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384,531 | 391,152 | 120,735 | 1 | Quite possibly the worst film ever made | This movie is so bad , it is an insult to all those films it ripped off , particularly Reservoir Dogs , which I didn't even like all that much anyway . I know the director claimed that he never saw any of Tarantino's films , and it actually shows in just how terrible Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was . Let's see ,... |
385,154 | 391,152 | 116,059 | 1 | Most appropriate title ever | More thought should have gone into the title for this film . They had to have known it was awful when they were making it . I saw it because I was a fan of Kinnear's from his Talk Soup days . It is absolutely worthless , though , other than one transcendent moment : Rue McClanahan , Blanche from the Golden Girls , is g... |
385,390 | 391,152 | 1,091,617 | 1 | If I . D . proponents were hoping to look smart by making this movie , boy are they crazy ! | It's common knowledge that actor and game show host Ben Stein was a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon , but does anyone know if he was a good speechwriter ? Judging from his new documentary , Expelled , which argues that the discussion of intelligent design is barred from academia , Stein couldn't hold an argume... |
385,302 | 391,152 | 71,571 | 1 | Give me an L ! Give me an A ! Give me an M ! And give me and E ! What does that spell ? | LAME ! This movie is incredibly lame ! Before the car chase begins , the story makes no sense whatsoever . I was sitting there waiting for the famed car chase , yawning a bit . And then it came . And then , forty grueling minutes later , it was over . If I were not watching it with a friend , I would have turned it off... |
385,565 | 391,152 | 119,711 | 1 | Art for dummies | If Andrei Tarkovsky had been a hack , he would have directed Mother and Son instead of Mirror . This is the single most pretentious film made anywhere in the world , I am convinced . A son , without a name , takes care of his mother , without a name . They love each other , I guess . No , they don't , I'm sure . These ... |
385,620 | 391,152 | 395,699 | 1 | Godawful ! | Egads ! There probably won't be a worse movie than this in 2005 . If there is , I hope to God I miss it . Vin Diesel stars as a Navy SEAL assigned to take care of some dead operative's kids and find a secret location in their home . The plot is ludicrous and completely illogical . No one acts like a real human being . ... |
385,755 | 391,152 | 424,823 | 2 | God awful | I can never wrap my head around the careers of Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant . On television , their work is some of the best comedy of the past couple of decades : The State , Viva Variety ! , and , their triumph , Comedy Central's Reno 911 . But when they write movies , the results are well nigh unwatchable . I... |
385,613 | 391,152 | 372,873 | 2 | The Koreans give us an Uwe Boll movie | Completely retarded Lord of the Rings rip-off , supposedly based on a Korean legend . The movie was made by Koreans , but it was aimed at American audiences . Please let this not be a trend . This is one of the most inept films I've ever sat through . Dull , terribly edited and directed , with an incomprehensible plot ... |
385,424 | 391,152 | 277,371 | 2 | A very poor movie indeed | The film is supposed to make fun of lame teenage comedies like She's All That , American Pie , even back to The Breakfast Club ( although I kind of like that one ) . Why ? Those are comedies in the first place . If a comedy is unfunny , then what are the chances that its spoof will be funny ? There are maybe one or two... |
384,641 | 391,152 | 300,051 | 2 | Terrible ! | I've always liked Kevin Smith , if not a lot , but I never imagined he would sink so low . He completely co-opts his talents to make a romantic comedy so sickly sweet that I thought my eyes were going to stick in the back of my head . Ben Affleck gives a performance that should effectively torpedo what's left of his fl... |
385,520 | 391,152 | 276,033 | 2 | Gag ! | The reason I always get so ped off at those who demand that all the imdb ratings they give average out to 5 . 5 ( or , if their math skills are poor , 5 ) is because I am rather sure that most people are smart enough to avoid movies like The Country Bears , thus missing the type of movies that would make a Bell Curve r... |
384,996 | 391,152 | 3,489 | 2 | SPOILERS , although I promise you that you won't care | This couldn't have even been popular in its day . It's incredibly incompetent . I can forgive the total lack of cinematic devices . This is , after all , pre-Griffith . But there's no imagination in the film whatsoever , not a wink of it . In fact , the novel on which it's based was written by a total idiot . Only one ... |
