest ski flier of his day Walter Steiner . Herzog follows Steiner as he get ready for and competes in an international competition . The film is less about the man , I know very little more now that I've seen the film , than i... |
427,696 | 3,079,504 | 87,317 | 8 | Werner Herzog attempts to come to terms with the climber as the climber prepares to climb two mountains | Werner Herzog's film of Reinhold Messner's attempt to climb two 8000 + meter twin peaks in succession is an intriguing look at what actually goes into a climb and the mindset of those who climb . Werner Herzog follows as Messner picks his porters and then heads to the mountains , all the while peppering his subject wit... |
427,035 | 3,079,504 | 439,630 | 8 | Chinese adaptation of a Japanese comic is not you typical race film . Probably will play better if you don't know the source and are open to different take in a race film | Takumi is a high schooler who often delivers his fathers tofu late at night . His late night trips have made him adept at the winding down hill run of Mt . Akina , which is a course used by the street racers of the area as the ultimate test of skill . When an unintentional race brings him to the notice of the racers , ... |
427,951 | 3,079,504 | 92,035 | 8 | Fun | I like this very silly movie about the making of a movie set during the Revolutionary War . History takes a back seat to the backstage madness as film crew invades a small town in the American South . . . . . . except that this film was filmed on Long Island . Living on the Island I get great joy watching all the techn... |
426,953 | 3,079,504 | 831,888 | 8 | See this as big as possible | This will be brief because I'm not sure what to say . I don't mean that in a bad way , its just that trying to describe this film is not at all easy . Tekkonkinkreet is the story of two kids named Black and White . They are known as the Cats and are considered by some to be the protectors of a part of the city known as... |
427,912 | 3,079,504 | 22,150 | 8 | Light fluffy movie musical that will make you smile even if you don't care about how technically ground breaking it is | Rene Clair's groundbreaking musical . If you want to see where songs first drove a story this is the place . This is the story of a starving young artist who finds he's won the lottery just as his creditors come calling . Unfortunately his ticket is in his coat , which is in his girlfriends apartment and has been given... |
429,016 | 3,079,504 | 35,573 | 8 | Spliced together PRC gem about an annoying American running around in Libya . Either you by its low rent silly charm and love it or you don't and hate it . | This gloriously silly " rah rah " America film was made right after the American entry in World War 2 . Its a wild romp with a jerk for a lead but enough jokes action and mismatched stock footage to be a great deal of fun in the right frame of mind . This is the story of Mike Malone an American reporter in Libya . He c... |
427,314 | 3,079,504 | 286,306 | 8 | Very Good Horror Story | Set in the trenches of the First World War this is the first film I've seen set during that time that got the sense of place right . Its the got the entombed bodies in the ground , in the walls , and everywhere you look right . It is a bleak existence that the soldiers take almost matter of factly . The plot has a grou... |
427,967 | 3,079,504 | 360,486 | 8 | Good Occult Thriller | For the record I have read Hellblazer , the source of this film , and I do like the comic . Also for the record I do like this movie a great deal as well . Is it the comic ? Thats open to debate . I think in many ways it it is . I think the problem is that they've made a film about a very complex character who's been d... |
427,128 | 3,079,504 | 929,261 | 8 | Great martial arts fantasy | Korean martial arts fantasy about a vagabond demon killer , who is actually a wanted royal demon killer , who is drugged by a village and flees before he can get caught and turned over to soldiers for the reward . Falling asleep in what appears to be a temple he crosses over to Mid-Heaven where he arrives just in time ... |
428,191 | 3,079,504 | 454,914 | 8 | If you click with this its pure magic | Why do I love Asian cinema ? because the continent seems to be the biggest place in the world where people are in love with film . they break the rules they break the bounds and they make things that nobody else is doing . A musical of sorts , this is the story of an actor who once wanted to be a director , an actress ... |
428,124 | 3,079,504 | 64,916 | 8 | One of the better westerns to come out of Italy | Lee Van Cleef stars in the first of the Sabata films . Here he plays cat and mouse games with the leaders of a town who have attempted to steal an army payroll . Sabata stops their scheme and then attempts to blackmail them for his silence , a price that climbs with each failed attempt on his life . This is a fun weste... |
