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385,280 | 391,152 | 45,935 | 7 | Nice colors , slow story , great climax | A samurai falls in love with a woman whose life he saves . He is offered a reward for his bravery , and he asks if he can be married to that woman . Unfortunately , she is already married and the samurai's request cannot be fulfilled . He is steadfast in his desire , and tries forcibly to take her from her husband . Th... |
384,976 | 391,152 | 105,378 | 7 | Rather flawed , but entertaining | Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog is just play . It's a comic take on German Expressionist filmmaking , like Fritz Lang's M , and other German art , especially Kafka's The Trial . Woody Allen plays a K-like character who is woken up by a lynch mob who want his help in capturing a serial killer , but they never tell him exa... |
385,066 | 391,152 | 59,113 | 7 | Good but very flawed film | This isn't one of those classics that you just have to see . In fact , you could live the rest of your life very happily without ever having seen it , even if you are a major film buff . There are plenty of other films you could see in its stead , and , with the time you would save by skipping this 3 hour and 20 minute... |
385,757 | 391,152 | 457,572 | 7 | Great idea , so-so results | In a 1950's style America , humanity has survived the zombie apocalypse , which happened much as it did in Romero's Night of the Living Dead , and is now living safe inside fenced-in safe zones . There is an invention , a collar of some sort , that is able to quell the zombies ' hunger for human flesh . Now they are us... |
384,925 | 391,152 | 110,907 | 7 | Unfairly Maligned . Far better than people give it credit for | And that's not saying that it's great either . It is not . But it's tremendously low imdb rating makes me wonder who the heck is voting here . Pret-a-Porter is a pretty good Robert Altman film that is no better or worse than Short Cuts , which , while I feel it is a good film , I also think it is overrated . This one i... |
384,703 | 391,152 | 106,504 | 7 | Perhaps not entirely successful , but definitely good and well worth seeing | A small project wedged between his first two more mainstream products , The Adjuster and Exotica , Calendar stars the director and his wife , Arsinée Khanjian as a photographer and his wife . They are traveling to different Armenian churches in order to photograph them for a calendar . Both of them are Armenian by heri... |
385,542 | 391,152 | 264,616 | 7 | Great story and acting , but needs a shot of adrenaline | Frailty has a hugely innovative script . Perhaps it should be remembered when Oscar time arrives at the end of 2002 . And Bill Paxton and Matthew McConaughey are very good as well . Paxton especially , who also directed , gives one of his best performances . His best , in my opinion , was in A Simple Plan , but this is... |
384,623 | 391,152 | 65,391 | 7 | For fans only | Not one of Fassbinder's best , but certainly worth a look for those interested in the man's work . In mood and style , it's reminiscent of Godard's Alphaville , and my reactions to both films are similar : I am intrigued , but a bit bored . And I don't think either succeed in the end . The American Soldier concerns a h... |
385,753 | 391,152 | 841,046 | 7 | Slight but occasionally hilarious | After seeing The TV Set earlier this week , I was especially interested in seeing the followup film from director Jake Kasdan and producer Judd Apatow . The biopic is definitely a genre in much need of a spoofing , and I figured Kasdan and Apatow , with the often brilliant John C . Reilly in the lead , would produce a ... |
385,068 | 391,152 | 405,422 | 7 | Has heart , but it's only moderately funny | Reminds me of the Farrelly Brothers ' last few films . It's a comedy that wants to come off as really touching and thoughtful , one that doesn't want to use its pathetic characters for laughs , but then forgets to be especially funny otherwise . The 40 Year-Old Virgin is funny often enough to make it worth seeing , but... |
384,653 | 391,152 | 26,564 | 7 | Okay | A fun and charming film , but pretty forgettable . I watched it as the first part of a double feature ( the second film being Mildred Pierce ) , and I hardly remember a thing about it . The story concerns the people of Flanders who have to deal with a Spanish invasion ( the year is 1616 ) . They are peaceful people and... |
385,685 | 391,152 | 21,654 | 7 | On DVD , the Criterion Berlin Alexanderplatz set , disc 7 | Located on disc 7 , the extras disc , of the new Criterion Berlin Alexanderplatz set . This is well worth seeing if you've just gotten your way through the 15 . 5 hour version . There's also a 23 minute long lecture on the original Alfred Döblin novel and its adaptations over the years that is a must-see , as it helps ... |
385,735 | 391,152 | 91,406 | 7 | No , it's not based on the popular song by Kansas . . . | SLIGHT SPOILERSHou Hsiao-hsien is a filmmaker whose name has been dropped a thousand times in conversations I've had in the past year . Last week , I had a chance to see A Time to Live and a Time to Die . It was terrible . BUT , it was early in his career , and I was warned that many did not care for it . I can't imagi... |
