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524,503 | 4,445,210 | 112,682 | 4 | Both Appealing And Unappealing | For someone who loves wild visuals , I should have loved this film , but I found it too far out and simply very unappealing . Yes , it's visually stunning but the story is disjointed . to say the least . If a viewer - and I am not alone in this opinion - is almost totally lost as to what's going on for almost the entir... |
522,260 | 4,445,210 | 147,567 | 4 | Three Stories In One , But None Noteworthy | This cartoon was divided into three two-minutes stories and none of them were that good , to be honest . The first two minutes show a frog and a monkey playing clarinet-like instruments and having a good time until teed-owl who wants to sleep , puts an end to it . . The next two stories involve the oppressive heat . By... |
523,175 | 4,445,210 | 43,827 | 4 | Hey , Like Hope's One-Liners , Not All Are Winners | This is a typical Bob Hope movie in which " ole ski nose " delivers a lot of one - liners and plays his usual coward-turned-hero . ( In this story , a burlesque comic turned spy . ) The leading lady for this one was Hedy Lamarr . By 1951 , the famous glamor girl of the Golden Age looked like she was a few years past he... |
526,312 | 4,445,210 | 52,225 | 4 | Likes & Dislikes Of ' South Pacific ' | With musicals , people are very subjective . The film might be a decent one ; the story might be pretty good , but if the viewer doesn't like the songs , he or she is not going to like the movie . That was the case here with me , which is why I changed the headline from " The Good & Bad " to " Likes & Dislikes . " LIKE... |
524,530 | 4,445,210 | 26,468 | 4 | Decent Visuals , Poor Sound , Weak Story | This is a short that came with the " A Tale Of Two Cities " DVD , an animated movie starring " Bosko , " a character movie audiences in the early ' 30s had seen before but not in color . This is " cinecolor , " whatever that was , and the visuals were fine . In fact , they were the best of the cartoon with some of the ... |
525,305 | 4,445,210 | 43,550 | 4 | Who Made This ? Hogan's Press Secretary ? | Being a golfer and a fan of the sport for many years , I was very interested in seeing this , which I did when the VHS first came out . Later , I saw it again because of the same reason plus I usually find Glenn Ford's films entertaining . Well , the story moves well , it didn't bore me , but I did have problems with t... |
523,812 | 4,445,210 | 60,714 | 4 | How Times - And We - Change | Boy , did I love this movie in the Sixties when I was a left-wing radical college student . Everything about goofy Morgan ( David Warner ) was funny or likable or just plain cool , in a weird sort of way . This movie was so ' 60s with its mores and humor . If they had VHS tapes back then , I would have bought this in a... |
526,579 | 4,445,210 | 496,706 | 4 | Too Much George Brett In Here | Overall , this bonus feature on the " Field Of Dreams " two-disc " Anniversary Edition " DVD was a bit disappointing . I had high hopes of some interesting comments with Kevin Costner talking baseball with three Hall Of Fame players . However , nothing really memorable was said and one of the players , to me , " hogged... |
526,657 | 4,445,210 | 104,692 | 4 | When The Author Hates The Movie , Well . . . . . Still , It Had Its Moments | The film is supposedly based on a short novel by Stephen King . I say " supposedly " because when he saw what they did to his book , King demanded his name be removed from any association of this film ! When an author does that , it's kind of a tip-off that someone has made a bad movie . I also wonder if Pierce Brosnan... |
526,977 | 4,445,210 | 70,000 | 4 | Not Horrible , But The Original Is Still Far Better | It was hard to watch this film and be totally fair and objective since I am a big fan the original 1944 movie . That , to me and many others , is one of the greatest film noirs ever made . Realizing this is simply a shortened made-for-TV film and that most people had trashed it , I didn't expect much , but you can't he... |
523,033 | 4,445,210 | 35,799 | 4 | Hard To Take Seriously When You See Toy Boats | The major problem with watching these 1940s films about World War II is how slow they now appear . When released , most films were of similar ilk and moviegoers were used to hearing a lot of talk , having characters developed , suspense built up and not a whole of action . That's fine , but it doesn't work today and pa... |
526,316 | 4,445,210 | 25,850 | 4 | Wanted To Like It , But Couldn't ; Too Dated | I really wanted to like this film . It had personal sentiment for me as my mother's day was " Adeline " and I had high regard for Irene Dunne ever since I saw her star in " I Remember Maman . " Yet , despite that positive attitude going in , this wasn't something I'd watch again . It wasn't bad ; just too dated and I d... |
