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Nothing special
This film strikes me as little more than typical Oscar bait . A man disabled with cerebral palsy grows up in a poor Irish family . His father is hard and critical and his mother is loving and shoots words of inspiration at him at measured intervals . The film shows us that the disabled can do everything a normal person...
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Eh
This film has a pretty promising beginning ( although that promise is camp ) , it's slack pace makes for a very dull experience in the long run . The only good part ( although it is also lame ) is when Charles Bronson ( who seems miscast ) and David Frankham are left to hang below the airship tied to ropes . It is a bi...
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SPOILERS
I can't believe Paul Schraeder had anything to do with this . I'm kind of wishing they just credited him because the film shares many similarities with Taxi Driver , but it's too different to be considered plagarism . The film starts off very well . William Devane plays a POW just returning home from Vietnam . The perf...
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Joseph Cotten & Alida Valli reunited
Ever wonder what happened after Anna walked past Holly Martins in the final shot of the 1949 masterpiece The Third Man ? Well , apparently , Holly followed her and broke her legs . . . In Walk Softly , Stranger , Joseph Cotten plays a crook who assumes a new identity in a small town in order to start a new life . Gangs...
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Weak Keaton flick
Easily the least good Buster Keaton film I've ever seen , made after he gave up his status as an independent . It is his last sound film and he is working with director Edward Sedgwick , who directed several of his sound films . I've seen three of those , Sidewalks of New York ( 1931 ) , The Passionate Plumber ( 1932 )...
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A fairly disappointing picture from Ray
It starts out well enough , with a recent college graduate ( Pradip Mukherjee ) desperate for work . The montage of his looking for work is great , especially a scene where he is interviewed for a job and asked the most irrelevant questions imaginable , including " How much does the moon weigh ? " He looks at the inter...
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6
Sloppy .
This film flies all over the map , and equals little by its conclusion . The film's main foci are two sets of a mother and daughter . One is made up of Lora and Susie . The father has just died , and Lora is trying to make it as an actress . This is one of the oldest plots in the book , and it gives us little or nothin...
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6
Bahrani doesn't impress me much
I remember finding Ramin Bahrani's first film , Man Push Cart , a fairly good debut , but one that lacked any real depth . He hasn't grown much in his sophomore feature , Chop Shop . It also focuses on the urban immigrant poor . The main characters of this film are homeless Hispanic orphans , Ale and his teen sister Iz...
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58,461
6
Decent , but doesn't hold a candle to Yojimbo
A Fistfull of Dollars has its moments , but the original film , Kurosawa's Yojimbo , was much better . Clint Eastwood , though very good , is no Toshiro Mifune . Mifune's nameless man had much more of a character and a personality than his ever-scowling counterpart , Eastwood . The supporting characters were much more ...
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67,958
6
Too loose and random for my taste
The film for which director Dusan Makavejev is best known . It's similar to his later Sweet Movie , which I watched last week , in that it's made up of a bunch of disparate parts edited together . The most prominent thread is a documentary about sexual psychiatrist and ( pseudo - ) scientist Wilhelm Reich , a refugee f...
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126,662
6
A goofy piece of WWII propaganda
A black boy , obsessed with buying a horn at a local pawn shop , tries to earn the final $2 he needs by shining the shoes of rich white men . They are musical scouts , and when they find out that he wants the $2 to buy a horn , they ask him to demonstrate his abilities . He does so in a wonderful musical number . When ...
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28,141
6
Warner Baxter is great , but the film is only so-so
Not among Ford's best films , unfortunately . Warner Baxter is excellent as Dr . Samuel Mudd , the doctor who set John Wilkes Booth's leg after he broke it jumping from the balcony in which he shot Abraham Lincoln . Like most Hollywood films , it completely ignores history . It's not generally believed that Mudd was a ...
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412,596
6
I'm that guy who doesn't like Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Eh , I thought this was slightly above average for Hou . Which means I still didn't care for it much , but I didn't exactly dislike it , either . As far as the ( non - or possibly anti - ) story goes , it's probably his slightest yet . A young woman is newly pregnant . She wanders around , rides the trains , hangs out ...
