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509,140 | 453,068 | 167,261 | 1 | The Trilogy continues , and it's just as good as the first . . . | . . . with even more action pumped in ; the final battle sequence is an astonishing feat from Jackson and his team , making an entire fleet of Urk-Hai completely computer animated , seem totally convincing . And while the second part is exactly as long as the first , it's even more eye-grabbing with it's visual wonder ... |
508,591 | 453,068 | 420,128 | 1 | a total contrived aberration of a TV movie , not because of its sincerity , but . . . well , maybe that is a big part of it | Riding the Bus with My Sister is a shameless attempt to put up such an insane sequence of events into a two-hour-plus-commercials time slot to total up to this : Beth ( Rosie O'Donnell ) is inspiring and courageous and livens up those lives of people around her , and anyone who doesn't see otherwise can shove it . But ... |
510,649 | 453,068 | 57,181 | 1 | has inklings of potential , but it's all not there really , at all | What a title , it's the kind of title where if someone said it out of context of it being a movie I would have to say ' you said a mouthful . ' Here , I suppose it ranks alongside multitudes of other very long , very wild B , C , D , and so on movie titles that try and go even further with making the movie seem more cr... |
509,961 | 453,068 | 132,888 | 1 | to call it a turkey would be an insult to tasty poultry everywhere - shame on these directors | Yup , that's right , two people directed this . . . or so-called directed it . This is direction for the celluloid impaired , the likes of which only show up in the worst of Troma movies . It's about . . . . GOD ! Yes , you heard that right , obeying God's laws , and if not you'll take drugs as an addict , get hooked u... |
507,901 | 453,068 | 60,666 | 1 | If you don't watch the film with the Mystery Science Theater 3000 commentary , you'll end up making your own . . . | ' Manos ' The Hands of Fate attempted something very few filmmakers have ever done before , and un-intentionally no less - this film goes below expectations , but not just any ordinary expectations . I knew right from the get go this would be a bad movie from the reputation it's garnered here on IMDb . However this tak... |
507,978 | 453,068 | 74,626 | 1 | a muddled merging of poetry and documentary ; a film that will hit , miss , or both , for its audience | Heart of Glass is a period piece , not merely because of its probable 19th century time period , but because of when it was filmed , what footage was used , the music , the " acting " ( appropriate in quotes ) , and the experimental attitude . Werner Herzog has always been one of the most unconventional and challenging... |
508,815 | 453,068 | 209,144 | 1 | Sometimes a little disorienting , but also compelling | This is not the most original idea ever . On an episode of Seinfeld , there was an episode where the story was told backwards and the reasons for one scene were explained in the next ( George feels sick in one scene , then we see in the next scene that right before that it was Clams Casino ) . So , I have a feeling wri... |
508,607 | 453,068 | 235,686 | 1 | this would get a limp noodle if this was a XXX mag | Joe D'Amato might have made some other notable movies in his very long and very prolific career - prolific , of course , by turns of making VERY cheap Z-grade movies in Italy's big exploitation boom of the late 70s early 70s - but Porno Holocaust isn't one of them , or at least shouldn't be . Granted , I should not exp... |
508,745 | 453,068 | 421,054 | 1 | the worst thing that Tony Scott would ultimately want to hear about this film is that it's boring , but in the end it is | Boy , what a wreck to sit through with Domino , and I mean like a ship-sinking sized one . But maybe the only quasi-decent thing I can say about it is that I stuck through it , and didn't stop it or walk away mid-way through it . I knew that it would almost be sort of hypocritical to not finish watching the movie , jus... |
510,079 | 453,068 | 59,464 | 1 | barely watchable on it's own ; one of the MST3K's best commentaries though | Monster a Go-Go is one of those dreaded would-be drive-in cash-in movies that trying to watch it on its own is an act in futility . Trying to watch the moments of bad actors reciting bad dialog on sets loaned out by the director's mother and featuring the one hook as a 7 foot 6 inch man who's made to look TALLER in the... |
509,927 | 453,068 | 116,756 | 1 | Shaq's egomania OOZES off of this movie ; a notorious bad kids movie , and not as campy as one would wish | Yes , Kazaam is one of those horribly bad movies that almost reminds one of everything that is wrong with not just kids movies , but with humanity . Here we have Shaq as a rapping genie - yes , a RAPPING genie - where he does everything from making bad puns to dressing in ridiculous outfits , all ending in him in a Chr... |
508,235 | 453,068 | 396,269 | 1 | satisfactory romantic comedy , brings its laughs , and its predictability in tow | Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn , the stars bringing this vehicle to theaters ( there are other notables in the case , but not with the kind of draw of these two ) , are very talented , and usually pretty amusing . Wilson , for my money , is the subtler of the two , and is more of the leading man , while Vaughn is usually... |
