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365,648 | 4,888,011 | 28,399 | 6 | destiny turns off the radio . . . but merrily we roll along | Friz Freleng's " Toy Town Hall " has the feel of one of the really early cartoons from Warner Bros . , before they figured out the really zany path that they wanted to take ( I believe that that started with Daffy Duck's debut ) . In this short , a boy wants to listen to the radio but has to go to bed . But in his bedr... |
365,876 | 4,888,011 | 120,782 | 6 | good story , although the movie could have been better | Volker Schlondorff's " Palmetto " has a very interesting plot , although I think that the movie could be better . Woody Harrelson plays an ex-con who gets drawn into a supposedly fake kidnapping in Florida . The movie contains a series of plot twists ( I won't name them , lest I spoil the whole thing ) , but nothing gr... |
363,193 | 4,888,011 | 89,670 | 6 | If it's Tuesday , this must be any Chevy Chase movie . | It's Chevy Chase up to his usual high jinx as the Griswolds travel across the Old Continent . In the process , they mangle Eric Idle , destroy Stonehenge , invade a German couple's apartment , upset a festival , and tie Rome in knots . You'll never forget Ellen's ( Beverly D'Angelo ) bizarre dance early in the movie - ... |
364,509 | 4,888,011 | 120,788 | 6 | drug addiction | There have been many drug addiction movies : " A Panic in Needle Park " , " Scarface " , " Drugstore Cowboy " , " Naked Lunch " , " The Basketball Diaries " , " Trainspotting " , " Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas " and now " Permanent Midnight " . This last one features Ben Stiller as writer Jerry Stahl , who is battlin... |
364,131 | 4,888,011 | 120,710 | 6 | nightmare on Bening street | I've liked pretty much all of Annette Bening's movies , although I did think that Neil Jordan's " In Dreams " should have come out as a little bit more given what all seems to have gone into it . As it is , I've seen lots of movies that portray people's dreams being more than just dreams and possibly showing something ... |
362,809 | 4,888,011 | 189,071 | 6 | Harmless , if nothing else | The whole thing's pretty simple : Scooby-Doo , Scrappy and Shaggy go to be gym instructors in a girl's school . What they don't know is that in this particular school , the students are all monsters ( don't worry - they're good monsters ) . There's a werewolf , a vampire , a ghost , a Frankenstein and a mummy . To crow... |
362,894 | 4,888,011 | 59,125 | 6 | So that's Donald Sutherland . . . | Hammer Films just kept ' em coming in the ' 50s and ' 60s . If Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were involved , then you could safely assume that they had something neat in store . In " Dr . Terror's House of Horrors " , enigmatic Dr . Sandor Schreck ( Peter Cushing ) is in a train with five other men . He proceeds to... |
365,114 | 4,888,011 | 120,756 | 6 | And ? | So Gregory Peck's final appearance was in a movie based on the same story as one of his best movies . However , this version of " Moby Dick " is a little hard to take seriously . You see , Ahab is played by Capt . Picard , and Ishmael is played by ET's friend . A previous reviewer noted that they took so much out of th... |
364,102 | 4,888,011 | 32,909 | 6 | even less-than-masterpiece cartoons focus on certain topics better than most movies do | From the time of Porky Pig's debut until about the time that we entered WWII , Warner Bros . mostly cast him roles that they figured represented every aspect of life . One of these was the captain of the Mayflower . Bob Clampett's " Pilgrim Porky " is basically a series of spot gags , the sort of stuff that one would e... |
363,406 | 4,888,011 | 58,886 | 6 | she wouldn't have noticed if he'd smelled bad | It's no surprise that for the role of one of history's most famous painters they cast the guy who played Moses and Ben-Hur ( who ever would have guessed that he would later be the NRA's president ? ) . Of course , Carol Reed's " The Agony and the Ecstasy " is basically a dramatization of Pope Julius II ( Rex Harrison )... |
365,880 | 4,888,011 | 97,428 | 6 | I'm still ready to call them . | I guess that usually , we have to wonder why they make sequels . If nothing else , as long as the sequels aren't boring , obnoxious , pathetic , embarrassing , insulting , or otherwise bad , then they're acceptable . " Ghostbusters II " passes . Bill Murray , Dan Aykroyd , Harold Ramis , Ernie Hudson , Sigourney Weaver... |
364,346 | 4,888,011 | 243,133 | 6 | I know that the Coen brothers are supposed to be far out , but still . . . | I usually really like the Coen brothers ' work . Quirky without being incomprehensible , grotesque without being disgusting , they have some neat ideas . However , I had a hard time following " The Man Who Wasn't There " . This film noir about a barber ( Billy Bob Thornton ) in post-WWII Santa Rosa trying to get into a... |