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6
Hardly terrible . It might qualify as stupid fun if it were just a tad more fun .
I should begin by saying that I am overly forgiving toward films of the sci-fi genre . I generally enjoy even the worst sci-fi flicks . According to most , Ultraviolet is one of the worst ( current IMDb rating : 3 . 7 ) , but I didn't think it was that bad at all . Not good , either . Just rather mediocre . If you're l...
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94,606
6
Unsatisfied with this acclaimed drama
Strange , unsatisfying drama with a tinge of quirky comedy . I don't know , it didn't do too much for me . At first , I was infuriated . It felt forced and the dialogue felt so utterly written . It almost felt like the actors were reading the book out loud . I half expected Kathleen Turner to end some of her sentences ...
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71,458
6
I feel exactly the opposite way of this film's first commentator below
I did not find Fassbinder's filmmaking static and boring . I found it brash and exciting . His style is superb . HOWEVER , I have to say that I found the story , with which I am unfamiliar , incredibly bland . How many 19th and early 20th Century novels have this exact same plot ? It's the simplistic " fallen wife " sc...
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81,353
6
Below average Altman , but still interesting
This film , generally considered one of Altman's greatest follies , is not all that bad . Unfortunately , it's not all that good , either . The director , along with his production team have created a unique and amazing world in Sweethaven , populated by bizarre and amusing live-action cartoon characters . It's an awes...
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60,304
6
The least successful Godard film I've seen , and I've seen more than a dozen others
Although it was a critical success when it was released , and it still has strong supporters today , I personally found Two or Three Things I Know About Her a very weak film . It represents a day in the life of a prostitute / housewife , though that itself is difficult to tell . The film is rather amorphous . Maybe tha...
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89,066
6
Not entirely successful late Godard film
The films in Godard's late ( and not yet over ) period present some of the greatest challenges to cineasts . Detective is no exception . It is extraordinarily complex in narrative ( or , more precisely , anti-narrative ) , visual composition , and editing structure . Unfortunately , I don't think it's worth it . It's k...
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6
Watch if you like the music . . .
but skip it if the main reason you wanted to see it was for Chappelle . I quite like Dave Chappelle . I have since long before he got really famous with his Comedy Central sketch show . That is perhaps why I wasn't especially impressed with his film . He's not the focus . He's engaging when he is on screen , but most o...
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114,086
6
A moderate failure ; still worth seeing
Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the major figures of cinema history , even if most people haven't heard of him . He was nowhere near as prolific as filmmakers such as Fellini , Godard , Bergman , Kurosawa , or Truffaut . And his films now are difficult to procure . There are only a few readily available , and I have s...
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51,201
6
Ridiculously overrated , but Laughton and Lanchester are excellent
Typical of Billy Wilder films , Witness for the Prosecution is mediocre and overrated . I don't know how his fans defend him so passionately . Sure , he made a few great films , but looking at this courtroom drama , one of his more popular films , how can anyone deny how hackneyed , predictable , and often just how pla...
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6
Predictable , with the depth of a mediocre TV Western teleplay
Three criminals wander into a Western town to wait for the 12 : 00 noon train to arrive . Their leader , Frank Miller , will arrive on it and together they will get revenge for Miller's jail time ( he was supposed to be hanged ) . The man who put him in jail is Will Kane ( Gary Cooper ) . He has just been married ( to ...
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20,620
6
Yes , it is bad , but . . .
I think it qualifies as a must-see film for all true scholars of the cinema . That is not to say that it is a good film . It is most certainly not . But this is really a perfect film in which to study the biggest change that this artistic medium ever experienced , the change from silence to sound . The whole film comes...
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6
It aims to be ridiculous , but , even knowing that , I couldn't quite bring myself to like it
Hmm . What to say about this one ? Well , if you're the type that thinks action movies like Die Hard 4 are way too realistic , then Shoot ' Em Up might be for you . I mean , it is an action comedy , so you're definitely not supposed to take it seriously . When all kinds of crazy , physically impossible things happen , ...
