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573,533 | 4,532,636 | 69,995 | 1 | Like Having Glass Ground Into Your Eyeballs | Heed the warning of this movie's title and don't look at it now . . . or ever . This atrocious psychological thriller is neither psychologically complex nor especially thrilling . Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland play parents mourning the accidental death of their daughter , wandering around Venice while Sutherland... |
573,440 | 4,532,636 | 785,007 | 1 | Eva Longoria Deserves the Flames of Hell | Much of " Over Her Dead Body " is so painfully unfunny that I was actually squirming in my seat out of embarrassment for the actors . Eva Longoria proves that she can't carry a film in this terrible romantic comedy , and further , that she doesn't really even have any comedic timing . She's grating and annoying as a gh... |
573,531 | 4,532,636 | 80,761 | 1 | When Slasher Films Were Innocent | How did this movie ever get the reputation as a horror classic ? I've been re-watching the " Friday the 13th " series recently and have been struck by how awfully incompetent they are as films . This first installment I guess has the advantage of being novel , though not really , since it doesn't use any formula conven... |
573,946 | 4,532,636 | 74,749 | 1 | A Terrible Cassavetes Film | I found this film to be nearly intolerable . John Cassavetes in many ways was a love him or leave him director . His films were never easy - - he definitely required his audience to work , not sit passively and let his films quietly come at them . I don't mind this approach to film-making , but I do require that the re... |
573,317 | 4,532,636 | 414,993 | 1 | This Tree of Life Would Be Put to Better Use as Firewood | The only compliment I can pay " The Fountain " is that it's not ordinary . However , a little ordinariness might have helped this nearly unwatchable mess of a movie . Darren Aronofsky has made a cerebral , abstract film completely lacking any ounce of emotional significance . It comes across as one of those films that ... |
573,547 | 4,532,636 | 73,540 | 1 | Pretentious and Dull - - The Worst Combination | Ugh . . . an endless and interminable movie about a batch of oppressed school girls who go missing during a picnic at the eponymous rock formation . There seem to be plenty of viewers armed with psycho-babble to defend this film's deeper meaning , its undertones of sexuality , power , repression , etc . , etc . , blah ... |
574,193 | 4,532,636 | 430,304 | 1 | What's the Point ? | What's the point of reviewing a movie like this ? It's painfully and embarrassingly bad , not even in a way that allows you to make fun of it . Movies like " Little Man " depress me . They represent film at its most disposable . This movie was made for a bunch of 18-24 year old dipsht frat boys who the studio was hopin... |
573,360 | 4,532,636 | 170,016 | 1 | Atrocious | Ron Howard , who never met a story he couldn't screw up , takes the delightful holiday cartoon classic and turns it into something gormless , vulgar and awful . The cartoon used imaginative language and iconic animation to create its magical effect . Howard replaces all of that with gaudy art direction and stupid physi... |
574,246 | 4,532,636 | 51,658 | 1 | Wretched Piece of Instantly Disposable Crap | I hate this movie . I hate the way it looks . I hate the way the actors ( especially Leslie Caron ) sound . I hate the way it's dubbed . I hate how irrelevant it is . Is it just me , or is there something incredibly distasteful ( not to mention creepy ) to see an 80-something Maurice Chevalier singing " Thank Heaven fo... |
573,627 | 4,532,636 | 92,646 | 1 | Beyond Watchable | I've been having my own little Altman revival over the past months , watching all of his available movies in chronological order , both his masterpieces and his duds . I'm up to 1987 , and I think I may have finally found it - - that elusive thing known as Robert Altman's absolutely worst film . If you know about Altma... |
573,785 | 4,532,636 | 83,972 | 1 | Adding 3-D Doesn't Help | If possible , the third installment in the hit hack-up derby is even worse than the first film , which is really saying something . The entire " Friday the 13th " series is like a ten-car pile-up for me : I know I should avert my eyes , but something compels me to stare . These movies are an insult to my intelligence ,... |
573,719 | 4,532,636 | 95,179 | 1 | Dreck | Saying that " Friday the 13th Part VII : The New Blood " is god awful is like saying the sun rises in the East . It's just an objective fact , and there's not anything anyone can possibly say to refute it . I have about as much energy to muster up a comment about this film as the filmmakers had in creating it , and bel... |
574,082 | 4,532,636 | 203,009 | 1 | Ugh ! | Well , I guess I didn't " get it , " since that's how everyone who loves this stinking movie explains away those of us who don't . Couldn't have anything to do with the ridiculous performances ( who else wanted to see John Leguizamo take a long walk off a short pier , and who else but me felt embarrassed for poor Jim B... |