362,855 | 4,888,011 | 89,841 | 6 | sometimes honorable , sometimes not | John Huston's last movie , " Prizzi's Honor " , has usually been well regarded , but it actually seems sort of slow at times . Starring Jack Nicholson as Mafia hit-man Charley Partanna in love with one Irene Walker ( Kathleen Turner ) who turns out to also be an assassin , the movie strives to be a zany comedy but neve... |
365,443 | 4,888,011 | 305,669 | 6 | Really something , Boo . | OK , so the white - yuppie - and - black - ghetto - person - joining - up idea has been used a number of times in movies , but the dialog between Steve Martin and Queen Latifah makes this one worthwhile . Probably the best scenes are Betty White's nasty comments , Queen Latifah teaching Missi Pyle a lesson , Steve Mart... |
364,299 | 4,888,011 | 140,812 | 7 | It did in fact apply during WWII | With the horrors of the Vietnam War and the disaster that is the Iraq War , it may be surprising that cartoons proudly promoted war . But " Any Bonds Today ? " does just that , as Bugs Bunny , Porky Pig and a portly Elmer Fudd ( strangely , no Daffy Duck ) sing a song encouraging the American people to buy war bonds to... |
363,464 | 4,888,011 | 44,001 | 7 | this place is a zoo | Once again , Pepe Le Pew tries to get slinky with the female cat , but his offensive odor prevents it . In this case , he lives in Paris zoo - where everything begins with " le " - and she paints herself like a skunk to get something to eat . In some senses , it seems like if you've seen one Pepe Le Pew cartoon , you'v... |
365,873 | 4,888,011 | 105,103 | 7 | dying to explain | Passed Away is the sort of movie that you could easily walk by in the video / DVD store and not notice . But you should notice it , and then watch it . This is actually a very clever movie . It looks at how this family has to deal with their problems following the father's death . Although Bob Hoskins is listed as th... |
362,727 | 4,888,011 | 372,784 | 7 | We fall so we can learn to pick ourselves up . | First of all , I should say that after " Batman & Robin " it would be impossible to drag the franchise down any lower . Therefore , we would have to figure that even if " Batman Begins " was atrocious , it couldn't be any worse than " B & R " . Well , we needn't worry : this one is very well done . Maybe not a " Citize... |
363,226 | 4,888,011 | 112,883 | 7 | Johnny , Marlon , and Faye have all still got it . | Practically everyone agrees that Johnny Depp is one of the most impressive actors of his generation - maybe THE most - but anyone who doubts that Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway can still do their stuff need only watch " Don Juan DeMarco " . It casts Depp as the title character , who one day appears and claims that he i... |
363,238 | 4,888,011 | 52,569 | 7 | I also dream of a genie , but my Jeannie has blonde hair . | OK , it's true : " Apes of Wrath " is basically a combination of two previous cartoons . There was " Gorilla My Dreams " , in which Bugs Bunny gets adopted by a gorilla family ( and the father wants to rip him to shreds ) , and " A Mouse Divided " , in which the inebriated stork delivers some parents - in that case Mr ... |
363,599 | 4,888,011 | 52,572 | 7 | there's more to Indian cinema than musicals | When Americans hear the name " Apu " , they're likely to think of the Kwik-E-Mart owner on " The Simpsons " . Well , here's a different one . " Apur Sansar " ( called " The World of Apu " in English ) tells the story of a Calcutta man and how he has to deal with his various experiences . I should identify that this is ... |
363,280 | 4,888,011 | 43,979 | 7 | nature's revenge | What's most funny about " Room and Bird " is the fact that Sylvester and Tweety are in neighboring rooms in a hotel where no pets are allowed , and the manager keeps suspecting that something's up . . . all leading up to what happens at the end ! Truth be told , the hotel manager reminded me just a little bit of Mr . H... |
364,989 | 4,888,011 | 78,163 | 7 | goodbye Peter , goodbye | Once again , Peter Sellers makes a mess of everything as Insp . Jacques Clouseau . This time , a gangster sets up a trap to assassinate him , but kills the wrong person . This sets in motion a few things : Charles Dreyfus ( Herbert Lom ) is elated at the news of Clouseau's death and leaves the mental institution , and ... |
363,921 | 4,888,011 | 95,647 | 7 | it didn't really happen like this | The recent belated conviction of Edgar Ray Killen ( wouldn't you say that it's appropriate that he has " kill " in his last name ? ) brings to mind the story that inspired " Mississippi Burning " . It's the story of how a group of Ku Klux Klan members murdered civil rights activists James Chaney , Michael Schwerner and... |
364,566 | 4,888,011 | 382,628 | 7 | Here's what happened when I went to see the movie . . . | Usually , when we hear that the United States has remade a foreign movie , it's time to start groaning in despair . Not so with " Dark Water " . An ingenious thriller helmed by " The Motorcycle Diaries " director Walter Salles , the movie succeeds where too many movies have failed . Dahlia ( Jennifer Connelly ) has jus... |
