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363,028 | 4,888,011 | 60,806 | 7 | accelerate yourself | Once again , Wile E . Coyote is after Road Runner . I notice that this time , he doesn't try to trap Road Runner as much as accelerate himself . But sure enough , it still ends in disaster for him . Will Wile E . ever succeed in catching that bombastic bird ? ! Or better yet : why doesn't he just give up ? I will say t... |
364,687 | 4,888,011 | 35,646 | 7 | Hubie and Bertie debut in a setting resembling a cross between a Dali painting and an earlier Chuck Jones cartoon | As always , Chuck Jones's wise-guy mice Hubie and Bertie ( making their debut ) play tricks on an unsuspecting feline . While " The Aristo-Cat " has a fairly routine plot , the background catches my attention . The slanted angles look more like what I would expect in a Salvador Dali painting ( Bob Clampett used Daliesq... |
365,183 | 4,888,011 | 104,511 | 7 | a bloody good time | It may surprise some people to learn that the man behind " Animal House " and " The Blues Brothers " directed a vampire movie , but it's true . And it's not a bad movie , either . Portraying sexy French vampire Marie ( Anne Parillaud ) killing Pittsburgh mafia people but accidentally letting one ( Robert Loggia ) live ... |
363,152 | 4,888,011 | 264,796 | 7 | Kevin Kline's continuing saga | Life as a House is one of those movies that looks like it should be a total stinker , but actually comes out quite good . Architect George Monroe's ( Kevin Kline ) life is going down the tubes . He's totally alienated from his ex-wife Robin ( Kristin Scott Thomas ) , while his son Sam ( Hayden Christensen ) has gotte... |
364,026 | 4,888,011 | 104,452 | 7 | this house is a home for everyone | Steve Martin is his usual uptight wacko and Goldie Hawn is her usual ditsy blonde in this story of a screwy woman invading an architect's life . Martin and Hawn are the perfect comic teaming ( it's surprising that they didn't co-star earlier ) , and there are some great scenes here . If one thing's for certain , we can... |
365,487 | 4,888,011 | 53,211 | 7 | New Orleans of the past | In one of the stranger Pepe Le Pew cartoons , the famous skunk comes to New Orleans , where Fabrette the cat is looking for a lover . Pepe is of course perfect except for his scent . What I mean about " Really Scent " being one of the stranger cartoons is that Pepe comes to understand that he smells terrible . What mad... |
363,858 | 4,888,011 | 104,467 | 7 | I read the novel on which this was based . | Hyenas is based on Friedrich Durrenmatt's play " Der Besuch der alten Dame " . In it , an old woman returns to her home town , which has fallen into disrepair . She offers them a large sum if they will take revenge on the man who caused her to lose her virginity . Above all , it was interesting to see a Senegalese sp... |
364,106 | 4,888,011 | 496,806 | 7 | Carl Reiner loosely resurrects Alan Brady | As with " Ocean's 11 " , the best parts here are everything leading up to the heist ( I haven't as yet seen " Ocean's 12 " ) . I guess that I've always thought that the coolest parts of elaborate plots are the plots themselves rather than the result . Just earlier this month , I went to Las Vegas to see Cirque du Solei... |
364,372 | 4,888,011 | 43,376 | 7 | once a sadist , always a sadist | I've long wondered why the Termite Terrace crowd tortured Sylvester so much . In " Canned Feud " , his owners go on vacation and leave him locked in the house . He has plenty of cans of tuna , but a nasty little mouse keeps holding the can opener out of reach , forcing Sylvester to come up with all sorts of unpleasant ... |
365,903 | 4,888,011 | 78,721 | 7 | 10 out of how many stars ? | 10 isn't really the sort of movie that I feel that I can just straightforward review , as it has its ups and downs . The plot of course has composer George Webber ( Dudley Moore ) going through his midlife crisis all obsessed with the hot young women , thereby messing up his relationship with girlfriend Samantha ( Ju... |
363,679 | 4,888,011 | 53,131 | 7 | I choose : " nun " of the above ( just kidding ; it was a good movie ) . | The Nun's Story is the sort of movie that we really view differently nowadays . I mainly say this because while Sister Luke is in the Congo , people talk about witch doctors and call the local men " boys " ( among some other cringe-inducing things ) . Moreover , the process of entering the convent looks really unplea... |
363,395 | 4,888,011 | 43,322 | 7 | something that we can all " bear " | The three bears ' cartoons from the Looney Tunes crowd aren't in my vocabulary as much as Bugs Bunny and his ilk are , but the two that I've seen ( " Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears " and this one ) I really like . " A Bear for Punishment " portrays Father's Day , and so Ma and Junyer try to make Pa happy . . . all the ... |
363,468 | 4,888,011 | 313,162 | 7 | looking back on things | OK , so the Oscars seem to get hyped just a little more each year . And I was rooting for " Gosford Park " to win ( come on , Robert Altman had deserved an Oscar for years ! ) . That said , I guess that it was high time for an African-American to win Best Actress . Contrary to the previous reviewer , Halle Berry's role... |
