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384,908 | 391,152 | 112,661 | 8 | Great animated short | This is a very funny short . There is no dialogue , and the animation is quite unique - especially the way photographs of people are integrated into the animation ( possibly the greatest moment , the space chicken shoots his laser , hits a photo of a guy , and it turns out crooked , with the guy's hair standing straigh... |
385,767 | 391,152 | 19,777 | 8 | How funny are the Marx Brothers ? | Oh , man are they funny . And The Cocoanuts is one of their best , right up there with Duck Soup . 99 % of the jokes hit the bull's eye . Groucho , Chico , and Harpo are masters . Who the hell is Zeppo anyway ? He always looks like he's horning in on his brothers ' antics . In a lesser Marx Brothers movie , the song an... |
385,564 | 391,152 | 45,907 | 8 | Very amusing Mexican Bunuel ! | Two streetcar conductors whose streetcar is set to be dismantled sneak into the station late one night to take it for one last spin . They spend all night and most of the next day having small adventured throughout Mexico City . Agustin Isunza is the film's standout as an old man , Papa Pinillos , who worked for the st... |
385,385 | 391,152 | 83,944 | 8 | Don't F with Rambo ! | I was surprised to find that I had never seen a moment of the first Rambo movie . I always thought I had seen bits , if not all , of the original three films . I guess I've seen bits of parts 2 and 3 , but not 1 . I was also surprised that First Blood was a really good movie , well made , well acted and with some kick-... |
385,663 | 391,152 | 56,687 | 8 | Some rough spots , but overall a very good film | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ? has a lot of clunky spots . Even the acting is sometimes strained . Both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford have moments of extreme overacting , even though they are mostly great . The script also has some poor spots , especially the fate of the maid . Te final revelation is disappointing a... |
385,004 | 391,152 | 365,376 | 8 | Overcomes its own weaker elements | I'm not entirely satisfied with this horror film , but it certainly has its moments . Actually , it is the horror aspect that doesn't work entirely . It comes off as too much like the recent strain of horror films from Japan like The Ring , and even like some American movies , like The Others and The Sixth Sense . In f... |
384,798 | 391,152 | 455,590 | 8 | Fine film | Historical horror movie about General Idi Amin , the brutal Ugandan dictator of the 1970s . It's told through the eyes of a fictional person ( as far as I can tell ) , Nicholas Garrigan . In the film , he's a Scot who comes to Uganda as a doctor . Upon a chance meeting with the new President , Garrigan is taken to the ... |
385,033 | 391,152 | 912,592 | 8 | An average documentary that excels because of an interesting subject | Not a particularly well done documentary ? the director doesn't get good enough footage to assemble a " complete " documentary , and it feels a little sloppy in the end . But Bar-Lev , whose second feature documentary this is , was lucky enough to chance upon an controversy that engages the audience nicely . I've certa... |
384,835 | 391,152 | 400,525 | 8 | Underrated noir / crime caper with a comic edge | John Cusack stars , and his performance is pretty much what you expect from him : quick-witted and cynical . But , as far as I'm concerned , as long as that's what the role calls for , he's always good . He plays a mob lawyer who has just stolen over $2 million from his boss ( Randy Quaid ) with the help of a strip clu... |
385,001 | 391,152 | 223,577 | 8 | Interesting obscurity from Japan , on DVD from the good people at Artsmagic | There's so much obscure Japanese cinema that I long to see . Thank God for niche suppliers like Tokyo Shock and Artsmagic . The latter has resurrected a five film series of Nikkatsu pink films entitled Angel Guts . High School Co-ed is the first of these films , all of which center around a brutal act of rape , around ... |
385,855 | 391,152 | 74,102 | 8 | Holy Cow | This is no masterpiece , but it has a great distinction amongst the world of film . One can never go beyond this one in audacity . Never . If I described some of the stuff that you will only ever find here , this review would never be posted . They went so far a couple of times that I had to clap . Some of it is just s... |
385,844 | 391,152 | 918,927 | 8 | A battle of wits | I was a little wary of this one , but I was pleasantly surprised by it . It's much like another one of my favorite 2008 films , Frost / Nixon , which is also based on a play . Both are extremely well acted battles of wits . It's almost like watching a great wrestling match . The biggest muscles here belong to the vener... |
385,922 | 391,152 | 83,922 | 8 | Very strange | SPOILERSI'm not exactly sure I get Fanny and Alexander . On the surface , it looks most like yet another dig , the ultimate dig , at the Protestantism with which Bergman was tortured as a child ( his father was a clergyman ) . But there're also some other things , or so it would seem . I really like all the scenes with... |