363,444 | 4,888,011 | 78,168 | 7 | there also seems to be a connection to " The Shining " | We've all heard about how the title character fell into a twenty-year sleep , and found the world totally different when he awoke . I wish to assert that there seems to be a connection to " The Shining " , as both have the theme that things return , but not necessarily in the same form ( needless to say , it was more s... |
364,373 | 4,888,011 | 43,943 | 7 | snow excuse for such rivalry | I wonder why Sylvester doesn't just give up on trying to get Tweety . Clearly that bird has a bad-ass streak . But Sylvester keeps going after him , and in " Putty Tat Trouble " has to vie with an unidentified orange tabby around Christmas . Needless to say , their attempts have rather detrimental results ( to them , t... |
365,024 | 4,888,011 | 140,864 | 7 | yet again , the human male lets his sex drive get the better of him | OK , so " Booby Traps " is chock full of non-PC material , quite offensive in the 21st century . As long as we understand that , it's one of the funniest things imaginable , made as a warning to American soldiers about rigged objects . Dim-witted soldier Pvt . Snafu - complete with his Bugs Bunny-like voice - is trudgi... |
362,602 | 4,888,011 | 112,817 | 7 | stupid white men | Dead Man is not like any western that you've seen before . It's not a glorification of pioneers traveling out west , and it's not a direct indictment of our treatment of the Indians . Granted , it portrays the Old West as a pretty ugly place , but the movie almost seems to treat it as a parallel universe . Johnny Dep... |
365,803 | 4,888,011 | 295,178 | 7 | How far can they go ? | This time , Mike Myers plays Austin Powers , Dr . Evil and Fat Bastard , plus one new character : a Dutch guy named Goldmember who wants to help Dr . Evil take over the world . That's the main plot , but the movie is really an excuse for a bunch of silly gags ( namely the subtitles ) . The female interest this time is ... |
364,146 | 4,888,011 | 95,737 | 7 | The end of Mel Blanc . | So , Mel Blanc lent his voice to a cartoon short for the last time . It was an OK effort . Maybe not quite like their work from the ' 40s and ' 50s , but a colorful jab at classic horror flicks , as Daffy Duck dreams that he's performing for an audience of monsters . . . until he antagonizes Godzilla . And with another... |
365,560 | 4,888,011 | 95,687 | 7 | Not bad at all ( if you can accept something totally silly ) . | During the period when Richard Benjamin wasn't acting in any movies , he turned to directing , and " My Stepmother Is an Alien " was one of the results . It features nerdy astronomer Steven Mills ( Dan Aykroyd ) accidentally doing something that causes alien Celeste Martin ( Kim Basinger ) to get sent to earth . Natura... |
363,347 | 4,888,011 | 78,087 | 7 | truly identified where Joe Dante was going | Before Joe Dante ( " Gremlins " ) got really famous , he directed this " Jaws " send-up , in which man-eating fishes accidentally get released into a river and swim downstream , looking for people who dared to stick their feet in the water . What makes " Piranha " so neat is how it knows that it's a pretty corny movie ... |
362,564 | 4,888,011 | 70,511 | 7 | cinematic butterfly | Steve McQueen starred in what may have been his last really great movie here . As Devil's Island inmate Henri Charriere , he gets down and dirty throughout the whole movie , and we really see how nasty the prison is . Equally good in the movie is Dustin Hoffman as Charriere's friend Louis Dega , looking about like he d... |
365,527 | 4,888,011 | 252,503 | 7 | OK , but weakened just a little because there was also " The Score " that year | There have just been so many heist movies , that " Heist " seems like it would be hard to register , especially since 2001 also saw the release of " The Score " - also focusing on a heist - which I found more interesting . I will say that this one is worth seeing , if nothing else for some of the tricks that they play ... |
365,658 | 4,888,011 | 252,501 | 7 | Stephen King and the 1960s | I haven't as yet read Stephen King's novel " Hearts in Atlantis " ( which , as I understand it , was a compilation of a few stories ) . But I remember reading King's intro at the beginning , in which he talked about having come of age in the ' 60s , and how this has influenced his work . Well , I would say that the mov... |
362,777 | 4,888,011 | 95,532 | 7 | pleasure still with us | On one level , " Little Nikita " is just another silly action movie . But strong performances and some interesting turns keep this one afloat . FBI agent Roy Parmenter ( Sidney Poitier ) interviews teenager Jeff Grant ( River Phoenix ) , who is trying to get into the Air Force Academy . But while reviewing Jeff , Roy d... |
