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364,532 | 4,888,011 | 71,583 | 10 | Great TV ! | The Groove Tube was one of only two Ken Shapiro movies , the other one being the equally zany " Modern Problems " . This one is just a full-scale parody of TV . Aside from Shapiro - who apparently didn't do anything after " Modern Problems " - the movie also stars Chevy Chase and Henry Winkler's cousin Richard Belzer... |
362,654 | 4,888,011 | 280,707 | 10 | I was rooting for this for Best Picture . | In what may be Robert Altman's best movie since " McCabe and Mrs . Miller " , a plethora of aristocrats and their servants come to an estate in rural England in 1932 for a hunting party . When a murder takes place , it sets the stage for discovering that there's more to these people than anyone realizes . Obviously , t... |
363,452 | 4,888,011 | 60,345 | 10 | You're a great one , Dr . Seuss / You're the king of children's books / They always are the best / In the east and in the west , Dr . Seuss ! | How the Grinch Stole Christmas ! is a wonderful flick / with some truly great lines , it isn't a trick / It could only have come from the great Dr . Seuss / otherwise , the whole thing would've been loose / Narrated by Karloff and directed by Jones / this Grinch is one who elicits no groans / It's the story of one we... |
364,219 | 4,888,011 | 86,873 | 10 | We all know that two heads are better than one , but what about when one of those heads is inside the other ? | Ever seen a movie so zany that you just keep wanting more ? If not , then " All of Me " is it . Edwina Cutwater ( Lily Tomlin ) is a rich woman about to pass on , and Roger Cobb ( Steve Martin ) is the lawyer managing her estate . But just as she dies , something goes screwy and her spirit gets transferred into Roger !... |
363,366 | 4,888,011 | 443,729 | 10 | From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli . . . | Bugs and Daffy : Wartime Cartoons has renowned film critic Leonard Maltin presenting several WWII-themed Looney Tunes cartoons . I had known that Warner Bros . released some cartoons portraying Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck making mincemeat out of Nazis , but I didn't about the ones portraying life back in the states . I... |
365,868 | 4,888,011 | 44,876 | 10 | That's the business world for ya ! | While Hollywood got sort of stagnant during the few years after WWII , England developed a very prolific film industry . In " The Man in the White Suit " , inventor Sidney Stratton ( Alec Guinness ) creates a suit that never gets dirty . Unfortunately , this means that certain other businesses are now likely to go out ... |
365,051 | 4,888,011 | 51,701 | 10 | Space really is deeper than we think . . . and to think that I once thought that Marvin said a certain sexual organ when he said " Venus " ! | When Bugs Bunny , after a miserable night's sleep , accidentally boards a rocket-ship , he inadvertently ends up in the domain of Marvin Martian , who wants to blow up earth . When Bugs steals Marvin's earth-shattering device , Marvin promptly sends some birdlike Martians after Bugs . Sure enough , Bugs is way ahead of... |
364,930 | 4,888,011 | 51,228 | 10 | avian sadism | More of Wile E . Coyote - aka Famishus Vulgaris - coming up with an infinite number of unsuccessful traps to catch Road Runner - aka Birdibus Zippibus . Among the gags here are a shaft to carry a bomb down a hill , a brick wall , and bees . Needless to say , Wile E . always gets what's coming to him . A previous review... |
365,561 | 4,888,011 | 261,392 | 10 | Everything that anyone's ever been awaiting . | For all who have spent their lives waiting for wacky , biting satire , wait no more . " Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back " is here and as funny as can be . Portraying the title characters ( Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith ) trying to stop Hollywood from making an illegal movie based on their lives , the movie is basically a ... |
364,941 | 4,888,011 | 78,902 | 10 | Grazie , everyone ! | We all know that eventually , the children are going to want to do things differently from the parents . " Breaking Away " portrays that to the extreme . Having graduated from high school in Indiana , Dave Stoller ( Dennis Christopher ) is very much into bicycling , and specifically the Cinzano team in Italy . So , hop... |
363,380 | 4,888,011 | 129,387 | 10 | Released in the same year as the Lewinsky thing , how could anyone not think about " hair gel " ? | You may not be prepared for some of the scenes in " There's Something About Mary " ( not the least of which is the zipper scene ) , but you're sure to like them nonetheless . The plot of course has loser Ted Stroehmann ( Ben Stiller ) trying to find high school sweetheart Mary Jensen ( Cameron Diaz ) . However , EVERYO... |
363,968 | 4,888,011 | 51,201 | 10 | You must witness this movie | I have never seen a Billy Wilder movie that I didn't like , and to say that " Witness for the Prosecution " is another example of his masterpieces does not do it justice ( pun not intended ) . In the movie , American Leonard Vole ( Tyrone Power , who died shortly after they finished filming ) is accused of murdering a ... |