574,036 | 4,532,636 | 70,423 | 2 | Hold on to Your Artichokes | Here at IMDb it's called " The Mutations " ; the version I saw was called " The Freakmaker . " No matter what title you give it , the result is one pretty bad movie . Donald Pleasance slums mightily in the role of a college professor / mad scientist whose ultimate dream is to create a race of half plant / half human cr... |
573,349 | 4,532,636 | 52,618 | 2 | A Nearly Unwatchable Hollywood " Classic " | Hopeless . If you can endure Charlton Heston's painful attempts at " serious " acting for nearly four ( ! ) hours , you will ultimately be done in anyway by the film's sheer unwieldy clunkiness . It lumbers along under William Wyler's direction like a crippled elephant , coming alive in only a couple of places ( the la... |
574,077 | 4,532,636 | 85,959 | 2 | Downright Painful | Believe me , I did not want to dislike this movie , but ultimately I thought it was just awful . They Pythoners show none of the comedic dexterity on display in " The Holy Grail " or " Life of Brian , " and this movie put me sadly in mind of the worst " SNL " skits , when one lame joke is drawn agonizingly out over a 1... |
574,422 | 4,532,636 | 454,841 | 2 | Needlessly Savage and Not Remotely Scary | My wife recently planned a night out with her girlfriends , so I had the T . V . to myself and the chance to watch some movies she wouldn't want to see . I had a hankering for some good old fashioned vintage porn and a good scary movie , so I rented this , " Debbie Does Dallas " and " Taboo . " Of the three films I ren... |
573,401 | 4,532,636 | 56,937 | 2 | In the Running for Most Boring Movie Ever Made | I can't imagine this gargantuan historical epic being of interest to anyone . As a serious piece of film , it's far too wooden and dull to appeal to cinephiles ; but for the same reasons , it doesn't even satisfy those looking for trashy camp . In terms of its physical production , " Cleopatra " takes the " more is bet... |
573,860 | 4,532,636 | 76,451 | 2 | Start Spreading the News , This Movie Is Crap | Martin Scorsese's deconstruction of the golden Hollywood musical is a meandering disaster . " New York , New York " is damn near unwatchable . It tells the VERY slight story of a jackass saxophone player ( Robert De Niro ) who falls in love with a nightclub singer ( Liza Minelli ) and proceeds to emotionally abuse her ... |
574,278 | 4,532,636 | 443,274 | 2 | Changing the Point of View Doesn't Make This Movie Any Better | What could have been a reasonably entertaining B-movie is instead turned into a total disaster . Here's the gimmick : the events in " Vantage Point " unfold multiple times from the perspectives of different characters . Each time we see the story , we either learn something we didn't know before , or the movie tosses u... |
573,327 | 4,532,636 | 32,145 | 2 | Witheringly Boring Heights | Wuthering Heights is a florid , over-heated , dull Gothic romance based on a florid , over-heated , dull Gothic novel . This movie and everything about it grated on me - - why it's considered to be such a classic ( and worthy of placement on the AFI's list of 100 greatest films of all time ) I'll never know . I guess... |
574,432 | 4,532,636 | 70,047 | 2 | A Steaming Pile of Demon Puke | A ridiculous and laughable " horror " film about demonic possession . " The Exorcist " is simply terrible . William Friedkin directed with an iron fist , and there isn't the least shade of subtlety to this story . You may feel assaulted , but you won't be scared . Poor Ellen Burstyn has to wade her way through this cra... |
573,617 | 4,532,636 | 286,716 | 2 | The Horror , the Horror . . . . | I so wanted to give this film a better review , because if nothing else , " Hulk " at least takes a more interesting than average approach to the comic - book - turned - into - summer - blockbuster genre . Ang Lee gets kudos from me for his use of split screens to suggest the panels of a comic book , but that's about w... |
573,877 | 4,532,636 | 71,803 | 2 | Ghastly | This is a terrible movie , and I'm not even sure why it's so terrible . It's ugly , for one , with that trendy 1970s visual style that maybe seemed like a good idea at the time but which now enables one to instantly recognize a film from that time period as being a 70s product . The film retains the story and songs tha... |
573,762 | 4,532,636 | 78,504 | 2 | Do NOT Ease on Down THIS Road | A colossal misfire . My theory is that every great director had to direct at least one crappy movie musical ( think about it , John Huston did " Annie , " Robert Altman did " Popeye , " etc . ) , and " The Wiz " is Sidney Lumet's dubious contribution . An all-black , motown version of " The Wizard of Oz " isn't a bad i... |
