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362,674 | 4,888,011 | 227,445 | 7 | Score one for both the good guys and the bad guys . | Another heist movie ? Actually , this one's pretty good . Mostly notable for being Marlon Brando's final screen appearance , " The Score " has aging thief Nick Wells ( Robert DeNiro ) going in for one last heist in Montreal . Sound like a familiar plot ? It is , and if it was just two hours of violence , it would make ... |
365,461 | 4,888,011 | 110,939 | 7 | Whose destiny turned on this radio ? ( I mean that as a compliment ) | A few years before " The Phantom Menace " , George Lucas was involved in the goofy " Radioland Murders " , about a series of killings at a radio station in 1939 Chicago . In a way , the whole movie seems like an excuse for a bunch of gags ( namely the scene where the bellboy accidentally walks into the dressing room ) ... |
364,880 | 4,888,011 | 32,828 | 7 | ah yes , this is what they mean when they talk about screwball | It is true that " My Little Chickadee " does have some stereotypical portrayals of American Indians . Other than that , it's a pretty good time . W . C . Fields plays his usual character : a simple-minded weirdo going on and on about his exploits ( would people in the Old West have really been familiar with Afghanistan... |
363,085 | 4,888,011 | 110,892 | 7 | somewhere between " Gremlins " and " The Anniversary Party " | I have used some of my IMDb reviews to assert that we as movie audiences need to acknowledge certain actors / actresses - such as Dorothy Provine and Richard Benjamin - more than we presently do . Therefore , I will use my " Princess Caraboo " review to assert that we need to recognize Phoebe Cates more than we do . In... |
362,703 | 4,888,011 | 120,706 | 7 | specifically , there's an even cooler aspect | In the first few minutes of " The General " , it may throw you off and make you think that you already know the ending . But it turns out that John Boorman has a fine plot in store . The film shows how Martin Cahill ( Brendan Gleeson ) not only had to deal with the English occupation , but with the police in his native... |
365,120 | 4,888,011 | 243,017 | 7 | and it happened in Texas . . . | Waking Life is not an easy movie to explain . Portraying the philosophical adventures of a young man , the movie does some mind-blowing things . Certainly the animation is not like anything that you've ever seen . As to the question of whether or not the movie is trying to make a point about anything , I guess that i... |
364,936 | 4,888,011 | 110,907 | 7 | Mr . Altman , wherever you are , we'll always remember you | Robert Altman's death three days ago brings to mind not only his movies , but his unique style : letting people develop the characters themselves , and overlapping dialogue . In that sense , " Pret-a-Porter / Ready to Wear " is possibly the best example of his movies . One really gets the feeling that they just filmed ... |
362,541 | 4,888,011 | 120,728 | 7 | the ' 70s all over again | With the ' 70s nostalgia sweeping the country in 1997-98 , there were several movies to carry it along , including " The Last Days of Disco " . This one portrays some young women in the Me Decade trying to establish relationships and wondering where their lives will lead . I personally thought that Chloe Sevigny carrie... |
365,026 | 4,888,011 | 59,122 | 7 | one of Jones's cinematic forays into semi-psychedelia | No longer working at Warner Bros . , Chuck Jones made this mystifying short about a drab delineation in love with a dot . He can't catch her attention until he realizes that he can make angles and all sorts of shapes . Now that I've seen " The Dot and the Line : A Romance in Lower Mathematics " , I would say that it's ... |
364,298 | 4,888,011 | 59,084 | 7 | in times like those | The opening scene in " Darling " was an all too accurate prediction of how society would become . Then , there's Julie Christie as Diana Scott , a ravishing but ruthless model who quite literally will stop at nothing to make it to the top . Unfortunately for her ( and everyone else ) , the world of Swinging London prov... |
364,693 | 4,888,011 | 120,746 | 7 | Corny , but worth seeing . | Whereas usually there was only one Zorro , this time they have the famous Zorro ( Anthony Hopkins ) teaching a new one ( Antonio Banderas ) how to fight oppression in 1841 California . Granted , " The Mask of Zorro " is pretty corny ; it mostly consists of people sword-fighting , jumping on and off tables , and such th... |
365,195 | 4,888,011 | 41,474 | 7 | a preview of the coming obesity epidemic | This time , filmdom's most drake gets a turkey to give up his food , and then eats it . This proves unfortunate for him once Thanksgiving comes around . Mostly , this cartoon is really funny because of what Daffy Duck does in trying to avoid getting eaten ( a true display of his craven , self-preserving side ) . The si... |