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6
Weak mystery / thriller with mediocre direction by the man who made City of God
Disappointing followup to the exhilarating City of God . I can appreciate some of what The Constant Gardener tries to do . It wants to put a spotlight on the way the West exploits Africa . But it gets too bogged down in an overcomplicated and only moderately interesting mystery-thriller . I'm not too big on mysteries o...
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430,357
6
Mediocre
Opinions have been all over the map on this film , some calling it a masterpiece , others one of the worst of 2006 . I'm pretty much exactly in the middle : I just think it's distinctly mediocre . It's hardly terrible , but I can't for the life of me see anything special about it , either . I really appreciate the low-...
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107,613
6
Not bad , but too predictable in the end and it has a terrible score
Anthony Minghella's sophomore feature , and easily his least well known film . It's not too hard to see why . It seems like a pretty generic romantic comedy . I would say that's being unfair , though , as the characters are a little better written than you would expect from the genre , and there is a little more emotio...
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62,362
6
Some fun to be had , but it disappoints in the end
Often a lot of fun , but also often really annoying . The fun is more prevalent , but the bad stuff tends to weigh the good stuff down , so that , in the end , my feelings about it are leaning more towards the negative . It's a goofy late ? 60s look at the 1920s and the flapper fad . Julie Andrews stars as the title ch...
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59,956
6
Interesting failure
Two vaudeville performers touring South America get involved in a revolution . It's somewhat similar to Woody Allen's Bananas . These two women are played by the impossibly gorgeous Brigette Bardot and the eternally pensive Jeane Moreau . The film is an action comedy , or at least that's what it's going for . But Louis...
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247,425
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Great first act , great third act , but the middle is so weak that the film buckles under its own weight
And it collapses . While there is plenty of good material , and even some moments of greatness in In the Bedroom , ultimately it is a failure . Because of the vast amounts of SPOILERS in the remainder of this review - yes , even more than was spoiled by the Academy Awards - I'll say right now that I give this film a . ...
385,594
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84,805
6
Second Funniest Movie my Butt
I have never understood the popularity of this film . Perhaps when it was made in the early 80s it was considered original or daring . To me , it seemed extremely laughless and predictable for most of its running time . Nothing that I saw made me laugh all that much . Nothing surprised me at all . The only person who m...
385,138
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339,291
6
Ought to be better
Has great promise , but delivers too little . It's always amusing , but I wish it would be more than just amusing . The production design is absolutely fantastic . It's the selling point of the film . Jim Carrey is very funny , and I like at least two of the three child stars . Emily Browning is sure to be the next Chr...
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119,567
6
I laughed more than anything else . SPOILERS
Most people thought this was the biggest cinematic disappointment that they had ever seen , that is , until Star Wars : Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace was released two summers afterwards . I write this right after having come home from the third installment , Jurassic Park III , and I can safely say that JPII is the wo...
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6
Hong seems to be making the same film again and again
Hong Sang-Soo reminds me a lot of Eric Rohmer , which seems to be a comparison many have made before . But I would definitely rank him quite below Rohmer . I've seen four films by Hong now . I liked the first one I saw , Woman Is the Future of Man , a lot , but the other two , besides the one about which I'm currently ...
385,358
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291,350
6
Interesting concept , but I don't think it worked
Great concept , so-so execution . An interviewer and his cameraman sit down to interview a long-retired actress who's been shunning other reporters for years . The interviewer brings her a gift , a key that she lost long , long ago . It opens up her memories of a man whom she helped in her youth , in the era before WWI...
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395,584
6
Wait to rent , for sure
This looked like it might be a genuinely good exploitation / horror flick . It almost is . It's a pretty horrific serial-killer-on-the-lam story , but it's undermined by weak performances from a couple of the main characters , a ripped - from - the - classic - rock - station song score , and some very incompetent direc...
384,725
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47,034
6
Oh please !
