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385,418 | 391,152 | 268,995 | 5 | Capra-Corn for the 21st Century | I liked Darabont's first two films , The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile , a lot , though I have problems with each . But I could tell that , if he slipped up , he would make a picture like The Majestic . It's like 1000 megatons of Capra-corn mixed with some half-assed politicizing . The film exists in two real... |
384,810 | 391,152 | 58,530 | 5 | Lame sci-fi flick with an inexplicable cult reputation | The idea is not bad : a man crash-lands on Mars and has to fend for himself , his only companion a monkey . Unfortunately , the people who made Robinson Crusoe on Mars didn't know jack about science . Not that they had to . It's a B-movie . I like B-sci-fi films , but there's a point where the degree of silliness becom... |
384,943 | 391,152 | 58,557 | 5 | Frustrating ( a wildly dissenting view ) | Frustrating . There are so many exceptional pieces of this film , but there are probably even more pieces that are rather infuriating . The story concerns a neurotic woman who swears she is a medium ( Kim Stanley - giving one of the most mannered performances in cinema history ) . To prove this she devises a plot to ki... |
385,975 | 391,152 | 831,887 | 5 | I should rate it lower , but it has a couple of things going for it that make it watchable , at least | There might be a movement in the future to turn this box office bomb into a cult classic , but it doesn't deserve that . Much in the style of Robert Rodriguez's Sin City , but different enough not to feel like a cheap imitation , The Spirit does look cool . The images are often gorgeous . Add to that a number of pretty... |
384,736 | 391,152 | 256,627 | 5 | Poor screenplay ; too cutesy at times | Azzurro has its moments , mostly because Paolo Villaggio , who plays Guiseppe , the grandfather , has such a marvelous presence . He's a big , fat man with white hair , a white beard , and black-rimmed glasses . He's probably the only guy like that who wouldn't be mistaken for Santa Clause . A couple of the other actor... |
385,842 | 391,152 | 322,589 | 5 | Mediocre dance movie | Hip-hop dancer Jessica Alba wants to become a professional , as well as save her dance studio , the only place where local kids can hang out and not get in trouble . Yes , it's a 2000s version of Breakin ' 2 : Electric Boogaloo . Unfortunately , Honey has little of the charm of the Breakin ' movies . Well , maybe in 20... |
385,378 | 391,152 | 78,350 | 5 | Will they blame me , or the bees ? | Infamous bad movie , with disaster-meister Irwin Allen tackling the important possible , nay , probable future invasion of Africanized honey bees , aka killer bees ( other aliases : Brazilian bees , or just " Africans " in the last third or so of the film , creating wonderful quotations as " Tomorrow there will be no A... |
385,189 | 391,152 | 420,223 | 5 | Good concept ! Now if they had just come up with a coherent and natural script to go along with it . | One of the bigger disappointments of the year . The concept is interesting , and the cast is more than promising . Will Ferrell , in a slightly more serious role than usual , plays an IRS agent who begins to hear a British woman ( Emma Thompson ) narrating his humdrum life . It's merely an annoyance until he hears that... |
385,085 | 391,152 | 319,343 | 5 | Ferrell tries his best , but the writing is unambitious and mediocre | So-so film with a few really funny moments . It always seemed like the comedy could have gone two steps further than it did . There are tons of missed opportunities and jokes that are built up without payoff ( the news broadcast at the end of the film is a perfect example ) . Elf earns points for being a decent family ... |
385,569 | 391,152 | 39,694 | 5 | How could Hitchcock not tell this was a bad project from the script ? | Probably Hitchcock's worst movie . I can't believe he was even involved . The thin plot involves a brilliant lawyer falling in love with a client he believes is innocent , jeopardizing his marriage . Courtroom drama is the second lowest genre , with the lowest being the sports movie . Hitch made another that is as lowl... |
385,466 | 391,152 | 416,496 | 5 | Just bad enough to be boring , not bad enough to be fun | Newfangled B-Western , pretty much released straight to video , starring Selma Hayek and Penelope Cruz as bank robbers trying to right the wrong of an evil American railroad company . Dwight Yoakam plays the bad guy and Steven Zahn plays a detective skilled in brand new technologies like fingerprinting . Sam Shepard al... |
385,798 | 391,152 | 41,162 | 5 | Somewhat fun , but too long to be worth it | This is a 15 episode serial based on the Bob Kane comic . It wasn't the first version of Batman brought to the big screen . In 1943 , there was another serial that had Japanese villains . This one is pretty innocuous , and also pretty forgettable . I am almost completely ignorant of the medium of serials . The only oth... |