365,878 | 4,888,011 | 113,613 | 7 | man who came to supper | One of the blackest comedies of the 1990s portrays a group of left-wing activists murdering right-wingers at dinner . Yes , very grim , but they know how to keep everything in good taste the whole time . Probably the funniest character in the movie is Ron Perlman as a Rush Limbaugh type on TV ( he calls for a return to... |
364,556 | 4,888,011 | 104,850 | 7 | The first Chevy Chase movie that I ever saw . . . and it's in Movie Madness's horror section . | If you're walking through Movie Madness's horror section and see a Chevy Chase movie , you may think that it's either a joke , or that you're dreaming . Well , it's serious . " Memoirs of an Invisible Man " was actually the first Chevy Chase movie that I ever saw ( and I even saw it in the theaters ) . Chase plays San ... |
364,017 | 4,888,011 | 43,255 | 7 | worth seeing ( pun intended ) | In " Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man " , detectives Bud Alexander ( Bud Abbott ) and Lou Francis ( Lou Costello ) have to protect a man framed for murder . This becomes proportionally easier once the man gives himself an invisibility serum . Some of the best scenes are when Lou watches him disappear , when a... |
364,726 | 4,888,011 | 910,936 | 7 | express yourself crazy | Some people's complaint about " Pineapple Express " is that the end scene goes on too long . My criticism is that it focuses a little too much on high action . But no matter , this movie is still a laugh riot from beginning to end , as a pair of marijuana-obsessed goof-balls ( Seth Rogen and James Franco ) have to go o... |
363,022 | 4,888,011 | 95,927 | 7 | Happy 60th , Sally ! | A few years before Sally Field and Tom Hanks played mother and son in " Forrest Gump " , they played stand-up rivals in the light comedy " Punchline " . I will say that this isn't the funniest movie that I've ever seen , but it's great just for the tension between the performers , some of the stand-up jokes , and for T... |
363,050 | 4,888,011 | 87,260 | 7 | Jim Carrey eventually found fame and kept it ; plus , I see a tiny link to current events . | In the grand scheme of things , " Finders Keepers " is one of those silly comedies that they cranked out in the ' 80s . This one has a scam artist ( Michael O'Keefe , of " Caddyshack " fame ) accidentally getting mixed up in a wacky larceny case on a train after he has to escape the cops and a roller skate team in 1973... |
363,479 | 4,888,011 | 831,884 | 7 | not " In the Bedroom " or " Mystic River " , but approaching them | I didn't know what " Reservation Road " was about when I started watching it . Not knowing the plot makes the movie hit you more . After an unfortunate event , the two families involved ( neither of whom knows who the other is ) inadvertently become more and more intertwined . Each time that another link gets revealed ... |
363,744 | 4,888,011 | 26,029 | 7 | Can you guess what the 39 steps are ? | Back in the days when Alfred Hitchcock was still making movies in his native England , he made the slick - if somewhat confusing - " 39 Steps " . This one has Canadian tourist Richard Hannay ( Robert Donat ) getting involved in intrigue while in England . Getting handcuffed to the perplexing Pamela ( Madeleine Carroll ... |
364,138 | 4,888,011 | 26,064 | 7 | performance-enhancing drugs : the original version | With all the talk that we often hear about athletes using performance-enhancing drugs to win competitions , Friz Freleng's " Along Flirtation Walk " becomes all the more interesting . It starts out with a dance in Plymouth Rock College - which reminded me just a little of the dance in " The Way We Were " - a college fo... |
362,957 | 4,888,011 | 95,953 | 7 | Good , but the best movie of 1988 ? | Personally , I don't know whether I would have given " Rain Man " Best Picture for 1988 . It was a good movie , but I don't think the best one from that year ( I would give that distinction to " A World Apart " ) . The plot of course has yuppie Charlie Babbitt ( Tom Cruise ) meeting his autistic brother Raymond ( Dusti... |
364,917 | 4,888,011 | 69,753 | 7 | mispronounced quite often , but Carroll Baker made some cool stuff in Italy | During the late ' 60s and early ' 70s , Carroll Baker expatriated from the United States and made some horror flicks in Italy . Among these giallo movies was " Baba Yaga " . It portrays a fashion photographer ( Isabelle De Funes ) getting involved with an otherworldly older woman ( Baker ) . The title identifies who sh... |
365,896 | 4,888,011 | 78,341 | 7 | things may happen , but memories last forever | Summer of My German Soldier was one of the many TV movies that became a staple of the small screen in the 1970s ( others were " Brian's Song " , " Sybil " and " Someone's Watching Me ! " ) . It portrays a Jewish girl ( Kristy McNichol ) befriending a German POW ( Bruce Davison ) in WWII-era Georgia . One of the thing... |