365,633 | 4,888,011 | 103,268 | 7 | I can't believe I'd never heard of the woman microwaving her dog before I saw this ! | The Willies is sort of an " Urban Legend " for kids trying to gross each other out . Sean Astin and two other boys are camping out and tell each other a bunch of nasty stories . This was actually the first time that I'd ever heard of the woman microwaving her dog ; I was surprised when I later learned that it's a fai... |
365,144 | 4,888,011 | 97,351 | 7 | If you film it , certain things will come . | I'm going to admit that it will probably sound a little strange what got me interested in " Field of Dreams " . On " The Simpsons " , " The Itchy & Scratchy " show had an episode called " Field of Screams " , and my parents identified what it spoofed . Also , when Burt Lancaster died , I saw his filmography , and it in... |
363,302 | 4,888,011 | 32,895 | 7 | almost the same as " The Daffy Doc " , but some differences | One of the many relics from the days when Porky Pig mostly appeared in black and white cartoons , Bob Clampett's " Patient Porky " does contain a racial stereotype ( in the form of an elevator operator ) . As in " The Daffy Doc " two years earlier , an excessively eager physician tries to operate on Porky ( in the earl... |
364,594 | 4,888,011 | 80,025 | 7 | a Scottish restaurant that didn't taste very good ( but a very well done movie ) | The idea of H . G . Wells inventing his own time machine and traveling to 1979 San Francisco to catch Jack the Ripper sounds like the sort of movie that would get created by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay . But " Time After Time " is very well done . More than simply a get-the-villain story , it shows how Wells ( Ma... |
364,653 | 4,888,011 | 41,488 | 7 | obviously a product of " back then " , but still pretty neat | I have to admit that I only loosely know Tex Avery's work ( namely that it was the inspiration for " The Mask " ) , but " The House of Tomorrow " is still a treat . A look at how people in 1949 imagined that future dwellings would be - think " The Jetsons " - there are some things that might eat at us in the 21st centu... |
363,103 | 4,888,011 | 120,647 | 7 | I shouldn't even have to explain why it's better than " Armageddon " . | Deep Impact was one of two collision-related movies released in summer , 1998 ( the other was " Armageddon " ) . Whereas the latter had no other purpose than to have Bruce Willis kick ass , the former was actually quite good . More than just an action movie , this one shows the human aspect of everything . One of the... |
364,960 | 4,888,011 | 120,643 | 7 | How many Irish stories are there ? | OK , we should all know by now that Meryl Streep is one of the few Americans who can do a believable accent . So , she makes use of that ability here as a woman in 1930s Ireland . She and her sisters spend their days making the most of life . Some of us may think that there are a few too many stories about Irish people... |
365,726 | 4,888,011 | 120,660 | 7 | newly relevant | The first time that I saw " Enemy of the State " advertised , it looked totally formulaic and idiotic . It appeared to be about someone planting something on Will Smith , so Smith has to take matters into his own hands . I thought : " Oh , and I bet that they didn't know who they were messing with when they put it in H... |
363,615 | 4,888,011 | 250,687 | 7 | OK as long as it doesn't directly try to copy " It's a Mad , Mad , Mad , Mad World " | Rat Race has widely been viewed as a semi-remake of " It's a Mad , Mad , Mad , Mad World " . Personally , I think that no movie can equal the latter . So , as long as this one doesn't actually try to ape that one , it comes out pretty good . Once again portraying a gaggle of people in a wild race to try and find an e... |
363,703 | 4,888,011 | 97,457 | 7 | every entertainer must have an ugly side | No one can deny that " Great Balls of Fire ! " has some great music . Dennis Quaid really gets into the role of Jerry Lee Lewis , and the movie really transports you back to the ' 50s . If the movie has any problem , it's the stress on his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin Myra ( Winona Ryder ) . As for Ryder herself ... |
364,597 | 4,888,011 | 32,930 | 7 | the days before ESPN | I've always noticed that during their first few years , the Looney Tunes cartoons were sort of like the Marx Brothers ' movies with the kinds of gags that they pulled . " Porky's Baseball Broadcast " actually features the famously stuttering swine in more of a supporting role , as he narrates a baseball game in which e... |
363,907 | 4,888,011 | 444,628 | 7 | Who would have ever thought that " Henry Fool " could have a sequel ? | When I started watching " Fay Grim " , I had no idea that it was a sequel to " Henry Fool " . Now , the latter was not a movie that I envisioned as having a sequel . But one has arrived , and it's quite good . I assume that you've seen the original , so I won't explain it . This one starts with Fay ( Parker Posey ) liv... |
364,788 | 4,888,011 | 72,226 | 7 | Steven Spielberg messes with Texas | The Sugarland Express is the sort of movie at which we have to look in retrospective . It's about Lou Jean Poplin ( Goldie Hawn ) who gets her husband Clovis ( William Atherton ) to break out of jail so that they can retake their baby who has been put in a foster home . From there , they lead every law enforcement of... |