384,579 | 391,152 | 83,281 | 5 | Weak documentary by Errol Morris | Errol Morris is easily the most famous documentarian around . His following is somewhat ridiculous . Being the foremost documentarian , it is easy to recognize his faults , as well as his strengths . I have seen several of his films , Gates of Heaven , The Thin Blue Line , Fast Cheap and Out of Control , Mr . Death , a... |
385,387 | 391,152 | 25,919 | 5 | Annoying and not very funny | I'm sure everyone's experienced this a few times in their film watching lives : you sit down excitedly to watch a film that is widely considered to be a classic , but , from start to finish , it rubs you the wrong way . Nearly everything about it bothers you , you are annoyed and you can't see how anyone could possibly... |
385,045 | 391,152 | 305,206 | 5 | I didn't like it | This has to be # 1 on my list of movies whose popularity I don't understand . It's occasionally humorous , but the story isn't very interesting or insightful . It's the biopic of a comic book writer ( not artist ) who , despite his success , worked as a file clerk most of his life . I like the idea of a biopic about an... |
385,221 | 391,152 | 445,161 | 5 | Excellent images , but no story and a lot of noise | Visually stunning , but that's pretty much all it has going for it . This Russian did hold my interest for about an hour . I'd definitely never seen anything like it . But at about that point I realized it wasn't going to go anywhere . It's perfectly satisfied with being weird for weirdness ' sake . There is no coheren... |
385,712 | 391,152 | 331,953 | 5 | Where the hell are the jokes ? | The second feature from the comedy troupe Broken Lizard , the first being Super Troopers . That film was one of the crappiest I've seen of the last few years , but my brother wanted to see Club Dread and I'm easy . And I didn't hate it . Don't get me wrong , I didn't like it either , but I've seen a lot worse . It's a ... |
384,895 | 391,152 | 107,157 | 5 | Profoundly Boring | Jeeze , whoever decided , out of the blue , to declare Hou Hsiao-hsien a master filmmaker was really pushing it . Those who chose to believe that opinion are even more guilty . I don't want to declare that he's untalented . I did truly like Dust in the Wind and City of Sadness , no matter how flawed I found them to be ... |
384,866 | 391,152 | 104,779 | 5 | Weak in pretty much every way | If Polanski has made a worse film , I haven't yet seen it and don't want to . The story is dull and fairly common . It's about the tempestuous relationship between two lovers ( Peter Coyote and Emmanuelle Seigner ) who meet in Paris . At first things are beautiful between them , but over time the relationship deteriora... |
385,171 | 391,152 | 107,818 | 5 | Pretty bad movie | You'd think a film with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington would be a pretty good one , right ? Well , I know there are plenty of people who hate Tom Hanks , and I was one of them for a long time . Philadephia was actually why I hated Tom Hanks . People are right to call this movie propagandistic , although several of the... |
385,021 | 391,152 | 62,185 | 5 | Weak film for everyone involved | Mostly reminiscent of Suddenly Last Summer , which was made eight years earlier . With the loosening of the Hayes Code , Huston is able to imply a lot more than Mankiewicz could , but , just like the earlier film , in the end it feels like little more than a freakshow , with little insight into the situation or charact... |
385,117 | 391,152 | 71,544 | 5 | Not really that good a film | I watched this as a supplement to The Last King of Scotland , which I saw the previous weekend . It's actually fairly worthless ( this one , that is ) . I mean , there are interesting things going on in the sidelines . But Amin himself controlled very carefully everything Schroeder was allowed to see and film . He want... |
385,301 | 391,152 | 36,342 | 5 | Maybe I missed something | I have seen about a third of Hitchcock's films ( and that is a lot , more than a dozen ) , and Shadow of a Doubt was the first one I disliked . I thought the story and characters were uninteresting . I felt no suspense , except for maybe the last ten minutes . The acting was decent , but not great . I like Joseph Cotte... |
384,586 | 391,152 | 1,155,056 | 5 | Mediocre comedy | I could easily sum up my feelings on this one in three words : Not Enough Laughs . But I'll go a little further , ' cause I know that's hardly satisfying . Paul Rudd is a newly engaged man who realizes that he doesn't have any male friends . Where his future wife has seven brides maids , he hasn't a groomsman to his na... |
385,804 | 391,152 | 362,270 | 5 | Some day I will " get " Wes Anderson , but that day has not come yet | Wes Anderson would make a hell of a production or costume designer , or cinematographer even . I'm assuming he is the major force behind the aesthetic qualities of his films , and not the actual production or costume designers , or the cinematographer . His direction pretty much sucks , unfortunately . I did like The L... |