384,714 | 391,152 | 17,809 | 8 | Very charming , very cute | This movie is really cute . Unfortunately , that adjective has a rather derogatory connotation , especially when referring to a work of art . I certainly don't mean it that way . Frankly , I could use a little delight of the sort The Girl with the Hat Box provided me . It's an utterly charming story about a young girl ... |
384,584 | 391,152 | 23,590 | 8 | Great performance by Dvorak , and a great ending . Awful kid . | This probably mostly gets watched by Bette Davis or Humphrey Bogart completists . But , while Bette Davis is one of the titular three smokers , her role is relatively minor . Bogart plays the typical gangster he played so many times before The Maltese Falcon . The stars of this film are Ann Dvorak and Joan Blondell . T... |
385,982 | 391,152 | 39,416 | 8 | Heavy-handed , but not ineffective | Certainly the preachiest film ever to win Best Picture , and almost the preachiest film ever to be made , but that doesn't necessarily mean that Gentleman's Agreement isn't a good movie . In fact , I thought it was a fine film and an important one . It's heavy-handedness is mostly evened out by a lot of good dialogue ,... |
385,463 | 391,152 | 382,932 | 8 | Keep in mind - I liked this movie , but my criticisms are mostly negative because I expect more from Pixar | Good , but not at the level that I expect from Pixar . It's always fun , but it's often in danger of feeling slight . Besides the awesome setpiece of Remy , the gourmand rat , entering Gusteau's kitchen for the first time and the wonderful climax , there is little that is memorable . The characters are also pretty gene... |
385,092 | 391,152 | 65,377 | 8 | Quite an entertaining piece of filmmaking | Airport was an enormous hit when it was first released in 1970 , the biggest blockbuster of its time . Today it's best known for being the basis for the spoof film Airplane ! . Heck , more people have probably seen Airplane II : the Sequel than have seen Airport , probably more than even know Airport exists . The film ... |
385,336 | 391,152 | 59,079 | 8 | Pretty awesome ! | Having been very disappointed in King Hu's most famous film , A Touch of Zen , I was actually eager to see one of his other supposed masterpieces . I wanted to see if the guy just didn't work for me or what . Fortunately , his earlier film , Come Drink with Me , made for Shaw Brothers , impressed me a lot . I would sti... |
385,462 | 391,152 | 479,884 | 8 | Way better than you're probably thinking it is | Wow , this is surprisingly excellent . I mean , it's crap , but it's good crap , and that's worth a lot . The premise is basically Speed meets D . O . A . ( the 1950 movie starring Edward O'Brien ) . Jason Statham ( of the Transporter movies ) is a hit-man who has a lethal Chinese poison coursing through his veins . If... |
384,862 | 391,152 | 407,265 | 8 | Excellent , complex character study | Pre-op transsexual Bree Osbourne discovers that her one heterosexual experience produced a son , who is now in trouble . She must help him before she gets her operation , and the two end up traveling together from New York City to L . A . This film certainly has some major flaws . It's structured as a road movie , and ... |
385,230 | 391,152 | 23,779 | 8 | One of the best of W . C . Fields ' short films | Personally , I like Fields ' features much more than the few short films he made . The Bank Dick , You Can't Cheat an Honest Man , You're Telling Me , The Old-Fashioned Way , It's a Gift , Never Give a Sucker an Even Break , and The Man on the Flying Trapeze are some of the funniest films you're ever likely to see . Bu... |
385,497 | 391,152 | 171,359 | 8 | Excellent Film Version . | Hamlet may be the single greatest piece of English literature ever written . This modernized version of it proves that . It also proves that a modernization of a classic play is not at all a bad idea . Romeo + Juliette was just undone by overdoing and poor acting . This Hamlet is very well performed . It actually prove... |
384,691 | 391,152 | 21,577 | 8 | Hey , a Buñuel film that I actually like ! | Written on August 30th , upon my first viewing : I'm not saying that I love it , though . It's infinitely more watchable than the other two Buñuel " masterpieces " that I've seen , the execrably boring The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie and the somewhat lame Belle de Jour . I have been told time and time again to go ... |
385,127 | 391,152 | 396,555 | 8 | Not at Pixar's level , but fun nonetheless ; the " Bowler Hat Guy " rules , though | I got to see the new Disney film in 3D , so I can't say whether it plays a lot worse without it . It certainly is a lot of fun in 3D , though ( but then , if you've seen 3D movies before , it's pretty much the same as it always has been ) . The story here is slight and somewhat nonsensical , but it moves so quickly tha... |