365,404 | 4,888,011 | 32,933 | 7 | Porky's second brush with the piscine world | If you've seen most of Porky Pig's early cartoons , you've probably observed that they mostly put him in a series of black and white Looney Tunes portraying various walks of life : bullfighter , pilgrim , firefighter , etc . Most of these cartoons consisted of rather corny - but still really funny - spot gags and word ... |
363,021 | 4,888,011 | 89,853 | 7 | when a rose is more than a rose | Usually , Woody Allen is a director who wishes to avoid Hollywood-style plots , so it's always a surprise when he makes a movie with a deliberately improbably story . " The Purple Rose of Cairo " is an example , with a character ( Jeff Daniels ) in a movie coming out of the movie and into Depression-era New York to be ... |
363,362 | 4,888,011 | 97,523 | 7 | one way to remember kindergarten | I remember how during summer school between kindergarten and first grade , we would often watch " Honey , I Shrunk the Kids " on video . It's the sort of thing that can easily appeal to kids , as family man / inventor Rick Moranis creates a machine that's supposed to make inanimate objects tiny , but a snafu makes the ... |
365,248 | 4,888,011 | 409,892 | 7 | what goes around comes around | Over the years , TV show reunions have varied in quality . " The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited " actually comes out quite well . In this one , Rob ( Dick Van Dyke ) and Laura ( Mary Tyler Moore ) are retired and living in Manhattan when Alan Brady ( Carl Reiner ) summons Rob and Sally ( Rose Marie ) to write a eulogy fo... |
363,253 | 4,888,011 | 41,660 | 7 | Sylvester's trip to Eastern Europe | One of Sylvester's outings with neither Tweety , Hippety Hopper nor Speedy Gonzales has the slobbering cat going after a mazurka-dancing rodent in a fictional Slavic country . There's the common gag with explosives : in this case , it's nitroglycerin ( what kind of person keeps that stuff in his / her house ? ! ) . " M... |
363,721 | 4,888,011 | 95,638 | 8 | sociology-anthropology | When I entered Lewis & Clark College in autumn , 2002 , I took a sociology-anthropology class . The teacher told us about water distribution systems and recommended " The Milagro Beanfield War " as a look at this topic . Since I had seen a number of Robert Redford's ( who turns 71 today ) movies during the past year an... |
363,415 | 4,888,011 | 70,460 | 8 | Truffaut was always a trustworthy director , and " Day for Night " shows it | Day for Night tells the story of a movie set , and how the movie-within-a-movie's plot mirrors the goings-on on the set , and vice versa . Truffaut ( who plays the movie-within-a-movie's director ) once asked " Is life more important than art ? " Well , this movie shows that both can be equally interesting . If nothi... |
365,804 | 4,888,011 | 382,625 | 8 | Enough with the religious debate . It's still a good movie . | In the three years since it's publication , " The Da Vinci Code " has of course gained a cult following and has finally arrived on the silver screen . I will admit that there are some scenes from the book that the movie omitted due to time constraints , but the movie overall does a very good job . We might expect a Ron... |
365,218 | 4,888,011 | 70,509 | 8 | So do YOU want to become a lawyer ? | Law may be a prestigious profession , but " The Paper Chase " makes it look as though the process of getting there is something else . James Hart ( Timothy Bottoms ) is a first-year law student in Harvard . He's in a class taught by stuffy Charles W . Kingsfield Jr ( John Houseman ) . To further complicate matters , Ha... |
364,807 | 4,888,011 | 175,880 | 8 | chance . . . chance | How to describe " Magnolia " ? It poses the question of whether or not certain things happen by chance , all centering around some people in the San Fernando valley . The cast members all do really good jobs with their roles . I never could have predicted what ended up happening in the movie , and I now will forever wo... |
363,970 | 4,888,011 | 132,347 | 8 | This may be the coolest superhero movie ever . | On one level , " Mystery Men " is kind of dumb . But on all other levels , it's a hoot . When superhero Captain Amazing ( Greg Kinnear ) is kidnapped by the lascivious Casanova Frankenstein ( Geoffrey Rush ) , it's up to superhero wannabes Mr . Furious ( Ben Stiller ) , The Shoveller ( William H . Macy ) and The Blue R... |
362,817 | 4,888,011 | 78,295 | 8 | art sometimes imitates life , sometimes not | While feature films became a staple of 1970s TV - think " Brian's Song " and " Sybil " - few were like John Carpenter's " Someone's Watching Me ! " . The story is quite familiar : a woman ( Lauren Hutton ) moves into an apartment , starts getting strange phone calls , and eventually realizes that there's a peeping tom ... |