526,444 | 4,445,210 | 35,646 | 4 | A Weak Start To This Short Series | Well , after reading a couple of the other reviews here , I feel a little better . I thought maybe I missed something , thinking this animated short was pretty weak . Apparently , others agree . It might have been a landmark of sorts with the introduction of Claude The Cat and the two mice , Hubie ( his name wasn't men... |
523,454 | 4,445,210 | 25,619 | 4 | Worth Seeing Only For Lupe Velez | I got a kick out of this film for the first half of it , but it got so stupid with the main characters that I had a hard time finishing it . However , it was still worth a look to see Lupe Valez . I had read what a strange character she was in real life , and that she was sexy woman , so at least I have now seen her . ... |
525,995 | 4,445,210 | 60,834 | 4 | Didn't Get Much Of A ' Buzz ' From It | This cartoon story turns into a competition to see how can build a better house : the Pink Panther or his rival , The Little White Man . At first , they have the same project site but each doesn't like the other guy's designs . The Man has blueprints for a standard house while the PP's plans call for some futuristic de... |
522,866 | 4,445,210 | 43,363 | 4 | What You Think Of Bullfighting Will Determine What You Think Of This | Robert Stack with blonde hair ? Could that really be " Elliot Ness ? " Well , it was the early ' 50s , before Stack made a name for himself with the TV hit , " The Untouchables . For those looking back at this film for the first time , as I did in the 1990s , this was a weird sight . Blonde or not , the main question w... |
522,660 | 4,445,210 | 35,605 | 4 | Weak Effort At Being Another ' The Thin Man ' | The cast is attractive , the premise is intriguing . . . . but the film is blah . It looked like a poor man's " The Thin Man , " or tried to be , but all it wound up was " poor . " The humor was average at best , and it took way , way too long to get to any action and suspense . By halfway through , I can imagine most ... |
524,796 | 4,445,210 | 25,651 | 4 | Another Plug For ' Gold Diggers Of 1933 ' | Here is another cartoon by Warner Brothers that is plugging a song from its movie , " Gold Diggers Of 1933 . " This one doesn't have a tenth of the clever and zany scenes ' I've Got To Sing A Torch Song " did , and so it doesn't offer much in the way of entertainment except for the catchy title song . I have to admit I... |
527,043 | 4,445,210 | 52,838 | 4 | The Old Lady In The Men's Lavatory | I acknowledge the uniqueness of this film , but that doesn't mean I enjoyed it . At least I'm being honest about it . The visuals were the most interesting facet , along with this old lady's face . Wow , what a face : a million wrinkles , most of them with a story . It was interesting that the present day part of this ... |
523,523 | 4,445,210 | 26,029 | 4 | Same Old-Same Old Even For Beginning ' Hitch ' | Back in the long era of VHS tapes , I never found a clear tape of this movie , so I could not fully appreciate it since the visuals and the sound were always so poor . That made it tough to decipher the dialog . This started off interesting but began to bog down with a " It Happened One Night " - type of romance with m... |
524,794 | 4,445,210 | 60,522 | 4 | How To Get An Audience Ansty | With a cast that features Audrey Hepburn , Peter O'Toole , Eli Wallach , Charles Boyer and Hugh Griffith , you'd think this movie would be more interesting . The problem was that at slightly over two hours , it had too many parts that lagged . It took over an hour just to set up the heist . By then , a lot of viewers -... |
525,849 | 4,445,210 | 320,691 | 4 | The Premise Was Better Than The Actuality | A vampires versus werewolves story sounded like fun , especially with the pretty Kate Bekinsdale starring . However , I was disappointed with this overall . Beckinsdale frowned the entire movie , trying to act tough all the time . Why do these pretty young women try to act like men ? She is not likable in here , nor is... |
527,049 | 4,445,210 | 52,987 | 4 | Agree With Polanski | I have to agree with filmmaker Roman Polanski , who didn't especially care for this early effort of his . I didn't either , although I did appreciate the wonderful shadows of the many dolls ' faces and the eerie whispering later in the film . Outside of that , it wasn't anything that appealing . Basically , the film is... |
525,766 | 4,445,210 | 113,492 | 4 | The Good & Bad Of Judge Dredd | This was a loud , wild , silly , sophomoric science-fiction action film that had a number of good and bad points . THE GOOD - If you have a surround system , and particularly with a sub-woofer , the sound in here is excellent . For the most part , the film entertains and stays away from profanity until the last 15 minu... |
522,978 | 4,445,210 | 104,797 | 4 | Slick But Spiked With Too Much Bias | Here we go with more Spike Lee bias . I'm not talking blacks vs . whites . We've come to expect that with Lee's films . What I'm referring to in this picture is another thing Lee does in many of his films - take cheap shots at Christians . What better stage than this one about a man who leaves his Christian roots and c... |
