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364,237 | 4,888,011 | 174,685 | 1 | the boots were golden , the plot line was not | This movie doesn't know whether it wants to show go-go dancers and their big breasts , or whether it wants to be about the sleazy world of organized crime . The " plot " centers on a waitress who hitches a ride with some man to LA to become a go-go dancer and gets mixed up with what appears to be the mafia ( especially... |
363,620 | 4,888,011 | 120,891 | 1 | I'm assuming that the original series wasn't like this . | The only reason to watch the god-awful " Wild Wild West " is to see Kevin Kline as a neat foil to Will Smith . Otherwise , the whole movie's a mess . The " plot " has agents Jim West ( Smith ) and Artemus Gordon ( Kline ) trying to stop nefarious Dr . Arliss Loveless ( Kenneth Branagh ) from dismantling the United Stat... |
363,597 | 4,888,011 | 52,077 | 1 | A moronic masterpiece | In " Ed Wood " , the title character ( Johnny Depp ) says of " Plan 9 from Outer Space " : " This is the one I'll be remembered for . " If only he had known ! This is his most famous movie all right , but only because it's got everything wrong with it possible , to the extent that it's hilarious . The space ships look ... |
365,157 | 4,888,011 | 94,824 | 1 | unnecessary . . . VERY unnecessary | I saw " Caddyshack II " when I was ten and I mostly laughed because of the horse scene . I should have realized that the movie was as empty as . . . I can't come up with a good comparison . It's stupid and not even really funny . The cast members from the original who chose not to star in this made probably the best ch... |
364,232 | 4,888,011 | 86,026 | 1 | Pod People and " Bio-Dome " are like peas in a pod | They say that no good deed goes unpunished . This movie - or should I say " this swill " - shows that to be 100 % true . Spielberg made " E . T . " and someone made " Los nuevos extraterrestres " ( called " Pod People " in the United States ) in response . The movie has a boy befriending an alien who looks sort of like... |
365,112 | 4,888,011 | 279,772 | 1 | A rebuttal to " Roger and Me " . . . | . . . was how Crow defined " Design for Dreaming " when he , Servo and Mike had to watch it . It portrays a happy-go-lucky woman living a fantasy in which a jolly man buys her any car that she wants , and a kitchen has all the appliances that a 1950s housewife could ask for . Very much a product of the 1950s . A previo... |
365,415 | 4,888,011 | 50,261 | 1 | The story you are about to see is not true ; no names ever got changed to protect the idiotic . | A previous reviewer said that this movie had a good point because Communism was ( and remains ) a real threat . FOR CRYIN ' OUT LOUD MISTER , WHICH ERA ARE YOU LIVING IN ? I should identify that I don't doubt that the USSR had missiles pointed at us , but we also had missiles pointed at them . As for spies , all countr... |
364,705 | 4,888,011 | 120,591 | 1 | Considering that in summer , 1998 , there were two movies about things on a collision course with earth , COULDN'T WE HAVE JUST STUCK WITH THE INTERESTING ONE ? | One of the most ironic scenes in " Armageddon " is when a dog starts tearing at a " Godzilla " doll . True , everyone hated the American version of " Godzilla " ( released a month and a half before " Armageddon " ) , but that scene almost implied that " Armageddon " was going to be totally different from the former . W... |
363,887 | 4,888,011 | 89,759 | 1 | this movie will only stick in my memory because it made a great " MST3K " episode | A muddled story of computer programmer Aram Fingal ( Raul Julia ) who works for vicious corporation Novicorp . They transfer his mind to that of a baboon ( a good metaphor for the whole movie ) , and from there , Aram gets caught in the computer and creates his own world , in which he gets to be Rick from " Casablanca ... |
364,666 | 4,888,011 | 58,953 | 1 | beach blah blink blank | I think that we can all agree that the beach movies from the mid ' 60s were at the bottom of the cinematic barrel ( " Catalina Caper " even got shown on " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " ) . " Beach Blanket Bingo " is an eye roll-inducing piece of swill about a gaggle of sexually inactive teenagers trying to protect a m... |
365,116 | 4,888,011 | 280,209 | 1 | My mind would have gotten x'd from the world had this not appeared on " MST3K " . | After a man classified by Mike , Servo and Crow as " Elmer Fudd " makes a long , boring speech , we get treated to a preachy look at the dangers of the road as a guardian angel defends his recently deceased client before a judge who looks like Boris Karloff on depressants . If you just watch " X Marks the Spot " in its... |
365,290 | 4,888,011 | 52,717 | 2 | they didn't know what they were getting into | Errol Flynn , beloved as Robin Hood , Capt . Blood , etc , ended his career with this hilariously pathetic excuse for a movie . " Cuban Rebel Girls " portrays an American girl ( Beverly Aadland , who's got nothing except her looks ) going to Cuba to help her boyfriend fight for Fidel Castro's army in their revolution a... |