364,159 | 4,888,011 | 390,221 | 8 | a new image of Colombia | While we have usually seen an image of Colombia as the country where cocaine reigns supreme . " Maria Full of Grace " shows something slightly different . While drugs do play a role , we get to see people's daily lives and see that individuals do try to live normal lives in spite of the country's drug wars . The plot h... |
364,147 | 4,888,011 | 112,697 | 8 | offers some clues about the future | Teen comedies are quite common , but " Clueless " has going for itself the fact that it transposes Jane Austen's " Emma " to mid-'90s Beverly Hills and plays with stereotypes there . We see how air-head Cher Horowitz ( Alicia Silverstone ) may not have a clue about the rest of the world , but her heart is always in the... |
362,664 | 4,888,011 | 112,641 | 8 | this movie reminds us that sometimes , there are no redeeming characters | Knowing Martin Scorsese's movies ( particularly " Taxi Driver " , " Raging Bull " and " Goodfellas " ) , you may think that you're prepared for " Casino " . Well , you're not . " Casino " has some scenes that will outright shock you . The story of mob boss Sam " Ace " Rothstein ( Robert DeNiro ) becoming a kingpin in L... |
365,518 | 4,888,011 | 61,395 | 8 | budding generation gap | Nearly forty years after having collaborated with Salvador Dali on " Un chien andalou " , Luis Bunuel directed the equally bizarre " Belle de jour " . Catherine Deneuve plays an unfulfilled Parisian housewife who decides to take a daytime job as a prostitute . The movie contains two interesting dichotomies : on the one... |
364,875 | 4,888,011 | 132,477 | 8 | you can read " Rocket Boys " before or after watching the movie , and they're still both really good | I think that we can now say that Jake Gyllenhaal's troika of great roles are " October Sky " , " Donnie Darko " and " Brokeback Mountain " ( " The Day After Tomorrow " was also worth seeing ) . In the first one , he plays 1950s West Virginia teenager Homer Hickam . In their small town , the men work in the coal mine an... |
363,587 | 4,888,011 | 122,718 | 8 | Here's why it's good . | When " Small Soldiers " came out , it was right after back-to-back school shootings ( plus the murder of Phil Hartman ) , so there was some controversy about having a movie where toys get violent . But this movie is actually quite good . You see , it's not some ridiculous , rah-rah military movie ; it sides with the Go... |
363,676 | 4,888,011 | 77,928 | 8 | Hopefully , we've all learned to avoid getting thrown in jail in the Third World . | The movie that made director Alan Parker really famous tells the true - if somewhat exaggerated - story of Billy Hayes ( Brad Davis ) , who got thrown into a hellish Turkish prison after he was caught smuggling hashish . The movie starts off by setting up the historical context . The first thing that you see is Billy a... |
362,710 | 4,888,011 | 105,378 | 8 | possibly Allen's most interesting movie ever | It seems that often , " Shadows and Fog " has been regarded as one of Woody Allen's lesser movies . I can't understand why , as I found it very interesting ; surely anyone would have to agree that a murder mystery is infinitely more watchable than a story about neurotic rich New Yorkers . The movie blends Allen's perso... |
365,366 | 4,888,011 | 77,889 | 8 | magic is fun , and you'll be dead | Usually , I don't think of Anthony Hopkins as a horror star , but in Richard Attenborough's " Magic " he gets almost as eerie as he did in " Silence of the Lambs " ( of course his physiognomy helps ) . I understand that " SOTL " made him really famous , but it seems like he was well known before then . I would call thi... |
364,203 | 4,888,011 | 105,417 | 8 | Some Like It Hot meets " The Flying Nun " ! | I'd heard of " Sister Act " for years but never seen it . Now I've finally seen it . While not every scene elicits rip-snorting laughter , the general idea is really funny . Obviously , we should suspect something crazy just knowing that Whoopi Goldberg co-stars with Maggie Smith ( plus Harvey Keitel ) . But once Whoop... |
363,040 | 4,888,011 | 373,152 | 8 | like Raymond Carver , except ending on a good note ( and a good end for Alan King ) | Some people may think that the fact that " Mind the Gap " was Alan King's last movie would be a simple incentive to see it . It turns out that the movie has a lot more in store . Portraying several oddballs on the verge of seeing change in their lives , it's sort of a more interesting version of Raymond Carver's storie... |
364,276 | 4,888,011 | 210,075 | 8 | prove the movie right | When " Girlfight " came out , the reviews praised it , but I didn't get around to seeing it . I finally saw it when it got released on video , and understand the glowing reviews . The movie opens in a high school in the middle of a ghetto . We quickly get introduced to student Diana Guzman ( Michelle Rodriguez ) . She ... |
365,494 | 4,888,011 | 70,291 | 8 | more to discover | In one of many impressive movies from the early ' 70s , a man ( James Coburn ) invites several people onto his yacht where he has some tricks planned , but things get out of hand . You see , none of these individuals is being particularly forthright with each other . And it all somehow relates to the murder of the man'... |