385,244 | 391,152 | 51,554 | 5 | I'd take Browning's or Murnau's versions any day - and I am not a big fan of either of those films | Don't quite understand the popularity of this one ? I found it 82 of the longest minutes of my life . It's a completely lifeless version of the Dracula story , made and performed with the energy of an episode of masterpiece theater . Peter Cushing is decent as Van Helsing , but all the other actors are terrible . I'm s... |
384,876 | 391,152 | 978,759 | 5 | Lousy indie | Stereotypical indie from the sucks-to-be-poor subgenre . Hope I'm not being too glib . It does suck to be poor . I'm nowhere near wealthy myself , and I grew up with a mother under similar circumstances to the protagonist of this film ( a little smarter , though ; at least she realized that she was eligible for food st... |
385,441 | 391,152 | 133,152 | 5 | Planet of the Apes , the Remake : Now with 75 % more snarling ! | SPOILERS ( also for original PoA , 1968 ) You would have to look far and wide to find a bigger fan of the original Planet of the Apes . I nearly went berserk a few months ago when a woman I know said that Planet of the Apes was a so-bad-it's-good type of movie . It took all of my mental power to remain calm ( she wasn'... |
384,689 | 391,152 | 90,185 | 5 | Not of any real worth ; MAJOR SPOILERS , but I'm confident that everything I ruin is so predictable as to be unruinable | It's not that I despise this sort of realism , either . This is just an example of the most generic type of realism . It's a dime a dozen . It has no point whatsoever , really . The most effect I got out of it was watching it as a character study of Ah-Ha , the main character . He is the only character , besides Grandm... |
385,554 | 391,152 | 49,470 | 5 | Doesn't touch the original with a 100 ' pole | One of Hitchcock's worst , a remake of his infinitely better 1935 film . If it ain't broke , don't fix it , and the 1934 version is a small masterpiece . In many ways , I like Hitch's grittier British works with their dark black & white cinematography . The Master tries to outdo himself by casting James Stewart and fil... |
384,673 | 391,152 | 42,906 | 5 | Inconsequential | Some people might find La Ronde sweet and romantic , but I just found it to be weak and thus forgettable . The story's innovative structure does not seem so innovative in 2000 , and it's not because people have copied it ad infinitum . It is because people have improved upon and perfected the multiple storyline film . ... |
384,589 | 391,152 | 467,197 | 5 | Not bad for a video game adaptation , but not good for a movie | About the best that can be said of this movie is that it's hardly the worst film that's ever been made out of a video game . Then again , it pretty much throws the game to the wind anyway . Max Payne was one of the first games of the Playstation 2 system , and , well , it would be giving it too much credit to say that ... |
385,226 | 391,152 | 486,551 | 5 | Occasionally funny , but often lame | The most recent film from the Broken Lizard comedy troupe , whose other films include the terrible Super Troopers , Club Dread and The Dukes of Hazard ( the third of which I skipped for some strange reason ) . Why do I keep watching their movies if they are so bad ? Good question . Honestly , I think the guys have a lo... |
385,273 | 391,152 | 345,061 | 5 | Muddled sci-fi | I really love sci-fi , probably more than any other genre . I like to see different imaginings of the future of humanity . And I am probably more forgiving to sci-fi than I am elsewhere . Code 46 presents an intriguing vision of the future , one where the different races of humanity have intermingled ( though not neces... |
384,954 | 391,152 | 33,879 | 5 | Pretty lame | Mediocre Universal horror film which paired director George Waggner and Lon Chaney Jr . , a pair which would produce one of the best of the genre , The Wolf Man , later that same year . " Electrobiologist " Lionel Atwill doses patient Lon Chaney Jr . with larger and larger jolts of electricity until he becomes his murd... |
385,845 | 391,152 | 421,715 | 5 | Twig-thin , pretentious garbage | I should have known it was going to happen eventually . There's always one potential Oscar film that I absolutely hate , and in 2008 it is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button . To get it out of the way immediately : yes , the film is technically accomplished . It totally deserves to be nominated for all the technical c... |
385,511 | 391,152 | 187,738 | 5 | Big , dumb , and forgettable | Blade II isn't terrible . I , in fact , like it a smidgen better than the original . That film suffered from a very uninteresting love interest ( who doesn't come back ) and a dull villain . It had its moments , though , and so does Blade II . The visuals in both films are excellent , with a marvelous eye towards the s... |
385,725 | 391,152 | 345,032 | 5 | Mediocre weepy | The story of a man ( Kim Rossi Stuart ) reuniting with the disabled son ( Andrea Rossi ) whom he abandoned at birth . This was Italy's official entry for the Academy's Best Foreign Film award , which makes perfect sense : it's the same kind of clichéd , sentimental crap that usually takes home Oscar gold . By some mira... |