385,759 | 391,152 | 127,349 | 2 | One of the worst films of the past few years | I can't believe the amount of positive comments on this film . It is poorly directed , acted and written . It wants to be a love story , but the relationship is unbelievable . The characters themselves are inconsistent and live only in a script . The politics are pathetic - it's like the screenwriter heard some stuff a... |
385,018 | 391,152 | 382,625 | 3 | Critics were right : it stinks , big time ! | The critical reaction to this film was just vile , but then a lot of normal people who saw it afterward said , " Nah , it's pretty good . " I'm here to tell you that the initial critical reception was right on the money for this one . It's God-awful . A symbologist and a cryptologist ( two fields of study which probabl... |
385,882 | 391,152 | 105,201 | 3 | Awful | A really bad little film from Cameroon , one of the sloppiest I've ever seen . The plot concerns a teenage girl who wants to be a man . A witch changes her , and then he spends the rest of the movie trying to get laid . It's riddled with many annoying penis jokes . The script doesn't even remember that the guy used to ... |
384,931 | 391,152 | 258,100 | 3 | I'm a Mr . Show fan , and this definitely sucks | This film is based on characters from the mid-to-late ' 90s HBO sketch comedy show Mr . Show , which starred Bob Odenkirk and David Cross . Mr . Show , which I just rewatched in its entirety in the past couple of weeks , has a reputation as being one of the best sketch comedy shows ever . Personally , I wouldn't rank i... |
385,374 | 391,152 | 204,495 | 3 | Nonsensical | This is quite an awful film , directed by an allegedly famous Brazilian director , Paulo Cezar Saraceni , and starring several actors really popular in that country . To me , the direction seemed terribly amateurish ( the editing even moreso ) and the actors seemed too good to be acting in pornography . It is a biopic ... |
384,600 | 391,152 | 70,290 | 3 | A really terrible movie | The story is good enough : two sailors are ordered to take a younger sailor from Virginia to New Hampshire to a brig . There he'll serve eight years for a ridiculously minor offence , trying to steal $40 from a charity box . On the way there , they try to show him a good times and have some adventures . But the style o... |
384,565 | 391,152 | 66,492 | 3 | A movie based on a costume from 2001 that someone found in the garbage | Joan Crawford's infamously bad swan song , the story of an anthropologist ( Crawford ) who makes a study of a missing link , whom she dubs " Trog " ( short for " troglodyte " ) . The film is extremely cheap and cheesy . Hey , I like extremely cheap and cheesy . If it were only that , I probably would love the movie . B... |
385,906 | 391,152 | 305,669 | 3 | Painfully lame comedy | Man , who allows scripts like this to be made into movies ? Is it really that funny to hear a Jewish guy speak in black slang and an old white guy pretend he's African American ? Why didn't they just put Steve Martin in blackface ? This film is far more offensive than Al Jolson singing ' Mammy , ' let me tell you . I f... |
384,859 | 391,152 | 403,358 | 3 | Simply terrible ! | The most expensive film ever made in Russia . And what a tremendous waste of money it was , too ! It's a fantasy / horror flick about ? I don't know , something , I guess . Some people called " Others " exist among humanity . There are light Others and dark Others , and they apparently keep the world in balance . The m... |
384,704 | 391,152 | 449,059 | 3 | What the . . . Terrible ! | I don't know where to begin with this one . It starts off well enough , and goes on that way for fifty minutes or so . Never great , I'd say , but it's a perfectly acceptable little indie comedy . Alan Arkin and Steve Carell are both excellent , and Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear are fine , too . But then it takes a ma... |
384,742 | 391,152 | 102,536 | 3 | Pointless | I was first introduced to director Jim Jarmusch with Dead Man , and I loathed it . I thought that I had never before seen such an utterly pointless or pretentious movie in my life , and I probably never would again . It was many years later I ventured to watch another Jarmusch film . The second was Stranger Than Paradi... |
385,750 | 391,152 | 408,839 | 3 | Ugly and misogynistic . What happened to the Farrelly Brothers ? | It's way too bad about the Farrelly Brothers . It looked like they were going to be the great comedians of modern cinema after their first three films , Dumb & Dumber , Kingpin and There's Something about Mary , but all of their subsequent films have been disappointments . Me , Myself and Irene , Shallow Hal , Stuck on... |
385,227 | 391,152 | 477,347 | 3 | Awful script mucks good idea | The idea of this was fun and promising : the new night guard at the natural history museum discovers that all the exhibits come to life at night . The previews were even actually amusing . Unfortunately , the script is just painfully awful . It sets up all these rules in this universe and doesn't even try to follow the... |