365,480 | 4,888,011 | 112,715 | 2 | the book wasn't exactly worth adapting | Poorly acted and poorly directed , " Congo " unsuccessfully tries to recreate the feeling of " Jurassic Park " . But the truth is , the book wasn't all that great either . Still , the movie's first problem is that Tim Curry's character was added ; the second problem is that the talking arm was added ; the main problem ... |
363,251 | 4,888,011 | 765,141 | 2 | WAY too slow | A story of a corporation's links to Nazi Germany sounds like it would make one good movie . Unfortunately , " La question humaine " doesn't . If anything , it's boring . I was having trouble keeping my head up while watching it . The English title ( " Heartbeat Detector " ) makes sense , since the viewer's heart might ... |
363,823 | 4,888,011 | 70,122 | 2 | still , you gotta admit : better than the 1998 American version | The only way that you'll really want to watch " Gojira tai Megaro " ( called " Godzilla vs . Megalon " in English ) is on " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " . I remember whether it was Servo or Crow who described Megalon as " the Christmas tree monster with Chrysler buildings for arms " , but they sure said it ! This mov... |
365,125 | 4,888,011 | 155,711 | 2 | all flaws with practically no redeeming qualities | You know how comedies are supposed to make you laugh ? Well , " Flawless " makes you laugh , but you're not laughing at what happens in the movie ; you're laughing at the fact that the movie didn't come out very good . Certainly the idea of a homophobic cop having to make amends with a drag queen seems like it could ma... |
363,725 | 4,888,011 | 60,558 | 2 | Exactly the sort of movie that Joe Bob Briggs should present . | Typically stupid mixing of genres , to the point where the title gives us an inaccurate description ( it's the granddaughter , not daughter ) . Of course , the title should identify that " Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter " is anything but a serious movie , so as long as you accept it as totally ridiculous , i... |
365,250 | 4,888,011 | 174,917 | 2 | Back when Ernest Borgnine won an Oscar for " Marty " , who would have ever thought that one of his movies would be " MST3K " - worthy ? | Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders is too dark to be a children's movie and too cute to be a horror flick . Which makes it perfect " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " fodder ! An incompetent mixture of " Poltergeist " and any wizard movie , it makes one wonder how they got a great actor like Ernest Borgnine on board . Al... |
363,084 | 4,888,011 | 114,148 | 2 | Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas was the only interesting portrayal that I've seen | It was one thing for Disney to make animated features of self-proclaimed fictional stories ( " Cinderella " , " Aladdin " , etc . ) . But it's going too far to make a fantasy story and try to pass it off as history . That's just what they do with " Pocahontas " . While they prided themselves on treating Indians more re... |
365,829 | 4,888,011 | 949,731 | 2 | Earth to M . Night Shyamalan : you should have quit while you were ahead ! | Following the masterpiece that was " The Sixth Sense " , M . Night Shyamalan directed the still worthwhile " Unbreakable " . . . and has pretty much gone downhill from there . " Lady in the Water " was tolerable , but " Signs " ? It could have at least used some scientific continuity ! I haven't seen " The Village " , ... |
362,859 | 4,888,011 | 128,442 | 2 | Rounders is totally flat . | You know how there's supposed to be the " Oscar curse " , when a person wins a gold statuette and proceeds to star in a really worthless movie ? Well , it happened to Matt Damon . After he and Ben Affleck won writing Oscars for " Good Will Hunting " , they both starred in some real turkeys : Affleck in the god-awful " ... |
364,517 | 4,888,011 | 120,738 | 2 | having seen this movie , I feel lost | I've never seen the old " Lost in Space " TV series . But if this movie is any indication , there's little reason to check the series out . The movie is at best silly , and at worst embarrassing . Little more than another story about battles and adventures in outer space , the whole thing wastes several great actors an... |
363,501 | 4,888,011 | 120,654 | 2 | How low can one go ? | Another example of how Chevy Chase suffered after his TV show failed , this one has some losers opening a revenge-for-hire business . I think that there's a reason that Norm MacDonald and Artie Lange have no reputation in movies . If " Dirty Work " was the best that they could do , then they deserve no reputation . The... |
365,657 | 4,888,011 | 41,671 | 2 | Franz Liszt must be spinning in his grave ( and we need to talk some about escapism ) | My mom often tells me about how , growing up in Galena Park , Texas , the local cinema was the hot place . Among her favorite flicks there were Vincent Price's stuff ( deliberate camp ) ; among her least favorite flicks were Doris Day's stuff ( the wholesome girl next door ) . Watching " My Dream Is Yours " , I can see... |