385,142 | 391,152 | 298,148 | 5 | Total crap | Only slightly less bad than the original . The story is a little better , I suppose , and it adds a couple of amusing characters . Antonio Banderas would be the highlight as Puss In Boots , but he doesn't have nearly enough screen time . My favorite character was Jennifer Saunders as the villain , the Fairy Godmother .... |
385,046 | 391,152 | 329,575 | 5 | Best Picture my . . . eye | Zetes ' Dictionary defines ' mediocrity ' as the 2003 Best Picture nominee Seabiscuit , directed by Gary Ross . It's watchable , but it's a weak , uninteresting story that is poorly plotted and has a low success rate at tying said story into its historical context , as hard as it tries . I can take films about underdog... |
385,662 | 391,152 | 263,488 | 5 | Jesus , can't anyone make a decent horror film anymore ? | Jeepers Creepers has a lot going for it . It has a decent premise ( nothing extraordinary , but it's workable ) , several excellent scenes , and a great baddy - one that , if the film itself had been better , would have haunted the popular imagination as much as Freddy Krueger . Instead , the dialogue is terrible , the... |
384,575 | 391,152 | 59,942 | 5 | Boring samurai flick | There's little to recommend about this cheaply made samurai film . The films of this genre boast great patience , but within that patience there ought to be at least a few good samurai battles . There are only two real battles in this one . The first one has a neat setting , but it takes place during the night and it i... |
385,646 | 391,152 | 104,237 | 5 | Last Lambada in London | This is a huge misfire by a great director . In fact , I have seen many , many Malle films and have given four of them 10s , two 9s , and an 8 . That's a great average now brought down considerably by the 5 I'm giving this film . And , truth be told , it isn't a bad film . It's just uneventful . A movie about a man who... |
385,410 | 391,152 | 77,294 | 5 | Dumb and dated | A post-Watergate conspiracy thriller that kind of found its way into my ( now sputtering ) ' 70s and ' 80s sci-fi marathon . I kind of knew that it didn't fit , but I've always wanted to see it . I actually found it to be laughably bad . But I was laughing , so I have to give it some credit , I suppose . The film was i... |
385,452 | 391,152 | 826,711 | 5 | Its vapidity is pretty much par for the course for Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Ugh . Yeah , why do I bother ? I have some terrible masochistic streak in my psyche . Truth be told , I kind of liked Hou's two previous films , Three Times and Café Lumiere . Neither was good , per se , but both were pretty and moderately enjoyable . I downright liked parts of Three Times , although I did feel like Ho... |
385,889 | 391,152 | 247,380 | 5 | Only moderately interesting | Yeah , I totally agree with the last couple of comments . I love Varda's two most popular films ( which are the only others I've seen ) , Cleo from 5 to 7 and Vagabond , but The Gleaners and I is a rambling , tenuous , and only intermittently interesting mess . She makes all these trash diggers seem like rebellious , b... |
385,079 | 391,152 | 64,451 | 5 | Dull beyond belief | I didn't think I could be so bored by a martial arts film . How disappointing ; I was looking forward to finally seeing a film by the legendary director King Hu , but this may turn me off any other films of his . The story is a dull one about a fugitive girl , an expert in martial arts taught by some powerful monks , w... |
384,884 | 391,152 | 102,926 | 6 | After Titanic , the most worthless Best Picture winner of the 1990s | What is so special about this film ? I've watched it once , about a year ago , and could never figure it out myself . What I saw was a pretty good thriller which bombed out at the very end . I never thought the acting was all that great either . I think Anthony Hopkins was overacting , and I thought it was one of Jodie... |
384,991 | 391,152 | 66,065 | 6 | Disappointing . | I love Pasolini , and Medea is easily the weakest of his works that I've seen . After having made the brilliant adaptation of the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex , Medea seems rather uninspired . It retains most of Pasolini's beautiful settings , but the script is a poor adaptation of Euripides ' play . The film's as slow as... |
384,932 | 391,152 | 462,538 | 6 | Meant more for casual fans than for diehards . Plus , the format just doesn't really work as a movie , I think . | I'm an absolute fanatic of The Simpsons and have been watching it since it was on Tracey Ullman . I grew up with it . I was the exact same age as Bart when the very first episode premiered . Unlike a lot of fans , I've never turned my back on the show . I am not one who thinks each new episode is worse than the last . ... |
