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384,764 | 391,152 | 37,820 | 7 | Merely okay | Not the best of the Val Lewton horror series , but it has its moments . When I think about it , the plot seems very good . A small group of people quarantine themselves on a small Greek island when they discover that one of them has the plague . Boris Karloff stars as a Greek general who becomes cruel when trying to ke... |
385,696 | 391,152 | 258,885 | 7 | Long and amorphous , but still interesting | I definitely liked this film much better than Jia's Unknown Pleasures , his follow-up , but I still wouldn't call it great . Platform is a very amorphous film . Perhaps it has more meaning to those who might know the referents better than I , the various places in China which are visited . But the fact remains that the... |
384,814 | 391,152 | 45,504 | 7 | Omnibus film in the Neorealist vein | That was the intent , anyway . Cesare Zavattini produced the film and brought together five directors to make short films about love . The results are all good , but none of them great . They all have problems . To add to this problem , the version that I saw had English narration in the prologue and in the inter-segme... |
384,897 | 391,152 | 37,793 | 7 | Monster Free-for-all ; SPOILERS | This is quite an entertaining B-flick in the Universal Horror series featuring Dracula , the Wolfman , and Frankenstein's Monster . The plot revolves around Dracula ( John Carradine ) and Larry Talbot , the wolfman ( Lon Chaney Jr . ) , separately visiting a revolutionary doctor . They both ask him if they can be cured... |
384,980 | 391,152 | 230,600 | 7 | A good way to spend an evening . | SPOILERSThis has potential to be as big a hit as The Sixth Sense on account of its nature - it is clearly trying to copy its success and its formula ( not to mention its release date - I think they both opened in the exact same week , two years apart ) . It is nowhere as good as that film , but , if you did like that ,... |
385,430 | 391,152 | 94,089 | 7 | Good , but not as good as I expected | One day a couple of years ago , while I was waiting for a television show , I was flipping through the channels and I caught part of Spalding Gray's monologue film - Monster in a Box - and I was so blown away by it that I missed the show that I had been waiting for . I don't know why it took me so long to rent another ... |
385,057 | 391,152 | 416,449 | 7 | A movie made for teenage boys , so it'll do really well on IMDb | But , hell , while it's far from perfect , I'll admit that it's a lot of fun . Put it into the guilty pleasure category if you will . It goes for the title of violentest movie ever , and I think it succeeds . Much of the movie consists of the Spartan warriors hacking away at Persian fodder , with limbs flying everywher... |
385,461 | 391,152 | 312,859 | 7 | Great first half , so-so second half | Touching Bollywood epic melodrama about a 10 year-old girl who finds out that she's adopted , and is determined to find her birth mother . The film's major success is the performance of P . S . Keerthana , who plays the girl . The first half of the film is very good . There are a few really good songs , too , especiall... |
385,056 | 391,152 | 462,200 | 7 | Christina Ricci needs a burger | Any movie where Samuel L . Jackson chains up a scantily clad Christina Ricci to his radiator to cure her of her nymphomania has to be at least worth seeing . What I didn't expect is that it would turn into a respectable drama by the end . And that's wherein the disappointment lies . It is a good movie . Christina Ricci... |
384,922 | 391,152 | 35,446 | 7 | Good flick , but a little uneven ; | To Be or Not to Be is an interesting WWII era film about actors in Poland who lead a resistance against the invading Nazis . It is mostly a comedy , but there is a dramatic side to the proceedings . The acting is good , especially Jack Benny . Most of the rest of the actors don't do anything particularly special , exce... |
385,402 | 391,152 | 78,481 | 7 | A disaster | But not without a great deal of interest , especially for Altman fans like myself . It's actually one of the most disappointing films I've ever seen . I caught the first hour about a year ago on television , and I was enthralled . " One of Altman's best ! " I exclaimed . Or at least I thought that it probably would be ... |
384,675 | 391,152 | 58,450 | 7 | Good , but not Marvelous | I liked the Umbrellas of Cherbourg , but was acutely aware that it was gimmicky . The American musicals of the 1950s obviously influenced this film quite a bit , and that genre was already nearly dead in the world as filmmaking began to move into the more artistic ( American ) films of the 1960s , like Bonnie and Clyde... |
385,762 | 391,152 | 232,500 | 7 | A lot of fun ( SLIGHT SPOILERS ) | The Fast and the Furious is not a great movie by any means , but it is very entertaining . It's definitely a turn - your - brain - off - for - two - hours flick , a nice popcorn flick . The plot is your basic undercover cop conflicted by his attachment to those he is infiltrating kind of thing . No real surprises here ... |