573,815 | 4,532,636 | 88,915 | 2 | Film Almost Single Handedly Undermines the Integrity of the Pulitzer Prize | If you were to judge based on the movie alone , the committee that gave the stage musical " A Chorus Line " a Pulitzer Prize , and Broadway audiences that kept the war horse running for 15 years , were all on heavy narcotics , because one singular sensation this film certainly is NOT . What possessed anyone to think th... |
573,827 | 4,532,636 | 71,455 | 2 | Heston's Performance Is About an 8 . 5 on the Richter Scale | 1974 was a bad year for L . A . First , its brand new skyscraper caught on fire and imperiled the likes of William Holden , Faye Dunaway , Steve McQueen and Paul Newman - - whose lives were all partially in the hands of O . J . Simpson , no less ! Then it was struck by a mega-quake that completely devastated the city a... |
573,429 | 4,532,636 | 81,353 | 2 | Quintet , I Apologize - - THIS Is the Worst Altman Film Ever Made | Oh , Robert Altman , I love you and may you rest in peace , but DAMN did you make some bad movies . I've been re-watching Altman's entire oeuvre on DVD lately ( or at least the movies available ) and have had to seriously reconsider my ranking system . I had thought that " Quintet " was the nadir of his 1970s film care... |
574,039 | 4,532,636 | 443,649 | 2 | Mammoths and Tigers and Bad Acting , Oh My ! ! | Thank God that Roland Emmerich is making movies and setting history straight , because without him I never would have realized that prehistoric man looked not unlike cast members from " Rent . " What is that elusive ingredient that makes a bad movie fun to watch ? Because whatever it is , " 10 , 000 B . C . " is missin... |
573,658 | 4,532,636 | 44,926 | 2 | Can't Anybody Make a Good Movie About the Moulin Rouge ? | This dreary biopic about Toulouse-Lautrec , directed by the usually reliable John Huston , only proves that no one has yet been able to make a compelling movie about the famous painter or the Moulin Rouge of turn-of-the-20th-century Paris . Baz Luhrman's film from 2001 is appalling and unwatchable . Huston's film is ju... |
574,128 | 4,532,636 | 329,575 | 2 | Use the DVD as a Coaster If You Want Your Full Money's Worth | Using your copy of " Seabiscuit " to set drinks on would be a more interesting use for it than actually playing the boring thing . Oh , what a safe , boring , dull movie this is . Gary Ross obviously went to the Ron Howard school of directing , where points are pounded home with a hammer and anvil and manipulated emoti... |
573,756 | 4,532,636 | 62,362 | 2 | This Is What They Make You Watch in Hell | I was going to give this movie 1 star until I realized that I gave " Moulin Rouge " that ranking , and I can't possibly hate a movie as much as that one . You might think from my ratings of these two movie musicals that I don't like movie musicals . Not so . I like GOOD movie musicals , not stinky ones like this . I wi... |
574,000 | 4,532,636 | 92,644 | 2 | Unnecessary Sequel Does Everything Wrong | A terrible and unpleasant sequel to the surprise hit from 1984 . Though it reassembles most of the cast from the original , including Eddie Murphy in the role that made him a big-screen movie star , all of the other elements that made the first one so enjoyable are gone . Director Tony Scott seems to be absolutely clue... |
573,954 | 4,532,636 | 48,960 | 2 | As Unnecessary as It Could Possibly Be | Around the World in 80 Days recreates the sensation of looking through someone else's vacation pictures . Some of them may be pretty , but by the time you've seen your fifth picture of palm trees and sand , you're ready to move on . This movie existed solely as a big F YOU to the television industry and the threat it... |
573,938 | 4,532,636 | 443,489 | 2 | Really , Really Bad ( I Mean , Really ) | What ? . . . . What did you say ? . . . . Sorry , I'm having a little trouble hearing you . . . . I think all of the caterwauling in this movie gave me permanent hearing loss . . . . . . . I'm suing Bill Condon . . . . . Either the stage version of " Dreamgirls " sucked royally and they made a very faithful ( and sucky... |
574,254 | 4,532,636 | 48,316 | 2 | Love Is a Syrupy , Schmaltzy Thing | This film looks great , and that's about where my praise ends . " Love Is a Many Splendored Thing " came out in the very schizophrenic year of 1955 , when candy-coloured nonsense like this co-existed with trail-blazing artistic fair like " Kiss Me Deadly . " As a trend toward smaller , socially conscious films like " O... |
573,315 | 4,532,636 | 448,134 | 2 | I've Rarely Seen a Movie So Utterly Ruined by Its Ending | Sunshine is an hour of pretty good movie completely ruined by a disastrously terrible final 30 minutes . Danny Boyle's latest exercise in feel-bad cinema finds a crew of astronauts on their way to launch a mega-bomb at Earth's dying sun , hoping to revive it and save the fate of humanity . They're the second crew to ... |
574,360 | 4,532,636 | 42,327 | 2 | For Use in Place of Chinese Water Torture | If I were to be kidnapped by terrorists , making me watch this movie again would be more effective than any other brand of torture they could devise . If you want information out of me , just let me get a glimpse of Jeanne Crain's saccharine , dreadful performance here and I'll break faster than a ninety-year-old woman... |