363,378 | 4,888,011 | 44,706 | 10 | now this is what I call a western | It has been noted many times that " High Noon " was an allegory for people refusing to stand up to the McCarthy-era blacklist . And a masterpiece at that . Happening circa 1880 , Sheriff Will Kane ( Gary Cooper ) of Hadleyville , New Mexico , has just gotten married to Quaker Amy Fowler ( Grace Kelly ) and is retiring ... |
364,329 | 4,888,011 | 218,839 | 10 | not a dog at all | Functioning as a sort of midpoint between " Waiting for Guffman " and " A Mighty Wind " , " Best in Show " portrays a dog show and the various people who bring their canine friends to participate . Some are weird , some crazy , and otherwise , but they all make the movie good . Director Christopher Guest is particularl... |
363,056 | 4,888,011 | 44,692 | 10 | haste doesn't make waste here ( or should I say that it doesn't make waste " hare " ? ) | Part of what was so great about the classic Looney Tunes cartoons was their irreverence and how they weren't afraid to do anything that they wanted . In this case , Marvin the Martian has an assignment to bring back an earthling . Sure enough , he comes across Bugs Bunny , who warns of a mutiny on the part of Marvin's ... |
363,880 | 4,888,011 | 374,102 | 10 | at least I went scuba diving BEFORE I saw this movie | Why " Open Water " is so good is because it could really happen ( in fact , it was inspired by real events ) . It focuses on a husband and wife who are going scuba diving and get left behind by their tour boat . From there , the predicament only gets worse , as sharks begin to sense that the two people are floating aro... |
365,774 | 4,888,011 | 265,666 | 10 | family life | Obviously , weird / dysfunctional / neurotic families always make for interesting movies , but " The Royal Tenenbaums " may have brought the genre to its zenith . Gene Hackman plays Royal Tenenbaum , the estranged patriarch . Mother Etheline ( Anjelica Huston ) continued raising sons Chas ( Ben Stiller ) and Richie ( L... |
363,414 | 4,888,011 | 78,966 | 10 | Why , we will ( hopefully ) never return to admiring nuclear power | The China Syndrome could not have been released at a better time : twelve days after its release , the infamous screw-up in Three Mile Island happened . But even if that ( and / or Chernobyl ) had never happened , this movie remains an important look at what could happen through mismanagement of nuclear facilities . ... |
365,809 | 4,888,011 | 381,851 | 10 | there are no WMDs | Since I was never a full-scale " LOTR " devotee - although I will agree that Peter Jackson directed a pretty impressive trilogy - I have to say that my favorite moment from " The 76th Annual Academy Awards " was when Sean Penn accepted his Best Actor award for " Mystic River " : he said ( I don't know whether or not th... |
364,920 | 4,888,011 | 71,230 | 10 | A Jewish Indian , a rescued handcart , excessive flatulence , and a very gay movie set ? Only Mel Brooks could do it ! | Cinema reaches its all-time silliest with Mel Brooks ' comedy classic " Blazing Saddles " , in which African-American railroad worker Bart ( Cleavon Little ) becomes sheriff of all-white Rockridge . Governor's assistant Hedley - not Hedy ! - Lamarr ( Harvey Korman ) hopes that the townspeople will want to flee , openin... |
365,249 | 4,888,011 | 465,551 | 10 | the title sounds a little bit like " Snakes on a Plane " | I expect Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett to play very good roles , but I couldn't have predicted the intensity of " Notes on a Scandal " . Portraying school official Barbara ( Dench ) discovering teacher Sheba ( Blanchett ) having an affair with a student and using it against her , the whole thing keeps you on the edge o... |
363,900 | 4,888,011 | 71,222 | 10 | all kinds of crossroads | OK , you've probably heard that Bob Clark's ( RIP ) " Black Christmas " is basically the original slasher movie , the inspiration for John Carpenter's " Halloween " . Well , let me just say that - in response to the tag-line - my skin did actually crawl a little bit during some of the phone calls ! Of course , that doe... |
364,183 | 4,888,011 | 71,221 | 10 | when the brothers ( including Dick Hallorann ) fight . . . | Sort of picking up where " Enter the Dragon " left off , " Black Belt Jones " casts Jim Kelly as African-American martial arts expert " Black Belt " Jones trying to stop the mafia from taking over a martial arts training center once owned by friend Pop Byrd ( Scatman Crothers ) . Obviously , the Me Decade was partly kn... |
363,769 | 4,888,011 | 71,216 | 10 | a person can do a lot with the Depression . . . especially when Capt . Kirk is present | Roger Corman reaffirms himself as one of America's coolest directors with the trashy-but-great " Big Bad Mama " . It's 1932 Texas , and Wilma McClatchie ( Angie Dickinson ) has just lost everything . No problem ! She and her daughters take to the road and go around robbing banks and messing with society , bilking the s... |