427,132 | 3,079,504 | 490,234 | 8 | very good | The story of a French family and what they did during the war . The story of love , lust , and being Jewish in the wake of the Nazis and the years that followed . This film I thought might give me a little trouble , I did not expect to have the ending have me weeping , especially when the early part of the film seemed ... |
428,538 | 3,079,504 | 29,818 | 8 | One of the best | First Zorro serial is one of the best . It's a modern story with planes and trains and cars and horses all being used to great effect to tell the story of Zorro ( James Vega ) trying to stop the villain from blowing up the railroad he own stock in . Its one of the large scale serials that Republic did in the late 30's ... |
428,885 | 3,079,504 | 1,175,491 | 8 | Masterful look at the interior life of a man in the White House | Oliver Stone's film about the life of George W Bush seems to be a simple look at the life of W from his college days to the invasion of Iraq and how it all went wrong despite the best efforts of our central character . The film doesn't deal in a great deal of details , it does not follow every minute of every event-in ... |
428,528 | 3,079,504 | 370,032 | 8 | Its form over content - but if you click with it this is a really good action flick | First off , its the type of movie I hate-form over content , but I loved this film . Simply put , its the commercial / trailer only 90 minutes long . Set in a world where a virus that was genetically altered by the military in order to make super humans , turns into something else and alters anyone infected into someth... |
428,866 | 3,079,504 | 768,114 | 8 | Heart breaking tale of a father , a son and a two broken hearts | I watched the complete restored directors cut which runs two hours and forty minutes some forty minutes longer than the theatrical cut . I had picked the film up because the description on the DVD case promised one thing , however how it delivered that story was not what I expected . ( I also picked it up because I lov... |
427,652 | 3,079,504 | 469,146 | 8 | A film to search for | Mind bogglingly animated tale of a world where people fly instead of sail , its tale of a navigator called into service after a tragedy only to find himself on a voyage of a life time . One of the best looking animated films , I've ever seen . This is a film filled with very Victorian and steam punkish images and contr... |
427,498 | 3,079,504 | 435,026 | 8 | A Spy Kids Chinese Style is a Good Popcorn Film | Sue me I liked this . You've heard the story before : two kids who don't believe their dad's way out tales find he was telling the truth when he's kidnapped and they have to go rescue him . Its been the story of countless films most recently in films like Spy Kids . Here its done with an Asian flair and for the most pa... |
427,003 | 3,079,504 | 408,524 | 8 | Remake of classic foul mouthed comedy , is not quite as good as the original , but still pretty funny in its own right | Richard Linklater's updating of the 1976 classic film is an odd beast . At times faithful , at times not , this film has no real reason to exist except that its very very funny at times . The basic plot , of a drunken coach taking on a team of losers and misfits is pretty much the same , even many of the jokes are the ... |
427,198 | 3,079,504 | 280,609 | 8 | Great action horror film | SCIFI picked this up so it went to cable instead of going to theaters . I don't know whether to thank them for making people aware of it or curse them since it meant that people first saw this with commercials . First - if you saw it on SCIFI you didn't really see it . Go rent it and watch it uncut where the suspense a... |
428,563 | 3,079,504 | 389,326 | 8 | Even if you don't like surfing this is a great movie | I stumbled upon this movie on cable and was totally hooked . The story of a group of surfers who ride the big waves , waves that are monstrously huge , waves that would make any rational person run away in terror is a one that manages to be spectacular and make you understand why people spend their lives chasing waves ... |
427,641 | 3,079,504 | 443,701 | 8 | More mediation on forgiveness and salvation as opposed to mystery with a central character many will despise on principle | Stand alone X-Files film has split critics down the middle with half loving it and half hating it . I really liked it . The plot has an FBI agent going missing and the FBI being contacted by a psychic ex-priest . Uncertain what to make of him the FBI asks Scully , now working as a pediatric doctor , to contact Mulder w... |