364,274 | 4,888,011 | 52,782 | 7 | Uri Geller , Kim Cattrall and Ricky Nelson | I saw " Ercole e la regina di Lidia " ( called " Hercules Unchained " in the USA ) on " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " . The movie itself is actually quite cool , but " MST3K " makes it even cooler . The movie basically has the muscle-bound - and often well-oiled - Greek hero ( Steve Reeves ) drinking water of forgetfu... |
365,535 | 4,888,011 | 69,715 | 7 | Jane Austen's horror story | If you saw individual random scenes from this movie and didn't know the title or plot , you might end up assuming that it comes from a Jane Austen novel or something . But " - - And Now the Screaming Starts ! " is nothing like that . Oh sure , it's set in England over 200 years ago and deals with a rich guy getting mar... |
362,869 | 4,888,011 | 35,528 | 7 | Bob Clampett moves into his really wacky phase | Following some mildly risqué opening credits , we get treated to a series of spot gags on a farm , often relating to World War II . One features a baby bird who looks like the early version of Tweety in " A Tale of Two Kitties " . The part about the swallows and San Juan Capistrano seems to predict Robert McKimson's " ... |
364,777 | 4,888,011 | 113,497 | 7 | I guess that life is a game of chance ! | You know the drill : young Alan Parrish gets sucked into a board game called Jumanji , returns when a brother and sister are playing 26 years later , and has to battle the animals that wreak havoc on the town . It all seems pretty simple , but they play some neat tricks with it in the movie . As the adult Alan , Robin ... |
363,662 | 4,888,011 | 43,128 | 7 | just like Hollywood | Before Hollywood biographies centered on drug abuse and such things , " What's Up Doc ? " portrayed Bugs Bunny telling his life story from childhood - " I knew I was different , and then it hit me : I was a rabbit in a human world . " - up to his career in entertainment . However , it seems like there's a little less i... |
365,588 | 4,888,011 | 397,101 | 7 | New Orleans , RIP | The Skeleton Key is the sort of movie that one might expect to be the manifestation of pure idiocy : a movie star's daughter in a flick about a creepy house . But this one has some neat twists and turns , with a very surprising ending . New Orleans caretaker Caroline Ellis ( Kate Hudson ) takes a job as a caretaker f... |
362,661 | 4,888,011 | 364,961 | 7 | you gotta admit , Nixon really was a crook | Richard Nixon ( or as I like to call him , President Pinocchio ) brought American politics to an unprecedented low ( unfortunately , Tricky Dick was not the last one to do that ) . His escalation of the Vietnam War , his " dirty tricks " campaign to spy on protesters , his assassinations of Black Panthers and American ... |
364,142 | 4,888,011 | 113,409 | 7 | read , they say | First , I will say that the events portrayed in John Carpenter's " In the Mouth of Madness " are some of the most outlandish things ever to grace the silver screen . Second , I will say that I'm glad that it's like that : this movie is supposed to be outlandish . I've liked every John Carpenter movie that I've seen , a... |
362,633 | 4,888,011 | 104,802 | 7 | nice intro to mambo | When I watched " The Mambo Kings " , I knew little if anything about that kind of music , so it sort of made the movie even more of a treat to hear it for the first time . In fact , I try to imagine living in New York in the early ' 50s and hearing the brothers bring their music to America for the first time ; it must ... |
364,813 | 4,888,011 | 52,885 | 7 | not gone tamale ( or ever ) | Once again , Mexico's rodents call upon Speedy Gonzales to fetch them cheese from Sylvester . In this case , the cheese arrives on a ship that Sylvester is guarding . And of course , no matter what kind of trap Sylvester sets , Speedy uses it against Sylvester ( including something involving Limburger cheese ) . What m... |
362,902 | 4,888,011 | 274,166 | 7 | James Bond as a moron | OK , so " Johnny English " is basically a stupid movie . BUT IT'S SO HILARIOUS ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Rowan Atkinson plays the title character , a dim-witted secret agent trying to stop French villain Pascal Sauvage ( John Malkovich doing a ridiculous accent ) from becoming king of England . Of course , the whole thing is an ... |
363,688 | 4,888,011 | 60,287 | 7 | One can do a lot with an obscure movie . | Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is probably mostly of interest to us nowadays due to Harrison Ford's bit part as a bellhop . Apparently , after the movie bombed , a producer told Ford : " Kid , you ain't got it . " Of course , Ford went on to star in the " Star Wars " and " Indiana Jones " trilogies , so he clearly had... |
364,485 | 4,888,011 | 373,861 | 7 | an interesting look at a culture that we rarely see | I have to admit that I don't know much about Mongolia , even though I've known about it for most of my life ( when I was young , I had a puzzle that was a map of the world , so I learned Mongolia ) . So " The Story of the Weeping Camel " is an interesting little look at this culture . The movie focuses on a group of no... |