384,718 | 391,152 | 112,817 | 6 | The long awaited reviewing of a movie I've often trashed | I'm only somewhat happy to say that it's nowhere near as bad as I remembered it ? I rated it a dismal after just one viewing . Since I first saw it , probably around a decade ago , I've educated myself in both Westerns and Jarmusch , and I can judge it better being more familiar with its referents . My judgment now : s... |
385,946 | 391,152 | 177,789 | 6 | Decent , but I think hardcore Trekkies will find it weaker than it could have been | I have to admit that I enjoyed a lot of this film , but as a pretty big fan of Star Trek , I found the jokes to be sometimes quite weak . Many of them are okay , but there's no joke that knocked me flat . Nowhere near flat . Maybe it's not just that the jokes are weak at times . Maybe it is that there are not enough jo... |
385,070 | 391,152 | 206,013 | 6 | Honestly , I thought this was Ghibli's weakest film that I've seen | Based on a Japanese cartoon strip , and it shows . Yes , the visual style is very simple and , honestly , once I got over the novelty of it , it did start to grate . But that's not even what I'm talking about . I only ever read the comic strips in the papers when I'm extremely bored . I like to see just how bland and u... |
385,029 | 391,152 | 388,556 | 6 | Not among Miike's best films | In fact , I might call it his worst , or at least it's close to it . Miike is actually a very good director-for-hire , but he never seems to feel comfortable when he's directing a movie for younger audiences . Like The Great Yokai War and Andromedia , the two other Miike films of this type I've seen , Miike keeps the w... |
385,610 | 391,152 | 808,331 | 6 | Interesting failure | I would categorize this as an interesting failure . Jacob Kogan plays the title character , the first child of Brad and Abbie Cairn ( Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga ) . After his baby sister is born , Joshua becomes morbid , and more than a little creepy . I love the whole evil child angle , and the fact that there is n... |
385,806 | 391,152 | 37,008 | 6 | Not really that good | I remember liking this one fine the first time I saw it , though I thought it was maybe a tad overrated . This time , it didn't hold up well at all . I didn't like too much about it . It can't be called noir ; it's not very atmospheric , nor is the cinematography especially dark . I'd rather just call it a murder myste... |
385,939 | 391,152 | 126,376 | 6 | Interesting for Cohen Fans , but Rather Pretentious | This documentary is somewhat lame . It is very worshipful towards Leonard Cohen . There are scenes in Canadian lecture halls where people laugh at his every word , and I wasn't even sure half the time that he was joking . You can tell Cohen doesn't really care . In fact , he speaks in silly little poetic quips that bec... |
385,422 | 391,152 | 169,102 | 6 | Can a movie about cricket , 15 minutes short of four hours , be entertaining ? | The answer : kind of . Occasionally . But Lagaan is a very flawed film . I think the Sports Movie is probably the worst cinematic genre , in that there are really only two possible outcomes in the end . The underdogs either win or they lose . Both options have been so utterly overdone that a sports movie just can't rea... |
385,261 | 391,152 | 160,535 | 6 | Sometimes hard to follow | This story involves two girls , Dora and Sunako , who are best friends in Yokohama . They vow never to separate , but along enters a man ( with the Western name Henry ) . Sunako goes for him , but he's a bad guy , a gangster and a philanderer . She eventually catches him with another woman , and does something rash . I... |
385,504 | 391,152 | 61,395 | 6 | quite underwhelming | there are several hundred foreign films that are so much better than this . It's simply more of the same Bunuel bourgeosie bashing . perhaps it was shocking in the day , but it's dated now . Even Catherine Deneuve is positively weak here . Actually , this was one of her first films , and I was also unimpressed with her... |
384,548 | 391,152 | 177,971 | 6 | The one thing I never want to hear while in a helicopter : " We're running on fumes here . " | It's difficult to gage whether or not _ The Perfect Storm _ is worth seeing . On the negative side , the film contains about the most generic and stock characters and situations one will find in Hollywood . The actors in this film , most of whom are normally great , obviously did this just for the big pay check so that... |
384,956 | 391,152 | 32,258 | 6 | Silly , but moderately entertaining | Though this film is found on DVD in a Bela Lugosi box set , Lugosi has a supporting role . Boris Karloff is also in it in a much more major role , but the star is character actor Stanley Ridges . The fact is , Karloff was supposed to be in the Ridges part and Lugosi in the Karloff part , but Karloff was considered unco... |
385,629 | 391,152 | 70,155 | 6 | Decent filmmaking - morally reprehensible story | For quite a while , I really loved The Harder They Come . The music is fantastic . The cinematography and location shooting are gorgeous . And , most of all , I was simply fascinated by the Jamaican dialect of English exhibited in the film . A word of warning : this film is in English , but it is very difficult to unde... |