573,707 | 4,532,636 | 66,579 | 2 | The Movie Sucks , Which Means It's a Faithful Adaptation of Its Source | Well , you might not actually SEE any women in love in this movie , but you'll certainly hear women TALKING about love , and men talking about love , and women talking about men , and men talking about women , and men talking about men , and everyone talking about death , and talking , and talking , until you yourself ... |
574,396 | 4,532,636 | 407,304 | 3 | Huge Disappointment | For all of its nonstop action set pieces and narrow escapes , " War of the Worlds " is a strangely inert piece of film-making . There's absolutely nothing in the film to retain your interest . Tom Cruise plays a completely anonymous character who you learn nothing about , and his kids serve little purpose beyond being ... |
574,460 | 4,532,636 | 61,439 | 3 | This Round Table Is as Square as They Come | A lumbering screen version of the hit Broadway musical . " Camelot " came out at a time when Hollywood was losing its ability to make good screen musicals . Partly , audience taste was changing , and quaint stuff like " Camelot " just looked dated and irrelevant next to films like " The Graduate " or " Bonnie and Clyde... |
573,380 | 4,532,636 | 105,378 | 3 | One of Allen's Worst | Shadows and Fog is surely one of Woody Allen's weakest films , right up there with " September " and " Hollywood Ending " ( though nothing Allen has done equals the awfulness of " Anything Else " ) . " Shadows and Fog " is Allen's homage to the German Expressionist style of film-making , all stark and stylized light ... |
574,094 | 4,532,636 | 1,046,997 | 3 | After This Disaster , Spike Lee Needs to Keep His Mouth Shut | This God-awful mess of a movie is the last piece of proof I need to convince me that Spike Lee is pretty much worthless as a filmmaker . I have to believe that critics who gave this film even the faintest praise were merely being respectful to its subject matter and the intentions behind it . Because everything else ab... |
573,670 | 4,532,636 | 26,421 | 3 | A Formula Worn Thin | A tedious yawn of a film that retains nothing of the zing and raciness of its predecessor , " Gold Diggers of 1933 . " The Production Code was firmly in place by the time of this film's release , so the humour is all of the hokey , wocka-wocka variety and gone are the dry one-liners that sounded so cosmopolitan drippin... |
573,446 | 4,532,636 | 83,833 | 3 | If I Ever Eat at This Diner , Please Seat Me Far Away from These Yahoos | Ugh , I hated " Diner . " A group of college twerps who don't want to grow up sit around and blather on incessantly . I believe we're supposed to think they're cute and lovable , shaking our heads in mock disapproval of their pesky antics . Give me a break . Nothing's more boring than watching a movie about people who ... |
574,178 | 4,532,636 | 23,730 | 3 | No Cheers for This Warners Short | This Warners short , which I presume ran on the same bill as Mervyn LeRoy's " I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , " is a mostly tired and unfunny film . It reminded me of just about every " Saturday Night Live " skit ever made , in which all of the actors think the material is funnier than the people watching it , and ... |
574,072 | 4,532,636 | 45,963 | 3 | An Ugly Stage-to-Screen Adaptation | The Broadway musical on which this film is based may display oodles of charm , but if so , the film adaptation captures none of it . Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel prove once again that they were singers first and actors second , and exhibit less than compelling screen presence . It wouldn't matter if they created fir... |
574,472 | 4,532,636 | 37,536 | 3 | A Boring Do-Over | Ugh , this film is dull and tedious . It followed the huge box office success and heap of Oscars bestowed upon " Going My Way , " and virtually sets out to recreate that film with some minor changes . One of those changes is the addition of Ingrid Bergman , and thank God for her . I've never been much of a Bergman fan ... |
574,352 | 4,532,636 | 93,940 | 3 | A Deadening Woody Allen Film in the Style of Ingmar Bergman | Woody Allen's cringe-inducing " September " comes across as something a film student would make if he were given the assignment of making a movie in the style of Ingmar Bergman . It's oppressive , claustrophobic and intolerably whiny , filled with unpleasant people complaining about their boring problems . Though the f... |
573,625 | 4,532,636 | 60,438 | 3 | Horribly Dated | With apparently no faith in the pretty strong material , the filmmakers decided to do away with most of the aspects that made the musical charming in the first place ( like , oh , most of the music ! ) and replace it with groovy 60's trickery that looks like something right out of Benny Hill ( look , the action is sped... |