364,284 | 4,888,011 | 44,984 | 7 | half a century later , the oil itself would have to be the star | While " Oily Hare " has its plot , the idea of a Texas oil well is what catches my attention . The unctuous - or should I say " oily " - tycoon here is exactly the type who would have forced the Cajuns off of their land in Louisiana , just as he tries to do to Bugs Bunny . And we see how much the oil industry affects p... |
364,655 | 4,888,011 | 60,228 | 7 | Mayor Carmine , I don't think it's right that you should extort money from the college . . . but do act in horror flicks | Chamber of Horrors is one those obscure movies , probably available only at Portland video / DVD store Movie Madness . It portrays serial killer Jason Cravette ( Patrick O'Neal ) on his way to jail when he has to cut off his hand to escape . So , he returns to Baltimore and resumes his murders . Yes , the plot is pre... |
365,807 | 4,888,011 | 113,819 | 7 | a real aphrodisiac | As " Mighty Aphrodite " shows , Woody Allen really works best when he goes for straight comedy . In this case , he and wife Helena Bonham Carter adopt a boy who turns out to be a genius . When Woody searches for the boy's biological mother , she turns out to be an air-head prostitute ( Mira Sorvino ) . Yeah , it doesn'... |
365,390 | 4,888,011 | 94,631 | 7 | interesting allegory | Alien Nation portrays the future , when aliens have come to the Earth and become the second class citizens , so to speak . Then , human Det . Sgt . Matthew Sykes ( James Caan ) and alien Samuel " George " Francisco ( Mandy Patinkin ) have to join up to stop alien William Harcourt ( Terence Stamp ) from taking over . ... |
363,938 | 4,888,011 | 209,163 | 7 | You kids have it easy . You only have to kill the mummy twice . Back in my day , we had to kill him thrice . | Mostly a rehash of the original , but this time , there's the Scorpion King ( The Rock ) to shake things up a bit . I actually saw this movie in Spain , so the one-liners were often hard to translate . But overall , we now know that movies from the 1930's are to be remade in the 1950's-1970's with a sense of camp , and... |
362,592 | 4,888,011 | 51,525 | 7 | So what do we think of it nowadays ? | Obviously , when " The Defiant Ones " first came out , it was probably a revolutionary idea : a white man and a black man chained to each other escape from a chain gang and have to put aside their differences to survive . I guess that nowadays , we look at it and feel that they were trying to look good by portraying so... |
365,057 | 4,888,011 | 87,004 | 7 | a different turn for John Sayles | In what may have been John Sayles's most Hollywood-style movie - and I use that description loosely - an alien slave ( Joe Morton ) lands in Harlem and tries to escape two bounty hunters ( the director and David Strathairn ) from his planet . In the process , even though he can't talk , he starts fixing video-games ( u... |
365,811 | 4,888,011 | 94,642 | 7 | Yvonne DeCarlo , RIP | Yvonne DeCarlo's death a few days ago brings to mind her varied career . She may be best known for playing Lily on the comic-horror TV series " The Munsters " , but in the movie " American Gothic " , she went for straight horror . The movie portrays some young people flying out over the Puget Sound - on either a sunny ... |
362,567 | 4,888,011 | 280,590 | 7 | as it turns out , some millionaires have made the mistake that Preston Blake makes | Since this remake of a classic movie is an Adam Sandler flick , you can pretty much predict most of it , namely the fact that he can get aggressive and that one character eventually reveals something embarrassing about himself . But otherwise , you're sure to have a good time . As an earthy goof-ball inheriting a massi... |
363,083 | 4,888,011 | 404,163 | 7 | If things do get as intertwined as many movies portray , don't say that they didn't warn us . | I've noticed that in the 21st century , there's been a surge in movies portraying several people who , although they may never meet , are all connected by something : " Traffic " , " Syriana " , " Fast Food Nation " and " Babel " . Now , there's also Mark Rydell's " Even Money " , depicting several people linked by gam... |
362,975 | 4,888,011 | 265,459 | 7 | Never doubt Robin Williams ' sinister abilities in movies . | Following the sappy box office duds " Jakob the Liar " and " Bicentennial Man " , Robin Williams probably decided that he needed to do some darker roles . Therefore , you might say that 2002 was his comeback year : he not only did his first tour in fifteen years ( which I saw ) - he also made some good movie choices , ... |
365,396 | 4,888,011 | 36,261 | 7 | Sooner or later , probably all opera pertains to this . | I have to admit that this is the only movie version of Gaston Leroux's classic novel that I've seen . The plot of course has abused musician Erique Claudin ( Claude Rains ) getting acid thrown on his face and thereafter haunting the Paris Opera House , and in the process helping beautiful starlet Christine DuBois ( Sus... |