362,582 | 4,888,011 | 60,153 | 10 | This , ladies and gentlemen , is the " Citizen Kane " of camp ! | Holy rusted metal , the Dynamic Duo started in a comic masterpiece ! This movie accompanied the wacky TV series . It has Batman ( Adam West ) and Robin ( Burt Ward ) battling Penguin ( Burgess Meredith ) , the Joker ( Cesar Romero ) , the Riddler ( Frank Gorshin ) and Catwoman ( Lee Meriwether ) . And of course , there... |
364,228 | 4,888,011 | 106,308 | 10 | Listen you stuffy screwheads . . . their names are Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell and this movie is their boomstick ! | The third time really is the charm , and " Army of Darkness " proves it incontrovertibly . This time , they just let the movie be what the first two movies were at heart : nice , silly , goofy , wacko , nonsensical fun . Just imagine the Three Stooges starring in a horror flick and you've got " Army of Darkness " . The... |
365,543 | 4,888,011 | 443,453 | 10 | Sacha Baron Cohen make ultra-hilarious movie-film ! You laugh yourself to death ! | I hear some stuff about " Borat : Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan " some before I see it . Then I see it and nearly laugh myself to death . Issa so funny ! They do stuff most people never do in movies . They not worry about being PC , family-friendly , or no stupid thing lik... |
364,353 | 4,888,011 | 94,291 | 10 | the ' 80s , when greed reigned supreme . . . | The main theme of the ' 80s was a complete and total rejection of ' 60s idealism , replacing it with an obsession with money . " Wall Street " shows that . Bud Fox ( Charlie Sheen ) is an up-and-comer in the Wall Street scene . So determined is Bud to make it to the top , that he hooks up with Gordon Gekko ( Michael Do... |
362,784 | 4,888,011 | 209,144 | 10 | like nothing that you've ever seen before | Memento is one of those movies that I fear discussing because I don't know how much I can tell without giving the whole thing away . You might have heard that the story gets told in reverse and that Guy Pearce plays Leonard Shelby , who has a memory problem . People are able to abuse him and all sorts of other horrib... |
365,339 | 4,888,011 | 106,339 | 10 | A long , long time ago , in a country not too far away . . . | I think that it's especially appropriate that " Backbeat " was released right after the 30th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America : everyone was remembering them , and then a really good movie shows their early days . Specifically , it focuses on when they went to Hamburg and met artsy photographer Astrid Kirch... |
365,467 | 4,888,011 | 335,438 | 10 | Wait ' til you see what you can learn by watching it with subtitles ! | I must admit that I'd never heard of " Starsky & Hutch " until the movie came out . But what a movie ! Featuring frequent co-stars Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as the eponymous , ultra-cool cops in 1970s LA , the movie is one crazy thing after another . Snoop Dogg as hoodlum-turned-informant Huggy Bear is a hoot , Vince... |
363,368 | 4,888,011 | 35,861 | 10 | other gremlins , another Bugs | Whereas Joe Dante's holiday classic " Gremlins " portrayed its title characters as evil , conniving little monsters , " Falling Hare " shows a ( slightly ) different side . In this case , Bugs Bunny is reading " Victory Thru Hare Power " when he reads about gremlins sabotaging the airplanes . Naturally , he doesn't bel... |
365,469 | 4,888,011 | 71,315 | 10 | murkier and murkier | In case anyone thought that detective movies died when Humphrey Bogart did , " Chinatown " disproves that . Los Angeles Det . Jake Gittes ( Jack Nicholson ) is assigned to investigate millionaire Hollis Mulwray , but events lead him to a world of corruption and sleaze . Not only is Hollis ' wife Evelyn ( Faye Dunaway )... |
364,157 | 4,888,011 | 51,418 | 10 | As you can see , Steve McQueen was cool from the start ! | You've probably heard the theme song . But whether or not you have , you still gotta see " The Blob " . It's truly a classic sci-fi movie . The acting isn't exactly top-notch , but this is a movie that you're bound to like . The plot goes like this : one night , teenagers Steve Andrews ( Steve McQueen ) and Jane Martin... |
364,931 | 4,888,011 | 44,667 | 10 | they make each other feel like natural women | Yet another litany of Wile E . Coyote maiming himself while trying to trap Road Runner . One of the funniest gags involves Wile E . dressing up as a woman ( sure enough , Road Runner is already ahead of him ) . Sometimes , I wonder why Wile E . doesn't just give , knowing what always happens to him , but I realize that... |
363,616 | 4,888,011 | 236,388 | 10 | I never thought that Spike Lee could do comedy ; boy was I wrong ! | Knowing what Spike Lee's movies have portrayed over the years , I always pictured him as a serious director , never one for comedy . Therefore , I was pleasantly surprised when I saw " The Original Kings of Comedy " . I'd never heard of Steve Harvey , D . L . Hughley , Cedric the Entertainer , or Bernie Mac when the mo... |
365,198 | 4,888,011 | 44,627 | 10 | Insurance companies are always trying to rip people off . | Daffy Duck , ever the shyster , tries to sell Porky Pig an insurance policy with a series of specific , virtually improbable conditions . When Porky doesn't buy it , Daffy tries to set up several hazards around Porky's house , but only succeeds in repeatedly injuring himself . What " Fool Coverage " portrays isn't exac... |