384,750 | 391,152 | 241,527 | 3 | How to take advantage of your children's naivety for the sake of cold cash . . . | I have , in all my life as a lover of both literature and the cinema , hardly ever come upon a piece of work more unimaginative , more ugly , more uninteresting , more lacking in suspense , more lacking in charm , more greedy , more incoherent . . . Okay , okay . I'll stop with the superlative negatives . Surely there ... |
385,615 | 391,152 | 432,021 | 3 | First film I saw on Blu Ray . Hi-def doesn't make it any better | If nothing else , this movie will be a landmark in my film viewing life : it was the first movie I ever saw on Blu Ray ( a buddy bought a Playstation 3 ) . If not for that , I'm sure it'd be one for the dustbin of my memory . Granted , it's hard to judge fairly when I never saw the first two installments of this based-... |
385,929 | 391,152 | 2,898 | 3 | Of almost no worth | It's always a tricky thing to adapt great novels into films ( I haven't read it , by the way , but I know of its fame ) . Some filmmakers , well , producers , especially , but also directors , have this notion that if the novel is famous and / or great , the film is liable to be great , too , or , at the very least , p... |
385,109 | 391,152 | 473,488 | 3 | Just how many times can we sit through this same , tired story ? | Insufferable . Sure , it's autobiographical , but when your autobiography just reiterates the same story that we've seen in the movie theaters seven dozen times since Martin Scorsese made Mean Streets , why bother telling it ? The movie is about a young Italian man growing up in a tough New York neighborhood ( this tim... |
385,000 | 391,152 | 29,682 | 3 | Unbelievably terrible ! | Sorry to say it , Topper fans , but I found this movie to be utterly , utterly lame ! Cary Grant and Constance Bennett play a fun-loving married couple who like to down the booze . One day they drive their fancy car off the road and die . They can't go to Heaven until they complete one good deed . So they attempt to re... |
385,145 | 391,152 | 356,618 | 3 | Would be better off forgotten itself ( possible spoilers ) | Almost a textbook example of what a film critic would refer to as ' underbaked ' . The Forgotten is a conspiracy thriller with one half a good idea behind it . Even more unfortunately , behind that half a good idea lies piss poor script development . So that takes it down to half of a half of a film that had some poten... |
385,297 | 391,152 | 203,632 | 3 | A 10 . 0 on the pretention scale | SPOILERS SPOILERS Oh Christ ! My worst fears came true ! Tom Tykwer was told so often by both critics and audiences that he was a freakin ' genius that he actually believed it . Of course , his previous film was Run Lola Run , a smash hit on the festival circuit , and subsequently in the video stores , a couple of year... |
385,159 | 391,152 | 404,032 | 3 | The most offensive movie of 2005 | If not the most poorly made film of the year , it is indeed the most insulting , offensive , idiotic and just plain evil film of the year . It is , in fact , the absolute worst movie of 2005 . What makes this one particularly sting is that I was completely familiar with the true story it is based on , that of the Germa... |
385,570 | 391,152 | 62,407 | 3 | Wow , am I ever of a different opinion from the majority on this movie ! | It's easily the worst I've seen in months . It was hitting notes that were really hurting my ears , and it kept hitting those same notes over and over and over and over again . I thought I was going to die . I can't believe I even finished it . I passed the excruciating two hours by creating an elaborate fantasy wherei... |
385,924 | 391,152 | 265,666 | 3 | An embarrassment for everyone involved | Ugh ! The Royal Tenenbaums can be blamed on one of two reasons . You know , I think Rushmore is a fine film , but it was far overpraised . Because of its outrageous success , Wes Anderson was probably so sure of himself that he didn't even bother to do any rewrites on his new film , of which it needs at least a dozen a... |
385,969 | 391,152 | 458,525 | 3 | Nooooooooooooooooooo ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! | Way to start the summer , Marvel . This is a prequel to a series of mostly decent comic book movies - I'd rank the second one , X2 , as maybe the second or third best comic book movie ever . It concerns the origin of the series ' most popular character , Wolverine . Well , that's kind of a lie . It's not really that co... |
384,776 | 391,152 | 456,554 | 3 | Can only barely count as a movie | Lame pot-inspired comedy produced by Adam Sandler . The low quality of this flick makes me long for the relatively well made Sandler vehicles of the 1990s . Grandma's Boy just feels like a bunch of potheads gathered together and crapped out half a script that they wrote while giggling through clouds of smoke . Things p... |