364,582 | 4,888,011 | 112,744 | 7 | When will we get over things ? | When " The Crossing Guard " came out , it seemed like we'd heard for years that Sean Penn was worthless and just got in a bunch of fights . We turned out to be wrong . He's as great a director as an actor . The movie casts Jack Nicholson as Freddy Gale , out to get drunk driver John Booth ( David Morse ) , who accident... |
365,722 | 4,888,011 | 78,326 | 7 | crime just might have to pay sometimes | Dustin Hoffman gives as intense a performance as we can expect from him as ex-con Max Dembo , who might have a harder than expected time ditching his past . " Straight Time " hits you like a kick in the gut , and they pull no punches . Maybe it's not the greatest movie ever , but it's definitely worth seeing . I would ... |
364,841 | 4,888,011 | 95,497 | 7 | Who's a Christian now ? | As an atheist , I'm not a person who really goes in for any portrayal of Jesus . Still , " The Last Temptation of Christ " does an interesting job looking at him . We see Jesus ( Willem Dafoe ) as an imperfect human being with his own personal problems . Many Bible-thumping ideologues objected to this movie , due to it... |
364,407 | 4,888,011 | 217,869 | 7 | M . Night Shyamalan's last really interesting movie so far . | M . Night Shyamalan followed up " The Sixth Sense " with the not-quite-as-great , but no less fascinating , " Unbreakable " . Bruce Willis plays Philadelphia security guard David Dunn , who survives a train wreck that kills everyone else . After this , he meets Elijah Price ( Samuel L . Jackson ) , who suffers from Ost... |
365,172 | 4,888,011 | 95,489 | 7 | Call me on the " land " line . | Maybe " The Land Before Time " is the sort of movie that appealed more to us when we were little children . Still , as a young adult , I remember that it was an interesting idea , with dinosaur children having to rely on each other . However , I do wish to assert that some of the T-Rex scenes may have been a little too... |
365,645 | 4,888,011 | 26,116 | 7 | inanimate objects come to life , and even look at world events | Billboard Frolics was one of the many Warner Bros . cartoons in which inanimate objects come to life ; others included " Have You Got Any Castles ? " , " You're an Education " and " Book Revue " . The title identifies what comes to life here . There's Eddie Camphor and his why-oh-lean ( violin ) player Rub-Him-Off pl... |
365,673 | 4,888,011 | 210,358 | 7 | Happy 60th , Glenn ! | Since today is Glenn Close's 60th birthday , I wanted to talk about one of her lesser known movies . Directed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez's son Rodrigo , " Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her " interweaves the stories of several women . Close plays a doctor having to care for her mother . Kathy Baker , Cameron Dia... |
364,676 | 4,888,011 | 427,392 | 7 | Remember : you're next ! | Normally , I wouldn't support the idea of remaking " The Invasion of the Body Snatchers " ( although it's apparently been done a few times ) ; I consider the original one with Kevin McCarthy almost sacrosanct . But this new version - despite being mostly predictable - brings up an interesting point : what if a virus tu... |
365,901 | 4,888,011 | 365,289 | 7 | grimmer and grimmer | In a loose adaptation of " Hansel and Gretel " , Dutch siblings Jacob and Marie are abandoned by their parents and eventually make their way to Spain . In Spain , Marie marries surgeon Diego . Everything looks normal at first , but it becomes apparent that Diego might not be quite what he seems , especially after Jacob... |
365,405 | 4,888,011 | 765,429 | 7 | corruption is life | When I started watching " American Gangster " , I had no idea what it was about . By the end , I was surprised that I had never heard the story before . The first character whom we meet is Frank Lucas ( Denzel Washington ) , confidante of Harlem gangster extraordinaire Ellsworth " Bumpy " Johnson ( Clarence Williams II... |
362,928 | 4,888,011 | 295,297 | 7 | Maybe it's just a place holder , but it remains an essential part of the series . | With boy wizard Harry Potter ( Daniel Radcliffe ) going into his second year at Hogwarts , he gets visited by a " house elf " named Dobby , who warns him not to go . Naturally , Harry doesn't listen to this . But when he does arrive at the school , he finds that there's a number of things not right . And the answer is ... |
364,922 | 4,888,011 | 61,391 | 7 | devil went down to England | The usually less-than-dependable Dudley Moore does a good job here as Stanley Moon , a short order cook leading a go-nowhere life but always eyeing waitress Margaret Spencer ( Eleanor Bron , whom you may recognize from " Help ! " ) . Enter the Devil ( Peter Cook ) , going by the alias George Spiggott . Satan gives Stan... |
363,205 | 4,888,011 | 52,651 | 7 | Nice kid , but he doesn't listen to a word you say ( he just sees through it ) . | Poor Foghorn Leghorn . That blustery yokel of a rooster always tries to be the most important character on the farm , but someone always outsmarts him . Usually , Henery Hawk and Barnyard Dog enjoy this luxury , but " A Broken Leghorn " features neither of them . Instead , there's a newborn rooster who Foghorn thinks i... |