To me , Ishiro Honda is Japan's answer to Ed Wood . It's true , he's not quite as bad as Wood , and his films were actually hugely successful . Still , Honda shows almost no artistic abilities when it comes to film-making ? it all moves too slow , half the film is stock footage and the miniatures never look like anythi...
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10,208
6
Fear the unrelenting wrath of the Buddha !
It's always cool to see rare , barely seen films from famous directors . This one is Fritz Lang's take on M . Butterfly ( a story ( a novel ? a play ? ) with which I am unfamiliar ) , about a Japanese woman who marries a European man , only to be abandoned by him , poor and pregnant . The story of the film is very good...
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I'm that guy who doesn't like Hou Hsiao-Hsien - but I actually did like at least one part of this film
A triptych film about love in different time periods . The first segment takes place in 1966 , the second in 1911 and the third in 2005 . Like all multiple-segment movies , the segments are of varying quality . People will of course prefer different segments . The first segment is simple and sweet . A man , about to em...
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Not good . Duvall is especially bad .
Based on a William Faulkner story to be found in the collection Knight's Gambit , possibly his best work written after WWII , Tomorrow is the story of a dull Southern man who falls in love with a pregnant woman whose husband has run away and then raises the child . The script , written by Horton Foote ( who won an Osca...
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6
Rarity from Hou's commercial period ( but you're not missing much , even if you're a fan )
It's not a good movie , but not a terrible one , either . I think this was actually Hou's most profitable film in Taiwan . I know it was successful , anyway . It's certainly more commercial than any of his other films that I've seen . It stars a famous pop singer of the time , Kenny B ( and , let me tell you , if this ...
384,780
391,152
40,665
6
A poor movie with a couple of great bits , especially Cyd Charisse's two numbers
Thin and fairly dull Esther Williams vehicle , with Peter Lawford as her love interest . Williams and Lawford are both boring , and have no chemistry together . They are upstaged by just about every single other person in the cast , Cyd Charisse , Ricardo Montalban , Xavier Cugat , Jimmy Durante ( whom you'd think was ...
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50,105
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The first half promised a masterpiece that the second half couldn't deliver
I've had this DVD in my collection for several years now , having picked it up cheap at a Black Friday sale . Deborah Kerr's unfortunate passing finally got me to pull it out . Should have went with my first choice , Black Narcissus , instead . An Affair to Remember starts off fine , with Cary Grant and Kerr , both eng...
384,700
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387,877
6
Maybe worth renting ; definitely a weak film with some terrible moments . Some good ones , too , though .
Like all the De Palma films I've seen at least , The Black Dahlia is all style and flash and no substance . Hey , that's cool when the results are fun to watch , as in Sisters , Carlito's Way or Femme Fatale . It doesn't work here , though . It's a busy , hard-boiled police investigation flick that doesn't make a whole...
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6
Great performances augment a film that is , in reality , quite awful
Note to Niki Caro : tone it down , just a little . I believe it had to be bad for women in this situation , but , even if it's true , it's difficult to buy that men would break into the women's locker room and smear feces all over the walls . There's more than a fine line between misogyny and insanity . And even if I c...
385,333
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852,726
7
Tsukamoto's most conventional and probably his least good , but still a pretty decent flick
Probably the most conventional film Shinya Tsukamoto has directed . Really , it would only take a couple of tiny clichés for that to happen , since every other film he has made is so utterly unconventional . Nightmare Detective is sort of a police procedural . Detectives are investigating two apparent suicides that see...
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83,702
7
Not as good as I was hoping
Such interest in Fitzcarraldo was sparked in my mind that I was compulsively forced to purchase the DVD version of it . It was fascinating , a near-masterpiece , I would say . And I desperately wished to see the documentary about its making , Burden of Dreams . Well , probably a year after I first saw Fitzcarraldo , I ...
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39,090
7
Not among Kurosawa's better films , but certainly interesting
An interesting film in Kurosawa's canon : it deals explicitly with the WWII era and , alone amongst the man's films , has a woman as the protagonist ( played by Ozu's favorite star , Setsuko Hara ) . Hara plays Yukie , the daughter of a college professor who is fired after expressing leftist ideas . This plot catalyst ...