385,846 | 391,152 | 852,713 | 4 | Not especially offensive , but quite lame | Playboy Bunny Anna Faris attaches herself to a sorority full of losers in this Adam Sandler production . That should tell you in itself that this isn't a very good movie , because Sandler's Happy Madison production company has produced some egregious crap over the past few years . The House Bunny is a masterpiece compa... |
385,611 | 391,152 | 780,608 | 4 | Lame | Lame pot comedy about a girl ( Anna Farris ) who gets high , eats a bunch of cupcakes which , unbeknownst to her , have pot in them , and then becomes really , really high . The movie follows her as she stumbles about , trying to acquire more pot and then to pay off her dealer . But , being high and all , she doesn't q... |
385,777 | 391,152 | 120,338 | 4 | Something amiss . . . | I understand why every Dick and Jane on the planet liked this , but why did the critics give it such good reviews ? I mean , it is not , contrary to popular opinion , the worst movie ever made ( although , yes , it may be the most overhyped , although The Matrix and Star Wars : Episode 1 are huge contenders ) . It is m... |
385,009 | 391,152 | 52,611 | 4 | One of the last films Willis O'Brien made , but it isn't a very good movie | Giant radioactive monsters , while apparently preferring Tokyo , do occasionally attack other major cities , whether they be San Francisco in It Came from Beneath the Sea , or London , as in this movie . This one , called the behemoth , I think is referred to as a plesiosaur but looks more apatosaurus-like . The Giant ... |
385,661 | 391,152 | 221,218 | 4 | Maybe the least thrilling thriller ever made | The major mistake of the filmmakers here was to make this film a thriller at all . It would have been better as just a drama . Still , it wouldn't have worked well at all . The film is paper thin in every way , and , as they did set out to make a thriller , it has no suspense whatsoever . I had great hopes for Leelee S... |
385,133 | 391,152 | 318,761 | 4 | Terrible ! Skip it ! | Extremely phoney-feeling indie about a disaffected youth who has a secret habit of sucking his thumb . This quirky character is surrounded by many other quirky characters and blah blah blah . Who the hell cares ? Mills ( and / or novelist Walter Kirn ) get pretty much everything wrong here . Everything feels forced and... |
385,454 | 391,152 | 97,383 | 4 | Stay away from the American DV | I'm not prepared to pass any kind of harsh judgement against this film , because the DVD that Netflix has is pretty awful , and the American version is severely edited . From what I did see , however , the direction of this Francis of Assisi biopic isn't that good . Liliana Cavani , most famous for her exploitation fil... |
385,603 | 391,152 | 46,022 | 4 | Against the grain | Sorry people , but I really hated this movie . I found it dull and I found the characters incredibly banal . It's not unprecedented . I also disliked Ophuls La Ronde , made three years before this film . The next time I want to see a well made French romance , I'll go slumming with Rene Clair . And , people , the next ... |
385,012 | 391,152 | 455,538 | 4 | Crap | Based on the autobiographical tale of writer Toby Young , this film follows a British writer ( renamed Sidney Young , played by Simon Pegg ) who is hired by a major magazine in New York . To work there , though , Pegg must soften up his edges and lose his soul . The model for the movie is La Dolce Vita , referenced dir... |
384,668 | 391,152 | 41,604 | 4 | Bordering on torture | Love Happy is not one of the first Marx Brothers pictures that you're going to want to watch . In fact , you had better be a Marx Brothers enthusiast if you plan to get through this one without being bored to tears . Myself , this is only the second one of their films that I've seen , the first being the hilarious Duck... |
384,778 | 391,152 | 87,451 | 4 | Crud | Awful Star Wars knock-off with a slightly more comic tinge . Robert Urich stars as the leader of a group of ice pirates , who steal ice because water is the most valuable substance in the universe now ( how all the poor people stay alive is a mystery ) . He hooks up with Mary Crosby ( Bing's daughter , around 25 and a ... |
384,587 | 391,152 | 784,972 | 4 | Lame | This was kind of a test watch , the first film I watched through Netflix's instant watch option . I didn't expect this film to be that good , and I didn't want to waste a place in my queue for it . My instincts were correct about the film's quality . Bob Odenkirk , one of the funniest men who ever lived , hasn't had gr... |
385,817 | 391,152 | 93,940 | 4 | Like a really shtty Chekhov play | I cannot imagine Woody Allen creating a film worse than September . Never has a film been more stagy - Allen must have intended that feeling , but only God knows why . The direction is poor in every way . The dialogue is God awful , often laughable , and the acting is just as bad . Mia Farrow and Dianne Wiest turn in w... |