385,202 | 391,152 | 69,865 | 7 | entertaining , for the most part | Charley Varrick is a pretty good heist film . There are a lot of cliches , but there are even more original twists and turns . If you are a fan of the genre , then you will certainly like it . If you are not , then you will not . I myself don't care either way , and I just barely ended up liking it . MILD SPOILER : The... |
384,927 | 391,152 | 62,827 | 7 | SPOILERS ; | This pre-MASH Altman flick will probably be uninteresting to anyone who is not an Altman fan . Maybe a hard-core sci-fi fan would like it for the novelty , but , let me warn you , it is barely a sci-fi movie . It tries to be as realistic as possible . It is an interesting prediction of the actual moon landing , which w... |
384,637 | 391,152 | 1,175,491 | 7 | An exploration of America's Nero | I , for one , liked it . The film is half a standard bio-pic , depicting much of George W . Bush's early life up until his Presidency . The other half takes place in the run up to the Iraq War , and continues until around the time the war starts to turn back on him . The stuff of the past is sometimes messy , but I lik... |
385,508 | 391,152 | 74,626 | 7 | Terribly beautiful - terribly pretentious | It's impossible to love this film , and it is as impossible to hate it . The plot is slight and silly , and the dialogue and acting are unintentionally hilarious . Heart of Glass could stand as the archetype of the so-called " pretentious European cinema , " you know , the kind you would have seen Mike Meyers make fun ... |
384,622 | 391,152 | 67,962 | 7 | Watch for the jokes on Last Year at Marienbad | Fassbinder's wry comedy about the trials and tribulations of filmmaking . It's gorgeously shot and very well acted ( especially by Fassbinder himself and Lou Castel , who plays the director ) , but , truth be told , a bit on the dull side . I guess most of Fassbinder's early films are a little dull . Only fans will wan... |
385,351 | 391,152 | 464,105 | 7 | Good effort , but the results are somewhat forgettable | There really aren't enough films made about the modern experience of immigrants in America . There's a huge vein to be mined there . Man Push Cart is a step in the right direction . This film follows a Pakistani immigrant in New York City who sells drinks and donuts from a push cart . He was a pop star in his native co... |
385,959 | 391,152 | 364,955 | 7 | Entertaining but weak | This is definitely Terry Zwigoff's least successful film , and a big disappointment in a lot of ways . But I think if you don't expect too much , it's fun and has some good twists along the way . The film follows Jerome , who goes to art school after graduation . The film's major strengths are that it really gets into ... |
385,266 | 391,152 | 69,824 | 7 | Sweet and pretty , but it doesn't really go anywhere | Francis of Assissi depicted as the first hippie . That's not really a ridiculous comparison . After all , Godspell depicts Jesus and the Apostles as hippies , as well , far more annoyingly , I may say , than Zefferelli depicts these characters . I actually started off really enjoying this picture . I thought it was swe... |
385,098 | 391,152 | 1,152,850 | 7 | Like Old Joy , maybe too minimalist , as well as forced , but it has its charms . Spoilers in the last paragraph only . | Following in the same steps as her first film , Old Joy , Kelly Reichardt has constructed another small , simple , minimalist film . Wendy is a hippie chick who has nothing but a few hundred dollars to her name , her car and her dog . Lucy is that dog , and Wendy's only companion . Wendy is traveling to Alaska for some... |
385,190 | 391,152 | 458,352 | 7 | Even though I wish it were less formulaic , it's still pretty enjoyable | Not an especially interesting movie narratively , but the performances are so good that it's very watchable . Anne Hathaway plays a frumpy girl ( Hollywood frumpy , that is ? only in Hollywood could Anne Hathaway be repeatedly referred to as fat ) who gets a job in the fashion industry under the cruelest exec in the bi... |
385,349 | 391,152 | 415,127 | 7 | Slightly disappointing effort from Bela Tarr | Tarr returns after a long absence . Unfortunately , it's not up to par . Well , I should say , I have much of the same problem with this film that I do with all of Tarr's films . I'm certainly not his biggest fan anyway . I love his aesthetic , and would definitely call him a genius just for his visual prowess . It's s... |
384,636 | 391,152 | 84,516 | 7 | Okay ghost story , but a little too loud and obnoxious at times | I guess there's no objective reason for it , but , in my mind , ghost stories should be subtle . In general , I think all horror films should be subtle . Poltergeist is anything but subtle . It's a loud , flashing , exploding horror film . The basic story : a suburban family is terrorized by ghosts . It starts innocent... |