384,661 | 391,152 | 120,655 | 7 | Kevin Smith's worthy diatribe over organized religion | Dogma is probably Kevin Smith's best film so far . It is extremely funny in the same vein as his previous films , and it does a rather good job discussing the confused state of Christianity today . I believe he comes up with a very good synopsis of the situation . The film , though , has some problems . The clashing of... |
385,495 | 391,152 | 210,075 | 7 | Overcomes its weak script | Girlfight is , in fact , little more than a female Rocky . In fact , compared to Rocky , this movie is not very good . It is stuffed with some of the most hackneyed sports cliches you'll ever see . Maybe it's just impossible to come up with a decent sports film . It always comes down to a final fight . There are very f... |
385,584 | 391,152 | 28,597 | 7 | I was disappointed , I'm sorry to say | I was rather disappointed in this screwball comedy , from a director whom I generally love . And it's another one of those films where there are so many great elements ? Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are so perfect that it's really frustrating I laughed so little . Well , there were some scenes near the beginning that mad... |
385,324 | 391,152 | 285,861 | 7 | Philip Seymour Hoffman is great , but the film is kind of a bore | A straightforward film about a gambling addict , Dan Mahowny , beautifully played by Philip Seymour Hoffman . Yet , as good as Hoffman is in the film , saying that he gives a great performance is like saying the ice in my freezer is cold . Philip Seymour Hoffman [ I ] always [ / I ] gives a great performance . So what ... |
384,950 | 391,152 | 405,336 | 7 | Nonsensical ? Yes . But definitely interesting , and worth your time . | Richard Kelly's followup to the cult classic Donnie Darko , which finally makes its arrival in theaters a year and a half after its legendarily disastrous Cannes debut in May of 2006 . And what you heard about it is absolutely true : it makes little to no sense . You'll spend much of the movie wondering who people are ... |
385,262 | 391,152 | 23,775 | 7 | Stanwyck is great , but the film is just decent ( though indecent ! ) | Infamous pre-code film , really the one film that caused people to insist on the Hayes Code being strictly enforced . Barbara Stanwyck stars as a young girl whose liquor-selling father has no problem pimping her out to customers . When he dies in an accident , she's released out into the world with the knowledge that h... |
385,239 | 391,152 | 299,458 | 7 | Frustratingly uneven , just like George Washington | David Gordon Green is a most irritating director . He is so clearly talented , immensely so , but he cannot for the life of him mold his creations into a working whole . All the Real Girls is beautiful , and at times its so poignant , intense , and truthful that it seems like it is hitting the very meaning of love . Th... |
385,485 | 391,152 | 58,898 | 7 | pretty but empty | This was the third Godard film I saw , and I saw it at a time when I was still eagerly building the base of my film knowledge . I found it dull and incomprehensible , but it seemed like interesting filmmaking ( at the time Breathless was the most amazing , original , and refreshing film that I had ever seen ) . It , an... |
384,606 | 391,152 | 17,765 | 7 | Mostly hit and miss Buster Keaton movie | Certainly not one of Keaton's best films . There are a lot of funny jokes , few of which provide belly laughs ( maybe only one or two really big laughs ) . A lot of the less funny jokes are still cute and smile-inducing . Buster Keaton is as great as ever . His stunts in this film are amazing . I prefer almost every ot... |
385,165 | 391,152 | 437,777 | 7 | Rather good , though not especially memorable | Nothing special narratively , I suppose , but this romance is a cut above the average Hollywood film . A black , professional woman ( Sanaa Lathan ) starts a relationship with a white landscaper ( Simon Baker ) . They hit it off , but soon racial issues ( and , to a lesser extent , class issues ) start to weigh them do... |
384,599 | 391,152 | 58,985 | 7 | Interesting failure , but it looks beautiful | SPOILERSYou could tell that Agnes Varda had half of a great idea going into this film , but she never panned it out to its fullest extent . It begins interestingly enough , and progresses so for about half an hour or forty-five minutes . Then it plateaus and nothing very important comes of it . The story has a young ma... |
385,110 | 391,152 | 499,554 | 7 | Basically identical to the show | My first film of 2007 is a big screen port of one of my favorite television shows . I'll have to be honest : this doesn't seem like the kind of show that would lead to a very good big screen movie . Of course , Sacha Baron Cohen did a great job with his adaptation of his Borat character last year , and Reno 911 ! is si... |