385,367 | 391,152 | 342,882 | 4 | I liked Institute Benjamenta , but this really is a bore | The Brothers Quay are directors , judging by conventional thought , should have stuck to making short films . I myself actually really liked their first feature , Institute Benjamenta , but judging by their sophomore effort , The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes , I'm willing to agree they don't come close to equaling their ... |
384,659 | 391,152 | 26,056 | 4 | A rather hideous movie | I shut it off with about 15 minutes to go . Katharine Hepburn is a middle class girl ( who's supposed to be poverty-stricken - I'm sure Depression era audiences just loved to hear how poor this family is ) with upper class tastes . She sometimes gets invited to big parties at mansions , and during one of these outings ... |
385,803 | 391,152 | 320,661 | 4 | Weak Crusades epic by Ridley Scott | Scott has an undeserved reputation , mostly based on just a couple of movies ( Alien and Blade Runner ) , and it doesn't surprise me that this movie is so unimpressive . It makes Gladiator , a decent film , look like it deserved to win the Best Picture Oscar . Orlando Bloom stars . A lot of negative stuff has been said... |
385,255 | 391,152 | 141,974 | 4 | Problematic to an enormous degree | The War Zone is a very frustrating film . Most self-proclaimed film buffs and critics will and have been easily convinced by the film . That's not to say that if you like this film you're dumb . You just missed the flaws . Anyone who wanders upon it unawares is likely to be repelled , needless to say . I , who have bee... |
385,583 | 391,152 | 257,360 | 4 | Ugh . | I knew I was going to dislike this , as I have a real distaste for Alexander Payne's films , so I probably should have just skipped it . But I had a chance to see it for free , so I did . And ugh . It is such an ugly and cynical movie , with obvious themes that , if a better writer or director had handled them , wouldn... |
385,949 | 391,152 | 417,148 | 4 | A disappointment coming after Cellular | I finally got around to seeing this film , which everyone was talking about months before its release , but which everyone avoided like the plague when it actually opened . Really , the title is all you have to know about the movie . Take that , and the fact that it stars Samuel L . Jackson , and you can basically imag... |
385,030 | 391,152 | 443,649 | 4 | Just plain boring between the all too few action sequences | Roland Emmerich isn't a very good director , I'll readily admit , but he's made a few entertaining movies . I might feel guilty about enjoying Stargate , Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow , but I won't deny that I did enjoy them . His new film was advertised as an action extravaganza involving woolly mammoths... |
385,251 | 391,152 | 51,658 | 4 | ENORMOUSLY disappointing : | Ugh , what an awful film . How could Vincente Minnelli have directed such a film ? There are a couple of good points . The cinematography is pretty good , as well as the costume design and sets . Basically , the technical side is fine . And Leslie Caron , whom I hardly recognized ( An American in Paris , in my humble o... |
385,393 | 391,152 | 298,361 | 4 | The South Korean equivalent of Skinemax | A woman goes to a psychologist and is hypnotized . In her hypnotic state , she has flashbacks of black widow-like murders she committed recently , while possessed by the Greek goddess Hera . In a confusing bit of editing , we also follow a group of detectives who are investigating the murders . The film is just a massi... |
384,658 | 391,152 | 273,923 | 4 | Very , very bad | This takes the cake so far for the worst 2002 theatrical release that I've yet seen . It's one of those movies that can't decide if it wants to be an exploitative teen comedy along the lines of American Pie or a poignant teen movie along the lines of some other title that I can't come up with at this time of night . I ... |
385,421 | 391,152 | 71,230 | 4 | Terrible ! Godawful ! | One of the least funny comedies that I've ever sighed through and one of the most overrated pieces of crap I can think of . I like a couple of Brooks ' movies . Young Frankenstein I would call his masterpiece , and The Producers is pretty funny . After that , Silent Movie is okay . Spaceballs is good for some cheap lau... |
385,676 | 391,152 | 142,257 | 4 | Not very good at all | This infamous Japenese cult flick unfortunately doesn't live up to its lofty reputation . It has some worthy moments , but only a few in what is otherwise a painfully boring and poorly made affair . The confusing story involves a medical student searching for his origins based on the few memories he has from his childh... |
385,425 | 391,152 | 193,253 | 5 | Am I the only one who hated this ? | Perhaps I missed something . It was rather hot where I watched this , and I was a bit tired . However , Jin-Roh seemed distinctly like it was trying way too hard to be ponderous and philosophical , but it only ended up seeming silly . The whole Red Riding Hood allegory was rather overdone . The whole story seemed someh... |