525,048 | 4,445,210 | 303,336 | 4 | Glad ' For The Birds ' Beat This Out | I agree totally with another of the reviewers here who was pleased " For The Birds " won the Oscar in 2002 for " Best Animated Short , " not this sick material , which is pretentious at best and appealing to anyone , of course , who has no belief in heaven or hell . The animation was good , but so are a lot of animated... |
524,585 | 4,445,210 | 87,062 | 4 | Were Our Expectations Too High ? Certainly , But With Reason | I remember a lot of people , not just me , being disappointed in this film . With Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood in the starring roles , we all excepted a really entertaining , good movie . All the publicity made us even more anxious to see it . Well , it never lived up to the hype . I don't know anyone who left the ... |
526,931 | 4,445,210 | 45,038 | 4 | A Frustrating Life For Pluto | Mickey is giving Pluto a birthday party . He rolls out a cake under a backyard gazebo . The cake has little fire hydrants on it ! It looks good to the dog , who is salivating looking at the cake . Unfortunately , he has to take a bath first , and then has to wait for the guests to arrive . When those have taken place ,... |
523,972 | 4,445,210 | 209,163 | 4 | Yet Another Example Of Overkill | Here is another " Class A exhibit " on how to turn a successful , appealing movie into a ludicrous stupid one with a sequel that overkills everything that worked in the first movie . When the 1999 film , " The Mummy " came out , it features a likable family : husband , wife and young son - battling all kinds of strange... |
526,142 | 4,445,210 | 36,264 | 4 | Dancing To The Music Not Really Funny | This is our interpretation of the familiar tale of ' The Big Bad Wolf And The Three Little Pigs . ' An announcer is telling this to an audience , of which we are privy . He adds this story " is set to the delightful music of Joann Brahm's ' Hungarian Dances . ' " So that's what we get : this fairy tale set to music .... |
523,573 | 4,445,210 | 36,174 | 4 | Humor Too Dated To Work Now | The story here was just a little too boring and the humor just not funny enough . It added up to a film that was too boring to watch . That was further surprising because the cast was good : Cary Grant , Lariaine Day , Charles Bickford and Henry Stephenson . Grant may be the only big " star " in that group but I've alw... |
524,853 | 4,445,210 | 113,670 | 4 | Too Many Plugs For Occult Ruined This | If you saw Shirley Temple's version of this story , which was okay - nothing great - this movie , in comparison , is disgusting . In this remake , the occult takes center stage : witches spells , Hindu magic , etc . In other words , it has Liberal written all over it , which is one reason Roger Ebert loved it . The hea... |
524,028 | 4,445,210 | 44,720 | 4 | Film Noir Is " Fair " and Features Too Many Flashbacks | This film noir story is told mostly in the form of flashbacks . It begins to drag a bit in the second half and one gets a little antsy waiting to find out how the good guy gets off in the end , which we assume he does . Oddly , the main actor in this film , John Russell - the hero of the movie - is not listed on the ba... |
524,033 | 4,445,210 | 311,429 | 4 | Turned Out To Be The Minor League | I should have really liked this movie , but it did nothing for me . I enjoy films with characters that have super-human powers , and this has a bunch of them . I usually enjoy Sean Connery's films . This has both , so what's the problem ? I'm not exactly sure , except I know I never got involved enough to care about an... |
525,326 | 4,445,210 | 106,387 | 4 | For Depp Fans Only | This was a generally " pleasant " film , or even " cute , " as some women might put it . . . . but not more much . It's definitely a " chick flick . " It was another early vehicle for Johnny Depp to play an oddball , something he's done ever since ( and done well ) . He's fun to watch here , too . A highlight is his im... |
523,281 | 4,445,210 | 25,464 | 4 | The Movie That Killed Dillinger , So To Speak | Famous , as about every film buff knows , for being the movie in which infamous gangster John Dillinger and " The Lady In Red " exited from and Dillinger was gunned down shortly after leaving the theater . The real-life occurrence is far more exciting than the movie . The story was not unlike others made during the ' 3... |
525,096 | 4,445,210 | 443,489 | 4 | Hudson's Character Spoiled The Film | One person - not entirely , but mainly - ruined this movie : Jennifer Hudson . Her character , " Effie White , " is loud , abrasive , offensive , vain , jealous , shallow , shrill , etc . , etc . That woman is entertaining ? ! I don't think so ! Hudson may have had the undisputed best voice in the film but that doesn't... |
525,778 | 4,445,210 | 52,002 | 4 | Murphy Good , But Story Wears Thin Fast | Why this got the good reviews it did in the books I read , is a mystery . It's basically a " one - angle " story in which a hired killer enters a town and the whole place goes wildly paranoid wondering who is going to be the man's victim . That sounds fairly interesting but it didn't play that way , getting tiresome ve... |