385,148 | 391,152 | 65,492 | 7 | Robert Altman proves to be no Maestro | Robert Altman is undoubtedly one of the best American directors of all time , but he very often missteps . Remember Popeye ? Well , Brewster McCloud , his first effort post-MASH , his enormous hit and Oscar winner , shouldn't really be considered a misstep , per se . It certainly is an interesting film . It's just that... |
385,179 | 391,152 | 46,004 | 7 | Fun but slight | A cute premise stretched rather thin . A 7 year-old boy is tricked by his 12 year-old brother into thinking he accidentally shot him . The kid is so upset he runs away , taking with him six dollars the boys ' mother left behind for them . He goes to Coney Island and spends two whole days there . It's all nice and charm... |
384,769 | 391,152 | 499,537 | 7 | Good , but Panahi's done better | In The White Balloon and Crimson Gold , the two other films by Jafar Panahi that I've seen , the director mines surprising amounts of depth in subjects that seem , on the surface , slight . In Offside , Panahi's seriocomic tribute to Iranian women standing up for their rights , I don't think he's as successful . Not th... |
384,787 | 391,152 | 368,891 | 7 | Incredibly stupid , but , I have to admit , I enjoyed it | For a movie that's pretty much just a cheap combination of Indiana Jones and The Da Vinci Code , I was surprised at how much I enjoyed National Treasure . Oh , it's dumb , but it's dumb fun . Nicolas Cage stars as the latest descendant of the Gates family , whose members have spent their existence following the treasur... |
385,270 | 391,152 | 385,004 | 7 | Maddeningly disappointing | Okay , it's actually a pretty good film , but after being so absolutely blown away by Zhang's previous martial arts picture , Hero , his follow up could only disappoint . It just feels so unambitious and small in comparison . The script is far less interesting and timeless . It takes over half the movie before anything... |
385,380 | 391,152 | 464,141 | 7 | Good , but not that good | Good , but I was expecting better given the reviews . It's about at the same level as , say , The Others . Belén Rueda plays an adult orphan who now lives in her former orphanage with her husband and adopted son . Her son speaks of imaginary friends , which she and her husband find normal . But these imaginary friends ... |
385,091 | 391,152 | 60,675 | 7 | OR The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola | That alternate title for Masculin Feminin , The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola , is provided in the middle of the film . It is probably the most famous thing from it . It's actually a good title . Politics and pop culture mix in odd ways in the film , and the characters are uncertain about both of those aspects of thei... |
385,166 | 391,152 | 468,565 | 7 | Not great , but it's okay | Very Miramax-ish film from South Africa . It won the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this year . A petty criminal known as Tsotsi ( slang for " thug " ) shoots a woman in order to steal her car , not knowing that her baby is in the back seat . He can't bring himself to abandon the child , and takes it along wi... |
384,789 | 391,152 | 369,441 | 7 | A disappointment , but an enjoyable one | The film aims at being a good satire . It is a remake of a 1977 film that I haven't seen , but this version is very rooted in modern events . It takes the Enron scandal as a starting point and depicts an upper middle class culture where many people are fighting it out for a few jobs . After attempting to work at a Wal-... |
385,412 | 391,152 | 963,794 | 7 | Not great , but better than one might expect | I was in the mood for a horror flick , and the trailer to this one was quite spooky . I was pretty sure I could read through the advertisement to see the movie beneath , but I figured , eh , what the hell . Thankfully , while the movie doesn't quite match the eeriness of that preview , The Ruins is a moderately success... |
385,761 | 391,152 | 25,746 | 7 | Entertaining , but a huge mess | The Scarlet Empress is clearly a grab for the same dollar that MGM's Queen Christina had made with star Greta Garbo the year before . Similarly , in 1931 , Paramount released their version of Mata Hari , which MGM had released earlier that same year starring Garbo , called Dishonored , with Marlene Dietrich . The extra... |
385,619 | 391,152 | 83,151 | 7 | Of the three Béla Tarr films recently released by Facets on DVD , The Outsider is my favorite | Not that I loved it or anything . It's still rooted in the clichés of socialist realism and it has long , repetitive scenes of people chattering on . But I connected with this one pretty well . The main character , András , is a talented but unambitious musician . He plays the violin exceptionally well , but doesn't th... |
384,790 | 391,152 | 98,596 | 7 | A great story told in a rather dull fashion | Philippe Noiret plays a military bureaucrat who is meticulously trying to catalogue the casualties of WWI . He and two women cross paths during the excavation of a train that was buried in a tunnel by German explosives . This would make for a great existential movie , but it's all talk talk talk . The dialogue is endle... |