384,969 | 391,152 | 182,295 | 6 | Interesting failure | I applaud Kenneth Branagh for attempting this film . He's going for Shakespeare + Astaire and Rogers . Unfortunately , he doesn't succeed . Therefore , on the other hand , I must castigate Branagh for not planning it all out more carefully . The film has great potential , and is often a lot of fun . But where the treme... |
384,834 | 391,152 | 398,375 | 6 | Great concept , great acting - so why does it turn out so weak ? | This is the kind of movie that just pisses me off to no end because it has so much potential , but somehow it comes off as exceedingly mediocre . Jennifer Aniston plays a woman who discovers her family was the model for the novel and film The Graduate . She never saw how she fit in with her family , so she wonders if m... |
385,105 | 391,152 | 63,414 | 6 | Now on DVD from No Shame | Bertolucci was heavily indebted to Godard and the other French New Wave directors in his sophomore feature , Before the Revolution . His third feature , Partner , has him follow Godard into his fin de cinema . Partner is a purely experimental film with little narrative . It's definitely a turn for the worst for Bertolu... |
384,936 | 391,152 | 390,538 | 6 | A man's Valentine to himself | Tarnation is a very personal documentary exploring the director's history and the pain that his mother went through with her various psychological problems . There are two ways to look at this film : either you can see it as a soul-searching document produced by Caouette , or you can see it as an egotistical project ta... |
385,797 | 391,152 | 262,432 | 6 | Profoundly Annoying | George Washington is one of the most upsetting film experiences I've ever had . The reason for this is not what you might expect . It was not bad . A bad film isn't exactly annoying . What is annoying is inconsistency . It is as if it were written and directed by Dr . Jeckyl and Mr . Hyde . Dr . Jeckyl's parts are the ... |
385,354 | 391,152 | 41,497 | 6 | Hard to get too enthusiastic after seeing The Assassination of Jesse James | Six days after seeing Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford , it's still the film at the forefront of my mind . I saw this as a followup to that . Like most Hollywood films of the era ( and most of today ) , I Shot Jesse James plays fast and loose with the facts . In this film , Fo... |
385,513 | 391,152 | 6,206 | 6 | Reviews for episodes 1-4 ( more to come , perhaps ) | This French crime serial from the 1910s is one of the few silent serials left ( and probably one of the only ones available for consumption ) . Louis Feuillade is its director . I watched the first four episodes ( the tapes come each with four episodes of varying length ) and will give a brief review of each . SPOILERS... |
385,706 | 391,152 | 349,710 | 6 | Yeah , Firefighters are great , but . . . | I don't think dramas about firefighters work . There's just too much tendency to heroize them . They probably deserve it , of course , but uncomplex , two-dimensional heroes are no fun to watch . The story follows the firefighting career of Joaquin Phoenix . We see him get in quite a pickle , and he flashes back to his... |
385,948 | 391,152 | 832,266 | 6 | Sweet and nice , but not particularly memorable | A romance with a bit more intelligence than the average one , a little more heartfelt and one that has a very likable and non-stereotypical man at its center . He is played by Ryan Reynolds , most famous for his role as Van Wilder , but surprisingly good as a romantic lead , and the movie is about him telling the story... |
384,867 | 391,152 | 348,150 | 6 | Not terrible , but certainly forgettable | Fairly entertaining , but entirely unmemorable . Superman returns from exploring the wastes of his home planet , Krypton , to learn that Lois has a kid and a live-in boyfriend . Meanwhile , Lex Luthor has been released from prison and has invaded the Fortress of Solitude in order to steal Kryptonian technology . The pl... |
385,790 | 391,152 | 47,892 | 6 | null | Bob le Flambeur is only of passing interest . With the kind of high art that exists in European film , this film feels superfluous . What is its use ? Is it an exploration of the crime genre ? An homage ? A parody ? If it is any of those , it is just barely . It seemed more to me like a standard heist film with a coupl... |
384,875 | 391,152 | 795,493 | 6 | Starts off well , but the final act is unconvincing | I had a strange reaction to this film . Much like most Woody Allen fans , I don't expect much from him nowadays . That leads some to be easily impressed by a film by Vicky Cristina Barcelona . I wasn't , though , when I saw it last weekend . The good reviews unfortunately had gotten my hopes up , and I even threw his p... |
385,526 | 391,152 | 63,350 | 6 | People actually prefer this to Carnival of Souls ? | First thing first : Carnival of Souls kicks this movie's butt so hard that its spine shoots right out of its skull and launches forward so far that it breaks the world record for javelin throwing . The first fifty minutes or so are really terrible , about as clumsily directed and written as anything I can think of . Ro... |