385,392 | 391,152 | 952,682 | 7 | Great story , but could have been done better | A great story that should have been a great movie . It's unfortunately pretty poorly directed , and the writing could have been tighter . I can still appreciate it for what it is , and hopefully writer / director Nichols , whose debut this is , will come up with something as good in the future and do better by it . Mic... |
385,977 | 391,152 | 22,787 | 7 | Great direction , but the lack of distinct characters makes it a bit of a bust | Amazingly well directed and produced WWI flick made in France . Bernard is an extremely talented director . Unfortunately , the film doesn't stand up too well compared to so many other WWI pictures , notably the earlier All Quiet on the Western Front and the later The Grand Illusion . What Wooden Crosses lacks is stron... |
384,803 | 391,152 | 498,380 | 7 | I'm surprised Flags of Our Fathers got such mixed reviews and Letters from Iwo Jima only got raves | After Clint Eastwood's American version of the Iwo Jima story , Flags of Our Fathers , premiered , it was met with surprisingly indifferent reviews . A lot of Eastwood lovers and WWII buffs were gravely disappointed . The followup , Letters from Iwo Jima , was due in February , but Eastwood bumped it back so it would c... |
385,864 | 391,152 | 36,341 | 7 | Weak and poorly written , in my opinion | Truly disappointing , considering how big a Val Lewton fanatic I've become . This is probably the third most famous Lewton film , after The Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie , but I thought it was so far below any of the others that I've seen ( also including at this point The Ghost Ship and The Leopard Man ) that ... |
384,988 | 391,152 | 86,961 | 7 | Weak script , but very good acting | The narrative in this film is far too flawed . There are two intertwining halves of it , one good , one poor . The good one involves a woman , Ulla , whose husband died suddenly and unexpectedly one morning while he waited in his car to take their son to school . Now he gently haunts his family as they deal with the pa... |
384,592 | 391,152 | 25,301 | 7 | Comparison to the remake | You can find my review for the 1959 version by clicking on my name . I am not a fan of the Douglas Sirk remake of Imitation of Life ( 1959 ) . It was the third film from that director I saw , and I felt that he was trying to play it straight , make a prestige picture , denying the insanity of classics such as Written o... |
384,843 | 391,152 | 181,689 | 7 | Good , but very , very flawed | Steven Spielberg has made a couple of clunkers in his career , that's for sure . When sitting through Hook or The Lost World : Jurassic Park II , it's difficult to believe that the same man who made Jaws or E . T . or Close Encounters had a hand in them . Most of Spielberg's output , though , has been fantastic . Despi... |
385,170 | 391,152 | 94,631 | 7 | Not half bad | Considering that it is little more than your standard cop buddy movie , the slight variation being that the buddies are a tough seen-it-all cop and a by-the-books rookie who is an alien , Alien Nation ends up being a pretty good film . You can give a lot of credit to James Caan and Mandy Patankin for that . They have g... |
385,752 | 391,152 | 401,997 | 7 | All for Cooper | Good true story about the biggest spy ever to infiltrate U . S . security . They caught him in 2001 , and I remember the story , though I didn't know the details . The film is mainly worth seeing for Chris Cooper and the complex character whom he plays . Cooper definitely gives one of the best performances by an actor ... |
385,150 | 391,152 | 209,163 | 7 | Unpretentious and fun . | The Mummy Returns is maybe a step above the first one . The action is non-stop , and it does manage , for the most part , to rouse the audience , or at least me . The good guys are likable . Brendan Fraser is where he belongs . Rachel Weisz is beautiful . John Hannah amuses as Jonathan , and Freddie Boath manages not t... |
385,303 | 391,152 | 133,363 | 7 | Pretty good , but falls apart near the end . | I was loving this movie for the longest time , but near the end it was trying too hard to maintain its palindromic structure . When filmmakers put style over substance , it detracts from the film . MILD SPOILERSIt would have been perfect if they had just met up at the end and stayed with each other for the rest of thei... |
384,582 | 391,152 | 1,121,931 | 7 | Pretty much the same thing , but still fun | Roger Ebert , after giving Speed 2 a much-criticized 3 stars , ran a contest on his website : anyone who could come up with a way to make Speed 3 would get an autographed Speed 2 DVD from Ebert . I like to imagine that DVD sitting on the mantelpiece of either Neveldine or Taylor , the two men who came up with the wild ... |
385,840 | 391,152 | 1,125,849 | 7 | Too familiar in its story to be a really great movie | A small film about a big man . Mickey Rourke is , as you've certainly heard , outstanding as an aging wrestler who was famous back in the ' 80s and still plugs along at small events . Small those events may be , but they don't skip on the showmanship . One particularly brutal match rubs out the possibility of any more ... |