527,450 | 4,445,210 | 95,174 | 4 | You'd Think A Polanski-Ford Combination Could Do Better | This is the kind of film in which one wonders if many people give it great reviews SIMPLY because Roman Polanski directed it . I've found this to be the case in many Alfred Hitchcock movies that were boring and overrated . The same things applies here , especially since Polanski seems to be trying to copy Hitchcock's i... |
525,454 | 4,445,210 | 174,576 | 4 | A Shirley Temple-Wannabe & Her Horse | A little girl and a racehorse . That's all you need to know , so it should come as no surprise this - minute-short is very predictable . Along the way it is filled with the familiar characters : a young girl who can relate to a horse as no one else can ; a kindhearted father who is killed in an auto accident at the tra... |
523,216 | 4,445,210 | 120,891 | 4 | Smith's Smug Attitude Too Much For Me | Here's a typical Will Smith movie which means lightweight action , him proclaiming he is Mr . Macho throughout the film , a dumb story . . . . . but an entertaining film in a number of spots and fun to watch ONCE . That about sums up a lot of his films , one or two of which are a little better and a couple are far wors... |
526,427 | 4,445,210 | 120,885 | 4 | Prophetic , But Predictably Prejudiced | This movie tells the story of " spin doctors " who create a diversion to get heat off the President of the U . S . In this case , the President was accused of having sex with a young girl in the White House ( ironically , this was made before the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton affair ! ) so a spin doctor - played by Robe... |
526,980 | 4,445,210 | 24,824 | 4 | Great Ending , But Not Worth Your Time Overall | Buster Keaton plays a guy who runs " " Ye Old Clockee Shoppe " and one wonders how he can stay in business since he's completely inept at fixing timepieces . This film starts off very slowly . , taking almost half of the total time to just to set up the premise of Buster trying to win the affections of Dorothy Sebastia... |
522,673 | 4,445,210 | 24,826 | 4 | More Drama Than Comedy | Well , this is different , and usually I like that but I can't give this animated classic short more than " fair " marks . The first two-and-a-half minutes of this cartoon is live action showing a little kid feeding ducks , then following one of the ducks who strayed to a nearby a pond . At that point , an animated fro... |
524,715 | 4,445,210 | 95,107 | 4 | Great Start , But ' Santa ' Dropped The Sleigh | This movie started off great ; the first 30 minutes are very funny and clever with some interesting characters . That's the good news . The bad news is that the film then gets too repetitive and then it gets downright stupid . What we wind up getting is a Santa Claus with " magical " powers with a lot of New Age balone... |
523,055 | 4,445,210 | 26,275 | 5 | Some Good , Some Bad Equals ' Just Fair ' | So far , I have to agree with what each of the four previous reviewers said , meaning some good , some bad . THE BAD - Not much of a story . . . . . supporting actor Frank McHugh in an annoying role ( annoying with his singing the same stupid song after every sentence ) . . . . . . James Cagney with a laugh that gets a... |
522,791 | 4,445,210 | 112,864 | 5 | Very Entertaining But Too Low-Class | I found lots of entertainment value in this but way overdone with the violence , profanity and the totally-implausible scenes . It's just so darn interesting with so many good stunts that it's hard to totally ignore this film despite the stupidity . It's almost like a very good Steven Seagal , Jean-Claude Van Damme or ... |
525,419 | 4,445,210 | 650,625 | 5 | Too Far-Fetched For Any Kind Of Credibility | An astronaut , nearing a mission , is at a girlfriend's place where she reveals to him that he's in chapter five of her new book . Apparently , it's a sexy book . Since the astronaut may also be running for political soon , he obviously don't want this book published . I say " obviously " because he is shown putting po... |
525,420 | 4,445,210 | 650,627 | 5 | A Very Silly ( Too Silly ) Episode | Mr . Monk , the cheapskate , is broke as usual , negligent is paying Natalie , as usual , reluctant to ask for a raise , as usual , and is solving cases for free , as usual . All of this has Natalie upset , naturally , until she sees that there is a one million dollar reward for anyone who solves the recent heist from ... |
522,264 | 4,445,210 | 35,226 | 5 | There Were A Bit Too Mild In 1942 | The year 1942 , the first full year of these Tom and Jerry cartoons and , as many of them were this year , are nothing special . What makes these two guys click are their famous chases and inventive ways to getting at each other . Those were just starting to surface the first season or two . In this cartoon , that " ch... |