365,355 | 4,888,011 | 36,282 | 7 | that's all , folks ( for B & W Warner Bros . cartoons , that is ) | The final black and white cartoon from Warner Bros . features a plot line that we've seen many times : cat tries to eat bird , bird turns out to be nasty little dude . Believe it or not , " Puss n ' Booty " came before the Sylvester-Tweety pairings ( Sylvester hadn't even yet debuted when this one came out ) , so if an... |
365,025 | 4,888,011 | 36,279 | 7 | loose lips sink fools | True , " Spies " is a WWII propaganda film , so it portrays the Germans and Japanese - and maybe the Italians ; I couldn't quite tell whether or not the cartoon portrayed them - mercilessly . But other than that , it's a real hoot , as that quintessential idiot soldier Private Snafu has a secret and tries to keep it hi... |
365,174 | 4,888,011 | 60,390 | 7 | Or Celsius ? | Probably when people hear of Ray Bradbury's novel " Fahrenheit 451 " , they nowadays think of Michael Moore's documentary " Fahrenheit " . Both have similar topics , namely the suppressing of information and reliance on brainlessness . Francois Truffaut's only English-language film is very well done , with Oskar Werner... |
364,270 | 4,888,011 | 44,842 | 7 | cats live such dangerous lives | OK , so fairy tales and bedtime stories are some of the easiest to make fun of , and " Little Red Riding Hood " may be at the top of the list . Before " Little Red Rodent Hood " , the Termite Terrace crowd had already made " Little Red Riding Rabbit " , and they later made " Red Riding Hoodwinked " . This one portrays ... |
365,830 | 4,888,011 | 113,670 | 7 | Ahme , Mr . Dawes , and one of Mexico's three | Many years after I saw Alfonso Cuaron's movie adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel " A Little Princess " , it surprised me to learn that the cast includes Liesel Matthews ( Harrison Ford's daughter in " Air Force One " ) , Eleanor Bron ( Ahme in " Help ! " ) and Arthur Malet ( Mr . Dawes in " Mary Poppins " ) ... |
364,305 | 4,888,011 | 71,663 | 7 | more internecine than you realize | In one of his most eye-opening roles , James Coburn plays a US diplomat in England who gets hired to be one of the president's cabinet members . But several people know too much about his sordid past , so he decides to make sure that they don't reveal anything . So , he devises a plan to have each of them kill each oth... |
362,998 | 4,888,011 | 113,677 | 7 | the perfect role for Steve Buscemi | We should all know by now that Steve Buscemi is the unofficial king of indie flicks , and " Living in Oblivion " is possibly the best example . He plays the director of a very small movie - something right up his alley - who has to put up with the various problems on the set . We've seen this sort of story before , you... |
364,382 | 4,888,011 | 113,690 | 7 | looking back on it | Knowing that " Lord of Illusions " is directed by the same man who brought us " Hellraiser " , you would probably expect two hours of torture scenes . But Clive Barker has a real treat in store for you . This movie is not a series of torture scenes , but a descent into the unknown . And a cool one at that . The movie b... |
363,691 | 4,888,011 | 389,121 | 7 | I guess that since I don't know much about Natalie Wood herself . . . | . . . then I'll have to take this movie's word for it . " The Mystery of Natalie Wood " did actually do a pretty good job showing her life and death . Justine Waddell , as Natalie Wood , does look almost exactly like her . As for some aspects , I never knew that her mother Maria ( Alice Krige ) pushed her so hard to be... |
362,735 | 4,888,011 | 343,354 | 7 | possibly the root of some of " Weird Al " Yankovic's songs | I don't usually like 1950s short movies , as they tend to constitute milquetoast approaches to complex issues ; " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " makes them worth seeing . But I found " Ain't It Aggravatin ' " pretty funny . It portrays botched attempts to park , and then to build a patio . Watching what happens here , ... |
363,228 | 4,888,011 | 192,455 | 7 | Let's point the finger , shall we ? | Picking Up the Pieces is one of those nonsense stories that gets morphed into something really neat . In this case , Sheriff Tex Cowley ( Woody Allen ) tries to bury the body of his wife , but accidentally leaves her hand above the ground . I should identify that her hand has the middle finger sticking out . When a b... |
365,128 | 4,888,011 | 404,032 | 7 | a worthy exorcise video | The title may make " The Exorcism of Emily Rose " sound like another cheap " Exorcist " rip-off ; after all , there have been plenty of those . Even the reminder that the movie is based on a true story could seem like an excuse for the people behind the movie to feel good about themselves in case the whole thing came o... |