363,979 | 4,888,011 | 26,182 | 7 | Beans Amuck | Sort of a forerunner to Chuck Jones's more famous " Duck Amuck " , " A Cartoonist's Nightmare " portrays an animator working on a Beans cartoon . He falls asleep and ends up in the cartoon , where the monster threatening Beans proceeds to menace the cartoonist . It's up to Beans to save the day ! This short , directed ... |
365,462 | 4,888,011 | 112,642 | 7 | Maybe there will always be the issue of life and death . | On one level , maybe " Casper " is just a kids ' movie . But it does bring up the question of how we deal with our own mortality . The plot involves unctuous Carrigan Crittenden ( Cathy Moriarty ) and her crony Dibbs ( Eric Idle ) inheriting an abandoned mansion in Maine , only to find out that it's inhabited by people... |
363,024 | 4,888,011 | 122,529 | 7 | 3 types of there | Indie director Hal Hartley accomplished the quirky but definitely worth seeing " Henry Fool " , in which a trashy writer helps a socially awkward garbage man discover his real talent . Since the title character describes three kinds of " there " , I will use them to describe the movie . There is much in this movie that... |
363,139 | 4,888,011 | 780,571 | 7 | Don't try to fool a Portlander . | I didn't know anything about " Mr . Brooks " when I turned it on , and I got a surprise when I saw that the movie takes place here in Portland ! Unfortunately , it was clear that large portions got filmed elsewhere ; we Portlanders know when movies don't get our geography right ( not that I would expect Hollywood to ge... |
363,783 | 4,888,011 | 70,640 | 7 | the " ideal " life | During the ' 50s and early ' 60s , the image of the " ideal " life ( where everyone lived pretty no matter what ) reigned supreme . " Save the Tiger " is like a barrel of salt in that image's wound . Middle-aged Harry Stoner ( Jack Lemmon ) has a top job , but he's clearly not happy ; quite the contrary , he always see... |
363,490 | 4,888,011 | 70,643 | 7 | interesting , but both men have done better | There have been many drifter stories , but " Scarecrow " stands all on its own . Portraying tough Max ( Gene Hackman ) and loopy Lionel ( Al Pacino ) befriending each other while wondering through the world , the movie is admittedly a downer . I will say that the movie doesn't seem to accomplish everything that it was ... |
364,649 | 4,888,011 | 43,760 | 7 | So Rube Goldberg met Barnyard Dog , eh ? | Lovelorn Leghorn probably wasn't the best Looney Tunes cartoon ever , but it certainly has its moments . It features Prissy looking for a husband , so Foghorn Leghorn tells her that Barnyard Dog is a rooster in disguise . After a football sequence , Barnyard clarifies everything and helps Prissy build the most whacke... |
363,815 | 4,888,011 | 780,536 | 7 | ringing the Belgium | Prior to seeing Martin McDonagh's " In Bruges " , I had heard that it was a straightforward comedy . It turned out that while the movie starts out comedic , it gets more serious as it progresses . Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play hit men Ray and Ken , respectively . After Ray accidentally kills a boy , head honch... |
363,321 | 4,888,011 | 122,690 | 7 | action-packed . . . and doing a good job with it | I'll admit that " Ronin " has a somewhat vague plot , but they do a good job with it . It has ex CIA agent Sam ( Robert DeNiro ) accompanying tough guy Vincent ( Jean Reno ) around France to find a suitcase wanted by various factions . Mostly , the movie is a bunch of car chases and such things , but good performances ... |
362,607 | 4,888,011 | 87,747 | 7 | Looks even better now that the Cold War has ended | I'm guessing that when " Moscow on the Hudson " first came out , it looked kind of silly and unrealistic . But now that the Cold War has long since ended , it looks better ( and watching the movie , you can see why the Soviet Union was imploding ) . Robin Williams , in one of his more easygoing roles , plays Russian sa... |
362,899 | 4,888,011 | 26,532 | 7 | Porky's voice comes from a dog | While the early Warner Bros . cartoon " Into Your Dance " ( directed by Friz Freleng ) does feature a scene of black-face characters , the rest is pretty entertaining . It portrays a sort of talent show aboard a stern-wheeler , but every performer screws up somehow . Is that doomed to happen every time ? ! One thing th... |
365,076 | 4,888,011 | 52,298 | 7 | Carl Stalling departs | To Itch His Own is not like anything that I've ever seen . For the first few minutes , it's sort of unclear what's happening , as Angelo the world's strongest flea decides to take a vacation from the circus ( I guess that he " fleas " the circus ) . But once he settles in on a certain dog and another dog invades the ... |
364,244 | 4,888,011 | 43,732 | 7 | one feather washes the other | I would call " Leghorn Swoggled " one of the more mind-boggling ( but no less funny ) Foghorn Leghorn cartoons , as Henery Hawk wants to catch a chicken , but has to do a favor for Barnyard Dog , a cat , and a mouse . Foggy tries to give him advice every step of the way , but guess what ends up happening ! Even if the ... |