510,865 | 453,068 | 126,916 | 2 | easily the worst film Sam Raimi has directed yet | I remember seeing For Love of the Game in the theater and thinking ' this isn't the same Sam Raimi that directed the Evil Dead trilogy and A Simple Plan , is just can't be . ' It's one thing that it's a Kevin Costner movie , which in and of itself carries a certain formula that can take down director and ship with him ... |
509,698 | 453,068 | 299,981 | 2 | not at all undeserving of its straight-to-Sci-fi-channel-status | I just looked back at my notes on Highland : Endgame , still the only other Highlander movie I've yet to see ( also never seen an episode of the show ) , and an a little surprised at how high it was rated then even at a grade . I must have reacted to the final battle scene between Adrian Paul and Christopher Lambert , ... |
510,977 | 453,068 | 55,452 | 2 | not made to be a bad movie , it just is , though not really ' classic ' bad | Edward D . Wood Jr ( or E . D . Wood credited for the film ) is practically revered today as a filmmaker forgotten and neglected in his time as just another Shlock-Meister of B-movie ( or Z-movie ) cinema . His legacy is now , well , being the ultimate in bad schlock kind of movie-making , where you can almost see the ... |
510,589 | 453,068 | 403,703 | 2 | I walked out , sad to say but it's true | Suddenly this movie came back to me in a flash - of what I tried to watch of it , anyway . At the time I actually saw it in the theater ( snuck in of course ) , hoping maybe that the film might be slightly different from the one-sided approach on the TV show that makes Pokemon look like Miyazaki . I knew that there was... |
510,222 | 453,068 | 403,885 | 2 | might be the worst zombie movie I've seen in a very long time , and I've seen Zombi 3 | I'm reminded while watching Death Valley : The Revenge of Bloody Bill on the sci-fi channel something George A . Romero said recently about certain new horror directors : " They shot Faith Hill's last music video , and they think they're hot s . Do they know how to handle it ? No , they don't . Put ' em at an editing t... |
510,472 | 453,068 | 843,873 | 2 | it barely qualifies as a guilty pleasure ( mostly for its climax ) | I would probably want to give this movie a zero if not for the climax , which involves not really Snakes on a Train , but rather Train IN a Snake . The premise was cooked up far more than likely over the course of a night of beers after hearing about Snakes on a Plane in production ( this , in fact , was released to co... |
509,916 | 453,068 | 763,304 | 2 | fantastic for laughs - for all the unintentional ( ? ) reasons - though lacks things like texture and quality . . . | . . . which is fine . Doogal probably wouldn't of caught my attention in the slightest - and I barely took a glance to it when it was first released ( or escaped ) into theaters last year . But then when I saw Jon Stewart's credits on this site , his name popped up for this movie . I clicked it and was momentarily horr... |
508,775 | 453,068 | 477,785 | 3 | she should have just done an interview , not a movie that screams pretension like no other | I know Guy Maddin directed this short film , My Dad is 100 Years Old , but either acclaim or blame should be rest on Isabella Rossellini's shoulders for this . She knew what kind of picture this would be , and Maddin seems more like a hired hand here than a true visionary . And if anything , the vision of sorts is real... |
510,285 | 453,068 | 213,895 | 3 | not surprised it never got much at all of a theatrical release | The Moving Finger , the ' plus ' feature on a DVD featuring Brian De Palma's Murder a la Mod , was made by Larry Moyer , a strictly independent / B-movie director who apparently never really directed again after this ( he has one animation co-direct credit on a short ) . Not too surprising why ; his film is a blend of ... |
510,258 | 453,068 | 897,361 | 3 | pretentious twister of a horror-thriller , it won't kill Lohan's career , but it's a definite blotch | I Know Who Killed Me , written and directed by two first-timers respectively ( the director has done a couple of ultra low-budget horror efforts , seen only in festivals ) , is the end result of the two of them ( and the producers more or less ) watching much too much of the series Twin Peaks and the film Fire Walk Wit... |
509,960 | 453,068 | 831,887 | 3 | the Howard the Duck of the 21st century | What exactly goes on in Frank Miller's mind I cannot truly say . Whatever it is , the creator of two or three of the most influential and artistically challenging comic books ( Dark Knight Returns and it's better sibling Batman : Year One plus Sin City at its best ) has over time lost his mind - or maybe hubris and fam... |
510,516 | 453,068 | 490,204 | 3 | Reinging and ringing over my head | It's basically impossible not to consider the tragedy of as the most significant event of a nightmare day on American soil . At the least it tore up New York city , and left many lives devastated . The writer / director of Reign Over Me , Mike Binder , tries to set up a form of critic-proof shield around his film by ma... |
508,429 | 453,068 | 963,194 | 3 | some may love it , and some just wont . . . I definitely didn't | Sometimes a cult film just can't be made when it's just made by " whimsy " or whatever to be so . Sometimes it works , like with Snakes on a Plane , but then other times we get a film that ends up dividing the audience so thickly that you can feel tension in the air during a screening . Luckily I watched Repo ! The Gen... |
