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363,111 | 4,888,011 | 52,655 | 10 | Dick Miller in a lead role : perfect ! | If you've seen Roger Corman's and Joe Dante's movies , then you probably recognize Dick Miller . That husky scowling guy with a heavy New York accent appeared in many of Corman's movies and has appeared in all of Dante's movies . In " A Bucket of Blood " , he gets what may have been his only lead role . He plays Walter... |
363,144 | 4,888,011 | 61,390 | 10 | what we have become | While Chuck Jones remains best known for his Warner Bros . animated shorts , he also directed a couple of interesting pieces after he left WB . Probably best known are " The Dot and the Line " and " How the Grinch Stole Christmas " , but another one is " The Bear That Wasn't " , an eerily prophetic look at the industri... |
365,265 | 4,888,011 | 87,843 | 10 | Sergio Leone's grand ambition . | After so many years of westerns , Sergio Leone made " Once Upon a Time in America " , about several friends forced to abandon their loyalty as they age . This is one of those movies that's too hard to simply describe ; you really have to see it to understand it . And you may be disappointed if you expect something exac... |
365,346 | 4,888,011 | 95,574 | 10 | She may have little faith , but there's lots of faith to be had in the movie . | One of the major aspects of " Malenkaya Vera " ( called " Little Vera " in English ) is that it was the first movie from the Soviet Union that featured a sex scene , albeit a short one . The title is important : Vera is the Russian word for " faith " , identifying that punk Vera ( Natalya Negoda ) has little faith in t... |
364,817 | 4,888,011 | 52,304 | 10 | must have been Daffy's relative | When the mice set up a mini-carnival for Cinco de Mayo , a loopy vulture ( or crow ; I'm sure not totally sure which he was ) attacks , thereby prompting Speedy Gonzales to spring into action . And he does . . . with a vengeance ! The great part is knowing what's going to happen , and watching it play out . I noticed t... |
363,627 | 4,888,011 | 87,800 | 10 | More creative than the average horror flick . | OK , Ronee Blakely's acting is more like something out of an Ed Wood movie , but " A Nightmare on Elm Street " is truly a horror classic . Specifically , it's more creative than most of them , due to the fact that Freddy Krueger ( Robert Englund ) has to go inside peoples ' dreams to kill them . His blade-fingers are l... |
364,497 | 4,888,011 | 52,233 | 10 | words of Wisdom | Following up on the zaniness of " Up in the World " , Norman Wisdom returned as witless Norman Pitkin in " The Square Peg " . In this case , he joins the army in WWII and gets dropped into Nazi-occupied France , where he's a dead ringer for a Nazi general . I will say that I didn't find this one quite as funny as the p... |
364,660 | 4,888,011 | 70,222 | 10 | Always " bee " yourself ! | That's if you like campy ' 70s schlock , for everyone else . In this case , woman in a small California town are turning into queen bees and screwing their husbands to death ! You read that right . Needless to say , there's everything that we expect in a campy ' 70s flick : big-breasted babes , men wearing ugly ties , ... |
364,510 | 4,888,011 | 95,444 | 10 | Send in the " Klowns " ! | Everyone loves a so-bad-it's-good movie , and " Killer Klowns from Outer Space " is the ultimate example : it's so campy , that it's comparable to " Citizen Kane " and " The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie " ! The title pretty much explains the whole plot . John Vernon , as the police chief , was the only cast member whom I ... |
362,720 | 4,888,011 | 405,422 | 10 | Sex really does sell ! | One of the most innovative comedies that I've seen in years , " The 40 Year Old Virgin " rips up everything . Portraying quadragenarian Andy Stitzer ( Steve Carell ) trying to have sex for the first time , it really gives you an " oh no . . . oh yes " feeling watching the movie . I had some favorite scenes , but I prob... |
364,357 | 4,888,011 | 373,074 | 10 | absolutely awesome | In recent years , the American assumption about Hong Kong cinema seems to be that their movies consist of chop-socky wackiness . In that respect , " Kung Fu Hustle " does not disappoint . It tells the story of the Axe Gang , who rule 1940s Hong Kong mafia-style . One of their members is Sing ( director Stephen Chow ) ,... |
365,685 | 4,888,011 | 77,838 | 10 | that era may be gone , but the music never will be | The Band plays its final concert in Martin Scorsese's documentary " The Last Waltz " , recorded in San Francisco . Aside from getting to hear the Band and numerous other great performers ( Bob Dylan , Joni Mitchell , Ringo Starr and Neil Young , to name a few ) , the documentary is also a look back at an era gone by . ... |
362,785 | 4,888,011 | 70,290 | 10 | Cool or uncool to go into the armed forces ? | Jack Nicholson and Otis Young play Navy cadets Billy " Badass " Buddusky and " Mule " Mulhall , respectively , who are hired to take cadet Larry Meadows ( Randy Quaid ) to jail after he stole some money . So , they decide that if he's going to have to spend time behind bars , then he should have a good time before it ,... |