385,624 | 391,152 | 202,434 | 8 | Quite good | A man ( Ken Ogata ) is saddled with his three illegitimate children when his mistress skips town . This more than annoys his actual wife ( Shima Iwashita ) , who knew nothing about it and is herself childless . Ogata attempts to care for the children , but he just isn't up to it . For a while , I was expecting an Ozu-e... |
385,306 | 391,152 | 85,959 | 8 | Very Funny , but has one major problem | And that would be that it exhausts its funniest jokes in the first half ( before it goes on to that weird but great " Middle of the Film " section ) . Everything from the short film to the British officers during the First Zulu War is gold , but after the halfway point , it is all silver . Not that that silver isn't go... |
384,733 | 391,152 | 243,133 | 8 | Quite good ; | The Coen Brothers have their place in the cinematic lexicon . They're the clever jokesters of the movies and have given us many great movies . However , I really wish they would evolve . Sure , their films are a lot of fun , but they generally end up as nothing more than an entertaining joke . Only two of their films ,... |
384,564 | 391,152 | 65,462 | 8 | Much better than I had expected | As an avid fan of the original Planet of the Apes , I had always avoided the sequels ( though unfortunately not the remake ) , thinking they'd be so cheesy that they would harm the greatness of the original . I finally got around to the first sequel , Beneath the Planet of the Apes , and , frankly , I'm surprised at ho... |
385,986 | 391,152 | 50,188 | 8 | Ambitious , uneven , but overall excellent Bollywood melodrama | Nargis stars as a suffering woman , Radha , experiencing tragedy after tragedy , surviving it all . The first half of the film doesn't promise anything overly special . A poor community falls under the weight of a moneylender , Sukhilala . When Radha marries , her mother-in-law mortgages her farm to pay for the wedding... |
385,099 | 391,152 | 1,139,797 | 8 | I didn't like it as much as most do , but it's quite good | An original entry into the vampire genre from Sweden . The film is about a 12 year-old boy , Oskar , who suffers the brutality of bullies at school every day . He has no friends until one day he meets a strange girl who has just moved into his building . Her name is Eli , and she is a vampire . Much of the film is made... |
384,563 | 391,152 | 334,372 | 8 | This short can now be found on the new Winstar DVD of Goodbye , Dragon Inn | Perhaps this is best described as a curio . It's an addendum to What Time Is It There ? , Tsai's previous feature . The girl in that film ( Shiang-chyi Chen ) has returned to Taipei from Paris ( with no indication of how long she's been gone or how long she's been back ) , and she is searching for the man who sold her ... |
385,785 | 391,152 | 478,134 | 8 | Powerful and well written , despite some classic bits of Haggis ham | Paul Haggis ' followup to his Best Picture winning Crash is certainly a bit of an improvement . I'm not a Crash hater , but I'm the first to admit it's far too heavy-handed and sloppy to be considered to be a great movie . And honestly , at its worst , you can feel that old Haggis hackery popping up in Elah more than a... |
385,836 | 391,152 | 120,632 | 8 | Surprisingly Good . | First off , I love Wings of Desire . It is surely one of my ten favorite movies . But , contrary to my expectations , City of Angels did not offend my sensibilities at all . In fact , I rather enjoyed it . Even though it was based on one of the best movies ever made , it has some original ideas of its own . I really lo... |
385,930 | 391,152 | 23,694 | 8 | AS YOU WISH , MASTER | Bela Lugosi plays an evil plantation owner in Haiti who knows how to utilize black magic , like voodoo dolls and zombies . Madge Bellamy plays the woman whom Lugosi turns into a zombie , and is quite stunning in her white wedding dress and her enormous eyes ; she could have been ( possibly was ? ) a great silent movie ... |
385,700 | 391,152 | 70,374 | 8 | Quite good Fassbinder | Good , nearly great Fassbinder about an adult woman who passes from the care of her controlling parents to the even tighter control of a bizarre husband . Margit Carstensen plays the woman and Karlheinz Böhm ( whom you probably remember as the protagonist of Michael Powell's Peeping Tom ) the husband . This is one of F... |
385,400 | 391,152 | 51,198 | 8 | Excellent | Not one of Ford's best works as a director , but it's an excellent film nonetheless . It's one of the best biopics I've ever seen . The subject is Frank " Spig " Wead , a Navy man through and through who , despite all his success in the service , was never able to make much of a connection with his wife and daughters .... |
384,741 | 391,152 | 468,569 | 8 | Ledger's Joker makes this a lot better than it probably would otherwise be | The sequel to Christopher Nolan's much ballyhooed Batman Begins , a film which frankly I disliked . It spent way too long on Batman's well-known backstory , brought in two of the worst villains from Batman's gallery of rogues , and edited together so choppily that it gave me a headache . The Dark Knight has won even be... |