508,682 | 453,068 | 377,471 | 3 | probably one of my least favorite films from 2005 ; not memorable at all | You might think with a cast as large as this , with a mix of big-name actors ( Travolta , Thurman , Keitel , Vaughn ) , music people and other pop culture people ( Andre Benjamin , The Rock , Cedric the Entertainer ) , that it might just be worth watching for them if not funny from the material . But it's not either mu... |
508,278 | 453,068 | 285,531 | 3 | not a pleasant experience as I remember it | Lawrence Kasan doing an adaptation of a Stephen King novel ; you'd think that the man who was in part responsible for Raiders of the Lost Ark and Empire Strikes Back , and directed a good film or two in his time , would be able to make a memorable work by the author . It is memorable , in it's way , but not really as t... |
510,561 | 453,068 | 949,731 | 3 | not a real ' worst-movie-ever ' like Lady in the Water . . . more like a high-budget / high-on-itself Ed Wood flick | M . Night Shyamalan , sad to say , was a case of a fluke in Hollywood . This isn't to say that he hasn't had some good moments in movies like Unbreakable and Signs ( more-so for the former ) , but The Sixth Sense , one of the great big wonderkind stories of the 90s has manifested itself with its creator churning out pi... |
509,928 | 453,068 | 70,948 | 3 | so , Sean Connery didn't understand the Matrix , but this movie . . . | Zardoz is , quite frankly , one of the all-time champion ' train-wreck ' type films I've seen from the 70's , or for that matter any decade . Which means , in short , it's the kind of unbridled cinematic mess that only someone coming right off of the success of Deliverance would even dare of doing . Part of me was thin... |
510,805 | 453,068 | 63,678 | 3 | a massively confused and dull allegory on bourgeois deconstruction | Teorema brought me to a point I usually don't get to watching films ; I felt like one of these younger ( or just less exposed to ) film-goers who complain about the classic foreign films of the new-waves being too slow and boring . I didn't want to though , as I've seen some of Pier Paolo Pasolini's past work that did ... |
510,412 | 453,068 | 222,817 | 3 | a good lot like Porno Holocaust , only even more misogynistic and with badly dubbed ( Japanese ) sex scenes ! | Maybe it was the title , or the trailer ( certainly not the interview on the DVD , which is with the director as he keeps saying " hi , kids " into the camera like a buffoon ) , but I had expectations for Entrails of a Virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal , bloody killings by a... |
509,012 | 453,068 | 859,163 | 3 | just one more big-time money maker with no soul and mundane ( though continuous ) action | I guess I remember liking the first two Mummy movies well enough ( matter of fact if I look back at my old reviews they might have been given a piece ) , but at the same time I never remember having a desire to re-watch the movies either after seeing them once as a big-time summer blockbuster as a teenager . With Mummy... |
510,213 | 453,068 | 82,199 | 3 | He is not an agent of the C . I . A . , he is a writer of comic books ! | This is a kid's movie that I wonder how it could have even appealed to me as a kid back when it first had a little more , uh , technical relevance I suppose ? Actually , no , I wouldn't guess so , if at all ever ? Was it a tax write-off ? Or maybe the filmmakers took too many drugs and drinks while watching James Bond ... |
508,565 | 453,068 | 79,573 | 3 | it's all TRUE after all ! | I could barely keep myself from either nodding off or just turning off this turd , but I decided to stick it out if only for the reasoning that maybe something would happen . This is the work of a writer / producer / director / special fx , Kenneth Herts , who wants to make a statement on ecological damage while making... |
509,919 | 453,068 | 920,468 | 3 | A movie that means well , but is as overbearing as a rehab cult member | Over the GW is a near failure of a debut feature , and not because it's not without trying . . . Actually , it is . It's a shamble all the more because it's writer / director / technical everyman Nick Gaglia went through the same rehab cult that he depicts in the film . Sometimes a first time filmmaker , full of the vi... |
510,320 | 453,068 | 118,747 | 4 | mostly a disappointment | John Landis ' Blues Brothers 2000 has a ridiculous plot that goes nowhere ( at least the original had somewhat a plot to get money to save a church ) and is dumb to enough of a degree to warrant it almost as patched-together in a coffee-shop over three nights . Also , for die hard fans of the original , they will feel ... |
508,590 | 453,068 | 780,571 | 4 | is too mediocre to be a camp classic , but you might have some laughs at the filmmaker / actors ' expense | Mr . Brooks brings out its bag of tricks early on , but its a bag that's sort of moldy and with the scent of contentment with the average as opposed to more outrageous tendencies . It was a good time for the wrong reasons during the film , a vehicle for Kevin Costner to try to make a grasp at star-defiance of type ( in... |