524,316 | 4,445,210 | 43,983 | 5 | Dancing Great ; Story Stinks | This movie features some of the most famous dance scenes by Fred Astaire , such as the one where he dances on the walls and ceiling . That particularly dance is impressive because the special-effects made it look realistic . Kudos to the filmmakers for doing that in a film that is 55 years old . Astaire also did a clev... |
522,434 | 4,445,210 | 1,009,815 | 5 | Staying Upbeat | Popeye and Brutus are exchanging insults and Olive gets tired of listening to it . She asks them to stop arguing and do something worthwhile . " Why don't you make your stamp on eternity ? " " Give us a for-instance , " asks Bluto . Olive is leaning on a statue of Admiral Perry , discoverer of the North Pole . " Why do... |
522,435 | 4,445,210 | 1,009,816 | 5 | Popeye's ' Submarini ' Sandwich | Overall , despite one funny scene , this was pretty lame and a prime example of how these 1960-61 Popeye editions put out by King Features seemed to be made with five-year-old children as its target audience , certainly not us adults who loved the Popeye cartoons from the 1930s through the 1050s . Popeye is asked to wa... |
525,987 | 4,445,210 | 105,151 | 5 | Insider's Jokes Don't Necessarily Connect With General Audience | A ton of celebrity cameos was the main thing that made this movie fun to watch , but once was enough . I wouldn't watch it again because there simply aren't enough " good guys " to suit me . The film is entertaining but has too nasty a tone to it . The language was rougher than it needed to be , but that's no surprise ... |
525,215 | 4,445,210 | 52,603 | 5 | Unique , But Not That Funny | Bugs is the guest conductor of the Warner Brothers Symphony Orchestra , playing " Morning , Noon and Night in Vienna by Franz Von Suppe . " The whole cartoon is a spoof of overly-dramatic conductors . Bugs exaggerates most of his moves with the orchestra delivering what he's doing . Some of it is funny , some too far -... |
522,496 | 4,445,210 | 95,647 | 5 | Great Acting , But Overdone Stereotypes & Bias | This was a very intense story about three missing civil rights workers in 1964 and the U . S . government looking into that disappearance ( and murder ) in Mississippi , where it happened . On first viewing , I really enjoyed this because of the top-rated performance by the lead actors Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe and... |
525,947 | 4,445,210 | 17,537 | 5 | Mutt & Jeff Oldie Needs More Refinement | Wow , this is an oldie , and sometimes it looks it . It was my first look , actually , at a Mutt and Jeff cartoon but I remember reading them in comic fashion as a kid for many years . Anyway , they are cowboys and apparently a team in entertaining folks , perhaps , in a rodeo because we see them practicing their act .... |
527,320 | 4,445,210 | 52,543 | 5 | Would Have Been Better Had Steiger Not Overacted Again | This is a pretty interesting film but really not all that memorable and one that you think afterward should have been a lot better . It was like watching an old television show - better , I'm sure , 50 years ago than watching it today . The story is not boring , but something was missing . Perhaps it just needed more s... |
523,150 | 4,445,210 | 95,532 | 5 | Involving , But Only So-So Overall | This was a fairly involving story , although it's better in the first half . After that , the kid gets annoying but then the film picks back up in the last 15 minutes . The story is about this teen boy " Jeff Grant " ( River Phoenix ) who discovers his parents are " sleepr " KGB agents , spies are out of the business .... |
527,524 | 4,445,210 | 26,151 | 5 | Is This A Prison Or A Country Club ? | Federal Agent Buddy receives a telegram stating , " Conduct secret investigation as to the treatment accorded prisoners by ward at Sing Song Prison . signed , Fuller Pepp , chief . " Buddy dons his mustache disguise and brings along his dog , who is dressed like Sherlock Holmes , to the police station where a big cro... |
523,020 | 4,445,210 | 70,544 | 5 | A ' Planet Of The Apes ' Animated Takeoff | This is an animated film made 45 years ago ( 1973 ) by the French , has the English title of " Fantastic Planet . " Early on , it reminded me of the " Planet of the Apes " story in which " human " were the captives and someone else ( aliens , here , called " Draags " ) were the " masters . " He , we are the " humanoids... |
523,799 | 4,445,210 | 167,260 | 5 | Two Words : Overkill & Excessive | First of all , let me just say how impressed I was with the first two movies in this trilogy . They were outstanding films and deserving of all the awards they received . Perhaps that is one reason I was so disappointed in this movie ; it wasn't nearly as interesting as the first two . The main reason can be summed up ... |
522,632 | 4,445,210 | 147,568 | 5 | ' Ol Man Winter Gets Buzzed | Overall , this was a decent cartoon , nothing extraordinary but one that had some very good individual moments . You'd see something really cool , and then not much would happen for a minute or two and then something dramatic and fascinating would be shown again . The artwork in the beginning was original with trees sl... |