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80,380
7
Worst musical ever ? Maybe !
Infamously bad musical , often considered the worst movie of that genre . This film is a treasure for bad movie lovers . It's just transcendently awful , an assault to the ears and eyes . Ed Wood-level auteur Menahem Golan , who produced such classics as Over the Top , The Forbidden Dance , the Breakin ' movies , Ameri...
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256,380
7
I think I should watch it once more
A frustrating film in a way . I was hugely disappointed in it for a long while , but as the film progressed I kept wondering if my disappointment was merely a product of my unfair expectations . That's probably the case . I expect a daring comedy from the Brothers Farrelly , but Shallow Hal is surprisingly low-key . It...
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173,840
7
Entertaining . Just don't expect too much
And if you're a fan of the Final Fantasy video games , you certainly will be expecting too much . I , like many , have been really excited about this movie for four or five years now , drooling at every little pic or clip we were given by the film's web site . The finished product is , unfortunately , little more than ...
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427,327
7
The young cast really makes this movie
I famously predicted that this movie would bomb in the theater , but I was incredibly wrong . It's actually one of the top-grossing films of the year . When I was fumbling for an excuse as to why it was so successful , I guessed that the film's Disney Channel alumni had brought in a younger audience and recaptured them...
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41,841
7
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Good but mostly cliché WWII film about the storming of Iwo Jima . The soldier characters are rather forgettable , and the whole film frankly looks bad after seeing Wellman's superb Battleground , made the same year . When you see Battleground , it gives you a feel of how horrible it would be to have been in combat . Iw...
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390,384
7
Good ; surprised Carruth hasn't gotten any other jobs yet
Famous for being made for $7000 , this is a sci-fi flick about a couple of engineers / inventors who stumble upon a way to travel back in time . While it's pretty clear how this could be made for so little money ( location , location , location ? it was probably made in the director's garage and stuff like that ) , it ...
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480,249
7
It starts off pretty well , but then hobbles itself with its cliché baddies
The latest cinematic adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel , and the first one to use its real name . The other two are The Last Man on Earth , starring Vincent Price , and The Omega Man , starring Charlton Heston . Haven't seen the Price version yet , but The Omega Man is a sentimental favorite of mine . Cheesy and...
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462,499
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Brutal but good
Holy crap ! It's kind of silly that they even brought this character back after so much time . I mean , he was a relic of the Vietnam War and , while that's not forgotten , not even in the political spectrum , the political arguments those original films moronically made are pretty dead . The new Rambo doesn't even men...
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63,149
7
Don't give up
Looking at the number of imdb voters for both the I Am Curious films , it seems that few who watch the first end up watching the second ( there are 194 votes for Yellow , and 46 for Blue ) . That's not surprising . Four hours of near-randomness is surely a bit difficult to sit through . And the four hours provide limit...
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184,503
7
Good for this genre
Often considered the best kaiju film ever made , or at least second best after the original Gojira . I would perhaps concur , though I myself don't consider that title to be particularly difficult to win . But Gamera 3 does have a script that goes a bit deeper than all the others , and the special effects are almost as...
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36,880
7
No , it's not a great film , but it's better than you may have heard
The Great Moment , as I'm sure you know , is not a typical Preston Sturges movie . It is a historical drama with a few comic moments , all of which are clunky ( although a couple of the stranger ones are so bizarre they're entertaining in a way , especially when Morton tries to knock out his dog with ether ) . The film...
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Often hilarious
Documentary about the world's filthiest joke , as told by dozens of famous ( and not so famous ) comedians . The joke involves a man describing a family act to a talent agent . The act includes any scatology a comedian can invent in his or her head , but normally involves feces , blood , sperm and urine , at the very...
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Fun , if you like the show . God knows what you'd make of it if you haven't seen it .
Hmm ? what to say about this movie ? The first question one must ask is why they bothered to release it to theaters . Perhaps to make the title make sense ? That is , if you can make any sense out of the title . The people I feel most sorry for are all the film critics with unwarped minds who were forced to sit through...