363,447 | 4,888,011 | 34,829 | 8 | Look into my eyes . . . | We've probably all been warned not to hypnotize people , as it could have a dangerous outcome . Well , after watching " The Hare-Brained Hypnotist " , you just might want to hypnotize someone . This cartoon has Elmer Fudd trying to catch Bugs Bunny by hypnotizing him , only to have everything go a little haywire . I pa... |
362,862 | 4,888,011 | 34,870 | 8 | Bird impersonates Katharine Hepburn and a fish resembles Peter Lorre ; you don't see this every day ! | Bob Clampett's version of Dr . Seuss's " Horton Hatches the Egg " was the first cinematic adaptation of a Dr . Seuss book . And a good one at that . While it does change a few small things , it mostly stays faithful ( like Horton is 100 % ) . Oh , and just in case you operate under the assumption that this is just cute... |
363,698 | 4,888,011 | 105,323 | 8 | Nowadays , it's hard to believe that this was directed by the same guy who did " Gigli " . | After twenty years as an A-list star , Al Pacino took home an Oscar for his role in " Scent of a Woman " . He plays blind Lt . Col . Frank Slade , who talks like he's ready to tear your throat apart , but has a heart of gold . Sound like a cliché ? Well it's not . " Scent of a Woman " succeeds where so many movies have... |
364,908 | 4,888,011 | 105,327 | 8 | As you can see , the Germans don't have a patent on anti-Semitism . | Brendan Fraser , Matt Damon , and Ben Affleck were all relatively unknown when they starred in this story of anti-Semitism on a 1950s Ivy League campus . Fraser plays David Greene , a Jewish student who gets into the school only to find out that almost everyone there hates Jews , so he hides his ethnicity . Of course ,... |
363,017 | 4,888,011 | 289,879 | 8 | Maybe the past has been changed . | Prior to " The Butterfly Effect " it seemed like Ashton Kutcher's movies were among the stupidest , with " That ' 70s Show " as his only good credit . This movie will shock anyone . Portraying a teenage boy messing with the paradox of time travel - meaning that if you change even one thing in the past , the future will... |
362,552 | 4,888,011 | 43,479 | 8 | Oh give me a home , where classic cartoons roam . . . | I remember in a documentary about Chuck Jones , he talked about having created the various kinds of camera angles for " Drip-Along Daffy " ( as Daffy and the criminal approach each other ) . Obviously , this is just a cartoon , so they didn't really have camera angles , but it just goes to show the magic of these carto... |
365,789 | 4,888,011 | 35,774 | 8 | That's a good old patriotic duck ! | Many wartime cartoons ended up being pretty racist , due to how they portrayed the Japanese , but when they portrayed only Nazis , they were quite funny . In " Daffy - The Commando " , Daffy Duck parachutes into enemy territory and makes life a living hell for Nazi Kommandant Von Vulture . Finally at the end , Von Vult... |
363,857 | 4,888,011 | 190,798 | 8 | It's a good thing that I saw this movie when I did . | I saw " Solas " ( called " Alone " in English ) at the 2000 Portland International Film Festival . It's always good to be able to see something non-Hollywood , especially considering the subject matter here . Maria ( Ana Fernandez ) comes from an abusive household and seeks to get away . When the father ends up in the ... |
365,627 | 4,888,011 | 104,692 | 8 | an early look at the coming power of computers | Stories about a simple person getting turned into something more seem pretty common in movies , but none are like " The Lawnmower Man " . Portraying scientist Pierce Brosnan turning retarded Jeff Fahey into a super-genius ( with unintended consequences ) , this is one movie destined to blow your mind . The visual effec... |
363,883 | 4,888,011 | 104,691 | 8 | maybe it's just another lavish historical epic , but very well done | Set during the French and Indian Wars ( 1754-63 ) , " The Last of the Mohicans " tells the story of a love affair between Nathaniel " Hawkeye " Poe ( Daniel Day-Lewis ) , a white man living with the Indians , and Cora Munro ( Madeleine Stowe ) , a colonist . The wars naturally interrupt their relationship . Among other... |
364,413 | 4,888,011 | 96,219 | 8 | radio days | Oliver Stone , always ready to make politically-themed movies , makes another one here . " Talk Radio " is loosely based on the career of Alan Berg , a radio talk show host in Denver who was murdered by white supremacists . In this case , the character is Barry Champlain ( Eric Bogosian ) , an outspoken talk show host ... |
362,753 | 4,888,011 | 140,352 | 8 | Smoke ' em out | I still remember when " 60 Minutes " interviewed Jeffrey Wigand , and I thought that Michael Mann's " The Insider " did a swell job telling the story . I'm not a bit surprised that the tobacco industry did what they did . According to what I read , General Motors tried to stop " Roger and Me " from getting released , s... |