384,870 | 391,152 | 988,047 | 7 | Forgettable , but Cheadle and Pearce raise it above mediocrity | Gripping but derivative thriller about terrorists and the people trying to stop them . Don Cheadle plays a Muslim who is a secret agent with the United States , under the supervision of a single man in the FBI , played by Jeff Daniels . No one else knows his true intentions , but he is connected to a terrorist organiza... |
385,902 | 391,152 | 29,608 | 7 | Grrr . . . | Profoundly frustrating , but , without a doubt , emotionally stirring . It's about a low class woman , Stella Dallas ( Barbara Stanwyck ) , who marries a rich man . They have a daughter , Laurel , but then the marital relationship deteriorates . The husband ( John Boles , always looking shocked ) moves to New York , wh... |
385,277 | 391,152 | 53,459 | 7 | Overrated | Big disappointment . I've heard such great things about this French horror film , but it doesn't at all live up to them . Sure , it has its moments , but most of the time , it's fairly dull . An experimental surgeon ( Pierre Brasseur ) is trying to graft the faces of young women he kidnaps onto his daughter , who lost ... |
384,805 | 391,152 | 404,203 | 7 | Great setup , no payoff | An oddly toned film . I have been able to avoid the more intense discussions this has aroused , and I was barely at all aware that the film had comedic tones . As far as I can figure , the film posits suburban and married life in the realm of the Twilight Zone , via a deep-voiced , omniscient narrator . The narrator is... |
384,553 | 391,152 | 94,608 | 7 | Painfully dated courtroom drama , but not too bad besides that | Jodie Foster plays a woman who was raped by three men in a bar . The legal case this film covers is not about the rapists , however , but about several men who stood by and cheered it on . In that way , the brunt of the film is somewhat anticlimactic . It's based on a true story ( many details were changed , of course ... |
384,842 | 391,152 | 46,750 | 7 | Good , but too slow for my tastes | A look at three geishas who are way past their prime . Now they look back on their pasts with fondness and bemoan their present . Kin ( played by Floating Weeds ' Haruko Sugimura ) has sworn off men and has made a good living as a moneylender ; everyone on the block owes her . The other two , Nobu and Tamae , wish they... |
385,766 | 391,152 | 247,638 | 7 | Surprisingly good - Anne Hathaway is going to be a huge star ! | I was completely expecting to despise this movie . The only reason I watched more than five minutes is because I was lazy . Fortunately , it turned out to be quite good . I mean , yeah , it is sort of trite . It doesn't ask for too much . You know , be yourself kind of thing . Anne Hathaway is at first provided with ha... |
385,847 | 391,152 | 285,175 | 7 | Better than it's given credit for being , though certainly far from great | This movie was thrown out on DVD in 2005 without any real theatrical release . It's well pedigreed for such treatment , directed by famed documentarian Barbara Kopple ( Harlan County USA ) , written by late phenom Jessica Kaplan , " fixed " by famed screenwriter Stephen Gaghan ( Traffic ) and starring Anne Hathaway in ... |
384,782 | 391,152 | 848,557 | 7 | Not Romero's best by a long shot , but not nearly the failure that I had heard it was | Romero returns to the zombie well for the fifth time . And , yes , it's gotten old now . These stumbling monsters have shown surprising resilience in the past 60 years ! Romero goes big theme hunting here , exploring the current video - and internet-obsessed youth culture , dusting off that old film-making-is-voyeurism... |
384,824 | 391,152 | 31,725 | 7 | Decent , but disappointing | I began this week with Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise , which is one of the funniest films I've ever seen . I'm also in love with Greta Garbo . Her Queen Christina is one of my favorite films . I had great expectations for Ninotchka . Unfortunately , it didn't live up to those expectations . The film begins well ... |
385,413 | 391,152 | 379,865 | 7 | Quite fun ; Zellweger is awful , though | Clooney's third directorial outing , and his followup to the Oscar nominated Good Night and Good Luck . This movie is quite a bit lighter , a screwball comedy about the early days of professional football . Clooney stars as a pro football player for the Duluth Bulldogs in 1925 . The sport is not very popular at this le... |
385,958 | 391,152 | 25,134 | 7 | Goofy , campy jungle adventure courtesy of Cecil B . DeMille | It is included in Universal's five-disc DeMille set and is the least well known of the films , mostly because it's not an epic , the genre to which DeMille usually contributed . Claudette Colbert stars , and is , as usual , wonderful . She plays a mousy , virginal school teacher who eventually transforms into a jungle ... |