427,368 | 3,079,504 | 443,706 | 8 | Very good but slightly disappointing story of the Zodiac killings | David Fincher dives into the Zodiac killings in San Fransisco . Disorienting only in that this is more or less a straight telling of how three men's lives were changed by the killings . The cast is a cross the board excellent with Robert Downey Jr a stand out as the reporter who sinks into alcoholism as the elusive cas... |
427,253 | 3,079,504 | 67,324 | 8 | Haunting | Story of Fini Straubinger who is " trapped " in her own body being both deaf and blind . Since the condition came on later in life she is able to speak and tells us what its like . We also watch as she goes around helping those like her . Communication is done via touching or writing on the hands . It becomes clear tha... |
428,268 | 3,079,504 | 25,204 | 8 | Nifty mystery thriller is almost like watching a novel | During a masked party Stephen Kester is found dead in the closet of his room , three stab wounds in his back . Suspicion falls on everyone at the party , especially Kester's granddaughter and her fiancée who fled the house after disabling all of the other cars and cutting the phone lines . As the police investigate the... |
428,683 | 3,079,504 | 36,187 | 8 | The fog shrouded moors and dark mood help sell a war time mystery tale | Beginning with a truly stunning image - what appears to be a headless corpse walking along the foggy moors , this is a neat little wartime thriller about the weird goings on in a small English village that has had the local tin mine shut down because of weird visions-headless visions - and the tragedies that strike tho... |
428,083 | 3,079,504 | 963,178 | 8 | Taken on its own terms this is a solid thriller with one heck of a shoot out | Clive Owen is a former British Cop now working for Interpol . He is currently investigating a huge multinational bank and its shady dealings . He is working in connection with the Manhattan DA's office ( Naomi Watts ) . As the film opens Owen's partner is talking to an informant from the bank , as the meeting ends and ... |
427,141 | 3,079,504 | 354,553 | 8 | Excellent short suspense drama thats worth seeing if you get the chance . | Police are trying to track down a man called ( I believe ) Pentecost who escaped from an asylum years before because its feared that he may attempt to get the man who's testimony sent him away . The police are trying to do this by following a man named Jenkins who is bringing Pentecost food . Jenkins is getting annoyed... |
428,437 | 3,079,504 | 293,885 | 8 | More Drama than thriller , this sequel in name only is better than the first and should be allowed to stand on its own | First off this film has no connection to the first Yellowhair film . Secondly the sometimes quoted subtitle of " Pornography in Blue " is actually a title of one of the sections . Lastly this is less thriller or exploitation film than a drama about three people coming together in the event of one moment and going on fr... |
429,031 | 3,079,504 | 29,486 | 8 | Great mystery western | I was never a western fan . It was made worse when we first got cable back in 1976 and several of the stations were heavily running the black and white programmers where only the names changed slightly from film to film . What ever it was never hooked me into liking westerns . John Wayne was never a favorite of mine as... |
427,238 | 3,079,504 | 478,988 | 8 | One of the best Lovecraft adaptations ever committed to film | The story is classic Lovecraft , a man recounts how his discovery of secret knowledge has driven him over the edge and brought him close to death . Its the framework that Lovecraft used again and again to tell his stories of horror . Here the story is that of the cult of Cthulhu which he discovers upon the death of his... |
428,672 | 3,079,504 | 461,770 | 8 | Lots of fun-more so if you know all the Disney fairy tale cartoons | Disney pokes fun at itself and makes a glossy fairytale in the process . Animated princess is banished to the real world by a wicked queen , where its hoped she will stay forever . However the not too bright price follows suit as does a wicked henchmen . As the characters try to find each other and their way back roman... |
429,026 | 3,079,504 | 117,262 | 8 | Very good look at Welles the man , his relationship with Hollywood and unfinished projects | This is a loving film essay on Orson Welles and his unfinished films . Its an interesting look at the man who was just trying to make the films he wanted to on his own terms . Made with the assistance of Welles ' longtime companion Oja Kodar this film lets us see a number of his unrealized projects for the first time .... |