365,698 | 4,888,011 | 78,767 | 3 | most of us will probably agree that " The Shining " significantly improved on the idea | Family moves into house , strange things start happening . Yeah , we've seen that story about a million times now , so " The Amityville Horror " unfortunately has little to offer us . Although they self-righteously declare that the movie is based on a true story , the real story couldn't have been like what the movie p... |
365,283 | 4,888,011 | 60,457 | 3 | Boris Karloff got reduced to THIS ? | First , I should clear up any confusion that may have arisen from the title : not only is the ghost's bikini invisible , but what's underneath her bikini is also invisible . Now , I must ask : how was Boris Karloff reduced to starring in a " beach party " movie ? " The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini " is basically a cro... |
365,402 | 4,888,011 | 25,274 | 3 | forgive them for this one ( no , really ) | In the black and white days before Bugs Bunny , Daffy Duck , and the rest of the gang , Leon Schlesinger Studios divided its time between its Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series . The former would feature the stars - first Bosko , next Buddy , then Porky Pig and everyone who followed him - while the latter would fe... |
362,831 | 4,888,011 | 94,794 | 3 | O Canada . . . | Another horror flick in which a goof-ball teenager battles a madman and his supernatural sidekick who want to take over ? ! Yes , but the fact that this one was from Canada gives it a slightly different feel . " The Brain " has troublesome teenager Jim Majelewski getting put into a treatment whose leader turns out to b... |
365,626 | 4,888,011 | 120,828 | 3 | If the people behind this movie believed that it equalled the original " Swept Away " , they must be stupider than we realize . | In one of Harrison Ford's real low points , he plays a gruff pilot who gets stranded on an uncharted island with stuffy reporter Anne Heche . While Lina Wertmuller's " Swept Away " did a really good job with this sort of situation ( and " Gilligan's Island " made it really funny ) , " Six Days Seven Nights " totally bu... |
365,293 | 4,888,011 | 19,714 | 3 | Bosko looks like a minstrel character | Aside from the fact that " Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid " has little plot - other than cartoonist Rudolf Ising creating the title character - it should make us cringe in the 21st century , as Bosko looks and sounds like a black-face character . This cartoon is worth watching as a reference point ( and I guess that it gets ju... |
362,958 | 4,888,011 | 119,874 | 3 | Now that George Clooney has won an Oscar , it's amazing that he once starred in this garbage . | You know how George Clooney is one of the most well regarded actors in Hollywood ? You know , that he just recently won an Oscar for " Syriana " and received a Best Director nomination for " Good Night , and Good Luck . " ? And he went on a fact-finding mission to Darfur ? Well , nine years ago , all this would have se... |
364,474 | 4,888,011 | 1,034,331 | 3 | Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro have never starred in a gross movie . . . until now | Anyone who has read any of my reviews of most of Al Pacino's and Robert DeNiro's movies will know that I think very highly of both actors . These men have shown themselves to be very capable in almost every role . This includes the times that they co-starred ( " The Godfather Part II " and " Heat " ) . So by all accoun... |
363,607 | 4,888,011 | 112,792 | 4 | dangerous because there have been better movies | Another movie about an honest white teacher fixing a bunch of black ghetto teenagers . " To Sir , with Love " did a much better job with this topic , and both Michelle Pfeiffer and George Dzundza have had far superior roles than " Dangerous Minds " . Personally , I would like to see a movie in which a black person from... |
365,207 | 4,888,011 | 167,284 | 4 | Huggy Bear gone weird | Typical story of an evil kid going after people . I suspect that Antonio Fargas ( Huggy Bear on " Starsky and Hutch " ) and Vincent Schiavelli didn't want to stress this junk on their resumes ( actually , Schiavelli left this life with a mostly good resume ) . Sometimes I wish that the killers in these movies would jus... |
364,636 | 4,888,011 | 113,253 | 4 | Too bad that Donald Pleasance had to end like this . | I know that at the end of his life , Donald Pleasance was pretty much only known for the " Halloween " movies , but did he really need to get involved in " Halloween : The Curse of Michael Myers " for his final movie role ? This entry in the series didn't add anything . It's just more of Michael going around butchering... |
363,551 | 4,888,011 | 104,868 | 4 | typical of this genre | I pretty much have no respect for movies like " The Mighty Ducks " . OK , so it's basically a harmless movie . But stories of the underdog figuring out a way to win against all odds has long since turned into a cliché ( " Rocky " was the original , and it had a purpose ) . Emilio Estevez has starred in much better movi... |
365,284 | 4,888,011 | 52,844 | 4 | nothing new , but fun nevertheless | Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow was one of the many ' 50s movies about hot-rodding teens encountering the supernatural . In this case , the teens can't pay the rent for their hangout and get evicted . With nowhere else to go , they decide on an apparently haunted house . As you may have guessed , once they arrive , some we... |