384,709 | 391,152 | 74,958 | 7 | Doesn't fully fulfill its promising premise | An interesting , ambitious , and somewhat entertaining satire of television , but one that pretty much fails for a number of reasons . It's difficult to believe almost everything that happens in it . Not one of the characters rings true . William Holden is as boring in 1976 as he was in 1955 , and his cliché relationsh... |
384,832 | 391,152 | 102,175 | 7 | Pretty good , but a bit dated | Definitely not one of Spike Lee's best films , and definitely a bit dated after 15 years . But it still holds some interest . It's a whole mishmash of racial issues , of the director and of the actors ( many scenes seem to be improvised ) dealing with their own thoughts . Often Lee shows his own prejudices . In 1991 at... |
385,335 | 391,152 | 783,608 | 7 | Well worth watching just for Woody Harrelson | A rather forgettable mystery bolstered by a remarkable lead performance and some good supporting performances , as well . The lead is played by Woody Harrelson , in my mind one of the most undervalued actors of his generation . He plays Carter Page III , a dandy fop in Washington D . C . who spends his life escorting t... |
385,167 | 391,152 | 356,680 | 7 | Good for the most part , but it all works out too well in the end | Pretty good Christmastime family drama . A liberal family welcomes their son's conservative girlfriend into their home , but nothing goes right for any of them . Advertized as a comedy , the film is almost pure drama . In fact , the bulk of the comedy ? all of which was featured in the previews ? doesn't work that well... |
385,824 | 391,152 | 49,516 | 7 | A pretty good B sci-fi that anticipates Planet of the Apes | Surprisingly good B sci-fi . John Agar and Hugh Beaumont star as archaeologists who gets trapped in a world below the Earth's crust . They discover two intelligent species there , a race of Albinos apparently descended from Sumerians and the mole people . The mole people are initially the scarier race , with their ugli... |
385,219 | 391,152 | 473,444 | 7 | Visually impressive , but I wasn't that interested in the story | I think it may be time for Zhang Yimou to give up the martial arts epic genre . Honestly , I think Hero was enough . I like his new film , Curse of the Golden Flower , about as much as House of Flying Daggers . It has its moments , and the design is absolutely fantastic , but it's not much after that . The story is one... |
385,612 | 391,152 | 42,958 | 7 | Lesser Kurosawa , now available on ( a legitimate ) DV | The new Eclipse set Postwar Kurosawa might be more accurately titled Lesser Kurosawa . I mean , Kurosawa didn't make any pre-war movies , and he only made two or three during the war . Scandal is most famous for being released the same year as Rashomon and being infinitely inferior . It's definitely one of the director... |
385,841 | 391,152 | 959,337 | 7 | Well acted and made , but it's really just a turgid melodrama | Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star in this film about an unhappily married couple . When they met , they were idealistic youths , but when they arrive in the suburbs , he working in sales and she a housewife , life seems dreary . The film offers no new insights on marriage or life . It is set in the 1950s , so you... |
385,034 | 391,152 | 461,770 | 7 | Slight but quite amusing | Not a great movie , but a delightful one . It's nice to see Disney playing with their own formula , even if it is with kids ' gloves . So many other films and TV series have ripped it apart quite meanly , but few have done it as well and as poignantly . Enchanted still wants to rely in the happily-ever-after thing in t... |
384,951 | 391,152 | 855,824 | 7 | Probably my least favorite Tsai film , but still very good | This may be Tsai's first film set and made in his homeland of Malaysia , but he doesn't stray at all from Tsaiville . Which isn't much of a problem , really , if you're a fan of the director . Sure , we could complain that he's been hitting the same notes for eight features now , but there are artists in every medium t... |
384,904 | 391,152 | 923,752 | 7 | Loved it - but then discovered that it was completely fabricated | This is the kind of documentary that makes me really dislike the entire medium . I tell you , I hate to say that , because when I was watching it , it seemed like an amazing movie . I love the picture of the competitive video gaming subculture , and it tells a compelling story about a lovable , meek fellow battling aga... |
385,411 | 391,152 | 44,672 | 7 | The film is about as entertaining as a real circus , i . e . , it's moderately entertaining | DeMille's Best Picture winning circus epic , generally considered one of the worst winners of the big prize . I have to admit that DeMille's films are a guilty pleasure of mine . He's really an awful director , maybe the single worst of the major Hollywood directors , ham-fisted and in love with giant , fake-looking sp... |