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316,654
7
I prefer Spider-Man 1
Good action movie , but I much prefer the first installment . 2 has arguably the greatest comic book villain of all times , Doctor Octopus , which kind of makes the movie a disappointment since , after him , it's rather forgettable . It really should have been better with such a cool bad guy . Unfortunately , it really...
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Worth a watch
Fuckland is an interesting film . I personally love the Dogma movement . I wish it had lasted longer . It seems to have already died . Many critics tried their damndest to shut it down . I don't know why . It's the most interesting movement to happen in the cinematic world since the French New Wave . Besides Fuckland ,...
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Not great , but it ends up being pretty funny by the end
Amusing , if obvious comedy . It pretends to be one of those wry , British comedies , but the laughs come mostly from cheap jokes involving drugs , sex and poop . But , hey , I can't complain much because there are some good laughs . The cast is good . I especially liked Andy Nyman as a hypochondriac . Alan Tudyk of th...
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Decent short , but more of a curio for Tati fans
Wow , Tati was a young man . Here he plays someone's young son , 17 years before M . Hulot's Holiday . The action centers around a boxing match between a champ and Tati , who knows nothing about boxing and has to consult a manual during the fight . It sounds funnier than it really is . Chaplin's boxing match in City Li...
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28,270
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Jeeze , RKO really was a factory , wasn't it ?
This film is nearly identical to one of those Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies , except minus music , in place of Astaire is Gene Raymond and in place of Ginger Rogers is Ann Sothern . The supporting characters are taken right from Top Hat or Swing Time . Helen Brodericik , Eric Blore , and Erik Rhodes are all in ...
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7
A little slow to start , but that last half hour is excellent
One can't talk about this film without ruining a long-held secret . Then again , I'm not sure that not knowing would help one to enjoy it , either . Without knowing the film's sense of purpose , it would be easy to get bored , I think . It's not that hard even if you do know , unfortunately , but it might be excruciati...
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No Lord of the Rings , but probably a tad better than the first Chronicle of Narnia
I went into this with low expectations , and they were exceeded . I liked it quite a bit , perhaps more than the first film in this series , The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe . I think it's because the religious allegory is much more subtle . I also liked the plot line of royal intrigue and power struggles , which ...
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63,205
7
Good , not great film from the Japanese New Wave
The story involves four people whose work is blackmail . They're successful in their " business , " but their eyes eventually get too big for their stomachs when they think they've found a way to rip off the yakuza . The job proves harder than the easy money it initially seemed . While it is generally well done , its t...
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105,197
7
Good , but far from my favorite Zhang Yimou ( or Gong Li ) film
Probably my least favorite Zhang Yimou film . Oh , it's not bad . It's pretty good , to tell the truth . But it's the kind of film where you get the point right away and you have to spend 100 minutes watching the filmmaker stumble toward the foregone conclusion . Gong Li plays the title character , a hugely pregnant wo...
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405,159
7
Probably wouldn't crack my top 50 of 2004
I don't understand all the praise . Sure , it's a pretty good movie , but it's flat , obvious , and not at all memorable . Eastwood's last film , Mystic River , was ten times better . Hilary Swank plays a boxer who persists in trying to get trainer Clint Eastwood to make her his student . He finally does accept her , e...
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52,700
7
Good acting and good script bogged down by a courtroom ending
This film is based on the Leopold / Lobe murders , which was also developed into an earlier film , Alfred Hitchcock's magnificent Rope . Now , Compulsion is a good film , but it pales in comparison to Rope , so I would definitely advise people to watch it over this . Leopold and Lobe were two homosexual college student...
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26,174
7
Nice ; maybe a bit overrated
A fun swashbuckler starring Errol Flynn . It's not especially great , but Flynn himself elevates it to a level far beyond what it would have been without him . Really , he's in full form here . The only other Flynn vehicle that I've seen is The Adventures of Robin Hood , which is a far better film . Still , I think Fly...