362,570 | 4,888,011 | 320,355 | 7 | film must change with the times | I had known a little bit about the 1960s change in cinema , but " Reel Radicals : The Sixties Revolution in Film " lays it all out . Probably the main aspect that comes to people's minds is the emergence of sexuality on the screen , as shown by the likes of " Midnight Cowboy " and " Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice " . But th... |
364,079 | 4,888,011 | 373,926 | 7 | I guess that in international relations , there are no good guys , no bad guys , and no middle ground ; there is only moral nihilism . | Silvia Broome ( Nicole Kidman ) is a UN interpreter who is fluent in the fictional African language of Ku , spoken in her fictional native country of Matobo . When she returns to her office one night to retrieve something , she overhears some men plotting ( in Ku ) to assassinate the president of Matobo . Now that it l... |
364,421 | 4,888,011 | 265,343 | 7 | my big fat Hindustani wedding | I have to admit that I don't really know much about East Indian weddings , so what I saw in " Monsoon Wedding " was totally new . Focusing on the various events and revelations surrounding a wedding in India ( no , this isn't a South Asian version of " My Big Fat Greek Wedding " ) , the movie is really something . I wi... |
365,027 | 4,888,011 | 44,868 | 7 | equal to all forms of revenge | As long as we understand that " Magical Maestro " contains some politically incorrect scenes , we can enjoy it for the purely crazy , as a sadistic magician plays all sorts of tricks on a snobbish opera singer by changing the guy's persona every couple of seconds . I think that my favorite one was the little kid . I be... |
362,763 | 4,888,011 | 71,598 | 7 | I will forever remember Art Carney as Harry ( I've never seen " The Honeymooners " , and there's apparently no reason to see it ) . | Road movies always make for interesting stories , including " Harry and Tonto " . In a role that won him Best Actor , Art Carney plays retired New Yorker Harry Coombes , who decides to go on a cross-country tour with his cat Tonto . Harry not only visits his son and daughter ( Larry Hagman and Ellen Burstyn , respectiv... |
365,009 | 4,888,011 | 273,923 | 7 | Orange ya glad that you saw it ? | It seems that most of the country - and maybe other places on earth - consider Orange County to be the most pathetic place imaginable , as the domain of Disneyland , the John Wayne Airport and Richard Nixon . Well , you're in for a surprise here . The movie " Orange County " portrays teenager Shaun Brumder ( Colin Hank... |
363,908 | 4,888,011 | 373,889 | 7 | Now I see : they're portraying totalitarianism . | Whereas it's been a few years since I read the novel on which this movie is based , I had forgotten a few things , so the movie refreshed my memory . Obviously , any book-to-movie adaptation is bound to have at least a few flaws . " Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix " certainly can't equal the book exactly , bu... |
362,814 | 4,888,011 | 36,052 | 7 | size does matter | I notice that " Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk " is one of a couple of cartoons in which Bugs Bunny's opponent is a total klutz - complete with a voice like George from " Of Mice and Men " - whom Bugs could clobber without even trying . But even though the giant here is an easy target , it's impossible not to like the w... |
365,075 | 4,888,011 | 44,721 | 7 | Sylvester must always ' roo the day | Apparently , Benny is so retarded that he believes that all other cats are named George ( in Speedy Gonzales's debut " Cat-Tails for Two " , Benny co-starred with a feline named George ) . In " Hoppy-Go-Lucky " , he and Sylvester are looking for mice , but come across baby kangaroo Hippety Hopper . So , Sylvester - bel... |
365,537 | 4,888,011 | 36,050 | 7 | they all knew of each other's existence in their metaphysical , animated world | One of the many Merrie Melodies cartoons that entertained American moviegoers during WWII , Bob Clampett's " An Itch in Time " portrays a hobo flea settling on Elmer Fudd's dog . The little guy turns into a real sadist while making a home on the dog's back , but Elmer warns the dog : " One more scwatch and I'll give yo... |
365,228 | 4,888,011 | 71,282 | 7 | not-so-gay Paree | Before Peter Weir got really famous , he made this strange but worth seeing flick about a small town in Australia whose local economy centers on car wrecks , and how they draw an outsider in . " The Cars That Ate Paris " doesn't star anyone whom you would recognize , and there's no big action scenes here , but that act... |
365,508 | 4,888,011 | 114,069 | 7 | There always has to be a disease , doesn't there ? | Outbreak isn't any kind of masterpiece , but worth seeing nevertheless . Portraying the army trying to contain a deadly virus brought by a monkey smuggled into the country , the movie seems especially relevant , what with bird flu and all . A particularly disturbing scene takes place in a movie theater , when a perso... |
362,699 | 4,888,011 | 443,543 | 7 | he lived in turn-of-the-century Vienna but never met Sigmund Freud | In " The Illusionist " , Edward Norton plays a magician who uses his tricks to upset the power structure . Whenever he performs his tricks , he reminds us how one can never be totally certain about what's real and what isn't . I guess that the correlation is that Austria-Hungary has a status quo - in that it's run by s... |