365,208 | 4,888,011 | 880,578 | 4 | Arthur voiced Elmer | As a Portlander , I always get suspicious if a movie gets filmed in Oregon : " The Postman " was probably the worst example , but there have been others . By this logic , " Untraceable " should suck . It turns out that the movie's main problem isn't acting or continuity goofs or anything like that ( although I should a... |
365,814 | 4,888,011 | 113,845 | 4 | We don't need these kinds of movies . | Another movie in which some guys have to improbably save the day , in this case some NYC cops and the subway . Not only could I easily predict everything that was going to happen , they of course pad the whole movie with hokey one-liners . Neither Wesley Snipes nor Woody Harrelson has much excuse for appearing in this ... |
365,089 | 4,888,011 | 166,252 | 4 | Was it supposed to be saying anything ? | The Love Letter is one of those movies that could have been really clever , but they wasted it . Focusing on a letter wreaking havoc in a small town , the movie has an all-star cast with nothing to do . Tom Selleck and Alice Drummond had so recently co-starred in the super-hilarious " In & Out " ( also about an upset... |
363,609 | 4,888,011 | 113,755 | 4 | Chevy Chase , he fell from grace . . . | Some events are just so ironic that they just seem too weird to be true . One of the best examples , at least in my opinion , is what happened to Chevy Chase . You see , in the ' 80s he was one of the top stars , with movies like " Vacation " and " Fletch " . Now , he was not friends with the president during that peri... |
363,845 | 4,888,011 | 71,413 | 4 | Those horror movies really make your hemoglobin congeal , eh ? " Make your blood freeze , Sister Sixto . " | Devil Times Five wouldn't really be worth noticing except for a most unusual aspect : it stars Shelley Morrison , aka Sister Sixto on " The Flying Nun " ( she apparently also starred on " Will & Grace " , but I've never seen that ) ; in fact , one of the characters in this movie is a novice nun ( like Sister Bertrill... |
365,785 | 4,888,011 | 113,986 | 4 | They should have just made it a Robin Williams movie . | Okay , so HOW MANY TIMES has pregnancy been the basis for a comedy ? ! Well , they mostly didn't add anything in " Nine Months " . The scene with the dinosaur was actually quite funny , but there was little else that we haven't seen before . Robin Williams was actually the best character , as a manic Russian gynecologi... |
365,813 | 4,888,011 | 120,832 | 4 | How snakelike can you get ? | One of the things that I've always liked about Brian DePalma's movies is how he keeps everything going and then tricks you ; think " Phantom of the Paradise " , " Carrie " , " Dressed to Kill " and " Carlito's Way " ( with " Mission : Impossible " , it was clear that he was starting to go more Hollywood ) . " Snake Eye... |
364,591 | 4,888,011 | 381,061 | 4 | I must be one of the only people who prefers the 1967 version . | I have always said that the James Bond franchise died after Sean Connery left . " Casino Royale " affirms that . Like every installment after Connery left , this one consists of overwrought gimmicks and a less than obvious story . Twenty minutes into the movie , we had already had enough of the action ( that whole chas... |
362,555 | 4,888,011 | 86,216 | 4 | just can't equal " The Outsiders " | I'm sorry , but " Rumble Fish " just made no sense to me . True , it's about a young man ( Matt Dillon ) who has the stigma of being related to a gang member , but after the previous S . E . Hinton adaption " The Outsiders " was a true masterpiece , this one just came out lacking any real logic . It's not a terrible mo... |
365,214 | 4,888,011 | 79,501 | 4 | An action movie from Australia ? | OK , so now that we know Mel Gibson as the guy from " Braveheart " , the " Lethal Weapon " series , and as the director of a certain movie about Jesus , what more can we say about " Mad Max " ? People know that it casts him as a cop in post-apocalyptic Australia out to get a biker gang who murdered his family . It's no... |
363,150 | 4,888,011 | 44,121 | 4 | An even colder aspect of the Cold War . | Before James Arness became Sheriff Matt Dillon , he played The Thing , an alien who crashes in the Arctic . Then of course , some people at a research facility thaw it out ( stupid people ! ) and it goes on a rampage . Yadda yadda . . . " The Thing " was mostly just another Cold War movie . I guess that it's worth seei... |
364,385 | 4,888,011 | 120,434 | 4 | This time , they may have overdone it . | The " Vacation " movies are mainly good to see Chevy Chase do his stuff , but the earlier ones were at least clever . This one was sort of lame , namely the scene where they use the radioactive rock as a stove . But as for Las Vegas itself , just how many movies can Hollywood set there ? Oh well , at least the Hoover D... |