365,808 | 4,888,011 | 60,049 | 10 | How did we ever get by without these movies ( especially when they starred Barbara Steele ) ? | In one of the many Italian horror flicks from the early-to-mid 1960s , lawyer Albert Kovac ( Walter Brandi ) goes to a country estate where it turns out that the owner has been dead for a year . This family buried plague victims hundreds of years earlier . But the owner might have never totally left , and his widow Cle... |
364,856 | 4,888,011 | 44,609 | 10 | the truth about cats and dogs | In a documentary that I saw about Chuck Jones , he talked briefly about " Feed the Kitty " , and the idea that this big brute of a bulldog gets so easily charmed by an innocent little kitten . It's certainly a fascinating idea , and the risk of the kitten getting discovered - or worse - by the dog's owner naturally rai... |
362,961 | 4,888,011 | 106,273 | 10 | Let's think about some contemporary analogies . | 1993 saw two movies about AIDS . The famous one was " Philadelphia " , but " And the Band Played On " is also important , focusing on the virus spreading in the ' 80's and how the Reagan administration acted like it didn't exist . If the movie has any problem , it's the number and range of big names . Matthew Modine as... |
365,500 | 4,888,011 | 252,993 | 10 | another triumph from Will Vinton | Everyone likes a horror spoof , but none are quite like " Claymation Comedy of Horrors Show " . When Wilshire Pig and Sheldon Snail coming across a map detailing the works of Dr . Frankenswine ( who apparently created a monster out of dead bodies ) , they decide to go to the castle where he worked . Sure enough , the c... |
365,860 | 4,888,011 | 52,005 | 10 | This movie should give anyone a positive view of hicks . | Before Andy Griffith became a certain wholesome sheriff , he played some interesting roles on film . " No Time for Sergeants " is a prime example . He plays country bumpkin Will Stockdale , who gets drafted into the army . Once in the army , he just can't do things the way that they want . This may be the end of the ar... |
365,668 | 4,888,011 | 79,641 | 10 | better than the original | This is , in my opinion , the best movie version of Bram Stoker's novel ever , mainly because Werner Herzog decided to give the Count a sexual side . I guess that I needn't explain the story , but I will tell you that Klaus Kinski does a perfect job in the title role . I will always associate him with this role . The o... |
363,524 | 4,888,011 | 79,640 | 10 | 40 ways to play football | Nick Nolte gets the role of a lifetime as the receiver in a Dallas football team whose value to the team may be wearing out . The movie is overall a pretty scathing look at pro sports , showing in one scene how they give a player a shot so that he can keep playing even while injured . But of course , this is Texas , so... |
365,152 | 4,888,011 | 120,885 | 10 | always topical | People may think of " Wag the Dog " as fiction , but time and again , the movie has shown itself to be reality . Whether it was Bush Sr . coming up with the Gulf War to distract people from the Savings and Loans scandal , Clinton threatening military action against Iraq to distract people from the Lewinsky thing , Bush... |
363,288 | 4,888,011 | 86,450 | 10 | the only one that I know | I know that this was a remake of a 1942 Ernst Lubitsch movie , but I've never seen the Lubitsch version . So , the Mel Brooks version of " To Be or Not to Be " is the one that I know . And I really like it . Just as he did in " The Producers " , Mel makes the audience laugh hysterically at the Nazis ( also accomplished... |
363,937 | 4,888,011 | 120,857 | 10 | Cher's last stand | Another masterpiece from Franco Zefferelli ( also the man behind " Romeo and Juliet " ) , " Tea with Mussolini " portrays several English and American expatriate women raising an Italian boy in 1930's Florence . Always ready to reject authority , these women know how to live . It's another great tale of civil disobedie... |
362,663 | 4,888,011 | 36,780 | 10 | you can't go wrong with Daffy and Porky | For years , many of us have been entertained by the Looney Tunes . Part of those lovable cartoon characters ' repertoires has been the stuttering Porky Pig's endless efforts to trap the sneaky Daffy Duck . In " Duck Soup to Nuts " , Porky is hunting Daffy , but of course Daffy keeps figuring out ways to mess up Porky's... |
362,879 | 4,888,011 | 114,369 | 10 | 7 is not the lucky number for some people | You have probably never seen a particularly ugly murder until you see " Se7en " . Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman play Det . David Mills and Det . William Somerset , respectively , who are investigating a series of murders involving the Seven Deadly Sins . No person can possibly describe how awful and vicious it is , what... |
365,687 | 4,888,011 | 52,080 | 10 | some people have to change roles | At its most basic , Andrzej Wajda's " Popiol i diament " ( called " Ashes and Diamonds " in English ) may seem to be a look at where Poland would be going after WWII ended . The plot involves young Maciek Chelmicki ( Zbigniew Cybulski ) , who has helped expel the Nazis from Poland . With the Soviet Union now taking ove... |