385,688 | 391,152 | 388,980 | 8 | One of the better American films to be released in 2005 | I hate sports movies , but I found this one exceptionally well done . Kudos to Bill Paxton on his sophomore effort and his second good film , after the flawed but unforgettable Frailty . The Greatest Game Ever Played doesn't offer any surprises plotwise , but the level of acting and the depth that Paxton finds in the m... |
385,408 | 391,152 | 858,479 | 8 | Familiar , but well done dramedy featuring some stellar performances | An indie comedy about a quirky family of self-hating misfits . We've seen this before , am I right ? Well , so what , I say . When it's done well , I don't care too much whether the concept has been done before . And Smart People is done quite well . Dennis Quaid stars as a college professor and widower who hasn't been... |
385,838 | 391,152 | 1,183,732 | 8 | Disgusting , depraved and endlessly inventive | Wowza ! Along the lines of Evil Dead and Dead Alive , this splatterfest is sure to be a cult classic . Eihi Shiina , famous for playing the crazy girl in Takashi Miike's Audition , stars as a member of Tokyo's police force . Her specialty is hunting " engineers " , genetically modified humans who can reconstitute their... |
385,837 | 391,152 | 169,547 | 8 | Great , but certainly no masterpiece | I am shocked at the great reception American Beauty has gotten on the IMDB . # 2 , only behind the Godfather ! ? ! ? Come on ! It was great , to be sure , but all of the film's sentiments have been expressed before , and better . The decaying family relationships were stated in the better film The Ice Storm . The idea ... |
384,918 | 391,152 | 25,799 | 8 | Wonderful 1930s comedy | I watched Six of a Kind for W . C . Fields - he's only in it for around 10 minutes and has one long scene , the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville , and several other great moments . The reamaining 55 minutes are also delightful , thankfully , mostly due to the hilarious Charlie Ruggles as the bumbling... |
385,834 | 391,152 | 100,802 | 8 | Great premise reduced to a pretty good action flick . | When I first saw Total Recall , only a bit over a year ago , I thought it was a fun action flick and nothing more . I remember being a bit disappointed at it . The scene where Edgecomb enters Quaid's hotel room and tells him that he is trapped in his own mind made me think how much better the film could have been if th... |
385,051 | 391,152 | 468,492 | 8 | Should have cut back on the non-monster stuff , but otherwise excellent | It's been a long time since they made a really good monster movie , one that's lean and fun and scary . Maybe it's just because I saw it for the first time in a while last week ( and on the big screen no less ) , but Spielberg's Jaws strikes me as just about the perfect film of that sort . Much of The Host seems like i... |
384,710 | 391,152 | 74,285 | 8 | Conflicted , but it works | I am usually one who has little problem deciding how I feel about a movie . Carrie is a rare movie that completely conflicts me . A good half of the movie I found excellent . The other half I found execrable . I was highly suspicious right from the second scene , where the camera pans through a high school girls ' lock... |
385,805 | 391,152 | 366,777 | 8 | Has some problems , but mostly soars above them | Often wonderful film about children from the director who brought us such family-friendly fare as Shallow Grave , Trainspotting , and 28 Days Later ? Just a joke , not a knock . Boyle is very much deserving of praise for his broad directorial talent . Millions is very good . The story concerns two young boys who find a... |
385,259 | 391,152 | 250,081 | 8 | Hardly perfect , but strong | After re-watching Happiness for the first time in over a decade , I decided finally to catch up with Solondz's two follow-ups . Storytelling finds Solondz in a self-critical and defensive mood , taking on both his own weaknesses as a writer and his critics , who were ubiquitous after Happiness . That aspect of Storytel... |
384,654 | 391,152 | 297,884 | 8 | Moore is outstanding | I don't know if this film has anything all that useful or original to say . We know , or at the very least we've heard that 1950s folks didn't much care for homosexuals and black people . Todd Haynes is certainly not taking any brave new stands in this film . It's a tribute to Sirk , who would never overtly deal with t... |
385,853 | 391,152 | 165,854 | 8 | This Movie Was Sweeter Than Curly Fries | This film was quite good . The acting was top-notched . Terence Stamp was excellent . Apparently , the real-life limeys thought that his Cockney accent wasn't good , but it wasn't grating . I thought that he perfectly expressed emotion . He played an extremely complex character . I felt a genuine sense of pathos for hi... |