428,190 | 3,079,504 | 465,602 | 8 | What ever you don't think about the plot and you'll have a great time as lots of people shoot lots of guns in the name of fun | Clive Owen is Mr Smith a man who happens to take pity on a pregnant woman being chased down the street . In the process of helping her he ends up in the middle of a long running fight with Paul Giamatti who is there to make sure both mother and child expire . The mother passes but the baby doesn't so Smith becomes a so... |
427,875 | 3,079,504 | 937,375 | 8 | Wonderful family story thats pretty free of clichés | Family drama of a ( black ) family coming together for the holidays . I mention the color aspect only because there is a moment where color plays a role , however color and race are really irrelevant since this is an excellent little family drama about the things that make us family-what ever our color . A strong cast ... |
428,603 | 3,079,504 | 443,543 | 8 | A curl up by the fire " I'm going to tell you a really good story " sort of a movie | Nothing is what it seems . Mostly . Clearly one of the most special movies of the year , here is a movie that proves Edward Norton and Paul Giammatti are not as over rated as some poor recent choices made it seem ( What a joy it is to see them spar ) . This is the story of Eisenheim the magician who comes to Vienna to ... |
428,078 | 3,079,504 | 106,384 | 8 | Amazing look at belief | Portrait of superstition and faith in Russia . Completely neutral Werner Herzog film simply shows the people as they are and lets them speak for themselves . One is a " reincarnation " of Christ speaking of love and brotherly love . Another is a man who plays the bells at a church . We see a faith healer and mystic ble... |
427,518 | 3,079,504 | 839,938 | 8 | Chilling and should be sought out | New Zealand docudrama about the massacre that occurred in Aramoana when an angry gun nut opened fire on his neighbors and severely reduced the population . Slow to start , I thought that this was going to be a typical story of a shooting with its pleasant vistas and the get to know the participants set up scenes . Howe... |
427,248 | 3,079,504 | 55,719 | 8 | Soapy Bravery in Ancient Greece | What is it about the tale of 300 Spartans holding off the whole of the Persian army that haunts us still ? At some point they'll make the great version of this story , until that day comes this film will do nicely . The plot has the 300 Spartans going off with a small band of other Greeks to perform a delaying action i... |
427,089 | 3,079,504 | 106,335 | 8 | Examination of whats real , whats not and how we perceive what we see whether real or not | While watching a play on stage concerning the events around a " miraculous " birth , the pretend story begins to become real , however the audience isn't always aware of whats real and whats not leading to some tragic consequences . Hated by many , loved by others this is a tough film to watch . Most people will point ... |
427,501 | 3,079,504 | 479,143 | 8 | Worthy sequel to an Oscar winning classic | The plot of the movie has Rocky still wanting to fight , still wanting to feel alive . Adrian has been gone for three years and his son is lost living in the shadow of a legend . Rocky survives by running a restaurant . When a boxing program that uses computers to pick the best fighter ever finds that Rocky would beat ... |
428,939 | 3,079,504 | 71,396 | 8 | Don't let the fact that the people behind Howard the Duck made this movie scare you away , this is one creepy little movie that will haunt you | This is a creepy creepy film . Its part HP Lovecraft , part Night of the Living Dead , part Cabinet of Dr Caligari . The plot has a woman recounting the tale of why she is in an asylum . The story begins with the woman going to find out what happened to her estranged father . They had communicated with letters , howeve... |
428,527 | 3,079,504 | 425,661 | 8 | Very good tale of a kid turning hero to save his friends and family is a nice change of pace for action director Miike | Where was this film when I was a kid ? After his parents split up Tadashi moves with his mom to live his his grandfather . Tadashi's sister stays with their dad and they talk frequently on the phone . Grandfather is only " here " every third day . Moms never really home . The kids always are picking on the poor kid . D... |
428,035 | 3,079,504 | 486,822 | 8 | Very good | Really good version of Rear Window where a kid on house arrest realizes that his neighbor is a serial killer . While not scary as such ( you can pretty much guess where this is going to go because it is by the numbers ) this is a nice thrill ride that will keep you watching to the end . You like the kid and his friends... |
428,658 | 3,079,504 | 456,470 | 8 | beautiful | Simply put one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen . I adore the first three minutes of the film and have just watched them several times now . I adore the music and will have to see if I can run down a CD of it . The plot concerns an old man who lives on a derelict boat in the middle of the sea . He ferries peo... |