363,580 | 4,888,011 | 71,269 | 7 | No doubt Altman based this on his own experience . | California Split portrays compulsive gamblers Bill Denny ( George Segal ) and Charlie Walters ( Elliott Gould ) . By compulsive , I mean that these guys gamble on EVERYTHING . Needless to say , it occasionally gets them in trouble , to the point where they have to go in for a final showdown . Robert Altman actually u... |
363,685 | 4,888,011 | 114,168 | 7 | it makes sense to set this in Texas | Maybe it's a cliché to cast Jeff Goldblum as a nerd in " Powder " , but the movie is actually worth seeing . Portraying an albino teenager ( Sean Patrick Flanery ) upsetting his Texas town via his mental abilities , the movie really gives you a feeling of the Lone Star State . I will admit that a story of people ostrac... |
365,302 | 4,888,011 | 129,332 | 7 | Feeling hungry , anyone ? | When " Ravenous " first came out , a lot of people thought that it was really gross . But when you think about it , the movie actually has a pretty interesting story . During the Mexican-American War , Capt . John Boyd ( Guy Pearce ) gets transferred to Ft . Spencer , where he meets Col . Ives ( Robert Carlyle ) . The ... |
364,879 | 4,888,011 | 381,849 | 7 | the mild / wild / gnarly West | So , there arrives another addition to a movie genre believed by some people to be practically extinct . I , for one , didn't even know that " 3 : 10 to Yuma " is a remake until I read IMDb's description ; westerns from the ' 40s and ' 50s are the types of movies that I usually avoid . As for this movie . The most inte... |
362,583 | 4,888,011 | 44,762 | 7 | climbing ever upward | So I guess that Bud and Lou just liked to mess with classic stories ( although they did have some interesting results ) . In this case , they're baby-sitting a bad boy , and Lou tries to read him " Jack and the Beanstalk " but falls asleep and dreams that he's Jack and Bud's the butcher , and they climb the beanstalk t... |
363,729 | 4,888,011 | 36,015 | 7 | Scots do often shorten Alexander to Sandy | One of Norm McCabe's cartoons from his very short tenure as a director at Warner Bros . - he took over Bob Clampett's unit when Clampett took over Tex Avery's , and then Frank Tashlin took over the unit - " Hop and Go " looks like a possible precursor to the Hippety Hopper cartoons . The cartoon portrays a dimwitted ka... |
364,446 | 4,888,011 | 78,915 | 7 | an interesting compilation | In " The Great American Chase " , Bugs Bunny traipses through his house and tells us the story of chases . To make his point , he shows us several classic cartoons ( some starring him ) dealing with situations involving hot pursuits . Well , not all of them have chases ; some are there just for fun . Bugs remembers how... |
365,069 | 4,888,011 | 59,911 | 7 | branching out | For years , Wile E . Coyote had unsuccessfully chased Road Runner , and Sylvester had unsuccessfully pursued Speedy Gonzales . With RR racing against the Fastest Mouse in Mexico , it's no surprise that WEC and Sylvester try to catch them . . . whether they cooperate or get on each other's nerves . I should identify tha... |
363,325 | 4,888,011 | 113,972 | 7 | acceptable | Johnny Depp continued his interesting streak ( preceded by " What's Eating Gilbert Grape " , " Ed Wood " and " Don Juan DeMarco " ) with " Nick of Time " . He plays accountant Gene Watson , whose daughter gets kidnapped . The kidnappers ( Christopher Walken and Roma Maffia ) give him a envelope and tell him to murder t... |
363,552 | 4,888,011 | 71,360 | 7 | major combination | What makes Francis Ford Coppola's " The Conversation " ( released the same year as " The Godfather Part 2 " ) especially impressive is the combination of things that the movie constitutes . One important aspect is that in the ' 70s , there were released many movies involving suspicion of the government - " The Parallax... |
363,522 | 4,888,011 | 106,307 | 7 | much to derive | I'm guessing that Emir Kusturica probably wanted to flee his native Yugoslavia after what happened there in the early ' 90s . In this country , he made one of the most surreal movies that I've ever seen : " Arizona Dream " . Looking at the container , you may get a little befuddled by the cast - or just as easily take ... |
364,708 | 4,888,011 | 79,013 | 7 | Remade as 1990's " Havana " ? | There have been many stories of people going to countries on the eve of a revolution and finding out why there's a revolution . " Cuba " is kept afloat by strong performances . Sean Connery plays Maj . Robert Dapes , sent to Havana to help Batista fight the revolutionary army , but he soon figures out that the revoluti... |
364,246 | 4,888,011 | 44,578 | 7 | These , I say these guys got seemingly no reason to fight , but it's funny that they do . | Somehow , I say somehow the worst things always seem to befall Foghorn Leghorn . In " The EGGcited Rooster " , he has to sit on his wife's egg and not leave it , or else . But when Henery Hawk - dressed as The Last of the Mo-hawk-ens - enters the fray , Foggy naturally sends him to harass Barnyard Dog . Guess what all ... |