365,420 | 4,888,011 | 95,270 | 10 | a good intro to John Waters | Knowing that John Waters likes to make outrageous movies , " Hairspray " is an easy introduction to his movies . It portrays chubby teenager Tracy Turnblad ( Ricki Lake ) trying to help bring about integration in 1962 Baltimore , all in the context of hairstyles . Watching the movie , one gets the feeling that Waters l... |
364,318 | 4,888,011 | 105,275 | 10 | more proof of Crowe's talent | We most likely would find it hard to stomach a movie that humanizes skinheads , but " Romper Stomper " does just that . The plot centers on a group of Australian skinheads terrorizing the Vietnamese immigrants , but ironically , we sort of end up sympathizing with the skinheads . Russell Crowe plays the lead skinhead ,... |
363,610 | 4,888,011 | 95,243 | 10 | gorilla my dreams | Even if you have no idea who Dian Fossey was , " Gorillas in the Mist : The Story of Dian Fossey " is still amazing . Sigourney Weaver perfectly captures the spirit of the woman who sought to save Africa's mountain gorillas from extermination by human encroachment . It was eye-opening to see her go from an all-American... |
362,669 | 4,888,011 | 61,176 | 10 | laughter IS the best medicine , especially for war | Gen . Sherman said that war is hell , but if he had seen " What Did You Do in the War , Daddy ? " , he would have eaten his words . The movie focuses on an American platoon that captures an Italian village in WWII . The Italians are willing to surrender as long as they can have their festival . This creates a problem f... |
363,631 | 4,888,011 | 61,177 | 10 | What's up , tiger lily ? Whoa-o-o-o-o-oh | Ever seen a Japanese man with a Jewish name ? Now you will ! Making his directorial debut , Woody Allen takes a Japanese spy movie and re-dubs it into being a search for the world's best egg salad recipe . You read that right . This is , after all , from the man who brought us " Everything You Always Wanted to Know Abo... |
362,546 | 4,888,011 | 43,564 | 10 | Quoi est up , Doc ? | Bugs Bunny gets caught between two snooty Parisian chefs trying to turn him into their main course . Once again , the team behind the Looney Tunes cartoons created a clever , irreverent litany of wackiness . If " French Rarebit " has any problem , it's that the cartoon stereotypes France . But hey , this is a joke here... |
363,297 | 4,888,011 | 87,553 | 10 | My mother and her friend interviewed Dith Pran . | When I was seven , my mother and her friend were working on a radio project about the Cambodian genocide , and they went to New York to interview Dith Pran . Through all of this , I learned about Cambodia . It wasn't until I was fifteen that I saw " The Killing Fields " , and I was horrified at the Khmer Rouge's brutal... |
363,331 | 4,888,011 | 451,176 | 10 | In many ways , Los Angeles is changing for the better . | For years , many people viewed LA as the most worthless place on Earth : a cultural wasteland full of rich white people doing white people things , with nothing to show for itself except self-righteous movie stars . I guess that such a description was probably fairly accurate . Well , " Quinceanera " shows that such a ... |
363,716 | 4,888,011 | 77,975 | 10 | what a wonderful world it is with John Belushi being a P-I-G | Everybody knows the story of Faber College's wild Delta fraternity making their own rules while the law-and-order-obsessed dean tries to expel them in 1962 . But you still have to see it ! Whether it's John Belushi's whole skit in the cafeteria , the toga party , or the grand finale , " Animal House " is a laugh riot f... |
365,421 | 4,888,011 | 112,896 | 10 | Da-a-a-a-angerous and hila-a-a-a-arious ! | As has been the case with all of Mel Brooks's recent movies , " Dracula : Dead and Loving It " is a big excuse to be silly . Aside from the fact that the count ( Leslie Nielsen , who else ? ) is the world's biggest klutz , a Gypsy man has an excessively long moustache , Drac's brides look and act like prostitutes , and... |
363,391 | 4,888,011 | 52,390 | 10 | mine hero | Yet again , Wile E . Coyote ( insert scientific name involving eating ) sets a series of traps to get Road Runner ( insert scientific name involving speed ) , but always gets himself . Probably the coolest one here is a tornado seed . Sure enough , he gets sucked in . . . and then there's a mine field ! And the guy sti... |
363,645 | 4,888,011 | 166,924 | 10 | What was it about ? You're not supposed to ask . | The fact that you most likely won't be able to figure " Mulholland Dr . " out during the first viewing is what makes it so great . David Lynch throws in so many twists and turns that it'll make your head spin . . . if you're not too transfixed already . The plot has Betty Elms ( Naomi Watts ) arriving in LA hoping to b... |
365,826 | 4,888,011 | 35,754 | 10 | not corny at all ; quite good , actually | One of the great things about the classic Looney Tunes cartoons is how they introduced children to elements of culture . " What's Opera , Doc ? " was probably their most famous cartoon involving opera , but there was also " A Corny Concerto " . Elmer Fudd - having some trouble with his clothes - presents two short film... |