363,641 | 4,888,011 | 105,601 | 10 | Forget " Titanic " ; this is the one to see . | So the ship sank on its maiden voyage . We all know that , but " Titanica " is quite an impressive documentary . They not only talk about the actual sinking , but we also see the ship's remains on the ocean floor . It's neat and haunting at the same time . And believe you me , this is truly THE documentary that could o... |
363,749 | 4,888,011 | 86,465 | 10 | You see ? Capitalism can be funny ! | There exist so many movies about white yuppies teaming up with black ghetto guys , that the genre seems obscured . But " Trading Places " is the movie that started it all . When commodities brokers Mortimer ( Ralph Bellamy ) and Randolph Duke ( Don Ameche ) decide to test the old nature-vs-nurture debate , they switch ... |
365,227 | 4,888,011 | 44,516 | 10 | Actually , it's a good thing ( for us , that is ) that he didn't fly south earlier ! | While flying south later than he should have , Daffy Duck accidentally crashes into Porky Pig's house . Inside , he meets an uncommunicative duck . One thing leads to another until Daffy vows to beat the stuffings out of the duck . The only thing is , he literally does , at which point he realizes that it was a stuffed... |
363,020 | 4,888,011 | 120,901 | 10 | Could either of them have been her father ? | If it stars Leslie Nielsen , you know that it's just a totally silly spoof . In this case , they're spoofing " The Fugitive " , with Nielsen as a witless violinist framed for murder . Of , this is just a springboard for a nonsense gag every couple of seconds , often meaning that figures of speech become literal . Or so... |
365,064 | 4,888,011 | 972,369 | 10 | murder was nothing ; everybody killed someone ( but in some ways , things haven't changed much ) | We've probably all heard of the period in European history between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance . But unless we see this documentary , we can't even begin to understand how unpleasant it was ( and what we see here is probably tame compared to how things really were ) . " The Dark Ages " shows how Rome's collaps... |
364,622 | 4,888,011 | 95,159 | 10 | something's fishy ( in a good way ) | Portraying a heist gone awry , " A Fish Called Wanda " goes all out in every way possible . Maybe the whole thing is little more than an excuse for a bunch of silly situations , but they have some great ones here . Whether it's John Cleese's dance , Kevin Kline's rips at England , Michael Palin's stuttering , or Jamie ... |
362,970 | 4,888,011 | 71,141 | 10 | Germany having to come to grips with it's past . | Rainer Werner Fassbinder may have been post-war Germany's greatest director , and " Fear Eats the Soul " is one of the many movies that shows it . Emmi Kurowski ( Brigitte Mira ) is a middle-aged woman who falls for young Arab immigrant Ali ( El Hedi ben Salem ) , to the dismay of her friends and relatives . Emmi and A... |
365,491 | 4,888,011 | 365,748 | 10 | What exactly is " Spaced " ? | I've read a lot about how " Shaun of the Dead " borrows a lot from a TV show called " Spaced " . I have to admit that I've never heard of " Spaced " . But even so , this movie is still really great . More than just a zombie movie - or even just a spoof - it's sort of a look at how various factors in our lives make us z... |
365,348 | 4,888,011 | 86,312 | 10 | We're all nuked and going to Hell . | Apparently , when " Silkwood " came out , Mike Nichols hadn't released a notable movie since " The Fortune " nearly killed his career eight years earlier . If we call this his comeback , then it was sure a good comeback . Donning one of her many accents from over the years - in this case Oklahoman - Meryl Streep plays ... |
364,996 | 4,888,011 | 365,737 | 10 | For anyone who's ever wondered about geopolitics . | On September 11 , 2001 , we were all asking why they hate us . " Syriana " looks at why . Taking the same gritty approach to geopolitics that " Traffic " took to the drug trade , the movie portrays several intertwined stories all relating to events in the Middle East . There's CIA agent Bob Barnes ( George Clooney ) , ... |
364,067 | 4,888,011 | 36,676 | 10 | Adam and Bugs | OMG ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! They actually managed to stick in a nearly nude scene ! Yes , it's just one scene , but it's always amazing what they sneaked into these cartoons ( hell , Porky Pig walked around half naked ) . Bob Clampett's " Buckaroo Bugs " casts Bugs Bunny as an Old West bandit pursued by witless lawman Red Hot ... |
363,456 | 4,888,011 | 36,680 | 10 | Anyone can " bear " it . . . | You can tell that " Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears " was a pretty early Looney Tunes cartoon , but it has held up well through the years . It has the Three Bears trying to attract Goldilocks with carrot soup , but attracting Bugs Bunny instead . You can probably guess what sorts of things happen from there . A particul... |