525,092 | 4,445,210 | 70,616 | 5 | A Nice Film , But Dull & Preachy | What started out as an exciting adventure story wound up being nothing but a preachy environmental film . You could have almost made this into a documentary with the obvious agenda of the filmmakers . Hey , I'm all for keeping the beautiful and helping the horses , too , but that's that what this is advertised . The fi... |
525,287 | 4,445,210 | 26,197 | 5 | The Good & Bad Of ' Charlie Chan In Egypt ' | I did not like this one on the first viewing , but I had a very bad tape which didn't help . With the DVD ( part of recent Chan Collection that came out in 2006 ) I enjoyed this more , thanks , in part to have the option of English subtitles . I still think this is a slightly sub-par Warner Oland-edition Charlie Chan ,... |
527,437 | 4,445,210 | 52,311 | 5 | Want To Like This . . . . . But I Can't | Touch Of Evil I should really like movie since I am big fan of film noir and I like Charleton Heston , Janet Leigh and Orson Welles . . . . yet I did not , and I gave it several chances . It's just too grungy for me , leaving a bad taste in my mouth . Maybe it's Welles character that turns me off so much . He is one of... |
526,641 | 4,445,210 | 412,008 | 5 | The Only Below-Par Bocelli DV | The popular opera-pop singer gives tribute to his home town and his family in a series of videos accompanied by almost a dozen songs . This is pretty short at 53 minutes and I found it not up to the standards of his concert programs . However , all the songs are nice , mellow and well-sung , as usual . But , to me , so... |
523,462 | 4,445,210 | 237,534 | 5 | Great . . . . Up Until Bias Reared Its Ugly Head Once Again | This was on its way to becoming part of my DVD collection until the last 30-40 minutes when religious bigotry reared its ugly head once again . All the villains turn out to be Christians ( Catholics ) . Every bad , every evil person is shown with a cross on them which is distinctly shown to make its point equating Beli... |
524,630 | 4,445,210 | 43,733 | 5 | Okay , But Certainly Not One Of Hope's Best | This was fairly interesting story with some decent laughs . . . . nothing to really dislike but nothing that would make rush out and buy the film , either . The characters were colorful in here and Bob Hope ( it's his movie ) had a number of funny lines , yet I didn't think the film moved that fast for some reason . Al... |
522,471 | 4,445,210 | 77,889 | 5 | As A Character Study It Was Very Good , But Then . . . . . . . | Here is a yet another sordid , profane film of the 1970s . Within a few minutes , I can always tell a movie from the 1970s . It will have a grainy ( gritty ) look to it , have women with too much makeup , have an extreme hatred for Christianity and feature a lot of usage of the Lord's name in vain , also feature mostly... |
523,461 | 4,445,210 | 209,958 | 5 | Fantastic Visuals But Very Sordid , Unpleasant Story | This film has some of the wildest visuals I'd seen up to the time of my first viewing of this in April of 2001 . The visuals were easily the highlight of the film . It isn't the story because that's too much on the sordid side . Sometimes , it's just plain too uncomfortable . It's another demented serial killer story ,... |
525,333 | 4,445,210 | 113,097 | 5 | ' Mickey ' Best On The Court | Billy Crystal was his normal funny self , evoking a number of laughs in here BUT , lest you think this is a comedy , it's more of a drama . . . . much more . I say that because much of this shows a courtship and a marriage . The courtship is romantic and cute , of course , but the marriage are not . Things don't work o... |
525,652 | 4,445,210 | 35,015 | 5 | Watch This Instead Of Taking Sleeping Pills | I need to see this again . I only saw it once and was disappointed . Perhaps another look would help . In a nutshell , I loved the camera-work but was totally bored with the story . It's no surprise I liked the cinematography since Orson Welles directed . Actually , he not only directed but produced , wrote the script ... |
522,688 | 4,445,210 | 382,932 | 5 | Very Rich Colors Are Fantastic ; Mouse Is Great ; Humans Not So | I agree this Blu-Ray transfer is stunning , magnificent to view in many spots with very , very rich colors . Yet , I couldn't get into this story and was turned off my several of the main characters . I gave it two shots : on regular DVD and Blu-Ray and both times I never finished the film . I just interest . Only the ... |
527,029 | 4,445,210 | 147,912 | 5 | I'm Sure 3-D Would Have Made This A Lot Better | Casper sees " the man in the moon " and he looks friendly , so he flies up there to meet him . When he gets there , he discovers the moon is just a bunch of rocks and craters . " Wow , " I am thinking , " the writers of this cartoon are way ahead of everyone since that's exactly correct as we found out for sure decades... |