362,801 | 4,888,011 | 53,084 | 10 | I guess that the threat of nuclear annihilation always made for some great comedy with Peter Sellers in multiple roles ! | Any film buff remembers Peter Sellers playing three roles in the Cold War comedy " Dr . Strangelove " . Well , " The Mouse That Roared " was a sort of prequel to that . A tiny , backwards nation on France's Mediterranean coast has no way of moving forward economically . So , the queen and prime minister ( both played b... |
363,504 | 4,888,011 | 69,995 | 10 | Nothing is what it seems . You'd better believe it . | In my opinion , " Don't Look Now " constitutes a real collision of different kinds of careers . Nicolas Roeg had already directed the surreal " Walkabout " , Donald Sutherland had starred in the humorous " MASH " , and Julie Christie had won an Oscar for the bleak " Darling " . So this one must have really blown people... |
363,274 | 4,888,011 | 113,326 | 10 | My introduction to Jackie Chan . | Before I'd seen " Rumble in the Bronx " , I'd heard of Jackie Chan but never seen any of his movies . Well , when I saw this , I practically died laughing . Basically an hour and a half of him bonking people in every direction , the movie is physical humor at its best . The plot has Hong Kong cop Keung ( Chan ) coming ... |
363,875 | 4,888,011 | 60,782 | 10 | B ( e ) C ( ause ) of various factors | OK , having seen many movies about the Stone Age , we should know that the men were all buff dudes , and the women were all buxom babes . That's certainly the case here . Obviously , no part of " One Million Years B . C . " really makes sense - humans and dinosaurs never existed contemporaneously - but that doesn't mat... |
364,389 | 4,888,011 | 78,788 | 10 | The best Vietnam War movie ever . | From the opening scene - with " The End " playing while helicopters are attacking a village - to Col . Kilgore's ( Robert Duvall ) admiration of napalm , to the Playboy bunnies , to the final scene , " Apocalypse Now " always hits you like a brick in the face . As Capt . Benjamin L . Willard , searching for renegade Co... |
364,727 | 4,888,011 | 104,507 | 10 | two weeks ago , I'd never even heard of a coxswain | Throughout the past forty years , much has been written about the Vietnam War . Less has been told about the history of Vietnam before the US got involved . Regis Wargnier's " Indochine " does a really good job . Catherine Deneuve plays Eliane Devries , the owner of a rubber plantation in 1930s Vietnam . Eliane has rai... |
363,503 | 4,888,011 | 104,504 | 10 | Don't believe anyone who says that we don't have political prisoners . | With " Incident at Oglala " , Robert Redford and Michael Apted exposed how American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier was unjustly convicted of murder . It was obvious that the whole thing was politically motivated . And regardless of who committed the murders , they were intimidating the Indians . And anyway , ... |
364,085 | 4,888,011 | 53,198 | 10 | so Truffaut started here | Francois Truffaut made his mark on the cinematic world with " Les quart cents coups " ( called " The 400 Blows " in English ) . Semi-autobiographical , the movie tells the story of Antoine Doinel ( Jean-Pierre Leaud ) , a misunderstood schoolboy . Everyone hears rumors about him and assumes things about him . Finally ,... |
362,892 | 4,888,011 | 87,363 | 10 | My favorite Christmas movie of all time . | Usually , when we think of Christmas movies , we think of flicks like " It's a Wonderful Life " . Well , here's a new kind : " Gremlins " . This has got to be one of the coolest movies ever made . Joe Dante - always a director with some neat ideas - couldn't have pulled it off better . It all begins when inventor Rand ... |
364,431 | 4,888,011 | 43,365 | 10 | With Bugs Bunny wrestling , who needs The Rock ? | Almost half a century before everyone got really obsessed with wrestling , that carrot-chomping rascal engaged in it . . . with a vengeance . After belligerent wrestler The Crusher clobbers a challenger , Bugs Bunny quickly enters the fray . At first , The Crusher has the upper hand , but of course Bugs has some tricks... |
364,946 | 4,888,011 | 427,944 | 10 | 7 deadly - but hilarious - spins | Thank You for Smoking does what few movies ever know how to do : it hits us all right where it hurts , pointing out everyone's hypocrisy in everything , and the way that our society is based on spin . Aaron Eckhart , whom you may remember from " Erin Brockovich " , gets the role of a lifetime as tobacco industry spin... |
363,758 | 4,888,011 | 113,277 | 10 | Pacino and DeNiro , together at last | More than simply a cops-and-robbers story , " Heat " allows us to understand the characters more than the average crime story . In the first place , Lt . Vincent Hanna ( Al Pacino ) and thief Neil McCauley ( Robert DeNiro ) are good friends before they realize that they have to be enemies . And even when it becomes cle... |