385,625 | 391,152 | 372,784 | 5 | Mediocrity | A nice effort , I suppose , but a failure nonetheless . I actually prefer the first three installments of the 1980s & 1990s Batman franchise , though none of them are great movies , either . Tim Burton ? and even Joel Schumacher ? brought at least some vision into their Batman worlds . Nolan attempts to do this realist... |
385,035 | 391,152 | 480,242 | 5 | Trite and clichéd , featuring the most annoyingly perfect family since the Osmands | This started out kind of charming . Not great , because from the first moment everything seems pretty clichéd , but charming nonetheless . But as it moved on , the clichés and contrivances started to become overwhelming . The story involves a widower ( Steve Carell ) with three daughters who , while visiting his parent... |
384,724 | 391,152 | 110,684 | 5 | Not that good , really . Newman's been better , and the writing is poor . | Quirky small town comedy about a likable curmudgeon ( Paul Newman ) who becomes reacquainted with the adult son he left years ago , as well as his son's son . Honestly , I just didn't like the film . It comes off like a poorly written novel , with scenes and characters the author thinks are funny but which just aren't ... |
385,521 | 391,152 | 288,477 | 5 | Half and half | Now this I would call exactly an average film . For me , it landed precisely at the very center of imdb's 10 point scale , right at 5 . 5 . This means that I found exactly as much to like as I did to dislike . There is a bit of inspiration here , but just as much that's stolen from other better horror movies . If it ha... |
385,031 | 391,152 | 444,682 | 5 | Has a few decent ideas , but the results are mediocre , at best | Not quite as terrible as I had heard , but most definitely mediocre . There are some good ideas that hint that it could have been a decent horror movie , perhaps if it had a better director . Stephen Hopkins is a pretty big hack , his credits including the abysmal Lost in Space and the not - that - bad - but - not - th... |
385,616 | 391,152 | 56,331 | 5 | Crap , but interesting crap | An intriguing piece of history , but not at all a good film . Panic in Year Zero is the story of a nuclear family living in the aftermath of a nuclear attack . It's fun to wonder what audiences at the time thought of it , themselves , we imagine , living with the fear of a nuclear attack . I'm guessing it wasn't even c... |
385,300 | 391,152 | 149,691 | 5 | Meandering mother and daughter melodrama | Anywhere But Here was decent , but could have been a lot better . It gets bogged down with melodramatic moments that pop up randomly from time to time . The struggles of the mother and daughter could have been dramatic enough without these things . I liked the premise . Perhaps the biggest reason the film fails , thoug... |
385,708 | 391,152 | 75,848 | 5 | Interesting and silly at the same time | Strange , and it has some interesting bits , but it's dull and nonsensically plotted . Gerard Depardieu and Marcello Mastroinanni make asses of themselves , and Gail Lawrence , better known under her porn name , Abigail Clayton , is naked for about 50 % of the film . Depardieu plays a boy toy in New York City . One day... |
385,626 | 391,152 | 73,915 | 5 | Dissenting review | One of the more famous African films , Xala comes from Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene , who had a well liked film that saw fairly wide release last year called Moolaadé . Moolaadé , for some reason , hasn't been released on DVD yet in the US , and , so far , it doesn't look like there's any imminent release . New ... |
385,868 | 391,152 | 41,546 | 5 | Wow , am I ever on a different page for this film ! | I can't say I hated it , but I found it an extremely lame and tired attempt at wit . It tries so damned hard to be clever , but never succeeds . The biggest obstacle is the main character and the actor who plays him , Dennis Price . I can't think of a more boring protagonist in any film I've ever seen . He's so dull he... |
385,181 | 391,152 | 59,017 | 5 | When Lee Marvin stinks in a movie , you know it sucks ! | I don't know exactly what it is , but I found this movie very grating . I only laughed a couple of times , almost exclusively during the train robbery sequence . I cringed much more often . It's very disappointing , as I loved the opening sequence and couldn't get enough of Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye , who provide r... |
385,346 | 391,152 | 54,749 | 5 | Rather weak , considering its grave subject matter ; | Vittorio de Sica's _ Two Women _ is mostly about the hardships of war ( WWII ) on normal people . Sophia Loren is a mother who takes her daughter away from the daily bombings in Rome to her childhood home . She is pretty good as the exasperated mother . Maybe not deserving of an award , but she is good . The other very... |