526,783 | 4,445,210 | 34,845 | 5 | Liked The Slang , But Little Else | I love to hear the slang of the day , whatever decade , and this one has a lot of it of the ' 40s beginning with the title . For those you don't know , " hep " used to mean " hip " or " cool " or whatever . Here , it's cat who struts his stuff in words , song and dance . He spots this hot female feline and is smitten .... |
527,117 | 4,445,210 | 105,219 | 5 | Lee Is Fine , But It's Still Grade-B Marital Arts Fare | I'm not into a lot of these martial-arts pictures pre - " Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon " years , but Brandon Lee was a cool guy to watch . What a shame this son of the famous Bruce Lee died so young . This picture was good . . . . for the first 15 minutes . Then it descended into the Rambo - mentality mode in which ... |
526,509 | 4,445,210 | 660,578 | 5 | The Good & Bad Of ' Night Court's ' First Episode | In this opening episode of a successful television show , we see the entrance of the new judge , a laid-back , blue-jean-ed young guy that is not what the other employees of a Manhattan arraignment court expected to see : judge Harold T . Stone , played by Harry Anderson . In fact , when he arrives the court clerk " La... |
524,559 | 4,445,210 | 105,265 | 5 | Spectacular Scenery ; So-So Story | THE GOOD - Spectacular scenery , the kind outdoors-man Robert Redford appreciates ( and so do I ) : plenty of green in the beautiful mountains , streams , woods of Montana . Nature doesn't get a whole lot prettier than this . The minister in here ( Tom Skerritt ) is shown in a kindly light , which is a bit unusual with... |
522,846 | 4,445,210 | 52,357 | 5 | This Has To Be One Of The Most Overrated Films In History | I think I made more of an effort to try to really like this movie than any film I can think of . . . . and I finally have given up . There is something just unappealing about this story . I know two things : 1 - It's vastly overrated ; 2 - It's too slow . Jimmy Stewart is fine in the lead role . That's no surprise . Bu... |
525,986 | 4,445,210 | 87,553 | 5 | Powerful Drama But Hard To Watch | It's been over 20 years since I saw this film and parts of it still haunt me . . . . . brutal , emotional scenes which I do NOT want to see ever again . It's just too gut-wrenching and uncomfortable to sit through a second time . Generally , it's two hours of suffering and torture . Who wants to watch that ? It IS a po... |
525,148 | 4,445,210 | 365,485 | 5 | Last Segment Totally Destroys The Film | I really enjoyed this movie for the first hour . It was quirky and totally unpredictable , thanks to Pierce Brosnan's strange character , " Julian . " However , when Julian knocked on the door late at the night in Denver , Colorado , at the house of his buddy " Danny Wright " ( Greg Kinnear ) , the film began to turn s... |
523,835 | 4,445,210 | 77,975 | 5 | This Picture Says It All | This movie should be in a time capsule . What better example to show the great progress Liberal thinking and influence had on the USA in the 1960s and 1970s ? By this time , it was official : anything bad is " ccol " and good is really bad . Got it ? This has it all : getting drunk every night is the goal ; vandalizing... |
523,750 | 4,445,210 | 43,503 | 5 | Great Start , But Disappointing After That | This starts off powerfully , with a very interesting scene and some excellent film - noir photography , but after the witness dies , so does the movie in many respects . From that point on , it's just a bunch of flashbacks . When the " live " scenes reappear , they are not always easy to discern what's going on . The f... |
524,386 | 4,445,210 | 25,780 | 5 | Sadistic Ghosts A Little Strong For Little Kids Viewing | This is a " ghost ship " story and not really anything that funny , at least nowhere as good as the normal Popeye cartoon by this time . It might be even a little bit too scary for small kids . Popeye , Olive and Wimpy come across this ghostly ship one day . ( The three of them seem to go out boating a lot , and wind u... |
523,542 | 4,445,210 | 60,738 | 5 | Being Blown Up Only Gets Him Dirty | This was okay , but nothing super and certainly not as good as the first two on the DVD " The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection , Vol . 6 - Inspector Cartoons . One thing it had that the first two didn't have was a laugh track which is stupid beyond belief . I don't need to be told when to laugh at a cartoon . Fo... |
527,083 | 4,445,210 | 35,814 | 5 | Helium-Filled Moe Highlights This So-So Effort | The boys must produce a new " revolutionary " airplane , as promised , or they will be drafted into the military . This " short " has the semi-famous Moe-as-a-big black-balloon skit in which he first floats to the top of the room and eventually out a skylight window has to be shot out of the sky by Curly . It takes jus... |