385,987 | 391,152 | 39,589 | 7 | Starts out great , goes downhill long before it ends | Disappointing , though only because it begins so promisingly . Lucille Ball stars as a dance hall girl , an American in London , who becomes a detective to find out what has happened to a missing friend . A serial killer poet is on the prowl . The police have Lucy answer personal ads , which is how the killer found his... |
385,539 | 391,152 | 140,307 | 7 | Okay , but kind of generic | Afraid to Die , one of the four Yasuzo Masumura films that Fantoma has recently released on DVD , contains several examples of the directorial mastery of the same man who directed Giants and Toys and Bind Beast - in fact , the entire film is skillfully directed - but the script is terribly dull . Also working against t... |
384,544 | 391,152 | 124,819 | 7 | Blew away my expectations | Having unfortunately caught BASEketball a month or so ago , I was in no hurry to see Orgazmo . But someone rented it , so I decided to brave it . Boy , am I glad I did . While it's nothing masterful , it has enough belly laughs to warrant a big recommendation from me . There were many scenes where I was nearly on the f... |
385,362 | 391,152 | 449,088 | 7 | Moves along a bit too slowly to be as good as the first two | A disappointment , although definitely pretty good . Certainly better than Spider-Man 3 . But that ain't saying much , now is it ? Basically , At World's End carries over Dead Man's Chest's major problem of too much plot , but loses its virtue of breathless pacing . At World's End is far too slow at times , and it can ... |
385,298 | 391,152 | 130,623 | 7 | Not as bad as I had thought it would be , but it's still basically a rip-off of The Land Before Time ( 1 ) | To my amazement , I didn't find this movie reprehensible . I was actually moderately entertained by it . I saw it because of the eye candy ( and , at 82 minutes , I figured that , even if it was awful , I could last through it ) . I was expecting an awful script with awful voice actors spouting awful lines . That preju... |
385,751 | 391,152 | 401,383 | 7 | Not much more than a gimmick | Just a gimmick . It's a good one , even a great one , but , once the film ended , I realized it was just a gimmick . A gimmick propping up one of my least favorite movie plots : the paralyzed person triumphing ( in a way ) against adversity . Others include The Wings of Eagles and , more recently , The Sea Inside . The... |
385,914 | 391,152 | 104,684 | 7 | Godly Action Sequences , So-So Script | I have hardly ever experienced action sequences so awesome . American action has never reached this kind of pinnacle . But the rest of the script is very cliche . I was sure the captain would say to Chow Yun-Fat : " You're a loose canon , Tequila ! " and he basically did say that . The final sequence of the film is har... |
385,764 | 391,152 | 93,818 | 7 | Entertaining , but lesser Woody | Radio Days seems like it should be one of Woody Allen's best movies . Unfortunately , the structure is so amorphous that nothing at all registers . There are a ton of promising vignettes , but none of them are developed . Like , for instance , what happened with the burglars , or even with the prize they won for the pe... |
385,036 | 391,152 | 443,274 | 7 | Solid thriller | This seemed to get a lot of flack for not being political enough when it was based around the assassination of the President of the United States by terrorists . I can understand wanting it to be more relevant and intelligent . Doesn't the subject deserve that ? Maybe . I don't think necessarily . It just uses the curr... |
385,500 | 391,152 | 89,366 | 7 | typically iconoclastic Godard | Hail Mary is done in the exact same style as the only other late Godard film I've seen , First Name : Carmen , which , I believe , he did right before this one . The narrative is fractured , much more so than even his classical films such as Breathless and Pierrot le fou , and it is impossible to understand exactly wha... |
385,002 | 391,152 | 332,047 | 7 | Decent romantic comedy , but the Farrelly Brothers ought to go back to their more racy material | The Farrelly Brothers have pretty much lost their comic touch now . They haven't had a single laugh-out-loud moment in any of their last three films . These movies , which also include Shallow Hal and Stuck on You ( not counting Osmosis Jones , which they only partially directed ) , are sweet and nice , and probably fi... |
385,118 | 391,152 | 269,217 | 7 | Too much romantic melodrama makes it drag , but it's worth seeing for the good parts | Harvey Weinstein famously used to buy up foreign films and then would refuse to distribute them to American theaters , thus reducing competition in the arthouses for the films he actually decided to release . Tears of the Black Tiger was one of those films . Now Magnolia Films got it away from him and has it available ... |