509,901 | 453,068 | 141,186 | 4 | as much as it might entice you to see 3D porno . . . it's not worth it . . . | There's a reason one doesn't see that many 1970s XXX movies shown in 3D anymore , if ever , and Disco Girls in Hot Skin is one of the few exceptions likely ever to come out . It plays from time to time at midnight screenings around the US , and it played recently in New York city . I saw it , curious just to see not ev... |
508,180 | 453,068 | 478,087 | 4 | want to take a gamble ? this movie STINKS ! | Robert Luketic , director of 21 , doesn't have as his major folly to change the characters from the book ( which I have not read but heard a bit about ) from an all Asian group of card counters in Las Vegas to a more ' mixed ' lot ( i . e . about are Asian now ) . Nor is it even his casting of his lead actor ( Jim Stur... |
508,884 | 453,068 | 303,816 | 4 | surprisingly run-of-the-mill for the most part , a fairly average , stupid / bad horror fest | I had heard some bad things about Cabin Fever almost as much as I heard the cultish hype . As it turns out , the first film from the new impresario Eli Roth , it's just a so-so effort with the IQ points dropping as the film progresses . There are worse movies out there , and surely more gory ones ( while I'm not sure h... |
510,971 | 453,068 | 481,369 | 4 | this maybe could be a little more tolerable as a half hour Twilight Zone episode . . . wait , without commercials , 23 minutes ! | That is one of the goofy comparisons you might make , as I did , when this goofy psychological thriller ended . Because despite what might have been director Joel Schumacher and DP Matthew Libatique's loftier intentions with the grit and ' mainstream-noir ' , the writing ends up cramping up everything that might have b... |
509,890 | 453,068 | 122,143 | 4 | maybe if Vincent Price narrated it would be better , but . . . . | The Last Broadcast is the kind of example that should be remembered when watching Romero's Diary of the Dead . There were some who criticized Romero for the style of the picture , for the amateurish acting and an unfitting documentary approach . I would put forward the argument that Romero's self-conscious approach tha... |
508,878 | 453,068 | 299,910 | 4 | not too surprised it's straight to video ; it's exploitive fun , but lesser Miike all the way | I thought of a couple of director Takashi Miike's movies while watching Full Metal Yakuza - Ichi the Killer and Izo - because of what they have sort of in line with it . Both of those films have a protagonist who , more or less , is on a hell-bent path of murderous destruction . But even Izo , in comparison with this (... |
510,808 | 453,068 | 373,883 | 4 | a ' re-imagining ' from Rob Zombie that confuses gore and exploitation theatrics ( and loads of exposition ) for real thrills and chills | The main problem in doing a Halloween remake is that the original is so much still , nearly thirty years on , in the public's movie-going consciousness that it holds its ground . John Carpenter took a very ambiguous approach to the slasher movie , of making a ' boogeyman ' out of a mute psychopath , and filmed it in a ... |
508,965 | 453,068 | 94,594 | 4 | A movie poorly executed by and for the hippie culture , made nineteen years after the title year | I only watched 1969 late night one night because the title indicated to me that it might be a film dealing with the issues of the time in the year with sincerity or promise , or even as a documentary . I didn't know how the film would go after the first couple of scenes I saw , but Bruce Dern seemed formidable enough t... |
508,795 | 453,068 | 71,666 | 4 | try to get through ' They ' - it's fairly slow , tedious , and red lights ! | The very opening shots of They , aka Invasion from Inner Earth , aka The Selected , aka Hell Fire , aka your mama ( well , not the last one ) , has lots of people running around , apocalypse raging . This is obviously from another movie , as the producers of the film rarely have enough of a budget for Wonder bread inbe... |
510,981 | 453,068 | 102,057 | 4 | disappointing years later , probably my least favorite of Spielberg's big blockbusters | Seeing a film that doesn't work directed by Steven Spielberg is still more interesting , up to a point , than watching an average work by a lesser filmmaker with similar material . Hook is probably one of those films that also probably worked a little better for me when I was younger ( I even saw it in the theater as I... |
510,962 | 453,068 | 144,117 | 4 | the flamboyant style and few drops of originality brushed over | The Boondock Saints was a film a couple of times while watching it ( not early on , but midway through and around the last twenty minutes ) I wanted to turn off , but I didn't as I wanted to see what might happen next . Perhaps that's from the crime / action film fan I am , but the set-up to the film is a hook : the Ma... |
510,507 | 453,068 | 71,396 | 4 | definitely not a good movie , but could it have been better ? maybe | Willard Huyuck , and collaborator / wife Gloria Katz , never got a career going like buddy George Lucas . As a writer they got to pen some of his works ( American Graffiti and Temple of Doom , even allegedly some uncredited work on the first Star Wars ) , but on their own turned out mostly either bad work , like here ,... |