365,861 | 4,888,011 | 113,957 | 7 | not too realistic , but what it portrays should be a cause for concern | When " The Net " was first being advertised , the ads made it look ridiculous . Then , when I saw it , it was actually quite good . Angela Bennett ( Sandra Bullock ) spends her days working on the computer and has never gotten to know her neighbors . Then , through a series of events , her identity gets erased by a cab... |
363,866 | 4,888,011 | 79,020 | 7 | How do things result when we apply Russian ideas to Mexico ? | If you know about Sergei Eisenstein's " Que Viva Mexico ! - Da zdravstvuyet Meksika ! " , you probably know that Eisenstein ran out of money and left the movie incomplete , so collaborator Grigoriy Aleksandrov organized the footage as close to how Eisenstein envisioned it . I personally thought that it was a fascinatin... |
365,721 | 4,888,011 | 157,503 | 7 | one shot | Drop Dead Gorgeous is one of those movies that might leave a bad taste in your mouth , but also a sweet taste in your mouth . Portraying a beauty contest involving a lot of nasty tricks , they're not trying to be cute with this movie ; they're trying to bite everything right where it hurts , and they succeed . I , fo... |
364,396 | 4,888,011 | 192,175 | 7 | if past and future really could meet . . . | Prehistory and the space age finally come face to face in this cartoon , as Elroy Jetson's time machine takes the family back to the stone age , where they meet the Flintstones . Then , lo and behold , the Flinstones accidentally get sent to the future , leaving the Jetsons in the past . As anyone might expect , both f... |
363,271 | 4,888,011 | 121,766 | 7 | So it's complete . | You may have heard how " Star Wars : Episode III - Revenge of the Sith " ends , so I'll just talk about a few aspects . The line " Either you're with me or you're my enemy " sounds a lot like " Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists " ( although George Lucas wrote the script before September 11 ) . But I w... |
363,281 | 4,888,011 | 44,659 | 7 | They'll use certain settings for anything , won't they ? | OK , since " Gift Wrapped " is set around Christmas , we can safely assume that Granny and Tweety are being good , while Sylvester and the dog - presumably named Hector - are being naughty . The main humor here is seeing how Sylvester uses the presents to go after Tweety . . . and when the dog appears unexpectedly ( co... |
365,475 | 4,888,011 | 51,411 | 7 | that frontier life was something else | Usually , when movie characters utter their movie's title , it's deliberately campy ; or if it's not , then the movie's pretty idiotic . Not so with " The Big Country " . It is actually an epic masterpiece . James McKay ( Gregory Peck ) is a sailor who moves to a Texas ranch in the late 1800s . This is a totally differ... |
364,698 | 4,888,011 | 60,086 | 7 | Bound to happen sooner or later | Having gotten a lead role in " The Ipcress File " , Michael Caine got the role with which I believe that he remains best associated : ladies ' man Alfie Elkins . Alfie traipses around London , having flings with various and sundry " birds " , to the point where he starts seeming like a sexist pig - although it's probab... |
365,589 | 4,888,011 | 289,765 | 7 | Yes , what is her name ? | Obviously , " Red Dragon " only got made because of " Hannibal " ' s success , but there seems to be more of an element of fear here than in the latter ( which focused more on gut-wrenching violence ) . Once again , the famous cannibal ( Anthony Hopkins ) has to help a detective ( Edward Norton ) find a killer ( Ralph ... |
364,042 | 4,888,011 | 79,073 | 7 | 1979 : " Dracula " vs " Love at First Bite " vs " Nosferatu the Vampyre " | OK , so this is mostly another movie in which the title character goes around drinking blood , but it's not a bad movie by any stretch . Frank Langella plays the Count , with Laurence Olivier as Prof . Abraham Van Helsing , Donald Pleasance as Dr . Jack Seward , and Kate Nelligan as Lucy . As it is , that cast makes fo... |
364,809 | 4,888,011 | 35,872 | 7 | Animal House goes to war | In one of the many Looney Tunes WWII-themed cartoons , a cat invades a house inhabited by mice and gets them to appease him . But when it becomes clear that he has no desire other than to eat them , they see it as their patriotic duty to defend themselves . What I mean by associating " The Fifth-Column Mouse " with " A... |
365,317 | 4,888,011 | 120,877 | 7 | people can take a bite out of various aspects | John Carpenter was once known as the master of horror ( or at least part of the new wave of directors in the ' 70s ) , but more recently seems to have been regarded with some scorn , with most critics saying that his movies got totally trashy . To tell you the truth , " Vampires " looks like it's trying to be trashy . ... |
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