364,639 | 4,888,011 | 70,047 | 10 | Sympathy for the devil on ice , folks ! And what is it about the name Damian ? | My mom said that when " The Exorcist " first came out , she thought that it was the scariest thing that she'd ever seen ( " The Shining " later overtook it ) . When I saw the 2000 re-release . . . well , let's just say that you don't know intensity until you've seen that version ! Since everyone knows what happens , I'... |
364,483 | 4,888,011 | 70,034 | 10 | Long live Bruce Lee ! Even in the hereafter . . . | Before Bruce Lee came along , it was like Hollywood movies still had what I like to call the Grace Kelly Syndrome : an obsession with European ( particularly Northern European ) kings , queens , princes and princesses gushing over their status as rich white people . Then , along came Bruce Lee and his incredible moveme... |
365,299 | 4,888,011 | 364,725 | 10 | There was an article about Joel David Moore in The Oregonian two days ago . | Dodgeball : A True Underdog Story is just plain old goof-ball-ism , and it doesn't pretend to be anything else . It has the Average Joes gym going up against Globo Gym in a tournament . The Average Joes gym is clearly a working class gym , while Globo Gym's slogan is " We're better than you , and we know it ! " Maybe... |
363,925 | 4,888,011 | 87,332 | 10 | The first time that I ever watched this movie , it scared me ( don't worry ; I later found it funny ) . | When I was about 3 and 4 , I used to watch " The Real Ghostbusters " on TV . When I was 7 , I noticed that my parents had a video tape that said " Ghostbusters " . I asked them if I could watch it , and they said yes . The first thing that threw me off was that it was black and white . Moreover , it was clearly not a c... |
364,923 | 4,888,011 | 78,748 | 10 | In space , no one can hear you scream . . . but in the theater / TV room , EVERYONE will ! | There may be debates over whether movies should portray aliens positively or negatively , but " Alien " shows that all bets are off . This is possibly THE perfect sci-fi / horror flick ; in fact , it doesn't even suffice to call it such . From the moment when the egg attacks Kane ( John Hurt ) to Ellen Ripley's ( Sigou... |
364,156 | 4,888,011 | 60,908 | 10 | Alan Bates ' best movie ever | Hopefully , by now we've all figured out that war is not only hell , it's insanity . " The King of Hearts " does a great job showing that . In WWI , the residents of a French village have fled , leaving the village empty . Now , both the English and German armies are looking to take over . So , the British general send... |
363,559 | 4,888,011 | 17,925 | 10 | train he rides | If " The General " is Buster Keaton's best known movie , I can see why . An explosion of wackiness with some human emotion here and there , it goes to show why Keaton was such a great comedian . It's always great to see him with a deadpan expression - and even a mop-top hairdo ! - despite the craziness surrounding him ... |
363,015 | 4,888,011 | 78,754 | 10 | he may think he's gonna die , but you'll feel like you'll live forever | In this most unusual musical , Bob Fosse offers a scathing look at his own career as a Broadway director / choreographer . Roy Scheider plays Fosse's alter ego Joe Gideon , a drinking , smoking , pill-popping , womanizing creep who doesn't know when to stop . Although this movie is usually called a musical , this is ab... |
365,790 | 4,888,011 | 53,125 | 10 | it's not just Cary Grant getting chased by the crop-duster . . . | A common theme in Alfred Hitchcock's movies was chaos : collapsing innocence in " Shadow of a Doubt " , getting drug into a murder plot in " Strangers on a Train " , the possible murder in " Rear Window " , the shower scene in " Psycho " , or the avians ' unexplained killing spree in " The Birds " . But more specific t... |
363,948 | 4,888,011 | 60,921 | 10 | Spasibo , Gospodin Jewison . . . vy khoroshiy kinorezhissyor ! ( English translation : Thank you , Mr . Jewison . . . you're a great director ! ) | It looks like the Cold War just froze ! When a Soviet submarine gets lost at sea , they dock and realize that they've landed on American soil . Not sure what to do , they go to the Whittakers , a family on vacation . Of course , as soon as the Whittakers realize that these strangers are Russians , the Russians have to ... |
364,627 | 4,888,011 | 43,315 | 10 | Wouldn't politics be better if it was more like this ? | Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam run against each other for mayor in a small town . Needless to say , they have all sorts of dirty tricks to play on each other ; Karl Rove has got nothing on these guys . I wish to assert that politics would be better if it was more like what " Ballot Box Bunny " portrays . Sure , you may sa... |
362,709 | 4,888,011 | 60,438 | 10 | I came , I saw , I laughed | Transpose " It's a Mad , Mad , Mad , Mad World " to ancient Rome and you basically have " A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum " . This story of a slave ( Zero Mostel ) having to help arrange a romance between two people is worth watching just for the chase scene at the end . If you've been to Spain or Italy ... |