385,160 | 391,152 | 424,345 | 8 | You'll laugh until it hurts then probably spank it to Rosario Dawson | If the tagline upsets you , stay the hell away from this movie . Kevin Smith hasn't evolved at all as a filmmaker in the past 12 years , but who really cares ? No one's going to ever nominate him for an Oscar or anything , and , Jersey Girl aside , his films are entertaining . Sometimes they're downright hilarious . I ... |
385,904 | 391,152 | 18,033 | 8 | A decent romantic comedy made wonderful by the presence of Clara Bow | I'm completely smitten with Clara Bow . After having seen Wings , and having just watched It and the TCM documentary Clara Bow : Discovering the It Girl , I have to say that she's just about the most amazing actress of the silent era . Even besides her limitless beauty , it seems like she can accomplish anything with h... |
384,809 | 391,152 | 45,251 | 8 | Has its weak points , but some strong points make it a worthy Welles film | Orson Welles ' Othello is certainly not to be counted amongst the director's best films , which are , of course , amongst the very best ever made , but it's good . The opening is gorgeous : it begins in medias res , with Othello and Desdimona being carried away , corpses , and Iago being suspended from a castle turret ... |
385,870 | 391,152 | 32,156 | 8 | Why does Kenji Mizoguchi get a free critical pass on every film he directs ? | No , The Story of Late Chrysanthemums is not a bad movie , not at all . In fact , it is quite good . However , it is hardly perfect . This is an Alcestis-like story about a wife , Otoku ( Kakuko Mori ) , who sacrifices herself for the sake of her husband . The man is a young actor , Kikunosuke ( Shotaro Hanayagi ) , wh... |
385,501 | 391,152 | 32,152 | 8 | hilarious ! | W . C . Fields in top form , but Edgar Bergen and Charlie MacArthy are just as prominent ( and as funny ) . The best scene involves Fields playing ping pong - it's easily one of the funniest sequences in film history . Another great scene involves Fields BSing about his exploits as a big game hunter . |
385,792 | 391,152 | 17,961 | 8 | Russian Silent . . . Comedy ? | I really love silent cinema of all types , and some of my very favorite films are silent ( Voyage to the Moon , Battleship Potemkin , The Passion of Joan of Arc , Our Hospitality , Sherlock Jr . , Safety Last , City Lights , Modern Times ) . Battleship Potemkin ( and Sergei Eisenstein in general ) got me interested in ... |
385,163 | 391,152 | 142,458 | 8 | Good Miike | Despite the title and the mean-looking cover art , Young Thugs : Innocent Blood is one of Miike's gentlest and sweetest films . That's not to say that it is entirely free of nastiness . The protagonists spend a lot of their free time getting into violent brawls . But the story is one of friendship and romance . The fil... |
384,655 | 391,152 | 299,658 | 8 | Dazzle me , baby ! | A hugely entertaining musical about a woman , Roxie Hart ( Renée Zellweger ) , who kills her lover when he reveals that he was lying about a guy who could make her famous . She's up for murder and might be hanged , but she and her wishy-washy , pushover husband ( John C . Reilly ) hire a fast-talking lawyer ( Richard G... |
385,305 | 391,152 | 89,530 | 8 | I can't believe how low the imdb rating is on this film ! | Sure it's probably the least good of the Mad Max films , but it is still entertaining as heck ! It is maybe a little more Hollywood ( which is a bad thing ) than the first two . The music is overbearing at times , and some of the attempts at jokes were very cheap and American blockbusterish . One of the main faults tha... |
384,609 | 391,152 | 53,168 | 8 | Good , but overrated | This is the first Robert Bresson movie I've watched , and perhaps I did miss something . It is usually considered a masterpiece , one of the best films ever made . I personally liked a lot of it , found a couple of individual parts amazing , and felt unsatisfied when it ended after only 75 minutes . I don't know , it c... |
385,903 | 391,152 | 67,677 | 8 | Well worth checking out | Excellent early Fassbinder about two shiftless young men who decide , seemingly on the spur of a moment , that the next big step in their lives will be an extended expedition for treasure in Peru's Rio das Mortes region . One of their fiancées ( Hanna Schygulla , as gorgeous and as great as ever ) finds the notion stup... |
384,934 | 391,152 | 93,894 | 8 | A heck of a lot of fun | Awesome , cheesy 1980s action / sci-fi flick starring the one , the only Arnold Schwarzenegger . You know , say what you might about Schwarzenegger , but he made some damn entertaining movies in his day . The story here is pretty clever , actually . It probably had been done before , but I can't think of anything speci... |
384,674 | 391,152 | 65,777 | 8 | Certainly a very good film , but not the masterpiece everyone has touted it as being ( ) | SPOILERS AHEAD : There are many , many movies about WWII , both about the battles and about the condition of life for the people involved , especially the situation of the Jews in Europe . When someone makes a movie on this latter subject , it is very difficult for anyone to criticize it . 1998's _ Life is Beautiful _ ... |