384,865 | 391,152 | 365,485 | 6 | The kind of film that I really wanted to like more , but just didn't | A good premise , a pretty good script , good performances , and fairly entertaining ? but for some reason The Matador just doesn't add up to much . A businessman ( Greg Kinnear ) , down on his luck , meets a lonely and mysterious man ( Pierce Brosnan ) in a bar in Mexico City . The two become friends and during an outi... |
385,355 | 391,152 | 35,713 | 6 | Better than the material deserves - thanks to Edward Dmytryk - but ends too abruptly | Silly , forgotten Universal horror film , now found on DVD in a Best Buy exclusive set . This one concerns a mad scientist with Nazi undertones ( John Carradine ) who kidnaps a circus gorilla and turns her into a human being ( played by Acquanetta ) . As a human , Acquanetta has an uncanny ability to control lions and ... |
385,582 | 391,152 | 64,536 | 6 | Interesting in the development of a genius | Some geniuses are made , not born . Fassbinder , who has become one of my very favorite directors , did not begin his career making masterpieces , but clumsy art films . Katzelmacher is the story of a group of bored Germans , several men and several women , who spend their lives sitting , talking , smoking , and screwi... |
384,630 | 391,152 | 39,595 | 6 | Retarded concept , but Stewart and Wyman are great | Maybe the silliest story ever to make it onto the silver screen . James Stewart plays a pollster looking for a town of such mathematical perfection that , whatever you polled its people , it would reflect exactly what the entire nation would feel about a give subject . He finds this place in Grandview , and there he ta... |
385,043 | 391,152 | 30,089 | 6 | Lena Horne's screen debut | This all black film was Lena Horne's screen debut . Made for black audiences , it was re-released after the cross-over success of her two great 1943 films , Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather . The Duke Is Tops is a typical film about stage performers , and it is certainly a B movie . Duke Davis ( Ralph Cooper ) and E... |
385,020 | 391,152 | 295,743 | 6 | Like a dull woman's sexual fantasy | Rather dull and disappointing . A man and woman meet and have a one night stand during a Parisian mass transit strike . It might be a tad more interesting if we knew a single thing about either of these people , but it's all kept very anonymous ( we know that the woman is moving in with her boyfriend , but we don't kno... |
385,962 | 391,152 | 102,494 | 6 | Interesting , but definitely unsatisfying | Feels sloppily cobbled together out of many disparate parts . It's a movie about street hustlers ( mainly River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves ) , and then suddenly something seemed familiar , the dialogue starts to get flowery and I realized I was watching an update of Welles ' Chimes at Midnight . I hadn't realized Keanu h... |
385,451 | 391,152 | 981,227 | 6 | Cute but forgettable | Michael Cera plays Nick , a rock musician who has recently been dumped by his girlfriend ( Alexis Dziena ) . The rest of his band forces him into the arms of a beautiful girl , Norah ( Kat Dennings ) who has showed up to their show . The film takes place over one night in New York City , and we watch the two kids fall ... |
385,867 | 391,152 | 64,591 | 6 | Eh ( but I did get to see Varda in person ! ) | Agnes Varda smiled at me ! The director was present at the showing of this film ( with her 1982 short Ulysse shown beforehand ) , and she described the historical background of Lions Love ( about two feet from my face ! ) . This was her only film made in America , and it's very much influenced by the cinematic court of... |
385,901 | 391,152 | 18,045 | 6 | Dull silent epic with some standout moments | Divided into two parts , the first half is okay , if generally unremarkable . It concerns a group of Polish people rebelling against the Russians , who are dominating them . The second half is mostly painful to sit through . The leader of the Polish rebels , Boleslas ( Pierre Blanchar ) , is disguised as an undefeatabl... |
385,907 | 391,152 | 18,037 | 6 | Dull | I enjoyed the first forty-five minutes of this film , wondering why it had such a bad reputation . Then I started to become bored , and more bored , until I nodded off . The story , which I kind of liked at first , hits a wall early on and the second half of the film is repetitive and very , very dull . Too bad , too ,... |
385,476 | 391,152 | 113,256 | 6 | I think I've come up with a useful description of Hou's style | It's cinematic masturbation ( my term ) . That's not the same as intellectual masturbation , mind you . It's not that his films are pretentious , per se . Cinematic masturbation is when the filmmakers have no real desire to share their ideas , thoughts , and motives with the audience . It's all done for their own satis... |