363,409 | 4,888,011 | 190,590 | 10 | Only the Coen brothers could create something so magical AND wacky | Most people would probably never imagine transposing " The Odyssey " to 1930's Mississippi , but the Coen brothers pulled it off perfectly . George Clooney , John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson play three jailbirds ( named Ulysses , Pete and Delmar , respectively ) who escape from a chain gang and subsequently travel th... |
364,554 | 4,888,011 | 87,291 | 10 | Not a dog at all ! | I can't believe that Disney wouldn't let Tim Burton release this ! They thought that it was too scary for kids ? ! Puh-leeze ! " Frankenweenie " is a really cool movie ! Basically a spoof of Mary Shelley's classic novel , the movie features suburban American boy Victor Frankenstein ( Barret Oliver ) resurrecting his do... |
363,401 | 4,888,011 | 113,627 | 10 | if solely a problem such as alcoholism can help a person find redemption , then so be it | Mike Figgis's " Leaving Las Vegas " , while it pounds you in the face , also creates a sense of hope . Nicolas Cage plays Ben Sanderson , a man nearly at the end of his emotional rope who has come to Las Vegas to drink himself to death . In Las Vegas , he hooks up with prostitute Sera ( Elisabeth Shue ) , who acts as a... |
363,956 | 4,888,011 | 130,827 | 10 | running on full | We got introduced to Franka Potente through " Lola rennt " ( called " Run Lola Run " in English ) about a young woman running all over Berlin , trying to get 100 , 000 Marks for her boyfriend ( Moritz Bleibtreu ) . But beyond that , it shows how various things affect other things , as shown by the people whom she passe... |
362,756 | 4,888,011 | 60,424 | 10 | Lemmon and Matthau debut as a team | In this , the first movie starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as a comedy team , reporter Lemmon gets injured at a football game , leading his lawyer friend Matthau to seek a massive settlement ( that is , if Lemmon can pretend to be badly injured for a long time ) . Like other movies of the era - such as " It's a ... |
364,241 | 4,888,011 | 132,888 | 10 | turkeys of all time | Blood Freak is exactly the sort of movie to which " Grindhouse " paid homage . Portraying biker Herschel ( since when are bikers named Herschel ? ) eating some tainted turkey and gaining a turkey's head , the movie is totally silly and knows that it is such . Part of what makes this movie more interesting is the grou... |
363,386 | 4,888,011 | 104,952 | 10 | No one should yell " Objection ! " at this movie . | I think that this is one of the funniest movies that I've ever seen . After two young men are arrested for murder in a backwards Alabama town , wise guy lawyer Vinny Gambini ( Joe Pesci ) and his sarcastic hubby Mona Lisa Vito ( Marisa Tomei ) come to the rescue . The only problem is , Alabama is a lot different from N... |
363,805 | 4,888,011 | 78,346 | 10 | And then , Christopher Reeve became even more of a superhero in real life . | Obviously , everyone knows Superman , so I'll talk about a few aspects . It was sort of a shock to everyone when Christopher Reeve got paralyzed , seeing as to how we associated him with the man of steel . But his tireless crusade for people with spinal cord injuries showed him to be a sort of superhero in his own righ... |
363,291 | 4,888,011 | 35,567 | 10 | Katharine Hepburn was the woman of every year . | In their first of nine co-star rings , Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy play Tess Harding and Sam Craig , reporters at a newspaper who get married . Naturally , Sam assumes that Tess will " settle down " and just be a wife , but she is very independent , with events to cover all over the world . They sort of forget ... |
365,179 | 4,888,011 | 52,738 | 10 | diaries always make for something great | Telling the story of the German-Jewish girl whose diary brought memories of the Third Reich into people's homes worldwide , " The Diary of Anne Frank " haunts you like few other movies . As the titular character , Millie Perkins creates someone who - despite her horrific experiences - remains convinced that human natur... |
364,543 | 4,888,011 | 35,527 | 10 | What's supper , doc ? | The Wabbit Who Came to Supper gives one the idea of milking a situation to the nth degree . When Elmer Fudd - looking like a walking heart attack ( they were making him fat at this time so as to resemble his voice artist Arthur Q . Bryan ) - receives a letter telling him that he'll inherit $3 million as long as he do... |
365,058 | 4,888,011 | 35,529 | 10 | Gold is where you find it , unless a certain wascawwy wabbit tricks you | This time , Elmer Fudd - looking mighty chubby ( so as to resemble Arthur Q . Bryan , who did his voice ) - is looking for gold out in the desert , but Bugs Bunny keeps playing tricks on him . The gags with the dynamite were probably the best ( the crowd behind these cartoons sure had a way with dynamite , as much of t... |