364,303 | 4,888,011 | 41,891 | 4 | so much hokey for so little time ; no one predicted the current state of health care | When we watch movies and cartoons from the ' 40s and ' 50s , we can often tell that they came from that era , as they promote a happy-go-lucky , perpetually optimistic attitude . But they're usually still OK to watch . " So Much for So Little " doesn't fit in this group . It's purpose is to remind us that if we give th... |
363,873 | 4,888,011 | 120,749 | 4 | not mercurial , just predictable | Mercury Rising has a potentially interesting plot : a 9-year-old boy cracks a government code , and they come after him . Unfortunately , the movie is not interesting . It's basically two hours of Bruce Willis being a tough guy . The final showdown between Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin was totally predictable . I don... |
362,679 | 4,888,011 | 120,663 | 4 | Why did Stanley Kubrick have to end like this ? ! | Before " Eyes Wide Shut " came out , there was a lot of hype about it , given that Stanley Kubrick had died before the release , and the possibility that stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman might get EXTREMELY intimate in some scene or another . WHAT A LETDOWN ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The movie was boring at best . So let's sa... |
362,913 | 4,888,011 | 52,564 | 5 | along came a spider-rat | The Angry Red Planet will be a treat for anyone who admires sci-fi flicks from the ' 50s and early ' 60s . Basically , a group of astronauts travels to Mars looking for life . They find an over-sized being which appears to be a cross between a rat and a spider . And the Munchkin mayor from " The Wizard of Oz " . I gu... |
364,644 | 4,888,011 | 147,612 | 5 | drip drip | Happiness will probably be one of those movies that goes down in history as one of the top five movies that splits the public . Focusing on several sexually screwed-up people in New Jersey , the movie tries to be as gross as possible ( and succeeds ) . Unfortunately , director Todd Solondz could have used these stori... |
364,491 | 4,888,011 | 52,722 | 5 | D'you expect me to talk , Goldfinger , or d'you expect this movie to stereotype the Irish ? | In this day and age , it's no doubt a real shock for us to learn that Sean Connery once starred in a Disney movie . . . and even sang ! As " Darby O'Gill and the Little People " is a Disney movie set in Ireland , we have to admit that it basically makes a series of stereotypes about the Emerald Isle - namely all the le... |
365,787 | 4,888,011 | 52,618 | 5 | Do we remember anything except the chariot race ? | Everyone remembers the blades on the bad guy's chariot , and how he whips the title character ( Charlton Heston ) . But overall , " Ben-Hur " is basically a soap opera ( well , how could a biblical epic not be ? ) . And of course , there's a few things nowadays that change how we view the movie . Given how Charlton Hes... |
363,393 | 4,888,011 | 70,608 | 5 | Still , I prefer Errol Flynn and Cary Elwes . | When I was young , my favorite scene in Disney's version of " Robin Hood " was always the battle following archery tournament ( you gotta admit , it would be cool to experience that ) . Otherwise , it seems like the whole thing is sort of a Disney movie : a classic story turned into a jolly musical , with some comic re... |
365,034 | 4,888,011 | 95,271 | 5 | Picking up from # 2 . . . | Those psycho killers just won't stay dead , will they ? ! ! ! ! ! ! ! After it looked like Michael Myers got killed in # 2 ( # 3 - although interesting - wasn't really part of the series ) , he comes back to kill his niece ( Jamie Lee Curtis's character was allegedly killed in a car wreck ) . Needless to say , Dr . Sam... |
363,129 | 4,888,011 | 35,743 | 5 | so strange to when we realize certain things | Seeing the racially offensive content in Bob Clampett's " Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs " , one of the most surprising things to learn is that Clampett made the cartoon with nary an iota of hostility towards African-Americans . Of course , racism doesn't have to involve hatred of a different race ; it can just refer ... |
365,846 | 4,888,011 | 87,469 | 5 | Detached from parts 1 and 3 | First , I should identify that I don't hate any of the Indiana Jones movies . Each one has its merits , and if absolutely nothing else , Indy is one cool guy . Now I have to explain the problem with " Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom " : it hardly seems like part of the trilogy . Parts 1 and 3 had Indy ( Harrison F... |
364,030 | 4,888,011 | 295,701 | 5 | the things Vin Diesel's gonna do for his country : act in silly movies | xXx is basically another " Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles " . Xander Cage ( Vin Diesel ) is a muscle man hired by the government to be a secret agent . He goes around kicking booty and falls for Russian agent Yelena ( Asia Argento ) . I guess that there's nothing wrong with the movie , per se . It's pretty fun , albeit... |
364,422 | 4,888,011 | 43,274 | 5 | one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small . . . | Obviously , our perception of Lewis Carroll's classic novel has been slightly altered by the quintessential ' 60s song " White Rabbit " . Being the Disney movie that it is , " Alice in Wonderland " now looks kinda hokey , but it does sort of maintain Carroll's wry humor . Still , after everything that's happened in the... |