364,779 | 4,888,011 | 71,115 | 10 | At first , I thought that Jodie Foster was a boy . | In what may be his most unusual movie , Martin Scorsese tells the story of Alice Hyatt ( Ellen Burstyn ) , a woman who is looking for a new direction in life . So , she and her son Tommy move to Phoenix , where she feels that she may have a shot at greatness . As a singing waitress , she struggles to make something of ... |
363,505 | 4,888,011 | 59,903 | 10 | Everything's new in this movie ! | What's New , Pussycat ? is a comedy flick very typical of the mid ' 60s : totally madcap to the point where you feel like the world has been turned inside out . Focusing on a womanizer ( Peter O'Toole ) trying to get help from an even more lecherous psychiatrist ( Peter Sellers ) , they just go all out and pull every... |
364,093 | 4,888,011 | 71,129 | 10 | Fellini always had something to offer | Most of Federico Fellini's movies were deliberately bizarre , but " Amarcord " is toned down slightly . That doesn't mean that it's not good . On the contrary , it's another masterpiece . In this case , he focuses on a small town in 1930s Italy , as seen from the eyes of a teenage boy . It's a world of Mussolini's fasc... |
364,019 | 4,888,011 | 79,813 | 10 | Long live rebellion ! | Rock ' n ' Roll High School will probably have to go down in history as the ultimate rebellious party flick . Portraying a bunch of high school students using the Ramones ' music as inspiration to rise up against their despotic principal ( Mary Woronov , of " Eating Raoul " fame ) , the whole movie is a mile a minute... |
363,700 | 4,888,011 | 86,373 | 10 | Canada's " Crocodile Dundee " | Before I saw " The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie : Strange Brew " , I knew nothing about Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas doing a comedy skit as a pair of archetypal Canadian brothers . But even if you don't know the comedy skit , the movie's still really funny , as the dopey McKenzie brothers try to stop nefarious Bre... |
365,709 | 4,888,011 | 86,374 | 10 | With " American Graffiti " ' s drag racer , " Carrie " ' s creep , Christina Crawford , a certain character actor , and Nurse Ratched , just guess . | It's " Back to the Future " meets " Invasion of the Body Snatchers " when a woman goes to her hometown in the Midwest but doesn't return . Her husband ( Paul LeMat ) goes there and discovers that aliens took it over 25 years earlier with the government's complicity ! To complicate things just a little further , we find... |
364,256 | 4,888,011 | 24,601 | 10 | one can see the possible inspiration for Gilligan and the Skipper | No one can deny that Laurel and Hardy were THE comic duo . " Sons of the Desert " is one of many movies showing this . This one has them as members of a Shriners-like society attending a convention against the wishes of their strict wives . While it was obvious that Stan and Ollie's wives were going to somehow discover... |
362,944 | 4,888,011 | 36,613 | 10 | Oh that Cary Grant ! | You have never seen anything like " Arsenic and Old Lace " . Mortimer Brewster's ( Cary Grant ) aunts Abby ( Josephine Hull ) and Martha ( Jean Adair ) have a most unusual habit : they like to poison lonely people with arsenic ( they're going to die anyway , the two old ladies remind us ) . Well , when Mortimer finds o... |
363,983 | 4,888,011 | 1,322,287 | 10 | Really funny ! | Stephen Colbert , in his persona from " The Colbert Report " , gets stranded in a cabin when he has to do a Christmas special , only to get visited by several acquaintances ( all the while trapped by a bear ) . While I wouldn't call this Christmas special quite as funny as Colbert's show , it's still a hoot . More than... |
363,161 | 4,888,011 | 44,404 | 10 | the chase continues | OK , so in any Wile E . Coyote-Road Runner cartoons , we know that WEC is going to set up all sorts of traps for RR , but always maim himself in various ways . That certainly happens in " Beep , Beep " . Predictable ? I guess that it is , but when you think about it , these cartoons show how the more you try to harm so... |
363,747 | 4,888,011 | 95,031 | 10 | They're not conning you : this movie is hilarious ! | Given how great " Dirty Rotten Scoundrels " is , it's surprising that Steve Martin and Michael Caine haven't collaborated a second time . They play con men Freddy Benson and Lawrence Jamieson , respectively , both vying for the heart of tourist Janet Colgate ( Glenne Headly ) in the French Riviera . But boy do they hav... |
365,885 | 4,888,011 | 59,825 | 10 | this train is no mystery | John Frankenheimer directed Burt Lancaster in a troika of really good movies : " The Birdman of Alcatraz " , " The Train " and " Seven Days in May " . " The Train " tells the story of some French Resistance fighters trying to stop the Nazis from seizing the country's great art collection by stopping their train . Lanca... |
364,072 | 4,888,011 | 86,197 | 10 | I saw Yuri Gagarin's grave in Red Square . | Based on Tom Wolfe's novel , " The Right Stuff " shows the lives and occupations of the astronauts involved in America's space race with the Soviet Union . Chuck Yeager ( Sam Shepard ) , Alan Shepard ( Scott Glenn ) , John Glenn ( Ed Harris ) , Gordon Cooper ( Fred Ward ) , and Gus Grissom ( Dennis Quaid ) all see fit ... |