364,414 | 4,888,011 | 69,704 | 10 | The Wolfman is everywhere , and so will this movie be forever . It really twists the night away ! | In the movie that made him famous , George Lucas portrays several teenagers in Modesto , California , in 1962 . Various things happen to them , and they see all sorts of things . Of course , the movie's other stars are the songs that make up the ultra-cool soundtrack . With a total of 45 classic tunes , this movie is a... |
364,934 | 4,888,011 | 95,765 | 10 | In memory of Philippe Noiret | Philippe Noiret's death yesterday brings to mind all his movies , including " Nuovo cinema Paradiso " . The first time that I saw this was right after I had seen " The Postman " , and I recognized him as the man who had played Pablo Neruda . Here , he plays an equally great role , of the operator of a camera in a movie... |
365,092 | 4,888,011 | 175,142 | 10 | And they just keep on coming , don't they ? | The rating of course only applies to people who would desire to watch such a movie ( for anyone else , it's a zero ) . A spoof of " Scream " , " I Know What You Did Last Summer " , and other such movies , " Scary Movie " is another in the gag-a-minute genre associated with the Marx Brothers , Mel Brooks , the " Airplan... |
362,909 | 4,888,011 | 303,297 | 10 | everyone should see this | Sometimes , we seem to forget that apartheid was only eliminated in 1994 . " Amandla ! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony " tells of how the black South Africans used music to help them overcome the Draconian oppression installed by the white population . Naturally , we get to hear from Nelson Mandela , Winnie Mandela ,... |
363,459 | 4,888,011 | 78,490 | 10 | 1978 : the year of the anti-war movies | Nineteen seventy-eight saw the release of three famous movies dealing with the effects of the Vietnam War : " Coming Home " , " The Deer Hunter " and " Who'll Stop the Rain " . The last one doesn't actually focus on the war itself , but on some drug-running related to it . This gritty picture portrays a GI ( Michael Mo... |
363,392 | 4,888,011 | 497,116 | 10 | not a political issue , but for the sake of our survival | Above all , what we should learn from " An Inconvenient Truth " is that preserving the planet is not , as Bush would have us believe , a political debate ; it's a moral issue . The very fact that Bush didn't respond to it shows how out of touch with reality he is . I just would like to ask , as Al Gore does , what has ... |
363,038 | 4,888,011 | 43,014 | 10 | I'm ready for my review , Mr . Wilder | We've seen many movies about Hollywood's emptiness , unseemliness , and other undesirable qualities . " Sunset Boulevard " is one of the best . Norma Desmond ( Gloria Swanson ) is a faded movie star in a relationship with reporter Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) . Through his relationship with her , Joe not only sees Hol... |
364,592 | 4,888,011 | 52,888 | 10 | attack of the killer pine-cone | In some ways , it seems that if you've seen one ' 50s B sci-fi movie , you've seen ' em all . But " The Hideous Sun Demon " elicits a certain charm , showing how the guy's condition affects him emotionally . Specifically , a scientist ( Robert Clarke , who also directed ) gets exposed to atomic isotopes and develops a ... |
364,180 | 4,888,011 | 104,797 | 10 | Spike Lee's best movie ever | Reaching his apex of greatness , Spike Lee created a perfect biography of the Black Nationalist leader . In the title role , Denzel Washington literally becomes the character . From the opening , when he accurately accuses the white man of all the injustices that the white man has perpetrated , to his conversion to Isl... |
364,999 | 4,888,011 | 35,414 | 10 | a more sadistic bird thou shalt never find | In this day and age , we have seemingly come to interpret Tweety Bird as " cute " . In his first appearance , he was nothing like that ; quite the opposite , he was a bad-ass . In " A Tale of Two Kitties " , wandering felines Babbit and Catstello ( spoofing Abbott and Costello ) find a bird's nest . Grouchy , straight-... |
365,843 | 4,888,011 | 25,316 | 10 | It shall continue happening on movie screens forever onward . | Stories like this have become such a cliché that we might forget that they started here , but they did . And it worked really well here . When bored socialite Ellie Andrews ( Claudette Colbert ) runs away from her surroundings , she gets picked up by down-on-his-luck reporter Peter Warne ( Clark Gable ) , who knows exa... |
363,604 | 4,888,011 | 183,659 | 10 | Ed Harris should have won Best Actor | With " Pollock " , Ed Harris proved himself as adept as a director as he is an actor , playing splatter artist Jackson Pollock . We see Pollock as a talented artist who seemed to grow more and more messed up ( maybe even disturbed ) as the years went by . Equally as good as Harris is Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner , ... |
365,020 | 4,888,011 | 36,334 | 10 | you deserve a metal | Having seen " Daffy - the Commando " and " Scrap Happy Daffy " , I think that it's safe to say that that crazy duck was one of the best characters to fight the Nazis ( obviously , there was also Bugs ) . In this case , he collects scrap metal to contribute to the war effort , but Hitler sends a goat after him . If abso... |