385,968 | 391,152 | 98,663 | 7 | I love The Wizard . It's so bad . | Yes , this is the infamous 100 minute long Nintendo commercial , climaxing with the reveal of Super Mario Bros . 3 , which was released a couple of months afterward . It also has time to fit in commercials for Hostess deserts and Universal Studios theme park . Yet , for a commercial , it's not half bad . I admit , I li... |
385,317 | 391,152 | 45,061 | 7 | Not one of John Ford's best | Although The Quiet Man has traditionally had a place on the top of John Ford's career , I found it to be second , or maybe even third tier Ford . I've seen more than a dozen that I prefer to it , with only two that are on its low level , none really below ( however , I like them all ) . The story here is uninteresting ... |
385,683 | 391,152 | 470,705 | 7 | Bizarre and amusing . Michael Shannon is a great discovery . | Um , okay . An odd film , to say the least . And certainly not an entirely satisfying one . I have a feeling Friedkin and playwright / screenwriter Tracy Letts want me to take it a lot more seriously than I did , or could . The film follows a man and a woman as they slowly ? no , make that quickly ? go insane . Michael... |
385,363 | 391,152 | 468,526 | 7 | There's such a thing as too subtle | It is nice to see a film that doesn't spoonfeed its audience information to help us understand what's going on , but there is also such a thing as not giving us enough information , as well . Old Joy is a very short film ( a mere 76 minutes long ) about two old friends ( Will Oldham and Daniel London ) who go on a day ... |
385,438 | 391,152 | 107,290 | 7 | A bit disappointing considering its credentials | Upon seeing JPIII today , I was thinking back to the first and the second . JPIII earned a from me , which means that it accomplished what it set out to do with minimal stupidity and no pretenses . The first one I also gave a . Originally , I had given it a , but I hadn't seen it since it was first in the theaters in 1... |
385,627 | 391,152 | 39,661 | 7 | Not as good as I heard | Long-obscure cult film noir finally makes it to DVD thanks to Fox's noir line . It's about a sideshow con-man , played by Tyrone Power , who learns how to play the role of a mentalist . His skills become so great he moves to nightclub shows , whereupon he learns a way to cheat people out of even more money . Considerin... |
385,731 | 391,152 | 64,703 | 7 | Interesting , but far too slow and confusing | This film should be more important than it is , but the director ( and editor ) makes the fatal error of assuming that if a film is slow it is automatically artistic . No , sometimes a film that is slow is nothing but , and all the great things in your picture quickly fade from memory when you leave the theater or rewi... |
385,325 | 391,152 | 338,466 | 7 | A touching movie , but it has a lack of comedy | Boy , Bobby and Peter Farrelly really are sweet at their core . Even in their big gross-out masterpieces like Kingpin and There's Something About Mary , there were complex and touching characters . They brought this part of their work to the surface with their last film , Shallow Hal , which wasn't very funny but carri... |
385,119 | 391,152 | 113,247 | 7 | Didn't do much for me | Good , but somewhat overrated . It's a French Do the Right Thing , which is its biggest problem . It apes Spike Lee so much that I don't think it ever finds a voice of its own . Plus , its three protagonists , Vinz , Saïd and Hubert are all pretty despicable . Am I really to feel sorry for these guys when they've been ... |
384,849 | 391,152 | 24,548 | 7 | A matter of interest only | This is the first Mae West film I've seen , and I am terribly disappointed . It was , sadly , a test of my patience , and it is only 65 minutes long ! Maybe the biggest problem is that this film is referred to as a comedy . Well , the plot is not comedic . It plays out like low-rent Hitchcock ( REALLY low-rent ) . It i... |
385,116 | 391,152 | 427,954 | 7 | Too much fun to dismiss | The plot of Tony Jaa's first big movie , Ong-Bak , was insanely simple : sacred statue stolen and taken to the big city , rural martial arts master goes to retrieve it , kicks butt along the way . The plot of his new film is pretty much identical , except for the statue is now a baby elephant and his mother . So one ha... |
384,926 | 391,152 | 160,127 | 7 | SPOILERS People were begging me never to see this movie . . . | But I did anyway . And those people were wrong . Charlie's Angels , while not showing up at any awards ceremony ( although the people who run those might be wrong , too ) , is quite a good action flick . In fact , I don't often like action movies , but this one turned out to be special . I'll go through a few cons firs... |
385,041 | 391,152 | 29,971 | 7 | Average Astaire / Rogers vehicle | I was absolutely sure that I had seen each of the RKO Astaire-Rogers pairings . Somehow Carefree slipped under my radar . I liked the concept , which has Astaire as a psychoanalyst trying to probe Ginger Rogers ' mind to understand why she won't marry his friend and her longtime beau , Ralph Bellamy . Like pretty much ... |