364,786 | 4,888,011 | 79,367 | 10 | What a life ! | Steve Martin plays Navin Johnson , a loser who hits it big when he designs an unusual set of glasses . I don't know whether this was Martin's funniest performance ever , or even whether this was his funniest movie Carl Reiner-directed movie ( the others are " Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid " , " The Man with Two Brains " an... |
364,449 | 4,888,011 | 51,744 | 10 | I'd stay in that house | I guess that it's debatable whether or not Vincent Price was the greatest horror star ever , but " House on Haunted Hill " certainly suggests so . He plays Frederick Loren , who is offering five people $10 , 000 each to stay in a possibly haunted mansion overnight . Part of the deal is that no one is allowed to leave .... |
363,705 | 4,888,011 | 426,578 | 10 | everyone needs to challenge every government | I had never heard of Sophia Scholl before I saw " Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage " , but I can say that the events portrayed in this movie should be interpreted as an allusion to the current state of affairs , whether or not they were intended as such . Sophia Magdalena Scholl ( Julia Jentsch ) was a student , staunc... |
363,229 | 4,888,011 | 51,737 | 10 | Wile E . Coyote meets Rube Goldberg | No matter how many times Wile Ethelbert " Famishius Famishius " Coyote tries to get Road " Burnius Roadibus " Runner , we always know what's going to happen , though our sympathy always remains with WEC . The highlight in " Hook , Line and Stinker " is a Rube Goldberg-style scheme that WEC hopes will finally finish off... |
365,271 | 4,888,011 | 114,608 | 10 | knight musn't fall | Continuing with " Tales from the Crypt " ' s campy approach to everything , " Demon Knight " portrays an evil weirdo named The Collector ( Billy Zane ) chasing a guy ( William Brayker ) to an isolated hotel , where he unleashes a demon army on the inhabitants . They're clearly having fun with everything , especially wi... |
365,496 | 4,888,011 | 51,726 | 10 | Looks like gin and tonic requires gin ! | More of Wile E . Coyote's perpetually unsuccessful , self-harming attempts to trap Road Runner in an unidentified part of the American Southwest . As can be expected , there's no shortage of dynamite here , but there's also boulders , a grenade , and even a form of tonic containing some most unusual vitamins . You gott... |
363,450 | 4,888,011 | 94,947 | 10 | You can see why France had its revolution . | Stephen Frears directs a top-notch movie adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos ' novel about several manipulative Rococo-era French aristocrats . Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil ( Glenn Close ) is a seductively evil character who will stop at nothing to get what she wants . Vicomte Sebastien de Valmont ( John Malkovich ) kno... |
363,538 | 4,888,011 | 44,198 | 10 | this cartoon has the luck of the Irish | One stormy night , Porky Pig is hiking through the Irish countryside to Dublin , but it's still twelve miles . Then , he comes across a castle and decides to spend the night there . When he arrives , the owner warns him that no one has lived in this castle for hundreds of years except for . . . The Leprechauns . Needle... |
364,694 | 4,888,011 | 70,707 | 10 | Would you imagine a sci-fi movie starring Woody Allen ? | In one of his coolest movies , Woody Allen plays Miles Monroe , who got cryogenically frozen in the 20th century , only to get brought back to life two hundred years later . The plot actually involves an organization trying to overthrow the government , but the movie is mostly an excuse to be zany . And I don't just me... |
363,105 | 4,888,011 | 304,141 | 10 | thank God that changing directors didn't diminish the movie's quality | Now that Harry ( Daniel Radcliffe ) is in his third year , he has new things with which to contend : Defense against the Dark Arts teacher Remus Lupin ( David Thewlis ) and escaped prisoner Sirius Black ( Gary Oldman ) , in jail for murdering Harry's parents . When I read the book , I realized at the end that there was... |
364,527 | 4,888,011 | 51,825 | 10 | Rabbits of a round table . | We all know King Arthur , but what if Bugs Bunny was his court jester ? Quite simply , the king - disappointed at his knights chickening out ( in more way than one ) - would send Bugs to fetch the Singing Sword kept by the Black Knight , aka Yosemite Sam . And that's just what happens in " Knighty Knight Bugs " . Speci... |
364,033 | 4,888,011 | 350,258 | 10 | how he inhibits the role | Whenever they make a biopic , we have every reason to be overjoyed as well as doubtful : for every " Malcolm X " , there's a biopic comparable to , say , the movies in which Eddie Murphy starred in the early ' 90s . " Ray " is a masterpiece . Jamie Foxx pulls off the seemingly impossible task of playing Ray Charles . F... |
364,472 | 4,888,011 | 94,862 | 10 | You're such a doll | One of the many horror movies - spawning series - that arose in the 1980s , " Child's Play " is a true pleasure to watch . Obviously , it's not the most polished horror flick , but who watches these movies for that ? The point is to see the killer do his stuff , and Chucky does just that . The cast includes Catherine H... |