362,806 | 4,888,011 | 106,220 | 10 | It should be the value of any family to see this movie if possible . | Addams Family Values accomplishes what " The Godfather , Part II " did : it equals , if not outdoes , the original . In this case , Morticia ( Anjelica Huston ) has a baby - whom they name Pubert ( you read that right ) , Fester ( Christopher Lloyd ) marries nanny Debbie Jellinsky ( Joan Cusack ) and Gomez ( Raul Jul... |
363,510 | 4,888,011 | 36,342 | 10 | there's no doubt that this was a masterpiece | You know that a movie is really good when you feel that you can't tell very much about it without giving anything away . " Shadow of a Doubt " is one such movie . Charlie ( Joseph Cotten ) is a man who goes to visit his relatives in Santa Rosa , California . He is so well respected by his relatives that they named thei... |
365,160 | 4,888,011 | 166,396 | 10 | the good ol ' Irish | Similar to " The Full Monty " ( but never copying it ) , " Waking Ned Devine " tells the story of a village in Ireland suddenly upset by some quirky events . When local old timer Ned Devine dies , his friends discover that he has won the lottery , and set about trying to reclaim the cash . I remember that I saw this mo... |
363,485 | 4,888,011 | 36,244 | 10 | evil succeeds when good people do nothing | There is a saying that the only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing . The events portrayed in " The Ox-Bow Incident " shows not only that , but could represent real things that have happened throughout world history . The movie portrays drifter Gil Carter ( Henry Fonda ) and his friend ... |
363,453 | 4,888,011 | 79,180 | 10 | Oy gevalt , Gene Wilder wasn't meshugga to take this role ! | Sort of playing off of his presence in " Blazing Saddles " , Gene Wilder plays rabbi Avram Belinski , who leaves his seminary in 1850 Poland to marry a woman in San Francisco and start a synagogue there . But naturally , the American West holds more than a few surprises for him , namely train robber Tommy Lillard ( Har... |
364,650 | 4,888,011 | 45,000 | 10 | Supergenius : that describes the people who made these cartoons ! | In a slight break from protocol , Chuck Jones , Michael Maltese , and Mel Blanc pit Wile E . Coyote - aka Supergenius - against Bugs Bunny . But , sure enough , Bugs has ways of avoiding capture . . . most of which involve Wile E . getting maimed somehow . The point is that no matter how hard he tries , Wile E . has no... |
365,104 | 4,888,011 | 36,271 | 10 | one of the most unpredictable cartoons | One of the things that I've always liked the most about the Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies cartoons is their unpredictability . " Porky Pig's Feat " goes all the way , as Porky and Daffy come up with all sorts of elaborate schemes to try and escape from a hotel . You see , the effete manager has charged them for things... |
364,145 | 4,888,011 | 113,862 | 10 | I saw Richard Dreyfuss in a bookstore while they were filming this . | In September , 1994 , my mom and I were in the checkout line in Powell's Bookstore in Portland , Oregon . There was a very short man in front of us . When we got up to the cashier , she identified the man as none other than Richard Dreyfuss . We turned around and sure enough , it was he . Needless to say , we wondered ... |
363,891 | 4,888,011 | 87,015 | 10 | C ( ool ) H ( ilarious ) U ( ltra-moronic ) D ( electable ) movie | Before John Heard and Daniel Stern co-starred in " Home Alone " , they co-starred in the much more interesting " C . H . U . D . " , about derelicts in the New York sewers getting exposed to toxic waste and mutating into Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers . Heard plays George Cooper , who is looking into the s... |
362,612 | 4,888,011 | 51,554 | 10 | Leave it to the Brits to revolutionize the Count . | Everyone knows the Dracula story , so I'll talk about this movie's aspects . " Horror of Dracula " is particularly groundbreaking because it was the first Dracula movie that showed blood ( naturally , such a movie would have to come from England ; here in the US we still had tight censorship codes ) . Obviously , Chris... |
362,694 | 4,888,011 | 373,760 | 10 | great part of world cinema | I just last night saw " Cinema , Aspirinas e Urubus " ( called " Cinema , Aspirins and Vultures " in English ) . It's an amazing story of a man who flees Nazi Germany and moves to Brazil , where he shows movies to the inhabitants of a destitute village in the northeast of the country and also gives them aspirin , there... |
362,681 | 4,888,011 | 45,012 | 10 | It's Tracy / Hepburn , so you know that it's good . | Pat Pemberton ( Katharine Hepburn ) is a sports star , except when in the presence of her fiancé . That's when she joins up with promoter Mike Conovan ( Spencer Tracy ) , and things get good . I think that my favorite scene in " Pat and Mike " is when some thugs are harassing Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn clobber... |