385,718 | 391,152 | 479,537 | 8 | Really good for most of its run , but it gets a bit too abstract at the end | This Western was barely released near the beginning of 2007 . Too bad , really , because it is quite good . Much better than the current hit 3 : 10 to Yuma , which is similar in many ways . I suppose the aging stars , Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson , aren't big box office draws . And I think some would find it slow . T... |
385,394 | 391,152 | 54,847 | 8 | Loren is awful , but everything else is good | I resisted this for much of its run . Oh , it was always good , but , being such a huge fan of Mann's tight , emotionally and thematically complex Westerns I was disappointed in the pure spectacle and the bland characterizations . Plus , I've come to the conclusion that I find Sophia Loren to be a poor actress . I mean... |
384,792 | 391,152 | 367,089 | 8 | Good indie drama | Quite good indie drama about intellectual New Yorkers going through a divorce , and the effect it has on their children . Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney star . This is certainly based on real life experiences . My biggest problem was that I just couldn't for the life of me find any sympathy for Jeff Daniels . He's a nov... |
385,972 | 391,152 | 22,208 | 8 | Excellent , though the comic drunks were a bad choice | Another win for William Wellman ! He keeps moving up the list of my favorite directors . In this one , Barbara Stanwyck stars as a nurse who is assigned to watch two young girls . She discovers that they're illness is being exacerbated by a crooked doctor . It seems that the doctor and the kids ' mother's chauffeur ( C... |
384,957 | 391,152 | 829,459 | 8 | I don't see too much of a point to there being a film of these events , but this is undoubtedly a good one | The recounting of the investigation surrounding the Daniel Pearl kidnapping in Pakistan , based on the account of his wife , Mariane . Winterbottom takes much the same approach as Paul Greengrass did for United 93 last year , playing everything very subdued , very straight , and concentrating on the procedure . I'm not... |
385,723 | 391,152 | 765,443 | 8 | Almost great movie , with great performances | Cronenberg follows up his critically ( and I'm guessing financially ) successful A History of Violence with another mob story , this time set amongst the Russian mafia in London . A midwife ( Naomi Watts ) delivers a baby to a dying Russian teenager . She takes her diary , in Russian , and tries to get it translated . ... |
385,779 | 391,152 | 856,288 | 8 | Surprisingly good | So many horror movies think that blood and gore are the scariest things about life . I'm definitely not in their camp , and take the ( I hope ) high-minded position that fear is best generated by atmosphere and tone . That said , gory horror movies can occasionally be fun in a circus geek kind of way . The French horro... |
385,332 | 391,152 | 910,936 | 8 | Very funny | A stoner comedy / action movie send-up from the Apatow factory . Seth Rogen witnesses a murder and gets his drug dealer , James Franco , mixed up in the mess . The two go on the run as some gangsters search for them . It's very loose and sloppy , with an improvised feeling . There are long stretches where I didn't laug... |
385,215 | 391,152 | 57,197 | 8 | Let me be the hundredth to praise Roy Harryhausen | Generally Jason and the Argonauts is only passable as entertainment . The story is weak , as are the characters and the acting . I don't think many would argue that 99 % of the film's worth is to be found in Roy Harryhausen's effects ( the other 1 % probably coming from Bernard Herrmann's rousing score ) , which earn t... |
385,350 | 391,152 | 452,623 | 8 | Has its flaws , and some big ones , too , but still achieves something near greatness | Ben Affleck's directorial debut , based on a novel by Dennis Lehane , who also wrote Mystic River . Affleck's direction is more than adequate . I'm sure he's aping Clint Eastwood's film version of Mystic River much of the time , and there's one scene that's way too reminiscent of Se7en , but he shows a lot of skill . H... |
385,775 | 391,152 | 26,029 | 8 | Maybe not Hitchcock's best , but . . . | I think The 39 Steps was the first Hitchcock film I ever saw . I was not impressed . However , after four years and a whole lot of education in film , I have come to respect it . I disagree with the opinion that it is one of Hitch's best , still . He possibly has more perfect films than any other director in cinema his... |
384,826 | 391,152 | 64,793 | 8 | Great direction and great acting , but I don't really get it | I can appreciate this film scene for scene , but I'm not sure of what the sum is meant to be . Not at all , actually . It seemed to me like an important turning point in Bergman's career , like an exact middle point between something like Persona and Scenes from a Marriage . It is probably just because I was damn tired... |