362,860 | 4,888,011 | 34,977 | 7 | chairman of the billboard | Sort of an updated version of " Billboard Frolics " , Friz Freleng's eye-popping " Lights Fantastic " depicts a bunch of billboards - apparently around Times Square - putting on various skits . This cartoon really shows off Freleng's penchant for synchronizing music and action ( especially with the conga beat ) . Frele... |
365,264 | 4,888,011 | 87,781 | 7 | Darren McGavin , RIP | Darren McGavin's death yesterday brings to mind his career , including all his movies . He only had a small role in " The Natural " , but the movie itself was something else . Starring Robert Redford as a 1930's baseball player with a seemingly superhuman talent ( possibly due to his bat ) , it's one of those movies up... |
365,015 | 4,888,011 | 113,101 | 7 | rooms with many views | I seem to recall that when " Four Rooms " came out , it was critically and commercially derided . When I saw it a few months later , I actually thought that it was pretty well done . I knew that Quentin Tarantino was involved in the making , so I could safely assume that there was an element of sleaze in the movie . We... |
365,171 | 4,888,011 | 26,510 | 7 | tip your hat to Porky Pig's 1st appearance | Although " I Haven't Got a Hat " just looks like a cute cartoon , it really seems to be focusing on the various kinds of things that can happen during a school recital , namely stage fright and resentment . Probably most famous as Porky Pig's debut ( he sings about Paul Revere's ride ) , the cartoon culminates when an ... |
364,516 | 4,888,011 | 105,435 | 7 | one of those movies that you never expect | In 1992 , when " Sneakers " came out , the Internet was just getting off the ground . What they portray in this movie seems more like what one would expect to find in a 21st century movie . Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier play hackers , with an entire syndicate made up of Dan Aykroyd , David Strathairn and River Phoe... |
365,023 | 4,888,011 | 147,953 | 7 | Why can't Snafu ever do anything right ? | In one of the many Pvt . Snafu training films , Snafu tries to camouflage himself , but the Nazis are always one step ahead of him . I guess that these shorts had as their purpose to show American soldiers what not to do in wartime . As we can expect , the cartoon portrays an Americanized version of the German language... |
365,640 | 4,888,011 | 26,598 | 7 | La Cucaracha dances | True , Friz Freleng's early cartoon " The Lady in Red " stereotypes Mexico a little bit , but it's got some cool scenes , as a bevy of cockroaches party in a café after hours . The title woman performs a sultry dance . But then a parrot sees the action and gets hungry . That's instinct , I guess . As this came out in t... |
365,548 | 4,888,011 | 113,041 | 7 | As I understand it , there were accusations of anti-Arab stereotyping ? | Father of the Bride II may seem to some people like a lesser Steve Martin movie , with him as the patriarch from the previous movie now having to deal with his daughter's and wife's pregnancies . Unpretentiously silly . But one interesting thing is that apparently , some Arab groups claimed that the movie was making ... |
362,891 | 4,888,011 | 156,602 | 7 | Finally , an educational film worth watching ! | So many educational films are nothing more than mind-numbing drudgery , saved only by the fact that " MST3K " mocks them ( " Why Study Industrial Arts ? " comes to mind ) . " Hemo the Magnificent " is actually quite well done . It's all about blood , the heart , and the circulatory system . I admit that I don't remembe... |
365,200 | 4,888,011 | 481,797 | 7 | Jonathan Harker and Dracula's director reunite in Romania | Usually in movies , Romania is the land of Count Dracula . " Youth Without Youth " takes a new approach to Romania , even though it stars in a supporting role Bruno Ganz ( who played Jonathan Harker in Werner Herzog's " Nosferatu " ) and is directed by Francis Ford Coppola ( who directed " Bram Stoker's Dracula " ) . A... |
364,742 | 4,888,011 | 264,616 | 7 | Don't worry : it won't leave you feeling frail . | A story about a single father trying to convince his two sons that there's demons everywhere seems like the sort of thing that would come out completely idiotic . But they pull it off here rather neatly . It's the story of how Dad Meiks ( Bill Paxton , in his directorial debut ) got his sons to help him kill people who... |
365,831 | 4,888,011 | 841,046 | 7 | appropriately silly with some surprises along the way | Following his supporting role in " Talladega Nights " , John C . Reilly gets his own lead role in the musical biopic spoof " Walk Hard : The Dewey Cox Story " . Mostly poking fun at the Johnny Cash biopic " Walk the Line " - with elements of Ray Charles , Bob Dylan , Brian Wilson , Stevie Wonder , and even appearances ... |