384,841 | 391,152 | 60,860 | 6 | You'd have to be interested in the era | Lethargic minimalist film about Louis XIV's rise to power in the mid 17th Century . I suppose if I had a greater interest in the time period or historical characters , I wouldn't have been bored . Case in point , several months ago I saw another of Rossellini's biopics from the same period , Socrates ( 1970 ) , and , a... |
384,723 | 391,152 | 427,944 | 6 | Actually not that good at all . A weak satire , but do see it for the performances . Rob Lowe & Adam Brody should be nominated for Oscars ( though they certainly won't be ) . | Satire about a tobacco lobbyist ( Aaron Eckhart ) . I can't quite put my finger on why , but I really didn't think it worked . Admittedly , the tobacco industry is an easy target . It would be too easy to villainize Nick Naylor , so it feels kind of like they were trying not to villainize him completely . Which then fe... |
384,555 | 391,152 | 373,450 | 6 | Disappointing effort from Egoyan | Egoyan's weakest film , at least since he came to prominence with Exotica . It's actually a somewhat interesting mystery , but it has a lot of flaws . There is a death , possibly a murder , in the hotel suite of two famous comedians ( played by Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon ) , based on Martin and Lewis . That's the film... |
384,664 | 391,152 | 17,925 | 6 | repetitive | This is a decent silent comedy , but I think that Keaton did better . I don't know how available it is , but I watched his Our Hospitality in a film class , and I laughed out loud , and quite hard . I think it's a lot better the General made me laugh quietly a couple of times . It's really repetitive , too . All the tr... |
384,850 | 391,152 | 53,137 | 6 | Waltzing Mathilda is such a beautiful song | And On the Beach is probably the only thing that could make one sick of hearing it . This film is about the impending nuclear destruction of Australia . The rest of the world is already gone . We spend the last few months of life on Earth in the company of a navy man and his wife ( Anthony Perkins and Donna Anderson ) ... |
385,014 | 391,152 | 55,256 | 6 | Loud , obnoxious and jingoistic - certainly not among Wilder's best works | Made in West Berlin while the Berlin Wall was being erected and dealing with the Cold War while it was escalating dramatically , there is no shortage of historical interest in this Billy Wilder comedy . However , as much as I don't want to be put into the position of defending the U . S . S . R . , One , Two , Three co... |
384,807 | 391,152 | 452,637 | 6 | Quite likely the most original American film of 2006 | With that and the excellent performance given by Paul Giamatti , I have to have at least a bit of affection for the film , which is otherwise kind of a mess . Not to mention very silly . Giamatti plays an apartment building superintendent who discovers a strange woman living in the bottom of their swimming pool . She i... |
384,877 | 391,152 | 940,709 | 6 | A curio from Chow | Stephen Chow follows up his sensational martial arts comedies Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle with what I can only hope will be a curio in a long and illustrious career . CJ7 is not a terrible film , per se , just a small and unsatisfying one . Kind of a rip-off of E . T . with a heavy dose of maudlin , Chaplinesque ... |
384,935 | 391,152 | 418,279 | 6 | Entertaining enough most of the way through , but certainly not great | Okay , I'm pretty much of the generation to which this film is aimed . I was a kid when this show was on the air . I wasn't a huge fan myself , though . I was more of a He-Man kind of guy . I only barely remember watching Transformers . My parents were unwilling to buy me the toys because they were too expensive and th... |
385,739 | 391,152 | 120,201 | 6 | Half a movie | The first time I saw this movie , I walked in on a bunch of friends watching it in a small dorm room . I was bored , so I sat and watched it . I asked somebody how much I had missed , and I was told not much . The first image I saw was a gung ho soldier running towards a giant insect screaming at the top of his lungs ,... |
385,121 | 391,152 | 58,379 | 6 | Godzilla stumbles around drunkenly , gets the crap beat out of him by a giant moth , then gets even more crap beat out of him by its larvae | I'm not a huge fan of kaiju movies , but I do enjoy them to a certain extent . This one has some fun stuff . I love that Godzilla just gets his butt handed to him throughout the whole movie . He destroys stuff , but almost by accident . He crushes a giant building at one point , but only because he steps on the edge of... |
385,979 | 391,152 | 50,792 | 6 | Noble effort , but dull film | An attempt to film a Greek tragedy as the Greeks would have seen it , or at least somewhat so . It's intentions are noble , but it doesn't really have any ideas of its own . This is one dull film . The monotonous chanting might have worked for the ancient Athenians , but it cancels out the greatness of the play for mod... |
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