508,387 | 453,068 | 443,489 | 4 | a disappointment , even if my expectations weren't high to begin with | I should say it up front , I don't dislike the R & B of the period , as is given tribute via Dreamgirls . I liked hearing the harmonies of groups like the Supremes or other soul groups ( I'm assuming Eddie Murphy's performance is inspired by a mix of James Brown and Otis Redding , or others I can't think of right now )... |
510,706 | 453,068 | 461,045 | 4 | they should've called it ' Citizen Rib ' | . . . Wow . How did this get on IMDb ? It's an amateurish , crazily written and just downright sophomoric comedy that had it been written by a white guy would be the most racist thing ever made since the days of the minstrel shows . As it stands , it's somehow kind of clever , in parts , like some kind of wacky exploit... |
509,934 | 453,068 | 120,832 | 4 | not a very good memory of this one , except for the beginning | Not the worst that has come from director Brian De Palma , actor Nicolas Cage , or screenwriter David Koepp , but certainly not as memorable as it could've been , Snake Eyes is a thriller that shows up every now and again on TV . I watch it for a few minutes and then get sort of a memory from seeing it in the theater .... |
509,324 | 453,068 | 482,606 | 4 | alternately subtle / ambiguous , and badly stylized and ultimately pointless | For a first-time director Bryan Bertino has a lot to learn , but there are some points for trying . He loves the genre , and according to interviews , wanted to give a 70's slasher movie feel to his film the Strangers . It's about a newly engaged couple who are a little uneasy about this next step ( she is , anyway ) ,... |
507,869 | 453,068 | 365,686 | 4 | Guy Ritchie : the bloke who heard voices | That line refers to a book on M . Night Shyamalan titled " The Man Who Heard Voices . " It's my personal professional opinion , not as any kind of psychiatrist but as a humble hobby-interested movie critic , that Guy Ritchie could join that club following his film Revolver . What voices I can't quite entirely say - may... |
509,660 | 453,068 | 389,860 | 4 | A Sandler Carol ; some laughs , but way too much ' message ' to recommend | Now here's something rather paradoxical . I saw the trailer for the new Adam Sandler vehicle , Click , and it was by and large pretty funny , while obvious , and giving the impression that it would be a straight-out comedy . The set-up to the film isn't bad at all , and is sort of promising . But there's something trou... |
510,762 | 453,068 | 448,011 | 4 | one word can describe this movie for non Bible-thumpers : cracked | Attending a Saturday night screening for Knowing in its second weekend of release I noticed that the theater was fully packed . My first thought was that since it is a Nicolas Cage movie and from the commercials and previews looks to be pretty blockbuster-action style stuff happening that it might make for a good weeke... |
510,794 | 453,068 | 319,829 | 4 | wow , Bob , wow . . . muddle extraordinaire , it needs to be seen to believed | Bob Dylan is certainly one of the great songwriters of the second half of the 20th century , or at least the most pleasurably enigmatic . His songs are poetic , but he doesn't consider himself one ( or does , depending on what IMDb quote you read that contradicts another ) , and like Jean-Luc Godard his output from the... |
510,994 | 453,068 | 101,615 | 4 | Vanilla Ice was practically everything wrong in the 90s in one homo sapien - and here's his rapped-up vehicle ! | How convenient that Vanilla Ice should star in one of the most entertainingly horrible movies of the past 20 years ? Pretty convenient , actually . Mr Ice , aka Mr . Van Winkle , had just exploded with his ripped-off " Under Pressure " sampled tune " Ice-Ice Baby " and was " hot " ironically enough , and was so big in ... |
509,430 | 453,068 | 70,696 | 4 | needed more of Olaf capturing women and acting crazy , as opposed to the rampant sex . . . | . . . but then again that's exploitation cinema for you . The Sinful Dwarf has a great cover on the video-box , and a great guy playing the dwarf , with a face like Jack Black squished with Dennis Hopper ala Blue Velvet demeanor . He's totally crazy and wicked , and it's a delight whenever he's let loose on screen ( th... |
509,318 | 453,068 | 405,163 | 5 | a truly ideal cast , a few funny moments , but it doesn't grasp its tone by the throat | Maybe the director , Michael Traeger , may do something better in the future , who knows . The guy's previous writing credit was Dead Man on Campus , a sub-par MTV dorm-comedy , so that doesn't say a whole lot . He's not exactly , as a character is named in the film , " Some Idiot " , but someone who knows how to put a... |
510,387 | 453,068 | 295,206 | 5 | to say it's corny , is . . . . nevermind | Cornman ! A superhero that we can all get around ! That is , if one actually watches the movie , which might be very , very , very few , as the movie wasn't even made by Troma ( although Lloyd does introduce the movie on the DVD , with full corn up the you-know-what gag thrown in ) . It was the first movie by Barak Eps... |
511,013 | 453,068 | 493,464 | 5 | style over substance . not exactly a triumph , but it's over it | Timur Bekmambetov's first American film isn't that far removed from the kinetic , hyperactive and sometimes just plain fing batty movies Night Watch and Day Watch . It's about the " Fraternity of Assassins " , who get their missions from clues hidden in a giant quilt , I guess , and it's also about Wesley ( James McAvo... |