362,952 | 4,888,011 | 113,189 | 5 | By this time , the franchise had overstayed its welcome mat . | If you ask me , they should have just stopped making the " James Bond " movies after Sean Connery left . None of the other people who played Bond were ever able to equal Connery's appeal . Pierce Brosnan has done many good roles ( namely " Mars Attacks ! " ) , and he's clearly a good guy in real life , but in my opinio... |
365,182 | 4,888,011 | 245,674 | 5 | Where " ghost " thou ? | Thir13en Ghosts does have a certain charm , if only for its silliness . Maybe there's nothing particularly special about a visual effects-laden movie in which a family inherits a haunted house , but the movie definitely has its moments , namely when the lawyer " splits " . Tony Shalhoub , Embeth Davidtz , Matthew Lil... |
362,615 | 4,888,011 | 95,990 | 5 | Accept it as silly , and you won't feel offended . | Pretty much the same as the first one , " Return of the Living Dead Part II " is acceptable for what it is . James Karen actually returns for the sequel , in virtually the same sort of mealy-mouthed role . Still , this movie makes one long for the scene in the original where Linnea Quigley . . . well , you know . I got... |
363,763 | 4,888,011 | 260,866 | 5 | I'll say a word or two about how predictable this movie was | How tragic that " Don't Say a Word " was one of the first , maybe THE first , movies to show New York City right after September 11 , 2001 . While we would have hoped that they would have elevated the Big Apple to its fullest in the aftermath of the terrorist attack , they waste it here . The movie casts Michael Dougla... |
365,466 | 4,888,011 | 87,050 | 5 | Obviously , someone's not eating their vegetables . . . | OK , we all know that when a book gets turned into a movie , they're bound - to play off of a movie title - to lose something in translation . I've never read Stephen King's story " Children of the Corn " , but the movie comes out silly at best . Portraying couple Burt ( Peter Horton ) and Vicky ( Linda Hamilton ) stop... |
365,614 | 4,888,011 | 87,042 | 5 | probably the lowest of all their movies | In March , 2002 , after my parents and I had seen the disturbing - but very well done - " In the Bedroom " , we felt like we needed something really light , so we rented " Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers " ; I mean , what could be more easygoing than a movie starring filmdom's favorite goof-ball stoners ? This o... |
365,656 | 4,888,011 | 106,223 | 5 | no matter what , we can still talk about moral nihilism | While it seems fairly common for book-to-film adaptations to change things in the process , I've heard that " The Adventures of Huck Finn " went so far as to change what happened at the end . But I've never read the novel , so maybe I shouldn't comment on that . The truth is , Mark Twain intended for his work to be ser... |
363,808 | 4,888,011 | 86,960 | 5 | A total ' 80s movie . And how did Martin Brest degenerate into " Gigli " ? | Beverly Hills Cop is the sort of movie that I would usually give , but there unfortunately is a major problem with it . The movie presents no challenge to the status quo , portraying the police as the good guys . But other than that , the movie is pretty funny . With Eddie Murphy in as Axel Foley , one gets the feeli... |
363,314 | 4,888,011 | 86,979 | 5 | actually , it's not all that simple | The world was introduced to Joel and Ethan Coen when the two brothers released the confusing " Blood Simple . " The convoluted plot involves . . . something . A man hires a detective to kill his cheating wife and her lover , but nothing is what it seems . I think that that's the plot . I'd say that this is really a mov... |
364,707 | 4,888,011 | 157,262 | 5 | Don't treat it as serious , people ! | A previous reviewer called " 2001 : A Space Travesty " one of the stupidest and worst comedies ever . Describing like that implies that it was meant to be taken seriously . This one isn't meant to be taken seriously . Like any Leslie Nielsen movie , it's an excuse to be silly . It casts him as a marshal sent to outer s... |
365,682 | 4,888,011 | 36,041 | 5 | yeah , it's like that | The offensively portrayed Inki continues his hunt throughout the jungle , antagonizing a lion . It's no surprise that cartoons like " Inki and the Minah Bird " are harder to find than Warner Bros . ' s most famous cartoons , given how they drew Inki . It's very much a product of the old style Euro-American view of Afri... |
365,010 | 4,888,011 | 106,379 | 5 | humanize everything , if you can | In one of his serious roles sans beard , Robin Williams stars in this somewhat confusing movie about a man portrayed in five different stories , always trying to find meaning in life . . . or something . Maybe the movie was trying to make a point about something , but I couldn't really tell . In a way , it almost seems... |
364,961 | 4,888,011 | 71,408 | 5 | the year of living derange-erously | First , I should say that " Deranged " is the sort of movie in which you should take interest ONLY if you're an absolute fan of ' 70s cult horror flicks ; otherwise , it will be downright awful . A fictionalized account of Ed Gein , it portrays humble farmer Ezra Cobb ( Roberts Blossom ) caring for his mother , who die... |