385,192 | 391,152 | 89,715 | 5 | One of the very few Altman films I didn't like | Definitely one of Altman's worst , though perhaps not quite as bad as some may lead you to believe . The producer wanted Altman to make a teen comedy in the vein of Porky's or something . Altman hated those kinds of movies , and decided to make a parody of one instead . Unfortunately , you just can't make a parody of a... |
385,136 | 391,152 | 367,594 | 5 | Just stick with the 1971 version | I feel sorry for any kid who has this forced upon him or her when a near perfect version of this book already exists on film . It's not that Burton's film is totally awful . It looks nice and is occasionally amusing . However , it has little or no reason to exist . If Johnny Depp had not been allowed by Burton to make ... |
384,796 | 391,152 | 169,222 | 5 | Weak action / comedy based on a manga | Tadanobu Asano stars , but really anyone could have played any character in this film , they're all so two-dimensional . Asano has stolen money from a yakuza boss , who now , along with his comic-bookish henchmen , is out to get him . Along the way , Asano hooks up with a shy woman . The film does contain a few really ... |
385,522 | 391,152 | 28,510 | 5 | John Wayne cheapie | Not bad , just incredibly dull . Wayne and partner Lane Chandler try to start a stagecoach route through a ghost town . A rival stagecoach company tries to stop them . Some of the stuff near the beginning of the film is okay , and the lead actress is cute and looks a bit like Ginger Rogers . The final action sequence p... |
384,617 | 391,152 | 97,442 | 5 | God help us ! | I think this was made for HBO during a time of huge scandals in televangelism . It has the same consistency of an HBO movie : unsubtle , poorly acted , and generic . It's not a bad movie , especially for that origin . However , when a director like Anderson has directed it , I expected a little better . The direction i... |
385,334 | 391,152 | 41,687 | 5 | Not good , but with a couple of points of interest | Lame musical comedy starring Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalbahn . Williams plays a bathing suit designer who wants to protect her sister , Betty Garrett , from Montalbahn , a polo star and Lothario whom Garrett has fallen for . Really , though , Garrett has fallen for Red Skelton , who pretends to be Montalbahn . W... |
384,894 | 391,152 | 76,141 | 5 | The worst possible outcome of a decent concept | Mel Brooks has had his stinkers , some much worse than this ( Dracula : Dead and Loving it being by far his lowest point ) , but this came at the end of an era of great comedic successes for him . It's only four years after Young Frankenstein , for instance , which is one of the funniest films I've ever seen . And the ... |
384,648 | 391,152 | 327,554 | 5 | 1200 + 1 point votes ? Get a life , people , it wasn't that bad ! | I scored a free ticket to this movie , and I thought , hey , I've wasted my whole life up to now , what's another hundred and forty-one minutes ? After all , I have a higher tolerance for crap than most people , and , once in a while , I like to see something that completely sucks . According to the critics and to vote... |
385,210 | 391,152 | 27,672 | 5 | I'd bet that I'm in the minority , but I just found this one a bore | A bust . As disinterested as I often am in Mizoguchi's films , Sisters of the Gion effectively knocked me unconscious . Some of the acting seemed decent , as did some of the direction . The opening shots were great . But then it slows down to a crawl that I just couldn't withstand . This is the first of his films that ... |
384,804 | 391,152 | 417,976 | 5 | Terrible special effects and poor direction ruin a promising film | This wuxia epic is more fantastical than the other ones that have been widely distributed . It's more or less a fairy story about a princess who falls in love with a slave when she mistakes him for his master , a great general . There are gods and a sexually ambiguous fairy tale villain ( who carries around a scepter t... |
385,019 | 391,152 | 475,298 | 5 | It's hilariously awful | Maybe the best bad movie of 2006 . It's an amateurish horror anthology hosted by Snoop Dogg . The stories are dumb and often nonsensical , but there's enough amusing stuff to make it worthwhile . Any movie where Snoop Dogg blows a chihuahua into smithereens or where a gangsta impales himself on his own forty has to be ... |
385,950 | 391,152 | 419,946 | 5 | Lots and lots of booms | A perfect dumb action movie for the Fourth of July weekend , because it features a heroic military guy and a whole lot of explosions . It's not too bad if you like that kind of movie . John Cena , a WWE wrestler , stars as the titular Marine . The film opens in Tikrit , where he rescues a bunch of his friends who are b... |
385,957 | 391,152 | 89,348 | 5 | Commies hate children | Hilariously bad Chuck Norris vehicle , which is kind of redundant , I know . Not only does Norris star , he also co-wrote the script . He plays a retired member of " the agency " who is called back into action , reluctantly , when a group of communist terrorists , lead by Richard Lynch , invade US soil . The communists... |