573,825 | 4,532,636 | 452,623 | 3 | A Pointless Exercise in Human Nastiness | This crabby pill of a movie takes place in the dreg districts of Boston and stars Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan as a boyfriend / girlfriend detective team who are hired to search for a missing child . What follows is a twisty plot with a stupid and implausible finale . The movie is surly , everyone involved is in... |
573,534 | 4,532,636 | 95,765 | 3 | Are You Kidding Me ? | I should have known to stay away from this movie when it was recommended to me by someone who wouldn't normally be caught dead watching a foreign language film . The best way to describe the kind of movie we're dealing with here is to say that if you liked " Life Is Beautiful " you will like " Cinema Paradiso . " Peopl... |
574,319 | 4,532,636 | 383,574 | 3 | YO , HO , HO and a Mixed Bag of Fun | Midway through the third installment of Walt Disney's deliriously popular pirate franchise , a character says of Capt . Jack Sparrow ( played by Johnnny Depp in what now has to qualify as one of the weirdest characterizations in screen history ) , " Is he making this up as he goes along ? " Shiver me timbers , mateys ,... |
574,008 | 4,532,636 | 368,222 | 3 | Great Cast Stranded in a Lame Movie | John Turturro's terribly uneven film ranges from the fairly imaginative to the downright horrible . Much of the film reminded me way too much of the worst traits of certain Coen brothers movies : too grotesque , too jokey , too enamored of its own charm . There are moments that come close to saving it , but overall thi... |
573,847 | 4,532,636 | 356,680 | 3 | A Big Fat Holiday Turkey | If you've got a hankering for a good old fashioned feel-bad holiday movie , " The Family Stone " will be right up your alley . Then you may be able to enjoy this grueling story about an uptight and mostly unlikable yuppie , Meredith ( Sarah Jessica Parker ) , being introduced to her fiancé's mostly obnoxious and unfrie... |
574,323 | 4,532,636 | 69,404 | 3 | An Unforgivably Bad Adaptation of a Great Book | I'm fine with filmmakers adapting books to the screen and doing what they need to do to make the source material cinematic . But I'm always mystified by filmmakers who adapt a book to the screen and change so much that it's nearly a completely different story . I wonder why they wanted to adapt the book in the first pl... |
574,120 | 4,532,636 | 35,899 | 3 | A Sorry Attempt to Capitalize on an Established Hit - - Sound Familiar ? | This woeful follow up to the accomplished 1941 original " Wolf Man " provides proof that the Hollywood of today has not cornered the market on stupid , unoriginal and unnecessary sequels . The dynamite premise behind this film - - putting Lon Chaney's wolf man and Dr . Frankenstein's monster ( here played unmenacingly ... |
573,669 | 4,532,636 | 68,833 | 3 | Uneven and Unscary | Notable primarily as Wes Craven's first feature film , " The Last House on the Left " does not deserve the reputation it has garnered as one of the scariest films ever made . There's really nothing scary about this movie , except for the admittedly frightening idea of being murdered in your own back yard ( figuratively... |
574,234 | 4,532,636 | 79,770 | 3 | Did Altman Even WANT Anyone to Actually Watch This ? | The best thing I can say about " Quintet " is that it's not quite as bad as I remembered it being on my first viewing . But that doesn't mean it's good . This weird , sci-fi thriller is not quite like any other movie I've ever seen , which I guess at least gives it the stamp of novelty . But it's a borderline disaster ... |
574,084 | 4,532,636 | 112,379 | 3 | Exasperating | Antonia's Line is one of those movies that's in love with its own quirkiness . This isn't always necessarily bad . Quirky films can be quite delightful when done well . However , in this case , the quirkiness comes at the expense of plot and logic . My sense is that this film's director intended Antonia and her line ... |
574,182 | 4,532,636 | 44,030 | 4 | Impressively Large , But Unimpressive | Show Boat is one of those garish musicals from the 1950s where scope and spectacle dwarfed content and story . It's directed lethargically by George Sidney , as if he thought audiences would be so tickled by the elaborate Technicolor sets and costumes that he could just set up his camera and let it run . Said costume... |
574,391 | 4,532,636 | 36,872 | 4 | For Those Who Cry at Hallmark Commercials | Slow , ponderous , almost completely lacking in dramatic significance and cavity-inducing in its sweetness . If it's not as intensely boring as its sequel , " The Bells of St . Mary's , " released a year later , that's only because this one came first and so at least has the advantage of being new . The acting is fine ... |
573,941 | 4,532,636 | 35,238 | 4 | A Romantic Slog with Ronald Colman and Greer Garson | Plausibility was never a strong suit of 1940s romantic melodramas , but even at that " Random Harvest " is just too much to bear . This ridiculous twaddle finds Ronald Colman as a WWI veteran who has lost his memory and wanders out of the mental institution in which he has been living , only to be adopted by Greer Gars... |