508,421 | 453,068 | 337,978 | 5 | it's not horrible to see it once , but it won't have much of a place in my DVD collection | Live Free or Die Hard will attract , and has already attracted , masses of fans of the Die Hard franchise or simply the 07 summer blockbuster crowd , looking for big huge explosions and John McClaine ( Bruce Willis ) as the cynical New York detective out to kill a lot of people ( and there are a LOT of people this time... |
510,980 | 453,068 | 66,286 | 5 | good for a curio , not so much as a exploitation / biker flick | The Rebel Rousers a few times feels like it could be aiming for something more on its lunch-money used for a budget . It's got a very simple crux to the story - Bruce Dern and Cameron Mitchell as old school friends ( hey , they may be oh two decades apart , but it was college I guess ) say hello and go their separate w... |
510,829 | 453,068 | 295,297 | 5 | has its moments , but by far the least memorable of the films so far | Maybe it was keeping on Chris Columbus as director - he helmed the first Harry Potter and did an OK , if not that terrific , job at it - or in making it about as long as possible ( whether or not everything in the book , as someone who's seen the films but not read the books , I can't say , though it feels like they cr... |
509,452 | 453,068 | 424,908 | 5 | if only the direction and the screenplay were as exemplary as Harris and the music | Ludwig Van Beethoven's music will endure for generations to come , even hundreds of years . Certainly his impact must still make waves in 2006 if filmmakers decided to once again give the Viennan mad genius of classical music another bio-pic . And hearing all the music of his that comes through the film - mostly the bi... |
510,670 | 453,068 | 914,798 | 5 | it's directed fine and there's some good acting , but it's also dim and silly and contrived | The Boy in Striped Pajamas , aside from it looking mostly like a slightly upgraded TV movie ( it's financed by BBC ) and featuring British and non-British actors not changing any of their accents for their characters , is also too obvious for its own good . Holocaust = bad is the basic message of the picture , and a me... |
507,847 | 453,068 | 66,365 | 5 | definitely not one of Sam Fuller or Burt Reynolds ' better days | It being said that Shark is far from being what co-writer / director Samuel Fuller envisioned is right on the money . Or rather , lacking money , because this film seems to have been made with change that fell from the pockets of the producers . It's another film that looks and feels like it was made with the grit and ... |
508,642 | 453,068 | 308,055 | 5 | kind of like a mixed garnish dish - lots of small pieces put together , good in parts , not filling on the whole | Watching Emilio Estevez's Bobby is a curious experience because I never really felt like I was getting a fully satisfying dramatic piece of historical artifice . It goes for the Altman scheme of things with the stories being multi-layered , but with no purpose for what is really at the core or with enough really fascin... |
508,453 | 453,068 | 171,363 | 5 | One of the best examples of how to NOT make a horror film | Ex-Cinematographer ( of Die Hard ) and now director Jan De Bont struck gold with Speed and while it wasn't gold , Twister wasn't a suck fest . This is . I sat in the theater whacting this and thinking too myself , is anyone getting scared by this ? I mean I understand that it could be scary to some , back in 1920 . But... |
509,657 | 453,068 | 348,150 | 5 | a film that risks for greatness but doesn't fly high | I can't say that I'm very much the Superman fan , at least in comparison to some other superheroes that I'm interested in . The whole saga and the like just never seemed all that compelling . But on the other hand , as films , the first two ( more really the first one ) were rather well done pieces of solid , Hollywood... |
509,788 | 453,068 | 47,898 | 5 | Don't mind Lobo . He's as harmless as a kitten . | Strange to watch Bride of the Monster with friends and feel both the urge to pull a Mystery Science Theater 3000 commentary on it ( making jokes and imitating characters and movements and laughing inappropriately at times ) and the feeling that this movie wasn't as bad as I expected . At least , not as bad as some of W... |
508,435 | 453,068 | 91,499 | 5 | actually directed fairly well . . . it's the writing that's " WTF " as they say | Ah , Stephen King , he made the right choice in not directing again . Perhaps it was just a fluke or a lark or one of those dares he took to see if he could make a movie as good ( or perhaps as crappy ) as some of the other mid-80s ilk that came out , some actually not bad like the Dead Zone and Pet Sematary , while so... |
510,265 | 453,068 | 43,548 | 5 | the least successful of Kubrick's early shorts | There are some very small moments where one might find something of interest in Flying Padre , a small view of a father in a small village farming community who acts as part-time keeper of the peace , and part-time flying enthusiast . But it is not , per-say , for being as a Stanley Kubrick film . It was his second doc... |
508,325 | 453,068 | 112,896 | 5 | quite a disappointment , as I recall | I remember seeing Dracula : Dead and Loving It in the theater - one of only two I had the chance to with Mel Brooks's films - and walking out just thinking " how could this be this lame , even for a kid my age " ? A fan of Brooks and Leslie Nielson may or may not find much use here . The gags , jokes , puns , physicali... |