365,592 | 4,888,011 | 96,061 | 8 | one of the many movies in the theaters when we moved into our new house | Another movie adaptation of " A Christmas Carol " ? ! Yes , but a new kind , with Bill Murray as a creepy executive about to get a new lease on life . Murray does his usual goofy stuff . I think that my favorite line was " You are just a hallucination brought along by alcohol ! Russian vodka poisoned by Chernobyl ! " I... |
365,806 | 4,888,011 | 96,054 | 8 | school is cool if you can protest apartheid | In what looked like Spike Lee's first " major " movie , different groups of students on a black campus clash over social status , apartheid , and similar things . We can clearly see how the darker-skinned people are more revolutionary , while the lighter-skinned people are a lot creepier ( almost militaristic ) . Maybe... |
362,590 | 4,888,011 | 113,161 | 8 | Get Shorty stands honorably tall . | John Travolta followed up his " Pulp Fiction " comeback with " Get Shorty " , in which he plays Miami hit-man Chili Palmer . Moving to Hollywood to collect a debt , he finds that show biz isn't much different from the mafia , and he decides to get involved . But of course , once there's anything mafia-related involved ... |
364,982 | 4,888,011 | 420,087 | 8 | the last show in more ways than one | The fact that " A Prairie Home Companion " was Robert Altman's final film makes it all the more eye-opening that the movie portrays a final broadcast . In fact , the presence of the Dangerous Woman ( Virginia Madsen ) almost seems to foretell Altman's approaching end . Anyway , the movie portrays the final broadcast of... |
365,040 | 4,888,011 | 78,723 | 8 | Why do some people hate this movie ? | 1941 shows what war should be : a lot of destruction , but no killing . In fact , most of the destruction is caused by Americans on their own territory . Happening a few days after the Japanese army has bombed Pearl Harbor , the the people of Los Angeles are paranoid that the " Japs " are going to invade . Wild Bill ... |
363,693 | 4,888,011 | 313,196 | 8 | Be prepared to have your stomach turn . | I am not Catholic , so my description of this movie may offend some people . " El crimen del padre Amaro " ( called " The Crime of Father Amaro " in English ) portrays newly ordained priest Amaro ( Gael Garcia Bernal ) getting pulled in several directions in a small Mexican town . The most prominent is a simmering desi... |
364,645 | 4,888,011 | 87,277 | 8 | Let's hear it for the boy ! | OK , so a town where it's illegal to dance makes no sense , but everything about " Footloose " makes it worthwhile . The plot of course has big city boy Ren McCormick ( Kevin Bacon ) moving to a small town where Rev . Shaw Moore ( John Lithgow ) has banned dancing , and challenging this . Prior to watching this movie ,... |
364,292 | 4,888,011 | 78,446 | 8 | Cheech and Chong will never get old | Basically an excuse for Cheech and Chong to get into a series of marijuana adventures , " Up in Smoke " is a hoot from beginning to end . Pedro De Pacas ( Cheech Marin ) and Anthony " Man " Stoner ( Tommy Chong ) are a pair of slackers who wonder So Cal and Mexico looking for some weed , while the narcs look for any ex... |
365,418 | 4,888,011 | 104,940 | 8 | Michael Caine is THE Scrooge ! | Everyone knows Charles Dickens ' classic novel " A Christmas Carol " , but the Muppets do manage to put a neat spin on it . Michael Caine plays one nasty Ebenezer Scrooge ( well duh ; how could Scrooge not be nasty ? ) . Kermit the Frog plays Bob Crachit , and still does a good job despite the fact that Jim Henson was ... |
364,089 | 4,888,011 | 245,712 | 8 | Life in Mexico , folks . | I've seen some unnerving movies in my life , but " Amores perros " ( alternately called " Love's a Bitch " in English ) is a level all on its own . It knocks the breath out of you the way " Mystic River " does ( maybe even more so ) . The plot centers on a car wreck in Mexico City and how it affects several people . Th... |
363,621 | 4,888,011 | 133,093 | 8 | Watch the original , but not the sequels . | When " The Matrix " first came out , it looked like another cheap action flick , but turned out to be quite good . The premise suggests that everything that we see in life is false , and that we're all prisoners of something called the Matrix . So , software designer Thomas " Neo " Anderson ( Keanu Reeves ) is hired by... |
365,145 | 4,888,011 | 52,904 | 8 | He's been working ' on the railroad . . . | How many schemes can Wile E . Coyote ( insert bogus scientific name implying eating ) think up in order to trap Road Runner ( insert bogus scientific name implying speed ) ? I don't know , but " Hot-Rod and Reel ! " shows some of them . I could pretty much figure out what sorts of things were going to happen each time ... |
364,935 | 4,888,011 | 86,927 | 8 | married to craziness | Bachelor Party is a big , stupid , pointless excuse for a movie . And it's proud of being such . That's what makes it so great . One of the many examples of Tom Hanks's career before he started acting in serious movies , it portrays him getting a party thrown by his buddies the day before he gets married . His father... |