385,823 | 391,152 | 64,866 | 8 | In loving memory of Gillo Pontecorvo , who died last week | Pontecorvo's followup to The Battle of Algiers , and probably his second most famous film . That's probably mostly because of the film's star , Marlon Brando , but the movie itself is quite good . It's a little slow , sometimes a little difficult to follow , and it hits us with no less than three third act speeches ( a... |
384,955 | 391,152 | 33,397 | 8 | Surprisingly well written and executed mystery , with a bit too much Hugh Herbert | Surprisingly entertaining horror comedy , found on the new Best Buy exclusive horror set . This is the second movie supposedly based on the Poe story in which Bela Lugosi stars . The first one had nothing to do with the story . This one has one brief reference to it , but otherwise has nothing to do with it . It's an O... |
384,534 | 391,152 | 22,183 | 8 | Baffling in its very existence , this film has a place in film history | Ever wonder what European soft-core porn would look like in 1931 ? If you do , you are weird . But , if you do wonder what it'd be like , check out Maedchen in Uniform . To be fair , it is a bit more artistic than Emanuelle , but there is little subtlety to the lesbian erotica happening in this film . It turns out bett... |
384,566 | 391,152 | 65,916 | 8 | Dated , but good | Dennis Patrick plays a man who accidentally kills his daughter's boyfriend and then reveals his secret at a local bar . Joe ( Peter Boyle ) , a bigot who is getting drunk there , at first takes it as a joke , but then the story is confirmed on the evening news . Instead of calling the cops or the like , Joe decides tha... |
385,217 | 391,152 | 87,164 | 8 | Quite a delightful little film | When their mother is forced to stay in the hospital for a prolonged period of time , Ting-Ting ( a four year old girl ) and Tung-Tung ( an eleven year old boy ) are taken by their uncle to spend the summer with their grandfather , a doctor in a small , rural town . There are some cliches in the film . The strict , impo... |
385,365 | 391,152 | 67,866 | 8 | I wouldn't call this a great movie , but it's definitely a must-see . It's finally on DVD in Region 1 ! | Saw this several years ago on a VHS bootlegged from the Japanese , blurred-pubes laser disc . It's probably because of the lousy format that I hardly remember a thing about it . Finally , after years of waiting , it gets released in Region 1 in a super-deluxe box set from Anchor Bay , which also includes The Holy Mount... |
385,524 | 391,152 | 12,532 | 8 | Great French Revolution story | Maybe I just love Griffith when he's big . This French Revolution film is flawed , certainly , but I also think it's very good . The narrative has such an excellent flow . Dorothy Gish plays the daughter of aristocrats , abandoned as a baby at the Notre Dame cathedral when her father is assassinated . A poor man wander... |
384,763 | 391,152 | 47,472 | 8 | Fun , with great music | A lot of fun to be had by Seven Brides for Seven Brothers . Adam ( Howard Keel ) , the oldest of seven brothers , comes into town one day looking for some chaw and a wife . The shopkeep thinks this is ridiculous , but Adam effortlessly courts a young woman named Milly ( Jane Powell ) in only a couple of minutes . He ta... |
385,955 | 391,152 | 1,093,842 | 8 | Maddin's Winnipeg | Guy Maddin's ninth feature is a pseudo-documentary about the director's hometown of Winnipeg . It mostly focuses on his relationship with the city , but it also includes re-enactments of his family life and famous weird things that happened in the city's past . It's a bit of a mess , but , as I've said before regarding... |
384,779 | 391,152 | 50,763 | 8 | Maybe not on par with Mann's Westerns , but a good one anyway | Best known as the film that ended the great Anthony Mann / Jimmy Stewart partnership . Mann either got in an argument with Stewart , hated the script or hated co-star Audie Murphy , or all of the above . No-name director James Neilson replaced him , and the results are , well , not as good as something Mann would have ... |
385,807 | 391,152 | 224,235 | 8 | Slow but fascinating | In this Nikkatsu pink film , a man who shoots erotic photography becomes obsessed with a woman he sees in a porn movie , in which she , very innocent looking and young , is raped in a classroom . He tries to convince her to work with him , and finds out that she is a prostitute and a nymphomaniac , not the pure innocen... |
385,575 | 391,152 | 39,739 | 8 | Somewhat disappointing considering the skill involved , but still good | Pretty good movie about a man and his wife who get caught up in murder and the police officer investigating the case . It starts off marvelously , but kind of hits a wall at a certain point . We're sure we know what happened , then a tiny plot thread that seems at first like a red herring pops back up and disappoints .... |
384,535 | 391,152 | 47,444 | 8 | This review is for at least the first two films of the Samurai Trilogy , and for the third installment unless my opinion of that is different | The Samurai Trilogy is a very good work , very well worth watching . No , they aren't as great as Kurosawa's samurai masterpieces , The Seven Samurai , Yojimbo , or Sanjuro , but they are no much less worthy . My only major complaint is that they were filmed in color , which is a lot less good looking and elegant than ... |