363,546 | 4,888,011 | 34,845 | 7 | nothing totally new , but interesting | I can't claim to be a connoisseur of Bob Clampett's work , but I've liked most of the classic Looney Tunes cartoons . A previous reviewer said that " The Hep Cat " falls short of Clampett's usual quality . I , on the other hand , think that this cartoon is actually quite neat , as a cool feline tries to woo a woman , b... |
363,894 | 4,888,011 | 105,236 | 7 | You wanna squirm ? | Pulp Fiction had the shot in the car , and the " Kill Bill " movies had , well , various death scenes . But " Reservoir Dogs " . . . ah , now this one will make your skin crawl . It focuses on a heist gone wrong . That's the most minimal description of the plot . Most of the movie has the various characters trying to... |
364,064 | 4,888,011 | 26,422 | 7 | genetic mutations get so weird that a pig fathers a cat | Porky Pig's second appearance ( and Tex Avery's directorial debut ) does feature a few racial stereotypes , but overall , " Gold Diggers of ' 49 " made me laugh . Set at the time of the 1849 California gold rush , Porky and Beans are prospectors , and Beans wants to marry Porky's daughter Kitty ( the three characters g... |
365,452 | 4,888,011 | 405,336 | 7 | seemingly couldn't be , but is | Having seen Richard Kelly's work so far ( " Donnie Darko " and " Southland Tales " ) , I'm very eager to see what his third salvo will be . If you just hear a little bit about this movie , it would probably sound like something that either couldn't exist as a movie , or would have to be something starring Leslie Nielse... |
365,519 | 4,888,011 | 43,620 | 7 | promoting the Columbus myth , but still hilarious | Obviously , " Hare We Go " is promoting the myth of Christopher Columbus's life . In reality , it's unclear whether or not Columbus was really Italian ( he may have been a Spanish Jew who converted to Christianity during the Inquisition ) ; by the time that he set sail , most people on both sides of the Atlantic had al... |
364,130 | 4,888,011 | 26,370 | 7 | contrary to what Phil Ochs sang . . . | In one of Friz Freleng's early cartoons , a bunch of flowers have a big parade , complete with floats . I of course was half expecting there to be an " Animal House " - style finale , but something uglier happened . As this was in the early days of Warner Bros . animation , we needn't expect any of the full-scale wacki... |
365,639 | 4,888,011 | 26,481 | 7 | nobody rips at Hollywood more than Hollywood itself | Jack King's " Hollywood Capers " came out during the first year in which Warner Bros . animation really had the recognition that it has had ever since . Featuring many of the characters from " I Haven't Got a Hat " , it portrays simple-minded feline Beans getting to Warmer ( yes , in this case it's Warmer , not Warner ... |
365,002 | 4,888,011 | 34,888 | 7 | Chloe , the swamp song | In what must have been one of Daffy Duck's last black and white cartoons , he's looking for someone named Chloe , but gets the hiccups and goes to Dr . Jerkyl for a cure . Sure enough , Dr . Jerkyl transforms himself . . . into a big doofus named Chloe . Go figure ! Apparently , the opening scene of Daffy calling for C... |
365,767 | 4,888,011 | 264,464 | 7 | Catch this film if you can . | I'd never heard of Frank Abagnale Jr before " Catch Me If You Can " came out , but what a guy ! Watching the movie , one really grows to admire him , partly because of Leonardo DiCaprio's cool portrayal . Abagnale forged checks and assumed a number of false identities during the ' 60s . Tom Hanks is equally cool as FBI... |
364,308 | 4,888,011 | 34,881 | 7 | let's all be witches | Anyone watching " I Married a Witch " would probably want to start engaging in a little witchcraft . Veronica Lake is great as witch Jennifer , who with her father ( Cecil Kellaway ) was burned alive 270 years ago . But now they've both been freed - by lightning striking the tree that imprisoned them - and want to get ... |
362,934 | 4,888,011 | 365,478 | 7 | Well , you know Bruce Campbell . . . | Or if you've seen the " Evil Dead " trilogy and / or " Bubba Ho-Tep " , then you should know that his movies are total farces . With " Man with the Screaming Brain " , he goes all out again . In this case , he plays smarmy American businessman William Cole visiting Bulgaria - when do we ever get to see that country ? -... |
365,683 | 4,888,011 | 35,750 | 7 | Porky in a milder role | In one of the many WWII-themed Warner Bros . cartoons , Porky Pig is a cop working for Ye Towne Cooler ( where the Long Arm of the Law is just that , and the " Wanted " photos include a pin-up girl ) . On this particular day , Porky and his dog have to look for a lynx - named Missing Lynx - spying for Germany and ready... |
365,577 | 4,888,011 | 43,456 | 7 | So that was " The Andy Griffith Show " ' s Aunt Bee playing Mrs . Barley ? | Robert Wise's recent death brings " The Day the Earth Stood Still " to mind . Some of the things in the movie are clearly a product of the ' 50s , namely the public's blind trust of the government ( made evident early in the movie when the people crowd around the spacecraft without any protection ; for all that anyone ... |