385,898 | 391,152 | 14,646 | 7 | Interesting , but the story is too sloppy | Bizarre Russian sci-fi , socialist silent about a scientist who builds a rocketship , flies to Mars , and leads the Martian proletariat in a communist revolution . Or at least that's what I've always heard that that was what Aelita was about . In reality , this part of the plot only takes up about fifteen minutes of th... |
385,158 | 391,152 | 435,625 | 7 | Scary ? Yes . Original ? Not by a long shot . | I'm tempted to rate this higher than I'm going to because it's so rare that a horror movie is genuinely scary . When it's at its best , The Descent is extremely blood-curdling . Don't read any further if you don't want spoilers ( though they are light spoilers , they are nonetheless spoilers ) . It also avoids effectiv... |
384,701 | 391,152 | 427,969 | 7 | It's good , but far from great | Adrien Brody plays a detective investigating , and becoming obsessed with the death of George Reeves , most famous for playing Superman on television ( played by Ben Affleck ) . The story of George Reeves is a compelling and sad one , and that's where the film is best . Reeves ( in flashbacks ) is having an affair with... |
385,534 | 391,152 | 43,313 | 7 | My first Ozu | Yasujiro Ozu is considered second only to Kurosawa in the hierarchy of Japanese cinema ( by Westerners , anyhow ) , so it has always shocked me how unavailable his films are . Most of his films do exist on VHS , and there is at least one on DVD , Ohayo , which I have considered purchasing in the past , but have not as ... |
385,581 | 391,152 | 286,716 | 7 | Adequately entertaining , nothing more | Ang Lee tries hard to make the film good , but his efforts to inject substance and art to the project are misguided . Why couldn't he have just tried to make it fun ? Last year's Spider-Man fulfilled a lot of that promise . The Hulk ( or Hulk ? imdb provides the ' The , ' which isn't in the main title of the film or on... |
384,909 | 391,152 | 190,590 | 7 | By Far the Worst Movie the Coen Brothers Have Ever Done | Like many people , I first became associated with the Coen brothers through Fargo . They might have been the first filmmakers whose entire body of work I searched out and watched . And I liked every one of them . And then I was the first person in line to see their next film ( their previous film now ) The Big Lebowski... |
385,330 | 391,152 | 942,385 | 7 | They really need to cool down with movie trailers ! Felt like I'd already seen the movie ! | Very amusing big budget comedy about a bunch of superstar actors who think they're making a movie when they're really lost in the jungle and being pursued by machine-gun wielding members of a drug cartel . Ben Stiller plays a huge action star trying to break into drama . Robert Downey Jr . plays a method actor who goes... |
385,531 | 391,152 | 234,837 | 7 | Good act one , but . . . | Suzhou River's beginning represents an extremely compelling film . It has it all - a great narrative , great acting , great score , and it is emotionally involving . But the director / screenwriter throws it all away when he decides simply to revert back to Sir Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo . Vertigo is one of those films... |
385,707 | 391,152 | 358,082 | 7 | Stupendous visuals only barely make up for a forgettable story and characters | The first 2005 film I've seen , and , really , it's the only one released so far this year that I have had even the littlest desire to see at the theater . It was worth seeing , but it's forgettable . The visuals are absolutely eye-popping . The film's best sequence is a Rube Goldberg-esque public transportation system... |
384,881 | 391,152 | 39,825 | 7 | I wish Harold Lloyd's work was more available . . . | Previously , I had only seen one Harold Lloyd feature film ( Safety Last , which I loved ) , and a couple of short films that he made . I was fascinated by the obscure actor , whose name only the most knowledgeable of film buffs will recognize . Sure , Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are great , but so was Harold Llo... |
385,866 | 391,152 | 64,828 | 7 | Too obscure , but I can't help but like a Pasolini film | With this , I only have one more Pasolini feature to go and I have seen all of them ( the missing culprit being Accatone ) . Porcile does not represent Pasolini at his best . It's far too abstract and obscure . Two stories alternate , one taking place in a quasi-legendary time and one in modern times . The quasi-legend... |
384,755 | 391,152 | 60,424 | 7 | Passable Billy Wilder comedy ; the first pairing of the Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau team | I'm not a huge Billy Wilder fan . I love Some Like it Hot , but was never too impressed with Double Indemnity and I really disliked Stalag 17 . I'm rather ambivalent towards The Fortune Cookie . I laughed a bit , but was also bored some of the time . It actually kind of lacks successful jokes . Walter Matthau , who won... |