385,782 | 391,152 | 871,426 | 5 | Forgettable | The kind of movie that's really hard to remember having seen mere hours after leaving the theater . I'd call it a made-for-TNT movie . SNL alumnae Tina Fey and Amy Poehler star as a successful businesswoman and a white trash girl respectively . Fey hires Poehler to carry her baby to birth , as she cannot conceive . Mos... |
384,631 | 391,152 | 37,514 | 5 | One of Hollywood's worst musicals | Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra play sailors on leave who get mixed up with Kathryn Grayson . They promise her an audition with musical director José Iturbi ( playing himself ) in order to get her in good with Sinatra , but the two sailors are unable to procure such an audition . Predictably , Kelly begins to fall for Gra... |
385,856 | 391,152 | 126,886 | 5 | Well , put this one in the " Overrated " files | I admit that some parts of this movie did make me laugh , and it was true to high school , but I thought the writing was sloppy . The direction was extremely amateurish . 1 . Voiceovers almost never work , and they never work if more than one character is narrating . I can only think of one : Goodfellas . But that had ... |
385,267 | 391,152 | 54,892 | 5 | Lame | Fairly uninteresting , but not particularly offensive . This is the most complete , most straightforward Francis of Assissi movie out of the four I've recently watched ( including The Flowers of St . Francis ( Rossellini ) , Brother Sun , Sister Moon ( Zeffirelli ) & Francesco ( Cavani ) ) . Somewhere in the middle of ... |
384,784 | 391,152 | 80,736 | 5 | Good concept , poorly executed | The kind of movie that has a pretty good idea at its center , but doesn't do all that much with it . That idea is that a modern day aircraft carrier runs into a wormhole and ends up in the Pacific on December 6th , 1941 . Should they stop the bombing of Pearl Harbor , or should they not reveal their presence , lest the... |
385,602 | 391,152 | 32,155 | 5 | My least favorite Ford film | Sad to say , but this was the first John Ford movie that I did not like ( and I've seen more than 20 ) . This is the story of Abraham Lincoln's first trial as a defense attorney , working on behalf of two young men who were accosted by a deputy brandishing a pistol . Henry Fonda does not give one of his better performa... |
384,604 | 391,152 | 51,016 | 5 | Ambitious but wrongheaded film philosophizing man's worth in the universe | The Story of Mankind is a noble attempt to argue the case of humanity , whether he is inherently good or evil , as he has just developed the " super H bomb . " Vincent Price is at his best as the Devil arguing against humanity . It was a poor choice in general to reconstruct so many scenes of human history , especially... |
385,630 | 391,152 | 70,121 | 5 | Awful movie , but nice songs | By all rights , a terrible , wicked movie . The Gospel According to Hippies , hippies played by several extraordinarily attractive young people who make cute faces and speak in cute voices . This film is proof that the late 60s and early 70s were the root of the current hyperactivity problem . Watching this film is lik... |
385,598 | 391,152 | 37,630 | 5 | Not Bresson | Disappointing on a couple of major fronts , as a Bresson film and as a Cocteau script . This was Bresson's second film . Five years later , he made the first film in his signature style , Diary of a Country Priest . Dames is much more conventional in its style and content . A society woman tricks her former lover into ... |
385,264 | 391,152 | 1,068,649 | 5 | French award bait that's pretty poorly written ( though , I admit , well performed ) | You've got to be kidding me ! If this were an American film , it would be dismissed outright by many as Oscar bait . As it is now , it should be dismissed as Cesar bait . I think , if it were a French language film without the stunt casting of a famous English actress , it would also be dismissed . Anyhow , the point i... |
384,970 | 391,152 | 206,601 | 5 | Throwaway Fellini | When The Voyage of G . Mastorna came to a halt in 1968 , Federico Fellini began plans to film a version of Petronius ' Satyricon . In between the two films , he quickly put together this hour-long semi-documentary for NBC . It is an unwieldy and somewhat nonsensical 50 minutes ( the running time without commercials ) t... |
385,831 | 391,152 | 130,827 | 5 | I hated this movie . Don't buy the hype | People are saying that this is one of the best movies of this decade , but I thought it was god awful . It is nothing but an 81 minute Music Video . There is a point , but the director obviously didn't care much about it . The point is that every little thing that happens to us can have a profound effect on our lives .... |
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