510,269 | 453,068 | 454,841 | 5 | shows what can be good - and not so good - about a remake | Maybe I shouldn't be looking to making overt comparisons to the Wes Craven 1977 cult film The Hills Have Eyes , of which this Alejandre Aja filmed remake has done over Hollywood style , and just look at it on terms of just being a horror film in and of itself . But even on its own I found this film to just not work for... |
508,805 | 453,068 | 74,312 | 5 | has a couple of noteworthy moments , but mostly boring , symbolic crap | I wasn't sure what I would get with Chinese Roulette , a little-known film from RW Fassbinder featuring one of the stars of the Nouvelle vague , Anna Karina , but I wasn't expecting this . I'm reminded somewhat of what a friend of mine says of Michael Haneke's movies ( while I don't entirely agree , I can see his point... |
510,521 | 453,068 | 481,536 | 5 | it's silly , crude , shocking , gross , surreal . . . and it's only OK | I'm not sure whether or not I expected Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay to better the first cult comedy from 2004 . While H & K Go to White Castle wasn't the prize taker for best pot comedy of the decade ( hopefully Pineapple Express will take that title ) , it was about as cool and witty and deranged and cr... |
510,473 | 453,068 | 435,705 | 5 | tries , but is too mediocre and ordinary a thriller to get fun bad-movie leverage | I knew going into Next that it probably wouldn't be totally similar to Philp k . Dick's original short story the Golden Man ( matter of fact after checking out the synopsis of the story in comparison with the final product here they're only similar in that they both have characters who can see into the future and may o... |
510,581 | 453,068 | 60,418 | 5 | undercooked and too short , but there are some exciting moments | A B-movie with maybe a slight notch of extra fatalism , Flight to Fury is Monte Hellman with a near-disposable piece of low-budget work that's somewhat made up for by some stirring action set-pieces and a chase that makes up the best part of the movie in the last ten minutes . Dewey Martin plays Joe , a man with a part... |
510,872 | 453,068 | 100,514 | 5 | more of a misstep from the writers & Sheen than Eastwood | I've watched the Rookie on TV recently , and I can see what's wrong with it up front . What took a little longer to see was why it could've been better , or maybe couldn't . To give credit where some minimal credit is due , Clint Eastwood as director - and even as star to a degree - is just doing what he does , and as ... |
508,127 | 453,068 | 307,479 | 5 | ehhh . . . | There are many out there that will compare Steven Soderbergh's new film ( a remake ) , Solaris , as like Kubrick's 2001 , and in some respect it tries that in the few moments they show visuals outside of the ship and the pace of the slowness of that is keen on that count . But 2001 will always be the better picture bec... |
508,636 | 453,068 | 312,843 | 5 | a brand of nihilism that can only be exported here to the states - not that it makes it much absorbing | If I had to say anything very pleasant - and yes I mean pleasant in regards to a film about teenagers ( mostly girls ) who start killing themselves in mass numbers and somehow linked to a pop group called Desert - it's that it has a knockout start to it . Actually , the first half is actually about as strong a cinemati... |
510,296 | 453,068 | 69,768 | 5 | and finally " Ape Killed Ape ! " | Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a disappointment for what the director doesn't accomplish that he already had so well in his previous installment ( the dark veneer is gone , as are any relevant comparisons to the present with any level of satire ) , and it's the kind of cheese that a little kid will wrap in tiny b... |
510,214 | 453,068 | 78,504 | 5 | Sidney Lumet directed this ? uh-huh . . | I have memories of this film , mainly because - a little strange to admit it on such a forum as this - I was once the lion in not a full-on production of the Wiz but in a segment in a musical revival thing as a kid with a couple of scenes from the show dropped in . So in sort of ' preparation ' , I watched the film a f... |
509,220 | 453,068 | 364,955 | 5 | a film where satire and drama don't mix well | Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes , director and writer of Art School Confidential ( second meeting after Ghost World ) , have here a perplexing convergence of sensibilities . It's a film that I really wanted to like more than I ended up doing so . It has a premise that is not bad at all . A suburban kid constantly picke... |
508,515 | 453,068 | 117,509 | 5 | it's not a terrible movie , it's just . . . . . huh ? | I remember seeing Romeo + Juliet in a high school English class . . . or at least I'd like to pretend I did . If anything , I probably remember reading the actual play more , or maybe when they tried to do the comparison with Zeferelli's far superior 1968 version . Bored one day ( very bored , though sadly not with the... |