385,940 | 391,152 | 115,964 | 7 | Works best if you're familiar with Cronenberg beforehand | Crash fits perfectly in David Cronenberg's canon . It has the same fascination with cold , mechanical images that we see in The Fly and Videodrome . If this is your first Cronenberg film , you'll be understandably lost . It is certainly not his best , though . I like the film particularly for its boundary-pushing . Boy... |
385,577 | 391,152 | 39,853 | 7 | See it for Keenan Wynn , at the very least | Enjoyable final Thin Man film with Mr . and Mrs . Charles investigating the death of a jazz musician . Of the three Thin Man movies I've seen , I don't think I ever really was able to follow the convoluted mystery plots , not because they were beyond me , but because I didn't care much . I find them rather uninterestin... |
385,224 | 391,152 | 452,624 | 7 | Worth seeing , but I wish it were better than it is | Soderbergh is a director with a decent amount of guts but not a lot of talent . Here he attempts to make a classic Hollywood film , reminiscent of The Third Man and Casablanca , by mimicking , or at least trying to mimic , the classical style of cinematography , by scratching the negative , having the dialogue recorded... |
385,322 | 391,152 | 117,883 | 7 | Decent thriller ; nothing too special | Moderately entertaining thriller from Spain , from the director who would later make his English language debut with The Others , and whose 1997 film , Open Your Eyes , was remaid in Hollywood as Vanilla Sky . I would say it is obvious from Thesis , his Amenábar's first feature film , that he was aiming for a career in... |
385,455 | 391,152 | 1,185,616 | 7 | Curious film that I admit I felt a little iffy about | A unique film , a blend of documentary and animation . It definitely shares some aspects with Richard Linklater's Waking Life , but it seems fresh and new . Ari Folman interviews people with whom he served in the Lebanon War in 1983 . He himself was a soldier at the time , but he seems to have blocked the entire period... |
384,705 | 391,152 | 342,735 | 7 | Deeply flawed but extremely interesting film from Lars von Trier | First thing's first , he shouldn't have repeated the style of Dogville . It worked there , yes , but it isn't something that was going to work twice . It weakens this film quite a bit , because it all feels like a been-there-done-that . I'm not 100 % sure what von Trier's point is supposed to be , but the film seems to... |
384,542 | 391,152 | 80,520 | 7 | If you love this movie , you have to watch the edited version the next time it's on Comedy Central ! | And I'll tell you why : whoever decided to edit this movie to make it suitable for television was very ill-advised . EVERYTHING CONCERNING DRUGS IS CUT OUT AND COVERED UP ! ! ! How do they do it , you might ask ? Well , they don't do it very well , that's for sure . Anyway , instead of the marijuana which Cheech and Ch... |
385,234 | 391,152 | 71,910 | 7 | Very flawed but interesting and often beautiful film | It's easy to dismiss a film like this or Salo or In the Realm of the Senses as garbage . It's too easy , in fact , and not very fair . These films are all very interesting , if you can take them . And , if you can't stand the heat , hey , stay out of the kitchen . Among the ranks of what I'll call the Artsploitation fl... |
385,747 | 391,152 | 64,886 | 7 | Pretty good translation to film | I don't read all that much because I'm a little dislexic , which makes reading take a lot longer for me than it does for others . That's why I am more of a film fanatic than a literature fanatic . But there is one author whose work keeps me thoroughly interested , and that author is William Faulkner . In my opinion ( a... |
385,579 | 391,152 | 60,486 | 7 | Very difficult , with limited rewards ; possibly better upon repeat viewings | Possibly the most confusing movie I've ever sat through , it took me a long time to get anything out of it . I just couldn't grab onto even the slightest shred of a plot , and , without the ability to find a hook , it felt at first like watching a blank wall . But eventually , I started making inroads and , as the film... |
385,383 | 391,152 | 27,996 | 7 | It never caught my interest , but I can't say it was bad | In the past , I have sometimes found myself able to enjoy Capra's populism and sometimes unable . I go back and forth on the philosophy , as well as the director's sentimentalism . The day I watched Mr . Deeds Goes to Town , I just wasn't buying it . Gary Cooper plays a bumpkin who inherits $20 million from an uncle he... |
384,633 | 391,152 | 441,773 | 7 | I suppose it's wrong to compare it to Pixar's work , but it is a decent little flick | Decent animated entertainment from Dreamworks , the poor man's Pixar . Except for Shrek , which I despised , Dreamworks ' animated films have been rather enjoyable , if unremarkable , and Kung Fu Panda continues this trend . Jack Black voices Po , a fat , clumsy panda who dreams of kung fu while working in a noodle sho... |