384,594 | 391,152 | 25,523 | 7 | Uneven melodrama , but it ends up being fairly good | Pauline Lord plays Mrs . Wiggs , a poor , single mother whose husband is supposedly up looking for gold in the Klondike . She has five children , one of whom is very sickly . They have almost no money and their landlord is about to give them the boot , but luckily a benevolent rich couple takes an interest in them . So... |
385,296 | 391,152 | 109,781 | 7 | Interesting adaptation of Faust | Personally , I like this film . It's an imaginitive adaptation , and it definitely begs to be seen . I think , though , that Jan Svankmajer fans are likely to be disappointed . People unfamiliar with his work are likely to hate it . Now , I'm no expert in his work . I've seen three shorts and his version of Alice's Adv... |
385,672 | 391,152 | 839,980 | 7 | Not Ferrell's best work , but still pretty funny | Another Will Ferrell sports movie . Sigh , right ? Personally , I think the guy's funny . And I think his vehicles are funnier than most comedies being made right now . The previous one , Blades of Glory , I thought was completely undervalued . Semi-Pro , unfortunately , is a step down . It's not bad , to be sure . I l... |
385,721 | 391,152 | 381,849 | 7 | The original is in general better | I guess you can't complain too much that they remade 3 : 10 to Yuma . After all , the original is a pretty shameless rip-off of High Noon . As much as a rip-off as it is , though , I thought it was better than High Noon . And , while Delmer Daves ' original is fantastic , it's not like it's perfect or anything . It can... |
385,028 | 391,152 | 96,256 | 7 | Not one of John Carpenter's best , in my opinion | Some find it to be so , but to me it feels almost like a throw-off . Too simplistic . But that doesn't mean it isn't entertaining . Roddy Piper , the WWF wrestler , plays a drifter who stumbles upon a huge secret : the powerful elite on Earth are really aliens who exploit the working man . They are disguised as people ... |
385,820 | 391,152 | 154,683 | 7 | Interesting , but I wish it were better | The kind of film that sounds really exciting , and is interesting , but you wish it were a bit better than it is . Its reputation is based mostly on the final 40 minutes , where all the characters take a vacation to the bowels of Buddhist Hell ( pretty much like Christian Hell , but with more lotus flowers ) . The firs... |
385,812 | 391,152 | 71,221 | 7 | Were you also cheesed when Jim Kelly bought it in such a crappy way in Enter the Dragon ? | Well here's a movie for you ! Black Belt Jones is a must for aficionados of martial arts films , blaxpoitation films , and cult films in general . It boasts probably the funniest opening fight scene that I've ever seen ( unintentional or not ? it's difficult to tell in this film ; I have an acute feeling that everyone ... |
385,376 | 391,152 | 16,123 | 7 | null | This is a bizarre little horror / comedy , mostly a comedy , the horror aspects almost parody . Lon Chaney has the top billing , but he's the evil adversary to a group of three , the leader being an amateur detective far too reminiscent of the previous year's Sherlock Jr . by the great Buster Keaton . He carries around... |
385,839 | 391,152 | 859,765 | 7 | Gorgeous pictures , but uninteresting characters | Zhang Ke Jia is a director who produces mixed feelings in me . On the one hand , I think he's a fantastic filmmaker as far as the technical aspects go , but I think his writing is pretty generic , especially when it comes to his characters , and he often relies on some hoary art movie clichés . Still Life is no excepti... |
385,449 | 391,152 | 758,746 | 7 | One of the better Friday the 13th movies | I don't think anyone was particularly angry about this " remake " . Every Friday the 13th is pretty much a remake of Halloween anyway . One of them just takes place in space , that's all . So , yeah , you pretty much know what to expect here . Sexy teens ( who totally deserve to die ) stumble upon abandoned Camp Crysta... |
384,756 | 391,152 | 63,115 | 8 | Hilarious Peter Sellers Vehicle | This is a very funny send up of the flower child generation . Peter Sellers plays an uptight , Jewish lawyer who falls for one of his hippie brother's girlfriends . After that , he descends into hippiedom . The film is filled with some of the funniest scenes around . The funniest part of the movie is Sellers as a hippi... |
385,825 | 391,152 | 28,219 | 8 | Quite fun , actually ; a nice companion piece to the 1941 masterpiece | The second version of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon came in the wake of the big success of a cinematic adaptation of another of the author's novels , The Thin Man . So here we get a comic version starring a wise-cracking gentleman , Warren William ( who had played Julius Caesar in DeMille's Cleopatra ) . The co... |
384,797 | 391,152 | 95,652 | 8 | I liked it ! ( and I was pretty damn close to loving it ! ) | Surprisingly good . I was very entertained throughout , and I actually found it quite scary at times . The story is very silly , but in a fun way . A quadriplegic man is given a helper monkey that has been heavily experimented on . It's super smart , and starts to develop a psychic connection with the man . The monkey ... |