510,171 | 453,068 | 486,576 | 5 | not deep much at all , and it's happy that way - ' safe ' doesn't necessarily mean terrible this time around | Rise of the Silver Surfer is like a three-part cartoon version put back into live-action on Saturday morning for kids . If I was a kid , I think I might have responded more , if only because I knew there could be some cool toys to get . It's a shallow diversion of an entertainment spectacle , but as far as others out t... |
508,151 | 453,068 | 249,380 | 5 | just because it is not totally boring does not mean it's any " good " | Baise-moi is a movie you might find while rummaging around in your buddy or girlfriend's box of super-secret things . Not even so much a porn closet or drawer , just a place where things that are too horrible and perverse and maybe just personal are stored away from prying eyes . Certainly it's hard to picture many peo... |
509,294 | 453,068 | 109,813 | 5 | I guess it's fair | I saw this film again on TV one night , and while it looks entertaining for kids , adults will want to reckon back to the days of the TV show ( or maybe just the Honeymooners ) . The actors are somewhat credible here , with Rick Moranis always getting some laughs as Barney , but hey , that might be it here . Not great ... |
510,177 | 453,068 | 395,584 | 5 | I got pretty much what I expected - slightly improved film-making from Zombie's first film , but . . . | . . . that goes without saying that it isn't by a lot . In a way , Rob Zombie's second film , ' The Devil's Rejects ' , affected me the same way his music does - it's usually self-indulgent , stylized like it's nobody's business , and at times its fairly entertaining stuff , but you know while you're listening to it th... |
508,627 | 453,068 | 205,271 | 5 | Not Altman's best hour , but at times not what you might expect | While Robert Altman's film Dr . T and the Women , which has the usual lot of the ensemble , the overlapping dialog , and differential and emotional relationships beneath the surface has it's moments , it's all over the map even for me . Richard Gere gives a compassionate performance with what he can work with at least ... |
508,508 | 453,068 | 1,179,891 | 5 | Grindhouse trash that should be trashier , but it'll do in 3 | Word of advice : don't go to see My Bloody Valentine in a regular theater . Or even on DVD unless if it's just with a bunch of friends with some beer . It may be ironic of me , but even at just 2 stars I would recommend seeing My Bloody Valentine the remake as it is advertised : in 3D . The filmmakers know that this is... |
509,635 | 453,068 | 90,859 | 5 | No . . . you're history | Looking at Cobra is like peeking in to a time capsule dug underground and unearthed for all to look at in awe . Not because it's a particular ' good ' movie , but because of its time and place and its level of completely tasteless action and " plot " . Cobra stars Stallone as Cabretti aka " Cobra " , a killer robot mas... |
508,895 | 453,068 | 52,077 | 5 | Edward D . Wood Jr . ' s masterpiece , er . . . | What is called by many film buffs as the worst motion picture in the history of Cinema is indeed cheesy , lame , ill-concieved , and yet irrisistable . It's the type of filmmaking that probably gave George Romero incentive to go the next and better step with Night of the Living Dead , and I mean that in good ways and b... |
509,604 | 453,068 | 335,345 | 5 | For the audience , this is one of the most subjective films made in recent history . . . | . . . and I suppose on that level Mel Gibson's " hottest " movie since Braveheart and the Lethal Weapon days , is a success . Rarely has an audience been so polarized , so backed into a corner by the media's controversy , and by the reactions from audiences around the world ( or rather in America , in other countries t... |
510,577 | 453,068 | 425,430 | 5 | leaves me not really offended , though never impresses either , it's just a mediocre horror movie | I don't think that I would completely write off the Pang brothers , Oxide and Danny , as they don't completely go into the self-indulgent post-modernism that has panged , no pun intended , the horror filmmakers of late . Only once or twice did I see that they might jump into ' Saw ' territory . But even having not seen... |
510,471 | 453,068 | 55,946 | 5 | Arch Hall Sr's crowning achievement ! wait , it's his only movie as a director ! | Although it's tempting to give weird dog of a motion picture , by proxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000 , which may or may not be the only available version right now , it goes all the way to being a classic . They make this very random precursor to Encino Man , with hints of quality that might've inspired Hal Warren ,... |
508,899 | 453,068 | 95,652 | 6 | Could've been better , could've been a lot worse | George Romero , with his films and choosing of certain projects , is at least dependably unpredictable . The genres he works in 99 % of the time are in the horror genre , or some bird of it ( be it with zombies in his ' Dead ' films , or more psychological with Martin and the Dark Half ) . Here he brings us the tale of... |
510,914 | 453,068 | 462,477 | 6 | of a good and powerfully understated effort - until it gets into the personal | Timothy Spall , one of Britains best currently working character actors ( he can be seen in films varied between Harry Potter and the Sheltering Sky ) , is probably one of the only outstanding reasons to see Pierrepoint : The Last Hangman , and probably not until it likely will air on PBS some weekday night . It's not ... |
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