384,801 | 391,152 | 449,467 | 8 | Unsuccessful , but still good | If it weren't for the great performances in Iñárritu's previous film , 21 Grams , I think I would have called it one of the worst films of 2003 . The script was ridiculous and , even worse , chopped up chronologically in a pointless and exceedingly artificial and pretentious way . So I have not been in a hurry to catch... |
385,458 | 391,152 | 67,959 | 8 | Beautiful , but I have some problems | A teenage British girl ( Jenny Agutter ) and her little brother are taken deep into the Australian Outback by their father for a good , old-fashioned murder-suicide . When the kids get away , the father goes ahead with his own death , figuring they'll probably die in the desert . They last by themselves long enough , b... |
385,473 | 391,152 | 42,804 | 8 | Brutal | Imagine Truffaut's The 400 Blows with a more literal title , and you've got Bunuel's Los Olvidados . It's his attempt at neorealism - only twice does he delve into his surrealism . I saw it in a theater with a small audience , and there were a lot of groans , gasps , and cringes as the film progressed , all quite deser... |
385,375 | 391,152 | 14,142 | 8 | Excellent | This is a Hollywood silent film of great spectacle and emotion . Lon Chaney as Quasimodo is entirely believable . He exudes a supreme sense of pathos . However , I'll remember it most because of Patsy Ruth Miller who plays Esmerelda . She is very , very good . The mob scenes at the end are unpolished - that sort of fil... |
385,770 | 391,152 | 58,329 | 8 | Should have been one of Hitchcock's best , but . . . | Marnie was made after a string of knock-out masterpieces by possibly the greatest director ever made . At the time of its release , it was considered a huge failure by critics and audiences . To be truthful , it is a failure . But it is an extremely interesting failure . The relationship that Sean Connery developes wit... |
384,973 | 391,152 | 94,663 | 8 | One of Woody's most mature and underrated dramas | There was a certain period in Woody Allen's career when he was trying desperately to imitate Ingmar Bergman's work . It rarely worked , and often turned out disasters like the execrable September . Another Woman is a riff on Bergman's Wild Strawberries : a college professor , played by Gena Rowlands , is past fifty and... |
385,357 | 391,152 | 498,399 | 8 | This comment may contain small spoilers , but nothing huge | James Gray's third film , seven years after his previous , the criminally underrated The Yards . That film starred Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg . They must have realized that Gray , who also wrote the script to The Yards , gave them some damn fine roles there , so they came back , and even helped produce We Own th... |
384,613 | 391,152 | 144,201 | 8 | A lot of fun , even if a bit empty | Style over substance can be a lot of fun , like in this movie . It's about a knife thrower ( Daniel Auteuil ) who recruits a suicidal girl ( Vanessa Paradis ) for his act . She doesn't want to live anyway , so why not die in a more interesting way than jumping off a bridge ? The story's too vapid , and that's what make... |
384,716 | 391,152 | 253,474 | 8 | Good , but imdb voters are overrating it | The Pianist is far from Roman Polanski's best film or his ' most personal work , ' as the back of the DVD case says . In fact , it's easily the least personal film I've seen from him ; any director who has enough clout to secure the funding for the production could have made this film and had it turn out just as well .... |
385,097 | 391,152 | 228,687 | 8 | Quite good , but I wish Svankmajer would use more animation | Perhaps Jan Svankmajer is sick of the medium of stop-motion animation which first made him famous . Perhaps he's trying to move into pure filmmaking . And perhaps I shouldn't criticize him for that . He's actually an excellent live-action director as well , which Little Otik ( in Czech " Otesanek , " " Greedy Guts , " ... |
385,691 | 391,152 | 86,998 | 8 | Behold my awesome break dancing ! | There's something about a cheesy 80s movie that pleases me to no end , and this is one of the cheesiest . Made simply to cash in on the break dancing fad that was popular at the time , the film stars Adolfo " Shabbadoo " Quinones and Michael " Boogaloo Shrimp " Chambers as two inner city toughs who battle their enemies... |
385,687 | 391,152 | 110,074 | 8 | Flawed , but too charming not to like a lot | The Coen Brothers ' fifth film . It's well liked today , but was a disaster when it opened , grossing less than $3 million domestic on a budget of around $25 million . It also didn't do that well critically . It's not hard to see why . It's a film of all style and no substance . It's often easy to get lost in its labyr... |
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