364,593 | 4,888,011 | 60,176 | 8 | there is no reality as long as we only see what we want | In one of the many groundbreaking movies , London fashion photographer Thomas ( David Hemmings ) photographs what may or may not be a murder . Thomas has spent his career photographing Swinging London , but this throws everything into flux . I should admit that " Blowup " is the first of Michelangelo Antonioni's movies... |
365,081 | 4,888,011 | 51,622 | 8 | Don't " fly " away while watching this . | Neat , if hokey , " The Fly " does teach us an important lesson about being careful when performing experiments . The plot of course has Montreal scientist Andre Delambre ( Al / David Hedison ) discovering how to transport matter at light speed , and then transporting himself with a fly , thereby getting its head and c... |
363,004 | 4,888,011 | 60,383 | 8 | and on and on | In one of Jan Svankmajer's many quirky short films , several things continue happening . A human whips a dog , and slowly turns into a dog while the dog turns human ; a man has all sorts of trouble drawing a house ; and an animated figure has a weird experience with some wings . I can't figure out what would be the poi... |
365,618 | 4,888,011 | 51,666 | 8 | spinning outta control , Southern style | Apparently , when " God's Little Acre " first came out , much of it was cut for the theatrical release . Watching the unedited version , one can see why ( needless to say , it's all pretty tame to us in the 21st century ) . Part of it is Tina Louise's very presence - I mean , what man wouldn't want to be stranded on an... |
363,245 | 4,888,011 | 44,797 | 8 | So you think that YOU'VE got trouble ? | Robert McKimson's " Kiddin ' the Kitten " is a delightfully crazy look at turning manipulation and exploitation on its head . When slothful cat Dodsworth is ordered to rid his house of mice , he doesn't quite know what to do ( after all , for generations no Dodsworth has ever stooped to physical labor ) . So , he opens... |
363,492 | 4,888,011 | 129,290 | 8 | Good Morning , Vietnam redux ( I mean that positively ) | In one of his many roles as a free-spirited wacko challenging authority ( the others were " Good Morning , Vietnam " , " Dead Poets Society " and " Awakenings " ) , Robin Williams goes all out as medical student Hunter " Patch " Adams , who decides that laughter is the best medicine . Although it's based on a true stor... |
365,484 | 4,888,011 | 413,015 | 8 | any man can have a feminine-sounding name | Judi Dench continues her string of high-quality , Oscar-nominated roles with " Mrs Henderson Presents " , as a woman who sets up an all-nude revue in WWII London . She's the sort of character who seems like some demure character , but actually has an acerbic streak ( one hilarious line late in the movie affirms that ) ... |
363,214 | 4,888,011 | 94,332 | 8 | Which witch is which ? | In a role that only Jack Nicholson could play , he comes to the rescue of three lonely women ( Susan Sarandon , Cher , Michelle Pfeiffer ) in a New England . . . but who is he really ? There are some scenes here that are really likely to blow your mind , not the least of which are the cherry scene or the whole speech a... |
363,855 | 4,888,011 | 86,567 | 8 | Not quite " Dr . Strangelove " , but still . . . | In the early ' 80s , the possibility of a nuclear holocaust was in full swing once again , so it makes sense that they had to make a movie about it . David Lightman ( Matthew Broderick ) is a Seattle high school student who prefers playing computer games to doing his homework . Then , one day he accidentally hacks into... |
362,597 | 4,888,011 | 71,358 | 8 | Martin Ritt and social issues | Martin Ritt seems to be a director who was always interested in social issues ( as the son of immigrants , he had every incentive to be so , especially since he was blacklisted in the ' 50s ) . " Conrack " is based on Pat Conroy's novel " The Water is Wide " , about his own experience in 1969 teaching a school of impov... |
364,272 | 4,888,011 | 59,712 | 8 | Ship ahoy ! | It may come as a surprise that Stanley Kramer followed up his ultra-zany " It's a Mad , Mad , Mad , Mad World " with the serious " Ship of Fools " . But he did a good job with it . The movie portrays various and sundry people aboard an ocean liner sailing from Mexico to Germany in 1933 . At the start , dwarf Karl Glock... |
364,859 | 4,888,011 | 482,571 | 8 | Batman and Alfred ( outside Gotham ) meet Wolverine | In between the Batman movies , Christopher Nolan cast Christian Bale and Michael Caine in " The Prestige " . It tells the story of magicians Alfred Borden ( Bale ) and Robert Angier ( Hugh Jackman ) . Initially partners , they had a falling out and became rivals . From there the movie becomes a battle of wits , showing... |
364,927 | 4,888,011 | 120,888 | 8 | it almost makes you view the ' 80s positively | Like most Adam Sandler movies , " The Wedding Singer " is an excuse for him to be silly . In this case , he plays 1980s wedding singer Robbie Hart , who gets jilted at his own wedding . Ever the cool dude , he hooks up with waitress Julia Sullivan ( Drew Barrymore ) , who's about to get married to the world's most unde... |