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37,055
7
Decent
An okay international intrigue picture , in the same vein as The Maltese Falcon , but not nearly as good . It's very flawed , and only moderately good . One pro is that Peter Lorre is ( arguably ) the film's star . How often did that happen ? He plays a mystery writer from Holland who runs into a great story while he's...
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32,671
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Frustrating
Oh , it's a good picture , but , well , it is just hairs away from being a great film . Actually , a lot of hairs . They're all small , individual problems , but there are tons of ' em . Just some small changes in the script , ones that wouldn't have been too difficult to make , and it could have been a Hollywood class...
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Brief review
Trippy Japanese animé that mixes dreams with reality . You never really know what's going to come next in this picture . It's very entertaining , but only up to a point . It never establishes its own reality , so the constant surrealism does grow tiring after a while . And the characters are thin . A movie with such fa...
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Betty Garrett and a few choice numbers make this a decent musical
Not one of the great musicals of the classic era , to be sure , but a fairly enjoyable one . The plot is nothing special , with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as ball players both smitten by their new owner , Esther Williams . Another woman , Betty Garrett , shows up about midway through the picture so each of our stars ...
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a good follow-up to the smash hit The Sixth Sense
MAJOR SPOILERSThe fundamental flaw of Unbreakable is that Shyamalan clings tenaciously to the structure , pace , themes , characters and mood of The Sixth Sense . That film was the surprise blockbuster in August of 1999 , so it only makes ( financial ) sense for him to emulate it , and the studio to approve it . Alas ,...
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Don't go too far in your praise : it's merely okay
I have , for a long time , been skeptical of whether Quentin Tarantino was a worthwhile talent . Certainly Pulp Fiction was a seminal film of the 1990s , for better or worse , and Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown were at least worthwhile . But it was my burgeoning opinion that his style of goofy , self-referential filmm...
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Extraordinarily silly , but pretty fun
This afterthought , coming a full 12 years after the third Die Hard movie and 19 years after the original , was destined to be not as good as its predecessors . I mean , after the first one , the people responsible for the sequels were obsessed with packing them more and more full of action . In the new one , the strat...
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Well made , but too familiar
Ridley Scott is one of those directors who has built up a lot of good will from audiences , including myself , over the years . But as each successive film of his is released , I find myself wondering why that is . Two of his movies , Alien and Blade Runner , are arguably masterpieces . Does he have more than maybe a c...
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Weak with a couple of great set pieces and one great performance
For a long while , I've described Ben-Hur as the biggest film that I had not yet seen . Now I have . This is one of those classics whose status has been fading with time , and it's no wonder once you've seen the film . Sure , there are a few scenes that are very memorable , and have become part of our common culture . ...
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A little thin , but good for children
THIS COMMENT DEFINITELY CONTAINS SPOILERSI read the book by Katherine Patterson way back in grade school . I remembered nothing about it but that the little girl died . It's a charming little story about imagination and friendship , and for kids it's mostly excellent just because it's so easy to recognize one's own lif...
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Good but very flawed film
Now , Voyager begins excellently : Bette Davis plays Charlotte Vale , the youngest child of an affluent Boston family . In fact , she was a " late child , " had late in her mother's life . She was not planned , and the doctor who delivered her comforts her mother by telling her that a late child would be a great compan...
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Hardly a classic , but a good piece of entertainment
A major piece of modern pop culture that I had not yet experienced . Now I can finally get all the references , parodies , rip-offs and trivia questions . And I can finally put Lethal Weapon 4 , which for some reason I watched back when it came out on DVD , in context . Maybe I should give it another watch now , but my...
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A bit overrated
A very sweet musical starring Judy Garland . The plot concerns a family living in St . Louis whose patriarch has accepted a job in New York City . His family is devastated . The two oldest daughters both have beaus , and the oldest son has a girl as well . The plot is passable . If it weren't for the exceptional songs ...
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7
It's good , but nowhere near as good as the reviews would have you believe
I had unsurmountable expectations for this one , and , alas , they remain unsurmounted . It didn't even come close . It is an entertaining film , but , as a whole , it feels half-baked . Near the end of the Spanish Civil War , a little girl , Ofelia , is taken with her pregnant mother to an old mill , where her new hus...