523,657 | 4,445,210 | 25,829 | 5 | Okay , But Not Really A ' Temple ' Movie | This is a billed as a " Shirley Temple film , " but it really isn't because she hardly appears in it . In fact , she doesn't appear until after 20 minutes have gone by , and then after the scene and a subsequent dance routine with James Dunn , disappears again until the very end . When she's here , she's as cute as eve... |
523,253 | 4,445,210 | 1,041,253 | 5 | Surprisingly-Boring For A Season-0pener | I can't recall , although there must have been at least one , any CSI episode that I could label as " boring . " The stories might get a little too wacky here and there - especially this Las Vegas one - but they never dragged . . . . . . until this one . Usually , a lot is going on in a CSI episode , whether it is one ... |
523,775 | 4,445,210 | 18,061 | 5 | Not As Clever As The Earlier Ones | This was one of those cartoons that amused audiences a lot more 80 years ago than it does today . Oddly , I found that the Koko The Clown cartoons earlier in the decade a lot more clever than this late silent-film entry . Maybe Max and Dave had run out of ideas on how to make Koko and the " Out of the Inkwell " materia... |
522,992 | 4,445,210 | 96,028 | 5 | A Grim Subject | This is a movie made in India about a young boy who is forced out into the streets of Bombay , where he sells tea , associates with drug dealers , has his money stolen , on and on , good and bad - mostly bad . It's a depressing story with little to offer on the bright side . The video box said there is no sex , no viol... |
527,366 | 4,445,210 | 933,357 | 5 | Life Is More Than ' Chance ' | This is an animated story about " chance " and " coincidence " ruling our lives , something the author apparently believes because it's stated by narrator in the first few sentences of the film that " we are all just seeds floating up there in the space waiting for someone to get us . " With an atheistic outlook like t... |
523,083 | 4,445,210 | 60,862 | 5 | Some Nice Suprrises But Just So-So | After not seeing this film for almost 30 years , I was surprised how good the cinematography was , since I had mainly just remembered this as another Western with a good cast of famous tough guys . The rugged Mexican countryside took my attention as much as the story . Another big surprise was Robert Ryan . Noted for p... |
524,042 | 4,445,210 | 96,061 | 5 | Not Your Family Scrooge Story , But Has Its Moments With Murray | This was a pretty entertaining update of the famous " Scrooge " story . Unfortunately , however , that update includes profanity which certainly isn't necessary for this famous story . When the special-effects start , the movie kicks in . Bill Murray is convincing in his role as the bad guy - Bill usually is entertaini... |
523,836 | 4,445,210 | 43,286 | 5 | Much Prefer This One To Re-Make | This was a nice film , nothing special , but certainly better than the terrible Disney re-make in 1994 . The baseball scenes were pretty good and they should have stayed more with that . They had footage from real-life Pittsburgh Pirates games and that helped make it look more genuine than most sports films that Hollyw... |
527,457 | 4,445,210 | 113,627 | 5 | Sleaze In Stylish Form | I waited a long time before I saw this award-winning movie . Everything I had read about it led me to believe it was a depressing film . Most films about alcoholics aren't pretty and this was about an alcoholic AND a down-and-out hooker , so how much fun could it be ? Maybe because I expected the worst , I found it a p... |
526,205 | 4,445,210 | 78,446 | 5 | Hey , Man ! | This was an appropriate movie for the 1970s where long hair , drugs , wild clothing , war protests and just all-around rebellion against authority was the cool thing to do , although that's been a part of society since Adam and Eve . In this film , we have the famous Hippie " brothers " of the era : Cheech Marin and To... |
525,529 | 4,445,210 | 113,552 | 5 | Okay , But Just Too Hard , Too Nasty For Most People | This is not the 1947 film but a 1995 re-make of the famous gangster flick of the same name . While the classic film had one brutally nasty guy , this one has a whole cast full of them . . . . too nasty , frankly . I watched this once and was fairly interested in it . A couple of years later , took a second look and fou... |
523,385 | 4,445,210 | 52,792 | 5 | Riveting Back In ' 59 ; Not Much Now | When I was a very young teen , I saw this in the theater and was just awed . The different segments were very dramatic and stayed with me for decades . So after a long , long absence , seeing this again in the late ' 90s turned out to be a major disappointment . As a kid , this movie was exciting , but it sure isn't no... |
522,448 | 4,445,210 | 35,583 | 5 | Yes , Rita Never Looked Lovelier , But Story Was Never As Stupid ! | Boy , here we go again . It's too bad they had to have just stupid stories in these Fred Astaire movies , especially with the gorgeous and talented Rita Hayworth as his partner . Ginger Rogers was great in her roles as Astaire's most-often dance partner but nobody looked as awesome as Hayworth in the early-to-mid ' 40s... |
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