574,054 | 4,532,636 | 26,328 | 4 | An Unintentionally Creepy Short | This short film , featuring ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his famous character creation Charlie McCarthy , appears on the DVD release of " The Public Enemy . " This was my first exposure to this popular comedy " team , " and there's just no getting around how incredibly creepy Charlie McCarthy is . Ever since I saw " ... |
573,787 | 4,532,636 | 106,918 | 4 | At Least It's Got Holly Hunter | The Firm is the only John Grisham book I've ever read , and while I remember barely anything about it , I remember that the movie version veered far away from the plot of the book as it reached its climax . I also remember that the film is flabby , far too long and has one of the most annoying piano scores I've ever ... |
573,778 | 4,532,636 | 352,248 | 4 | Haven't Rocky and De Niro Pretty Much Said All There Is to Say About Boxing ? | Ron Howard has carved a niche for himself as creator of treacly populist hokum , and it seems pointless to criticize his movies again and again for being maudlin , manipulative and pandering . To his credit , he knows how to put a movie together , and by now everyone should know what to expect from a Howard film and no... |
573,390 | 4,532,636 | 308,055 | 4 | A Bunch of Nothing | From its opening moments , " Bobby " announces itself as an IMPORTANT movie , and it never recovers from that most deadly of deadly movie intentions . One wishes he could get inside of writer / director Emilio Estevez's head , because I have a strong suspicion that all of the parts that were supposed to make " Bobby " ... |
574,244 | 4,532,636 | 52,225 | 4 | Dull Screen Adaptation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Classic | Joshua Logan turns the Pulitzer-Prize-winning stage musical into a lumbering , charmless film . You can tell he doesn't know what to do with stage material , because his instincts to open the film up and take advantage of stunning South Pacific locations ( though who knows where it was actually filmed ) fight constantl... |
574,186 | 4,532,636 | 388,125 | 4 | A Mawkish Bit of Utter Cheese | Poor Shirley MacLaine tries hard to lend some gravitas to this mawkish , gag-inducing " feel-good " movie , but she's trampled by the run-away sentimentality of a film that's not the least bit grounded in reality . This was directed by Curtis Hanson ? Did he have a lobotomy since we last heard from him ? Hanson can do ... |
573,923 | 4,532,636 | 39,169 | 4 | Amiable But Very Slight | A rather uninspired but harmless enough movie that goes around the world and back again to establish its goofy premise . Even for movies from this time period this one stretches the boundaries of credibility . Cary Grant gets many chances to show off his flair for physical comedy , Shirley Temple is no less grating as ... |
573,632 | 4,532,636 | 91,778 | 4 | Dud Sequel to Tobe Hooper's Memorable Ghost Story | A lame follow up to the phenomenally successful and tremendously entertaining 1982 spook fest about a normal suburban family terrorized by ghouls . The same strong leads ( JoBeth Williams and Craig T . Nelson ) return , and I give this movie credit for not simply making a carbon copy of the first film the way so many s... |
574,171 | 4,532,636 | 76,448 | 4 | A Grueling , Miserable Story for Kids | Does anyone still submit his children to this ? I spent 22 of the most agonizing minutes of my life watching this feel-bad puppetoon made for T . V . movie . In this charmer , Nestor is mercilessly ridiculed by everyone because of his long ears , is nearly kidnapped by Roman soldiers who are stealing donkeys for use by... |
573,452 | 4,532,636 | 39,631 | 4 | Chaplin Made This ? | I find it interesting that Chaplin himself considered this to be his most clever and witty film , because I thought it was desultory and downright boring . It's supposed to be a black comedy about a cad ( Chaplin ) who plays women like violins and then murders them , but there's little to no humour to be found here . I... |
573,319 | 4,532,636 | 74,254 | 4 | Altman's Take on the Wild West | A very weak Altman film , all the weaker because it came out the year after one of Altman's best works : " Nashville . " " Buffalo Bill . . . " is one of the most savagely satiric films from a director known for savage satire . Unfortunately , it's also a one-joke film , whose joke is given away in the first five minut... |
573,309 | 4,532,636 | 78,721 | 4 | A Far from Perfect 10 | Any movie featuring Dudley Moore as an object of sexual attraction is doomed from the start , since I can't imagine anyone wanting to have sex with him . I CAN , however , imagine a lot of people wanting to have sex with Bo Derek , that is until they see her act . This Blake Edwards film is not good - - people think th... |