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Minor Archers , in my opinion
Newly released by Criterion , The Small Back Room was made by the Archers right after The Red Shoes . I had never even heard of it , and it's definitely a less well known film by the directors . In my opinion , it really is a lesser Archers movie . It reunites two of the stars of Black Narcissus , David Farrar and Kath...
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Rather entertaining , but there are way too many subplots
Not a great movie , to be certain , but at least I can say it is ambitious and original . Kevin Costner plays a CEO who is driven by his imaginary friend ( played by William Hurt ) to murder people . On what was supposed to be his last murder , a man from across the street ( Dane Cook ) witnesses him . Instead of turni...
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Slightly better than the first
A worthy sequel . In fact , I think it's a bit of an improvement , with tighter plotting and more kinetic action sequences . I also liked , to my surprise , the addition of Joe Pesci as a witness Riggs and Murtaugh are protecting . Yes , he's more than a tad annoying , but he's annoying in a mostly funny way . I also v...
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Emotionally draining , if at times overly simplistic
A classic " through the eyes of childhood " story about the Holocaust . Asa Butterfield plays Bruno , a German 8 year-old whose father ( David Thewlis ) is the officer in charge of a concentration camp . Bruno has no clue what goes on at the camp , which he initially thinks is a farm where the weird farmers wear pajama...
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Certainly one of Miike's lesser films
Even if , in the future , he becomes the world's most beloved director and everyone everywhere seeks out all his films , Andromedia will be forgotten . There's really no such thing as " typical Miike " , but this film is somehow definitely atypical Miike . It's a teeny cyber-thriller that stars not one , but two Japane...
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Good , even if it pales in comparison to Capote ; it wouldn't have been popular even if Capote never had existed
This film had the unfortunate luck to open only slightly after a film about the exact same subject appeared and won a bunch of awards , but , honestly , it would have been overlooked in any case . It's notable for some of the acting , and mostly because actor Toby Jones is a dead ringer for Truman Capote , but it doesn...
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Nothing special
I don't understand the enormously positive reaction this film has had . I mean , yeah , it's a decent flick , quite entertaining , but it's nothing all that memorable . The story is generally a good one , and pretty original . It does have some major flaws , though . I didn't buy it when Max and Herman began warring ag...
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Dull , but the story's not bad and the performances are good
The latest Woody flick is set in Spain , where friends Vicky ( Rebecca Hall ) and Cristina ( Scarlett Johansson ) both get involved with an artist ( Javier Bardem ) . Both women sleep with Bardem , but eventually Johansson ends up with him . Hall goes back to her boring finacé , though her brief affair has distorted he...
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Marilyn is pretty good , as are the jokes about Bogie and Bacall
In this film , three women , played by three huge stars , Lauren Bacall , Marilyn Monroe , and Betty Grable , move in together with the plan to each land a millionaire . They each get involved with millionaires , but men of more humble means ( and at least one man pretending to be ) end up winning them over in the end ...
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Pretty good , but somehow failed to move me
Clint Eastwood's curiously unaffecting WWII picture about the famous picture of the flag raising on Iwo Jima , and what happened to the three men who survived the rest of the battle ( the flag was raised on the fifth day , and the island wasn't taken entirely until a month afterward ) . Well , " unaffecting " is a bit ...
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Fun enough
A cinematic sinner am I , as I have only seen one James Bond film not starring Pierce Brosnan , Dr . No , and I have seen each of the films starring Mr . Brosnan ( although I've never seen Goldeneye in its entirety ) . I quite loved Dr . No , and I have no good excuse for avoiding all the ones between it and the Brosna...
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Good but sloppy
After falling in love with Tamara Jenkins ' sophomore feature , The Savages , a short while back , I have finally caught up with her debut . It's pretty obviously a first film . Jenkins has created some memorable characters and some good situations , most certainly culled from real-life experiences . But the story arc ...