365,563 | 4,888,011 | 183,505 | 5 | Oh ack | Me , Myself & Irene is the sort of movie at which you die laughing the first time , but after that you're not sure whether you want to laugh . I wouldn't know whether or not it makes fun of mentally unstable people . Basically two hours of Jim Carrey pulling off various and sundry gross stunts as a schizophrenic cop ... |
365,872 | 4,888,011 | 86,561 | 5 | USSR's " Carnal Knowledge " | I only in the last few months learned of Natalya Andreychenko . I first saw her in " Meri Poppins , do svidaniya " , a Soviet version of " Mary Poppins " ; it was one of the most whacked-out movies that I've ever seen . Now comes " Voenno-polevoy roman " . I would call it the Soviet Union's " Carnal Knowledge " . A con... |
363,096 | 4,888,011 | 59,742 | 5 | Homer : " D'oh ! " Marge : " A deer ! " Lisa : " A female deer ! " ( note : this will probably be the only review of this movie ever written that mentions Ben & Jerry's Ice Crea | Wholesome woman leaves Austrian convent and goes to be governess for a captain's children right before the Nazis take over Austria . Go figure ! As it was , I spent most of " The Sound of Music " throwing out the sort of comments that Mike , Servo and Crow hurl at the grade-Z movies that Dr . Forrester sends them on " ... |
362,573 | 4,888,011 | 120,844 | 5 | Sorry , but at this point , the franchise was pretty much spent ( that is , they were boldly going where they'd gone before ) | I will say that pretty much any Star Trek flick is an entertaining one , but I didn't derive that " Star Trek : Insurrection " offered anything new . It seems that by this point , they'd gone on just about every adventure possible , so what more could they do ? Truth is , I always considered " The Voyage Home " their m... |
364,267 | 4,888,011 | 120,863 | 5 | contrary to many reviews , this is not the anti - " Saving Private Ryan " | When " Saving Private Ryan " came out , some critics complained that it glamorized war , and so " The Thin Red Line " would be the opposite : you get killed and that's it . As far as I could tell , that wasn't the case . While the movie focused on a contingent of soldiers fighting in the Pacific in WWII , it didn't loo... |
363,041 | 4,888,011 | 114,354 | 5 | If you sleep and perchance dream , then . . . | In the over-the-top but still watchable " Schlafes Bruder " ( called " Brother of Sleep " in English ) , young Elias in a 19th century Austrian mountain village has a great musical talent , leading the townspeople to consider him weird ( those ingrates , he could have made the village famous ) . When the woman whom he ... |
365,330 | 4,888,011 | 365,686 | 5 | Moonlight Sonata's ego game | Prior to " Revolver " , Guy Ritchie had directed two really great movies ( " Lock , Stock . . . " and " Snatch " ) and one ultra-crummy one ( I never saw his " Swept Away " remake , but everything that I heard about it said that it sucked ) . Now , his latest one is somewhat confusing . Portraying a man ( Jason Statham... |
365,583 | 4,888,011 | 114,388 | 5 | Why Hulk's director make boring movie about rich English people ? | Several years before Ang Lee make Hulk movie , he make " Sense and Sensibility " . It show rich British women wondering who they marry . That make Hulk bored ! England have class system , and this movie not show that ! Hulk have to suspend reality to watch it . Charles Dickens always show class system , but Jane Austen... |
364,631 | 4,888,011 | 343,996 | 5 | no criticism of Batista here | Fidel Castro's current hospitalization brings up the memory of his rise to power . Knowing that Andy Garcia is one of the most anti-Castro people of all , it may seem that " The Lost City " would be staunchly anti-revolution . The truth is that the movie does look at conditions in Cuba leading up to the revolution , bu... |
363,981 | 4,888,011 | 24,756 | 5 | early instance of inanimate objects coming to life | There were a few instances during the 1930-35 Warner Bros . cartoons when inanimate objects came to life , but the Termite Terrace perfected the genre in the late ' 30s . " We're in the Money " has a gaggle of toys dancing to the title song in a department store . Frank Tashlin's cartoons " Speaking of the Weather " ( ... |
364,403 | 4,888,011 | 120,915 | 5 | I didn't understand the plot until I heard " Weird " Al Yankovic's song . | OK , so " Star Wars : Episode I - The Phantom Menace " was a big letdown for us all . Apparently , most people even understood the plot when it came out . It wasn't until I listened to " Weird " Al Yankovic's song " The Saga Begins " - the " American Pie " spoof - on his album " Running with Scissors " that I understoo... |
365,679 | 4,888,011 | 36,679 | 5 | about as offensive as one can expect | Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips is one of the many cartoons that you would have to watch not as straight-forward entertainment , but rather so as to see the sorts of stereotypes that pervaded during WWII . In this case , the world's most famous rabbit washes up on a Pacific island and has to battle a whole slew of stereotyp... |