574,100 | 4,532,636 | 91,738 | 4 | Kathleen Turner Got Stuck in a Bad Movie | Did Francis Ford Coppola have a brain aneurysm some time after directing " Apocalypse Now " that made him absolutely incapable of making a good movie ? You have to wonder what the director of " The Godfather " and " The Conversation " was thinking when he made this flabby film . It gives Kathleen Turner a starring vehi... |
573,567 | 4,532,636 | 47,123 | 4 | Holliday Leftovers | Judy Holliday struck gold in 1950 withe George Cukor's film version of " Born Yesterday , " and from that point forward , her career consisted of trying to find material good enough to allow her to strike gold again . It never happened . In " It Should Happen to You " ( I can't think of a blander title , by the way ) ,... |
573,784 | 4,532,636 | 87,298 | 4 | If Only the Title Were True | Maybe to save themselves the embarrassment of admitting just how many of these stinkers they sunk money into , the studio dropped the " 4 " from this sequel and gave it the cryptic subtitle " The Final Chapter . " Yeah , right . Like anybody believed that , even at the time . Someone once told me that all of the even "... |
574,011 | 4,532,636 | 89,160 | 4 | A Somnolent Experiment from Robert Altman | Fool for Love is one of the several now forgotten films Robert Altman directed throughout the 1980s . This one , a screen adaptation of a Sam Shepard play that features Shepard in the lead role , just simply isn't very good . Altman made many not-very-good films over the course of his fascinating career , and many ti... |
574,067 | 4,532,636 | 47,522 | 4 | A Coma Is Induced | Oh Lord , what a long , long , long movie . Rarely will you find yourself investing so much time for so little payoff . Alcoholic husband makes wife a star . Husband dies . Wife feels sad . The end . Director George Cukor thinks he's making a Biblical epic , because he uses an enormous aspect ratio and fills it to the ... |
574,188 | 4,532,636 | 64,840 | 4 | Tell Me Why I Should Care , Miss Brodie | I felt much the same way about " The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie " the movie as I did about " The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie " the book - - so what ? Miss Brodie is an unlikable character ; she's pompous , arrogant , sometimes delusional . So when she goes too far and is brought down by one of her less impressionable fema... |
573,896 | 4,532,636 | 45,564 | 4 | Who Knew Fritz Lang Could Make a Boring Movie ? | A mediocre pseudo-noir thriller from Fritz Lang . I watched this only a few days after seeing the 1947 film " High Wall , " and was struck by how the two films tell much the same story with genders reversed . In this one , Anne Baxter plays a phone operator who goes out with a lecherous artist ( Raymond Burr ) on an im... |
573,689 | 4,532,636 | 78,481 | 4 | Messy Ensemble Movie Sinks Faster Than the Time It Takes to Watch It | It never gives me pleasure to report that any Robert Altman film is a dog , but there's just no denying that " A Wedding " rolls over and dies about mid-way through . Altman tries to instill the same sort of divine chaos on his massive ensemble that he did in " Nashville " to such tremendous effect , but without the st... |
573,768 | 4,532,636 | 66,011 | 4 | Romeo and Juliet for Dummies | Start with " Romeo and Juliet , " remove the soaring Shakespearean language , the interesting characterizations and plot intricacies , and keep Romeo alive at the end , and you might get something approximating this gloopy 1970 blockbuster . " Love Story " made temporary box-office stars out of Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'N... |
574,454 | 4,532,636 | 41,113 | 4 | A Waste of Good Source Material | This Oscar-winning screen adaptation of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Robert Penn Warren novel feels oddly truncated , like director Robert Rossen filmed a much longer movie , and then an unqualified editor hacked it down to the movie we see . The pacing is off , scenes feel cut short and much of it is confusing , as if t... |
574,137 | 4,532,636 | 37,884 | 4 | Well Below Wilder's Usual Standard | Perhaps it's inevitable that a film that appeared so shocking and candid 60 years ago would seem so hopelessly out of touch with reality today , but I don't think the ultimate failure of this film can be blamed on the passing of time alone . Billy Wilder was a fantastic director , making movies that at the time were so... |
573,461 | 4,532,636 | 34,167 | 4 | Might Possibly Make You Vomit | Audiences loved this biopic about good ' ol boy Alvin York , fresh from the hills of Tennessee , who entered World War I despite his pacifist beliefs and then carried out an almost unbelievable act of bravery . It probably helped that the film came out just as America was entering WWII , and a message about someone dev... |
574,194 | 4,532,636 | 64,030 | 4 | A Limp Costume Drama to End the Decade | This drippy costume drama is the worst of the flurry of similarly-themed films that came out in the 1960s and include movies like " Becket , " " A Man for All Seasons , " and " The Lion in Winter . " When you compare " Anne of the Thousand Days " to all of the other terrific and exciting movies coming out in 1969 - - "... |