364,323 | 4,888,011 | 114,194 | 8 | not necessarily prophetic , but certainly cool | Whenever a movie stars Christopher Walken , I pretty much suspect that even if the movie itself isn't the greatest , then Walken will almost certainly play a really neat role . Such is the case with " The Prophecy " . The somewhat confusing plot centers on the second war in Heaven between the angels loyal to God and th... |
363,143 | 4,888,011 | 105,585 | 8 | we need more movies like this | In 1992 , director Michael Apted released two accounts of the American Indian Movement : there was the documentary " Incident at Oglala " about Leonard Peltier , and the feature film " Thunderheart " , loosely based on the Leonard Peltier case . This one features the ancestrally Indian Val Kilmer as an ancestrally Indi... |
365,242 | 4,888,011 | 71,155 | 8 | Will we all do that with a dollar bill one day ? | Hot off " American Graffiti " , Richard Dreyfuss starred in another movie set in the era of Brylcream and poodle skirts : " The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz " . This one chronicles the rise of a working-class Jewish lad in 1948 Montreal . Duddy is determined to make it , even if he has to do some undesirable things ... |
364,116 | 4,888,011 | 52,117 | 8 | Never underestimate Paul Newman's and Joanne Woodward's comic abilities . | Rally ' Round the Flag , Boys ! may be a movie that you never get to see . As far as I know , it's not available on video or DVD ; I saw it on TV one night . But anyway , here's the story : Harry Bannerman ( Paul Newman ) and Grace Oglethorpe ( Joanne Woodward ) are a typical ( or not so typical ) suburban couple in ... |
362,700 | 4,888,011 | 403,579 | 8 | most control over the situation | Dmitri Meskhiev's " Svoi " ( which means " one's own " ) focuses on the moral dilemma of some Soviet soldiers during WWII . After they escape a POW camp , they end up on a farm . But this farm , while Russian , turns out to be not much different from anything operated by the Nazis . The character Nikolai , due to his m... |
363,008 | 4,888,011 | 79,826 | 8 | a rose is a rose is . . . | Making her film debut , Bette Midler plays a singer loosely based on Janis Joplin . Midler does a very good job in the role , showing the woman making something of herself , but living a self-destructive life to the point where she ruins herself . A particularly eye-popping scene is when she struts through the men's ro... |
364,360 | 4,888,011 | 94,924 | 8 | apparently , you can't be a Seventh Day Adventist in a media-centric society | When I first saw " A Cry in the Dark " , I had no idea what the plot was . But when I saw it , I was shocked at what it portrayed . When I saw it a second time in an Australian Cinema class , I realized a second point : communication issues . You see , when a dingo snatched Lindy Chamberlain's ( Meryl Streep ) baby , s... |
365,061 | 4,888,011 | 253,200 | 8 | Fred Schepisi does better when focusing on these things | Featuring a whole slew of England's most acclaimed stars , " Last Orders " focuses on a man's death and cremation , and how his friends and family remember their lives with him . As is common in British films , there's the issue of class , and how the characters have to stick by each other no matter what . The title re... |
363,168 | 4,888,011 | 266,222 | 8 | the entry to the new millennium | After Roberto Benigni's acceptance speech the previous year , " The 72 Annual Academy Awards " would be hard-pressed to equal it . Still , I liked that the first Oscar ceremony of the 21st century ( assuming that we start the 21st century in the year 2000 ) gave " American Beauty " Best Picture . Like " The Graduate " ... |
363,068 | 4,888,011 | 59,410 | 8 | Six Feet Under meets " It's a Mad , Mad , Mad , Mad World " | If you thought that funeral homes could only make for grim plots in movies , then you've got a real surprise coming ! " The Loved One " portrays a young Brit Dennis Barlow ( Robert Morse ) coming to the Los Angeles and getting involved in a funeral parlor , with some very zany results . It's the sort of wacky humor tha... |
363,801 | 4,888,011 | 114,681 | 8 | people will do anything for fame | Gus Van Sant directed another really good movie with " To Die For " , focusing on the true story of a woman's vicious obsession with having a career . As fame-starved weather reporter Suzanne Stone , Nicole Kidman radiates a kind of iciness missing from most of her movie roles . As her husband Larry Maretto , Matt Dill... |
365,403 | 4,888,011 | 80,310 | 8 | such stories have probably happened many times | When I first watched " ' Breaker ' Morant " , I had never heard of the instance during the Boer War when the Australian army executed some of its soldiers so as to cover up misdeeds by superior officers . The movie does a very good job looking at the story . Aside from top-notch acting by Bryan Brown and Edward Woodwar... |
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