362,605 | 4,888,011 | 114,682 | 10 | Even drag queen movies know how to look at small towns without being mean . | When we went to the theater to see this , we had no idea how good it was going to be . More than just a " drag queen movie " , it shows how the three drag queens in question are able to help the people in this small town . I will say that of the three cast members , Patrick Swayze looks the most like he can play a drag... |
364,247 | 4,888,011 | 36,508 | 10 | note : that translation couldn't have been Hawaiian | If you thought that you'd seen every stranded - on - an - uncharted - island scenario , think again . When a pair of castaways ( voiced by and resembling Tedd Pierce and Michael Maltese ) wash up on an island and find Bugs Bunny , they quickly try to turn him into a meal , only to have him play every possible trick on ... |
363,317 | 4,888,011 | 70,666 | 10 | cop an attitude | Hot off " The Godfather " , Al Pacino got the equally good role of New York cop Frank Serpico , who exposed corruption in the NYPD . The movie really gives one an insight into the Big Apple in the late ' 60s and early ' 70s , and we see how Serpico was basically the only cop on the force who took his job seriously . Ev... |
362,889 | 4,888,011 | 79,470 | 10 | Ave Monty Python ! | This is , in my opinion , the best religious movie ever made . Monty Python's Flying Circus knows how to do everything hilariously . Focusing on Brian Cohen ( Graham Chapman ) , who gets mistaken for the messiah in Judea in 33 AD , the movie pokes fun at everything : Romans , Jews , imperialism , even extraterrestrials... |
363,707 | 4,888,011 | 343,737 | 10 | Welcome to the CI | For years , I had read about the CIA's dirty tricks , but it never totally clicked in my mind what sort of people must work there . Robert DeNiro's " The Good Shepherd " shows what kind of people , and the movie does a masterful job at it . We start in April , 1961 , when the US is launching an the Bay of Pigs invasion... |
362,974 | 4,888,011 | 86,066 | 10 | It actually did stay pretty faithful to the book . And it shows that Tom Cruise was better before he got into cool guy roles . | People often debate which was Francis Ford Coppola's best movie ever : one of the " Godfather " movies or " Apocalypse Now " . While I would argue for the latter , I would also like to say that " The Outsiders " should be # 2 . This movie is so great that I can't describe it . Told from the perspective of Ponyboy Curti... |
362,731 | 4,888,011 | 70,908 | 10 | total political satire | I don't know specifically whether " The Werewolf of Washington " was intended as a political satire , but it sure comes across as such . It probably helped that the movie was released around the time of Watergate ( and at one point , we even get a glimpse of that very building ) . The opening voice-over monologue begin... |
364,846 | 4,888,011 | 79,489 | 10 | Even though I didn't see the whole thing . . . | . . . what I saw was funny enough . Featuring a tan-less George Hamilton as Count Vladimir Dracula looking for a bride in 1970s New York , the movie is basically an excuse to be silly . His bride to be in this case is Cindy Sondheim ( Susan St . James ) , and Richard Benjamin is his usual funny self as Dr . Jeffrey Ros... |
363,726 | 4,888,011 | 350,448 | 10 | The only way that I'll ever know Bill Maher ( and I have my own new rules ) . | I never saw Bill Maher's previous show " Politically Incorrect " , but I know that it got canceled when Maher stepped outside the party line in discussions about ( of course I consider it a credit to have gotten canceled for challenging the zeitgeist ) . So , I have been watching " Real Time with Bill Maher " - and see... |
365,433 | 4,888,011 | 79,540 | 10 | meat's meat , and man's gotta eat . . . or rather , man's gotta watch " Meatballs " | Once upon a time , Bill Murray didn't play serious roles , just goofy ones . " Meatballs " is one of the best , funniest examples . It's basically and hour and a half of complete silliness , with Murray as a counselor at a Canadian summer camp . If the movie has any problem , it's that the movie spawned a seemingly inf... |
364,526 | 4,888,011 | 191,636 | 10 | raises some good questions | Focusing on murderer Neel Auguste's ( Emir Kusturica ) redemption while awaiting his execution , " La Veuve de Saint-Pierre " ( called " The Widow of Saint-Pierre " in English ) raises some good questions . The townspeople are forced to ask themselves whether or not it's a good idea to execute him now that he is making... |
363,560 | 4,888,011 | 36,444 | 10 | none of this or this or this ( but lots of the cartoon , please ) | Few of the Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies shorts dealt with physical activities more hilariously than " To Duck . . . or Not to Duck " , as over-energetic Daffy challenges gullible Elmer to a boxing match weighed heavily in his own favor . If you thought that the White Sox scandal of 1919 was screwed up , then you ain'... |
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