363,057 | 4,888,011 | 94,608 | 10 | never blame the victim | Jodie Foster broke out of her teenage persona in " The Accused " , in which she masterfully portrays a rape victim seeking justice . The movie shows how , as often seems to happen , the raped woman gets accused of bringing the rape upon herself because of how she dressed . But her character understands what she has to ... |
363,933 | 4,888,011 | 183,790 | 10 | I say : knight Heath Ledger ! | A few years before Heath Ledger starred in " Brokeback Mountain " , he played a man pretending to be a knight in " A Knight's Tale " , chock full of deliberate anachronisms ( namely the soundtrack ) . I swear that it was one of the funniest movies that year . I just gotta wonder : who comes up with these things ? This ... |
364,216 | 4,888,011 | 106,053 | 10 | The top ten reasons that I like this show . | # 10 : David Letterman declared that 60 % of everything that Bill O'Reilly says is crap . # 9 : " Will It Float ? " . . . would any of those babes float ? # 8 : His musical guests have included Ringo Starr and The Temptations . # 7 : Nodody gets away clean on his show . # 6 : As a Bush supporter , he rips at Bush as mu... |
364,135 | 4,888,011 | 443,706 | 10 | How could I have never heard of the Zodiac Killer until this came out ? | Believe it or not , I had literally never heard of the Zodiac Killer until around the time that " Zodiac " got released in the theaters ( cut me some slack ; I was born many years after the killings took place ) . So , now I've seen the movie portraying everything surrounding the murders . I have to say that it's a rea... |
362,848 | 4,888,011 | 79,239 | 10 | How could people be like this ? | It's sad to think that people could actually be like this , but apparently there are such individuals . Lt . Col . Bull Meechum ( Robert Duvall ) is a military man without a war , so he uses all his energy to regiment his family . Immature and rather mean , Bull always gets his way . . . until they move to Beaufort , S... |
363,849 | 4,888,011 | 71,675 | 10 | That's what happens when you mess with the environment ! | We humans may think that we can do anything without adverse results , but if only we knew ! Mangling the environment is bound to blow up in our faces ! And in " It's Alive ! " , does it ever ! Frank ( John Ryan ) and Lenore Davies ( Sharon Farrell ) drive to the hospital to have their baby . There's just one problem : ... |
365,890 | 4,888,011 | 79,261 | 10 | victory through hair power | For people like me who were born long after the ' 60s ended , we can only learn about the era through cultural artifacts , of which " Hair " is one . This is certainly a well done tour de force . One can get a sense of how things were for the hippie culture . Probably the most impressive scene - for me at least - is wh... |
364,167 | 4,888,011 | 174,856 | 10 | Can you imagine how many times this has happened ? | I'll admit that I'd never heard of Rubin " Hurricane " Carter before this movie came out . But watching the movie , I came to understand the whole case perfectly . Carter ( Denzel Washington ) grew up in the slums of New Jersey , forcing him to be strong ( and a hard-ass ) . The racism surrounding him caused him to dev... |
362,816 | 4,888,011 | 473,434 | 10 | Believe it or not , this is the first installment that I've seen . | I know that it probably seems pretty silly of me to watch the latest installment before watching the previous ones - and I never really planned to do it like that - but I've watched " 49 Up " , and I really admired it . All twelve of the interviewees provide strong incite into the present state of affairs . True , Mich... |
363,779 | 4,888,011 | 71,562 | 10 | an equal sequel | Everyone has probably heard that " The Godfather : Part II " is as good as the original , and it's true . Perhaps it's better , that's debatable . Picking up where the first film left off , we see the Corleones ' control over Las Vegas . Also , Michael ( Al Pacino ) gets involved with Hyman Roth ( Lee Strasberg ) , one... |
365,693 | 4,888,011 | 79,336 | 10 | hilarious | There have been many comedies focusing on weddings , but " The In-Laws " may have brought the genre to its panacea . Featuring Alan Arkin ( as the bride's father ) and Peter Falk ( as the groom's father ) going on a series of crazy adventures right before the wedding , the whole thing's a laugh a minute . It just makes... |
364,944 | 4,888,011 | 131,325 | 10 | one of Eddie Murphy's two good movies that year | In a totally mind-blowing , Hollywood-jabbing story , Steve Martin plays director Bobby Bowfinger , who wants to hire top star Kit Ramsey ( Eddie Murphy ) for a role in the sci-fi movie " Chubby Rain " , about aliens arriving on earth by hiding in raindrops . When Ramsey refuses , Bowfinger decides to secretly film Ram... |
363,898 | 4,888,011 | 86,879 | 10 | I compose ( pun intended ) a message . . . | I guess that it's fitting that since I share a birthday with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , that the movie about him should win Best Picture for the year in which I was born . And is it a great movie ! More than simply focusing on the famous composer's life , it shows how rival composer Antonio Salieri ( F . Murray Abraham ... |
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