385,032 | 391,152 | 842,929 | 8 | Van Sant extends his stay as the laureate of the American art film | Gus Van Sant continues his trend of making dreamy , artsy mood-pieces with Paranoid Park , a film about a skateboarding teen who accidentally causes the death of a security guard . In some ways , it almost feels like a continuation of Elephant , where kids are shot walking through school hallways in slow motion ( here ... |
384,828 | 391,152 | 109,020 | 8 | My spoilers , I should say , are pretty much spoiled by the film's opening scrawl | This strikes me as Haneke's least successful film . Still , it's more than worthwhile , and I would still nearly call it great . Several different , seemingly random stories are mixed together . We watch vignettes of varying length . Among them are the stories of a homeless Romanian boy who has illegally crossed into A... |
385,386 | 391,152 | 80,360 | 8 | Bizarre and eerie | Bizarre cinematic head-trip that is far better and more entertaining than anyone could guess from a description . I put it on my Netflix queue without realizing it was directed by Ken Russell . If I had seen that earlier , I would have avoided it . Thankfully I didn't . It contains everything that is good about Russell... |
385,703 | 391,152 | 83,694 | 8 | If not as good as if . . . and O Lucky Man , that doesn't mean it is worthless | This film completes the Mick Travis trilogy , of which the first two installments are if ? ( 1968 ) and O Lucky Man ( 1973 ) . You could say either that Britannia Hospital has little to do with the other two films or a lot . It depends on how you look at it . The political viewpoints are similar , but the style is much... |
385,530 | 391,152 | 52,572 | 8 | Good final chapter . | I have commented on both pather Panchali and Aparajito previously . After many months , I finally got to World of Apu , the final episode of the trilogy . To recap , Pather Panchali = , absolutely perfect , one of the best films ever made . Aparajito = , had a few problems , but still a thoroughly involving and beautif... |
384,879 | 391,152 | 32,553 | 8 | Pretty good Chaplin film with extraordinarily powerful final moments | I once caught about a 20 minute portion of this movie on Turner Classic Movies about 6 months back . I thought every minute of what I was watching was gold , and , because it was somewhere in the film's middle and I didn't want to spoil the whole thing if I were to watch it from the start , I decided that I would rent ... |
385,887 | 391,152 | 23,876 | 8 | Although not the best film of 1933 , certainly not an unworthy Best Picture winner | A sloppy but beautiful British family saga chronicling the lives of two families , the Marryots and the Bridges , the former upper class and the latter their servants , from the end of the 19th Century up to 1933 . A few major events are portrayed . At the beginning of the film , the patriarchs of the two families go o... |
385,636 | 391,152 | 47,840 | 8 | Very funny , if you can stand Jerry Lewis | I had never seen a Jerry Lewis vehicle before this one ( not counting Scorsese's King of Comedy ) , and I was annoyed as hell for the first fifteen minutes . I even considered walking out , that's how irate I was getting at Lewis ' mugging . But then there was a scene in which he was hilarious , so I hung onto it a bit... |
384,848 | 391,152 | 105,151 | 8 | My pick for Robert Altman's worst film | Well , maybe I can't say that . There are plenty I haven't seen , and , well , Popeye at least has to be worse . The Player is one of the bitterest , most heavy-handed satires ever made . The sad part is that the focus of Altman's attack is not even close to being completely culpable for the crap it churns out . The ci... |
385,642 | 391,152 | 54,460 | 8 | null | At least as good a Shakespeare adaptation as Throne of Blood , though nowhere near Ran , The Bad Sleep Well is a Japanese Hamlet set in the present . It is especially worth seeing because it contains Kurosawa's best black and white cinematography , better than Rashomon , The Seven Samurai , Throne of Blood , or Yojimbo... |
384,999 | 391,152 | 120,448 | 8 | Well worth seeing | I was wary of this one . It seemed a lot like this trend in recent world cinema that I don't like , where the camera observes unemployed losers who do little besides screw , smoke , and ride around on mopeds not looking for jobs . These films rarely provide any interesting insights , or even interesting characters . So... |
384,910 | 391,152 | 32,599 | 8 | It's difficult to dislike | When people tell me that classical Hollywood films do not appeal to them , I understand it . Except for Citizen Kane , that is . It's hard to argue in any case with that film . But if someone says " I don't like Casablanca , " I can understand that . Not that I don't like Casablanca . I like it quite a lot . It's just ... |
385,059 | 391,152 | 65,146 | 8 | A beautiful film | This unknown film is a real gem . I wasn't expecting much , since Claude Lelouch has kind of a weak reputation ( I do love his version of Les Miserables , though ) , but , I figured that Jean-Paul Belmondo is always reason enough to see a film . Definitely , he pushes it far beyond what it could have been otherwise , b... |