384,771 | 391,152 | 452,702 | 7 | Good thriller | Unambitious but quite fun little thriller . It stars Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale as an about-to-be-divorced married couple who get stranded in the middle of nowhere and bed down at a crappy motel . The motel's manager ( Frank Whaley ) turns out to be in the snuff film business . He films his customers as his buddie... |
385,512 | 391,152 | 268,978 | 7 | Good but overrated biopic | SPOILERSIt's always inspiring to see someone overcome adversity like John Nash , the real-life hero of A Beautiful Mind . A brilliant mathematician , he suffered from sever paranoid schizophrenia for most of his adult life . But he learned to live with it , as normal a life as possible , and he ended up being awarded t... |
384,777 | 391,152 | 76,686 | 7 | Far from great , but I don't think it's as bad as many say | A film even most Bergman enthusiasts dislike . However , as weak as it is , I have to admit I found a lot to like about it . First , the bad : David Carradine is pretty awful . He's had an uneven career , giving several very good performances and many bad ones . In the interviews included on the MGM DVD , it seems clea... |
385,272 | 391,152 | 45,323 | 7 | Lesser John Ford is still quite good | Ford might be best known for his Westerns , but he made nearly as many military pictures as he made Westerns ( perhaps more if we were to count his cavalry pictures in the military genre ) . What Price Glory is a WWI picture starring James Cagney as a commanding officer . He's involved with the daughter of an innkeeper... |
385,771 | 391,152 | 74,512 | 7 | No , not great Hitchcock , but entertaining nonetheless | Family Plot differs from all the other Hitchcock films . It lacks suspense , for the most part , and it is not as funny as many of his films . Instead , it is just an amusing little yarn . I like the way the film starts with two separate plot lines which gradually merge . Even if it is not the most original thing in th... |
384,806 | 391,152 | 434,139 | 7 | Well observed drama | I only watched this film because it takes place in Madison , WI , where I lived for a couple of years a while back . I was surprised to find a pretty good film . Zach Braff plays a man nearing 30 whose girlfriend is newly pregnant . Feeling trapped , he is easily seduced by a 20 year-old girl who throws herself at him ... |
385,590 | 391,152 | 200,071 | 7 | Tough call | I can say I definitely did not like _ Rosetta _ . And I'm not saying that I didn't enjoy it . What , are you kidding ? This movie is impossible to enjoy . I mean that I did not find it successful . It's the kind of movie that only exists to challenge its audience . I may not have been entirely up to that challenge . Wa... |
384,720 | 391,152 | 22,111 | 7 | Not bad , but a tad stale | It might have been wise to watch the two earlier versions of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon before I re-watched the 1941 classic . It would have reminded me just how great Huston's film is . The ' 31 version isn't bad , per se . It has the same major flaw that most films of this early talkie era had : leaden dia... |
384,794 | 391,152 | 97,940 | 7 | I liked it ; I wish I liked it more | After falling in love with Jarmusch's most recent film , Broken Flowers , I thought perhaps the door would be open and I would learn to love the rest of his films . Unfortunately , watching Mystery Train , I feel the same distance that I have felt watching most of his other films . Don't get me wrong , there are some w... |
384,815 | 391,152 | 71,737 | 7 | If nothing else , it's probably the only French New Wave film that begins with a decapitation ! | I'm still inching into the cinema of Robert Bresson , as I would a hot bath . I saw Pickpocket a couple of months ago . I liked it , but didn't agree that it was a masterpiece of any sort . I picked up Lancelot of the Lake because the video box caught my eye . I didn't expect a French New Wave guy to be directing Medie... |
385,728 | 391,152 | 12,494 | 7 | Great effects in this silent flick | Destiny demonstrates just how great Fritz Lang was with his special effects . This was three years before The Nibelungenlied and five before Metropolis , and there are many eye-popping visuals . He would improve even more by The Nibelungenlied , which may be the pinnacle of silent effects films , even greater than Metr... |
384,647 | 391,152 | 52,954 | 7 | Pales in comparison to Dutt's previous film , Pyaasa | A huge disappointment ! Dutt's Pyaasa is one of my all-time favorite films ; few have moved me so greatly . I didn't think he could top that one , but I also didn't think that his next film would fall so low . I mean , it's a fairly good film , but it really failed to resonate with me . Where Pyaasa was an archetypical... |
385,025 | 391,152 | 380,066 | 7 | Better than most of the junk horror that gets a theatrical release | Lucky McKee made one of the best horror films of the decade with May , but his followup was deemed unreleasable by the money men . That's very unfortunate . While it is no May , it's better than most of the schlock horror that makes a ton of money at the box office . It is a deeply flawed film . It's not entirely origi... |
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