429,039 | 3,079,504 | 165,982 | 8 | Once it gets going this is a great adventure | Its an odd mix of computer and regular animation who's blending doesn't always seem seamless . It does work better than Dreamworks earlier Spirit since the mix helps to add to the other worldliness of some of the bits . The basic plot has Sinbad trying to steal The Book of Peace from a ship on the ocean . When he final... |
428,802 | 3,079,504 | 86,640 | 8 | Classic Sex and Gore Fest | First off this film is pure exploitation . This is sex and violence and really gross , even by todays standards . Its not the best film ever made , but if you want gore and worms and gross things with your beautiful naked women this is for you . This film belongs in the exploitation hall of fame . A very bare bones exp... |
428,376 | 3,079,504 | 201,428 | 8 | Very Funny | Good enough to make you wish it were longer , while being smart enough to stop before it wears out its welcome this melding of Pooh and Viet Nam is a short treat . Almost impossible to find this film is worth searching out if you like film conventions turned on their heads . This is a clever parody makes you wish that ... |
429,064 | 3,079,504 | 49,013 | 8 | Great cast of horror vets bring life to a " lost " gem | Dr Cadman saves the life of an old student , Ramsay , by giving him a drug nick named the " black sleep " prior to his going to the gallows . The drug simulates death and Ramsay is believed to have died before the hangman could have his way with him . Cadman revives Ramsay and has him help with his operations mapping t... |
427,919 | 3,079,504 | 469,641 | 8 | From hate - Hope | 911 showed us what human beings were capable of , certainly the evil , but also the good . . . . paraphrase of Nicholas Cage toward the end of World Trade Center Oliver Stone puts you into Manhattan on the day the towers fell and shows you the story of a couple of Port Authority Policemen who were trapped in the rubb... |
428,396 | 3,079,504 | 110,524 | 8 | Tasteless But Hysterical Destruction of Japanese Pop Culture | First off two questions : 1 . How well do you know Japanese pop culture ? Have you seen Japanese yakuza films ? Godzilla ? Do you know Zatoichi and Lone Wolf and Cub ? How about Ultraman ? Have you watched things like Extreme Elimination on Spike ( which is a Beat Takeshi TV show ) ? Do you know about their attitudes t... |
428,243 | 3,079,504 | 63,611 | 8 | More important today then when it was made | Ingmar Bergman's meditation on war concerns a couple living an idyllic existence on a small island off the coast ( of what country isn't specified ) . Raging off in the distance is a war they know only from news reports . As they go about their day the war comes to them and it soon becomes a struggle for survival as bo... |
427,824 | 3,079,504 | 482,572 | 8 | Dark Brooding police thriller is one of the best cop films of the last couple of years | Solid police drama that is the best of the recent crop of cop movies . The story starts with the murder of four police officers close to Christmas . Everyone wants to know how such a thing could happen . The dead men were part of a group of men headed by Colin Ferrell . Ferrell is in the precinct commanded by his broth... |
427,063 | 3,079,504 | 452,056 | 8 | Well done look at Tarzan and the six films that Weissmuller and O'Sullivan did for MGM . Good fun even for non fans of the series | Made for Turner Classic movies and packaged in with the Warner Brothers DVD release of the first six MGM Tarzan movies this is an over view of the character of Tarzan from his creation through to the production of Tarzan's New York Adventure . It's a very informative look at the world's favorite jungle man as seen in 6... |
427,954 | 3,079,504 | 196,632 | 8 | Almost as good as the original | This version of the Scopes Trial is better than the first TV version for several reasons , the first is that its a reasonable running time . Next it doesn't have breaks for commercials , this was done for cable and not commercial TV . Lastly this has the performances of Lemon and Scott who come damn close to equaling T... |
427,200 | 3,079,504 | 24,727 | 8 | perfect for a dark and stormy night | Until today I had never seen this film . Its was filmed on the sets of the Old Dark House and Frankenstein and concerns a small Bavarian village where supposedly giant bats are sucking the blood of the villagers . Frankly its a damn good movie that has atmosphere to spare and a cast that won't quit , Lionel Atwill , Dw... |