384,783 | 391,152 | 87,985 | 8 | Despite its goofy , paranoid plot , it's a good movie | Infamous piece of right-wing paranoia , involving a group of teens fighting a guerrilla war against invading Russians , Cubans and Nicaraguans . It's a joke of a film , one of those you'd only watch if you want to see a movie that's so bad it's good , right ? Well , no , actually . If you can look past the ridiculousne... |
385,589 | 391,152 | 24,034 | 8 | Wonderful | If only there could have been more musical and dance numbers ! All of them ( not counting practices ) occur at the very end of the film , and there are only three of them there . Luckily , the non-musical parts were really good , too . The plot was just a pretty standard behind-the-scenes of a play movie . It actually ... |
385,734 | 391,152 | 15,175 | 8 | Excellent cinematic adaptation ; Excellent cinema | I'll say this up front : this film can move very slowly at points . Also , I saw it in a theater with live piano accompaniment , and it's likely to be much less impressive on a smaller screen . I doubt the video print is very good , since I am familiar with other tapes that that company has distributed . Despite its sl... |
385,733 | 391,152 | 15,174 | 8 | An equal to the first part ; | In some ways , The Wrath of Kriemhild surpasses Siegfried's Death , but it also loses some of that film's greatness . The plot of this one is more cohesive than the first , which is quite amazing . The second half of the actual poem is a lot sloppier and a lot harder to tread through , until , that is , you get to the ... |
385,601 | 391,152 | 33,152 | 8 | Great fun | A fantastic Arabian adventure . A former king , Ahmad , and his best friend , the thief Abu ( played by Sabu of Black Narcissus ) search for Ahmad's love interest , who has been stolen by the new king , Jaffar ( Conrad Veidt ) . There's hardly a down moment here . It's always inventing new adventures for the heroes . P... |
384,588 | 391,152 | 409,459 | 8 | Very good adaptation | This might be the only movie that interested me so much with its previews that I read the book on which it was based before the movie was released . I had always heard about Watchmen , and , though not a comic book guy , I checked it out . It was good , quite good , though I balk , more than just a little , whenever an... |
385,684 | 391,152 | 80,196 | 8 | Hard to get through , but worth it | Whew ! I feel like I just climbed a mountain with this one ! This is certainly one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's seminal works . I think it's key to understanding his worldview , and to understanding the director as a human being . After all , years before he made this movie , he named another character Franz Biberkopf... |
384,960 | 391,152 | 37,017 | 8 | Tallulah Bankhead is TERRIBLE ! ! ! | I can't believe that so many people thought Tallulah Bankhead was great in her role in Lifeboat . In my opinion , she drags down what could have been one of Hitchcock's greatest masterpieces . She chews up every scene with her over-the-top acting style . It becomes tiresome instantly . Her character is by far the least... |
384,698 | 391,152 | 50,539 | 8 | Lives up to its reputation as one of the best Sci-Fi movies of the ' 50s | If not for slow beginning , this would definitely be a great sci-fi adventure movie . As it is , it's certainly awesome enough in parts . When Scott Carey shrinks small enough that his pet cat is a danger , the movie becomes something of a masterpiece . Carey is knocked into the basement . His wife thinks the cat actua... |
385,974 | 391,152 | 821,642 | 8 | Wright , Downey and Foxx are good enough artists to lift this above its Oscar bait plot | This film was supposed to be a major competitor for the Oscars last year , but Paramount bumped it to a few months later . Despite the mixed reviews the film has received , I believe it would have been a major contender . I honestly think Paramount's decision not only ruined its chances for Oscars , it gave the impress... |
385,240 | 391,152 | 138,524 | 8 | A gem that already needs rediscovering | Undervalued film in the Coen Brothers canon . I liked it much more than their previous two films , The Man Who Wasn't There and O Brother , Where Art Thou ? I don't know how anyone could think they were selling out with this , because it still has that patented Coen quirk , this time revisiting the classical Hollywood ... |
384,882 | 391,152 | 15,163 | 8 | There's at least one scene that should go in the comedy hall of fame | The scene where Buster and his girl , two rich youngsters who are stuck together alone on a ship , attempt to feed themselves is one of the funniest scenes I've ever watched . For about 10 minutes , I could not stop laughing . After that scene , the comedy is , well , I was going to say hit and miss , but that's not ri... |
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