573,740 | 4,532,636 | 88,933 | 4 | When the Walker Is a Rockin ' . . . . . | A gooey Ron Howard film about a bunch of old people who go swimming with alien pods and begin to regain their youth and vigor . The film is a who's who of famous veteran actors like Don Ameche , Wilford Brimley , Maureen Stapleton , Hume Cronyn , Jessica Tandy and Gwen Verdon , but it's all rather embarrassing and cond... |
574,092 | 4,532,636 | 109,830 | 4 | The Ultimate Fad Movie | Forrest Gump is the ultimate fad movie . It came out big in 1994 and created a cultural sensation . It was easy to get swept up in its panorama of American cultural history , and all of the iconic imagery in the film made it seem like it was saying something important . But all these years later , this treacly piece ... |
574,382 | 4,532,636 | 76,843 | 4 | Can Someone Justify This Film's Existence ? | Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft play one-time ballerina rivals in this pointless sudser from 1977 . MacLaine has a loving husband and comfy home , but gave up her career ; Bancroft has the career , but no one to share it with . Both re-meet when MacLaine's daughter becomes a ballerina and struggle with feelings of w... |
573,863 | 4,532,636 | 49,456 | 4 | This Film Could Have Used a Little More Lust and Life | A plodding biopic about painter Vincent Van Gogh . Vincente Minelli was a terribly uninteresting director , and the day after seeing this film I had forgotten entirely about it . The most interesting thing about the film are the images of Van Gogh's actual paintings that Minelli inserts throughout , and the occasional ... |
574,299 | 4,532,636 | 73,582 | 4 | Dull Horror Film Goes Nowhere | Unfortunately , it appears that I saw Dario Argento's best film , " Suspiria , " first , and none of the ones I've seen subsequently measure up to that one . All of the imagination Argento could muster for this serial killer story went in to staging a few elaborate and gruesome murder scenes . Too bad that all of the s... |
574,044 | 4,532,636 | 787,523 | 4 | Lost in Translation | Towelhead , the story of a 13-year-old Lebanese girl dealing with both cultural and gender identity crises in a Texas suburb , has a distinctly autobiographical feel about it . It's based on a novel by Alicia Erian , one I have not read and so cannot comment on . But either the source material was weak to begin with ... |
573,950 | 4,532,636 | 49,314 | 4 | Just Watch " The Philadelphia Story " Instead | A completely unnecessary remake . The casting's not half bad for what the film makers were trying to accomplish , but every time anyone delivers a line , you'll simply sit there thinking how much better the line would have been had the actor from " The Philadelphia Story " who played that particular character delivered... |
574,446 | 4,532,636 | 430,357 | 4 | A Joyless , Arduous Experience | With " Miami Vice , " on-again-off-again director Michael Mann gives us a grim , hateful movie , and large parts of it feel more like an endurance test than a summer entertainment . I don't care whether or not this movie accurately reimagines the original T . V . series for the screen - - I never saw the series and so ... |
573,336 | 4,532,636 | 109,579 | 4 | To Be Endured , Not Enjoyed | Death and the Maiden tells a harrowing story , one that's not meant to be pleasant . But even so , there is a difference between telling an unpleasant story and creating an unpleasant experience , and unfortunately , director Roman Polanski doesn't maintain that distinction with this film . He's proved that he knows ... |
574,139 | 4,532,636 | 395,972 | 4 | A Huge Disservice to What Should Have Been a Powerful Story | Niki Caro's follow up to her wonderful " Whale Rider " is full of good intentions , but it's a poundingly monotonous film . Charlize Theron plays Josey Aimes , poor mother of two who goes to work in a northern Minnesota mine where women are decidedly not wanted . She and her female co-workers suffer all manner of mistr... |
574,343 | 4,532,636 | 118,929 | 4 | Wow , I'm Really in the Minority Here | I've read reviews of " Dark City " in many places ( and many of them here ) hailing it as a modern science fiction masterpiece , so boy was I disappointed when I watched it and came to the sober conclusion that it's just not very good . Yeah , yeah , yeah the visuals are stunning , blah , blah , blah , but as is proved... |
574,403 | 4,532,636 | 86,425 | 4 | Pass Me a Barf Bag | Blech ! ! A gloopy soap opera starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger as a contentious mother / daughter duo , whose on-again / off-again relationship culminates in the daughter dying of cancer in one of the most emotionally manipulative plot developments in the history of cinema . Both MacLaine and Winger are too g... |
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