364,250 | 4,888,011 | 53,064 | 7 | Oh , when will the cats ever learn ? | Once again , some less-than-intelligent cats go after Speedy Gonzales , only to have him foil every one of their schemes . OK , so not only do pretty much all of Speedy's cartoons have basically the same plot , but they totally stereotype Mexico . Well , as I understand it , many Hispanics like that these cartoons port... |
363,810 | 4,888,011 | 43,517 | 7 | elaborated , this could be a ' 50s , ' 60s or ' 70s B-movie | Obviously , " The Fair Haired Hare " is one of the many instances in which Yosemite Sam provokes Bugs Bunny and then Bugs gets revenge ( one of the rules about the Bugs Bunny cartoons is that Bugs never provokes the unpleasant situation ) . But watching the cartoon , I thought that it loosely resembled those B-movies i... |
365,851 | 4,888,011 | 53,083 | 7 | time may not treat these old-school entertainers nicely , but I still recommend the cartoon | I learned about Jack Benny through his bit part in " It's a Mad , Mad , Mad , Mad World " . Later on , I learned about his overall career . And now , here's another addition to his career : " The Mouse That Jack Built " is a cartoon version of Benny's TV show ( which I've never seen ) . In this case , Jack Benny , Mary... |
365,255 | 4,888,011 | 236,784 | 7 | The spy who came in from the heat . | I wasn't totally familiar with John Le Carre's work when I saw " The Tailor of Panama " . But whether or not you're familiar with his work , you're still likely to get impressed by the movie . If it looks strange that Pierce Brosnan plays a non-James Bond spy , don't let that turn you off ; as it is , I like this spy b... |
365,297 | 4,888,011 | 78,718 | 7 | Barry Levinson's early look at Baltimore | Before Barry Levinson turned to directing , he co-wrote Norman Jewison's " . . . And Justice for All " , a comedy-drama that makes you feel like your head just exploded . Al Pacino plays Baltimore lawyer Arthur Kirkland , whose frustration with America's legal system - coupled with having to defend a judge whom he hate... |
365,371 | 4,888,011 | 104,694 | 7 | a " league " of all nations | No doubt everyone's heard about Rosie the Riveter , but the women's baseball team seems to not be as well remembered . " A League of Their Own " is the story of this team . Various women from all over come to participate , although the movie mostly focuses on Dottie Hinson ( Geena Davis ) , Mae Mordabito ( Madonna ) , ... |
363,813 | 4,888,011 | 443,274 | 7 | I can't exactly tell which side it takes | Vantage Point portrays an assassination attempt on the US president ( William Hurt ) during a trip to Salamanca , Spain . The first half of the movie consists of the viewpoints of several people present at the event : a bodyguard ( Dennis Quaid ) , a tourist ( Forest Whitaker ) , a newswoman ( Sigourney Weaver ) , an... |
365,337 | 4,888,011 | 810,988 | 7 | playing nine pins | I'd never heard of " The Nines " when I started watching it . Now , I'm not sure what to think of it . Portraying three interconnected stories set in Los Angeles - and all starring the same people - it seems to be saying something about happenstance . . . but I don't know for certain . I can't say what the overall gist... |
364,573 | 4,888,011 | 113,321 | 7 | yes , we will wonder why | We all know that family gatherings are likely to be awkward , to say the least . So , " Home for the Holidays " strings it all together , with out-of-work Claudia Larson ( Holly Hunter ) going to her parents ' home for Thanksgiving . Sure enough , more relatives are coming , all with more than a few eccentricities . Wh... |
365,191 | 4,888,011 | 140,379 | 7 | If I've offended . . . | I remember that when " A Midsummer Night's Dream " came out , many critics considered it a weird version of Shakespeare's play . I didn't see anything particularly wrong with it . Granted , they did change some things ( namely moving the setting about 300 years ahead of the original play's setting ) , but there's nothi... |
363,666 | 4,888,011 | 43,341 | 7 | Nobody give Slovakia bad reputation ! | Sorry if I find it a little hokey when they make Eastern Europeans the antagonists in movies ; they do that in " Big Top Bunny " , as Bugs Bunny ends up in the circus and gets paired with a jealous Slovak bear . Bugs plays some funny tricks on the big guy - hell , with this big doofus , it's a cinch - but I would like ... |
365,743 | 4,888,011 | 290,002 | 7 | ah , family gatherings . . . | By now , we should know that in movies , when WASPs meet ethnic people , there are some wacko situations , as " My Big Fat Greek Wedding " showed . But when the ethnic people are Jews , then it really gets crazy . " Meet the Fockers " makes use of this . Having been accepted by the Byrneses , Greg Focker ( Ben Stiller ... |
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