428,000 | 3,079,504 | 17,096 | 8 | Great fantasy film is a lot of fun and great to look at . | What a great looking movie . Several demons come to earth to begin plans for taking over the world . Standing in their way is Maciste a super strong good guy . The demons offer Maciste anything he wants if he will aid them however he turns them down . They eventually trick Maciste so that he ends up in hell where he pr... |
427,528 | 3,079,504 | 486,946 | 8 | Fun and better than it has any right to be | Midlife crisis biker flick as four middle aged guys go for a ride and end up running a foul of Ray Liotta and his biker pals . Its exactly what you think it is and all the better for it . Its rare these days to run across a flick like this that would be worth seeing in the theater . jovial and good natured , with JohnT... |
426,801 | 3,079,504 | 381,061 | 8 | Destined to be a classic | Bond is back and he's kicking butt . The best Bond in years , this is a no nonsense approach thats more or less realistic , certainly the most realistic of all Bond films yet produced ( except for maybe the first hour of Die Another Day and a good chunk of For Your Eyes Only ) . This is the Bond of the books , mean and... |
426,847 | 3,079,504 | 29,028 | 8 | A Good Mystery | Although not perfect , this is a film that cheats its audience in order to have a proper running time , this is still a good film . The basic plot has a man from America going to England because he has inherited a house . Amazingly when he gets there , he finds that there are people there already who threaten him and r... |
426,952 | 3,079,504 | 455,782 | 8 | Let the film take you where it will and you'l have a good time | Based on a true story of a trio of Journalists looking for a war criminal in the former Yugoslavia . The Original group included Jon Krakauer , in the movie we have Terrence Howard and Richard Gere . Where originally it started as a bunch of journalists getting drunk and deciding to go out and find the bad guys , here ... |
428,795 | 3,079,504 | 55,991 | 8 | I liked this odd little film adventure | Story of a cursed jeweled snake that when has the potential to make the possessor invincible . The snake is hidden in a burial crypt in a pagoda in Hong Kong . When thieves try to steal it , killing someone in the process , the owner knows that a great evil is in the land . Sending his son to London to marry , despite ... |
427,083 | 3,079,504 | 29,012 | 8 | Worth making a five dollar bet on | Neil Hamilton plays a District Attorney investigating the murder of a boxer moments before a championship fight . The fighter collapsed with no clear signs of foul play after a tribute to a recently deceased champion . Forced to match wits and trade wisecracks with a mystery writer , played by Evelyn Venable , the DA m... |
427,050 | 3,079,504 | 330,793 | 8 | Hey , This is Pretty Good | Up until the commercials that ran a couple of days before the opening everything I was seeing of or on this version of the Punisher made me think this was going to be horrible . Still not wanting to waste my cash I waited and then when two key opinions said it was a good film I decided to try it . And despite all my mi... |
428,534 | 3,079,504 | 36,697 | 8 | Only the suit remains from the comic in a great pure nonsense serial full of fantastic action | Yes it's the Captain America of the comics , but only in regard to the suit . Instead of a super soldier fighting Nazi's here we have a district attorney fighting the scarab who is killing off the members of an archaeological expedition using a gas that leave purple blotches . Starring Dick Purcell as the Captain and L... |
427,096 | 3,079,504 | 66,745 | 8 | In name only sequel to the first Sabata film is a very good western worth your time and popcorn | Sort of sequel to the earlier Sabata with Lee Van Cleef , this was filmed as Indio Black and is known as that in several countries . The title was changed when the distributor paid for the right to use the name Sabata from the original films producer . The result is Sabata becomes a dead ringer for Chris , Yul Brynner'... |
427,117 | 3,079,504 | 75,462 | 8 | Unnerving tale of horror from Spain is one to watch with the lights on . | This is the story of an English married couple on vacation in the Mediterranean . While enjoying the sights on the coast they decide to rent a boat and go over to a near by island . It quickly transpires that all is not well on the island and the reason there doesn't seem to be any adults is that the kids have come up ... |
427,531 | 3,079,504 | 56,035 | 8 | This one has everything , and then some | The question I'm asked is why do I watch movies like this with any frequency ? The answer has to do with the monsters and the fact that many of these things throw everything at you except for the kitchen sink , and that's only left out because it wasn't invented yet . After a war ends Goliath prepares to head home , ex... |
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