363,574 | 4,888,011 | 389,722 | 5 | land of the midnight scum | OK , so the northernmost city in the United States goes through a month of darkness with vampires - whose origin never gets identified - roaming the streets looking for blood . If the people in Barrow saw " 30 Days of Night " , they probably spent half the time identifying inaccuracies ( namely how the sun set straight... |
363,824 | 4,888,011 | 59,786 | 5 | Mamie Eisenhower joins the ACLU | I wish to say that " Teen-Age Strangler " was slightly better than most of the movies shown on " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " , just because of that song " Yipe Stripes " ; you gotta admit , it was a cool song . But other than that , every scene with the sniveling younger brother drags the movie down ; I mean , what ... |
363,982 | 4,888,011 | 95,016 | 5 | total kick-ass movie | One of the original action flicks from the ' 80s , John McTiernan's " Die Hard " makes no pretense about being a kick-ass movie . Bruce Willis plays a New York cop John McClane , coming to LA to meet his estranged wife ( Bonnie Bedelia ) . Sure enough , the building in which she works get hijacked by a group of German ... |
363,739 | 4,888,011 | 52,169 | 5 | this skull obviously didn't have a brain inside it | The Screaming Skull is your typical 1950s horror flick : some newlyweds move into the husband's house , where his deceased wife's skull may or may be not be ready to terrorize the new wife . I assume that when it first came out , the teenage boys really liked the scene where . . . well , you'll recognize it when you ... |
365,897 | 4,888,011 | 36,603 | 5 | another racist one | Yes , it's another long-lost Looney Tunes cartoon chock full of racial stereotypes . This one portrays an African-American boy sent to drown a cat , but the feline gets away , encourages the boy to toss the bag into the harbor , and then pretends to be its own ghost . Most people will probably agree that we should only... |
362,738 | 4,888,011 | 114,571 | 5 | not quite good enough or smart enough , but kind of likable | Stuart Saves His Family came out before I had heard of Al Franken , so I took no notice . After I read Franken's book " Rush Limbaugh is a Big , Fat Idiot and Other Observations " , I decided to check it out . It turns out that there's not really very much here . Franken plays Stuart Smalley , a character from " Satu... |
364,331 | 4,888,011 | 51,756 | 5 | my big fat spaced-out wedding | When Marge Bradley ( Gloria Talbott ) marries Bill Farrell ( Tom Tryon ) , she gets a surprise when she finds out that he's been possessed by an alien , and that aliens are possessing the other men in town . There's not much here that you haven't seen in other such movies . I guess it's just eye-opening that the star i... |
363,993 | 4,888,011 | 51,731 | 5 | Aye chihuahua ( or is that " lobo " ? ) ! | For the most part , " El hombre y el monstruo " ( called " The Man and the Monster " in English ) is your average run-of-the-mill horror flick . This one portrays a pianist who sells his soul to the devil to become the greatest pianist in the world . However , when he plays , he turns into what appears to be a werewolf... |
365,740 | 4,888,011 | 51,786 | 5 | ordinary | I could say that " It ! The Terror from Beyond Space " is your typical 1950s B-movie , but it's not . It was the inspiration for " Alien " almost twenty years later ( naturally , the latter was more polished ) . But otherwise , the former has everything that one would expect in such a movie : political incorrectness an... |
363,741 | 4,888,011 | 191,663 | 5 | So I'm the first person reviewing this . . . | There's nothing particularly special here . " Yogi's Great Escape " has Yogi , Bobo , and three baby bears fleeing Yellowstone in a crazy car after the Ranger announces that the park has to close . Over the course of the movie , they have a series of wacky adventures , namely because the Ranger hires a bounty hunter to... |
365,688 | 4,888,011 | 36,441 | 5 | Why is it . . . | . . . that some of the cleverest cartoons were also some of the most racially offensive ? Among the examples are Bob Clampett's " Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs " and " Tin Pan Alley Cats " . This one portrays a Fats Walker-resembling feline who gets blasted outta this world into a setting lifted out of Clampett's ear... |
365,021 | 4,888,011 | 36,446 | 5 | as racist AND as much worth seeing as can be | OK , so " Tokio Jokio " is probably one of the most racist cartoons of all time , portraying the Japanese as incompetent buffoons with giant teeth . Personally , I believe that Warner Bros . needs to release this cartoon on DVD ; heck they should release all their WWII-era racist cartoons on DVD , just to show the zeit... |
364,264 | 4,888,011 | 130,018 | 5 | no more sequels , please | Every time that there's a cool new movie , they just have to make a sequel . " I Still Know What You Did Last Summer " pretty much repeats everything from the original , minus and plus some cast members . I just hope that they don't make another " know what you did " movie . Not only is there nothing that they can add ... |
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